James Blish did some novelization of some of the TOS stuff. I really liked it way back when. Maybe hard to find these days.

Absolutely love Vinge's 'The Peace War'. Bought that on a whim in an airport once. Made me not want to deplane so I could finish it.

Back when I worked as an intranet developer at a corporate gig I imaged the Windows hard drive and copied it up to a file share. The I installed Gentoo and did my own thing. Nobody from IT ever asked about my system. I never, ever asked for anybody to fix it. It worked better than the Windows machines (no thanks, I'll skip the McAfee and Norton crap) and I worked just as effectively (or more so) as the other devs. At that corp if you didn't bother IT they didn't bother you.

I used 'Bluetooth File Transfer' to copy some apps from my EVO4 to my rooted Nook Color. It packaged the app into a *.apk file and copied it across for me. I then navigated to the *.apk file with the file manager app and installed it from there.

http://readr.ru/roger-zelazny-last-of-the-wild-ones.html

For the last several years I've requested and received copies of all medical imaging data. for myself, my Mother and, my Father. In a couple of cases they mailed me a CD but in all others they gave me the disc before I left. Never any hassle, I just had to ask.

The data is in DICOM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Imaging_and_Communications_in_Medicine format. There are free viewers for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

I had a CT done of my head. Pretty cool to watch in 3D.

My Dad has a stint in his aorta. Watching the imaging of them testing it for leaks with radioactive contrast is wild.

As a native Texan I think both types of hacking are appropriate.

I installed it via the 'App Store' app on the iphone. No iTunes needed.

You can view the sun with a telescope without burning out your eyes. I had a friend who had a refractor that came with a white metal screen and a special lens that had a dark green filter. The setup would project the image of the sun onto the screen. We could see surface details.

Go and listen to the Official jQuery Podcast from 12/18/2009.
It features, Rey Bango, the Head jQuery Evangelist. He explains the how/why/what of evangelism for the jQuery project.
Excellent stuff.
http://blog.jquery.com/2009/11/13/announcing-the-official-jquery-podcast/

I have a Brother 2170 W el-cheapo monochrome laser printer. It 'just works' with Jaunty and Karmic.

My God! It's full of twits!