these Atomic Blast Photos, are pretty impressive.

it is a hard thing to visualise such power, and yet, here we can see what they look like. the use of that power was terrible, but what is mystifying, is that what we see here is what formed our universe and world, albeit on a much smaller scale… fascinating

With a planet of fire, Joshua tree’s near the base get vaporized in just microseconds.

(via cynical)

R

I have been vaguely following the intelligent design vs darwin’s theory of evolution debacle, and these two articles, Churches celebrate Darwin`s birthday, and Thank God for Darwin and evolution (slashdot) make for good reading.

… and today is

Darwin Day

I’ve just put together a rough and ready nautilus script (those that appear in right-click actions), to pass two or three files or directories to meld.

Requirements: –> meld –> zenity (optional) (on debian systems available through apt) Here is the code

#!/bin/sh ##small script to pass files/dirs to meld for diffing
## Quick and dirty
##Author: Richard Eibrand 09/02/2006
##Version: 0.1 Alpha
if [ $# -eq 2 ]
then
meld $1 $2
elif [ $# -eq 3 ]
then
meld $1 $2 $3
else
##comment out line below if zenity is not installed
zenity  --info --text "Not enough files passed in to meld"
fi

save the above code into a file named as you want in .gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ in your home directory, change the permisions on the file to as suchchmod u+x now, fire up a browser window, find two files you want to diff, select them, and right click, scroll down to scripts, then select the name of the script (in my case I have named it diff…) hey presto, files (or directories) should open in meld

R

Got your own blog yet? If not you’d better hurry up if you don’t want to be beaten to it by a flock of pigeons.

New Scientist Technology - Pigeons to set up a smog blog

this article Ubuntu Blog � Goobuntu - Analysis of a hoax is interesting, and worth a read. in short … goobuntu is a no show.

R

thanks goes to vish for pointing this out

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

you setup the server on the machine from which you want to use the keyboard and mouse, through a small configuration file where you specify the clients you want to connect to.

when you have done this, you just launch the client, no configuration file needed, pointing it to the server machine, and hey presto, one keyboard, one mouse, you have two or more machines under control from one keyboard and mouse!

very handy.

R