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Daily Archives: August 22, 2011
“Excuse me, there’s some food in my bugs!”
Speaking of people eating insects … as we were … I do have this fun story from the Ituri Forest.
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Hockey Stick Data Tampering Investigation Concludes
The Inspector General of the National Science foundation has completed an investigation into falsifying research data, concealing or deleting emails or other data, misusing privileged information, and seriously deviating form accepted practices in relation to climate change research by climate scientist Michael Mann. This investigation, just completed, confirms what has been determined by other previous investigations:
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Linux Journal Readers’ Choice Awards
The deadline is approaching for you to submit your preferences for the Linux Journal Readers’ Choice Awards. For purposes of discussion, here are (most of my) choices:
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I Hope the Future of Gnome is Not Unity
I agree with Shawn Powers that Unity has offended all that is good in this world by aggressively grabbing so much of my screen real estate much like Hitler grabbed the Rhineland.
Well, OK, S.P. is not so Godwinesque in his language, but still…. Unity = Microsoft-like marketing oriented philosophy in a FOSS world. I predict Unity will die the death of misuse except in all those commercially marketed end-user systems that force Linux on the owners at places like Best Buy.
Here’s Shawn Powers on Unity:
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