http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=362251&cid=21373411 interesting summary and discussion on a recent paper by Garret Lisi: an attempt to explain elementary practicle grouping by a complex geometrical model
http://www.opennet.ru/ Russian open source news, FreeBSD geeks
Watching flame wars on forums, newgroups and mailing list is always entertaining. The ever-lasting KDE-vs-Gnome saga just got an interesting update. On gnome-usability mailing list Linux Torvalds just said, “just tell people to use KDE” … so, other people jumped in and you can watch flames flowing in all directions. And of course slashdot just couldn’t miss this one and created it’s on version of this debate. Enjoy! PS; I use Gnome btw ;-) see screenshot ...
http://konstantin.antselovich.com/archives/2005/06/26/eye-of-sauron/ When I was studying one of the Doctor Freud’s works , I recall something called as “Collective unconscious”. Here is yet another surprising supportive evidence to that theory. I hope most of you have seen a movie called “Lord of the Ring” and remember image of the “Eye of Sauron”. That image did not just came from nowhere. Tolkien has studied western mythology the core concepts of his stories are taken from there. The i mage of the “eye of Sauron” is real and it has been recently photographed by Hubble space telescope. ...
http://konstantin.antselovich.com/archives/2005/06/18/linux-kernel-2612/ Nothing revolutionary, just another stable Linux kernel 2.6.12 was relased yesterday. It contains no surprises, but a lot of small changes that lead to a better performance under high load, better memory and process management. As usual, you can grab your fresh copy from www.kernel.org
http://konstantin.antselovich.com/archives/2005/05/06/time-traveler-convention/ Image yourself in May 7 of 3005. This day has been known for generations as the Time Traveler Convention Day , an event of a huge importance. To visit the convention the only thing you need to do is to call your friends up, jump in to a time machine and quickly ride to … May 7 of 2005. So, as you figured out, the Time Traveler Convention needs to be organized only once; any other year you would just travel back to May of 2005. Sounds strange, isn’t? Indeed, but this event in fact will be held tomorrow at M.I.T Campus. ...