” He had, in fact, gone out of his way to staple things incorrectly just so he could prevail on his teacher to unstaple them, giving him another glimpse of the blood-chilling mandibles in action.”
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

meme howto

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

• htop – great process monitor
• powertop – Program to analyze power consumption on Intel-based laptops. Usually gets me a hour or so of extra battery life.
• nautilus-open-terminal – Open terminal on desktop with a right click.
• ubuntu-restricted-extras and w32codecs – Flash and other non-free viewers and codecs.
• banshee – My favorite music/media player for Linux.
• skype – VOIP Client
• nautilus-dropbox – Dropbox online storage application.
• ttf-liberation – Free font from RedHat, easy on the eyes.
• community-themes – A set of nice themes from Ubuntu 8.10.
• filezilla – GTK ftp/sftp program.
• mplayer – media player.
• revelation – Great password vault.

4. Configure a dark theme. I currently like Dust (from the community-themes package) and Shiki-Colors.

I’m also installing OpenOffice 3.0, but I would not advise that to Ubuntu newbies for now.

Continue the discussion at this forum thread.

• Take a picture of yourself right now.
• Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
• Post that picture with NO editing.
• Post these instructions with your picture.