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timothy writes:
According to Pocketnow.com, AMD has announced it has joined The Linux Foundation's MeeGo open source Linux project started out by Intel and Nokia.
That's encouraging; I was turned off by the idea that it was essentially an Intel-only project, since I like to keep my processor options open, so when I look for a new machine, I can choose from AMD's and Intel's x86 chips at least. (And hopefully soon more ARM-based tablets, etc.)
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timothy writes:
Two middle school students thought they would get away with their iinsidious plans to sell baked goods in a local park, and if it wasn't for those meddling kids, they would have! Hmm. OK, if it wasn't for that meddling, portly small-time politician they would have! There, much more satisfying story now.
Related: http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/06/169205/Portland-Health-Inspector-Shuts-Down-Lemonade-Stand
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timothy writes:
Says the story: "He was an adventurer, a scholar, and possibly a spy — but as Dutchman Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje proved with his rare 1885 photographs and sound recordings of Mecca, he was also a pioneering multimedia journalist."
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timothy writes:
I'd like to see a computer with no need for an external power supply as an e-book reader, a general knock-about PDA, a phone — all kinds of things. But there's a certain heart-strings appeal to such a computer intended as an educational tool for precisely those kind of places where basic infrastructure (like the provision of electricity) is a stumbling block. Perhaps built-in solar makes more sense, more places, than the hand-cranked power that the OLPC project ended up dropping from their laptops-for-kids program.
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timothy writes:
"The results present a dilemma for shoppers who avoid paper or plastic for environmental reasons." Perfect for carrying home a nice load of Cadmium Creme Eggs.
17506856
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timothy writes:
The Lingerie Football League (really — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingerie_football) was looking toward expanding to Oklahoma City. But that would be wrong! For too many reasons for the mayor to list! Honestly! Good argument for separation of sports and state.
Bizarro. I boggle.
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timothy writes:
You could download the extension that gives you point-and-click access to other people's (unencrypted) social networking interactions and impersonate them for (totally harmless) pranks, but if you're nice, you'll instead encourage your friends to instead use encryption by default. The EFF and the Tor Project have cooperated to make that easier, with their HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox, which rewrites any unencrypted exchanges to "a number of major websites" as encrypted ones instead.
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timothy writes:
Says the article: "It sounds like the plot of a Troma flick, but yes, your lungs contain taste receptors. When these receptors encounter bitter compounds, they open up your airways — this discovery could radically improve the treatment of lung conditions like asthma." I wonder if this is why some people can handle spicy foods, and others can't ...
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timothy writes:
The picture might be a bad idea, when they are in the witness protection program, but John Sweeney and Joanne Doane have decided to memorialize their love for each other with a nice wrapping of their love for Mafia Wars.
Sugg: link also to the Apple Store wedding ...
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timothy writes:
Acording to eco-blog Mother Nature Network, American electric car drivers may have an unexpected government ally in the east; the state is offering 'clever rebates and other perks, too.' Clever or not (I'm not convinced that electric cars are anything like the environmental good they're touted as, and neither is Nobel-winner Robert Laughlin), electric cars look fun to drive, and the TVA sure has some electricity to dish out, after drowning thousands of family farms in hilly eastern Tennessee.
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timothy writes:
Matt Fischer's ramen page is never something to ignore (especially if you like to vary your ramen choices by creative additions), but a few days ago reported an admirable act of charity that I would like to see extended, perhaps even to my own house (please make it some Jha Jhan Myun packets, the kind with oil, veggies, and powder). An anonymous customer walked into an Osaka ramen shop and left (in yen; be creative) more than $10,000, with the instruction to use the money to feed kids. Makes me nostalgic for Juzo Itami's masterpiece Tampopo .
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timothy writes:
According to this BBC article, 'The Pentagon has demanded that Wikileaks remove a trove of secret documents on the Afghanistan war from its website and cancel plans to publish anything more it holds,' and would prefer that Wikileaks abstain from publishing any of the thousands of other secret documents relating to US military conduct that it has in the pipeline. The reaction from Wikileaks is probably unsurprising: they're not interested.
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timothy writes:
A great exmple of 'appropriate technology,' design student Timothy Whitehead's Pure bottle needs no chemical additives to create drinkable water from a brackish source, and requires no external power source for its ultraviolet decontamination process. Instead, it uses a bulb powered by a wind-up mechanism, as well as a built-in filter to reduce particles in the water. Whitehead's design has won the UK's leg of the Dyson award for inventions that solve everyday problems.
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timothy writes:
According to Liliputing, Intel is bringing the sweet eye candy of Android to x86, which — if all goes well — means it will land on (more) netbooks and tablets soon. I'm more excited about ARM-based tablets, for their current advantage in battery life, but the more the merrier, when it comes to breaking up the tight circle of OSes available for any given arbitrary class of computing devices. Given all the OS swings that the OLPC project has gone through, maybe they should be thinking of Android, too.
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timothy writes:
Carl Malamud — underrated work shedding sunshine on the sort of things that "sunshine laws" may make *legally* but often not *practically* accessible. Should be up there on the list with Wikipedia, Wikileaks, the big Free Software projects, and the Creative Commons.
