Heh - looks like there were some real Piccards that liked to boldly go were no man has gone before :). I wonder if the name for the Star Trek Picard was inspired by these ones.

http://www.damninteresting.com/steely-eyed-hydronauts-of-the-mariana

Some interesting assertions about human nature, brought to you by evolutionary psychology. Interesting read.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200706/ten-politically-incorrect-truths-about-human-nature

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I just learned about a super useful Ubuntu utility called apt-file. It allows you to search for files in Ubuntu packages, w/o having to install or download the packages! You can also list the contents of packages w/o having to fetch them.

More here: http://vace.homelinux.

funkyturtle pointed out this contest:

AnthologyBuilder invites authors of all skill levels to choose their favorite cover art from our database and write a story to match it.

The cover art is, in fact, pretty awesome.

http://www.anthologybuilder.com/match-that-artwork.php

This looks good:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/first-look-tim-burton-takes-alice-to-weird-wild-wonderland

Here is a very nice article comparing ALSA and OSSv4. A little idealistic, but the technology analysis is useful. Considering my recent adventures with ALSA, this was a very educational read:http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of

Holy fuck - this thing was operational at the end of WWII. The plane in the pictures is a modern replica. It is really scary how much more advanced the Germans tech was during WWII. If not for the fundamental production capacity flaws in Hitler's plan, the world would be screwed ( Read more... )

A fairly exhaustive catalog of goth types: http://www.blackwaterfall.com/viewall.php. Cute.

Let us celebrate these Jesuses of goth that suffer in all of our names, that expiate our sins every day of the year with their purity of dedication and commitment to the servitude of Goth. They stand tall, where the weak succumb to the scathing will of the Day Star!


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