November 28th, 2006 by
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About a year ago after looking at the Afghan Solar Village concept I came to the conclusion that WiFi for the third world was not going to happen until the WiFi hardware/software side was easy to setup and use. IMHO Meraki is the best shot I’ve seen so fa
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culture of blame
love the logo – an old friend from college (the baldy git) – he’s into that hole nano science lark
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A “Wikipedia CD†has been made available for download on BitTorrent.com. The CD comprises of over 2500 hand-picked educational articles aimed at helping schools enhance their curriculum and children learn.
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November 27th, 2006 by
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A vocabulary discovery tool with a flashcard creator and knowledge chart. The discovery tool allows you to explore a large vocabulary of over 10,000 root words and idioms that are ordered by frequency of use. They are grouped with their inflections with u
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Collect words in any language while you surf the Web with this unique Internet Explorer toolbar. Then learn your words with online games, free software for your mobile phone, and printable puzzles & flashcards.
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Teach2000 is a private teacher to help you memorize a foreign language, topography or for example the history of Italy by dates. Improve your school results with this language trainer.
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Isometry is a free CAT Tool (Computer Aided Translation Tool) or translation memory software. Consistently colored, real-time term recognition helps you find the right terms. Translation fuzzy math is measured in characters, not words, desirable for langu
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This is a Vocabulary Testing Tool. Contains more than 2000 words that are considered appropriate for GRE. Just double click the jar file to execute. Delete to uninstall.
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The Open source gift guide – Open source hardware, software and more for the holidays
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November 21st, 2006 by
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While digital video editing today is an affordable, popular activity for both the computer hobbyist and amateur cinematographer, many people seem to think that video creation under Linux is either impossible or too difficult for the average computer user.
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November 20th, 2006 by
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“Scientists said on Thursday they created a brainy, four-legged robot resembling a starfish that can sense damage to its body and, on its own, think up a way to recover.”
Excellent! But I wonder if this quote will get cat lovers of the world all upset
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Ultimate Night Vision Headlamp – 500+ lumens with only 8 watts
Headlamp flashlight technology takes a quantum leap! You can have it all: * Intense brightness * Lightweight * Long life * Low cost * Rechargeable * Unbreakable * Small * Waterproof * Unique
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funky drawings and illustrations
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November 19th, 2006 by
Scientist regrow chicken wing – Science Blog
Chop off a salamander’s leg and a brand new one will sprout in no time. But most animals have lost the ability to replace missing limbs. Now, a research team at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo — a species not known to be able to regrow limbs — suggesting that the potential for such regeneration exists innately in all vertebrates, including humans.
Strong overtones of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake… A book well worth reading
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November 19th, 2006 by
On such a horrible night like tonight, the idea of a nice thick soup with bacon tempted me. Soup on its own though, did not seem that it would be all that filling, so lentils entered my mind…
Smoked Bacon and Lentil Soup
Nice…
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p.s. to soak up all that goodness, a nice ciabatta roll – warmed in oven with real butter spread all over it – even nicer
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November 19th, 2006 by
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Use Perl and FluidSynth to create a real-time musical composition of your system status.
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The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.
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Seems negative enough – but what about shifting the focus from the inherent difiiculties of trying to develop such a complex scheme to areas where there are more possibilities for success (in the initial term), such as the former eastern block countries?
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