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Linutop is a small, Linux-based, diskless computer for surfing the web and using online apps.
Jakob Nielsen discusses common usability bloopers in the movies.
The Code Linux is an hour long documentary about the Linux operating system.
An article in the Economist about postmodernism and marketing.

Create your own superhero with the Hero Machine.
New $150 “LiteComputer” will use flash based memory instead of a hard drive, will run its own operating system, and will rely heavily on web-based applications.
Happy Birthday, Beethoven! Celebrate in style by watching Yehudi Menuhin play the Violin Concerto.

Word Shoot. Type fast to kill the baddies.
Things Americans just can’t live without. If you wonder what I can’t live without, just invert the list.
“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.”
Whatever happened to netiquette? Have manners in online communities gone down the tube?
StumbleVideo. Find funny and interesting videos at stumbleupon.com’s new video channel.
Open Source at 90 MPH. “Can open-source practices and approaches be applied to make hardware, to create tangible and physical objects, including complex ones? Say, to build a car?”
Amanda Congdon on ABC. The former Rocketboom host has a new video blog at ABC.
In this Naxos podcast, the Blair Quartet talk about their recent recording of the Charles Ives String Quartets.
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
- Charles Mingus
Markaboo is an open source social bookmarking site.

The disturbing image of all the Starbucks in Atlanta mashed onto a Google map.
Computer pwnz chess champion. World class chess player Vladimir Kramnik lost 4-2 to the multi-processor super computer Deep Fritz.
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Abram Shtern is the former concertmaster of the Kiev Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Watch several video excerpts of his fine fiddling courtesy of http://homepage.mac.com/joska3bsw/
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