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Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles 104

Posted by samzenpus on Friday June 26, 2009 @12:35PM from the trippity-hop dept.

It's the tripnaut! writes "The BBC reports that Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around 'as high as a kite', a government official has said. 'The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,' says Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania. 'Then they crash,' she added."

Wikipedia For Schools DVD Released 132

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @05:54PM from the nothing-naughty dept.

David Gerard writes "SOS Children's Villages has released the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools — 5500 checked and reviewed articles matching the English National Curriculum, produced by SOS for use in their own schools in developing countries. The 2007 edition was a huge success, with distributions to schools in four countries, use by the Hole in the Wall education project, thousands of downloads and disks and around 6000 unique IPs a day visiting the online version — the most successful end-user distribution version of Wikipedia to date."

Comment Re:That's pretty quick. (Score 1) 197

by Beelub on Friday December 15, 2006 @11:49AM (#17255994) Attached to: MythDora — MythTV 0.2 In a Box

Heh, you're right. That definitely did not include getting IR support working. That took a couple evenings and it's still pretty fragile, only working about 90% of the time.

I did plan out a pretty generic system, starting with an Asus PE-1 Vintage barebones that I maxed to 2 gigs of RAM.
Nvidia GeForce 6600 for video.
Hauppage PVR500 for tuners and mpeg encoding.
A 320GB Seagate SATA HD.
Soundblaster Audigy Le

As I said, in planning the box I went for solid stuff with good Linux support, and stayed away from the bleeding edge.

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