OmegaMom has linked to a sample American Citizenship quiz. I got 80%, but considering the fact that I’m Canadian, that’s not half bad. Here’s a scary proposition. How about taking a Canadian citizenship practice quiz? Here’s where you can take one. Set it to 20 questions and have at it… eh.
I got one question wrong […]
About 3 months ago I started a separate blog called Design-Notes to document some of my programming work. Since that time I’ve done very little programming (big surprise). Anyway, I’ve decided to warm up my coding chops (what piddly few I have) by tackling something a little more enjoyable. I’m writing a very simple GUI […]
Linux Reality is a podcast for the new linux user. Currently host Chess Griffin is going over Ubuntu Dapper (I found his podcast during a blog search for Ubuntu) but it’s not really a linux distro review show. His past shows covered things like the linux file system heirarchy, command line basics and file permissions […]
Dottie has a few new ideas regarding social activist art projects in her post regarding the Jill Greenspun/Thomas Hawk matter I posted about earlier:
- punch old people - to highlight the helplessness and lonliness of old people in our society
- burn homeless peoples cardboard box shelters - to highlight the division between the rich and […]
As noted in my previous post “My Latest Endeavour: Developing a Digital Photography Workflow in Linux”, I’m trying to nail down a good digital photography workflow. As it happens, I came across a neat web app called Gliffy which lets you do diagramming (like Visio) inside of your browser. And naturally as web apps often […]
Although it is not the first time I’ve seen and read about Jill Greenberg’s purported “art” where she induces states of emotional distress upon toddlers and then photographs them, the controversy seems to be growing. Kent Newsome weighs in on Thomas Hawk’s current battle with legal threats from the artist due to his original post […]
I’ve been working quite happily in Ubuntu Linux lately. Of all the typical tasks I perform on my pc, there have only been two real deal-breakers for me in using Linux on a daily basis at home: Digital Photography and AutoCAD. The latter is something I am willing to forego for the time being - […]
I didn’t realize this service existed. If you want to send an SMS message to someone’s cell phone, you can just put the number followed by ‘@teleflip.com’ and send them a short email. In a matter of a couple of minutes they will receive your email as an SMS message on their phone. (eg. say […]
I tend to try out a lot of demo applications and freeware. And if I stick with one for more than a week I consider it successful. I’ve stuck with Ta-Da List (from 37Signals) for several months now, so I guess I’d consider it a wild success. I love the simplicity of it - that’s […]
Via Digg.com I found this interesting article about the deepest hole ever drilled. In that article there was a mention of Abe Vigoda (believe it or not) that pointed to an Abe Vigoda status page (currently he’s still alive). A quick check on Wikipedia informed me that in fact there was (once) a Firefox extension […]