Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• Here's a nice article from NPR on sleep. Worth noting is the author's comment that in 20 years, the stylishness of getting only five hours of sleep a night may be seen the same way that the "stylishness" of smoking is seen today: As something that kills you before your

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gOS

[anonymous]

I bought a "Green PC" from Wal-Mart via the Web. $189 list, $235 or so with tax and shipping. Actually a very nice little box, after I upped RAM to 2 gig. (another $60).

The gOS GUI seems to have been designed by the Chinese equivalent of Fischer-Price (who did the XP GUI). All bright colors and BIG icons. I played wit it enough to see that it didn't meet my needs and put Kubuntu 7.10 on the box.

Altogether, quite a bargain. And pre-teen and computer illiterate seniors will probably relate to it.

Sam'l Bassett

[anonymous]

Somewhere in the last few issues of Analog is a story about a fella with two over-computerized & rather snarky replacement knees....

[jeff_duntemann]

Heh. That's probably why they didn't buy it. Oh, well.

[billroper]

Fascinating forward from George. Thanks!

gOS

[rkhalloran]

There's been rumors for some time about Google offering a branded Linux distro (since that's what their servers run); maybe these guys are trying to become the next acquisition of the Googleplex...