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• Witches' Brews | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History 3 Nov 2009
  an excerpt from Paul Devereux's The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
• Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock? - life - 19 October 2009 - New Scientist 1 Nov 2009
  
• gRaphaël—Charting JavaScript Library 30 Oct 2009
  Javascript charts with SVG / VML
• Splunk | IT Search for Log Management, Operations, Security and Compliance 30 Oct 2009
  Log analyzer
• How habitable is the Earth? 29 Oct 2009
  (Pay attention at the back: this is a trick question.) We H. Sapiens Sapiens appear to be an infestation on this planet. After the slow-burning evolution of hominins in Africa, our ancestral populatio. […]
• I demand the blattarian anti-urination gene-mod. STAT. 28 Oct 2009
  Cockroach Superpower No. 42: They Don't Need to Pee To survive in hostile environments, cockroaches rely on their own vermin: Blattabacterium, a microbe that hitched a ride inside roaches 140 million. […]
• Playing On A Wave 27 Oct 2009
  Wave interacts with Google Maps in a way that could be great for play.If you’re not careful, Google Wave becomes just another play-by-chat option. Everyone’s typing at once, filing their character. […]
• Testing with IE6, IE7 and IE8 on VirtualBox | Shape Shed 27 Oct 2009
  a walkthrough on how to get a browser testing suite for free on OSX or Ubuntu.
• The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See 23 Oct 2009
  Nature has always been a source of inspiration for designers to look at things differently.We all know that a tree doesn’t always have green leaves, water is not blue and clouds are certainly not al. […]
• Why I like Redis 22 Oct 2009
  I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently. Redis is typically categorised as yet another of those new-fangled NoSQL key/value stores, but if you look closer it actually has som. […]