October 31, 2007 – 11:34 pm
From The Independent by Steve Connor.
King Solomon is said to have told sluggards to look to the hard-working ant and be wise. Aesop, too, extolled the virtues of the humble ant in his fable explaining why the insect’s constant toiling through the summer months would make for an easier winter compared with the fortunes of [...]
October 31, 2007 – 10:07 pm
From Time by MICHAEL GRUNWALD.
It’s been a rough off-season for the NBA, but then what off-season isn’t? There were the usual nightclub-related lawsuits and arrests, more than the usual superstar griping, and a spectacularly unusual betting scandal involving a previously unknown referee named Tim Donaghy, who first attracted the suspicion of investigators when he called [...]
October 28, 2007 – 12:36 pm
From designboom. (photos)
the natural environment still manages to fill us with a sense
of awe and amazement. despite the amount of scientific
knowledge mankind has gathered, nature still holds great
mysteries that we may never be able to unravel.
this complexity has continually daunted man. in frustration, we
try to control nature by enforcing order. as a result,
we have distanced [...]
October 27, 2007 – 11:21 pm
Wordpress 2.3 database now supports tags. For some reason, the Wordpress importer for Simple Tagging doesn’t work for me, it imports only halfway.
I wrote this python script stp-import.py to import the tags to Wordpress 2.3 database.
[~]$ python stp-import.py
The script will ask for the Wordpress database name, the database user and password, and the Wordpress database [...]
October 24, 2007 – 9:16 pm
View at Young Gallery.
Beautiful photos in black & white
Nick Brandt’s first book of photographs, “On This Earth“, was published in October 2005, by Chronicle Books.
October 24, 2007 – 2:05 pm
From The Seoul Times by Yifat Susskind.
.. Another paradox: the majority of the world’s hungry people live in rural areas, where nearly all food is grown.
World Food Day on October 16 is a good time to try and understand the conundrum of world hunger. The root of the problem is the inequitable distribution of [...]
October 23, 2007 – 9:43 pm
From Kotaku.
According to The Library of Congress, video games are just as important to our historical past as literature, movies and music. And at the moment, the LoC is teaming up with major universities across the country to begin a 2-year initiative with the sole intent of figuring out just how institutions can preserve video [...]