Google has added the Apollo landing sites to Google Maps to commemorate the first manned Moon landing which occured 36 years ago today (That’s July 20, 1969). If you zoom in all the way, you can really see the detail on the surface. Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites
I don’t think I’ve actually posted about my new house. J– and I have finally settled into our new place in Chelsea. It’s a 1.5 story something or other, 2.5 bedrooms (ok, three, but if you can get a bed in that other room, good on yah), 2 baths, and detached garage. It’s our first […]
Richard Stallman (RMS in the Open Source world) has called for a boycott of Harry Potter. I can sympathize with his premise (a Canadian court ordered that people who were erroneously sold the book early weren’t to read them), but this is the stupidest idea I can think of as a response. RMS obviously does […]
Save yourself a ton of time and pain; backup Firefox bookmarks, cache, extensions, passwords, history, and cookies. Works for Thunderbird, too. Link
Most are under 30 minutes to make. Link [via Kottke Remainders]
This is a little dated, but Pope Benedict isn’t a fan of Harry Potter. Go figure, eh? “It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly,” wrote Cardinal Ratzinger. I’m sure sales […]
Fire up your BitTorrent client before the nasty classical music companies invoke copyright somehow on these public domain works which none of their artists performed. Link
I can think of a few University departments that subscribe to the same customer service manual that Michael Dell does. Dell has closed their public support forums because of the rising anti-Dell rhetoric going on on the boards. They even gave notice with this little re-history: The Customer Service boards on the Dell Community Forum […]
And you can make it at work, if someone doesn’t steal your milk. Hob’s zeitgeist
Some guy has posted direct links to many of the AOL-hosted Live 8 performances. The Pink Floyd clips are excellent, as is the R.E.M. performance. Check it out and sign the list at the Live 8 website.