Waters’ biggest prop was an inflatable pig the size of a school bus that emerged while he played a version of “Pigs” from 1977’s capitalism critique, “Animals.”
The underside of the pig simply read “Obama” with a checked ballot box alongside.
Jurors found Linux programmer Hans Reiser guilty of first degree murder on Monday, concluding he killed his estranged wife in 2006. The verdict followed a nearly six-month trial and nearly three days of deliberation. Still a good filesystem, but wow…
I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging girlfriend Erin into sitting down at a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation and performing some basic tasks.
In this tutorial we’ll put together a high-end web design using a crisp, thin font, gorgeous background images and clever use of space and layout. You can easily use the technique to create your own unique designs.
Scientists can now tell us what happened in nearly every millisecond of the big bang. Robert Matthews takes us through the first crucial moments, and I am a happy chicken:)
‘More & more children are growing up in families with just one parent, what are the long-term effects?’ Ask my brother and i, raised successfully by our father. I’m technically a single mother, who believes a not living with father is still very necessary
Over the past six months or so, Asus, Everex, and HP have managed to bring low-cost ultraportable notebooks to market. Here’s a roundup of some of the computers that have been announced or are already available.
If you’ve flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week’s release of Hardy Heron, offers a freer, more productive space for work and play than ever before.
The Crew Earth Observations Team shares their “Top Ten” Crew Earth Observations. Check them out and share your thoughts on a blog with Sue Runco, Earth remote sensing scientist at Johnson Space Center.
Gakutensoku is Asia’s oldest modern robot, built in 1928 for the ascension of the Emperor Showa (aka Hirohito). Twice as tall as the emperor at 10 feet, 6 inches, it could tilt its head, blink, smile and puff up its chest and cheeks.
Sometimes a bike is just a bike… there’s no photoshopping going on here, guys. This is Uno, of course, a segway/motorcycle mashup shown publicly for the first time at the recent Toronto National Motorbike show.
Don’t bother asking if the madness will ever end; you know good and well it won’t. Now that we’re clear, let’s focus on the latest Hello Kitty-blasted laptop: the May-bound Endeavor NJ2100.
Check out how this 20-year old coed completely corners, traps, and ultimately pwns the former attorney general of the United States. In a public forum, no less.
Scientists say they have unlocked some of the secrets behind black holes, the gravitational fields known for sucking up light and stars from the Universe.
KDE on Linux has stepped up to become the software platform in the primary school education system in Brazil. The numbers are staggering and speak for themselves:By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be fully deployed
Sun Microsystems is stepping up efforts to boost Java usage in Linux shops by working to remove some final encumbrances in the open-source Java platform. By freeing these up, Java can be fully open-source, thus be packaged more easily with Linux distros
A giant particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider will simulate the early conditions of the universe by smashing particles to smithereens. Biff, bang, yay!!!!
I am a tad fed up (actually utterly annoyed) with this generation looking at my generation’s tv and movies and music and remaking, revisiting, and just damn well ripping off my childhood. Stop it. Stop it at once.
You want attention for your completely crapful attempt at art? here’s a clue, honey, if you have to explain it in terms that render as random gibberish, you may be just a stupid attention seeking talentless bint. Actually, scratch that . You ARE a stupid attention seeking talentless bint.
And thanks for turning miscarriages into ‘art’. I guess I am a Rembrandt.
My contempt for this foolishness is unbounded. I may not know much about art - but I know this isn’t it.
