GDesklets
After playing a bit with GDesklets, I have to admit that they are far more user-friendly and professional looking than its KDE counterpart (sorry, SuperKaramba !)
TTT : two extended DVD sets
1. The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers Platinum Series Special Extended DVD Edition.
- Discs 1-2: The Feature (208 mins)- A new version of the second installment in the epic trilogy! The film includes over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film, made especially for this video release. Four audio commentaries by director and writers, the design team, the production team and the cast featuring more than 30 participants including Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom and Academy Award winners Richard Taylor, Howard Shore, Randy Cook and many more.
- Discs 3-4: The Appendices
Two discs with hours of original content including multiple documentaries and design/photo galleries with thousands of images to give viewers an in depth behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
2. The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers Collector's DVD Gift Set
The following contents will be presented in packaging illustrated by famed artist, Alan Lee :
- 4-disc Platinum Series Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers.
- Collectible Gollum polystone statue created by Sideshow Weta
- "The Evolution of Gollum" exclusive:
Bonus DVD on the Weta Workshop and how the Gollum statue was created, featuring interviews with Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, the cast and more! - A printed companion piece showing how Gollum evolved from pencil sketch to sculpted maquette to digital character.
Nova in Scutum
LOTR marathons
Iridium flares
Heavens Above is a true gold mine for satellite spotters. Its aim is to provide you with all the information you need to observe satellites such as the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle, spectacular events such as the dazzlingly bright flares from Iridium satellites by offering you detailled information and star charts.
Burning Man 2003
There are many ways to participate. You can create a theme camp or build an art installation. You might put on a performance or build a stage for others to perform on. Check out examples of Playa Events which participants created.
History of Earth
These numbers are too large to visualize, and difficult to compare. That's why a timeline is interesting : an image sometimes says more than one thousand words. Hotu.org (HistoryOfTheUniverse.org) offers a nice timeline of the last 15 billion years of Earth. More impact on the climate of the last aeons can be found Climate Timeline Tool. Some others exagerate a bit in the visualisation of this timeline : the history on a toilet roll.
Interested in the future ? Faction Earth gives a probable future of the next 150 years : accelarated population growth and the formation of city clusters aka city plexes. Corporate and biological warfare with the origin of mutant humans and extinct life on Mars. Luckily, this possible future is all part of a computer game.
Padre 0.3.0
Debian Linux turning 10 years old
Debian's greatest achievement is creating a 100% free ( as in beer and free speech ), community supported GNU/Linux operating system, from an activist's point of view.
From a user's point of view, Debian's greatest achievement is having an "unstable" branch that is as stable as some other dist's releases, and of course apt-get, the wonderfull installation tool that is slowly being adopted by other distro's.
From a CS student's point of view, Debian's great achievement may be the package creation and management tools.
For sociologists, it may be the democratic nature of the project.
For me, it's simply that I get to use an OS that sucks less.
Barcelona
Some of the fading memories of our trip to Barcelona, Spain.