August 30, 2010 | In: Work, iThink
July 29, 2010 | In: Video, iThink
Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.
July 26, 2010 | In: Personal, Video, Web
Hackers hijacked the European climate exchange (a carbon trading website) and replaced it with a truth site detailing flaws in the system. It also contained this video:
The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo.
To see the entire site see here: http://nassibou.atspace.org/
July 2, 2010 | In: Links, Personal
is it a bird? is it a plain? No, it is a plane flying on Google! Well not quite, just felt like doing that one. So it is not quite there Virgin Style. But Google acquired ITA software. A site that feeds many traveling sites with live fares, as well. Google promises that they will not hamper any of ITA’s existing partners, such as Bing Travel.
Interesting at any rate that Google is pushing into yet another market, and specifically taking over a collaborator of their competition. Also, think of it like this. The travel industry is literally THE consumer industry where online buying has completely overtaken any other purchasing behavior. Being the biggest player on the web, you want to have a serious hand in one of it’s most sold produce.
June 28, 2010 | In: Personal, Video, open source
…and introducing Lenny Linux.
June 15, 2010 | In: Video, iThink
Amnesty International – “Death to the death penalty”- Spot (2010), directed by Pleix for TBWA Paris. Production: Warm & Fuzzy.Productions.Agency: TBWA\Paris. Production Company: Gang Films. Agency Producer: Maxime Boiron. Music: “Everyday” by Carly Comando
April 28, 2010 | In: Linux ubuntu
So the new Ubuntu is here. And as the release candidate is now available I went for the update. Again, I am stunned at how good this OS is, and how many people that are still living in ignorance, when it comes to linux.
One thing that was annoying, was that my GRUB (which allows me to choose which OS I want to boot [Ubuntu, Win or OS X]) broke after updating.
So I thought a little written instruction to fix it might be helpful for anyone else that runs into this problem.
What you need: Ubuntu 9.10 (or 10.04) installer CD
bin dev initrd.img lib32 media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz
boot etc initrd.img.old lib64 mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.old
cdrom home lib lost+found opt sbin sys var
bin dev initrd.img lib32 media proc selinux tmp vmlinuzboot etc initrd.img.old lib64 mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.oldcdrom home lib lost+found opt sbin sys var
Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /media/root/boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install’. (hd0) /dev/sda
and with that, I whish you a jolly updating season
April 26, 2010 | In: Work, open source
shared by Mark Val
Neat little application that allows you to test how your server will hold up once out there in the real world.
It would be awfully nice of you, if you could spare me with a click below.