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First impressions with Ubuntu Feisty

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

I just finished doing a fresh install of Feisty on my work desktop, changing over from Edgy. As I’ve been using it for a grand total of two hours now, I’m fully qualified to review it! The good: Hardware acceleration out of the box. They’re even including a basic Beryl install for some 3d eye [...]

Another one off the list

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

As many of my friends know, one of my missions in life is to eat all of the tastiest of God’s creatures. Towards that end I’ve eaten horse, snake, bear, turtle, cockroaches, snails, cichlids, ants, frogs, alligator, sea cucumbers, kangaroo, and all manner of other creatures from nature’s glorious pantry. Until yesterday though I didn’t [...]

Foot binding

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

A coworker brought up the topic of footbinding at work the other day. I came across this picture and blurb this morning. It’s interesting because I haven’t seen a modern photo of the practice, just fuzzy grainy black and white pictures. It took me a couple of moments to see that she wasn’t holding her [...]

A collection of Rap covers and remixes.

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

I get a kick out of hearing popular rap songs get morphed into something else entirely by artists creative and enough to pull it off well. Each one that I ear gives a new meaning to both the original song and the artist covering it. For example… Nina Gordon’s cover of Straight Outta Compton: straightouttacompton.mp3 [...]

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