zecg's Bookmarks About 2006-10-20

QUITTING THE

"A resuscitated orthodoxy, so pervasive as to be nearly invisible, rules the land. Like any religion worth its salt, it shapes our world in its image, demonizing if necessary, absorbing when possible."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 art · article · dystopia · economy · lifestyle · philosophy

http://web.ionsys.com/~remedy/Quitting%20The%20Paint%20Factory.htm - cached - mail it - history

Feasta - Oil, Currency and the War on Iraq

"So far only one OPEC country has dared switch to the euro: Iraq, in November 2002,3. There is little doubt that this was a deliberate attempt by Saddam to strike back at the US, but in economic terms it has also turned out to have been a huge success..."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 Iraq · dystopia · economy · oil · politics

http://www.feasta.org/documents/papers/oil1.htm - cached - mail it - history

"The Unix-Haters Handbook" Download Page

"Thompson had written an assembler, file system, and minimal kernel for the PDP-7 All to play Space Travel. Thus Unix was brewed."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 Unix · anecdote · history · humour

http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html - cached - mail it - history

DigitalGlobe | QuickBird Images of Tsunami Sites

Satellite photos of Tsunami-hit sites

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 earthquake · photography · satellite · tsunami

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html - cached - mail it - history

Complexification | Gallery of Computation

"I write computer programs to create graphic images."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 art · mathematics · randomness

http://www.complexification.net/gallery/ - cached - mail it - history

20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA

"Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 politics · voting · dystopia

http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html - cached - mail it - history

EnergyBulletin.net | Urban vs. Rural Sustainability

"Permaculture design inquires into the nature of some of these “large pulses” and shows how they can teach us to use their energy, aikido-like, to benefit ourselves and the larger ecosystem."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 permaculture · sustainability

http://www.energybulletin.net/3757.html - cached - mail it - history

PIMCO Bonds - Dialynas Paper Dec 04

"Today, the global economy is on the threshold of upheaval."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 economy · oil · war · politics

http://www.pimco.com/LeftNav/Latest%20Publications/2004/Dialynas%20Paper.htm - cached - mail it - history

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

"This paper examines user-‍generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 psychology · metadata · classification · web · del.icio.us · folksonomies

http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html - cached - mail it - history

Clever devils get the bird - Sunday Times - Times Online

For boys, there is a 35% increase in the likelihood of marriage for each 16-point rise in IQ. For girls, there is a 40% drop for each 16-point increase.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 psychology · gender · IQ

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1423032_1,00.html - cached - mail it - history

Shirky: The Price of Information Has Fallen and It Can't Get Up

"The price of information has not only gone into free fall in the last few years, it is still in free fall now, it will continue to fall long before it hits bottom"

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 web · information · economy

http://www.shirky.com/writings/information_price.html - cached - mail it - history

Writing serious Perl: The absolute minimum you need to know

This document describes some very basic practices I consider necessary to write serious Perl.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 programming · perl

http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/serious-perl/ - cached - mail it - history

learn.perl.org: Beginning Perl

This book is for those new to programming who want to learn with Perl.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 programming · perl

http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/ - cached - mail it - history

(:^tuxs.org) a friendly penguin to help you get started with linux

"The goal of this site is to be the starting point for people wanting to learn about and try Linux for the first time, in easy to understand, non-technical language."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux

http://www.tuxs.org/ - cached - mail it - history

The Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial - LINKBAT

The Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial (LINKBAT) is a web-based, unified knowledge base and tutorial with the primary goal of educating users on Linux.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux

http://www.linux-tutorial.info/Linkbat/ - cached - mail it - history

LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell scripts.

"You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Don't worry, we'll show you what to do."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux

http://linuxcommand.org/index.php - cached - mail it - history

i d e a n t: A del.icio.us study

A mini-ethnography of social practices in a distributed classification community

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 psychology · classification · metadata · web · del.icio.us · folksonomies

http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2004/12/a_delicious_stu.html - cached - mail it - history

Interview: Richard Stallman

"JA: What if your job requires you to use non-free software? Richard Stallman: I would quit that job."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 GNU · GPL · stallman · interview

http://kerneltrap.org/node/4484 - cached - mail it - history

Game Studies - Living a Virtual Life: Social Dynamics of Online Gaming

"First of all, we wanted to understand why people spend so many hours playing on the Internet. To learn more about this, we structured our analysis around several questions concerning the social dynamics of online games"

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 psychology · social_dynamics · MMOG

http://www.gamestudies.org/0401/kolo/ - cached - mail it - history

CBS News | Defining Google | July 21, 2005 15:30:08

"There’s a lot of evidence that the companies of which Google is a member are enabling a new kind of commerce, between very small communities, people who can find each other, for whom the traditional advertising mechanisms, whether it’s television adv

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 google

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/30/60minutes/main664063.shtml - cached - mail it - history

CCTE Distributed Research

Social bookmarking portal for the Communication, Computing and Technology in Education program (Teachers College, Columbia Univ.)

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 research · folksonomies · tagging

http://ideant.typepad.com/ccte/ - cached - mail it - history

Cell Architecture Explained - Part 1: Inside The Cell

"The amount of money being spent on this project is vast, two 65nm chip fabrication facilities are being built at billions each and Sony has paid IBM hundreds of millions to set up a production line in Fishkill."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 distributed_computing · IT_news

http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell1.html - cached - mail it - history

I, Cringely . January 20, 2005 - Mini Me | PBS

"The Mac Mini is one of Apple's trademark technology repackaging jobs."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 cringely · column · apple

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050120.html - cached - mail it - history

Cell "analysis" a mixed bag

"I'm as excited about the Cell as the next geek, but there's no need to go way over the top like this about hardware that won't even seen the light of day for a year."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 distributed_computing · IT_news

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050124-4551.html - cached - mail it - history

Bridging India's digital divide with Linux (Asia Times)

"There are many misconceptions about Linux. It is much easier to install and use than many people realize," said Professor Edwin Wells, an active member of the Delhi Linux Users Group

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 Linux · IT_news

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GA28Df06.html - cached - mail it - history

NewsForge | Why I love the GPL

"Linux is not a company or an individual that can be bought. It's a community made up largely of folks who find the Microsoft mindset disgusting."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 Linux · GPL

http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/2141242&tid=29 - cached - mail it - history

Lycaeum > Leda > Provoked Life: An Essay On The Anthropology Of The Ego by Gottfried Benn

"A society, whose hygiene and race cultivation as a modern ritual is founded solely on hollow biological statistics, can only represent the external viewpoint of the mass; for this point of view it can wage war, incessantly..."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 philosophy · history · psychology

http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16424 - cached - mail it - history

Bad Linux Advocacy FAQ (Raymondism FAQ)

"Avoid hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims at all costs. It's unprofessional and will result in unproductive discussions."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · advocacy

http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/bad_linux_advocacy_faq.shtml - cached - mail it - history

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Gates says security is priority

"With the computing experience you don't achieve full potential if you're having to worry about something like security."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 interview · Microsoft

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4215183.stm - cached - mail it - history

Untitled

Free Software Magazine is the free magazine for the free software world, available on paper and in electronic format.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 FLOSS · GPL · GNU · Linux · magazine

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/ - cached - mail it - history

RED HERRING | The hundred-buck PC

MIT, Google, AMD, Motorola et Samsung building a cheap Linux PC for developing countries

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 Linux · IT_news

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=11203 - cached - mail it - history

FOXNews.com - Business - Activists Urge Free Open Source Software

Brazil - "Activists at a leftist gathering where Microsoft is viewed as a corporate bogeyman urged developing nations Saturday to leap into the information age with free open source software"

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 Linux · IT_news · FLOSS

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145827,00.html - cached - mail it - history

NewsForge | Sun's no-op announcement

"The danger of software patents is not limited to free software, which is why the opposition to software patents is not limited to free software developers."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 GPL · GNU · FLOSS · Stallman

http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/31/1310231&tid=29 - cached - mail it - history

The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

"There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 RMS · fiction · dystopia

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html - cached - mail it - history

Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail [persistent.info]

Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 gmail · Firefox

http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches - cached - mail it - history

pixelfreak.com

See also: http://www.pixelfreak.com/v3/img/poster.png

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 pixel_art

http://www.pixelfreak.com/ - cached - mail it - history

timbl's blog | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 blog

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 - cached - mail it - history

Frappr! Gentoo

Malo nas je, al' smo govna

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · gentoo · frappr

http://www.frappr.com/gentoo - cached - mail it - history

Linux screensaver for Windows

* Concluding the OS/2 business * Reinventing education * Encouraging people to learn science

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · windows · ibm

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scrnsave/ - cached - mail it - history

screen.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Dystopian pizza delivery

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 activism

http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf - cached - mail it - history

shadowmechanics | Digital Artwork & Illustration of Harri Halme

Disturbing artwork

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 art

http://www.shadowmechanics.com/?s=artwork - cached - mail it - history

Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior: 12/ 17/ 2005

"I tell my students to go to the direct source, and so he asked for the official Peking version of the book," Professor Pontbriand said. "Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring inter-library loans, because that's what triggered the

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 dystopia · surveillance

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm - cached - mail it - history

Linux on iPod » Blog Archive » Loading a ZX Spectrum from an iPod

So, in short, you can now hook up your iPod to your Spectrum, just as you would hook up a cassette recorder, and load games from it. One iPod will comfortably hold every Spectrum game ever published. Neat huh?

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 ipod · zx_spectrum

http://ipodlinux.org/blog/?p=19 - cached - mail it - history

calendarlive.com: Mass media's last blast

This was the year in which Hollywood, despite surging DVD and overseas sales, spent the summer brooding over its blockbuster shortage, and panic swept the newspaper biz as circulation at some large dailies went into free fall.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 media

http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-ca-mass18dec18,0,2714783.story?coll=cl-calendar - cached - mail it - history

Independent Games Festival

2006 IGF Competition Finalists

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 games

http://www.igf.com/2006entrants.shtml - cached - mail it - history

DrumPad

A beat machine controlled by MS Excel.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 music · software · weird

http://www.milezero.org/index.cgi/music/tools/excel/drumpad_xls_alpha.html - cached - mail it - history

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Iran's Victory Revealed in Iraq Election

Tehran's rogue regime now looms larger than ever over the region and especially over its oil.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 politics · iraq

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/29952/ - cached - mail it - history

What Should I Read Next?

Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers' favourite books (over 15,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next. It's a bit like browsing the bookshelves of a (very) well read friend!

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 literature · folksonomies · web

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/ - cached - mail it - history

The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age

Q: Why are people so uncomfortable with Wikipedia? And Google? And, well, that whole blog thing? A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macr

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 wikipedia · google · blog · media

http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/12/the_probabilist.html - cached - mail it - history

Gamasutra - Japanese Sales Charts, Week Ending December 18

The Xbox 360’s second week on the charts, though, has been even more disappointing than the first, with the console, showing 8,623 units sold, failing to outsell even the GameCube. This is a performance so far in Japan beneath even the low standards of

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 console · games

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=7614 - cached - mail it - history

rPath

You can use rBuilder Online to create a Linux distribution that meets your specific needs, or to find an existing distribution that is just right for you.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux

http://www.rpath.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Insect/bug Macros - a photoset on Flickr

Brilliant macro photography

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 photography

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/sets/590338/ - cached - mail it - history

NoCatNet

What originally started as a community-supported 802.11b wireless network in Sonoma County, CA has grown into several projects whose purpose is to encourage the building of wireless community networks.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 wifi · linux

http://nocat.net/ - cached - mail it - history

LiveScience.com - Scientists Predict What You'll Think of Next

The psychologist Endel Tulving dubbed this process "mental time travel."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 psychology

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/051222_mental_brain.html - cached - mail it - history

Sams Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours:Table of Contents

A book on shell programming.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · book

http://kristi.erdves.lt/books/Computah%20Stuff/unix-linux/Teach_Yourself_Shell_Programming_In_24hrs.tar/ewtoc.html - cached - mail it - history

Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report - New York Times

N.S.A. technicians, besides actually eavesdropping on specific conversations, have combed through large volumes of phone and Internet traffic in search of patterns that might point to terrorism suspects. Some officials describe the program as a large data

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/24spy.html?pagewanted=print - cached - mail it - history

Swiss government switches 3,000 systems to Linux

Novell Inc. Tuesday announced an agreement with the government of Switzerland to replace the software in 3,000 of its servers with the company's SUSE Linux operating system. Operational efficiency and cost were key factors driving the Swiss government's

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3995951203.html - cached - mail it - history

Physics News Update 757

The Top Physics Stories for 2005

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 phsyics

http://www.aip.org/pnu/2005/split/757-1.html - cached - mail it - history

wandering about laser and some smoke

Laser Chess is a strategy game for two player s. Each one has four semi-spheric pawns (molded after a hlf cutte billir ball) with a mirror face, and the game objective is to reflect the central laser beam until it hits the opponent’s goal, an acrylic tu

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 chess · gadget · 1337

http://www.wanderingabout.com/thingswithlaser/index.php - cached - mail it - history

How to Download Google Video - lifehack.org

Felipe Cepriano over at FelipeCN has found out a quick way to download Google Video. The key is to unescape the parameter of the Google Player URL by using a javascript function. In simple instruction

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 google · video · streaming · hack

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-download-google-video.html - cached - mail it - history

Linux Magazine - Linux Magazine's Tip of the Day

Some useful shell tips

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · shell

http://www.linux-mag.com/tips/ - cached - mail it - history

Japan's population starts shrinking

With its young people increasingly finding children a burden to their careers and lifestyles, Japan joins Germany and Italy among a club of nations whose populations have started to shrink.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 japan · demographics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051222/lf_afp/afplifestylejapanpopulation_051222040644 - cached - mail it - history

Federal agents' visit was a hoax: 12/ 24/ 2005

The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for "The Little Red Book" by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 surveillance · hoax

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-24-05/a01lo719.htm - cached - mail it - history

monit

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · software · monitoring

http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/ - cached - mail it - history

Spacewar!

The first version of "Spacewar!" was developed for the PDP-1 at MIT in 1960. The first CRT display was a converted oscilloscope used to play SpaceWar.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 games · history

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/gamezone/spacewar/spacewarintro.asp - cached - mail it - history

Fighting RIAA Without an Attorney (a /. post)

To understand the blatantly false statements the RIAA and their shills love to make, you have to see through their numerous incorrect premises:

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 RIAA · sharing · freedom · activism

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172199&cid=14338956 - cached - mail it - history

Recordable Dvd Quality Page 1

This is just a basic guide but if followed will result in a better understanding of media quality and hopefully more sucessful recordings.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 DVD · media

http://www.cdr-zone.com/articles/recordable_dvd_quality_page_1.html - cached - mail it - history

[MethylBlue] Filelight

Filelight allows you to understand exactly where your diskspace is being used by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · software

http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ - cached - mail it - history

IPTraf - An IP Network Monitor

IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · software

http://iptraf.seul.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Linux.com - The ulimit parameter

Linux itself has a Max Processes per user limit. This feature allows us to control the number of processes an existing user on the server may be authorized to have. To improve performance, we can safely set the limit of processes for the super-user root t

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux

http://www.linux.com/guides/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/x4733.shtml - cached - mail it - history

Gwynne Dyer's 2005 Year Ender

"The most remarkable result of the Bush administration's obsession with remaking the Middle East has been Washington's astonishing failure to pay attention to Latin America..."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 politics · economics · history · war · iraq

http://www.gwynnedyer.net/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%202005%20Year-Ender.txt - cached - mail it - history

Japans Bomben

And Japan at present has no basis to build a new consensus, one which would allow her economy to blossom, for needed new jobs and entire new industries to be created, and population growth to take place.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 economics · japan

http://www.druckversion.studien-von-zeitfragen.net/Japans%20Bomben.htm - cached - mail it - history

Planet's Visibility

Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility (successor to Planet's Visibility 2.0) presents a 3-color diagram that shows when a planet, a star, the moon or the sun is visible during any year from 3000 BC to AD 6000 at any location on the earth

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 software

http://www.alcyone.de/PVis/english/index.html - cached - mail it - history

Chicken Yoghurt: The recipe for freedom: break heads, beat vigorously and boil

Craig Murray, the former UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, can tell you how such information is obtained. Was it obtained from "the woman who was raped with a broken bottle in both vagina and anus"?

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 politics · iraq · uzbekistan · torture · fascism

http://chickyog.blogspot.com/2005/12/recipe-for-freedom-break-heads-beat.html - cached - mail it - history

Ex-envoy unleashes blog-based attack on UK's torture denials | The Register

These letters state that the use of torture is routine in Uzbekistan, that US policy there (which the UK supports) is focussed on oil, gas and hegemony rather than democracy or freedom, and that by knowingly receiving evidence obtained through torture the

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 blog · torture · uzbekistan · iraq · war · fascism

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/30/murray_lets_slip_blogs/ - cached - mail it - history

Artificial blood : Anaesthesia UK

This photograph demonstrates a living mouse breathing in the liquid, while a goldfish inhabits the water floating on top.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 science · biology

http://www.frca.co.uk/article.aspx?articleid=100112 - cached - mail it - history

"Big Brother" kao Hrvatska kakvu sebe (ne) želi - Dragan Antulov

"Neki su, pak, u reality showovima vidjeli samo prirodan nastavak neokapitalističke beskrupuloznosti koja je već bila poharala druge oblasti hrvatskog društva."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 media · television · croatia

http://www.index.hr/clanak.aspx?id=298804 - cached - mail it - history

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | GM crops created superweed, say scientists

Modified genes from crops in a GM crop trial have transferred into local wild plants, creating a form of herbicide-resistant "superweed".

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 ecology · genetics · agriculture

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,,1535428,00.html - cached - mail it - history

R. Luke DuBois

Billboard allows you to get a birds-eye view of the Billboard Hot 100 by listening to all the #1 singles from 1958 through the millenium using a technique I've been working on for a couple of years called time-lapse phonography.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 music

http://lukedubois.com/billboard - cached - mail it - history

The Seattle Times: Local News: Horse sex story was online hit

"The story last summer about the man who died from a perforated colon while having sex with a horse in Enumclaw was by far the year's most read article."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 media · journalism

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002711400_danny30.html - cached - mail it - history

PATRICK COCKBURN - THE OCCUPATION

An informed analysis of the situation in Iraq

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 interview · politics · war · iraq

http://www.newleftreview.net/Issue36.asp?Article=02 - cached - mail it - history

Electronic Component Resource Page

"Here is a list of parts I will usually pirate from different electronic goods as I come across them in the dumper."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 electronics · recycling

http://www.angelfire.com.nyud.net:8090/80s/sixmhz/resources.html - cached - mail it - history

The Bicycle Forest :: Couchbike

"The Couchbike pokes fun at our sedentary culture but also exemplifies the broad scope of possibilities for human power."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 自転車 · bicycles

http://www.bikeforest.com/cb/index.php - cached - mail it - history

Digital SLR cameras: Canon Digital Rebel and Nikon D70s

Canon and Kodak have taken the most obvious approach to the challenge of transitioning from film to digital: build a digital sensor exactly the same size as one frame of 35mm film. The result is a chunk of silicon 24x36mm in size, which is vast compared t

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 photography

http://philip.greenspun.com/photography/building-a-digital-slr-system - cached - mail it - history

Top Ten News Photos of 2005 - National Geographic

"Speeding from the scene of the crime, a Chinese boy tows a floating plastic bag of stolen natural gas in early August. Flouting a government ban, farmers around the central Chinese town of Pucheng frequently filch gas from the local oil field."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 photography · poverty · china

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/photogalleries/top_ten_pictures/photo6.html - cached - mail it - history

Conky - a light-weight system monitor

Reputedly lighter on the resources than gkrellm.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · software

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Yearly Review (Harpers.org)

Harper's yearly review takes a somewhat humourous look at the year in media.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 media

http://harpers.org/YearlyReview2005.html - cached - mail it - history

Wild Things Photography

Some brilliant photographs of the Alaska and wildlife.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 photography

http://www.wildthingsphotography.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Joomla! - Main

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · software · CMS

http://www.joomla.org/ - cached - mail it - history

GP2X - wiki.gp2x.org

The GP2X is a Linux-based handheld game console and media player; the development software is free, open source software; It uses the standard SD media card for storage; Programs and data can be easily transferred to it via USB

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · hardware · gaming · console · handheld

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Learn Japanese RPG (Game) - Knuckles in China Land

"Gameplay is similar to traditional console RPGs, with the exception of the battles. In these battles enemies take on the form of Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji or Japanese, Indonesian, & German vocabulary."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 language · 日本語 · games

http://www.tbns.net/knuckles/ - cached - mail it - history

Samorost2

A point-n-click adventure game in flash

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 flash · games

http://www.samorost2.net/ - cached - mail it - history

SAMOROST [game by Amanita Design]

Samorost 1, a wonderfully done psychedelic flash adventure game

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 flash · games

http://www.samorost2.net/samorost1/ - cached - mail it - history

EQUINOX-3D

The 3D modeler with the fastest, fully integrated ray-tracer. Because "rasterization is so 20th century(TM)"

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux · software · graphics · 3D

http://www.equinox3d.com/index.html - cached - mail it - history

Basics of the Unix Philosophy

(iii) Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don't hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 unix · linux

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html - cached - mail it - history

Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Oh Six

"You can only introduce so much perversity into an economic system before distortions cripple it. From 2001 through 2005, consumer spending and residential construction had together accounted for 90 percent of the total growth in GDP..."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 economy · america

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2006/01/oh_six.html - cached - mail it - history

List of open source software packages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A list of open-source software packages: computer software licensed under an open-source licence.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 FLOSS · software · linux

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Picower researcher finds neuron growth in adult brain - MIT News Office

"The scale of change is much smaller than what goes on during the critical period of development, but the fact that it goes on at all is earth-shattering," Nedivi said.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 psychology · neurology

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/neurons.html - cached - mail it - history

Linux Tuning Guide

"Some of the default kernel paramaters for system performance are geared more towards workstation performance that file server/large disk io type of operations. The most important of these is the "bdflush" value in /proc/sys/vm/bdflush"

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux

http://www.laukas.com/knbase/linux_special/ - cached - mail it - history

The atime and noatime attribute

Linux has a special mount option for file systems called noatime that can be added to each line that addresses one file system in the /etc/fstab file. If a file system has been mounted with this option, reading accesses to the file system will no longer r

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 linux

http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap6sec73.html - cached - mail it - history