Ethnic Fried Dough around the world.
recent flickr stuff
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13 Things That Don’t Make Sense
Things like the 13 Things in this New Scientist article are why I wanted to be a scientist when I was a kid.
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Cost Overruns and Closed Source
Failure to secure access rights to software has added $10M in cost-overruns to the already beleaguered “Big Dig” in Boston. Computerworld has the story.
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WordPress 1.5
I took the plunge today and upgraded to WordPress 1.5. The only hassles came from my not having kept the Kubrick template up-to-date. Otherwise, a very smooth process. Congrats to all the WP crew — a really nice product. The code is much easier to tweak. Many nice adjustments and improvements throughout. The Dashboard makes using WP a fun experience. And that’s why we do it…right? Anyways, there might be “theme experimentation” going on here for a few days, so don’t be alarmed.
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Under $100 Notebook?
MIT Media Labs’ Nicolas Negroponte says he is developing an under $100 notebook, as reported by the BBC. The cost savings would come from hacking the display and just generally “getting rid of the fat”. And yes, it would run Linux.
“We have to get the display down to below $20, to do this we need to rear project the image rather than using an ordinary flat panel.”
18-1/2 minutes of silence, please.
Check out ONLamp’s tutorial of Ruby on Rails, an excellent and easy web-application framework.
Business Week on Linux
The latest Business Week has a lengthy feature on Linux. It explains the unique development model and how it is being adapted and adopted in industry. Not a bad article overall, it shows the maturization of Linux and open-source devel in general.
Official Family Guy weblog
Family Guy::Fox documents the return of Family Guy to broadcast reality. [via kottke.org].
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H. David Dalquist, 86, creator of the famous Bundt cake pan, died Jan. 2 at his home in Edina, Minn.