A ccording to the results of a survey conducted early this year by Novell, Adobe Photoshop tops users’ lists as the most critical application not available on Linux. While Adobe continues to only support Windows and Mac OS X with most of its products for its own, unknown reasons, alternatives are becoming increasingly popular with the…
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Run 24 hours a day by remote controls by a real person who zooms in on wildlife and put infra-red spotlights on animals at night. I’ve seen giraffes, zebras, antelope (kipsringers), hyenas, giant eagle owls, and what looked like a tapir (but may have been a hyena). Can get boring (because it’s live) but that’s part of the fun. Now for Macs too!
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In President Clinton’s last days in office, he made this funny 5-6 minute video, which features Helen Thomas, Tim Russert, Hillary Clinton, and many more. It’s kind of sad to remember the days when the USA had a competent leader, remember? When everything was good…
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Photographs taken by Jonah Blank last month at Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. His photos show one of the actual waterboards used by the Khymer Rouge. Here’s a painting by a former prisoner that shows the waterboard in action…
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Title says it all.
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In a word: yes. This is as close to my dream application for college students as I think I am going to find. The note taking feature is solid with everything you would expect and a little more, and features such as RSS feeds and iCal support just top it off.
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Playing on The Movie Network right now is Spike Lee’s “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts“. This is a shocking, heartfelt documentary chronicling the Katrina tragedy, and I highly recommend checking it out. If you don’t have TMN, you can catch it on HBO, or if all else fails, I’m sure Spike wouldn’t mind if you grabbed it on BitTorrent. See this film.
Mort Kondrake reports that Condi and Karen Hughes convinced Bush to drop the phrase, which is popular among conservatives, from his speeches.
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Carl Morland, Henry Hallam and Robert Fryers attached the tiny camera to a helium balloon, which flew to nearly four times the height of Everest. Throughout the flight it took images which show the curvature of the earth. The flight lasted about three hours, producing more than 800 images.
Click here for some selected images, and click the “read more” link below for the full article!
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records. Gonzales acknowledged the concerns of some who say legislation might be overly intrusive and encroach on privacy rights, but argued that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.
What a load of horse shit. Gonzales is just the latest in a long line of republican puppets, who now seem to be full steam ahead in the race to destroy the little civil liberty and privacy the American people have left. Click the “read more” link.
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