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links for 2006-11-24

November 25th, 2006 by timelady

• TechEBlog » How it’s Made: Cheese
  How its made continues : Cheese!
  (tags: howitsmade cheese video)
• The Politics of Dancing: “As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly”
  Cincinnati, OH–An advertising stunt dreamed up by a local Cincinnati radio station went terribly wrong when twenty live turkeys plummeted to their deaths after being dropped out of a helicopter under the misguided assumption that they would all just fly
  (tags: article blog news read usa wtf)
• For Rare Few, Taste Is in the Ear of the Beholder - New York Times
  Funky facts about synesthasia - taste with sounds or sight - its a rare but intruiging condition about jumbled senses.
• LiveScience.com - Biking Can Make Women’s Genitals Less Sensitive
  Umm, get a good gel seat with space for bits - mens or womens models!
  (tags: bikes riding health women)
• Linux as a Media Centre - Linux Forums
  Cool discussion
  (tags: entertainment htpc music mythtv opensource software tv media mediacenter linux)
• Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch « Lorelle on WordPress
  Looks like time consuming fun and creativity!
  (tags: art articles blog design wordpress tutorial css create web tutorials howto development)
• Creation vs Darwin takes Muslim twist in Turkey | Science&Health | Science | Reuters.co.uk
  A lavishly illustrated “Atlas of Creation” is mysteriously turning up at schools and libraries in Turkey, proclaiming that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is the real root of terrorism. *sigh*
  (tags: religion evolution fundamentalism ignorance christian muslim darwin)
• Wired 14.12: START
  Rebooting the Ecosystem
  Global warming is real. We did it. Now it’s time to talk about repairs.
  (tags: climate climatechange earth ecology environment globalwarming green howto technology science)
• SPACE.com Video Player: Spacewalk Golf
  golf in space!
  (tags: videos space)
• Wardriving Using A Ubuntu Notebook With Garmin Etrex, Kismet, And GPSDrive | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
  I have done this - Debian, admittedly, but wow, it was identical setup otherwise:)
  Wardriving Using A Ubuntu Notebook With Garmin Etrex, Kismet, And GPSDrive
  This tutorial is about wardriving using GPS. It explains how to install Garmin Etrex on Ubuntu
  (tags: gps kismet networking linux notebook ubuntu wardriving wireless security)
• Riding Rails: Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1
  Ruby on Rails just ROCKS! Yay!
  (tags: news rails ruby rubyonrails)
• Open Source! Open Minds! Defend our freedom!: Visual Development on Linux
  Visual IDEs for Linux!
  (tags: basic coding development freeware interface linux opensource software visual programming ide)
• MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Copy data off a Microsoft Zune (use as a hard drive)
  Didnt take long for this kind of info to get out there. yay community!
  (tags: hack howto ipod make zune hdd)
• Russia blamed for spy death | NEWS.com.au
  This is nasty, cold war badness from the kgb. It has all the hallmarks of assassination.
• Ms. Dewey
  (tags: library cool design engine flash search web web2.0 live)
• The wired child: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
  Turns out, technology isn’t turning our boys into drooling, violent zombies. The challenge is finding a balance in the digital reality that confronts them each day.
  (tags: children digital gaming society tech technology)
• Main Page - Uncyclopedia
  Welcome to Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. As someone on Digg put it, Wikipedia’s evil twin:)
  (tags: wiki humor encyclopedia funny parody reference wikipedia fun comedy community daily content collaboration archive)
• Modular Origami - fractal models folded by Michał Kosmulski
  Very very cool stuff!
  (tags: origami design art cool learning logic math mathematics architecture)
• SPACE.com — Space Food: From Squeeze Tubes To Celebrity Chefs
  Wow, space travel seems delicious!
  (tags: space astronaut cosonaut spacestation food diet)
• Clueful vs clueless - a never ending battle | Free Software Magazine
  A provocative but intetersting read. ‘There is a fundamental problem with GNU/Linux—it requires clueful people to exist in the IT food chain.’
  (tags: opensource software development developer programming)
• AdelaideNow… Riders demand park must be for all
  Cool if it happens! BICYCLE clubs are calling on the State Government to honour its commitment to open the first dedicated mountain bike park to the public by the end of the year.
  (tags: bike bicycle riding)
• Anatomy of a Black Hole
  very very brilliant flash animation.
  (tags: astronomy flash cool physics video blackhole blackholes)

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