The Perambulator

Welcome to my Weekly Stumble Report! Below are about thirty links from the past week all of which were interesting enough in one way or another to earn recommendation. This week I cover music and discography, CMS and OS, food and agriculture, disabilities, health and environment, politics and rights, and arts and science.

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In an effort to cover my hosting fees I created a google adsense account. With three different content management applications, posting the ads on my sites was no easy matter. Here is a rough guide:
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Follow instructions here replacing “end” tags with ‘, a single apostrophe.
Create local template directory. Create adsense tpl file. Copy album, photo, [...]

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There’s a new little bookstore on the block, The Contemplative Reader.
As you know, I have a bit of a book collection. Thousands of titles personally selected according to my interests. None that I particularly want to get rid of… but realistically, I will never read them all. That awareness conveniently arose now while I am [...]

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Drivel
With a name like drivel, I didn’t expect much. Prior to installation I was impressed by the screenshots and documentation and this tutorial in particular was very well done and inspired me to install. Although I don’t much care for the gnome interface, I went for it.
Sudo apt-get install drivel
Complaints

Program designers need to consider the [...]

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A quick search found a few options for making Flash movies with linux.

Ming is a C library for generating flash movies . Check out the page of links to sites using Ming here.
Flame is a work in progress, intended to be equivalent to Macromedia Captivate.
Openoffice Impress can export presentations as Flash although animations are [...]

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