• "Exeter university student sparks new Stonehenge theory" – using stone balls for moving megaliths http://bit.ly/hu19Qc #
• Flickr: Santa Monica Pier at sunset (HDR) #n900 http://flic.kr/p/8WHLQ2 #
• Bah, realised all my #N900 photos since the beginning of time (OK, January && !HDR) have been 1.2Mpxs due to pilot error. #
• The #N900 can do around 5Mpxs in high resolution mode. D'oh! #
• #TSA Terrorize A Disabled 4 Year Old Boy By Removing His Leg Braces, Then Forcing Him To Walk: CNN: http://bit.ly/gGNxzN #
• Oops, #RedHat #039;s support system fall down go boom: "A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 0 of" #
• Phew, it's back again! #
• Running #HPC systems in #Melbourne Australia? There is a Melbwulfers mailing list – http://bit.ly/h8IAuC #beowulf #
• Intro by Rob Hulls – "I love this bloke" "every decision with the best interest of Victoria" – – he must have gone.. #
• Brumby has conceded the election. #vicvotes #
• I wonder if the new coalition government will support science in the same way that the ALP did ? #vicvotes #
• The #VLSCI supercomputers got a mention during Brumby's concession speech as one of the ALP govts achievements. #hpc #
• So @774Melbourne have cut off Brumby's concession speech part way through – is he going to stay in parliament ? #
• Wild guess: another election in a year or two due to the Libs loosing a by-election over failure to fix public transport #
• Oh joy, the Victorian coalition wants to use tax money to subsidise catholic schools.. #
• I cannot see a single mention of science in any of the Victorian Liberal Party policies. Website is a mess too. 🙁 #
• New blog: New Victorian Government – Where's the Science ? – http://bit.ly/hNpI4v #
• Mellanox press release on their purchase of Voltaire – http://bit.ly/dHZcRw #hpc #
• Interesting piece from VC of the University of Melbourne on absence of higher ed from politics in AU http://bit.ly/htmXBB #
• Anybody want to buy an aircraft carrier (second hand) ? http://bit.ly/gcTLNV (via @abcnews) #invincible #uk #NotQuiteEbay #
• "Product ID: Sale by Tender – HMS Invincible / Manufacturer: Vickers Shipbuilding / Availability: In stock" 🙂 #
• So apparently China is aiming for exaflop #HPC systems by around 2020, could make life interesting! 🙂 #
• Of the 251,297 cables that @wikileaks #cablegate has over half of them (133,887) are *UNCLASSIFIED* i.e not "classified" #
• Time to head for home before the next wave of thunderstorms hit.. #
• What is this tiny rodent or marsupial (about 2 or 3cm body) ? http://twitpic.com/3c4wxq #University #Nature #
• Looks like #KDE 4.5.4 packages have started appearing for Kubuntu 10.10 in the PPA, prior to the release announcement 🙂 #
• Awesome 🙂 RT @vallard #NASA announcement in perl: $discoveredlife = $life =~ s/P/As/g; #astrobiology #
• I rarely do a #FF (usually because it's gone before I've remembered) – but here's one for today: @ABCRampUp #humanrights #
• #Linux #kernel "longterm" project announced on LKML by @gregkh http://bit.ly/hwKC9e #
• Sigh, #Amazon #AWS can't count – claim @wikileaks cables are 250K classified docs – but less than half are classified! #
• Appears that @EveryDNS and @DynInc's infrastructure cannot cope with DDOS attacks on their client domains 🙁 #wikileaks #
• I wonder how long before someone starts selling #WikiReaders loaded with @Wikileaks content ? #cablegate #
• Every time I walk in the garden our ducks try and guilt us into feeding them again – I suspect fowl play.. #
• "Symphony of Science is a musical project [..], designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form" #
• "Sagan, Feynman, et al, sing along to a few tripped out beats with aid of auto tune" – @ear1grey http://bit.ly/fCnUzA #
• Symphony of Science – 'We Are All Connected' (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) – http://bit.ly/hxcuvq #
• Just watched Carl Sagan's last interview from 1996 on YouTube, very good – http://bit.ly/faG3Mc #science #superstition #
• Great talk about impedance mismatch between science publishing and expectations http://slidesha.re/fHc4bs via @ear1grey #
• Bought 2 USB gadgets from #Jaycar – tape player won't play tapes and the GE4056 record deck only produces mono 🙁 #fail #

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