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Unix Tree / Linux Tree

zecg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:14:00 -0500

"shows a graphical representation of the current sub-directories." Tagged by zecg under unix, linux, ls, software, tools, bash, shell, sed,

Inconsolata

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Inconsolata draws from many inspirations and sources. I was particularly struck by the beauty of Luc(as) de Groot's Consolas, which is his monospaced design for Microsoft's upcoming Vista release." Tagged by zecg under linux, font, fixed, width, editor, shell, typeface, typography, writing, software,

Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies." Tagged by zecg under shirky, tags, internet, categorization, classification, bibliography, ontology, statistics,

Gmail Beautifier 2.3 – Userscripts.org

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Hides/Shows ads in Gmail, widens email body, removes beta from Gmail logo (disabled by default), & gives buttons a better look." Tagged by zecg under software, firefox, extension, greasemonkey, script, google, gmail, email, javascript, plugin,

Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags - New York Times

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

U Irskoj, porez od 33 centa po plastičnoj vrećici već nakon nekoliko tjedana doveo do 94% pada korištenja. Tagged by zecg under plastic, ecology, legislature, tax, law, ireland, eu, zakon, porez, ekologija, vrećice, plastika,

LOST

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"A mixture of online game/street art/social network, Lost is a community of people connected through links written down and left in random places all over the world." Tagged by zecg under lost, game, fun, social, six_degrees, network, web, meatspace, interesting,

YouTube - Frozen Grand Central

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"From ImprovEverywhere.com, over 200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station in New York." Tagged by zecg under ImprovEverywhere, flash_mob, new_york, nyc, time, Video, prank,

VectorMagic | Index

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"This site converts bitmap images to vector images - it's an online auto-tracer." Tagged by zecg under tools, software, svg, photos, photography, online, imaging, images, image, illustration, converter, graphics, vector, design, free,

Liquid Rescale GIMP plugin: Welcome

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"GIMP plugin called Liquid Rescale is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm" Tagged by zecg under article, photography, photos, plugin, gimp, graphics, image, imaging, images, linux, software, tools,

the electric sheep screen-saver

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world." Tagged by zecg under 3D, computer, free, distributed_computing, philipkdick, visual, visualization, web2.0, software, linux, windows, osx, screensaver, interesting, internet, macosx, mathematics, fractal,

Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World | OEDb

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

100 free podcasts from universities on very diverse subjects. Tagged by zecg under audio, college, download, e-learning, economics, education, engineering, globalization, health, internet, law, psychology, podcast, physics, philosophy, research, resource, school, lecture, tutorials, university, video,

Lamby’s Blog » Blog Archive » “Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?”

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Damn right you can." Tagged by zecg under linux, unix, shell, sysadmin, bash, funny,

Why I'm not buying the U.S. dollar (Warren Buffett)

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"But since one generation of Squanders gets the free ride and future generations pay in perpetuity for it, there are -- in economist talk -- some pretty dramatic "intergenerational inequities."" Tagged by zecg under currency, debt, Dollar, economics, economy, entrepreneurship, finance, money, news, politics, warrenbuffett,

I Am Legend - The Filthy Critic

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Where they could use their deep pockets to make a masterpiece of pant-shitting scariness they instead choose to puff themselves up like syphilitic peacocks." Tagged by zecg under movie, film, review, filthy,

loseby.net - floret

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"floret is a very simplistic, static content management system that I have written in Perl." Tagged by zecg under floret, cms, software, simple, static, filesystem, perl, web,

Basic Concepts in Science: A list

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"This is a list of the Basic Concepts posts being put up by Science Bloggers and others." Tagged by zecg under biology, chemistry, computer, education, evolution, learning, physics, reference, science, teaching, tutorial, list, compilation,

Ten myths about nuclear power | spiked

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"In short, there is more than enough uranium, thorium and plutonium to supply the entire world’s electricity for several hundred years." Tagged by zecg under energy, to_read, environment, nuclear, politics, science,

YouTube - Hiromi Uehara

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

Return of Kung-Fu World Champion (live) Tagged by zecg under music, live, hiromi, uehara, jazz, video, youtube,

The Moral Instinct - New York Times

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

Bertrand Russell wrote, “The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell.” Tagged by zecg under to_read, nytimes, pinker, morality, psychology, moralization, for:ognjen, reason, smoking, religion, anthropology,

Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"A documentary showing how dangerous artificial sweetner Aspartame is. From its history, to its effects. Aspartame is a toxic food that came into the world as an investment By Donald Rumsfeld..." Tagged by zecg under video, googlevideo, aspartame, health, food, rumsfeld, for:mestwina,