Well put.

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Accor­ding to this.

But what’s Ubuntu Aubergine?

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Ever since my impa­tient and juve­nile decons­truc­tion of the new “light” GTK the­mes for Ubuntu Lucid, there’s been a lot of talk elsewhere, as well as some more clues about the new interface.

First came Mark Shuttleworth’s announ­ce­ment on the rebran­ding. Something that seems to have been over­loo­ked, most likely because of its ambi­guous ( Read more... )

Let’s start with the good.


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I have a cou­ple rants-in-waiting about Ubuntu. This guy says everything I could say way bet­ter than me. Go read his blog.

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One thing I’ll never understand is why Ubuntu ships with such hideous default system fonts, when there are some perfectly great open source fonts built right into it. For instance, UnDotum is a near-exact clone of Franklin Gothic, although strangely a Google search for undotum “franklin gothic” only turns up one page that mentions the two together ( Read more... )

Today at Family Dollar Shannon and I played with a toy keyboard clearly made by non-English-speakers, with pre-programmed songs that included such classics as “Cut Wool” and “Read Hat,” and a rhythm bank option in the style of “New New.”

Oh and here’s the new Justice video, stolen straight from their MySpace page for extra awesome quality. Here’s ( Read more... )