When not to hyphenate your name

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The 11 mile wide web page

It's incredible just how much empty space exists in an atom.

The Hydrogen atom

"as you can see here, (atoms) contain so little actual material that they can barely be said to exist.
We are all phantoms. "

absolutely mind boggling.

Bourne Ultimatum trailer

The Bourne Ultimatum
Uploaded by cinencuentro

And here's one of the best car chases ever , from "Bourne Supremacy":

List directories only in Linux

the command

ls -d */

will output only the directories below your current position in the filesystem.

So, if you are currently in /home/linus , and below that are three directories called images, docs, and code , the output will look like this

images/ docs/ code/

Live Earth concert

Live Earth concert times:
Sydney - 0110 BST (1110 local)
Tokyo - 0400 BST (1200 local)
Johannesburg - 1100 BST (1200 local)
Shanghai - 1130 BST (1830 local)
Hamburg - 1300 BST (1400 local)
London - 1330 BST
Washington - 1530 BST (1030 local)
New Jersey - 1930 BST (1430 local)
Rio de Janeiro - 2000 BST (1600 local)

London line up (start 1.30pm local) GENESIS RAZORLIGHT SNOW PATROL DAMIEN RICE AND DAVID GRAY KASABIAN PAOLO NUTINI BLACK EYED PEAS JOHN LEGEND DURAN DURAN RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS BLOC PARTY CORINNE BAILEY RAE TERRA NAOMI KEANE METALLICA SPINAL TAP JAMES BLUNT BEASTIE BOYS PUSSYCAT DOLLS FOO FIGHTERS MADONNA

New York line up, 2.30pm EDT KENNA KT TUNSTALL TAKING BACK SUNDAY KEITH URBAN LUDACRIS AFI FALL OUT BOY AKON JOHN MAYER MELISSA ETHERIDGE ALICIA KEYS DAVE MATTHEWS BAND KELLY CLARKSON KANYE WEST BON JOVI SMASHING PUMPKINS ROGER WATERS THE POLICE

More info/news:
Live Earth wiki page
Google News search

Compiz Fusion

Here's a video showing off the development version of Compiz Fusion. This is the future of the Linux desktop, and it will blow you away.

Does Microsoft have nowhere to run?

"merc" on Free Software Daily writes:

The more I think about Microsoft, the more I realise that they are, possibly for the first time, seriously cornered (or surrounded, depending on how you want to see it). A little history will clarify why I think so - and why I think that this might really be the beginning of the end for Microsoft.

Read it all here

Buy a pint for John Smeaton

Somebody has gone ahead and set up a John Smeaton tribute site. Who's he? Well he's the one-man Glaswegian baggage handler anti-terrorist unit. Scotland's answer to Chuck Norris.

And you can buy a pint for him over here
from the site:
"The country needs to see 1,000 pints lined up, on the bar at the Glasgow Airport Holiday Inn, with John Smeaton’s name on them. JohnSmeaton.com will not rest til 1,000 pints are paid for and foaming on that counter."

As John Smeaton himself said : "Glasgow does not accept this. We will set aboot ye."
Class.

The "we'll set aboot ye" clip:


and here's more

Auctionads first payment

Since putting AuctionAds on my blog about a month ago, i've been very pleased with its performance. Today I received a payment of $62, which isnt too bad.
By contrast, Chitika hasn't earned me a cent yet, so I'll be replacing the Chitika advert below with and AuctionAd one.

Where the hell is Matt?

iPhone disassembly

Ifixit takes apart a new iPhone complete with pictures and detailed commentary.

Off to Menorca

i'm off to Menorca for a week so blogging will be non existent.

in the meantime, here's a the google maps link to where i am staying:

Son Bou , Menorca

10,000 websites infected with MPack hack

Attackers have launched massive attacks in Europe from a network of at least 10,000 hacked websites, several security companies have warned.

Analysts reported the opening salvos of a large-scale attack based on the multi-exploit hacker kit called "Mpack” as early as Friday. Attackers taint compromised websites with code that redirects visitors to a server hosting the Mpack kit - a professional, Russian-made collection of exploits that comes complete with a management console to detail which exploits are working, and against what countries' domains.

More here

More info:
TrendMicro - Italian Job
Mpack it up
Symantecc - Mpack packed full of badness
Slashdot - The Italian Job

Update:
An Italian blog reports that all of the servers compromised are IIS 6.0/Windows 2003 servers.

French nuclear energy advert

Trust the French to make an advert that makes nuclear energy stylish, funky and cool. This ad is by H5
- the same folks that gave us that Royksopp video.

Linkdump

Mandriva - Not our job to pay protection money
Test Drive of PC BSD
Plan 9 running on the Blue Gene supercomputer
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a gramatically correct sentence.
Star Wars galaxy map
Map of Antarctic lakes and rivers beneath the ice sheet Via here
Physics with two time dimensions
Superconducting turbojet
Cosmic horseshoe - a nearly complete Einstein ring
Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Sicko

Michael Moore's Sicko on Google video. The full film.

Helsinki public transport in live Google Maps mash up

Helsinki public transport live GPS enabled Google map.

Hat tip:Google Maps Mania


Other interesting mash ups:
Gridskipper
Washington Post local explorer

Old Bailey online

The Old Bailey Online site has online transcripts of historical London trials. The site "contains 101,102 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834".
There are a multitude of ways to sift through the data - you can search by crime, by punishment, by defendant name, by year and many others.

Alternative Linux development environments

HBasic
HBasic is an integrated development environment used to create, execute and debug programs with an BASIC style language. HBasic has object oriented features either in combination with precompiled C++ components (shared libraries) or class definitions (HBasic sourcecode). This also includes a version of inheritance. HBasic runs on Linux and uses the KDE GUI libraries.

Dabo Desktop Application Framework
Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. And while Dabo is designed to create database-centric apps, that is not a requirement. Lots of people are using Dabo for the GUI tools to create apps that have no need to connect to a database at all.

Lazarus
Lazarus is the class libraries for Free Pascal that emulate Delphi. Free Pascal is a GPL'ed compiler that runs on Linux, Win32, OS/2, 68K and more. Free Pascal is designed to be able to understand and compile Delphi syntax, which is of course OOP. Lazarus is the part of the missing puzzle that will allow you to develop Delphi like programs in all of the above platforms. Unlike Java which strives to be a write once run anywhere, Lazarus and Free Pascal strives for write once compile anywhere. Since the exact same compiler is available on all of the above platforms it means you don't need to do any recoding to produce identical products for different platforms.

Hat tip: Linux Action Show

How did the Sopranos end?

Answer: a big crescendo of nothing

Via Reuters

MONTCLAIR, New Jersey (Reuters) - Whaddya gonna do? After building tension for six seasons over 8-1/2 years, "The Sopranos," one of America's most critically acclaimed television shows, ended on Sunday with nothing more than a black screen. And there was no clear answer to the big question -- would mob boss Tony Soprano sleep with the fishes?

Instead the mobster, who suffers the same worries as the rest of us, even if he gets relief from the occasional murder, finished the show munching onion rings in a New Jersey diner surrounded by a smiling wife and two content kids.

Sure a guy looking like a hit man had entered the restroom behind Tony and might be expected to come back out and kill the entire family, but then the screen went black for about five seconds and that was that. Some fans were disappointed.

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