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» A story makes the front page of reddit!

I wonder if a story about a piece of news making the front page of reddit would make the front page of reddit.

» Please stop this GNOME Tabs Stupidity

I really hope this GNOME 3.0 Tabs “mania” is a prank, because it just seems so, sooooo stupid. Really. It’s like flushing down the toilet all of the UI simplicity that GNOME is supposedly aiming for.

» The Science of Spore

In this brand new video, Will Wright talks about all the different sciences involved in the world of Spore.

» Is Ubuntu usable enough for a non-tech-savvy girlfriend yet?

The author asks his girlfriend to perform simple tasks using a fresh Ubuntu installation. It’s surprising how some of the simple things we assume to be easy are actually hard for someone who’s never…

» Anonymous responds to fake news

Fake news was already posted. Anonymous responds.

Another must–see TED talk, this time about utilising the oil endgame for profit maximisation. By increasing efficiency and slowly (organically) moving to alternate fuels, both the cost of the fuel is lessened but—and perhaps more importantly—new markets and jobs are created by the shift.

Non-denominational holiday season approaches/is upon us/has passed by. Log is the answer.

“ From time to time, it resurfaces in politics because, like all Manichean simplifications, it allows demagogues to stir up collective passions and provide superficial, schematic answers to complex problems. Every attempt to fix a unique identity for Latin America requires discriminatory surgery that excludes and abolishes millions of Latin Americans, along with many forms and manifestations of its rich cultural variety.

— Mario Vargas Llosa on the Paradoxes of Latin America.

» Graphical exploration of the sub-prime problem.

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