6 hours ago by Tom Lydon

As the world’s markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs) recover from the beating they took in the market meltdown, attention is turning toward what could well be the next crisis: agriculture. The primary reason that agriculture is gaining attention is the basic imbalance in supply and demand:...

ETF Trends - etftrends.com · Rank: 7,826 · 184 references

11 hours ago by Mad Baker

mad_duchess asked: Besides the amazing restaurants, what's your favourite thing about living in SF? We have good neighbors. Follow up to #1, what's the least favourite? Sadly, there are lots of competitors for this one - politicians who don't live in the real world but spend my money; homeless bums ...

A seething mass of turgid ... - madbaker.livejournal.com · 27 references

19 hours ago by glyn moody

Since it's Monday morning, I thought I'd start the week gently, with a little humour, courtesy of a Microsoft job ad. After all, who could read the following without laughing? On Open Enterprise blog.

open... - opendotdotdot.blogspot.com · Rank: 6,498 · 346 references

22 hours ago by MJ Ray

Most librarians probably already know this, but maybe the programmers don’t yet. A SirsiDynix Corp lobby paper against Open Source technologies escaped onto the internet. SirsiDynix is a competitor of our co-op with products that compete with Koha. They’re also interesting because Sirsi bought anoth ...

Software Cooperative News - news.software.coop · Rank: 156,245 · 13 references

1 day ago by Scott Ruecker

LXer Article Openoffice.org present their own mouse- OOMouse: Is not a Joke, OpenofficeMouse is available, OOMouse is the first multi-button application mouse designed for a wide variety of software applications. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and ...

The Open Source Writer - theopensourcewriter.wordpress.com · 2 references

1 day ago by bananasfk

With scox in tatters, how do you a software giant defend your crap against linux ? Linux is open to all. Well Microsoft essentially have been patenting the commands of a linux box – essentially a command called sudo, and a command called gksudo which is an gui for sudo. There are some real idiots in ...

Bananas in the Falklands - bananasfk.wordpress.com · Rank: 75,695 · 22 references

1 day ago by Mad Baker

At least I figured out that the Tupperware contained cat food and not leftover pate before I ate any of it.

A seething mass of turgid ... - madbaker.livejournal.com · 27 references

1 day ago by Dr. Luke O'Connor

I first came across the term fuhgeddaboudit in writing while reading the The Black Swan, where Taleb was answering the question as to whether journalists can be relied on to unearth all of the silent evidence on a given topic - fuhgedaboudit! The term is short for “forget about it”, popularized in t ...

No Tricks - lukenotricks.blogspot.com · Rank: 81,673 · 9 references

2 days ago by enemy of Leon

Damn, I really need to make this recipe... *drools*

Southern Death Cookie - friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com · 35 references

3 days ago by tinkertim

I can not believe how many people complain just to be sure that they have not lost the ability to do so. Recently, there has been growing concern that `backdoors` may appear in Windows 7, simply because the NSA participated in part of its development. To my knowledge, the only back door in Windows 7 ...

Echoreply - echoreply.us/tech · 2 references