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For Mars-Earth intarwebs, Vint Cerf et al ditches TCP/IP in favor of "Delay-Tolerant Networking" protocol. Cute name. "Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things," Cerf said with sarcasm. "If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds." - Ian Dexter Marquez

The Tagalog script (also known as "Baybayin" and "Alibata") was used in the Philippines to write Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilocano, and other languages until the mid-1700s. Philippine languages are now normally written with the Latin alphabet. Consonants have an inherent -a vowel. The other two vowels (-i and -u) are indicated by a diacritic above (for -i) or below (for -u) the consonant. Vowels at the beginning of syllables are represented by their own, independent characters. Syllables ending in a consonant were usually written without the final consonant, but could also be written with a special diacritic (introduced in 1620) to cancel out the inherent vowel. - Ian Dexter Marquez

A staff reporter for The New York Times committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months, an investigation by Times journalists has found. The widespread fabrication and plagiarism represent a profound betrayal of trust and a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper. The reporter, Jayson Blair, 27, misled readers and Times colleagues with dispatches that purported to be from Maryland, Texas and other states, when often he was far away, in New York. He fabricated comments. He concocted scenes. He lifted material from other newspapers and wire services. He selected details from photographs to create the impression he had been somewhere or seen someone, when he had not. - Ian Dexter Marquez

England has it all: an enviable capital that takes weeks to explore, heart-melting countryside you may amble through to no end, a flamboyant pub culture that sucks you in the moment you have a sip on your first cider ever, and so inspiring a history that every pebble in Cornwall and every cobblestone in Hertfordshire seems to echo its magnificence. See the grandeur of the Bronze Age at Stonehenge, walk the whole length of the Hadrian's Wall to get the gist of the troubles with the Romans, relive the days of the Norman Conquest at Hastings, sympathize with Henry VIII's tormented wives, and trace the legends of world's literature and music on route from Stratford-upon-Avon to Liverpool. - Ian Dexter Marquez

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very kool - (jeff)isageek

@Curtiss Grymala - Hackers! great movie! the "Rainbow Books" HA! - shayne catrett

Familiar names are more easily remembered in the rural areas and that having a PAGASA- assigned name helps to underscore the fact that the cyclone is within PAGASA's AOR and potentially a threat to the Philippines. ... Since tropical and/or monsoon depressions can bring very heavy rainfall to the nation which often results in disastrous flooding, the weather service feels that assigning a name helps to enhance public attention given to a system. - Ian Dexter Marquez

Picasa 3 for Linux has this niggling* problem: you can’t log on to Picasa Web. It appears that a Wine static binary bundled with it does not work well with Fedora. * “Niggling”, that is, if you consider not being able to sync your photos with Picasa a minor one. The solution was to overwrite the [...] [Fix for Picasa 3 Linux login problem: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] - Ian Dexter Marquez

Prehistoric man found his way around England using a crude version of 'sat nav' based on stone circle markers, historians have claimed. . - Ian Dexter Marquez

We already know how to update Twitter from the command line. To get your and your friends’ timeline from the CLI, use the following one-liner: curl -u username --silent "https://twitter.com/statuse..." | perl -ne 'print "$2\n" if /< (description)>(.*)< \/\1>/;' Using the same method, you can also get unread Gmail inbox messages (via commandlinefu.com). [Get Twitter timeline from the [...] [Get Twitter timeline from the CLI: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] - Ian Dexter Marquez

I finally have Chromium on Fedora 11, thanks to Fedora developer, Tom “spot” Callaway’s dev repo. In /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo: [chromium] name=Chromium Test Packages baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromiu... enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 And it was just a matter of doing: yum install chromium I CAN HAZ CHROMIUM! My launcher specifies the following: --enable-plugins --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions so this build now supports plugins (it adopted the Mozilla Firefox plugins, like Flash and the Citrix ICA client [...] [Chromium on Fedora: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] - Ian Dexter Marquez

Part of the STS-128 mission day 7 highlights aboard the International Space Station. I want one! [Best workstation setup, evar: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] [Best workstation setup, evar: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] - Ian Dexter Marquez

Part of the STS-128 mission day 7 highlights aboard the International Space Station. I want one! [Best workstation setup, evar: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] [Best workstation setup, evar: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] - Ian Dexter Marquez

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Provides not just geographical but historical insights. - Ian Dexter Marquez

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History of modern art, in three paragraphs. - Ian Dexter Marquez

Rule 49: [Insert buzzword] is the new black. - Ian Dexter Marquez

At this point, things are moving with so much momentum that nothing short of slamming the book shut could stop this epic expectation-confounding march. … This book is a memorable read. It defies anticipation. [Book on random digits: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of [...] [Book on random digits: Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] - Ian Dexter Marquez

Under actual election conditions, Smartmatic's optical scanning machine will fail half of the time. - Ian Dexter Marquez

Er… profiles, I mean. I use Firefox add-ons for the occasional web development tasks. (Too bad, not all my favorite extensions are available in the workplace’s “blessed” add-ons repository, but I can live with what’s in there.) Sometimes, though, having too many add-ons slows down the browsing experience, specially for times when you just [...] [Posted from Coredump - Work, play, and everything in between. Follow me on Twitter here. View the rest of my stream at public static void.] Multiple (Firefox) personalities - Ian Dexter Marquez

In-depth round-up of GMA's Le Cirque $20-K dinner and other events surrounding it. - Ian Dexter Marquez

Neal Stephenson explores the physical network that connects the world. - Ian Dexter Marquez

You can also create individual sites for each of your projects at http://username.github.com/project.... This could be used for a full on sub-site for each of your projects, or just as a place to stash RDocs or other documentation. - Ian Dexter Marquez

We have collected a lot of jQuery tutorials and here's our list of 20 of the best ones - very impressive! - Ian Dexter Marquez

digg_url=http://www.wired.com/underwi...; Comics titan Alan Moore once called his Watchmen - Ian Dexter Marquez

Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities - Ian Dexter Marquez

FBI special agents carried out 20 formal interviews and at least 5 "casual conversations" with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after his capture by U.S. troops in December 2003, according to secret FBI reports released as the result of Freedom of Information Act requests by the National Security Archive and posted today on the Web at www.nsarchive.org. - Ian Dexter Marquez

During the one hundred and fifty seven years (1753-1909) in which the results of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos were published in order of merit and divided by class of degree into Wranglers (1st Class), Senior Optimes (2nd Class) and Junior Optimes (3rd Class), great prestige attached to those students who had come out in the top two or three places. The securing of the top position as Senior Wrangler was regarded, at the time, as the greatest intellectual achievement attainable in Britain and the Senior Wrangler was f€ted well beyond Cambridge and accorded pre- eminent status among his peers - indeed years in Cambridge were often remembered in terms of who had been Senior Wrangler in that year. It is curious therefore that no systematic study has ever been made, in so far as the author is aware, of what became of these Senior Wranglers in later years after their triumph. This article may shed a little light on the matter. - Ian Dexter Marquez

The tantalizing question about William Gibson’s ideas in his novel Neuromancer involves their relationship with the course that the Web took and continues to take as Neuromancer’s publication date--July 1, 1984, 25 years ago today--recedes farther into the past. In his afterword to the 2000 re-release of the book, novelist Jack Womack suggests that Neuromancer may have directly influenced the way the Web developed--that it may have provided a blueprint that developers who grew up with the book consciously or subconsciously followed. Womack asks “what if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?” - Ian Dexter Marquez

Ray Bradbury doesn't like the Internet -- he thinks it's distracting. - Ian Dexter Marquez