The “[blank]” edition
Friday Random Ten
Ben Christophers • Remote Control
No-man • You Grow More Beautiful
The Tea Party • Samsara
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead • Sunken Dreams
The Ascent of Everest • Molotov
The Gathering • Saturnine
Cave In • Anchor
Iron Maiden • Paschendale
Enslaved • The Dead Stare
Blind Guardian • And Then There Was Silence
Revenge [...]
OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, has reached v2.2.0. This is the second release under the new number scheme that does away with micro (x.y.z) releases except in the case of small security updates
Download it here, or check out the release notes. I’m disappointed to see that the Tango icon set which was supposed [...]
palimpsest
n. a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
I chose “palimpsest” because I recently read it (I wish I could remember where) and had absolutely no idea what it meant. I thought, “This is such a strange-looking word, it must mean something [...]
The state of Win32 burning programs
The proprietary choices for optical disc burning on Windows are pretty obvious: at the fore, there’s Roxio’s offering, EZ Media Creator, and Nero’s offering, Nero Burning Rom. Having used Roxio’s v5 program long, long ago with my Hewlett-Packard 4x external CDRW drive, and having used Nero’s Burning Rom [...]
Deep in the apricot’s tumultuous heart the hornet hums
—Melvin Walker La Follete
Thousands of years ago, beyond the pale of recency, in Lushan, China, a local doctor asked cured patients to plant apricot trees in their backyards in lieu of monetary payment—those cured of serious illnesses planted five trees and minor illnesses only one. [...]
The “Why are there two of these on my front page?” edition.
Sörskogen • Mordet i Grottan
Ours • Red-Colored Stars
Gary Jules • Mad World
Robin Thicke • Everything I Can’t Have
Paco de Lucía • Monasterio de Sal
World’s End Girlfriend • Imperfect Love Song
Doves • There Goes the Fear
Paolo Fedreghini and Marco Bianchi • Nothing Has to Change
Regina [...]
Roy Zimmerman, singer/songwriter/satirist.
22 March 2007 • Three more videos added.
See the rest of this year’s listings • What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
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Title: The Silmarillion [$]
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 1999
Pages: 384
It’s no surprise that J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion to be his most important work. Even though it was never formally finished it his lifetime (under pressure from his publisher, Tolkien set [...]
Why yes, the new Ubuntu splash screen does look like a penis. Thanks for asking.
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