• Awesome @NASA APOD today – http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ – thanks to @alecmuffett for the tip off #
• #RIP Ronnie James #Dio – dead at 67 from stomach cancer (BBC) – http://bit.ly/dcQGdT #
• awful: "Top blokes, totally out of character: when five white men beat an Aboriginal man to death" – http://is.gd/ce0Pn 🙁 #
• Thanks to Dave Hall (@skwashd) for the pointer to that article on a racist attack and the strange trial following 🙁 #
• "How are we to know when we're hearing your true position and when you're fudging the truth?" http://bit.ly/dCrRr0 #
• Ever wondered what a steampunk stormtrooper would look like? Wonder no longer.. http://bit.ly/akjWRM (via @theretronaut) #
• "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal values" #wibble #
• The Hardware Locality (#hwloc) team is tremendously pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 – http://bit.ly/biVgNV #
• #hwloc provides CLI tools and C API to obtain hierarchical map of key computing elements e.g. NUMA nodes, cores, caches #
• Best way to get a quick idea of what #hwloc can do is grab and build then do ./utils/lstopo to get a view of your system #
• If you've got the Cairo dev libraries installed then lstopo will do a graphical map, otherwise it's ASCII art 🙂 #hwloc #
• Hooray, finally have University wireless in the #VLSCI offices! Now if only SSH wasn't blocked.. #
• Google Maps has the #Welsh name of North Parade in #Aberystwyth wrong, it should be Rhodfa'r Gogledd not Rhodfa's Gogledd! #
• Fabulous @NASA APOD today combines two of my great interests, #archaeology and #astronomy http://bit.ly/90hOEN #
• #Google has open sourced #VP8 as foreshadowed, which is good, but I suspect that MPEG-LA will still claim #patents over it #
• Am trying to learn #Haskell by writing something to parse Torque (PBS) accounting logs, plus using git in the process 🙂 #
• Wonderful view of M83 – RT @Mat_Kaplan PlanRad Want to see one hell of a beautiful galaxy? http://bit.ly/cUFxaa #
• Wonderful view of M83 – RT @PlanRad Want to see one hell of a beautiful galaxy? #
• Looking at this write-up up it appears that #VP8 is a lesson in how not to write a specification – http://bit.ly/97hMEr #
• ''the VP8 software basically is the spec–and with the spec being "final", any bugs are now set in stone.'' #
• "Such bugs have already been found and Google has rejected fixes" #VP8 #
• RT @skwashd: discovered a fast way of getting issues resolved with @telstra. ring to get service disconnected due to inaction on a problem. #
• BBC: Uganda debating law punishing gays with life sentence or even death (video report) http://bit.ly/aAaTsq #humanrights #
• There are 0.5M year old bacteria in Siberia – "If the permafrost isn't permanent, the oldest living things on the planet will die." #
• Rachel Sussman is on a quest to photograph living organisms that are at least 2,000 years old – http://rachelsussman.com/ #
• Siberian actinobacteria – currently the oldest known living organisms in the world – http://bit.ly/aDWM9e #
• Germany now has legal precedent for the enforceability of software patents 🙁 http://bit.ly/bLq8I8 (via @lwnnet) #
• More delays at customs in #Australia now people will have to declare any porn they are carrying – http://bit.ly/bBmNkF #
• Why avoiding volcanic ash is a good thing for aircraft – http://bit.ly/9EX2q5 (via @fooishbar) #
• MPEG-LA looking at creating a #patent pool license to cover patents on #Google #039;s patent-free #VP8 – http://bit.ly/bWvH1l #
• Clark and Dawes with a wonderful take on the European #debt crisis http://bit.ly/cRQjBX #humour #
• Waka waka waka – happy 30th anniversary of #Pacman 😉 http://pacman.com/en/ #
• The Google doodle is a playable game of #Pacman today, got to go to the "Classic" home page and use #Firefox or #Chromium #
• Baby orphan sloths being what can only be described as very very cute.. http://bit.ly/cm3kfV #heartwarming #
• that baby sloth video was via @arjenlentz and @anthonybaxter #
• #N900 FTW 🙂 – RT @smarthall: Lets see this much multitasking on the iPhone or Android! http://is.gd/ckdcc #
• Children in Texas to be taught that #UN could be threat to their freedom.. 🙁 http://bit.ly/9wp2oQ #blackhelicopters #
• Fabulous photo of a hot air balloon, but you need to look twice to spot what's really going on! 🙂 http://bit.ly/aaZbiK #
• Lovely sendup! RT @bbart: CAMRAP denounces 'beerification' of British pubs – http://bit.ly/dzPEsB #
• First light images of Earth from #Akatsuki #039;s camera's on Japan's first interplanetary mission http://bit.ly/auolbx #
• First review of Donna's Footsteps of a Nobody show (nb: she had no control over venue layout) http://bit.ly/bj8J5A #autism #

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