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These are my links for June 28th from 15:25 to 22:00:

• Wallpapers, Skins, Winamp, ICQ, WindowBlinds … .: SKINBASE.org :. - nice stash of wallpapers
• A Seattle P-I Special Report - Bill Gates is finishing his day-to-day duties at Microsoft, more than 30 years after he formed it as a small partnership with his friend Paul Allen. The move begins a new era for Gates, Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he will focu
• Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant - For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have.
• Bill Gates Retirement Party: Ten Reasons Why Vista Isn’t That Bad - Although we agree that Vista could have used a bit more time shoved back into the silicon womb for some feature buffing and bug fixing, it's not nearly as bad as most people are making it out to be.
• Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks? - We asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
• Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan — Making good use of a little corner - Look at the girl in the picture, she is planting some tomatoes in little corner between two roads in the middle of Tokyo. Isn’t it amazing? She cares about that little place of land lost in Tokyo’s immensity, and what is more amazing is that she doesn

These are my links for June 23rd through June 28th:

• The Art of Unix Programming - nice programming book i'll never get to read in the short term
• BlueJ - Download - BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching and learning object-oriented programming.
• First look: OpenSUSE 11 out, offers best KDE 4 experience - Novell announced the official release of OpenSUSE 11 yesterday. It's the latest version of the community-driven Linux distribution and includes significant new features like the KDE 4 desktop environment and the PulseAudio sound server.
• Featured Download: OpenSUSE 11.0 Integrates Compiz into Linux Desktop - OpenSuse 11.0, the latest release of the Novell/AMD-sponsored Linux distribution, has hit the download servers.
• Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns 1.0 - Boing Boing - I'm awfully excited to note (belatedly) that Banshee, the free/open music player for GNU/Linux, turned 1.0 a couple weeks ago while I was still on the road.

These are my links for June 5th through June 23rd:

• » R.I.P. George Carlin » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century : Joey deVilla’s Personal Blog - Comedian George Carlin — first Saturday Night Live guest host, creator of the classic “Seven Dirty Words” routine [Warning: language not safe for work*] that started the F.C.C. vs. Pacifica Foundation case and comedic cataloguer of American excess,
• Coding Horror: Why Doesn’t Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? - i do give a crap. so it's likely that my next pc purchase will be another custom PC running linux
• Coding Horror: Douchebaggery - one reason i most probably will not buy a mac
• Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up - Chad Myers’ Blog - for consultants, but could be useful for lawyers as well
• Warren Ellis » Bending Mars - Is putting humans on Mars important? Yes. Humans need land to live on, and, in a dynamic environment, they need land to move to. Closed systems are bad because they remove options. A single planet is a closed system. And the thing about land is, as a hist

These are my links for May 31st through June 5th:

• Techgage - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - more info on the intel quad processor
• Coding Horror: Choosing Dual or Quad Core - I think there's a clear and substantial benefit for all computer users when there are two CPUs waiting to service requests, instead of just one. If nothing else, it lets you gracefully terminate an application that has gone haywire, consuming all availabl
• Phil National Bank vs CA : 121597 : June 29, 2001 : J. Quisumbing : Second Division - alright, so i'm just trying to reassure myself that based on the latest rulings of the SC, a mortgagee who proceeds upon the mortgage through extrajudicial foreclosure now waives his right to sue for the deficiency
• How To: Learn to Play an Instrument Online - Chances are at one point or another, you've either purchased an instrument or considered doing so with the intention of learning to play it; most of us, however, never get around the learning part.
• The Passively Multiplayer Online Game, PMOG - looks interesting. if only i had the time.

These are my links for May 13th through May 30th:

• Woman Wakes Up After Family Says Goodbye, Tubes Pulled - Health News Story - WEWS Cleveland - hug. guess you never know
• The Angry Economist - There are very concrete causes for the increase in gasoline prices. It comes down to having to pay more than anybody else wants to pay.
• » Geek Gang Signs » - so, is turbo pascal O.G. or what?
• Fairness, idealism and other atrocities - Los Angeles Times - 2. Don't be an idealist!

  Don't chain yourself to a redwood tree. Instead, be a corporate lawyer and make $500,000 a year. No matter how much you cheat the IRS, you'll still end up paying $100,000 in property, sales and excise taxes. That's $100,000 to

• jwz - the collected jwz bicycle wisdom - for the future, when we all need to get to work on bikes

These are my links for May 12th from 18:24 to 21:54:

• Dwindling In Unbelief - And the angel said unto me: Behold these shall dwindle in unbelief. 1 Nephi 12:22
• The Brick Testament - Samson Slaughters 1000 - with the jawbone of an ass. that is pretty badass, even when rendered in lego.
• Seed: Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot - The curator and the mathematician discuss fractals, architecture, and the death of Euclid.
• MacGyver Tip: Clean your keyboard with tape - Leftovers from your morning muffin stuck between your keys and no compressed air in sight? Grab a roll of tape, says Real Simple magazine:
• Phun Wiki: News - cool and fun physics simulator

These are my links for May 4th through May 5th:

• Develop Perfect Memory With the Memory Palace Technique - The Memory Palace is one of the most powerful memory techniques I know. It’s not only effective, but also fun to use — and not hard to learn at all.
• Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software - It may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC's everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available. Whether it's molasses-slow bloatware, shameless adware, anemic default apps, or "Your tri
• Delay the messages you send from Microsoft Outlook | Workers’ Edge - a productivity blog from Dennis O’Reilly - CNET Blogs - We all react inappropriately on occasion, but some of us (myself included) have a chronic case of e-mail foot-in-mouth disease. I've managed to stay on the good side of my boss since I enforced a cooling-off period before any mail addressed to him actuall
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Memory Hacks - Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you've got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted and handy. Whether it's a client's name, a password or c
• 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders - These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way. You can visit each of the posts by clicking the title.
• Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords - Everywhere you turn you've got to come up with a password to register for something or another. Whether it's the dozens of web sites that require you log in to use them, or your ATM card PIN, or your wireless network login, how do you decide on a new pass
• Warren Ellis » IRON MAN: This One Was Mine - movie version partly based on warren ellis' rendition (EXTREMIs, which i loved) better find a way to watch this movie soon
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘Sex pest’ seal attacks penguin - The bizarre event took place on a beach on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island that is home to both fur seals and king penguins.
• Is Lessig’s Free Culture just a modern Das Kopyright? - Now, the Progress and Freedom Foundation is stirring dull roots with spring rain, unleashing a fresh attack on Lessig's four-year-old book Free Culture in a paper released Monday by senior fellow Thomas Sydnor.