November 2007
98 posts
No point in this
ADDENDUM: This post is about me giving up tumbling. Not about foulmouthing the medium or the any of the great t’loggers out there. I still read a small number of tumblelogs, just not dozens of them. I just have a job and a blog and (something of) a life that I want to get the most out of. Just so you know ;-) I’m thinking of deleting Revista. Or at least the content. Or maybe just...
Vincent Maher - The future phases of the Web →
Hyperland →
Hyperland is a 50 minute long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies written by Douglas Adams and produced by BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker, with whom Adams already had worked on Doctor Who, as a software agent.
For Newsweek, a Political Web Venture →
Newsweek is to announce today that it is starting the equivalent of a weekly political television show on its Web site, newsweek.com - New York Times
Beirut Nights Radio →
They basically play “Mediterranean Italo-Lebanese Arabic French Armenian Greek Disco Turkish Russian Eurodance Trance Disco music”. Co-ool!
Everex launches $198 Ubuntu Linux gPC at Wal-Mart →
Cryptome →
To the source of NSA-IP Resources: A journalist would appreciate contact. If interested, send encrypted message to jya[at]pipeline.com (Cryptome). Use public key here. ???
Top 25 Snatched Domain Names (.be) →
Nigeria favors Linux vendor Mandriva over... →
Microsoft may not have beaten French Linux vendor Mandriva in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all.
PSDTuts Best of the Web - October →
Tutorials, downloads and articles!
United States Patent: 5694593 →
OLPC orders start Nov 12th. Are you giving (and... →
“I already have a laptop running Vista. I just want to install *Apple* on...”
– Overheard at the Apple store today
“Um, Leopard, yes. But do you still have OS version *ten*? I’m on an older...”
– Overheard at the Apple store today
While All The Little Googles Are Sleeping « David... →
The Devil Came on Horseback →
Darfur Eyewitness: Brian Steidle →
Not for the faint of heart. Horrible.
Building a state-of-the-art Emergency Room for... →
Hang on. Wait. Tell me if I get this wrong… The richest country in the world needs billionaire technocrats to fund its hospitals, because it can’t/won’t pay for them itself, because it’s spending millions in a foreign war it shouldn’t be in, while it could easily end Darfur for a fraction of that… Yeah, too crazy for words. I probably got that wrong then…
Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home →
Jack the Ripper Strikes for the Last Time … Or... →
Language-tree divergence times support the... →
— aatw
Wikipedia: Ten things you may not know about... →
They’re not for sale and fluent in Banyumasan… Apparently.
One of these image results seems out of place... →
Thx to Robin Wouters
“The stalemate has triggered growing support for Flemish nationalist parties and...”
– Belgium in deep political crisis as government talks collapse - International Herald Tribune
Political crisis comes to the boil in Belgium
Belgium is on the brink. A country formed only in 1830 is staring into the political abyss today, and the distinct possibility of breaking up. Yves Leterme won last summer’s elections, and has tried, but so far failed, to form a coalition government to run his country. Today may see the beginning of the end. Dutch-speaking Flemings, wanting more autonomy for the flourishing north, are ready...
“The BACKSPACE key is always mapped (even in Apple’s mislabeled version) to...”
– User Mistakes or Mac Mistakes?, Backspace vs. Delete, and It’s Too Easy to Zap an Icon in the Dock
“In a few weeks, the Natuba you know and love is becoming something new and...”
– Email from Chris Forsythe, Community Manager at Natuba, where I have my life stream. Which they’re dropping as a feature. Suppose it makes sense.
