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Nice blog about "Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction" - some very good book choices there. http://io9.com/5027128/great-opening-sentences-from-science-fiction more »

Aquarium Top Half - Stained Glass by Torben Sorensen and Peter Zulinski The top part of the previous piece. I have this one hanging in my bathroom window. Both ca 2003 more »

Aquarium Bottom Half - Stained Glass by Torben Sorensen and Peter Zulinski This is one half of two pieces that were made to fit in a bathroom window. Peter and I had a great time making these pieces - he now has the honour of displaying this in his… more »

Despair and Hope - Stained Glass by Torben Sorensen I made this piece as a gift to my brother - it was a remake of an early painting of his, and I think it came out well. I liked the flat look of the artwork, and I thought it would work well as stai… more »

Very concrete and easy-to-follow examples http://hackmysql.com/documents and also this one http://20bits.com/articles/10-tips-for-optimizing-mysql-queries-that-dont-suck/ and http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/ more »

to check a mounted drive telinit 1 # single user mode, closes all programs + network mount -o remount,ro / # remount read only fsck -f /dev/hd.. # run the checker or: e2fsck -f /dev/hd.. mount -o remount,rw / # read-write again… more »

The halo of stars that envelops the Milky Way galaxy is like a river delta criss-crossed by stellar streams large and small, according to new data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II). While the largest rivers of this delta have been mapped out ov… more »

Astronomers have discovered nearly a dozen new stellar rivers—strings of moving stars—over the disk of the Milky Way. http://www.sciam.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=E151952B-E214-2082-C35253ACF156A155 more »