My son’s first sculpture. Clearly Halloween can’t come soon enough (though watermelon is a lot easier to carve than pumpkin)
Watermelon Sculpture
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What’s that stand for?
I remember several years ago when the right answer to this was given wrong on University Challenge; but you’d think that, after all this time, The Guardian‘s Technology section would know what URL stands for.
Tip: it’s uniform, not universal.
FF3 on Linux
Well, that business with installing Firefox 3 on Linux? Finally done on my Eee PC. Took ages, but the instructions worked more-or-less perfectly.
It is _immensely_ annoying that you can …
It is immensely annoying that you can’t just download and install Firefox 3 on Linux (at least the Xandros distro that comes with the Eee PC) without having to install something called Gtk+ 2.10. Not least because you can’t just apt-get install the latter: you have to build it from source, and handle countless dependencies. Really, I thought we were supposed to have got past all that shit.
This page details the steps.
Water on Mars
Phoenix has found water on Mars, by the way.
Fluidity
Why does no-one make themes that are fluid anymore? By which I mean ones that re-flow the text when you resize your browser window, of course.
A quote from Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker’s screen burn | The Guide | Guardian Unlimited
‘Spirituality’ is what cretins have in place of imagination.