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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-25
: Visit to Hartley Wintney Women's Institute Market (PHOTOS) http://t.co/5pdFVGbK # @bensummers Critics get covered in Marjorie's honey from last year and then are staked-out on the common and left to the badgers… # : Lucy Lawless – a.k.a #Xena – Occupies a Shell Oil Drilling Ship # HT @newsmary http://t.co/16U22504 #
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Lucy Lawless – a.k.a #Xena – Occupies a Shell Oil Drilling Ship # HT @newsmary
Via Mary comes forth the following; I know some folk for whom this article will provoke extremely heated debate… Lucy Lawless is illegally seated atop a 174-foot derrick rising from a drilling ship off New Zealand’s western shore, and she really, really doesn’t want to talk about “Xena: Warrior Princess.” The ship is called the…
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Visit to Hartley Wintney Women’s Institute Market (PHOTOS)
I write about it quite frequently – as a friend pointed out yesterday – so I thought you might like to see the goodness… ginger butter biscuits, lemon curd, eggs and leeks…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-24
: BBC with more #FoldingPlug goodness (HT: @ruskin147) http://t.co/BCNcnXbY # : On the benefits of #macroblogging observing a #Twitter stupidity, and the return of #stopshortening http://t.co/1h5i567G # @r_ratclif Hey, thanks! The stuff I can't talk about from the podium is even more amusing / scarier, depending on perspective. #
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BBC with more #FoldingPlug goodness (HT: @ruskin147)
BBC News – Folding plug: A student idea that worked. Includes video and interview. I am faintly miffed about the byline of “A student idea that worked[!]” – which seems a little damning of studenthood in general…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-22
Everybody: Remember that joke about Homeopathic Bombs? http://t.co/YNchbL6b vs http://t.co/OQnTp49d #noreally #youcantmakethisshitup # @astronomyblog possible #
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-20
: Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz – http://t.co/wHkmU9AT http://t.co/BUxHTDVJ # : #HamzaKashgari : Saudi Cleric castigates Twitter, Saudi Prince invests in Twitter # @Arabist http://t.co/4WHQMIWI # Open Rights Group London Pub Meetup – February 20th, 7pm, Central London, Speaker TBA – http://t.co/4GuuidiC HT @OpenRightsGroup # Cycle:…
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#HamzaKashgari : Saudi Cleric castigates Twitter, Saudi Prince invests in Twitter # @Arabist
The National reports that the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has “issued a fatwa against Twitter, demanding that ‘real Muslims’ avoid it, calling it a ‘platform for trading accusations and for promoting lies’.” The pretext for this condemnation of social media is the case of the Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari, who was extradited from Malaysia…
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Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz – MacRumors.com
Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz – MacRumors.com. Mmmm…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-19
: When the Publishers Association mention "illegal content" – here's an example. HT @PublishersAssoc @OpenRightsGroup http://t.co/ZOJDPymn # : Today I made the horrific discovery that one of the most cringeworthy songs I know is a Rachmaninov piece http://t.co/4KMiF3sB # : The world altitude record for a helicopter led immediately to the the record for unpowered…
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VideoLAN – VLC 2.0 Twoflower is available…
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and…