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://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Nine Inch Nails are giving away their new album, The Slip, completely free. http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/05/05/free-nine-inch-nails-album/ The album of last week was Flight of the Conchords. http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/28/album-of-the-week-85/ 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 ... http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/24/ubuntu-804-lts-desktop-edition-released/ Update on OLPC executive exodus Georgian UAV films its own destruction by Russian MiG http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/23/linksfor-april-22nd/ 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/ The album of the week is The Breeders' Mountain Battles. http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/12/album-of-the-week-84/ 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 http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/04/02/linksfor-april-1st-2/ 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/ The album of the week is Gnarls Barkley's The Odd Couple. http://plasticboy.com/archives/2008/03/28/album-of-the-week-83/