It’s a wild weekend night here high above Ylig Bay. Let me throw down a bunch of cool links:
- Bookpedia is pretty cool software. This is almost a must have for the bibliophile Macintosh user. Stores tons more information that Reader2 or other online book cataloging software. I’m definitely thinking about ponying up the $18 shareware fee for Bookpedia.
- Must-Have Firefox extensions for the serious Firefox user. SessionSaver is a must-have, as so is Viamatic foXpose. StumbleUpon is a great time waster; there’s even a variation of Tetris available called Blockfall.
- Let us all sing the praises of Expose, application switching on steroids for the Mac. This was the inspiration for the Firefox extension Viamatic foxPose.
- All you ever needed to know about apt-get, the package management system for Debian Linux. All about Linux is a pretty cool blog too.
- Robot fixes radiation leak at White Sands. The radiation fried some electronics, but a couple trips to Home Depot kept the robotic repairman functioning.
- Jimmy Carter is worried about America, and I think it’s saying something when a former president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient says it. Speaking of Nobel Prize winners, check out Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture from a few weeks ago. It’s available in Real video format, about 45 minutes long.
- VMware now supports Ubuntu Linux for its virtualization technology. Cool, I think I’ll be getting my hands all over this technology in the coming year.
- Moon Shot I – Last night’s full moon was a doozy. This December full moon rises the furthest north and highest in the sky it’s been in a long time. Something to do with all these lunar cycles that confuse the hell out of me. Here’s a photo I took of the moon rising over Guam tonight. Looks pretty good to me.
- Moon Shot II – speaking of the moon and photos of the moon, here’s a tasty photo of the moon rising over Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, and the story of how a couple physicists were able to pinpoint the location, date and time of the original Ansel Adams photo and recreate the photograph almost 60 years later.
- The new Yahoo Mail beta is really fantastic. It’s just like Oddpost, which makes sense, since Yahoo bought up Oddpost a couple years ago. I like it much more than Gmail, which is saying a great deal.
And just because I can, here’s another photo that I took tonight.
That’s just tasty. I like that photo.