[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Child's Final Superheroic Wish Is The Greatest Thing You'll Read Today [Superheroes]
- The Make-A-Wish Foundation made 13-year-old Erik Martin's superhero dream a reality with a giant city-wide role playing scenario that incorporated all of Seattle. With the help of the Seattle Sounders, Spider-Man and a DeLorean, Electron Boy saved the day.
- Study Shows that Listening to Prayer Halts Brain Activity [Religion]
- A team of Danish researchers have found that when listening to a well-spoken person who claims to have divine healing powers, the regions of the brain responsible for skepticism and vigilance become less active.
[Yes, but I wonder if that's true in other areas? Do we listen less skeptically when anyone describes ANY first-hand experience? --L.]
- Transfer your packages to a clean install
- With all the new installs of Ubuntu and clean upgrades going on right now, I thought I'd point out a few great ways to package up the apps you have currently and prepare them for a clean Ubuntu install. This can be useful if you're installing the same applications on a number of computers, or simply know exactly all of the programs you need and want to preserve this for a clean install. There's two great ways to do this, one which works well on computers with an internet connection, and one which works great when you don't have a connection. [...]
The second way of doing this doesn't create a large package, but rather a small list of apps that can be used to direct your computer to what to reinstall. This requires no installation of anything to actually run the command, but does require an internet connection. Now, this creates a list of everything, even standard system stuff, so don't get freaked out if theres stuff you've never seen on it before. Any overlap with standard stuff works itself out, it won't reinstall or duplicate things. The really nice thing about this method is that you can manually add or subtract stuff from the list.
- Ubuntu Manual reaches 20,000 downloads on first day
- "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04," which was released about 18 hours before Lucid, had 20,000 downloads in the first 24 hours and is now up to 35,000 total with two dozen copies of the book sold in print from online publisher Lulu.
- Danny Piccirillo's rockin' post-install guide for Lucid
- Danny Piccirillo has posted an awesome Lucid post-install guide on his blog that covers a lot of cool stuff that you can do with Ubuntu 10.04 after installing it, including a great list of quality applications and easy instructions making use of apt URLs.
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