Afghanistan's next top model, by LR. Obviously in burqa.


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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
~ Albert Einstein

The more you own, the more it owns you.
~ Henry Rollins

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~ Leonardo da Vinci ( many more timeless quotes and thoughts )

Oh I'm such a nerd... quikchange had a link to some brilliant virtual machine terminology illustrations.


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Cancer doubt remains over mobiles

The long-term cancer risk of mobile phone use cannot be ruled out, experts have concluded ( Read more... )

Got an iPhone before yesterday? Yay. Good news everybody and not just with the old prof voice from Futurama.

All in one as it would feel a bit decadent to post 20 different small entries...

* NASA employees sue for background checks link - whiskey tango foxtrot? I think it might be good to have some background checks for people shooting billion dollar rockets...

* The most annoying website ever. Don't open it, and if you do open it, make sure that ( Read more... )

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is out thereIt took me minutes of trying to figure out how to actually force all contacts to be under groups. When I log in under any skype contact, it takes every contact from my AddressBook for the account I am logged in Mac OS X regardless of if I log in under my own skype handle or not, and if I wan to add every single phone number that is in ( Read more... )

Part 2 - Switching to Ubuntu [ Part 1]

It took 12 hours with Converter to transform my physical Windows XP machine to a virtual machine. It would have been a lot faster, but as all the hard drives I had around were either with 6-pin firewire, or a USB that just doesn't want to be mounted on anything, there wasn't much choice on where to save the ( Read more... )