You Havent Seen Music Like This
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You love music, and you are impressed by flashy lights. Put them together and you have entertainment for hours. Peter Menich has created quite possibly be the best musical visualization ever created. Watch thousands of particles move to the sweet sounds of the piano:
Can I have this as a winamp visualization please?
The New Austinriba.com
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I bought austinriba.com a long time ago and for ages it just sat and collected dust. Now I’ve decided to actually do something with it - for better or worse. Hopefully in the near future I’ll put up some more content, resumes, projects, things I think are cool, etc.
Awesome Window Manager - 3.2 Debs for Ubuntu
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Awesome window manager is great, if you haven’t tried it yet. Unfortunately, the version in the official ubuntu repos is the ancient 2.x version, even in Jaunty. You can find a deb easy enough for version 3.2, but you will run into dependency hell. So, I’ve packaged here awesome wm version 3.2, along with most other dependencies you will need to get it installed. If anything is missing, it can be found in the official ubuntu repos. Enjoy!
http://www.fingel.com/misc/awesomedeb.tar.gz
UT Server back up
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Aftert a long absence, the NO BS Unreal Tournament 99’ server is back up and runing. You can connect to it at 24.6.148.91:7777
ToxicCode.com
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Just wanted to post a little promotion for a site I just finished: www.toxiccode.com
Its a website where you can post scripts, dotfiles, config files, or anything else linux. Other people can comment and rate your stuff. Very cool for us people who love the hand crafted linux enviroment. Check it out! Its text based browser friendly as well!
Wicked Underwater Volcano
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The Big Pie
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In “King Henry VI, Part II,” Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow antiestablishment rabblerousers, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Connellan, president of The Management Group, Inc. Speaking to business executives in Chicago and quoted in Automotive News, Connellan attributed a measure of America’s falling productivity to an excess of attorneys and accountants, and a dearth of production experts. Lawyers and accountants “do not make the economic pie any bigger; they only figure out how the pie gets divided. Neither profession provides any added value to product.” According to Connellan, the highly productive Japanese society has 10 lawyers and 30 accountants per 100,000 population. The U.S. has 200 lawyers and 700 accountants. This suggests that “the U.S. proportion of piebakers and piedividers is way out of whack.” Could Dick Butcher have been an efficiency expert? Motor Trend, May 1983
Gmail Spam in my inbox! GAH!
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Over the last week I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of spam in my Gmail inbox. The account itself has always got a lot of spam, but the Gmail spam filters always got all of it. It was rare to get a real spam in my inbox more than once a month.
Now, I’m getting anywhere between 3 and 8 per day. Im not sure whats going on. Did Gmail change its filter in someway? Am I just unlucky? Or are the spammers getting better? In any case, I have to find a way to make it stop.
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Strutting my stuff, nerd style.
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Its time for the obligatory desktop screenshot. I like to think of it as driving my car slowly down main street just after a wax and a new pair of spinning rims - except I don’t have a car, I have a computer.
Here is the breakdown.
The rebellious wallpaper comes from http://gangsterserver.com/ This guy makes some amazing stuff.
The stuff on the right is Conky. You can download my config here.
The embedded terminal on the right is just gnome-terminal with some special settings applied to it from compiz. You can find a howoto here.
Besides that its a basic ubuntu install using the murrina theme.
Carts of Darkness - Vancouver's Most Extreme Bums
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In Carts of Darkness the treacherous mountain roads and discarded shopping carts of North Vancouver become the rivers and boats of self-exploration for a group of homeless ‘free birds’ who have few chances at joy. Carts of Darkness is a cinematic Trojan horse, utilizing a filmic vocabulary, visual flair and humour often missing from “message” films, as a way to bring viewers, especially young ones, to the issues. The film adopts the tropes of extreme sports filmmaking; fluid flowing cinematography, intense music, visceral pulse pounding action and irreverent characters unbounded by society’s constrictions, to bring viewers deep into a world and deep into people they would normally look away from. They’ll come for the carts and the crashes, the booze and the bruises, but they’ll stay for the story of a unique brotherhood and a quiet redemption. - Jonathan Orr
Here is the trailer:
Heres to all that make the best out of life no matter how hard it might be!