some random links from my del.icio.us and elsewhere

[trochee]

For the computer geeks:
Feisty Fawn released today.

For the webcomics fans or fans of the 'teens (think American black jazz singer woman goes to Europe, as written by a Finn): Goldenbird.

If your historical tastes run even older (Roman Empire?): SPQR Blues, a Brothers and Sisters soap-opera in the Roman Empire.

For the manga/anime fans -- there's a comic by Miyazaki here (scroll down), though I haven't downloaded it.

For the political comics fan, who's tired of hearing about how "there's no sexism in comics!" (yes, for those of you who don't follow the online comics world, a huge number of fanboys actually think that spandex comics aren't sexist): Karen Healey's Anti-feminist Backlash Bingo, which could easily be adapted to "the American media aren't racist" etc etc.

if you're more about the math and physics: Superpositional Chess (and if you want to play it, find me when i have two weeks free some time).

A blog that seems right up my alley, despite the absence of offspring: GeekDad. Probably would be fun for you geek moms too :)

Comments

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Guess I'm a geek mom (certainly I'm a mom of geeks) -- I love GeekDad!

[solri.livejournal.com]

Hmm, press release for Feisty Fawn, but no release notes on the Ubuntu website - not anywhere I could find quickly, anyway.

I tried out Edgy Eft Kubuntu on my box at work (at home I'm using evil Suse). It was OK, but a bit clunky - lots of KDE segfaults when closing apps. There again, my Suse installation has been acting strange since I installed Beryl, but what the hell - if I wanted stability, I'd use Debian, with its ten-year development cycle and backwards-compatibility guaranteed for the next century ;-)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

I gave up on KDE some time ago, and I've never looked back. Gnome seems pretty stable with ubuntu right now.

One thing Ubuntu has been doing a good job with these days is catching when subprograms misbehave and notifying the user -- maybe KDE was always doing this but only now Ubuntu is noticing?

[solri.livejournal.com]

Could be. As far as I can tell KDE programs have a tendency to close by crashing themselves, but I don't need an error alert box to tell me this.

Out of curiosity I installed Gnome on my Suse box. It looks better than it used to (i.e. less like a child's painting book) but I really don't like the new menu system. (I also got rid of the Suse modifications to the KDE menu, but that's another story.)

[(Anonymous)]

Just installed Feisty Fawn - easiest install ever (except for getting Beryl working, which needed some fiddling). The default Gnome settings are much better than in Suse, so I'll think I'll play with it for a while.