links for 2006-08-30
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links for 2006-08-15
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powered by Ubuntu stickers :: system76 :: Linux Laptops, Linux Desktops, Linux Servers :: free stuffhave to get me some of those!
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Brainstorming session
Posted by akaDruid @ del.icio.us on 15 Aug 2006 at 01:08 am
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Counterstrike crates in the real world
Love it. This guy made a bunch of real world crates covered with the textures of the crates from Counterstrike and just left them lying around… cool.
datenform.de ; Netzdatenwelt < --> Alltagslebensraum ; Aram Bartholl
Posted by akaDruid on 14 Aug 2006 at 12:08 pm
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links for 2006-08-12
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Tiny animals on fingers
Posted by akaDruid @ del.icio.us on 12 Aug 2006 at 01:08 am
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‘Water Shortage’ causes Nuclear Drought?
There is no ‘global water shortage’ – of course making it ready to drink/clean/cool etc and shifting it to where it’s needed is a challange – but that has been true for thousands of years.
In fact, while most of our energy is produced by dumping carbon and heat into the atmosphere, we’ll be getting more available water, not less, as we melt our icecaps.
Nuclear reactors are dependent on suitable locations for water supply – but that’s not news, and most are located on very large bodies of water – oceans usually.
Living in the UK, I’m used to rising water transportation costs, small % change in rainfalls, neglected maitainance, gross incompetence, etc, being talked up as ‘water shortage’ by water companies. This makes their job easier (increases their profits) but is still lying. In the UK we’re never more than 100 miles from trillions of gallons of pretty clean water, and the pace of technoligical improvement is reducing the costs of supplying clean water far faster than our climate is changing. Any talk of ‘water shortages’ is lying.
Article: Futurismic: Nuclear Drought (Futurismic is a great blog btw, not ranting at them!)
Posted by akaDruid on 11 Aug 2006 at 11:08 am
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links for 2006-08-11
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links for 2006-08-10
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Nice quote – “Today, most desktop motherboards support a maximum of 8GB of RAM, and some max out at 4GB. Users who move to 64-bit Vista will want more.”
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The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days. But it wasn’t the technology car owners had to curse, it was the terms of a software license.
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Let’s face it, if you’re the typical WoW addict, you don’t spend much time outside or away from your computer desk. As we all know, this can have an adverse affect on our overall health and fitness.
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Discussion of robots, roombas, and interview with Helen Greiner, real life Dr Susan Calvin
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OK this is officially on my wishlist! I want one!
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A giant Manatee in New York
Posted by akaDruid @ del.icio.us on 10 Aug 2006 at 01:08 am
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links for 2006-08-09
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You have one drywall screw, one 1.5 V alkaline cell, six inches of plain copper wire, one small neodymium disk magnet, and no other tools or supplies. You have 30 seconds to make an electric motor running in excess of ten thousand RPM. Can you do it? Surp
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It turns out that you can get NdFeB magnets at the corner drugstore, and they’re cheap. You just have to extract them from the toys that they come in.
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links for 2006-08-08
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links for 2006-08-03
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useful primer on starting programs on startup with different distros.
Posted by akaDruid @ del.icio.us on 03 Aug 2006 at 01:08 am
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