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links for 2008-05-14

May 14th, 2008 by timelady

• You will obey, BBC tells Dr Who knitter | NEWS.com.au
  A CRAFT enthusiast who posted knitting patterns inspired by Doctor Who characters on the internet has had them exterminated by the BBC’s own Daleks in the form of a copyright infringement notice.
  (tags: bbc copyright craft dalek knitting doctorwho drwho)
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe Trailer Has Arrived! « FirstShowing.net
  The very first trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe has finally arrived! The buzz for this movie is definitely going to pick up with this trailer. It really doesn’t reveal much, but still the perfect amount to start up discussion….
  (tags: 2008 film sci-fi video television x-files cult xfiles movies)
• PC World - Aussie technology set to help NASA find life on Mars
  The CSIRO and NASA are currently in talks to develop new exploration technologies for use on the Moon and Mars. wooty stuff:)
  (tags: csiro science nasa moon mars technology)
• NASA - Phoenix set to land on Mars
  May 13, 2008: NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice. The lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on Sunday, May 25th.
  (tags: mars phoenix lander nasa mission)

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links for 2008-05-13

May 13th, 2008 by timelady

• The 25 Year Old BSD Bug
  1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It’s also the birthyear of a 25 year old BSD bug, squashed only a few days ago.
  (tags: bsd bug unix)
• Suicide (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  intruiging look at the philosophy of suicide…
  (tags: death essay ethics morality philosophy psychology read reading suicide)
• Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com
  Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with “Friend Connect”. Friend Connect will be a set of “APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.”
  (tags: google opensocial friendconnect facebook myspace social networking)
• APOD: 2008 May 11 - Retrograde Mars
  a series of images digitally stacked so that all of the stars images coincide. Here, Mars appears to trace out a loop in the sky.
  (tags: astronomy mars images sky solarsystem space)
• mental_floss Blog » How Do Painkillers Find & Kill Pain?
  Very appropriate for me…
  (tags: chemistry health medical medicine read reference science pain aspirin drugs codeine)

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links for 2008-05-12

May 12th, 2008 by timelady

• Five science fiction movies that get the science right - opinion - 09 May 2008 - New Scientist
  So, to give credit where it’s due, we have picked out five more sci-fi films that go against the grain, and contain some accurate, plausible science. They may not be completely realistic, but they get it right when it matters most.
  (tags: scifi movies science accurate cool list)
• NASA - Planets by the Dozen
  This fall, astronomers will start a massive search for new planets by observing about 11,000 nearby stars over 6 years. This number dwarfs the roughly 3,000 stars that astronomers have searched to date for the presence of planets.
  (tags: cool astronomy science planet nasa)
• Space and Technology - Data recovered from Columbia disaster
  Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods, fires & dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive from space shuttle Columbia
  (tags: data columbia recovery datarecovery amazing technology nasa spaceshuttle space shuttle)

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links for 2008-05-10

May 10th, 2008 by timelady

• First look: OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta a big step forward
  Now, the open-source office suite is back with a new 3.0 beta release, ushering in a handful of major enhancements, broader file format support, and a solid batch of evolutionary new features.
  (tags: openoffice beta enhancement opensource office productivity business)

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links for 2008-05-09

May 9th, 2008 by timelady

• Switched On: The Linux ultraportable opportunity - Engadget
  This summer seems to be shaping up as a key time for ultraportables with new powerful and power-optimized processors coming to market, the highest-profile of which is Intel’s Atom.
  (tags: atom intel hp asus eee eeepc ultraportable laptop notebook mininote linux windows novelll suse xandros)
• Closer encounter: Nasa plans landing on 40m-wide asteroid travelling at 28,000mph | Science | The Guardian
  Nasa engineers have identified the 1.1m tonne asteroid, which in 2000 was given a significant chance of slamming into Earth, as a potential landing site for astronauts, ahead of plans to venture deeper into the solar system with a crewed voyage to Mars.
  (tags: nasa asteroid space exploration cool astronaut)

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links for 2008-05-08

May 8th, 2008 by timelady

• Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera
  If you’re using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you’ve got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box.
  (tags: canon camera digital lifehacker extend advanced software hardware)

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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished…

May 7th, 2008 by timelady

…by being governed by those who are dumber.

I thought the Westminster System we use in Australia was weird. American elections of DELEGATES, wild crazy stuff. Especially if you are Hillary Clinton, who I once quite admired, and now despise as an example of power corrupting…

Anyway, see if you can follow Keith Olbermann’s explanation.

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links for 2008-05-07

May 7th, 2008 by timelady

• Brit Clerics Call on Doctor Who to Save Jesus | The Underwire from Wired.com
  Noting their shared heroism and universal appeal, British clergy think the Church of England should call on The Doctor to help Jesus — or at least Jesus’ church. Bah. The Doctor is way cooler than church. And more real.
  (tags: church religion britian doctorwho drwho tv television cult funny)
• Fairness, idealism and other atrocities - Los Angeles Times
  P J O’Rourke. enough said. bliss!!
  (tags: pjorourke satire humour humor article funny)
• Real-life daughter of former Dr Who to star as TV Time Lord’s daughter | the Daily Mail
  Actress Georgia Moffett, 23, has plumped for current Doctor David Tennant - over her famous father Peter Davison, 57 who played the Doctor in the eighties - calling him the sexiest ever Time Lord.
  (tags: doctorwho drwho tv television cult)

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links for 2008-05-06

May 6th, 2008 by timelady

• Raptor - Improved menu system for KDE 4 | Raptor Menu
  Raptor aims to deliver a new kind of launch menu system for KDE. It is designed with usability and beauty in mind.
  (tags: raptor kde4 menu desktop linux context)
• NASA - LRO
  NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,
  (tags: education kids lunar mission nasa science space web history moon)

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure…

May 5th, 2008 by timelady

…to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

So much change in my life this month.So much more upcoming. May I meet it with grace and dignity, and may I have serenity in doing what must be done.

The moving finger has written and moved on, change again and again to be embraced:)

And may there be enough tea:)

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