This is a video of Neil deGrasse Tyson (who hosts Nova Origins on PBS) asking a long rambling question of Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion). Tyson’s question I think does accurately characterize Dawkins and his very direct style.

Not to spoil the punch line, but Dawkin’s reply is classic.

I was looking for something that would give me hotkeys to control iTunes on Windows XP at work.

When I step away from my desk I like to pause my music when I lock it. Also, I dislike having to navigate to iTunes to change the song or adjust the iTunes volume.

I found AutoHotKey which has a scripting language, active forum and licensed under GPL.

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I have several virtual machines (including this webserver) hosted on a Xen Linux host. I wanted to be able to use the same linux configuration in my VMWare player on my desktop for testing.

Here are the rough steps that I went through to convert a linux guest that was on a LVM partition to a raw file on my Windows Desktop that the VMWare player could use.

Software: Redhat Fedora Core 6, Xen, LVM, VMWare Player 2.0.0

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A very dorky (yes, dorky) humor site. Describes itself as:

A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language.

not necessarily in that order.

http://www.xkcd.com/