Thursday, January 14, 2010

14-Jan-2010 PM clippings

Enjoy:

The author will be attending LinuxConf 2010 in Wellington next week, and so Clippings may be more erratic than usual. See ya on Open Day?:
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/open_day

Hints from Google that they are going to try to run an uncensored search in China, and if that can't be done they may shut google.cn:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

The Tumanako Open Source electric racing car tests out its new inverter software, giving it a bit more speed:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tumanako/2010/01/13/tumanako-inverter-packaged/

Why the OLPC's Pixel Qi screen looks so good, and why it may well take the upcoming tablet/e-book market by storm:
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-01/pixel-qi-lcd-screen-could-finally-kill-paper-forever

And finally. What do you do with your expired Christmas tree? Launch it on top of a bunch of rockets of course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCjHV63MQ4w

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