…or at least there are “Charles Darwin has a posse”:http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/chazhasaposse.htm stickers available. Share and enjoy.
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backyard (mountain) astronomy
At a recent open house, Palomar Observatory showed off their new “Palomar Testbed Interferometer”:http://talesoftheheliosphere.blogspot.com/2005/07/oh-its-not-interoceter-its.html, a set of ‘scopes that work together to produce resolution equivalent to a much larger telescope. Who says that land-based astronomy is dead?
overheard on slashdot
…in a “discussion about Neon Genesis Evangelion”:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/03/1641212:
_Unless you can actually enjoy having your mind twisted like a towel and thwacked against the ass of Jesus Christ, don’t watch this anime._
CPAN vs. dot-underscore
I was so keen on the idea of pushing a module to CPAN that I almost didn’t catch a fatal flaw in my scheme. Mac OS X (motto: It Just Works) was doing something odd to my tarball as it was created: it was adding a whole host of files that weren’t there originally. Not just the .DS_Store files we all know and love (and learn to remove), but odd shadow files like ._foo.txt for foo.txt and ._Makefile.PL for Makefile.PL.
Yep. Now you might see the problem.
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new Tech section
Attention, RSS feeders! There’s a new “tech section”:http://globalspin.com/tech/ on the site with “its own RSS feed”:http://www.globalspin.com/tech/index.rdf. (Site visitors may have already noticed the new link at the top.)
I’ve been exploring a lot of new technologies lately, and I wanted to write about them without flooding the main site with esoteric techno-commentaries. Readers, take a look. Authors, let me know if you’d like me to add it to your admin interface.