From BoingBoing.net:
“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind — fantastic new book about a how a Malawian teenager harnessed the power of the wind”
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found on Boingboing.net:
“The Mannahatta Project is an interactive map of Manhattan as it appeared in 1609, indexed by streets. You can enter a landmark name or address and zoom into your favorite New York neighborhood as it appeared in a more primeval time. Shown here, the site of the iconic Flatiron Building: 23rd and 5th.”
http://themannahattaproject.org/
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I ordered my AcerAspire One Netbook recently. And I love it! At just under 1kg light, it’s the perfect tool for everywhere browsing, blogging (this post is written on it). One of the first things I did when I received it in the post is install Debian Lenny on it, and it’s the coolest gadget since sliced bread.
But this not what I want to talk about.
I cleared my room out today, which included throwing out the box that my Acer Aspire One shipped in. My green conscious is slowly awaking in me, so I set about to pull all the little leaflets out of heir sleeves and bag, and sort the lot my material into the recycling boxes. That is when it hit me. Just how much stuff is there? As anyone who’s got their wits about them, I don’t read the manual to figure out how to plug it all together and get going, so I never looked any deeper into the box that was necessary to get put all the accessories. So it it never occored to me how much rubbish is in the box. There is a single sheet of licence agreement, wrapped in a LDPE wrapper and given some strength by adding a sheet of cardboard behind it.
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