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Sorry about not posting more the last few days. A good friend of mine had surgery on his Achilles tendon Monday and the docs kept him an extra day, making a busy week that much busier.
- Christer Edwards: Install Google Earth on Ubuntu 8.04. The latest version of Google Earth has made an already fantastic program even better. Christer makes getting it installed easy and even gives a tip for those with slow performance.
- Ubuntu Forums: HOW TO: watch MLBtv on Ubuntu. Major League Baseball has some great media options for baseball fans including the ability to watch games right on your computer. Unfortunately they don’t support Linux (of course), but dwdarkstar has put together a basic tutorial to let Linux loving baseball fans get their money’s worth for subscribing to MLB’s streaming media service.
- Mike Basinger: Using Dark Themes in Ubuntu (Gnome 2.2x). Many people love a nice dark theme for their computer but GNOME has always had some issues with it that affect usability. Mike has some great tips that can let you have both the dark theme and usability, too.
- Michael Garrido: Welcome Ghanima
– My Own, precious… Notebook. Michael got a very nice little notebook from Compaq and he has some pics to show it off. It’s one of my pics for the day thanks to a link to some very nice wallpaper. As soon as I saw it I had to get it for my wallpaper rotation. - Christer Edwards: A Reminder About Upgrading Ubuntu… Many people haven’t upgraded Ubuntu to Hardy yet, and with Ubuntu 8.04.1 coming down the pike soon Christer has a great post on some things you need to do when upgrading Ubuntu or any other operating system. I kind of wish he’d written this before Hardy was released a couple of months ago.
- SciFi Wire: Cast Endorses Jericho Movie. Rumors of a possible movie to carry on the twice-canceled CBS show are swirling around, and the actors who played Stanley Richmond and Emily Sullivan have said they’d love to portray those characters again.
- Chris Dufresne/LA Times: Dodgers’ 50th anniversary isn’t golden to all. I was sure I had blogged this but it turns out I only Stumbled it. Chris Dufresne writes a great look back at the Dodgers’ first fifty years in the City of Angels (no, not those Angels, they don’t even play in LA County). I especially love this
Hold it . . .
This isn’t one of those syrupy retrospectives about a boy’s love for his dog and the hometown Blue Crew, is it?
No.
This is actually man-bites-Dodger dog, an ode to ambivalence and the odd lack of a connection.
How do you explain it, occupying a half-century in the same area and barely exchanging glances?
- Britt Allcroft/LA Times: The George Carlin I knew. With the death of George Carlin on Sunday it’s to be expected that every news organization in the free world would write something the man that not only took free speech and comedy to the Supreme Court, he also changed stand up comedy forever. But Allcroft knows a different George Carlin than everyone seems to be writing about. He knew the Carlin who took over for Ringo Starr on PBS’ Shining Time Station, and he wrote a beautiful tribute for his friend George.
Big thanks to Susannah Clary for sharing a very funny (and rather timely) comic with Nanci and I. Nanci has some things to blog this afternoon but asked me to share it with you in case I get on before she does. I’d swear her schedule is crazier than mine is.
