Safe as Milk

Brothers separated at birth?

I only noticed this after finally meeting him in the flesh at LinuxTag - Aaron Seigo bears an uncanny resemblance to Franck Ribéry, French footballer extraordinaire (except for the scars that Franck got going through a windshield as a kid and the funky hairdo).

The proof?

Aaron Seigo

Franck Ribery

links for 2008-06-05

• Does an atmosphere generator like this exist? - Internet Tablet Talk Forums
  This would be a great plug-in for rhythmbox - generate pink noise like the wind in the willows, a mountain stream, birds signing in the trees… I don’t know how you’d do it, mixing different samples + some randomisation?
  (tags: pink noise audio music sounds)
• Relaxing music, sleep-aids, anxiety reduction, relaxation tools
  A decent source for samples for the relaxing sound generator plug-in?
  (tags: rhythmbox relaxing sounds pink noise)
• freesound :: home page
  Another possible source of free sound samples
  (tags: sound samples pink noise relaxing rhythmbox)

links for 2008-05-29

• maemo LinuxTag Update
  Quim Gil’s update on maemo.org’s future direction in LinuxTag. Some important new information here - including a commitment to GTK+/Hildon for at least two more versions of the software.
  (tags: maemo gtk+ presentation linuxtag)

links for 2008-05-25

• KDE at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008
  (tags: libre graphics meeting lgm08 review)

links for 2008-05-22

• 2talk First Impressions
  (tags: openwengo qutecome 2talk)
• suume: Programs I run that are not open source
  (tags: openwengo wengophone qutecom)

links for 2008-05-19

• Trolltech Labs Blogs » Introducing QGtkStyle…
  Quite a cool development from Trolltech - qgtkstyle styles QT widgets according to your GTK+ theme, making QT apps look good on your GNOME desktop. There’s no reason not to choose GNOME any more!
  (tags: gnome kde qt gtk theming programming)

links for 2008-05-16

• IP Innovation files patent lawsuit against Red Hat, Novell
  Let the games begin… the patent in question is here: http://www.google.com/patents?id=3tUkAAAAEBAJ&dq=5,072,412
  (tags: patent legal lawsuit linux)

links for 2008-05-15

• tomch » Maemo Internet Search (MIS) plugins
  Handy search plug-ins for maemo
  (tags: maemo search plugins)
• Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com >> Blog Archive » Think Like a Dandelion: reproductive strategies for the Internet era
  “Mammals worry about what happens to each and every one of their offspring, but dandelions only care that every crack in every sidewalk has dandelions growing out of it.” - shifting mindsets to match the digital paradigm. Nice analogy.
  (tags: publishing strategy doctorow reproduction dandelions)

links for 2008-05-14

• Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
  (tags: social software article)
• How to run an effective meeting on IRC « Striving for greatness
  Advice for running meetings on IRC - sensible stuff
  (tags: irc meeting notes)

links for 2008-05-13

• Libre Graphics Meeting 2008
  (tags: libre graphics meeting lgm08 presentations audio video)