The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter refers to a handy article on app-portage/eix which is used to searching for ebuilds in overlays, meaning that dependancies in one overlay can be taken resolved by another.

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Haven't written for sometime, that's because this blog is usually for technical items.

I've been following Lifehacker while now and found a cool article on non-Google Maps Technophilia: Top ten (non-Google) map innovations. I also discovered a new term for a web application hybrid, a mashup. Mappr! is an example of a image/map mashup.

And see how Google Maps NYC subway station smells, wonderful.

To see other examples of mashups try The Open Directory for Mashups & Web 2.0 APIs

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This is a translation of a private message, no names appear in this post to protect the innocent.

You were spotted on the street - somewhere in Amsterdam - a shoot for a multinational clothing company. You'd been asked to go to screen test for the shoot in the center at 8 or 9 on a January evening. It was dark so I offered to go with you, not for my own peace of mind... Nobody needed to protect you, I just wanted to be close to you.

After arriving there I went of to a corner to smoke a cigarette and read a news paper. You were so beautiful as you posed in front of the camera. Then somebody asked me if I was there for the shoot, I said: "No, I've just come here because my girlfriend came."

"Do mind if we take some pictures of you?" They asked.

"You should do it, it'll be fun," you said.

The next day I got a call back and you didn't.

I'm sorry baby, I wish so many things could have been different. I don't ever regret meeting you, although I might regret reminding you that you met me.

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Young in Prison [YiP] was started in Februari of 2002 by Noa Lodeizen. Two years earlier she worked as a volunteer in Poolsmore prison in Capetown. There she saw the traumatic and mind environment in which the youths had to stay.

To improve the situation a benefit is organized on an afternoon in Amsterdam's Superclub. The profits, including donations, are used to start up the first project Capoeira in Prison.

Since then YiP has become an organization of over thirty volunteers and ten local employees in the countries themselves. Together they work to improve the conditions and mental well being for the Young in Prison.

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