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• The PS3 has finally been hacked. And it only took 3 years, 2 months, and 11 days…
• Go-OO is a faster and better version of Open Office? ORLY? Could be worth a shot… Update: It turns out the version of OO that ships with Ubuntu actually includes the Go-OO patches, so if you’re on Ubuntu you’ve been using Go-OO all along. Ubuntu FTW! Obsolete: Use LibreOffice instead.
• Nuclear fusion edges closer to the point where it can create more usable energy than it takes to sustain a reaction. Also, uses frickn’ laser beams of such power that they could boil 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools in a single second. Repect!
• What the hell do all these ROM codes mean? Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (U) [T-Fre.67_Skaiboy][o1].smc, anyone? Know thine GoodCodes. (BTW: Original region: USA, Translation (deprecated) into French by Skaiboy, Translation version 0.67, Rom is Overdump #1 (so has more data than required to play the game, so the game could be 3.3MB, but the cartridge has had all 4MB of it dumped)).
• 1001 Rules for my Unborn Son – I don’t agree with a bunch of them, but some are bang on the money.
• Are you defecient in Vitamin D? Probably. And probably so am I…
• Spray-on liquid glass is about to take off in a big, BIG way…
• Live longer through Calorie Restriction? Maybe.. This Times Online article by (2005 “Food And Drink Writer of the Year”) Giles Coren is a great read, and made me laugh out loud more than a few times
• The two prevalent (and opposing) economic theories; Free Market Economy (Friedrich von Hayek) Vs. Keynesian Economics i.e. government steered (John Maynard Keynes) as explained via the medium of rap. No, really. It’s actually a good laugh, and worth it for the moustaches alone, so if you learn anything – bonus!

• Sugru is new silicon-based putty which will adhere to just about anything, and can handle temperatures between -60C and 180C. I wouldn’t start slapping it around willy-nilly like the site’s suggesting because a.) It looks duff b.) Just no, alright?, but it’s gotta be useful stuff to have around…
• How responsive is your ISPs DNS? You might find that some (free) third-party DNS servers resolve your queries quicker, and hence speed up your browsing experience. Find out for sure with the platform-independent DNS checking tool namebench – it only takes a couple of minutes to run the scan, and I think I got about a 30% look-up speed improvement by changing my DNS servers to the ones namebench recommended.
• Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. So now you know. Not that I particularly feel I need to learn yet another programming language, but it’s interesting to see what can be done quickly and easily with it, and you could always translate any bits of functionality you liked into your language of choice…
• Ubuntu doesn’t ship with a system-wide graphic equaliser. So here is a system-wide graphics equaliser for Ubuntu. Can’t really argue with that, can you?
• XBox Live Arcade is changing to be more like the PS3 Home service, apparently. Looks interesting.
• Gravity could be caused not by mass, but by information, if this fella’s right: First article. Second article. (articles are well explained for us non-rocket-scientists, so don’t be afraid )
• If you’re interested in graphics, eurogamer has a spiffy-ass article on anti-aliasing with some great before/after shots and discussion of different methods strengths and weaknesses.
• MakeUseOf.com has absolutely stacks of great tips, tricks and useful knowledge about all sorts of things. I’ve signed up to the daily newsletter, and wouldn’t want to go back to life without it – they really do have some very useful articles. If anything, I’d say the only downside to the newsletter is that you’ll want to spend some time reading and experimenting with things every day, which can turn out to be a bit of a time-vampire. Truly excellent stuff.

• Chillit 2009 was an ambient music fest with a bunch of DJ’s, and it’s all available free online for ya. I’m finding it pretty good music to code to as it’s not too busy and (in general) doesn’t have a lot of vocals to distract.
• Screw the Kindle! The new Barnes & Noble Nook looks hella nicer, if you’re in the market for an ebook reader…
• Death Rally (1996, Win32, video) is now free to download – I’d never heard of this but it looks pretty good and runs fine in DOSBox.
• Discovered a service called Dropbox the other day.. (this isn’t a new service, so it seems I’m a bit behind the curve here). The deal is this: You sign up for a free account, and run the DropBox client in the background on your machine. Then, when you put anything into a designated “DropBox” folder, it automatically uploads it to your online storage, where you can access it, share it, sync the latest copies to any other machines logged in as you on another dropbox client etc. You get 2GB storage on the free account, but if you want more you can pay monthly for 50GB and 100GB accounts at ($20 and $30 US per month). 2GB will be fine for me, and pretty useful, methinks. Sign up using this link and get us both an extra 250MB, if ya wanna =D
• My current fave podcast (since LUG Radio called it a day) has got to be Linux Outlaws – just a scouser and a German chatting about this, that and the other related to the mighty Lin. And swearing quite a bit. Hurrah! Relatedly, like podcasts? Like linux? Like listening to podcasts on linux, um, on linux? Then try the gpodder client. It’s rather nice
• 50 Londoners, 1 Question.

I used to post a bunch of sites and stuff I’d found interesting every now and then back when the site was on PHPNuke, but I’ve kinda forgotten to do that of late… Well – no more!

Linkage #2 be down!

• Fancy brewing your own booze? Neither do I, really. But it looks like a fun project…
• Consistently awesome image-based goodness abounds at 9gag.
• The next router I get is very likely to be a NETGEAR WNR3500L Wireless-N Gigabit Open Source Router. Gigabit Ethernet! Wireless N! OpenWRT or DD-WRT or Tomato! Fo’ shizzle!
• UnixPorn is not really porn. It’s screenshots of peoples linux desktops. Honest! I’ve even submitted my own desktop! Cos it’s not like I’m procrastinating and avoiding making database slides… Hell no!
• How to position home theater speakers properly.
• An Engineers Guide to Bandwidth is a pretty good read – about how bandwidth, latency and packet reliability effects usability of web services.
• Red Remover is a physics based flash game – keep the green blocks, get rid of the red ones, and we aren’t fussy about the blues. Yaaayy!
• Considering building your own NAS? Me too. Am thinking FreeNAS might be the way and the path.
• Create a web layout with buttons, header graphics, dividers and all that jazz by knocking it up in a graphics package then slicing it into sections and exporting the HTML and sliced images. You can do the same thing using Gimp, but watching the video makes it easier to get your head around it all first.

That’ll do, pig. That’ll do…

• Funny indian language music video with subtitles of what they’re saying if they were singing in English, um, if you get what I mean.
• Baseball pitches – Do you know your changeup from your splitter?
• Not sure which font to use? Have a look at all the fonts on your machine and how they look here (There should surely be an offline app for this.. but damned if I know one – suggestion always appreciated! [linux preferred ] )
• One of the greatest ideas ever – liquid glasses for the third world – absolutely ingenious, and it’ll work.
• When items aren’t new enough or old enough to have value they enter the trough of no value. WooOOOoooo…
• Notcot.org – is full of, as the site says; ideas, aesthetics and amusements.
• Deinterlacing rigouressly explained. No, really.
• Creative bank-note graffiti ftw.

And a special mention goes out to the following site for being the best damn product review site I’ve ever had the good fortune to stumble across:

• alatest.co.uk – Product reviews of pretty much everything tv/computer/music/gadget type stuff with internal and grabbed external reviews to make meta-scores, available in many nationalities (not just UK flavour) – really, really good site. Three thumbs up!