http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/10/iss-linux/
An ISS spokesperson told press the switch was made because ISS astronauts and cosmonauts needed an operating system “that was stable and reliable.” Ouch!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-08/iron-ore-producers-book-billions-in-mining-tax-credits/4678228
Well over billion in tax credits for the big four iron ore miners are a key factor slashing the revenue from the Federal Government’s Minerals Resource Rent Tax.
http://www.dfat.gov.au/tradematters/index.html
This infographic (on 2012 foreign trade) looks fairly problematic to me. We export mainly raw materials, and import oil and processed materials. That’s costly and inefficient: inevitable we’ll always lose on that balance.
Images for Australia and QLD copied as DFAT doesn’t use URLs that will persist when the next edition comes out…
I noticed birds making a lot of noise outside (no cats about). That usually means a snake either in a tree or on the ground, and so it was this time.
I managed to take a picture before it moved on. It seemed to be about 2m long, probably a carpet python (Morelia Spilota). Beautiful!
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php
What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.