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Nice new car that does 330 miles per gallon

There’s a report of a new car that does a whopping 330 miles per gallon, allowing one to (supposedly) traval from one coast of the United States to the other on a single tank of gas.The best quote of the article: “Rather than designing to a styling aesthetic, like the...

Leaked picture of the Canon 30D

Oh man, the new Canon 30D looks awesome! So many great features! (via Nelson’s linkblog)I think it’s finally almost time to retire my old Canon D60 camera body.

Yes, I upgraded to WordPress 2 too.

Oh man. Sorry about the postspam on various planets. It seems as most everyone on Planet Gnome has been doing it.It may be that Planet needs an anti-blog-upgrade-spam feature. (Or that WordPress needs to not break things…)Update: I limited my feed to 3 posts for now… I’ll slowly bump it...

Boohoo?

Hopefully Microsoft will buy Yahoo! as much as they bought Opera last week.(Rumors, rumors…)

Making Firefox fit in with the Linux desktop

As Firefox 1.5 is now here, I would like to say that I’m still very much interested in making Firefox fit in with the Linux desktop as I did with the Industrial theme for 1.0.x (which does not work with 1.5). However, a few things should be noted. First of...

Mario Kart DS

Since everyone on the Cambridge side of the Hula team recently picked up Mario Kart DS, I decided to buy it (and a Nintendo DS) during my last trip to Utah. It sure has made plane trips a lot more more enjoyable.Mario Kart is itself a lot of fun, and...

Playing around with Flickr

Joggers Angel Bridge supportsI’ve decided to start using flickr. It’s nice in that I can just post any number of pictures from whenever or wherever — I don’t have to feel compelled to post a gallery of pictures, grouped by a set, organized by a time, all hand-done manually. A...

It takes YOU to Tango!

This Friday (and every Friday to come) is Tango Friday! The Tango Project “exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces.” We’re approaching this goal by having a consistant naming spec which can be used anywhere, by any application, on any...

Ironman Trae

Trae, a good friend of mine (and the guy behind Themes.org and Linux.com way back in the day), is going to be doing the Ironman thing (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run, all in under 17 hours) in Florida this weekend, on November 5th.You can keep track...