links for 2007-09-30
Robot Invasion Escalates - Faster Forward
Ivananywhere was first. You knew a polished, professionally-produced version wasn’t far behind.
(tags: robot telepresence)
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links for 2007-09-29
Support Star by buying a t-shirt - Instructables Make Cool How To and DIY Forum
Star needs help covering her court fees for the “hoax device” that she was wearing. You can either send her money by paypal directly or you can buy a shirt and $5 of the proceeds will go to Star.
EFF: DeepLinks
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private contractors in Iraq — video from 2006
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a youtube video showing that Bush hasn’t actually managed to do anything about extra-legal private contractors in a year worth?
links for 2007-09-28
Sam Sedaei: Smartest Man in the Room - Politics on The Huffington Post
Many Iranians hoped that Columbia would take this opportunity to keep the focus of questions on Iran’s brutal domestic policies. And yet, of the five or six questions that were asked, astonishingly, only one related to human rights
(tags: iran politics Ahmadinejad)
homework and emusic
Work:
And Play:
Palmer is not a dull boy.
Ethical Issues of Capital Punishment
This just hit my inbox:
Greetings,
On behalf of The Parr Center For Ethics, I’d like to invite members of your student group to attend our upcoming panel discussion regarding the ethical issues of Capital Punishment. The Date is Tuesday, October 2nd at 7:30pm and the place is Carroll Hall.
The Panel will feature:
Carl Fox- NC Superior Court [...]
gui is back, great lessons learned
I have a GUI again, and I feel a bit dumb for having filed the bug. Turns out an install with a fresh daily alternate iso fixed the issue. Next time I’ll wait to see if a fresh install fixes if I’m running the development branch.
My GUI-less weekend was fun. I learned some valuable [...]
learning to live without a GUI
I’m writing this post from within elinks. “Why on earth would you do that?” you ask. On Friday morning I pulled an update for xserver-xorg-core and it killed my Xorg. Rather than fall back, I persisted in trying to squash the bug (launchpad.net/bugs/141609). I haven’t been successful. Still, I’ve had to get things done, so [...]
Why were the sprinklers on?
Are we out of the drought already? I was in Manning Hall late waiting for a ride, and when I came out the sprinklers were on:
It had rained a little bit earlier, so I was even more confused. Why were the sprinklers on?
Sorry for the bad pictures… I guess I was too angry and frustrated… [...]
