PlasticBoy http://plasticboy.com Ben Williams' blog about technology, Linux, digital music, Rhapsody, vegetarianism, and a little politics. Mon, 05 May 2008 13:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/05/05/microsoft-withdraws-bid-for-yahoo/ http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/05/05/microsoft-withdraws-bid-for-yahoo/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 13:16:20 +0000 Ben http://plasticboy.com/?p=3401 Yay! I guess this means Flickr will not be merged with Windows Live Photo Gallery.

]]> http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/05/05/microsoft-withdraws-bid-for-yahoo/feed/ Free Nine Inch Nails Album http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/05/05/free-nine-inch-nails-album/ http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/05/05/free-nine-inch-nails-album/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 13:10:50 +0000 Ben http://plasticboy.com/?p=3400 Nine Inch Nails are giving away their new album, The Slip, completely free.

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]]> http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/28/album-of-the-week-85/feed/ Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition Released http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/24/ubuntu-804-lts-desktop-edition-released/ http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/24/ubuntu-804-lts-desktop-edition-released/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:17:00 +0000 Ben http://plasticboy.com/?p=3397 The latest release of Ubuntu Linux has hit the download servers. One of the more exciting aspects of this release is that it contains a new installer that allows Windows users to install inside their Windows hard drive partition without repartitioning, so you can try it out with no risk to your existing system. Christer Edwards has some nice upgrade instructions.

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  • Update on OLPC executive exodus
  • Georgian UAV films its own destruction by Russian MiG
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  • Can your type checking system do this? Reg Braithwaite on the power of OCaml and Haskell’s semantic type-checking systems.
  • Git Magic - Quality git tutorial
  • NixOS: A Purely Functional Linux Distribution
  • c-jump: the computer programming board game
    • ]]>     http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/16/linksfor-april-15th/feed/     Album of the Week http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/12/album-of-the-week-84/ http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/12/album-of-the-week-84/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:29:10 +0000 Ben http://plasticboy.com/?p=3394 The album of the week is The Breeders’ Mountain Battles.

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  • What every American should know about the Middle East
  • How to hack your automated air freshener for manual operation
  • Photos of well-preserved Antarctic huts from Scott and Shackleton expeditions
  • Johnny Lee, king of wiimote hacks, turns regular monitor into a 3D VR display
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  • How to get your band on Rhapsody
  • Generate regular expressions from sample text
  • Great animated short on procrastination
  • Andy Updegrove is tracking which countries are changing their vote on OOXML
    • ]]>     http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/03/31/linksfor-march-30th/feed/     Album of the Week http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/03/28/album-of-the-week-83/ http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/03/28/album-of-the-week-83/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:54:59 +0000 Ben http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/03/28/album-of-the-week-83/ The album of the week is Gnarls Barkley’s The Odd Couple.

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