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D-Day anniversary 2007-06-06 05:13:00 Wiki image of Omaha beach landing
Direct link to full 3000 × 2274 image
D-Day on wikipedia
Omaha beach article
The best job in entire world 2007-06-06 04:04:00 Looks like i'm wasteing my time with blogging, working, adsensing,breathing, getting up in the morning, eating..
i should have bought some Australian forest.
Farmer gets $1 million for doing nothing Read more:entire
How did the Sopranos end? 2007-06-11 03:24:00 Answer: a big crescendo of nothing
Via Reuters
MONTCLAIR, New Jersey (Reuters) - Whaddya gonna do? After building tension for six seasons over 8-1/2 years, "The Sopranos
," one of America's most critically acclaimed television shows, ended on Sunday with nothing more than a black screen. And there was no clear answer to the big question -- would mob boss Tony Soprano sleep with the fishes?
Old Bailey online 2007-06-15 03:37:00 The Old Bailey
Online site has online
transcripts of historical London trials. The site "contains 101,102 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834".
There are a multitude of ways to sift through the data - you can search by crime, by punishment, by defendant name, by year and many others.
Alternative Linux development environments 2007-06-12 03:22:00 HBasic
HBasic is an integrated development environment used to create, execute and debug programs with an BASIC style language. HBasic has object oriented features either in combination with precompiled C++ components (shared libraries) or class definitions (HBasic sourcecode). This also includes a version of inheritance. HBasic runs on Linux
and uses the KDE GUI libraries.
Dabo Desktop Read more:Alternative
, environments
Off to Menorca 2007-06-21 09:40:00 i'm off to Menorca for a week so blogging will be non existent.
in the meantime, here's a the google maps link to where i am staying:
Son Bou , Menorca
10,000 websites infected with MPack hack 2007-06-20 07:45:00 Attackers have launched massive attacks in Europe from a network of at least 10,000 hacked websites, several security companies have warned.
Analysts reported the opening salvos of a large-scale attack based on the multi-exploit hacker kit called "Mpack” as early as Friday. Attackers taint compromised websites with code that redirects visitors to a server hosting the Mpack kit - a professional, Read more:infected
French nuclear energy advert 2007-06-19 03:27:00 Trust the French
to make an advert that makes nuclear energy stylish, funky and cool. This ad is by H5
- the same folks that gave us that Royksopp video.
Linkdump 2007-06-19 03:11:00 Mandriva - Not our job to pay protection money
Test Drive of PC BSD
Plan 9 running on the Blue Gene supercomputer
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a gramatically correct sentence.
Star Wars galaxy map
Map of Antarctic lakes and rivers beneath the ice sheet Via here
Physics with two time dimensions
Superconducting turbojet
Cosmic horseshoe - a nearly complete
Sicko 2007-06-18 03:59:00 Michael Moore's Sicko
on Google video. The full film.
iPhone disassembly 2007-06-30 04:46:00 Ifixit takes apart a new iPhone
complete with pictures and detailed commentary.
Compiz Fusion 2007-07-05 10:08:00 Here's a video showing off the development version of Compiz
Fusion. This is the future of the Linux desktop, and it will blow you away.
Does Microsoft have nowhere to run? 2007-07-04 09:13:00 "merc" on Free Software Daily writes:
The more I think about Microsoft
, the more I realise that they are, possibly for the first time, seriously cornered (or surrounded, depending on how you want to see it). A little history will clarify why I think so - and why I think that this might really be the beginning of the end for Microsoft.
Read it all here
Buy a pint for John Smeaton 2007-07-03 03:43:00 Somebody has gone ahead and set up a John Smeaton tribute site. Who's he? Well he's the one-man Glaswegian baggage handler anti-terrorist unit. Scotland's answer to Chuck Norris.
And you can buy a pint for him over here
from the site:
"The country needs to see 1,000 pints lined up, on the bar at the Glasgow Airport Holiday Inn, with John Smeaton’s name on them. JohnSmeaton.com will not rest til
Auctionads first payment 2007-07-02 13:38:00 Since putting AuctionAds on my blog about a month ago, i've been very pleased with its performance. Today I received a payment of $62, which isnt too bad.
By contrast, Chitika hasn't earned me a cent yet, so I'll be replacing the Chitika advert below with and AuctionAd one.
Bourne Ultimatum trailer 2007-07-09 04:52:00 The Bourne
UltimatumUploaded by cinencuentro
And here's one of the best car chases ever , from "Bourne Supremacy":
List directories only in Linux 2007-07-08 05:45:00 the command
ls -d */
will output only the directories below your current position in the filesystem.
So, if you are currently in /home/linus , and below that are three directories called images, docs, and code , the output will look like this
images/ docs/ code/ Read more:Linux
Live Earth concert 2007-07-07 08:14:00 Live Earth
concert times:
Sydney - 0110 BST (1110 local)
Tokyo - 0400 BST (1200 local)
Johannesburg - 1100 BST (1200 local)
Shanghai - 1130 BST (1830 local)
Hamburg - 1300 BST (1400 local)
London - 1330 BST
Washington - 1530 BST (1030 local)
New Jersey - 1930 BST (1430 local)
Rio de Janeiro - 2000 BST (1600 local)
London line up (start 1.30pm local)
GENESIS
RAZORLIGHT
SNOW PATROL
DAMIEN RICE Read more:Live Earth
clipmarks test 1 2007-07-13 07:30:00 just trying out the clipmarks extension for firefox. <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:69ACC46C-8670-4A3E-9C38-5254B80BCEB6:0 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.spaceflightnow.comAstronomers claim to find the most distant known galaxies
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NEWS RELEASEPosted: July 12, 2007
PASADENA, Calif. - Using natural "gravitational lenses," an international team of astronomers claim
Friday the 13th 2007-07-13 07:06:00 A Friday
occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece or Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role.
Via Wikipedia
Monitoring changes to a directory tree in Linux 2007-07-10 14:29:00 If you are managing a multi-user Linux
box , as a sysadmin you'd like to be informed of changes
in certain directory trees. Inotify is often suggested as a solution. But that might be overkill if you aren't concerned about file changes and just want to monitor a directory tree - have any dirs been updated, any created, or have any dirs been deleted.
The solution is surprisingly simple. It's
When not to hyphenate your name 2007-07-10 10:33:00 update: Hello Reddit!. Thanks for upmodding this.
update 2: Hello Diggers. Over 1,500 diggs and rising. Thanks!
The 11 mile wide web page 2007-07-10 10:23:00 It's incredible just how much empty space exists in an atom.
The Hydrogen atom
"as you can see here, (atoms) contain so little actual material that they can barely be said to exist.
We are all phantoms. "
absolutely mind boggling.
The new Prince album - Planet Earth 2007-07-16 16:15:00 Prince's new album "Planet Earth
" was given away free by the Mail On Sunday newspaper here in the UK today.
Since he wants to get his music out to as many people as possible, I ripped the CD and uploaded it. You can download it from here - its a 60 meg zip file of 10 mp3 tracks.
Track listing:
1.Planet Earth
2. Guitar
3. Somewhere here on Earth
4. The One U Wanna C
5. Future Baby Mama
6. Mr Read more:Prince
BBC quotes me but doesnt give me a backlink 2007-07-16 14:25:00 In this BBC article entitled Prince album set free on the internet, the BBC quotes my blog without giving me a backlink , nor even mentioning my blog's name. The quotes above were taken from my blogpost offering the new Prince album to download.
In spite of that, it is kind of cool seeing your writing on such a megasite as the BBC's.
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