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Seven Open-Source Mac Apps You Need Right Now – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership Your company—or your users—have decided that at least one department’s computing needs are best met with shiny new Macs. Or perhaps you’ve seen the financial benefits of adopting Apple products. Now, what applications are you going to put on them? The

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The title of this posting says most of it: here’s a picture of a workspace on my current SunRay desktop: Last week I installed my x4200 with Solaris Nevada build 90 – with the ZFS boot/root setup – and atop that installed SunRay Server Software version 4.0; then I installed VirtualBox version 1.6.2, and installed

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Livraison de macarons, livraison de chocolats Pierre Hermé Paris Next time in paris (tags: food macaroons)

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Flickr Photo Download: Operating Notes For Dispensing Machine fantastic. (tags: humor reviews food) The Letter in the Pond on Flickr – Photo Sharing! “i hope your head falls off”

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macosxhints.com – Share internet connections on a 192.168.x.x network manually kludging internet sharing on macos (tags: apple mac)

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I’ve always considered circumcision to be an abomination – male, or most especially so-called female circumcision[1] – since it’s a non-elective procedure to no beneficial end, or at least no end that I would accept from the rationalisations given me, viz: “God told us to do it“. Someone at last has taken a Freakonomics/evolutionary approach

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This is simply stupendous – the first 1m10 will be familiarly boring to anyone who used a Spectrum, but the rest is fantastic, with a “Look Around You”-chic video… (HT: Geoff) Big Ideas (Don’t get any) on Vimeo Radiohead held an online contest to remix “Nude” from their album – “In Rainbows” This was quite

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TED | Talks | Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics (video) Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics — and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. (tags: legal video statistics)

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The thing about Laureen’s writing is how it can make you angry, then astonished, and then laugh, all in the space of a paragraph… ElementalMom Apparently, having a child in this culture means you are disabled. At least, that’s what HR thinks. […] I ask the HR person “so is that goofy rule about not

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goodonpaper.org a fantastic approach to customer relationships (tags: timbuk2 bag)

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This is cool. Really cool. It should be permanent. Someone should set up an optical/semaphore telegraph in the background. Just because. Giant ‘telescope’ links London, New York – CNN.com LONDON, England (CNN) — As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday, it became clear

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Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images: Scientific American Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo: Scientific American This story is a supplement to

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