Personal wikis: Three small, simple alternatives

Wikis aren't just great tools for sharing information and collaborating on projects. They also make excellent personal information managers. With a personal wiki, all of your to-do lists, notes, and appointments are at your fingertips in form that's easy to use and maintain.

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Panasonic to sell $80,000 TV set

Panasonic said on Thursday it would start selling the world's largest television set, featuring a 103-inch (262-centimetre) screen, for $80,000

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Mass found in Lacroix's spine not cancerous

Colorado Avalanche president Pierre Lacroix confirmed what has been rumored for weeks, saying he recently went through a health scare that raised concerns that he might have cancer or another serious illness

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River Rock Floor Mat **WITH TUTORIAL and added suggestions**

A floor mat like no other.

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Partition table recovery with Knoppix

KIVILCIM Hindistan recently migrated to a new laptop and promptly destroyed his partition table. Flailing around with false laziness taught him the true value of true laziness. Here's a real-life tale of Knoppix rescue and a cautionary tale about troubleshooting.

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Mars Orbiter Successfully Makes Big Burn

Ground controllers today successfully performed a major maneuver of NASA
�s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MOR)�an �end game� tactic that puts the orbiting probe a step closer to studying the red planet with its entire suite of science sensors.

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Action Comics, No. 1: Superman's birth

The comic that started it all scanned for your convenience.

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The KDE Myth Buster

Nice try, but gnome still rules.

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Tiananmen Square Massacre

Never forget....

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CVS Best Practices

This article explores some of the best practices that can be adopted while using CVS as the configuration management tool in your software projects.

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C64 USB keyboard

This page describes how to build a USB-keyboard in the form-factor of an old C64 breadbox. Actually, with little modification it can be used for any kind of keyboard, since the source code is available, and all that needs to be done is to modify the key-to-scancode mapping.

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Porn@11

Pay attention to the screen on the right while the anchor talks to the camera.

Collaborate With Gobby

Collaboration was always one of the goals of the Internet, but for a long time, the tools lagged the vision. Nowadays, though, we have wikis, instant messaging, and other software that allows people to work together. Even Microsoft is getting into the act by pushing its expensive and proprietary SharePoint software onto unsuspecting businesses arou

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Examples of ImageMagick Usage

This web pages presents a set of examples using ImageMagick from the command line. However they are also examples of what can be done using the ImageMagick Application Programming Interface (API). As such these pages should be the first stop for IM users after reading the terse user manuals.

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Indian state aims to break Microsoft dominance, provide Linux

India's communist-run Kerala state has said it aimed to break US software giant Microsoft's dominance in schools, two weeks after rattling investors by banning Coke and Pepsi sales.

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Is Ubuntu Linux for You, Too?

Like cold fusion or a painless weight-loss plan, a user-friendly version of Linux remains elusive. But developers are getting closer with Ubuntu -- a free, Linux-based operating system that appeared in October 2004 and is winning over waves of converts, including high-profile geeks like Cory Doctorow.

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AT&T says hackers accessed customers' cards

- Hackers broke into one of AT&T Inc.'s computer networks and stole credit card data and other personal information from several thousand customers who shopped at the telecommunication giant's online store.

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NASA's Hide-and-Seek Game with Atlantis, Ernesto

They can run it but never hide it.

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Roll Your Own Linux

So you want a Linux that's set up with just the applications you want
�no more, no less. What do you do? Well, an expert Linux user does it himself. But not everyone's a Linux legend. For the rest of us, there are two good choices.

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What's the Most Popular Linux Desktop?

The results of DesktopLinux.com's 2006 Desktop Linux Market survey are in, and the votes are all tallied. This first article of a series offers a perspective on how the various desktop Linux distributions fared, and why.

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Haunted Paper Toys

Here you'll find a variety of rather unusual paper toys, all free for you to print out and enjoy. The toys include a hearse playset, coffin gift boxes (with occupants), a little cemetery, several unusual board games, a gloomy little haunted house, a rusty old-style robot, and quite a few other dark delights.

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The Joys of Skiddy Baiting

Skiddy Baiting (script kiddy baiting) is the art of luring people with malevolent intentions into doing malevolence to themselves. Think of it as being sort of like a honey pot, but geared more towards PEV (personal entertainment value) than research.

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Video cameras learn from insects

By mimicking how insects see, an Australian researcher says he can now produce digital videos in which every detail is absolutely clear.

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Rare high-altitude clouds found on Mars

Planetary scientists have discovered the highest clouds above any planetary surface. They found them above Mars using the SPICAM instrument on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. The results are a new piece in the puzzle of how the Martian atmosphere works.

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Flash Player 9 on Linux

This tutorial shows how to install the Flash player on a Linux system. It was tested on Dapper Drake (on an x86 - 32 bit machine).

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Ubuntu System Panel (USP)

After the release of the SLED menu and seeing that it was so popular with Ubuntu users, I took it upon myself to do something of our own. So for the past few weeks I have been studying mockups for GNOME and trying to bring it alive and today, I offer it to you...

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Hints & Tips for Optimizing Linux Disk Usage

This article describes some simple techniques for making the best use of the disk storage you have now.

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Fully automatic airsoft (BB) gun - easy and cheap

East to make fully automatic airsoft gun with video.

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Ultra-cheap cell phone antenna

These are plans for an external cellphone antenna made from a wire hanger.

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Generate your own energy for almost nothing

The Chispito Wind Generator was designed to be simple and efficient with fast and easy construction. There are no limits to what you can do with wind power. There is nothing more rewarding and empowering than making a wind powered generator from scrap materials. Most of the tools and materials in this manual can be found in your local hardware shop

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Best mistakes with pictures

This page shows the top rated mistakes which have pictures - an easy way to check out the most glaring gaffes onscreen. Just click the film titles to go straight to the relevant picture.

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FREE as in BEER Security Engineering ebook

My goal in making the book freely available is twofold. First, I want to reach the widest possible audience, especially among poor students. Second, I am a pragmatic libertarian on free culture and free software issues.

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Make the download of large files with PHP (and lighty) very easy

Some days ago I stumbled upon an old entry of Jan in lighty's life, called "X-Sendfile". There he explains how to speed up the delivery of large files with lighttpd instead of PHP.

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A Gentle Introduction to SQL

Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access.

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Dishwasher accused of killing Dartmouth restaurant manager

Seems like death by electrocution won't cut it for this fellow.

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Blowing up Smarties

Guess what is next on the list on banned items to carry on board a plane.

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Why Do You Do What You Do?

At Why Do You Do What You Do? you can express your answer to that most ambiguous of questions and read what other people have said about their own lives.

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Laptop Slides Into Bed in Love Triangle

LARRY SMITH knows he is treading a fine marital line. Mr. Smith, 37, is the editor of Smith, an online magazine he founded, and he loves to work in bed at all hours � midafternoon, 2 a.m. if insomnia strikes, then again in the morning.

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Linux kiosks come to the aid of natural disaster victims

When faced with the aftermath of a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina or the Boxing Day tsunami, you might assume that having Internet access would be the last thing on victims' or rescuers' minds. But Steve Hargadon of TechnologyRescue.com found out that his public Web kiosks were an answer to prayers for people affected by Katrina...

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Domo arigato Mr. Roboto

According to Popular Science, DOMO is the first robot to know its own strength, meaning its embedded elastic actuators (muscles) can detect exactly �how hard it�s gripping an object.� Short video after the jump.

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A global problem: How to avoid war over water

'Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting over," Mark Twain once said. At the start of the 21st century, his gloomy view on the water side of the equation has been getting endorsements from an impressive - if unlikely - cast of characters.

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PlayStation 3 tackles world ills one frag at a time

The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's.

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Visualizing Database Information with Tableau

Tableau allows you to take it one step further: visualize the cross-tabulations in real time. With Tableau, you can drill-down database tables, visually.

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Historic Maps Galore

This site presents scans of maps, from atlases and other works. Most are JPEGs. All are large, so a fast connection is recommended if you want to see them. Most of the original works are more than 75 years old.

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Using IPFW Rulesets with BSD Firewalls

IPFW makes an excellent network firewall and I intend to illustrate its ease of use. I will cover the general use of IPFW and ruleset structure. The essence of IP filtering is a subject of great debate and the very best way to learn effective filtering is through research and experience.

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LDAP Authentication In Linux

This howto will show you howto store your users in LDAP and authenticate some of the services against it.

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US Oil Crisis in the Horizon

Venezuela plans to increase their oil sales to China to 500,000 barrels a day in three years, and to a million a day in the next decade.

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Building a Quiet PC

When the first version of Windows Media Center was released in summer 2003, I decided it was time to build my first home theater PC. I must have reconfigured that system a dozen times to reduce the noise.

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Minimalist tools for writers

Doing word processing without a dedicated word processor may seem like an absurd idea, but it actually makes a lot of sense, as long as you have the right set of writing tools -- a solid text editor, the txt2tags utility, and Aspell spelling software.

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The guy behind the Simpsons

He has so thoroughly shaped the program that by now the comedic sensibility of �The Simpsons� could be viewed as mostly his.

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Bob Dylan: Technology Sucks

Bob Dylan says the quality of modern recordings is "atrocious," and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc.

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Real Time Coming to Linux Real Soon

Thanks to efforts to incorporate Real Time enhancements into Linux, standard mainstream Linux may well become a real, Real Time OS real soon.

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Ubuntu xorg-server update breaks X: "no screens found"

IRC channels, LUG mailing lists, and Ubuntu wikis were buzzing with the news this morning that a recent Ubuntu Xorg update (xorg-server 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.3) crashes the X Window System on some video hardware. When X is restarted following installation, affected Ubuntu users get a "no screens found" error message instead of X.

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CAPTCHA your blog comments with FOSS utilities

Here's how I implemented a CAPTCHA system for blog comments using free and open source (FOSS) command-line utilities and PHP, the Web server scripting language.

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Installing A Bind9 Master/Slave DNS System

In this howto we will install 2 bind dns servers, one as the master and the other as a slave server. For security reasons we will chroot bind9 in its own jail.

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Linux GPRS/EDGE via Bluetooth HOWTO

In this guide I will show you howto configure internet access through GPRS/EDGE, using bluetooth connection with your GSM phone.

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Mattel Juicebox media players for $4.50 !!!

Your friendly neighborhood and hackable device is up for sale.

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How to Remove Startup Programs

Got a PC that takes a week and a day to boot up? Most likely, it's filled with programs that start at bootup--programs you don't need. Mitch Tulloch shows you all the secrets of how to ferret out and remove these time and resource wasters.

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Ubuntu powered cat feeder

"I sought out to make an automated cat feeder and water dispenser out of parts lying around the house. As for the cat litter? That�s fine � that can be left to stupid humans :)"

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Office-Supply Ninja Stars

Make ninja stars to NOT throw around the office.

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DIY A digital thermometer

With the easy availability of inexpensive digital multimeters, and integrated circuit temperature sensors, it is now very easy to build a sensitive and accurate digital thermometer that can be used for many experiments around the house or in the amateur laboratory.

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Samurai Sudoku

The commuter's favourite just got tougher, with this interlocked X-shaped game.

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Pimp That Snack

On this website people can enter their own "pimped" snacks, and read instructions from other users on how to "pimp-up" anything from an iced bun to a liquorish allsort.

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All you need to deploy your own GIS app.

The tools here will help you take short cuts, generate code, and get information out of the Map.

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Installing Debian GNU/Linux using debootstrap

Most Debian GNU/Linux neophytes find that distribution's default installer a bit difficult and ugly. While developers are working on a new installer for Debian Etch, there is a fully baked command-line alternative today: debootstrap.

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Puppy Linux: The distro with a bite

Puppy Linux is a small Linux live CD distribution that can boot from a CD, DVD, or USB drive; a hard disk is optional. According to the Puppy Linux Web site, Puppy's goals include being Linux newbie-friendly, booting and running quickly, and including all the applications typical users need. The newest version is its most usable yet.

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Tweaking Your Falko Mail Server Setup

In this guide you will learn how to tweak the default Falko mail guide setup to better combat SPAM and allow a little bit of backward compatibilty of the older Qmail systems.

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DIY: DCC Ammeter

This circuit provides an easy way to meter current if your meter only has voltage capability.

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Ford Windstar Monster Van

Mini Vans ain't for sissies.

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Ubuntu's desktop guide

Welcome to the Ubuntu Desktop Guide, a comprehensive guide to using Ubuntu in a desktop environment.

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Build Your Own Cat Tree

Multi-tiered, carpeted cat trees are often priced at between $100 and $200 dollars... but you can make your own five foot tall cat tree for a fraction of the price if you are even the tiniest bit handy with tools.

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Free Books on Electronics

Electronic components, Radio receiver and pic programming to get you up ad running in no time.

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Chinese domain name sells for $160,000

A sale of Chinese Internet domain names netted more than $160,000 on Friday in what organizers said was the biggest such auction yet in the computer-crazy country.

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Six Mobile Innovations That Will Change Your Life

If they don't at least they leave you with a big bill to pay I think.

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Five Firewalls For Your Desktop PC

It's amazing to think there was once a time when the idea of a firewall for one's desktop computer was thought of as overkill, if not downright ridiculous. Now it's practically mandatory -- not just to protect your computer from outside threats, but to keep Trojans and e-mail viruses from hijacking your system from within.

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NMAP-CGI: a Web Port Scanner

Nmap-cgi is a web-portscanner that use nmap to make his scans. It is written in Perl and run on *nix machines. Initially made during the SoC program, this project was developped by the Nmap project

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VulnDetector: XSS Vulnerabilities Scanner

VulnDetector is a project aimed to scan a website and detect various web based security vulnerabilities in the website.

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Computer Salvaging

Some people might say that what follows is proof that Hardware geeks are crazy. People that know me, will say it doesn't prove a thing. I was already crazy. I just think of it as a way to make use of old hardware. And good practice for when you want to do something with the latest and greatest parts, down the road.

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A shopping cart that doesn't run into things!

It looks almost like any other shopping cart, except sensors let it follow the shopper around the supermarket and slow down when needed so items can be placed in it. And it never crashes into anyone's heels.

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Awesome Bike Design

Bike
�s circular frame 2 fold incredibly compact. Riding experience is close 2 normal bike but folds much smaller.

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DIY: Make a Touch screen Slotmachine & Blackjack in your car

You know you have a gambling problem when you make this mod.

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All you'll get from an airline is crappy service nothing more

The prospects of surfing the Internet and receiving e-mail at 35,000 feet took a knock on Thursday as Boeing Co. said it will wind down its service for offering Internet access on board planes. Airline CEOs simply won't give up their golden back scratchers.

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System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND

Understanding how BIND works from A-Z.

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GPS Map Viewer for the PSP.

All the convenience of Google maps on your PSP.

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�Programming PIC Microcontrollers in BASIC� � online, free ebook

Learn how to write your own program, debug it, and use it to start the microcontroller. We have provided plenty of practical examples with necessary connection schemes: temperature sensors, AD and DA converters, LCD and LED displays, relays, communications, and the book is constantly being updated with fresh examples.

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More Image manipulation with PHP & the GD library

In this second part of the "Image manipulation with PHP & the GD library" article series you will learn how to resize images, create thumbnails, watermark images and more.

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Adobe PHP SDK Available

From Mike Potter's blog: Today I'm happy to announce that I've started a new project called the (unofficial) Adobe PHP SDK, which is intended to enable PHP developers to build solutions with Adobe RIA technologies quickly.

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More Image manipulation with PHP & the GD library

In this second part of the "Image manipulation with PHP & the GD library" article series you will learn how to resize images, create thumbnails, watermark images and more.

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Wifi over 500 km? Impossible?

Oftelsat is a small group of radio and computer engineers, working in the south of this planet (Ecuador). Together with the IICD - International Institute for Communication and Development and MCCH They're dedicated to finding connectivity solutions for social and economic development in rural eviroments.

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Block thousands of Ads with HOSTS

In this instructable, I will show you an easy way to block nearly thousands of advertisements, in one simple, easy method.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting With P0f And Ettercap

f you've seen my videos on Nmap you've seen active OS fingerprinting in action. In this tutorial I use P0f and Ettercap to show how to detect the Operating System of a box passively.

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DIY Small but powerful air gun

Junior Portable Pnuematic Projectile Propogator

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Meet the Tater Tot Gun

".. I started building pneumatic handguns. They are built from PVC plumbing, and powered by a bike pump. It has turned out to be more fun than you can beat with a stick."

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These days anything can be weapon: Knex semi-automatic

Shoots yellow rods, max. capacity 20. Colors and rubber band tensions vary. Modify as nessesary.

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Google Webservices with PHP

Have you ever wanted to enrich your site with information from Google, Amazon, eBay, or one of the many other sites that provide web services through SOAP? In this tutorial, I will be demonstrating how to use the SOAP package from PEAR to query Google's extensive database.

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Kick-start takes you to the movies with PHP

Developing a personal movie database application, based on PHP and DB2

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He may not have a home but at least he has WiFi

When Leon Daryl Williams Jr. was homeless a few years ago, it wasn't uncommon to find him digging through trash on the streets of New York City. But he wasn't looking for aluminum cans or leftover take-out food. He was searching for spare computer parts.

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Rocket Altimeter Project

This project is a number of years old but it is a great resource. Full schematics and code are provided so that you too can enjoy building an altimeter for your rocket.

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The Beginners Guide To DS Homebrew

A great guide to start your own gaming studio.

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How to hack linux

The most common linux attacks.

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Linux netfilter Hacking HOWTO

This document describes the netfilter architecture for Linux, how to hack it, and some of the major systems which sit on top of it, such as packet filtering, connection tracking and Network Address Translation.

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Big Mouth Billy Bass Hacking in Linux

This project uses the power of Linux to add brains to the Big Mouth Billy Bass. The goal is to use any Linux device--desktop or embedded--to make the Big Mouth Billy Bass say or act any way you want! That's right, we want to convert Big Mouth Billy to the least expensive peripheral you'll ever buy.

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Linux Quick Hacks

How often do mounts and umounts fail because you can't determine what is using the device? How many times can you not eject a CD because something's got it open?, These and many others tips that will raise your Linux-fu.

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Awesome make-up tricks for this Halloween

This is the first in a series of Hollywood makeup tutorials that will teach you how to make bloody gashes.

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How to install libinstrudeo on Ubuntu

Tutorial on how to install libinstrudeo 0.1.1 on a fresh Ubuntu Dapper Drake install.
It covers the compilation from source and the installation of the required packages to do this.

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Create Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSH

As neither human nor computers are perfect (humans err / computers may fail) it is quite obvious that a good backup system will prevent too much damage once the computer may go down. This could be either because the harddrive is failing, because of hackers, because you accidentally deleted something important, ...

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Agressive Comparative Advertisement

Very clever idea though.

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Crash course on publicity and advertisement

Your next big event or invention will be nothing without the proper publicity, learn the basic keys of the trade here.

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Beware of cheap USB wireless adapters

Ebay cheapskates beware!!!.

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The cheapest theme park of the world

This is one of the saddest theme parks you'll ever visit.

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How To Shoot A Band Live Show

A survival guide to make some kodak moments from a great live performance.

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"mylo" , your next BIG gadget

It's thumb-talking, eye-popping, digital-media playing portable goodness.

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Macro Atachment for pocket digital camera

An easy way to make a macro (and other) attachment for your camera if it has an extending lens barrel.

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Build an ultrasonic burglar alarm

Here's how to build an ultrasonic burglar alarm from "Popular Electronics April 1966" cross the line, the relay opens and an alarm or counter goes off

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Condemning Comic-Con Costumes

Dear comic-con freaks: "... you were disappointing. You made people shake their heads and pretend not to see you. Let's go down the list here."

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US neocons hoped Israel would attack Syria

Israel considered expansion of conflict in Lebanon 'nuts.'

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Linspire Releases Freespire 1.0 Desktop Linux OS

Free Operating System Offers Legally-licensed, Proprietary Software Options to Open Source Linux.

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And this is the way you drive a F1 car

Awesome video from the driver's perspective.

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Learn Java and frag your peers at the same time

CodeInvaders Challenge is a Java
�-based, real-time programming game based on the Eclipse platform. It uses the Eclipse platform and a simple API that allows users unfamiliar with Java to easily compete while they learn the language.

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Basketball: Team USA dominance 'part of the past'

Manu Ginobili rates the United States as one of the favorites to win this year's FIBA World Championship, but the Argentine guard insists the days of Team USA's dominance are "part of the past."

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LEGO Rubber band Sniper Rifle

Give a good use to those spare LEGO blocks you have laying around.

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KToon LiveCD!: Start your own animation studio with Linux

If you want to try KToon quickly and without dealing with library dependencies, then you should try our LiveCD. You just have to download the iso image, burn it, and then boot your machine from cdrom.

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Untwisting Python Network Programming

This article introduces basic client-side networking using both core Python modules and the Twisted framework. For its example, I will show how to send, receive, and delete emails, and conduct Telnet sessions.

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MySQL Federated Tables: The Missing Manual

One of the most exciting features introduced in MySQL 5 is the federated engine. The ability to access data from a remote server without the constraints of replication tickles every programmer's fancy.

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DIY camera shoulder rest

Do you use a camcorder, do you have problems with the shakes, then you need one of these. It bolts to the tripod mounting on the camcorder and turns your camcorder into a shoulder mount.

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Make a Touch-screen Bar-code Scanning system

Do u need a Bar-code scanner for your app?, follow this digg.

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Make anything with PVC

PVC Plans for Hobbyists and Home Business

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Sterling sued by DOJ for housing discrimination

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday sued Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling for housing discrimination, claiming he refused to rent apartments to blacks and families with children.

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New Sonics owner: Key Arena won't cut it

New Seattle SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett toured Safeco Field this week, believing the $517 million baseball stadium should be the model for what an NBA arena in the Puget Sound region can be.

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How to fix exposure problems with digital cameras

Mastering selection tools is key to mastering Photoshop. In this tutorial, I
�ll introduce you to a simple selection tool and show you some extremely useful techniques for selectively fixing problem areas in your photos.

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Make a Wireless LCD in 5 minutes!

"I decided to relocate my graphic LCD to another person's desk but still
have control over it. To do this, I figured I could simply use the
ACODE-300 wireless bluetooth modules."

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Build a Cheap Wide Angle Adapter

Nice accessory for your digital camera.

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DIY Digital Compass

A cool navigation system for a custom robot or your bike.

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Deep Sea Ocean - Microbial Super Jungle

The deep ocean has a surprisingly large number of microorganisms, more than twice expected by previous samplings and modellings. They are terming this discovery the "rare biosphere".

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Windows XP File Sharing Mysteries

Let's delve into this matter a bit by examining what happens under the hood when you use one form of sharing available in XP, namely same computer sharing.

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Women Who Partied With Gibson Come to His Defense

It's not only his Hollywood friends rallying to Mel Gibson's defense. It's also those he drank with on the night that has possibly changed his life forever.

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DIY phone cam mount/tripod for table or car door

Cheap helping hands to hold a camera or a cell phone.

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How to Build Your Own High-Quality Tiki Bar

In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki bar....

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DIY Bubble Bomb

The ultimate weapon in the cube warfare.

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How to count to 9,999 with only four fingers

This truly beats counting in binary.

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Retro iPod

"Hacked this classic radio so that it worked as an iPod boombox.". do the hustle!!!.

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VMware Tool Allows Macs to Run x86 OSes

Virtual machine developer VMware will unveil software on Aug. 7 that will allow Intel-based
Macintosh computers to run x86 operating systems.

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Crop Circles Gain Perspective

Crop circles have started appearing again in the English countryside, but this time in a new permutation: 3D images


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Eskimo land is installing air conditioners!

Who says you can't sell fridges to eskimos.

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33 die in Zimbabwe bus plunge

At least 33 people were killed and dozens injured on Monday when a bus plunged into a river in a rural area in northern Zimbabwe

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The (Almost) Perfect Setup - Debian Sarge On A Strato Dedicated-Server

Based and abuttet to the HowTo - The Perfect Setup Debian Sarge (3.1) - of Falko Timme I wrote this HowTo for STRATO-Server, because Strato has some specifics in it���´s Debian Sarge (3.1) - Image.

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FREE Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks ebook

Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks explains how to use VS.NET efficiently. Organized into short and easy-to-grasp sections, and containing tips and tricks on everything from editing and compiling to debugging and navigating within the VS.NET IDE, this book is a must-read for all .NET developer.

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How A Little Editing Inflated Some Web 2.0 Hype

Last week, we were among those who were fairly shocked at BusinessWeek's dreadful coverage of Digg. Despite what some folks at Digg and in the comments seemed to think, our piece was nothing against Digg at all -- but it was about BusinessWeek's reporting on the topic.

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Build Your Own Batphone

"Not too long ago, I got a bug in my head to put a blinking Batphone on my desk at work, much like the one used in the 1966 television series starring Adam West. I had been thinking about it for years, but now, for some reason, I needed one."

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Make your own South Park like series

This article explains how to make the characters.

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Turn an old CD spindle case into Cylon visor

A fast mod made out every day office objects.

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ASCII Art Made Easy!

This is not your father's campy ascii arts from the 70s.

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The Coolest Ant Farm Ever

The ants won't be stopped by the fact they won't be digging sand. A great gift for this Xmas.

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EPA Bans Pesticide Blamed for Bird Deaths

The Environmental Protection Agency is banning the use of carbofuran, a pesticide that has killed millions of birds and other wildlife.

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Gentoo Linux celebrates third Bugday Anniversary - with a living penguin

Gentoo Linux is celebrating the third anniversary of its Bugday initiative on Saturday, August 5, with a number of contests and prizes.

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SLED 10 Is a Linux Distro Windows Users Can Love

Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is a strong contender to Windows on corporate clients, with a well-thought-out desktop environment and some innovative features.

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Apple selling its soul to the best bidder

Apple Computer, which disgraced itself in a cynical (even for Apple) Pepsi/ RIAA iPod ad campaign featuring teenaged RIAA victims, has struck a deal with Pepsi rival Coca-Cola.

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Wireless mesh routers and DIY ISPs

Roofnet is an experimental 802.11b/g mesh network in development at MIT CSAIL which provides broadband Internet access to users in Cambridge. There are currently around 20 active nodes on the network, which you can see using our real-time connectivity map.

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DIY - Build a Glider from a Fastfood Container

"I wrote this nifty tutorial on how to make a simple glider out of a common fast food breakfast container".

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Creative use of treadmills for a music video

As stupid as this clip looked to me at first its very entertaining. Its a bunch of guys singing while running on treadmills and its actually pretty funny to watch.

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AJAX Hello World!

This tutorial will teach you how to create a hello world web page using AJAX technologies. Odds are if you found this tutorial, then you have created a "Hello World!" program before.

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Awesome Photo-deblurring

Got a blurred picture?, this new algorithm sure will take care of it.

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Iowa woman gets stuck on toilet seat

That will teach the lady not to sit on public toilets.

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Make Self contained Wardriving machine

The all in one box you can throw in the trunk or conceal anywhere else to not raise suspicion.

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Power, water and refrigeration from one source

Now, in a project funded by the U.S. Army, two University of Florida engineers have designed, built and successfully tested a combined power-refrigeration system that can provide all three � and, with further development, be made compact enough to fit inside a military jet or large truck.

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Help Silicon Valley Pioneers get back home

An artistic and geeky project that will take effigies of beloved fathers of tech back home. Lots of details and "live" google maps tracking.

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Great collection of circuits for the mad electronics scientist

Nice modules you can use for that big idea you are building.

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Human Powered Car

With the gas prices and the peak oil this will be the comon thing. Time to make those families grow!!!!.

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Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control

This document hopes to enlighten you on how to do more with Linux 2.2/2.4 routing. Unbeknownst to most users, you already run tools which allow you to do spectacular things. Commands like route and ifconfig are actually very thin wrappers for the very powerful iproute2 infrastructure.

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Fuel for your brain

Call it yellow ginger, haldi, turmeric or E100, the yellow root of Curcuma longa, a staple ingredient in curry, is turning out to be gratifyingly healthy.

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Once again Russia beats America

Even in mocking the soon landing of mankind on mars.

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Advertisers, eBay to test ad sales idea

Several major advertisers are teaming up with online auctioneer eBay Inc. to test an idea for selling television advertising in an electronic marketplace, the group announced Friday.

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Researcher Discloses Serious Xerox Printer Flaw

Xerox is scrambling to update a security patch following the disclosure of a major security flaw in its WorkCenter multifunction printers.

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AOL likely to tap video, IM to seek edge

Giving high-speed Internet users its services for free may help AOL stop an erosion of customers, but analysts say that alone won't be enough to draw new visitors and break into the Web's top three.

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So how do you code an AJAX Web page?

See hands-on examples for creating lighter, faster interactive sites

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Learning to Barefoot Waterski

Last call to have fun this summer!!!!.

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Vinegar/Baking Soda Grenade

I knew that vinegar and baking soda made an explosive reaction, so i made this. You throw it and it goes boom in the air!

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DIY 8x8 Animated LED Signboard

Make the ultimate geeky badge with this easy to make project.

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The Xbox 360 is a piece of ....

If you don't belive me check by yourself with the microsoft search site.

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The Top 20 Plugins for Musicians and Songwriters

Pro Tools guru Gina Fant-Saez has mastered dozens of audio plugins while running her world-class recording studio. Here she reveals her favorite virtual instruments and effects, then recommends what to get if you can only afford a few.

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Building a Desktop Firewall

Everyone knows that you should be behind a firewall whenever you go online. However, not everyone knows that it's easy to create a personal firewall for a FreeBSD (or PC-BSD or DesktopBSD) system. This article shows how even a casual home user can get a firewall up and running in about ten minutes.

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Cracking MD5 Password Hashes

A little about cracking MD5 password hashes. In this tutorial we take the hashes from a phpbb2 database and crack them using online tools and Cain.

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Setting Firefox's User Agent To Googlebot

Access sites that allow indexing by Google but require you to subscribe to view the content.

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Hacking RSS and ATOM feeds for fun or profit

This white paper outlines some of the risks associated with Feed Injection of Atom and RSS feeds, including Cross-Site Scripting, Cross-Site Request Forgery, and keystroke logging. PDF AHEAD.

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Metasploit Framework v3.0 Beta 1 is OUT!!

We are happy to announce that the first beta release of the 3.0 tree is now ready for download. This release contains numerous bug fixes and improvements to the previous alpha release. 3.0 Beta 1 is fully compatible with Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows using our custom Cygwin installer.

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PHP: Creating images using GD

PHP is not limited to creating just HTML output. It can also be used to create and manipulate image files in a variety of different image formats, including gif, png, jpg, wbmp, and xpm. Even more convenient, PHP can output image streams directly to a browser.

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Build dynamic Java applications

In this series, I'll give you all the tools you need to begin developing your own applications using Ajax. In this first article, I'll explain the concepts behind Ajax and demonstrate the fundamental steps to creating an Ajax interface for a Java-based Web application.

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Programming Languages Trends Based on Book Sales

Seems C# is the path to take if indicators are correct.

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Linux threading models compared: LinuxThreads and NPTL

This article describes some of the differences between these two Linux threading models for developers who may need to port their applications from LinuxThreads to NPTL or who simply want to understand where the differences lie.

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Five common PHP database problems

Discover five common database problems that occur in PHP applications -- including database schema design, database access, and the business logic code that uses the database -- as well as their solutions.

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The Homemade Spy Sub

Hoping to explore the lakes and rivers near their Milwaukee home, they
�ve built their own underwater remote-operated vehicle, or ROV. Controlled and powered by a laptop, their ROV can swim more than a quarter of a mile, to depths of 250 feet, while a home-surveillance camera sealed inside sends a live feed to the pilots onshore.

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DIY Soda Bottle Fish Trap

This instructable I'll show you how to make a minnow/small fish trap with two soda bottles, some zip ties(can be replaced with wire or string). It only takes about 10 minutes.

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DIY G.I. Joe ICBM

A small simple rocket made of aluminium foil, a match, and 2 needles all in about 45 seconds if you are fast.

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DIY How To Make A Cheap USB Powered Fan

How to make a cheap fan from parts bought at the dollar store. This fan can be made for about $2 (plus tax), unless you can buy a double ended USB wire, then you can make 2 USB fans for $3 (plus tax). That definately beats the $15 or $20 stores tend to charge for these types of devices.

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DIY Diving Depth Gauge

Make a simple depth gauge for freediving out of a syringe. This is also an experiment with Boyle's law which states that the product of the pressure and the volume of an ideal gas is constant.

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Make a digital logic analyzer for less than $1

A logic level sensor is a device that senses if the output of a component is 1 or 0 (positive or negative). You know those nice level sensors with the LCD screens that cost around $25 ? This one is laughably cheaper and and does the same thing.

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Mortal Kombaaaaat!!!!!

Funny and entertaining amateur video with the unique theme of Mortal Kombat.

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Linux Video Editing

"These pages contain my accumulated knowledge about getting video editing working under Linux. Hopefully it will be of use to anyone who is having trouble getting started. Failing that at least it will be useful to me when I forget how to do things!"

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Ubuntu: Put your laptop to sleep

The Ubuntu development team has devoted an immense amount of effort toward getting ACPI power management working properly. As it stands, Ubuntu is power-management-friendly right out of the box, thanks to the recent addition of the gnome-power-manager package.

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Creating ebooks with open source tools

if your favourite book is available in an electronic format, you can easily turn it into an ebook and read it on your Pocket PC or Palm OS device.

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Drag and Drop Ajax Programming With Atlas

Think you need to write scripts and use JavaScript if you want to write Atlas apps? Think again. Jesse Liberty shows you an easier, more effective, and more productive way--using drag-and-drop programming.

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