It happened a few hours ago at the airport. We were queueing with non-US passport holders to go through immigration. I tried not to think about what was happening. The people doing it to me looked a bit apologetic. But not really enough. They did not realise that many people had died over the centuries …
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Ricoh r5u870 webcam
For debian (Ubuntu etc) packages go here: http://download.tuxfamily.org/arakhne/pool/universe/r/ricoh-webcam-r5u870/ Once you’ve installed the two files, check your home directory for a directory r5u87x and read the readme … 🙂 For rpm go to: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/11802631/dir/opensuse/com/r5u87x-loader-0.2.0-11.3.x86_64.rpm.html
What Is the Meaning Of Life? 1 or 0?
So, I’m in the middle of resurrecting my computer after it suffered a fatal bout of Windowsitis, and while letting off steam to my dad have some unexpected insights based on an IT metaphor. I was testing three operating systems (OpenSuse, Kubuntu, Vista) and a virtualisation tool. It was glitching at the multiboot setup – …
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Has economics reached its sell-by date?
A note by Richard and Stella, voicing frustrations many of us feel in the imploding Irish economy. How far will things have to disintegrate before we cop on that we cannot continue to do things in the same way? At the moment, issues of the economy are determining political decisions, and consequently, are affecting decisions …
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Singh Obama
BBC: US-India ties ‘to define century’ No doubt. And for all the right reasons. Like geopolitical balance and the cosmic rhythm. Other relationships will define the century too.
Explore Biodiversity
Explore Biodiversity
Tree of Life
Tree of Life
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life
25 Amazing Food Cures
I was sent this Men’s Health link listing 25 “amazing food cures”. The foods do things like boost serotonin and endorphins, provide particular vitamins, fatty acids, probiotics and anti-oxidants, boost metabolism, and so forth. In any case, variety and moderation are the key to a healthy diet (and for me that even includes movie-night binging …
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20% of plants risk extinction.
If that doesn’t sound bad, then its worse. No plants = no animals. Normally we migt be shocked to hear that 20% of mammals face extinction, even though they tend to be less resilient than plants. Hearing that 20% of plants are at risk is a loud warning – that kind of hole in the …
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