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title: links for 2008-01-12
date: 2008-01-12T05:20:18Z
modified: 2008-01-12T05:20:18Z
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  - Links
timestamp: 2008-01-12T05:20:18Z
tags:
  - Links
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- [DistStore – Distrubuted Document Store](http://diststore.com/)
    
    with a variety of available backends
    
    (tags: [amazon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/amazon) [api](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/api) [thrudb](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/thrudb) [distributed](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/distributed) [databases](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/databases) [memcached](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/memcached) [berkeleydb](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/berkeleydb) [thrift](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/thrift) [mysql](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mysql) [via:joshua](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:joshua))
- [The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head | Metro.co.uk](http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=83550&in_page_id=2)
    
    “Louis the octopus clearly thinks two heads are better than one when it comes to toys…The 1.8m-wide (6ft) creature is so attached to Mr Potato Head that he turns aggressive when aquarium staff try to remove it from his tank.” – comedy
    
    (tags: [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [octopus](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/octopus) [weird](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/weird) [mrpotatohead](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mrpotatohead) [via:jwz](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:jwz))
- [KDE 4 gives Linux some Mac, Windows flavor | Underexposed – CNET News.com](http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9849110-39.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Underexposed)
    
    congrats to the KDE crowd. 4 looks nice.
    
    (tags: [kde](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/kde) [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [desktop](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/desktop) [ui](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ui) [gnome](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gnome) [stephenshankland](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/stephenshankland))
- [Funtoo by Daniel Robbins: And it gets worse…](http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/and-it-gets-worse.html)
    
    had missed this, somehow
    
    (tags: [gentoo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gentoo) [danielrobbins](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/danielrobbins) [foundation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/foundation) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [community](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/community))
- [Havoc’s Blog January, 2008](http://log.ometer.com/2008-01.html#11)
    
    b/twn Blizzard and Havoc, these are losses for RHAT. not meaning to be melodramatic about it, but both are well thought of. have developed a lot of respect for Havoc. i wonder if his new opportunity has anything to do w/ the Online Desktop.
    
    (tags: [havocpennington](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/havocpennington) [redhat](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redhat) [hiring](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hiring) [departures](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/departures))
- [Photo Matt » Twenty-four](http://photomatt.net/2008/01/11/twenty-four/)
    
    happy birthday to Matt
    
    (tags: [mattmullenweg](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mattmullenweg) [photomatt](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/photomatt) [wordpress](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wordpress) [birthday](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/birthday))