September 16, 2008 at 11:51 am Post Author: Giania Tags: alternative, Art, blog, blogging, brother, code, college, cover, email, forms, free, guarantee, IM, internet, irc, linux, lolcats, love, MAKE, media, meeting, microsoft, office, Opera, pc, photography, rant, television, tools, wordpress, words, work, world, writing, youtube, zen ·
In the spirit of anarcho-capitalist-warm-fuzzy-anti-establishment (alright so that’s pushing it) consciousness expansion and technological empowerment, I am proud to announce the foundation of a series of meeting guaranteed to satiate your curiosity, tittilate your senses, and delight your sense of accomplishment. It’s an offshoot of NH Media Makers geared towards creating a fun learning environment [...]
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September 4, 2008 at 1:36 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: blogging, browser_speed, debate, description, firefox, gawkermedia, gmail, Goodies, google, google chrome, google labs, ie7, Internet Toys, irc, lifehack, linux, news, Opera, picture, plugins, plug_ins, RSS, structure-of-the-internet, theory, this ·
I realize that everyone’s probably already sick to death of hearing about Chrome, but I thought I’d chime in anyway.
Here’s a memory usage shot of Chrome versus Opera.
Click the image to see the big picture
It’s not really a fair comparison, as the same things aren’t open, but I realized that with the way I [...]
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November 15, 2007 at 3:14 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: Articles of Interest, burning-man, Cornell, linux, Movies, news, physics, Science!, surfing, telegraph, theory, UCDavis ·
And The Telegraph is hung up on the fact that he surfs. Well okay, perhaps hung up on it is going a bit far. Still, as headlines go, it’s pretty misleading.
A. Garrett Lisi seems like a really interesting person. I mean, just check out his resume! He’s got:
a PhD in Physics
he’s been [...]
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August 27, 2007 at 8:28 pm Post Author: Ian Tags: Fnord, google, ian, internet, Internet Toys, linux, media, networking, placing_the_blame, search, structure-of-the-internet, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 ·
I’m back in the humid, smelly Northeast and I figured I’d flex the ol’ guest-blogging muscles before they dwindle into insignificance… anyway, I was at SES San Jose 2007 last week. I must have made friends out there, since I noticed a LinkedIn invite in my inbox the morning after the Google Dance (I drink [...]
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May 3, 2007 at 1:06 am Post Author: Ian Tags: 9, Art, attitude, author, blog, business, cake, code, corporate, counter terrorist unit, digg, EFF, firefox, fun, future, history, house, ian, LED, lies, linux, love, MAKE, money, Nature, news, pennsylvania, php, plane, RSS, search, sign, space, stupid, thanks, ToM, traffic, usa, work ·
First the preamble:
I use a few Linux distros at home and at work, and being a half-baked nincompoop, I prefer the shiny new ones that end in “buntu”. The 64-bit version of Kubuntu is what I run at the office, and I have installed my preferred web-browsing application, Firefox 1.5.x, with my favorite themes, and [...]
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August 14, 2006 at 6:52 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: Art, blog, children, code, IM, linux, religion ·
http://www.adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/08/12/jack-thompson-in-drag/
Good article relating to the ongoing folderol of people going out of their way to keep responsibility for the raising of children off the shoulders of the parents.
It just goes to show you that the decline of Personal Responsibility has been happening for quite some time. In the evolution of society, particularly here in the [...]
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