links for 2008-04-29
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Sleep Quirk Debugger
You’ve just installed Linux, and suspend stuff does not work. These pages can help you if you are running a distro that supports the new pm-utils and HAL quirk matching framework.
(tags: linux power suspend hibernate)
Cartophilia: Maps and Map Memorabilia: Caught Mapping
This Jam Handy film teaches us how road maps are drawn, field-checked and [...]
links for 2008-04-28
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy , by A.M. Dellamonica
The back compartment of the armored limousine was a smallish aquarium, so Dinah—dressed in human clothes once more—had to get in next to the driver. She had barely sat down when Chamon thrust a tentacle through the waterproof membrane that separated b
(tags: fiction [...]
links for 2008-04-21
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy, by A.M. Dellamonica
The boys were playing dust attack again. It was a way of dealing, Dinah knew, and she tried to ignore Aidan as he threw an imaginary grenade and then made a sprinkling motion over Jesse, a finger-waving shorthand that used to mean falling snow. [...]
links for 2008-04-16
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
[RP-5] Rokit Powered 5 Powered Reference Studio Monitor
(tags: speaker monitor audio hardware research)
Brisbane Sound Group ::
Studio Monitors available for hire from brisound.com
(tags: research audio monitor speaker)
links for 2008-04-14
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Valiant on the Wing, by Chris Szego
My brother Charcoal always brought home the most interesting things. In spring, he fetched us tender stalks of asparagus; in summer, the fattest, freshest, most delicious mushrooms. He found flowers that Em turned into dye, and grasses that Acorn made int
(tags: fiction sf free * *toconvert)
links for 2008-04-09
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Google Public Policy Blog: How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth
As the publishers of a geographic reference tool, we believe that Google should not choose sides in international geopolitical disputes. For this reason, we’ve chosen to implement a uniform policy of Primary Local Usage.
(tags: google geo names water)
links for 2008-04-07
Posted on April 8, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: In Ashes, by Helen Keeble
From the time my twin brother and I were four, our mother only gave us raw food. Before then I can remember sometimes eating cold, cooked things—porridge congealed onto the bottom of my bowl, soups with a white floating scum of fats—but that stopped a
(tags: fiction sf free)
links for 2008-04-04
Posted on April 5, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
LaTeX Resume/CV Template/Example
In the same spirit as the LaTeX homework template, I have put together my own LaTeX résumé/CV template. Actually, I’ve just revised my own CV and released its source. Hopefully the source can be used as a template for others.
(tags: latex howto resume cv jobs)
links for 2008-04-03
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Matt Gilbert
Rather than typing or otherwise encoding text, the way you control speech with this synth is by imitating the shape made by a throat when speaking. When you lay your hand onto the controller, the tips of your fingers correspond to your mouth and your fore
(tags: speech synth gesture hardware music)
MALLORY by Leonard Richardson [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Ki Do (The Way of the Trees), by Sarah Thomas
In leaves and wood
The deep glow of time
Fades to a twilight
Of water and shade.
—Kogure-san, 1936
I have always believed one should date a poem [...]