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OSLO, Norway: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday.

"A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference," Conservative Member of Parliament Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment and then of trade, told The Associated Press.

Norwegian lawmakers nominate Al Gore for Nobel Peace Prize for climate campaign - International Herald Tribune

Acidus wrote:

What are your 5 things?

1) I once broke up w/ a girl by writing a poem consisting of six stanzas of rhyming couplets.
2) My "to read" pile is now taller than me.
3) I secretly desire to write comedy and one day I will force myself to do stand-up but my delusions of inadequacy complicate the issue.
4) I sometimes experience "auditory hallucinations" that I call the "radio-in-my-head", think of it as an ipod with a programming director that hates me. Yesterday's top song: _Toxic_ by Britney Spears.
5) When I measure, I start at the base of the scrotum because I need the extra inch.

RE: 5 Things You don't know about Me

For my first picture post I would like it to be something kick ass. So here's a picture of a pig w/ four eyes and two snouts.

It's a two-faced, four-eyed pig | Metro.co.uk

Lets face it. If you're reading this that means you probably type a lot. And if you're gonna type a lot you should really consider typing on a quality keyboard.

Plenty of people have posted about the optimus or the DasKeyboard and even the LAZAR keyboardbut if spending $100+ for a keyboard I wanted something awesome. And I wanted the small clit mouse. In short I wanted a thinkpad keyboard. The UltraNav is it and it rocks.

I got one of the last of the IBM branded UltraNavs (w/o the stupid num pad) and I love it. I even love it more than big clicky

--timball

Design Matters � Blog Archive � Afraid of Mice? Try the External TrackPoint Keyboard.

With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of only one of the computers while you use all of the monitors on all of the computers. You tell synergy how many screens you have and their positions relative to one another. Synergy then detects when the mouse moves off the edge of a screen and jumps it instantly to the neighboring screen. The keyboard works normally on each screen; input goes to whichever screen has the cursor.

In this example, the user is moving the mouse from left to right. When the cursor reaches the right edge of the left screen it jumps instantly to the left edge of the right screen.

You can arrange screens side-by-side, above and below one another, or any combination. You can even have a screen jump to the opposite edge of itself. Synergy also understands multiple screens attached to the same computer.

Running a game and don't want synergy to jump screens? No problem. Just toggle Scroll Lock. Synergy keeps the cursor on the same screen when Scroll Lock is on. (This can be configured to another hot key.)

Do you wish you could cut and paste between computers? Now you can! Just copy text, HTML, or an image as you normally would on one screen then switch to another screen and paste it. It's as if all your computers shared a single clipboard (and separate primary selection for you X11 users). It even converts newlines to each computer's native form so cut and paste between different operating systems works seamlessly. And it does it all in Unicode so any text can be copied.

Do you use a screen saver? With synergy all your screen savers act in concert. When one starts they all start. When one stops they all stop. And, if you require a password to unlock the screen, you'll only have to enter a password on one screen.

If you regularly use multiple computers on one desk, give synergy a try. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Synergy

This is an updated scan of the Prefatory Matter (Title pages, Table of Contents, Preface by Madras Library Association, Foreword by Sir P.S. Sivaswamy Aiyer, Introduction by Mr. W.C. Berwick Sayers), Chapter 1: The First Law, Chapter 2: The Second Law and Its Struggle, Chapter 3: The Second Law and Its Digvijaya, Chapter 4: The Second Law and Its Implications Pages, Chapter 5: The Third Law, Chapter 6: The Fourth Law, Chapter 7: The Fifth Law, Appendix, and Index, from S.R. Ranganathan's The Five Laws of Library Science, Madras Library Association, 1931. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was a pioneer in the field of Library and Information Science. S.R. Ranganathan’s The Five Laws of Library Science, the main premise of which is "books are for use," is arguably the most influential work in LIS to date. © Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS). Permission for non-profit use granted by SRELS. To purchase reprints of this work, please visit Ess Ess Publications at http://www.essessreference.com/

Ranganthan's 5 laws were:
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his or her book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The Library is a growing organism.

--timball

DLIST - The Five Laws of Library Science

LADIES AND gentlemen, welcome to the first virtual debate of the new political season, a mock matchup to help take the true measure of two men locked in ideological conflict.

Our first candidate is Mitt Romney.

Candidate number two? Why, that's Mitt Romney as well.

The first Romney is the man who ran for the US Senate in 1994 and for governor in 2002.

Let's label him Moderate Mitt, or MM for short.

Romney number two is the conservative Romney has become since catching Potomac Fever. We'll call him Romney2008.

A note on the proceedings: While our forum is fanciful, the words in quotation marks are real.

Let's begin.

Where do you stand on abortion?
...
Please give us your views on gun control.
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Would you sign a no-new-taxes pledge?
...
What political leader do you particularly admire?
...

Please pardon me for editing the posted text, but I didn't want to spoil the fun. This is a great example of research journalism, and forces politicians to remember they cannot hide from their record. All quotes culled from on the record reports.

Romney vs. Romney - The Boston Globe

About Us

The International Dialects of English Archive, IDEA, was created in 1997 as a repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts. Its home is the Department of Theatre and Film at the University Of Kansas, in Lawrence, KS, USA; while associate editors form a global network. All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and you will find both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages. The recordings are downloadable and playable for both PC and Macintosh computers. The development of this website is supported, in part, by grants from the University of Kansas General Research Fund and the Kimbell Faculty Enrichment Fund.

While searching for stuff for a thing for work I found this awesome archive of english dialects and accents. The best part is they force all the submitters to read the same passage and maybe some additional key phrases. All available and free! Ain't the tubes great?

--timball

IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive

Security OPUS is an annual meeting of professional security researchers and information security practioners. The conference is a single track series of presentations designed to focus on new research/advances in the field. We are looking to ensure each talk contains relevant and current research and/or addresses today's issues. One-hour and extended presentation sessions provide attendees with a significant advantage, by being informed about current and future challenges.

SecurityOpus is a smaller conference with excellent speakers and a constructive atmosphere. The organizers do one of the best jobs I've seen at keeping the con running smoothly and the attendees happy. In short, more conference need to be like SecurityOpus, and I thank Richard for doing such an awesome job.

The CFP is still open and I encourage the many west coast hackers on Memestreams to submit (I'm looking at you Mike!). Also, anyone in the bay area should look into attending. It’s held at the W Hotel in download SF across from the Moscone center. All meals are provided, with hor dourves and cocktails in the evening. You can register online as well.

Security Opus 2007- CFP