Durable clothing
Everyone likes a clean, neatly folded t-shirt. These ones will last you a good while too, but won’t be all that comfortable since they’re made from marble by an astoundingly good sculptor by the name of Hirotoshi Ito. (Image taken from Hirotoshi’s DeviantArt page.)
November 29, 2011
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art
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eplanet updated
eplanet has been sadly neglected for some time. On the plus side, e17 is stable enough that it rarely has issues large enough to affect the module. On the down side, there’s still a lot of features to be added. Today there’s a couple of small updates to make the module play nicely with the [...]
November 27, 2011
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eplanet
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It’s a good thing Sesame Street never used this font
The BBC News website is running a story about an illegal immigrant who worked as an actor on Sesame Street, with the entirely appropriate headline ‘I is for Illegal’. Unfortunately their headline font leads to the wonderful irony that a child trying to learn how to spell the key word wouldn’t have a chance.
November 25, 2011
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design
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When ltsp-update-image stops working
Today I have a cautionary tale to tell of LTSP machines and Synaptic’s automatic package management features. The other day I updated the packages on my LTSP server. I did it the way I always do: update the server itself, then enter the chroot environment for the client image and update the packages there. During [...]
November 24, 2011
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computing, linux/ubuntu
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ClimateGate 2.0? No, it’s a repeat
Today’s release of more emails from the archives of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia promises yet more revelations of shady dealings and corruption within the community of scientists investigating climate change. Unfortunately, what these ‘new’ emails actually contains is anything but new. The UEA’s computers were hacked sometime in 2009, [...]
November 22, 2011
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climate-change, science
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