Friday, February 29, 2008
The Financial Times has great story about that profoundly strange and beautiful country, Japan:
In Japan, the trees are blue. So are the traffic lights, even though they look decidedly green to uninitiated outsiders. The Japanese do have a word for green, but when it comes to foliage and traffic signals, blue is the preferred term.
Blue [...]
Friday, February 29, 2008
Something wicked this way comes | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
Shakespeare in speech bubbles? John Mullan is gripped by a graphic novel Macbeth
(tags: drama education)
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Podcasts
This American Life [ Website / iTunes / RSS feed ]
The joy of my Podcast life is the peerless weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show “This American Life.” First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. In mp3 and updated Mondays.
Speaking [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Sons I gave birth to are ‘unrelated’ to me - Telegraph
One human chimera - an organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues - came to light when a 52-year-old woman demanded an explanation from doctors after tests showed that two of her three grown-up sons were biologically unrelated to her.
(tags: medicine science genetics genes)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Welcome to the Combat Consultants Toolkit. This is a list of tools and services used by Combat Consultants. This is our “kit”, our battle tested set of old dependable’s . Some of the tools and software are not free (and in some cases downright expensive) but they tend to be either the best in their [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
“Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
If you have your own server, or even a spare old PC or iMac lying around? You maybe able to set yourself up with enterprise class technology for free.
Bitnami make as easy to install a whole slew of Open Source products on your box as it is to installing AOL Instant Messenger.
“BitNami stacks [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
As many of you know, after three years in Serbia, I finally decided to start learning the Serbian language. I was extremely lucky to find a truly brilliant teacher to help me*. Additionally, it turns out that the old myth that adults find it very hard to learn languages may be bunk.
I am [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Julia Gorin questions whether Kosovo is an Islamist beachhead in Frontpage magazine . Her long article on Kosovo - Ending the Balkan quagmire - is required reading if you value seeing both sides of an issue.
David McWilliams explains how How Serbia lost out in the EU numbers game in the Irish Independent
Marcus Gee warns us [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Seabob | Offshore – off Limits.