links for 2007-07-29
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Brazos, by Jerome Stueart, illustration by Lydia C. Burris
I came out to mend a wooden fence. I figured the cows had knocked the rail over. Maybe the wind jimmied it loose. Then again, seeing the man walk out of the caprock, without a car or anything, and no public road for a [...]
links for 2007-07-26
Posted on July 27, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Future Feeder » Archive » Tilt SCREAM Pong
I just finished building a game of pong for those of you with Sudden Motion Sensors on your Mac. Using the Sudden Motion Sensor, you can now play Pong. Tilt the laptop to control the paddle and scream to increase the size of the paddle. Enjoy! But play [...]
All online data lost after internet crash
Posted on July 26, 2007 - Filed Under humour, onion | Leave a Comment
Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash
Read More..>>links for 2007-07-24
Posted on July 25, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Limits, by Donna Glee Williams
When did Len first see how far the path would take her son? No Far Walker had been born in her Home Village for many years. Len’s own range was a modest seven villages, but she had some notion of the life of a Far Walker; everyone knew [...]
Journal Impact and Eigenfactor
Posted on July 19, 2007 - Filed Under impact, journals, research | Leave a Comment
I’ve been looking for good journals to submit a paper to for a while now, and working out the quality of journals is not the easiest thing to do. Traditionally, the impact factor as calculated and listed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) have been used, but the access to these impact factors is not free, [...]
Read More..>>No more lost remote: TV gesture recognition
Posted on July 16, 2007 - Filed Under cool, gesture, television, vision | Leave a Comment
by-nc-nd, Kimblahg
A group of Australian scientists have come up with some gesture recognition software you can hook up to your tv so you can do remote control stuff without the actual remote control. Sounds very useful.
Its software recognises simple, deliberate hand gestures and then sends the appropriate signal to a universal remote control, designed to [...]
links for 2007-07-13
Posted on July 14, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Qwerty Ranch: Dogland
It was a dream, then a place, then a memory. My father built it near the
Suwannee River. I like to think it was in the heart of Florida, because
it was, and is, in my heart. Its name was Dogland.
(tags: fiction sf free)
Qwerty Ranch: The Gospel of the Knife
A Coke bottle spins through the [...]
Read More..>>links for 2007-07-10
Posted on July 11, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Cipher Tools
(tags: cryptography tools)
Degree Converter
(tags: geocaching conversion)
HTPC - OCAU Wiki
(tags: htpc)
AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T 777 (A16AR) - LinuxTVWiki
(tags: htpc mythtv)
links for 2007-07-06
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
ping netbios names from linux (samba) - LinuxQuestions.org
How to make linux recognise netbios names
(tags: linux network windows samba)
Open file with default application from terminal (Ubuntu/Gnome)
Posted on July 6, 2007 - Filed Under gnome, linux. howto, ubuntu | Leave a Comment
If you want to open up a file or folder using the default application from your terminal in ubuntu (or any linux distrib using gnome), just use gnome-open. Like this:
gnome-open ~/docs/something.pdf
Gnome will use it’s file association tables to open it in the correct application, and you won’t have to worry about remembering what your pdf [...]