I propose a great cheer and "Happy Birthday!" to one of the great scientists who made it possible for us to connect today - you owe him your everyday electricity :) 
To Hans Christian Ørsted !!

It is eleven o'clock and I have just been outside. It's just past sunset, but the eastern sky is light yet. The evening is long, in the Northern skies. It is not so long now, until midsummer, and the nights grow light ( Read more... )

I'm an open source kinda gal. While I do understand that creative people need to be respected and paid for their work, I'm very wary of the way their rights are handled by the people making money of their work, such as publishers and recording companies. Management of DRM is an issue for me and I definitely don't like the way *some* people try to ( Read more... )

In remembrance of Douglas Adams, author of the five-book trilogy; Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.


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