Spurred by a mnemonic game while hiking in both fog and mountains, I am now trying to memorize GPS coordinates. But just how many of those little digits must I keep in my head? How big is a degree of longitude anyway?

Naively, we can divide the 40 megameter earth circumference by 360° and divide again [...]

While Gnome on Lucid Lynx is pretty and Gnome has a bunch of features that make window management a bit nicer than before (like Win-w,e,s,n,m) I immediately longed for a decent tiling manager. So, within ten minutes and without further regret:
Get the latest xmonad packages
Unlike Karmic, Lucid repositories have the latest version of Xmonad (0.9).

$ [...]

Xmonad is a tiling window manager that wastes neither time nor screen real estate. It does away with decorations, giving windows the space they need, but no more. The learning curve is a steep eight commands or so.
This tutorial should get you up to speed quickly with Xmonad on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

You will be [...]

…to Explore, or Bash Windows open?