I had finally gotten all my settings down perfectly, so it seemed, except that I was having a tiny bit of trouble with streaming video online. With all the funny YouTube and other files I’ve been trying to load lately, I thought I might as well fiddle with the settings in Firefox, to see if some video settings would load better. And the next thing I knew, Totem (the main video player in Ubuntu Linux) stopped loading. Totally stopped. No idea why. So I fiddled more — and messed a few more things up. Then I looked online. Found a …
Month: April 2006
Koreaaaaaaaaaaaaans in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
The Digital Chosunilbo has a piece up: Space exploration appears to be a field of great interest among Koreans. As evidence of this, on Friday alone more than 600 people expressed hope of becoming the country’s first astronaut. According to officials at Seoul’s Science and Technology Ministry and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, the number of potential candidates for the job reached over 200 just two hours after online applications became available at 9 a.m. on Friday. The screening process has four stages through which two finalists will be selected by the year’s end. After a rigorous 15-month training program …
Thinking of Publishing?
alg explains all. Or, well, lots. (via SFCrow’sNest.)
Spiders and Marking and a Maddening Cabbie
This is a general update of blather. The other night I had a horrifying dream that I was in a hot apartment, and sleeping, and awoke to see a huge — I’d say four-foot legspan, tip-to-tip — spider descending on a thick line from the ceiling. No possible way it could have gotten into this room that I was dreaming, but I yelped in horror and it ascended and escaped. Then, in dream-time, what felt like about twenty minutes later, another spider descended. This one was furry and striped black and white, and I tried to kill it with a …
Seeds of Change
Seeds of Change is a documentary about Monsanto and other biotech monsters and their influence on the world. Made in Manitoba, Paypal if you like it. (via How to Save the World)