Stuff she wished she'd known before

A friend of mine, who runs her own wind turbine business, has written a set of notes about stuff she wished she'd known about Linux before she'd mucked with it!

Actually, I really admire Kali - she and James have carved out a niche for themselves at Flowtrack, not only with wind turbines, but by designing (and maintaining) railway traffic control software. No mean feat, considering that they're based at Tuntable Falls (not far from Nimbin, hippy capital of Australia)!

Secret Lives

Thanks to gloriajn for pointing me to Air Force Details a New Theory in U.F.O. Case. I've seen a Equinox episode called The Secret Life of Crash-Test Dummies that suggested crash test dummies were mistaken for extraterrestrials.

It's funny the things you find when you look for other things, like
The Secret Life of...

• algae
• aliens!
• alter girls
• Antlered Girls
• Ants
• Arabia
• auroras
• babies
• banjos
• a BAREFOOT GIRL OUT OF OHIO
• bars
• Beck Hanson
• bees
• the Bilby
• books
• the Brain : 3-D Brain Anatomy 
• CEOs
• Conan Doyle
• continued fractions
• Cory Kennedy
• cows
• a cyber hero
• daydreams
• dust
• electronic objects
• Email
• embedded Linux
• expired objects
• fat cells
• food
• Francis Geyer
• girls
• Gummy Bears
• Newt Gingrich
• Houdini
• J. Edgar Hoover
• Marilee Jones
• Henry Kissinger
• languages
• lead
• links (flash)
• lobsters
• MACHINES
• manic depressives
• Markup
• minivans
• molecules
• Swami Muktananda
• mundane transaction costs
• murder ballads
• Nick
• notebooks
• numbers
• off-duty characters
• office cleaners
• Open Solaris Code
• orchids
• paint
• paper 
• pets
• pots
• Professor Lessig
• pronouns (PDF)
• puppets
• quiescent black holes
• robots (youtube)
• rubber-suit monsters (hey - I have this book!)
• salesgirls
• semen
• film sets
• SFWs
• Ignazio Silone
• Skeletor
• a sloth
• Dr. Louis Slotin
• Smart Filters
• a sommelier
• Sound
• sperm
• squirrel
• switches
• tools
• toys
• trees
• Unicode
• Us
• V
• words
• worms
• X Chromosomes (PDF)
• XForms
• Your Cells
• Zoey

Be aware that not everything listed above, is exactly about what it seems (The Secret Life of Nick, for example, is a web comic). But look, I found at least one entry for each letter of the alphabet. Can you find any more for J, K, Q, V, Y or Z?

Land walking robot... ???

...or...

A mechanical "push me - pull you"?

This looks like something out of a Herbie Hancock music video.