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As reported by Slashdot, here is a gallery of aerial photos from before and after the tsunami. PDF files with more extensive analysis of the damage are available on the site as well, for Banda Aceh and Sri Lanka

I’ve been really wanting to develop some software for my new PalmOne Tungsten T3, but the development world for it is a bit opaque. There are well-supported development tools under Linux, namely PRC Tools and GCC. Unfortunately, however, it is necessary to have an emulator or simulator with which to debug one’s code [...]

Just in time for the nerds on your Christmas list: Giant Plush Microbes! They have mundane ones, such as the common cold or athlete’s foot, and exotic ones such as ebola and black death. Is this a great idea or what?

I am rather amused at a sidenote in my supervisor’s book, where he uses the British phrase “… such systems are two a penny” and gives this explanation in the sidebar:

Translation for American readers: ’such systems are a dime a dozen’; incidentally, this equivalence (10c = 6p) shows that the correct exchange rate is £1.00 [...]

Sure, Harvard beat Yale 35-3, but check this out. Fantastic!

In the US, the news media only reports American fatalities (they don’t even report American casualties). I certainly would never want to trivialize the deaths of our servicemen - my own brother is in the Navy - but it is worth remembering that there are many more deaths in Iraq than just Americans. [...]

Before I go into detail about all the things I liked about this book, I should say up front that I thought the writing style was pretty annoying, perhaps even juvenile. The author tries to fit every possible metaphor he can come up with into the book, at every structural level. This results [...]