This is just what I want - I could do with a ‘build your own’ instruction manual.
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Anonymous Coward writes “Australian Personal Computer magazine published a review of a new all-in-one set-top-box based on linux. A quick analysis of the …
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March 26, 2004Popularity:
84 view(s)No. It’s a myth. Psychologist and neuroscientist Barry L. Beyerstein puts the (gray) matter to rest at Scientific American.com:Link
“With the aid of instruments such as EEGs, magnetoencephalographs, PET scanners and functional MRI machines, researchers have succeeded in localizing a vast number of psychological functions to specific centers and systems in the brain. With nonhuman animals, and occasionally with human patients undergoing neurological treatment, recording probes can even be inserted into the brain itself. Despite this detailed reconnaissance, no quiet areas awaiting new assignments have emerged.”
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March 22, 2004Popularity:
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We have just returned from a great day out at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. What a brilliant museum this is - and I didn’t know it existed. It reminded me of the old Victorian museums you see at the beginning of movie versions of boys own adventures, you know the ones where a bunch of Oxford Dons meet up sipping whisky and discussing some adventure to a Lost World. It’s stuffed full of complete dinosaur skeletons, including a full size cast of a particularly scary T-Rex, and was a dream come true for Billy. Annie took a fancy to cases of stuffed foxes - she was squealing with delight when she saw them.
In the same building is the Pitt Rivers Museum - named after Lt.-General Pitt Rivers who gave his unusual collection of archaeological and ethnographic items from around the World. We ran out of time by the time we got here - but managed to take a look at the giant Totem pole and a rather spooky looking Mummy.
We will definitely go back to finish our own exploration; and the best bit? It’s free to get in.
In the same building is the Pitt Rivers Museum - named after Lt.-General Pitt Rivers who gave his unusual collection of archaeological and ethnographic items from around the World. We ran out of time by the time we got here - but managed to take a look at the giant Totem pole and a rather spooky looking Mummy.
We will definitely go back to finish our own exploration; and the best bit? It’s free to get in.
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March 21, 2004Popularity:
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Use a spoon (yes a spoon) as a peeler - it really works!
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Yet another software PVR that I need to find time to try - not Linux - but maybe THIS will work with my Multitainer?
SnapStream’s “Beyond TV 3″ is a software-based PVR that turns your PC into a TiVo-plus-plus, capable of streaming stored programs to your browser and auto-skipping commercials. Basically, it’s as though they made a TiVo whose only considerations were what you, the customer, would likely want to see, and not what the Hollywood studios would prefer.
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March 11, 2004Popularity:
86 view(s)It’s the 100th anniversary of Ted ‘Seuss’ Geisel - one of Billy favourite authors. Some titbits from Yahoo! News are:
“Seuss - his middle name and his mother’s maiden name - rhymes with “voice,” … rather than “loose.”
He invented the word ‘nerd’.
“Green Eggs and Ham” was written when he was bet $50 by Random House publisher Bennet Cerf that he couldn’t write a book using only 50 words.
“Seuss - his middle name and his mother’s maiden name - rhymes with “voice,” … rather than “loose.”
He invented the word ‘nerd’.
“Green Eggs and Ham” was written when he was bet $50 by Random House publisher Bennet Cerf that he couldn’t write a book using only 50 words.
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March 3, 2004Popularity:
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I appear to have hit a blogging brick wall - and I haven’t posted for ages. In an attempt to break this blog-block, I am forcing myself to blog anything.
Here goes…
We were in Barnsley at the weekend…
It snowed…
I promise my next entry will be better…
Here goes…
We were in Barnsley at the weekend…
It snowed…
I promise my next entry will be better…
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March 2, 2004Popularity:
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