Nice deal on a Nvidia 8800GT for $235:
http://dealnews.com
Dell Home offers the XFX GeForce 8800 GT 512MB PCI Express Video Card, model no. PVT88PYDF4, for $234.68. (Search for “A1350995″ to find it.)
I’m tempted! But, I think I’ll wait as the 8800GT isn’t supported under Linux yet.
Update: Looks like the driver was released on Nov 16th 2007:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.04.html

One of Gnome’s main philosphy is simplicity but in this endeavour, some things are a pain! For instance, Gnome’s pictures screensaver doesn’t let you specify what directory to look for pictures or photo’s to display (nor has the neat zooming and paning features of Xscreensaver’s Glslideshow). It expects all your pictures to be in a [...]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/105490
Had the same problem but replace the UUID in /etc/fstab with the actual device. Looks like I needed to also update ‘/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume’.
Instructions here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1773316&postcount=3

€200,000 for a derelict auld cottage and calling it derelict is praise for the condition it’s in:
http://www.mattosullivan.com/prop_display.php?id=305
But, browsing for other properties turned up a restored cottage going for  €450,000, so I guess after spending €200,000 for a hovel and another €200,000 to modernise it, it’s still a (relative) bargain.
Via the wonderful pics of:
http://www.monasette.com/archive/001163.html

Make your Linux Gnome Desktop look like a Mac:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin
Instructions here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/mac4lin_make_linux_look_like_a_mac
This is what my desktop like before:

And I got this far and gave up:

I’m all praise to the folk who put all the work into this. But, having a Apple logos on my Gnome desktop just seems odd. If you want to get a desktop that [...]

If bluetooth works on your computer, then getting your system to talk to your N73 isn’t hard and I’m not going to cover it here. See this posting for what packages I needed to install to get bluetooth working in my Dell 700M laptop running Ubuntu Linux:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2007/10/09/ubuntu-bluetooth-sd-card/
If you have T-Mobile T-Zones internet service for your [...]

For US President, from Minnesota National Public Radio:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/select_a_candidate/poll.php?race_id=13

2 good ones:
1st, if your picking a CPU cache is very important, maybe more important than minor changes in clock speed:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/24/does_cache_size_matter/
And, NVidia came out with a GPU that trashes their high-end models:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3140
Now, if you want to use a 8800GT with Linux, you can’t, at least not yet with advanced 3D graphics and high resolution. The [...]

Good blog posting about who has and who hasn’t bandwidth & spectrum amongst the US Mobile phone networks:
http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2007/11/05/t-mo-got-no-spec-trum/
The US has 6 bands that are or will be used for cellular communications:

700MHz - the new band, to be auctioned in February next year. There “open access” rules tied to about 1/3rd of the spectrum to stop [...]

Some lad plotted all the air traffic in the US on one day and it looks likes art:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/11/24_hours_of_air_traffic_never_1.html