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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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