Mandrake renames itself to Mandriva

Mandrake has renamed itself to Mandriva. The name is a merge of Mandrake and Connectiva (which they recently bought). Reactions on Slashdot and MandrakeUsers aren't favourable.

Well, at least they didnt go for ConMan...

BBC - On This Day
2003: Saddam statue topples with regime
Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down a statue and tearing it to pieces as US tanks roll into the centre of Baghdad.
1976: Young Liberal leader cleared of robbery
The president of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, has been acquitted of robbing a branch of Barclays bank.
1984: Dozens arrested in picket line violence
About 100 pickets are arrested during violent clashes with police outside two working coal pits in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
1999: President of Niger 'killed in ambush'
The president of Niger, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, has been shot dead in an apparent coup attempt.
1969: Sikh busmen win turban fight
Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton have won the right to wear turbans on duty after a long-running campaign.

Waxy on the Wordpress hoo-hah
Explains the Wordpress /Google pagerank affair.

Cartoonizing pictures with the Gimp

62 million year life cycle
Fossil records show that biodiversity follows a 62 million year cycle, that is currently unexplained.

More CSS stuff

Rounded corners in the Gimp
Handy..
CSS Rounded boxes
With code and graphics.
Nucleus skin browser
The Leaf skin is v.nice.
CSS Cheatsheet

Cobalt Networks in 2000

I used to work for Cobalt Networks, so it was great coming across this image gallery of visit to the Cobalt HQ in the year 2000, by the Japanese Cobalt fan site CobaltQube. They've set up a post-Cobalt open source version of the Qube, called Blue Quartz

Perched Upon A Lily Pad

Position Is Everything has this excellent 3 column CSS example. The left and right column remain static , but the central content column wraps if you resize your browser.

CSS

Html dog
CSS tips techniques and tutorials
CSS Zen Garden
pick a stylesheet

Global Land Cover Facility
Landsat and other satellite imagery.

Adsense channels go real time
Previous 2 day delay in reporting on Adsense channels has now gone realtime

Here's a funny one.
Type in 'Where is Google Heading?' into Google Maps

Linux for Kids

As the proud father of a young child, I'm currently setting up an Ubuntu box tweaked with educational and child friendly entertainment applications. However, I wasnt sure , besides Tuxpaint or KDE-EDU on what exactly is out there for kids on Linux. So I did a bit of googling.

In this article on the setup of Linux for young children the author describes several child friendly applications, such as xjig, xaos and Linux Letters and Numbers

Using Linux with kids - an introduction

Other apps i found:

PAW branch of Xjig
Kugel
Xteddy
Tuxpaint
Stickerbook
Xlockmore
Circus Linux


Found a distro - Debian Junior. No news since 2003 on this however.

How Google created a brand out of the ether

Click Harder 404 page

BBC - On This Day
1982: Argentina invades Falklands
Argentina has invaded the British territory of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic.
1998: Papon guilty of war crimes
Former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon has been found guilty of war crimes for his part in deporting Jews from France during World War II.
1986: Bomb tears hole in airliner
Four people, including a baby, are sucked to their deaths through a hole blown in the side of a passenger jet.
1977: Hat trick for Red Rum
Red Rum has galloped into racing history by winning the Grand National for a record third time.
1962: New pedestrian crossings cause chaos
A new style of pedestrian crossing causes confusion among both drivers and pedestrians following its launch in London.

Yahoo launches Yahoo Slacker
Look for the sly dig at Google...
Google gSat will pass overhead
go out and wave.
The Jeeves 9000 robot
Ask Jeeves goes all reality.

Gentoo on NT
Interesting reading - i'll open up another bottle of Google Gulp

SQL Injection attacks by example
Security check
Katamari Damacy 2 screenshots
big ball of sticky stuff
Google Ride Finder
shuttlebus googlemap tracking
Radio David Byrne
talking heads playlist
Linux looks to Hilton for exposure
ha ha - check todays date..

Google Gulp
Quench your thirst for knowledge