BASH commands and Linux tools; panspermia is GO; the cloak of silence; Stross on Singularitarianism …

• 1 – LinuxCommand.org: Learning the shell.
  “I once heard an author remark that when you are a child you use a computer by looking at the pictures. When you grow up, you learn to read and write. Welcome to Computer Literacy 101. Now let’s get to work.”
  (tags: reference tutorial shell bash linux)
• 2 – How To Become A Hacker
  “The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.” Interesting lucid intro to true hacker culture.
  (tags: psychology motivation mindset essay culture hacker)
• 3 – Linux web tools, Pt. 2 – Using LAMP for testing
  Installing LAMP on Ubuntu. Useful!
  (tags: webdev LAMP test server web Ubuntu)
• 4 – Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars
  “The materials they have found [in the meteorite] include the molecules uracil and xanthine, which are precursors to the molecules that make up DNA and RNA, and are known as nucleobases.” Panspermia’s back on, kids!
  (tags: panspermia life biology astronomy science)
• 5 – Experts unveil ‘cloak of silence’
  “Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an “acoustic cloak”, which could make objects impervious to sound waves. The technology could be used to build sound-proof homes, advanced concert halls or stealth warships.”
  (tags: cloaking metamaterials silence shield science architecture acoustics)
• 6 – Graham Sleight: Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Eight Contemporary Classics
  “The oldest dates from 1985, the newest from 2002. Five are by British authors, two by Americans, one by an Australian. None are women.” Zing!
  (tags: classics future literature scifi fiction science sf)
• 7 – That old-time new-time religion
  “Vinge’s formulation of the singularity concept in the 1990s may have been unfortunate, insofar as we’ve seen in recent years a huge outburst of millenarian religious hysteria …”
  (tags: Stross snark religion Singularity)
• 8 – Useful WordPress Tricks
  Few little code nuggets.
  (tags: tags template webdev snippets code wordpress)
• 9 – Turn Google Docs Into an RSS Reader and Feed Aggregator
  Does what it says on the tin; there might be some crafty uses for this.
  (tags: tutorial spreadsheet webdev hack Docs Google aggregator RSS)