Peng’s links for Tuesday, 29 July
Posted by Peng on 29 July 2008
[Woops. I missed a link to a post by Celeste Lyn Paul I meant to include. -Peng]
- Joey Stafford: Colorado Ubuntu Wallpaper. I had seen this yesterday before I did my links post but I didn’t want to post it without seeing the images. Darrin Goodman, aka the Hilltop Yodeler, created some beautiful wallpaper for the Colorado Ubuntu LoCo (Local Community) Team. Most of them are 1680×1050 or 1600×1200, with a couple of 1024×768 images, but even if you can’t use the sizes very well you need to check out his wallpaper. The Greece and Italy wallpapers are so beautiful I had to write him and ask about other sizes. He may get other sizes up (the original images were taken by someone else) but he has some more wallpapers in the works. It makes me wonder if we have some Massachusetts LoCo wallpapers in the works.
- Matthew Helmke: Do your own homework. Some people on the Ubuntu Forums have posted questions from homework assignments hoping to get a short cut to the right answers. (If you’re wondering you should really do that only as a last resort when you simply can’t find the answer yourself no matter how hard you try.) But one person posted a questionnaire from a possible job on the forums. Too bad the interviewer busted him for it. D’oh!
- New York Times: The Jetpack: From Comics to a Liftoff in the Yard. You’ll need to register with their website to read the article (it’s free) but we may finally have an answer to the musical question (It’s The Eighties, So Where’s Our) Rocket Packs?
- Celeste Lyn Paul: Implicit Save. Celeste makes some interesting observations on what some people call instant apply or instant editing, especially comparing how GNOME and KDE handle things.
I have one more link, but it’s from the “WTH???” file rather than being a tech article. In last night’s game against the Giants in Chavez Ravine, Casey Blake and Joe Torre got thrown out of the game for some things that happened completely in the dugout. Take a look at the video clip of the incident and tell me if you think Torre, if not Blake as well, has a valid complaint to file against Greg Gibson. (If that link doesn’t take you to the right video visit the story about the game and click the link for Blake and Torre ejections.)
