Archives for August 29, 2011
What is “sea foam” made out of?
Posted by Greg Laden on August 29, 2011
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Reporter Gives Update Covered In Sea Foam: MyFoxNY.com
A few connected items related to the coming apocalypse
Posted by Greg Laden on August 29, 2011 And I’m only half joking: Three degrees warming doubles risk of civil war Global patterns of civil conflict are directly associated with planetary-scale climate change. Specifically in tropical countries, the risk of civil war have just been shown to double in warmer El Niño years (to about 6% risk per country per year) compared to…
Editing PDF’s
Posted by Greg Laden on August 29, 2011 Linux probably has a lot more FOSS tools for editing PDF’s than other platforms. ImageMagick will do basic manipulation from the command line. But for a GUI interactive kind of editing, you should look at PDFedit sudo apt-get install pdfedit You can do what I’m pretty sure is one of the most often required tasks:…
, which is now available for the 
