March 18, 2008
... known as Berry Go Round .... will happen here on or abouts the 25th of March. Please get me your posts on plant evolution and biology stuff!
You can email me here.
March 18, 2008
Gnome 2.22 was just released (a few days ago). This is not the big-bang major overhaul type of release we have just seen with KDE, but it is worth nothing.
Information on Gnome can be found here.
A few highlights:
GNOME 2.22 introduces a new application, Cheese. Cheese lets you take photos and…
March 18, 2008
We tell people we use Linux because it's secure. Or because it's free, because it's customizable, because it's free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support...
But all of that is just marketing bullshit. We tell that to non-Linuxers because they wouldn't understand the real…
March 18, 2008
There are plans to build a new Bell Museum. The plans are fantastic, and we need this. But the State has to float a bond to pay for it. Things are happening in the Legislature right now, and if you want to support the Bell, you need to take action right now.
Visit this site and do whatever it…
March 18, 2008
SciBarCamp is a gathering of scientists and others, in an effort to create connections across diverse interests, and, wherever possible, annoy the heck out of Larry Moran.
Larry was at SciBarCamp and had a run in with a couple of other dozen people, finding himself as the ONLY person in the room…
March 17, 2008
If you are interested in astronomy, you know that there are a lot of Planetarium applications that you can install on your computer in order to find your way around the night sky. Kstars is a well known standby for KDE (but of course it will run under Gnome as well). Search for "stars" in your…
March 17, 2008
With a musical score especially made for Saint Patrick's Day!
March 17, 2008
Sometimes the items falling into my in-box are totally random and unconnected. Sometimes they fit together very nicely. Then, there are the times they fit together in a random and unconnected sort of way.
I moved to Boston, from Upstate New York, when the Governor was a King. I only vaguely…
March 17, 2008
The following is a total ripoff of Steve Martin, who pulled the same exact gag on one of his early TV specials. But it is still fun:
[Totally ripped from Sandwalk]
March 17, 2008
A number of staff of a Los Angeles Hospital will likely lose their jobs for reading Britney Spears' medical records.
The Los Angeles Times says workers at the UCLA medical centre looked at Spears' confidential files when she was admitted to the hospital in January.
Jeri Simpson, the hospital's…
March 17, 2008
Via Pharyngula, we learn of a post on Query: Sally Kern Scrubs Gay Son?
Sally Kern is the Okie who was caught on tape making a number of outrageous statements about homosexuality. For instance, she claims that any society that totally embraces homosexuality is doomed.
The Oklahoma lawmaker's…
March 17, 2008
First, Larry said:
...the right people hate Idiots...Wells makes a virtue out of lying for Jesus...He should be an embarrassment to the intelligent design creationist cult except that the members of that cult are all incapable of separating fact from fiction when it comes to science...When I first…
March 16, 2008
There is trouble in Tibet. And some reports indicate that things are only going to get worse in the near future.
Protests over Chinese Rule, controlled by both police and Chinese military, have spread beyond Lhasa, according to recent reports, and the Dalai Lama has called for an international…
March 16, 2008
So we arrive at the cabin, and something seems amiss. With each new clue uncovered, we are at first disturbed, then aghast, and finally, astonished. None of it made very much sense until we found the note. Wow. The note.
The reason we were there at all was to drop off an old refrigerator and to…
March 16, 2008
Researchers at the University of Utah tested how quickly people performed tasks like editing a document and copying numbers between spreadsheets while using different computer configurations: one with an 18-inch monitor, one with a 24-inch monitor and with two 20-inch monitors. Their finding:…
March 16, 2008
But wait, there's more....
March 15, 2008
Saturday March 22 at 3:30 p.m. at Mayday Books.
301 Cedar Ave. S, Minneapolis.
(Located below Midwest Mountaineering and The Hub Bike Co-op, on the West
Bank side of the University of MN campus)
If you want to be truly subversive, read to the bottom of this post.
CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Seventy…
March 15, 2008
Following a number of reader requests (thanks for the feedback!) I've compiled a list of the most read posts from this blog, excluding those that were heavily visited but that were timely and thus not likely relevant now. The list is divided into rough categories, and I've placed it here, on my…
March 14, 2008
Play On Linux is a script written in bash that helps you to manage Wine on your Linux box.
After using Wine we realised that it sometimes needs complex commands. PlayOnLinux helps you to soften the processn making your life even easier in the Linux world.
More, some people who care about the…
March 14, 2008
What do Linux and Santa have in common? What is the name of Murdock's Linux Distribution? Give me a three letter word for a Unix Mail Client. How about a 5 letter word for a Linux Distro for Martini Lovers?
If you know ANY of these, you can start filling out this Linux Crossword Puzzle.
The…
March 14, 2008
"Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into "fourth-generation fuels" -- biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock. His talk covers the details of…
March 14, 2008
Teacher Potluck Carnival: The Pi Day Edition is Here.
March 14, 2008
Governor Spitzer, only recently deposed for committing the crime of being a Democrat on the Republican Hit List, has already launched a new career as a Telescope:
Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May Grow from PhysOrg.com
Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have…
March 14, 2008
I've seen one or another version of this before, and I'm never quite sure what the point is. But it is interesting in parts:
Is this meant to be sobering, or scary?
March 14, 2008
You've all seen the PCR song:
I also recommend a look at this post on the Punk Professor's Blog
March 14, 2008
A lesbian couple will become the first same-sex couple in Greece to marry when they exchange vows in a civil ceremony next week in an Athens suburb.
The LGBT rights group OLKE said Thursday it had found a loophole in a 26 year old update of the Greek civil marriage law that refers only to…
March 13, 2008
Vanguard I celebrates 50 years in space from PhysOrg.com
The Vanguard I satellite celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Its launch on March 17, 1958 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, culminated the efforts of America's first official space satellite program begun in September 1955. The first solar…
