April 2007
33 posts
“Isn’t it funny that which we are most afraid of is what thrills us the...”
– What the Bleep Do We Know!?
“The universe is made of stories, not atoms.”
– Muriel Rukeyser
Google releases patches that enhance the... →
The current patches are for version 4 of MySQL, with version 5 support coming shortly.
WatchLuo by-nc-nd Bad Loop
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain, Pudd’n’head Wilson
“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a...”
– Niels Bohr
Google Web History →
Web History lets you look back in time, revisit the sites you’ve browsed, and search over the full text of pages you’ve seen. It’s your slice of the web, at your fingertips. [ via Lifehacker ]
WatchPejzaże by-nc-sa Nerious
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Released →
Well Done! Thank you to everyone who has helped make Ubuntu 7.04 a reality.
WatchRussian Parkour
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des Hommes
“Sic semper tyrannis”
– Attributed to Marcus Brutus at the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Watch[ via Bookardo ]
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid...”
– Codename V, V for Vendetta
Google opens Latin American headquarters in... →
“Argentina will be the third-largest headquarters for Google business development in the world, after those in California and Ireland,” Gonzalo Alonso, Google’s director general for Latin America’s Spanish-speaking countries, said at a press conference in Buenos Aires. [ via Digg ]
“Because they don’t teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely...”
– Noam Chomksy, Chomsky on Miseducation
“The media is constantly telling us what we’re lacking, which creates a...”
– Peter Russell, The Art of Letting Go
“My point is that decreasing the tendency of the kernel to swap stuff out is...”
– Andrew Morton
April 7, 1969: Birth of That Thing We Call the... →
April 7 is often cited as a symbolic birth date of the net because the RFC memoranda contain research, proposals and methodologies applicable to internet technology. [via Digg]
How Much Land to Power The Whole World with Solar... →
Solar power systems installed in the areas defined by the dark disks could provide a little more than the world’s current total primary energy demand (assuming a conversion efficiency of 8%). [ via Digg ]
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging...”
– Attributed to William James