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A coworker just got a new box and tried a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 install (the rest of us have stayed safely with 10.04). He found this link and after looking through it I definitely wanted to save it for later if I need it:

Things to Tweak After Installing Ubuntu 11.10

A whole list of commands to get rid of global menus, modify all kinda of Unity WM behavior and Gnome 3 behavior (like get screensavers back) and even how to install Gnome Shell on Ubuntu and tweak that. Looks like a great collection for anyone underwhelmed by Ubuntu 11.10′s default offerings.

• Is Printing A Gun The Same As Buying A Gun?
  An article on people starting to get around gun registries and gun purchasing laws by printing guns or gun components with 3D printers
• Gang Used 3D Printers for ATM Skimmers
  Story of a gang using a skimmer made with a 3D printer to steal $400,000.

Charlie Stross would be so… proud?

• Zach's Journal – Making a small Lisp project with quickproject and Quicklisp
  Zach outlines how to start projects using quicklisp and quickproject
  (tags: lisp quicklisp project depends)

• WordPress SEO – The Definitive Guide – Yoast
  A good guide to SEO for wordpress. Pagination section slightly dated, checkout wp-paginate now
  (tags: wordpress, seo)
• how to use GitHub effectively for your project
  A good review of a small team using git and github for their entire software process and how to do it
  (tags: git, workflow)
• Yes, rich kids already won the career game. Here’s why. « Michael O.Church
  An interesting paper on how socio-economic backgrounds can strongly affect career potential
  (tags: Social, Capital, economic)

• Timebook
  A very useful little command line script to keep track of time spent on projects.
  (tags: time accounting)
• Baby Steps into Genetic Programming
  A wonderful and simple introduction to genetic programming in Lisp
  (tags: Lisp, Genetic programming introduction)

• Hackety Hack!
  A fantastic ruby/shoes app that is a great, interesting, and super easy introduction to programming.  We need more of these.
  (tags: ruby, shoes introduction programming)

• Engineering and Star Trek
  An look at the�staggeringly�bad engineering in the Star Trek universe. �Hilarious but also interesting and informative about engineering concerns.
  (tags: startrek engineering scifi)

• Workflowy – Organize your brain.
  Possibly the workflow tool I've been looking for, at least interesting. Organize everything with easy to manage lists
  (tags: lists, yc, web2.0)

• Ludum Dare � Blog Archive � PoV�s Challenge: Make a game, sell 1 copy
  "Many of you have done the first part, but let�s go all the way this time. The simplest definition of a professional game developer is someone that has made money selling games. So lets create-us some new �professionals� and get some games out!"
  (tags: games, developer, professional, market)

• Microdata: HTML5�s Best-Kept Secret | Webmonkey�| Wired.com
  I've been meaning to look into HTML5's microdata, this looked like the dive in intro I hadn't gotten around to finding.

  "Given the amount of industry noise about native video and scripted animations, you�d be forgiven if you had never heard of the new microdata specification included in HTML5. Similar to outside efforts like Microformats, HTML5�s microdata offers a way of extend HTML by adding custom vocabularies to your pages."

  (tags: HTML5, microdata)