what are we doing today, brain?

• Banana - Uncyclopedia
  “…after bazillions of years that the banana has been around, that the banana is not a fruit at all; it is in fact a very ferocious animal that disguises itself as an edible fruit!” - My life is now complete. Would you believe Badgers brought me here?
  (tags: uncyclopedia banana)
• Linux - Uncyclopedia
  “Here is a screen shot from the hit game make install.” - Awesome. Other awesome games include “The Quest for the Lost Dependency Package”, “Extreme Man Page Reading” & “dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=4096″.
  (tags: uncyclopedia humour linux funny)

• Don’t Upgrade to Vista, UK Government Agency Tells Schools - CIO.com
  “A UK government agency has advised schools to avoid upgrading to Microsoft’s Vista and Office 2007.” Interesting article, and hopefully might shed some light on the possible issues for local education in Australia.
  (tags: vista education government microsoft)

• The Beez’ speaks..: A brief exercise in FUD dissection
  An interesting little breakdown of yet another “here are the problems with Linux” piece that also incorporates Borat.
  (tags: foss microsoft vista linux borat)

Hyperballad

We live on a mountain–right at the top.
This beautiful view from the top of the mountain.

Every morning I walk towards the edge
And throw little things off
Like car-parts, bottles, and cutlery
Or whatever I find lying around.
It’s become a habit–a way to start the day.

I go through all this before you wake up
So I can feel happier to be safe up here with you.
I go through all this before you wake up
So I can feel happier to be safe up here with you.

– Bjork

• “GNOME: the cowboy project” - Another Sam Varghese trainwreck
  An article by Sam Varghese where he is on the warpath with GNOME, as usual (he’s an extremist KDE fanboy) and he goes to Stallman for comment. Stallman gives interesting measured responses, one in particular that highlights Sam’s insanity, “That would be a very drastic thing to do.”
  (tags: stallman kde samvarghese gnome)

• Open of Course - Training
  “Open-Of-Course is a multilingual community portal for free online courses and tutorials… The focus is on educational information where people can benefit of in daily life.” - A really interesting site with some great content!
  (tags: education foss training)

• Australian Linux community celebrates a year of leadership
  “Best wishes to local Free and Open Source Software communities around the country as they recover from end of year celebrations and muster themselves for LCA08″. A little recognition post for our community by Janet Hawtin. Nice one!
  (tags: lca la linuxaustralia janethawtin foss)

• Free Software Advocacy + Politics (Australia)
  Danny Yee is an Australian who has done extensive writing about FOSS, freedom and much for, including a really interesting paper about why FOSS is appropriate to organisations like Oxfam. Definitely worth checking out.
  (tags: dannyyee foss freedom)
• Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1
  “Blog in the Locker room, babies blogging in the womb, blog even if you’re wrong, won’t you blog about this song?” I think I will blog about this song! Hilarious song about ‘tech bubbles’ done to the tune of “We didn’t start the fire”. Nice one.
  (tags: humour blog tech bubble technology)