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• OS.js (JavaScript Operating System) « Anders Evenrud Weblog

  OS.js started out as a tool to use on my home server so i could run GUI applications to configure services without installing X and a window manager (including VNC or similar remote management) and connect from anywhere in the world just using a web-browser. But lately I’ve also found some other uses for it, mainly HTML5 application development.

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• Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries - NYTimes.com

  FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A bubble rose through a hole in the surface of a frozen lake. It popped, followed by another, and another, as if a pot were somehow boiling in the icy depths.
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  Articles in this series are focusing on the central arguments in the climate debate and examining the evidence for global warming and its consequences.
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  In an Alaskan lake, bubbles of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, collect beneath the ice. More Photos »
  Every bursting bubble sent up a puff of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas generated beneath the lake from the decay of plant debris. These plants last saw the light of day 30,000 years ago and have been locked in a deep freeze — until now.

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• Share a secret - One Time

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