Don’t Like Palin’s Wikipedia Story? Change It

IN the 24 hours before the McCain campaign put the finishing touches on its surprise announcement Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska would be the Republican vice presidential candidate, one Wikipedia user was putting the finishing touches on her biography on the site.

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History’s top 10 computer viruses

Time for a walk down memory lane, with the top 10 computer viruses ever

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Top 10 tips to beat back-to-work blues

The first weeks back at work after a summer break can be the most stressful of the year. But by rediscovering what is truly important in your life, you can have that contented holiday feeling all year round

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Virtual worlds becoming money laundries

According to a recent report by McAfee, cyber criminals are increasingly turning to the currencies in virtual worlds as a way to legitimise money earned from fraud, malware and other illegal activities.

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Hacker snitch being plowed by bad karma

A reputed computer hacker in Boston who the FBI used as an informant is guilty of obstruction of justice, authorities now allege.

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'Watchmen' suit to be an all out melee?

New filings in the 'Watchmen' case on Friday look to bring legal squabbling among up to four studios, enough to rival the rights battle of 'Spider-Man' before that franchise got launched.

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Robot Uses Master/Slave Remote Control Suit

Check out video footage of the harness in action below, plus our exclusive interview, where Maru discusses the what it takes to win a robotic deathmatch.

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A Peek inside Facebook

Started in a dorm room four years ago, the social networking site Facebook now claims to be the fourth most-trafficked site in the world. Ninety million active users pound on 10,000 servers every day, uploading millions and millions of pieces of information in a given month. For example, "friends," who socialize in 21 languages, add 500 million pho

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When the pen is mightier than the high tech gadget

It is hard to make sense of that when, for exactly the same money, you can have a silver and gold pen that will give you low-tech pleasure for the rest of your life.

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When the pen is mightier than the high tech gadget

It is hard to make sense of that when, for exactly the same money, you can have a silver and gold pen that will give you low-tech pleasure for the rest of your life.

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Commodore 64 The Best Thing That Happened To The Industry

This is the old school Commercial for the Commodore 64.

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How to find free (or at least cheap) books

A new school year brings with it new opportunities, new friends, and new experiences. Unfortunately, it also brings the need for new textbooks, which can lead to a new dent in your wallet. To soften the blow, here are a few places to check out first before forking over the dough at the bookstore.

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New Orleans a 'ghost town' after thousands flee Gustav:

New Orleans has become a "ghost town" with only 10,000 residents left after thousands fled to avoid the wrath of Hurricane Gustav, Mayor Ray Nagin said Sunday.

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The Mars Rover Is a Goner

Thanks to the Foxtrot clan.

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The Mars Rover Is a Goner

Thanks to the Foxtrot clan.

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Video SLR Camera Coming From Nikon

This could be a big breakthrough for backpack journalists who tell me one their biggest challenges is trying to get the story and fumble with a still camera, then a video camera.

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wii pc casemod, or as i like to call it: nintendowindo xp on

While most people like their Nintendo Wii just the way it is, this casemodder just couldn’t leave well enough alone, and insisted on gutting his Wii and replacing its innards with a PC.

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The Dark Google Myth

If Google had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of page views it receives, an estimated 750 mega watts/hour per year (sic) would be saved.

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Old consoles never die

The reason I still own a PS2 (apart from Sony’s stupid decision to stop supporting backwards compatibility) is for the joys I still get from playing Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, and X on it. Then there is my loyal Dreamcast, which still sits next to my TV ready for the next time I need a Shenmue fix.

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Old consoles never die

The reason I still own a PS2 (apart from Sony’s stupid decision to stop supporting backwards compatibility) is for the joys I still get from playing Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, and X on it. Then there is my loyal Dreamcast, which still sits next to my TV ready for the next time I need a Shenmue fix.

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Photo Tampering Throughout History

Photography lost its innocence many years ago. In as early as the 1860s, photographs were already being manipulated, only a few decades after Niepce created the first photograph in 1814.

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If Software Were Coffee

Is not about Starbucks thanks God.

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A New Breed Of Hackers Tracks Online Acts of War

They are among a growing number of investigators who monitor how traffic is routed through countries, where Web sites are blocked and why it's all happening. Now they are turning their scrutiny to a new weapon of international warfare: cyber attacks.

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Work With Linux Partitions From Windows

Do you dual-boot Windows and Linux? If you do, then you’re probably familiar with the different file systems that the two operating systems use and the difficulty in transferring files between the two.

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How to build a steel shotgun pneumatic cannon

The Steel Pneumatic shotgun is a very simple metal spud cannon, so see how to make it in this video. It is specially designed for C-cell batteries, but will work with any projectile (granted it makes a good seal in the barrel). It is also very easy to construct and disassemble considering it is put together completely by treaded fittings.

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Extreme Macro Photography on a budget

So, you like the idea of doing macro photography, but you think you can’t afford it? Think again - with less than £1 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears (and blood, if you, like me, are a bit on the clumsy side), and you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens. Don’t believe me?

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A Movie You Should NOT miss: MACHINE GIRL

The Yakuza cut her arm clean. Destiny gave her a machine gun. Do I need to say more? P.S. This movie has Ninjas!!!!

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Why is IT full of anti-social geeks and socially skilled AH

Most of the techs I've worked with were anti-social geeks. Most of the managers are not the sharpest tools in the drawer but have "excellent" social skills.

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Concurrency with Python, Twisted, and Flex

The speed of development in Python is deeply satisfying; in just a few days it's possible to get something working that would require weeks or months in other languages. This is also true when building user interfaces in Flex -- one can rapidly build the UI using Flex Builder and quickly wire it into your Python application using Twisted.

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Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget

In the Seattle area, where rapid suburban growth has attracted a thriving crow population, researchers have found that the birds can recognize individual human faces

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Studio film shoots in Los Angeles grind almost to a halt

Filming of big-budget movies has ground to a virtual halt across the city and much of the county, a slowdown partly driven by scheduling decisions studios made a year ago to prepare for a possible actors strike.

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Jason Calacanis has quit

After five years of writing on tech industry topics as well as personal ones and building an audience of 10,000 to 20,000 daily visitors, Calacanis said he got tired of all the nasty commenters and opportunistic "link-baiters," people who post just to promote their own blogs.

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Are you better off?

The statistics are grim: Inflation is at a 17-year high. Unemployment is rising. Foreclosures are spreading.

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Conditional Control: IF Statements in Oracle PL/SQL

PL/SQL has three types of conditional control: IF, ELSIF, and CASE statements. This chapter explores the first two types and shows you how they can be nested inside one another.

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Hello Triangle: An OpenGL ES 2.0 Example

In order to understand the basic concepts of OpenGL ES 2.0, learn what is required to create an OpenGL ES 2.0 program that draws a single triangle.

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PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python, and Tcl Today

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed.

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Microsoft pursuit of Google with $486m Ciao buyout

One of Europe's most popular price comparison websites, Ciao, has been snapped up by Microsoft as the Seattle-based software empire seeks to challenge the online dominance of Google.

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How to effectively install and configure a drupal website -

Drupal provides a powerful core that can handle even the largest community and content-based sites while being easily extendable to produce a website that can do just about anything.

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An experiment that fits inside of a ping pong ball

These ping pong ball ‘satellites’ are flown to the edge of space by balloon or launched in sounding rockets. The PongSats are then returned to the student.

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How to use Google Code's code review tool

Project hosting on Google Code offers a code review feature that is integrated into source code browsing. It currently supports reviewing code after that code has been committed to the repository. Reviewing committed code naturally leads to discussions about further commits for further improvements.

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Earth Observatory Feature: Cities at Night

what about humanity’s signature footprint—cities? By day, cities viewed from space can blend into the countryside, or appear as gray smudges, depending on the style of development and size of the urban area.

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The Revolution of the Busheviks

Pay no attention and they'll win next elections again.

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5 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting an iPhone

Speaking for myself, I’ve taken a long, hard look at iPhone ownership, and decided against it. Here’s why.

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Simple and Secure Computer Access While Traveling

You may even want to do this for any personal computer in a corporate environment. Lay offs could be around the corner, and you’ll be secure in the knowledge that your work PC won’t have any personal traces left behind after you’ve left the company because there was nothing personal on it in the first place.

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Dealing With Denial of Service Attacks

As Scott wrote last week, using a punny title I have to admire, he and I (among many others) were both the subject of a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. Looking through my logs, it looks to actually be a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack coming from multiple IP addresses.

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Performance Optimizations for High Speed JavaScript

These general-purpose JavaScript optimization techniques are designed for JavaScript on all browsers. You will be amazed at the incredible improvements in JavaScript execution speed.

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Hannah Montana Concert Sexy Candies

They always find a way to send subliminal messages to kids.

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Only one of them is fully insured

Affordable health insurance sure can make a difference.

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GWT: Java 5 Support, Performance Improvements and Javascript

Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a Java-centric compiler which creates JavaScript-based web applications, released version 1.5 today. InfoQ spoke with tech lead Bruce Johnson to learn more about this release and what new capabilities it adds to GWT.

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Aptana adds Python to Web 2.0 nest

Company already has backed AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and PHP, and its Pydev buy will add Python to the mix

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Webcam hacker gets four years in prison

Because spying on teenage girls is bad

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F**K FOX: Angry fans join in the battle over 'Watchmen'

Fox and Warner Bros. are squabbling over the rights to Watchmen. But a third, unlikely party has emerged in the battle: fans.

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Aptana Mixes AJAX, Python with Pydev IDE Buy

Aptana, maker of Web development and cloud computing tools, has acquired the Pydev IDE for Python development. The Eclipse-based Pydev tools suite supports Google App Engine development.

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This Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

We're not quite sure what he meant by that, but he was probably thinking of something very similar to the marvellous 13-in-1 Multi Pen Tool at the time. Probably.

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Program Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts

We'll show you how to save time, keystrokes, and mouseclicks by making your own customized shortcuts.

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The 20 Best Political Web Sites

Before casting your vote this November, educate yourself with this collection of sites that offer candidate analyses, current national polls, party ads, speeches, and more.

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Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)

Not the First Time Viruses or 'Worms' Have Made It Onboard the Space Station

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The Fifth Element Futurama Style

Your favorite characters ready for a great adventure.

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Awesome F-22 Photo Greatness

A great pic of this marvelous piece of engineering.

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Nintendo To Frustrated ‘Wii Fit’ Seekers

'Wii Fit'The challenge of finding a Wii console, even more than 18 months since the system’s launch has been well-chronicled. But who yet weeps for the consumer struggling to find a copy of “Wii Fit“?

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Hot dogs spark patriotism row in US

An advertising campaign linking hot dogs with colonic cancer in children has prompted a heated debate about an American cultural icon.

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Monopoly players gather to attempt world record

Monopoly fans have gathered to try to set a record for the most people playing the game at any one time.

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Build Ajax applications using the first real Ajax server

Learn to build Jaxer applications with HTML/DOM/JavaScript support on both the client and server side

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10 things you should know about networking two buildings

Connecting the networking components of two buildings can be a pretty daunting task. Here’s a little practical advice to help make the process go more smoothly.

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Tachometer made from a bicycle speedometer (cyclocomputer)

Sometimes you just have to know how fast a wheel or shaft or motor is turning. The measuring device for rotational speed is a tachometer. But they are expensive and not easy to find. Its cheap and easy to make one using a bicycle speedometer (cyclocomputer).

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10 Ways for an Entrepreneur to Save $12,000

These ideas will each allow a very small business owner to save big-time $$$’s over the next 6 months. Depending on how many you choose to implement, you can easily save $12,000!

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Using Caffeine to Make More Money

Caffeine can be an A+ tool in the entrepreneur’s toolbox. Used at the right times for the right reasons, it can make you smarter, faster, and richer. However, used at the wrong times and for the wrong reasons, caffeine is likely to make you bankrupt, confused, and probably a little dehydrated

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The building within a building.

Clever visual effect.

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PHP: Getting started with CodeIgniter

Create MVC applications quickly and easily

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Create time-availability maps with Perl & Google Earth

Visualize when your team members, customers, or systems are available by extracting message data and displaying it in Google Earth

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Wii 2 could be out soon

Games industry analyst Colin Sebastian believes new Sony and Microsoft consoles will be out by 2011 or 2012, but adds Nintendo could launch an upgraded Wii much sooner.

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Adobe’s Newest Offering Links to Software and Web Sharing

Adobe Systems has announced new desktop versions of its consumer photo- and video-editing software, with new features that remove distracting elements in photos and automate video editing. But the most interesting feature is that the programs will link to new online services and mobile phones.

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Introducing the .NET Platform

By learning about the .NET environment, you can gain an understanding of what .NET is and what it means to you. This chapter covers the platform issues most essential to building C# applications.

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Visual Security Analysis

Raffael Marty shows different ways of analyzing security data using visual approaches.

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Hacking 101: How to Break Into Computers

Within the boundaries of good ethics, About.com will show you resources on how computer security does have holes, and how it is possible to exploit those holes. Now, let's hope you use this knowledge for good...

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Four Warning Signs You May Already Be A Yahoo!

Ater participating in almost two years' worth of interviews I've seen some amazingly talented people walked out the door, because they didn't measure up in areas they don't teach in the Computer Science department. If you land a job at Yahoo!, it looks to me like they're convinced of your strength in some or all of the following areas

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The Five Exercises You Must Do

What's the number one reason you don't exercise? If you said lack of time, I hear ya. Everyone is busy and we all want ways to squeeze our workouts into an already full day. Well, you'll have to look for a new reason to skip your workouts because I've found the answer. I surveyed personal trainers all over the U.S. and asked them: "If you only had

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David Flanagan on JavaScript 2

In this interview with O'Reilly (conducted shortly before the JavaScript Harmony announcement, David discusses how the conception of JavaScript has evolved from little hacks and distractions to a fundamental piece of modern web applications, how the design of the language might have changed with the advent of EcmaScript 4 and EcmaScript 3.1.

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Chucky Not Dead Yet at Devil's Due

Belanger tells us he'll be working on a new Chucky comic book mini-series for Devil's Due

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Grid design basics: Grids for Web page layouts

This article will provide the lowdown on grid design for Web pages.

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Pitfalls in Random Number Generation.

Random number generation is subtle. Random number generators contain deterministic algorithms designed to produce output that simulates non-deterministic behavior. It's amazing that there exist algorithms that do this well enough for many applications. But unless used carefully, random number generators can misbehave in mysterious ways.

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Advanced Web Performance Optimization

On the client side, we'll investigate procedures that you can use to improve the speed of content delivery. Although these techniques take some additional effort, they boost both perceived and actual web page speed.

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Castro blames Olympics 'mafia' for stealing Cuban medals

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro on Monday blamed a "mafia" that he said managed to fool the International Olympic Committee and "shamelessly stole" medals Cuba should have won in Beijing.

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Python kills 'careless' zookeeper

A PYTHON has killed a student zookeper at the weekend and was caught trying to swallow the man's body when horrified coworkers arrived, Venezuela's El Universal newspaper reports.

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Cakephp tutorial for Ubuntu Firebird and Nginx

Welcome to Cake! You're probably checking out this tutorial because you want to learn more about how Cake works. It's our aim to increase productivity and make coding more enjoyable: we hope you'll see this as you dive into the code.

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Quick and Dirty AJAX Tutorial

. In this tutorial, I will show you how to utilize AJAX to automatically poll your MySQL database for updates without your visitors needing to click anything.

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Goodbye Twitter, Hello Identi.ca

If you follow me at Twitter you may have noticed, that I barely tweet anymore. This is not because I no longer interested in micro-blogging but because I found a different platform to do so. This platform is Identi.ca.

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Make Some liquid nitrogen

DANGEROUS DEMO! Can't get liquid nitrogen? Then make some yourself. Note that this demonstration involves several major safety hazards, and should only be performed by skilled professionals.

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Mitsubishi to Launch New Wireless HDTV

AMIMON Inc., an emerging leader in semiconductor technology for wireless high-definition (HD) video, has been selected by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation to offer a High-Definition LCD TV for the Japanese market with an integrated HD wireless link.

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Yet another loaded guy

These kind of specimens are easy to spot.

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Unspoken communication Girls vs Boys

You know is true so don't complain.

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Knowing the local language will save you money

Being a snob will send you to the poor house.

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The World According To Bush

Not everybody that throws crap at you is your enemy.

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Wii Balance Board Roomba hack cleans up

We've seen a variety of Wii Balance Board hacks over the last few months, but this one has to be the most bizarre yet. One Japanese gentleman has used the Bluetooth capabilities of the Wii Balance Board with this Roomba (a normally-robotic vacuum cleaner) to help perform his household chores.

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Hack away at the Olympics ... and much more

U.S. athletes, journalists, public officials and tourists attending the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing are at risk of Chinese hackers -- most likely with Chinese government approval -- infiltrating their laptops, BlackBerrys and other electronic devices, security experts are warning.

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ESA's latest satellite looks like a Star Wars Ship

The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth’s gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet – the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and accuracy.

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Tech Pros: The Next Dinosaurs?

Information technology pros will go extinct if they don’t start thinking about their jobs differently.

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It sucks taking notes in college

The best part is the pop quiz the next day.

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Eeek a Bat!!!!

It's always the fear to phalic shaped stuff huh?

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NASA warns about debris from destroyed rocket

NASA believes most of the wreckage fell into the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast.

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10 Polar Bears Are Seen Swimming in Open Water

Ten polar bears, an unusually large number, were seen swimming in open water off the northern coast of Alaska recently, some heading for shore and some heading toward the retreating ice in the Chukchi Sea, two federal officials confirmed Friday.

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Jackpot! A Fool-Proof Lotto Formula?

A woman and her accountant husband who claims he's developed a formula for lottery picks have each claimed $350,000 jackpots -- twice.

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Cuban Attacking Ref Video Available Worldwide

One of the few places where the BS of copyright and territory is not an issue.

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3d3 flexscan scans 3d images on the cheap

Looking for an inexpensive way to turn real world objects into usable 3D digital models? This relatively low-cost solution takes an unusual approach to digitizing models into your computer.

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Beat it ala the pedal pusher society

The pedal pusher society, milwaukee's very own all girls and trannies bike gang, is back with another video adventure. Michael Jackson never sounded so good!

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Fewer Olympics Dopers Raises Suspicion

Cheating Olympic Athletes and Use of Steroids and Performance Enhancing Drugs Remain Hard to Detect

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Turn Your iPhone Into a Tool

Five ways to put that iPhone to some serious work

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A Rapid AVR Prototype Programmer

If you've ever bent the pin on a microcontroller while trying to insert it into a DIP programming socket, you're not alone. Aligning those crazy pins again and again, while intermittently prying them out of the programming socket and then inserting your freshly burned chip into a target circuit, can lead to a long and sleepless night.

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Wii to be only profitable console?

The games industry is going through a great period at the moment, with sales up and optimism widespread. But in hardware terms at least it seems that the Wii is going to be the only profitable console this generation. The PS3 and Xbox 360 are actually costing Sony and Microsoft heavy losses to even get them on to store shelves.

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Wii Sensor Bar made from an Old TV Remote Control

Stacy sent in a cool mod that was done to an ordinary TV remote control that converts it into a Wii sensor bar. Great way to camouflage a sensor bar!

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New FBI guidelines could lead to abuse

The new Guidelines would reportedly weaken the standards in existing Guidelines for use of some intrusive investigative techniques.

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Why a social Digg is a waste of time

I joined Digg about three years ago. Before that, I used it only for it's intended purpose: a way to find good Web links. I figured someone was generating those links, but I didn't want to know who they were.

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Microsoft’s Photosynth stitches pictures into 3D collages

Last night, Microsoft agreed to share one of its favorite web toys. Photosynth, a dazzling application that’s been kicking around Microsoft’s back shop for more than a year, released a public beta version on Wednesday.

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Python for Mobile Devices

This is a site dedicated to the coverage of Python software for mobile devices, including applications, developer tools, and news.

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Olympic N'yuk- n'yuk-n'yuk

The grand daughter of the funniest stooge.

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Hey Mom! I'm wearing his balls as a hat

Getting to the Olympics to look like this.

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Try to explain this picture

If you can, you were there.

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She used to be a virgin

Sometimes sports push it too much.

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Create BlackBerry applications with open source tools

Follow along as this tutorial lays the groundwork for an open source data-collection application, upon which an accessible and easy-to-use data-collection service is built.

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Create BlackBerry applications with open source tools

Follow along as this tutorial lays the groundwork for an open source data-collection application, upon which an accessible and easy-to-use data-collection service is built.

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A Career Changer's Checklist - 12 Common-Sense Question

In this fifth question in his Career Changer’s Checklist series, Warren Wyrostek asks you to determine what you know how to do (and how you and others perceive what you know how to do) as you move toward changing careers.

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What Is Clean Code?

Robert C. Martin introduces his book, Clean Code, and polls experienced programmers -- including Bjarne Stroustrup, Grady Booch, Dave Thomas, and Ward Cunningham -- on what their definition of "Clean Code" is.

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Wild monkey causes havoc at Tokyo train station

Commuters on Tokyo's subway had their journey to work delayed on Wednesday when they were joined by a wild monkey.

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Russia blocks Georgia's main port city

Russian forces dug trenches and built fortifications in key areas of Georgia Thursday, but also rolled columns of tanks north toward home, picking and choosing how their nation would comply with the terms of a peace accord.

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Was JavaScript a mistake?

Growing less convinced that IT is approaching Web-based applications the right way, Neil McAllister questions the very concept of an all-purpose programming language that's designed by committee.

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Bikini-clad Java Girls fends off flasher with hot water

Yet another Washington incident has put the state's "sexpresso" stands in the headlines.

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Where else would a George W. Bush tattoo go?

Protest gone right or wrong?

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Nude self-portrait banned due to "hard-nipples" NSFW

A celebrated artist's nude self-portrait has been banned from an art competition because organisers deemed it to be too saucy.

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Where else would a George W. Bush tattoo go?

Protest gone right or wrong?

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Picturing our thoughts, literally!!!

While fMRI might not be a window into the soul, or even a particularly accurate reader of minds, it remains a useful technology when properly used. Some scientists, such as Logothetis, believe that brain scanners are best used in conjunction with other experimental tools, such as those that measure brain waves or the electrical activity of individu

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The only porn that won't get you in troubles

You can watch it anywhere/anytime with no consequences at all.

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Recycling at a Swedish McDonalds

This McDonalds places the recycling task into the hands of the trained Swedish recycler. When you're done eating you sort your garbage into the appropriate slots. When I first tried it, it took 48 minutes for me to figure it out. But watching the locals do it and you see it is really second nature. Slots for cans, bottles, straws and lids, foot lef

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First Sonic Unleashed Wii screens spied

Many of the images show off the ‘Unleashed’ part of the platformer’s title - the parts of the game where Sonic’s beastly alter ego takes over for a bit of moonlight enemy smashing.

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Visa to test real-time fraud alerts

are the free loading days over?

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Developing for the Nokia N810

The Nokia N810 alarm interface allows developers to efficiently and easily set alarms programmatically. Peter Seebach illustrates how a small command-line program can hook into this API and make good use of it.

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This kiddie ride is so wrong.

Sorry cutie pie no quarter for you.

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Olympic Pin Up

So you are boycotting the Olympics huh?

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PHP-Nuke--What Makes It a Powerful Instrument?

So far managing an interactive, content rich online community is concerned, you will need the help of such cutting edge furniture cleaners as PHP-Nuke and we make use of just that to support a dynamic content driven site. In fact we can not do without it to provide you the best services! Why? Let’s explain.

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Stupid Politician Tricks

he formula is always the same -- create a hated straw man, attack it, then promise to right the mythical wrong. The theme is always "rich vs. poor," "corporations vs. the people," "them vs. us," "tax havens mean tax evasion" and so forth, ad nauseam.

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Pa. student hoped to breed sex slave society

A Pennsylvania medical student told a classmate he was trying to recruit a New Zealand woman and her 4-year-old daughter to start a society of sex slaves that would live on a farm or island, the FBI said.

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Developing software on an open source stack

Open source provides everything a programmer needs to invent the next big thing

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Yahoo Opens Digg Rival to All Publishers

Yahoo has expanded its "Buzz Up" content recommendation service to include many more publishers, stepping up its challenge against Digg.

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Is this the central office of copyrights infrengement?

Nope the limewire office is next door.

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Ultimate Church Marquee Debate

But at the end all dogs got to heaven but you.

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That hot chick you play against online

So you never wondered why shy plays video games.

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PHP Doctrine introduction for dummies

It was long overdue but finally I’ve taken a look at Doctrine. And I’m blown away, bye bye Zend DB.

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Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?

IT’S been more than eight years since “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show’s approach to its coverage then and now provides a tongue-in-cheek measure of the show’s striking evolution.

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Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?

Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention (pdf) when he noted that "over time, Wall Street 'firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf their activities on behalf of outside customers.'"

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Cheerleading's Risky Lack of Rules

Cheerleading is by far the most perilous sport for female athletes in high school and college, accounting for as much as two-thirds of severe school-sports injuries over the past 25 years, according to a new report. Yet cheerleading remains one of the least-regulated sports, despite more than 95,000 high school girls and 2,000 boys signing up for s

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GraphOn sues Google

WEB DEVELOPMENT FIRM GraphOn has sued Google for patent infringement in a Texas District Court.

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Project Hovercraft

The goal of this project was to build a working remote controlled hovercraft while spending as little money as possible. I was successful, as the hovercraft works (mostly) and the only money I spent was on the batteries and propellers.

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Firefox to surpass IE? Yes, but only among the geeks

Webmonkey flatters to deceive with numbers that suggest that Mozilla's Firefox could exceed Internet Explorer's market share by the middle of 2009.

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Remember the golden rule

and you should do ok in life.

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DIY Jenga Costume

I decided to dress up like Jenga, the toppling block game. Like many people my age, Jenga is more than a game, it is a scientific instrument, used in group experiments to test the effects of alcohol on balance, response-time and motor skills. If they pick the wrong piece JENGA!!!!

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Tropic Thunder bumps Batman off box office perch

Big-screen Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. scored his second No. 1 movie of the summer on Sunday as Hollywood spoof "Tropic Thunder" ended the month-long reign of "The Dark Knight" atop the North American box office.

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Police release 'Batman' protester

A campaigner who spent hours on an M25 gantry dressed as Batman - causing lengthy traffic queues - has been released on bail, police said.

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Who's your Mamma Bitch!!! NSFW

Anything goes at the Olympics.

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Russians are a force to reckon with

For those who missed the big picture in the Russian-Georgia conflict.

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The infinite flamingo

That's hell of a perfect loop.

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Michael Phelps when he was in High School

His real power is finally revealed.

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Your Disney Vacation Takes Workers Benefits Away

The 32 protesters who were arrested sat in a circle at a busy junction outside the park holding hands until they were cuffed and led away while hundreds of other workers cheered and chanted.

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Disney says no to ‘Musical’ panties

The underwear, made for ‘tween girls, invited the the reader to ”Dive In” and was, according to company officials, themed for a swimming pool scene from the Disney Channel hit movie,”High School Musical 2.”

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Barbie undergoes artsy makeover in San Francisco

Welcome to San Francisco's annual "Altered Barbie" exhibition, where the iconic doll of American pop culture is cut up, glued down, juxtaposed with all sorts of objects and transformed in a new mode of self-expression.

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Play the Wii on an airplane before it gets banned.

Fancy waggling in the car, on an aeroplane or playing Wii Sports on the beach. Now you can with a swanky 7-inch screen

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Entrance to Maya underworld found

Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.

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Lower income Tennessee residents to get free cell phones

The maker of a popular pre-paid cell phone today announced a program that will give low income Tennessee residents free cell phones and mobile service on a year-to-year basis.

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Job Interview Questions from Microsoft and Google

Ever thought of interviewing at Google or Microsoft? Who hasn't, right? Via Techmeme comes some quirky questions that these companies have been known to ask potential candidates:

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16 interesting numbers of cycling track at Beijing Olympics

Following is a list of 16 interesting numbers of the upcoming cycling track competition at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Friday.

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The Weird and Funny Side of the Olympics

In a city nowhere near the beach, inside the largest beach volleyball stadium ever constructed, there sits a small Chinese woman with a very large net. Her job during these Olympic Games consists of wielding that net to snare the moths on steroids that flock to the courts when day turns to dusk.

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Wrestling bronze Winner Swedish Abrahamian Sent Home

The IOC commission said Abrahamian has been disqualified from the event of the men's Greco-Roman 84kg wrestling. At least he didn't take any crap from questionable "authority" like a good Swedish.

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Top 10 places to nude up

For travelers who really want to strip off in the sun, travel website TripAdvisor has come up with a list of the top 10 resorts where clothing is optional.

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Hot girl on girl photo at the Olympics

See what you are missing for not watching gymnastics.

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Top 10 Most Expensive Hotel Suites

* Couple in Hotel Lobby If you thought booking the honeymoon suite at your dream hotel just had to be the most expensive hotel suite ever, we've got news for you -- it wasn't, unless you dropped almost $30,000(for one night, that is).

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Tie Fighter Webcam: Darth Vader has his eye on you on

Star Wars fans rejoice! Now you can let Darth Vader keep watch on your every move as he pilots this pint-sized TIE Fighter Advanced X1 webcam onto desk.

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Living Costs Rising Fast, and Wages Are Trailing

The cost of living, led by the soaring cost of gasoline and food, is rising at the fastest rate since the recession of the early 1990s, the government said on Thursday, handing a de facto pay cut to the American worker.

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The Truth About Email Marketing: It Is Not Easier

Sending unsolicited emails to people who don’t want to receive them might get you a random conversion here and there, but it will land you in hot water with the Internet service providers (ISP)s, ruin long-term brand-loyal relationships, and damage your reputation.

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The quest for the perfect vagina

What began as a wander through the wacky world of genital plastic surgery became a passionate documentary about modern femininity

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10 Worst Web glitches of 2008 (so far)

We have been reminded several times lately that Web 2.0 is in no way a synonym for "reliable." Major services have crashed. Big product launches have fizzled. Users have raised their collective fists in the air. What's going on? Is the Web crumbling?

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NetBeans 6.5 beta offers PHP improvements

The NetBeans 6.5 beta adds PHP capabilities, including code completion and generators for MySQL database code. It also has the ability to do heredoc notation, which specifies string literals for source code in command line shells and programming languages such as Perl, PHP and Ruby.

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Venezuelan Indians Get DirecTV

They may not have four walls but they get their prime time tv all right.

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Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s

With superpowers in the east and west testing powerful new weapons, the Canadian race for self-preservation took off in the early 1950s. The rising of the Iron Curtain intensified the threat of mass destruction, as communication between the Americans and Soviets came to a screeching halt.

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Fabulous lunchbox made from a busted Nintendo Case

Do you love Nintendo AND tasty noontime sandwiches? If you do, then this Nintendo case lunchbox project is probably right up your alley.

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Do It Yourself Digital Camera Repair

Oh no! You've dropped your digital camera. And it's out of warranty. And repair costs more than the camera is worth. What to do short of tossing the camera (or selling on ebay)? Well, believe it or not the average person has a good chance of diy fixing that camera themselves.

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How I built an electricity producing wind turbine

This is the story of how I did it. Not with an expensive, store-bought turbine, but with a home-built one that cost hardly anything. If you have some fabricating skills and some electronic know-how, you can build one too.

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How to open a Swiss bank account

Apparently, it's pretty easy to do, and doesn't require a million dollars. The basic Swiss account can be obtained through a broker, with a minimum balance of $10,000. And you get the benefit of being either tax free, or mostly anonymous.

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Gagged Hackers Spark Outrage

Eleven of the country's top computer scientists have come out in support of the three MIT students who were silenced by a gag order before they were able to tell a hackers conference in Las Vegas how they were able to break into Boston's subway fare collection system.

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Lessons From PHP 4.4 End-of-Life Announcement

The developers of PHP announced last week that PHP version 4.4.9 is now available. This would not be remarkable in and of itself, except that the developers also indicated that this would be the last release of PHP 4.4.

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Ajax and Java development made simpler

Build reusable Ajax and Java components based on easily developed JSP tag files

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Michael Phelps Speedo

It covers but it reveals too.

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The Top 20 iPhone games, so far

It’s been a month and countless hours of play since Apple Inc. began selling games and other applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s high time for Herald Interactive Top 20 list of games.

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Maximize Your Laptop With Cool Accessories

These accessories and add-ons will have your old laptop doing brand-new tricks in no time.

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Hooking your apps into Amazon Web Services

Connecting your application into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) isn't complicated, particularly if you've done Web service programming on other projects.

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What's for lunch in Beijing? Lamb testicles, scorpion

The elderly woman might as well have been the Chinese version of Paul Bunyan, swinging her cleaver as if it were an ax and chopping through the slice of something that she held in her left hand.

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Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google Apps

Only a couple days after “the outage”, Google has responded with a couple new Gmail features that I’m sure some users will be happy about. Before we get to the new features, I should mention that Google has apologized for the inconvenience caused by a problem with the “contacts system” in Gmail.

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Eee PC's Grab For Students

Taiwanese manufacturer Asus is expanding its popular, low-cost mini-laptops into an entire line of products. The latest is the Eee Box, a $349 desktop PC, which launched in North America Aug 8.

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The Last PHP 4

The open-source group released PHP 4.4.9 with “security enhancements and fixes” and is making a strong plea for all users to upgrade as soon as possible.

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McCain gaming Digg, Obama Google bombing McCain

It must be an election year. Both sides of the fence are being accused of gaming the system and trying to influence the vote. I’m not sure why people are surprised at this - isn’t the whole point of an election to actually try to get elected?

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Finally, The ultimate manual to Life

Reap the benefits of a fulfilling life with these simple instructions.

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Where did Michael Phelps got the accomplisment attitude?

Where else but from his grandpa.

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Lighting the Elephant on the Avenue

A technique for matching the lighting between a subject and its background.

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How to succeed in screaming without really being Axl Rose

Vocal coach Melissa Cross teaches heavy-metal rockers to find their inner beast without getting hurt.

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Facebook on Sale?

BusinessWeek is reporting that employees of the social-networking superstar -- including founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and soon-to-be former vice president Matt Cohler -- are selling shares at prices well below what Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) paid when it spent $240 million for a 1.6% stake in the company last October.

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Make your DHCP server dynamically update your DNS records

The steps in this post shows how to configure the DHCP server to automatically update the DNS records when giving out a new lease to a client computer. All on the Ubuntu Hardy Heron server.

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Build an embedded Linux distro from scratch

Learn how to build a custom Linux® distribution to use in an embedded environment, in this case to drive a Technologic Systems TS-7800 single-board computer. In this tutorial, you learn about cross-compiling, the boot loader, file systems, the root file system, disk images, and the boot process, all with respect to the decisions you make as you're

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Create a maintainable extensible XML format

Reduce change when you design XML formats agile enough to incorporate new requirements

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Get Nagios for your Ajax applications

Monitor your applications with an open source host, service, and network program

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Swap two variables using XOR

Here’s a neat programming trick to swap two values without needing a temp

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Using JSON to Exchange Data

Javascript Object Notation (JSON) is a fancy name for a simple idea: A web page can download data stored as javascript variables. It’s caused a buzz in the tech world because JSON is much easier to load, read and manipulate compared to XML. Also, parsing large XML files can be a large performance hit - JSON gives you an object, packaged up and read

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Build a Mini Message Board in PHP

Many websites like to have a message board / forum on their site, but would prefer their own "product". Well if you like, feel free to follow this tutorial and you'll learn how to create a mini message board in PHP and MySQL.

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Base Concepts of Internationalization in PHP

if you develop Web applications that have an international target audience, then you have to take internationalization into account—a process that includes avoiding date/time or currency confusions and delivering all text pertinent to the user interface in the user's preferred language. Applications that can grow international traffic and improve r

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Using Multiple JavaScript Onload Functions

JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages in use on the World Wide Web. It can create interactive pages through the use of menus, forms and calendars. It can also be used to track a visitor's history on your site, play games and many other things.

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Flying Without a Wallet

I was curious to learn more about the TSA’s new practices for ID-less travelers. As a security professional, I decided to research TSA’s latest security screening procedures. Below is a recounting of my experiment.

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She never knew she could lose her sight NSFW

Carrying safety goggles will help next time.

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You cannot explain this picture

Japanese and their weirdness.

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IPotty

Yet another apple fan bathroom fixture.

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Osbourne Ready to Rock in 'Guitar Hero'

The latest artist announced to join Guitar Hero World Tour? Ozzy Osbourne. He and guitarist Zakk Wylde will appear in the game, due this fall, as will songs such as Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley.

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Top Ubuntu Alternatives

With the popularity of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, our Linux guru Matt Hartley takes a step back to review the Linux landscape.

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Best Linux Editor

Tux makes a choice....

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Newspaper ads mishaps and other embarrasments

The best part of the newspapers is not the cartoons page.

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Toronto Blows...

up?.. well, almost... :)

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Internet Safety Guidelines

All those necessary rules to make your web surfing a little more better.

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I call the big one Bitey [PIC]

Another classical moment in pop culture.

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Toronto goes kaboom

Firefighters are close to extinguishing all the burning tanks at a propane facility in northwest Toronto, significantly reducing the risk of another explosion.

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Edit binary files in Vi

If you've ever wanted to examine or edit a binary file in your favorite text editor, there's an easy way to simulate a vi hex mode. To do this, you just filter the file's contents through the xxd hex dump utility, a trick that can be accomplished right within the vi/vim interface.

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New Cell Phone Scam

The Indiana State Police are warning cell phone owners to be wary of a new scam.

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Proposed Olympic Sport For Geeks: Cable Untangling

Geeks should be able to go to the Olympics too.

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Hit the Ground Running with the Spring Framework

Do you think the Spring Framework is purely for the enterprise-computing arena and not for smaller concerns? Spring can be used for simple standalone applications, providing the benefits of this technology to all program sizes. The Spring patterns (MVC, dependency injection, and so on) are all there for the taking. Veteran developer Stephen B. Morr

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You Looking At Me? Scientists Develop Electronic-Eye Camera

"Using simple mechanics principles, the researchers have produced, for the first time, electronic devices on a hemispherical surface so that they can take images much like those captured by the human eye,"

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Scientists Share Insights on Zombies

“Mixed feelings about a corpse have produced the notion of a departed soul,” Jeon said. “Zombies also seem to be evolutionary by-products stemming from complicated feelings on corpses.”

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Videogames Aren't Just for Geeks Anymore

The videogames you're most likely to see at the moment are ones that will actually hold the interest of a nongeek.

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The inconspicuous tank

Not built for stealth but to still blow you to smithereens.

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The wold map of internet domains

That old world map is so out of date.

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XP Still Outsells Vista

HP says that XP might no longer be on sale, but most of its systems still ship with the OS loaded.

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Microsoft searching for Olympic medals

Although it talks about the battle with Google as a marathon rather than a sprint, Microsoft is hoping that the Olympics will help give its Internet properties a tail wind.

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CBS video: Cybersecurity at the Olympics

At the same time, warns the U.S. government, cybercriminals will be on the prowl for credit card information to steal, and security forces could well direct snooping efforts at unsuspecting travelers.

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The Sound of Melting Glaciers Stirs Alarm

Glaciers of the Indian Himalayas Have Never Melted So Quickly

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The Web’s Next Creative Breakthrough

The role of creativity and visual media online is the focus of a recent research report from Corbis entitled “The Art of Winning Online.” It reveals that while images play a role in online design today, creativity and the use of visual media – from pictures, to video, flash and animation – remain in their adolescence on the Web.

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A little ingenuity solves a crime

A Keyser City Police officer did some old-fashioned gumshoe investigative work this weekend to solve the case of a busted rear window on a parked car.

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Gaming firms eyeing up MotionPlus

The company behind the Wii’s MotionPlus has hinted that the add-on’s technology could be adopted by rival gaming firms.

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Beijing Olympics smog cam, stats & air-quality video

Air quality has been, and continues to be, a concern for athletes and tourists attending the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Is it the summer heat that’s causing thick smog conditions or is it just a haze? The air-quality levels in Beijing are measured by an Air Pollution Index. The Wall Street Journal’s “The Numbers Guy” explains the API measurement

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Anti-China protests worldwide as Olympics begin

A protester set himself on fire outside the Chinese Embassy in the Turkish capital and thousands of Tibetan exiles took to the streets in Nepal, as anti-China demonstrations occurred worldwide to coincide with the start of the Beijing Olympics.

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Linux Cluster Lessons Learned, Again

Over the years I have made my share of cluster mistakes. Each problem presented an opportunity to learn something new, become a little smarter, get some scar tissue as it were. I had just such an opportunity this week as I as teaching Intermediate Beowulf:

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How to Create a Search Feature with PHP and MySQL

In this article, you'll learn how to create a searchable form feature that will query a database table and display current staff member information.

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Javascript: Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops

Before diving into the object-oriented features of JavaScript, let's first take a look at some of the basics. This chapter walks you through:

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PS3 developers only using 30% of the machine's power

Threespeech has just posted an interview with Naughty Dog designer Richard Lemarchand, in which he talks up Sony's new low-level programming tools, aimed at encouraging coders to employ the machine's SPUs, or Synergistic Processing Units.

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How to Create a Search Feature with PHP and MySQL

In this article, you'll learn how to create a searchable form feature that will query a database table and display current staff member information.

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Why I Fought to Save Three Bucks (and Why You Should Too)

Certainly any company is within its rights to limit coupon use on loss leaders. But if that’s what corporate wants, then corporate needs to be very clear, and it needs to do so on the coupon.

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Why beaming messages to aliens in space could destroy us

Thanks to the foolish antics of a downmarket TV company and a website favoured by self-obsessed teenagers, planet Earth could be in for a nasty shock towards the end of this century.

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Perl on App Engine?

I am a Perl hacker. I have written parts of the core, created CPAN modules and written tons of perl code. In fact I am addicted to it ; or rather, CPAN. I have been wanting to play around with Google App Engine, but I haven't had time to get up to speed in Python.

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The Nintendo Revolution, and Why Wii Were Wrong

t was April 27, 2006, and gamers were primed for Nintendo's next-gen box, codenamed Revolution. In the all-important console war, the company had ended the previous generation in last place with its GameCube. Thoroughly beaten by Sony's juggernaut PlayStation 2, and even edged out by newcomer Microsoft with its Xbox, Nintendo was sucking wind--or j

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Microsoft exec says Wii Fit is a gimmick

My totally unscientific gut feel on this is that yes, many players do give up on Wii Fit, but this is probably as much to do with laziness as gaming fatigue.

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Mexican woman fights off lion with machete on a donkey

Mexican woman says she fought a 225-kilogram lion with a machete near the resort city of Acapulco and scared him away. Can somebody visualize it.

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DIY Flamethrower

This video goes through the workings of the system in greater detail.

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Develop XML-driven Ajax applications fast with Data Studio

Learn to use SQL/XML editors for efficient data Web services development

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Internationalizing Web applications using Dojo

Allow users to use your application in their own language

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Green your PC

The power management settings on your PC aren't exactly a chic way to save energy -- not like buying a Prius or installing solar panels.

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Game On Grand Theft Auto IV Belatedly Confirmed for PC

Doth I protest too much, or does this business of anxiously pining after game majors ported to PCs months after their ballyhooed premieres on console bricks coupled to scintillating TVs in sprawling entertainment centers taste more and more like flat soda?

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Gen Y workers need sexier tech

Slick, super-fast and a total cinch to use - what's not to love about consumer technology these days? As Kate Hennessy discovers, for business owners, however, it can provide an unflattering contrast to clunky workplace technology, especially for younger generations who are accustomed to sexier tech.

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Diagnosing Performance Issues in Production Java Application

Java developers use a variety of tools to diagnose performance problems. These tools provide deep visibility into an application's runtime behavior, including an in-depth view into problem areas with exact line numbers and object values. However, these tools have traditionally been limited to development environments.

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All you wanted to know about Global Warming and they don't want you to know

This presentation is called the elusive carbon footprint. A great compilation of FACTS about the so called "global warming". Feel free to share it. The Author wants to spread the word on what can be the biggest scam in global history since the Y2K.

The Elusive Carbon Footprint
in glorious PowerPoint

If you like his work, send the author a word of encouragement. And if you don't like it, good for you.

Cheerios,

Bonlebon.

Populating a Filesystem with Random Data

Occasionally, I test filesystems. Especially since Ext4 was taken into the Linux kernel, I've set up a couple of partitions and used them for storing data. Sometimes, you don't want to copy existing data on new filesystems when testing. Why not use random data? Now, where is the tool for doing that? I asked The Answer Gang, and so got another excus

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Making a Slideshow-type MPEG1 Video with GNU/Linux

This tutorial is for users who are interested in making an MPEG1 video using GNU/Linux and Free Open Source Software. The process described is partly automated with bash shell scripts, but otherwise still relies on handcrafting the video frame by frame.

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Copyright: UK designer WINS Star Wars court battle

In Hollywood's annals of the plucky little guy defeating the big guy, it might not quite rank with flying an X-wing fighter and destroying the Death Star with a "one in a million" shot, Luke Skywalker-style.

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Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire

Learn the inside workings of this juggernaut of corporations.

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Arduino Muscle Car

Convert a cheap, dumb RC truck into an autonomous “smart” auto

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NASA: Mars Toxin Doesn't Kill ET Search

Scientists say rocket fuel chemical found in Martian soil is neither good nor bad for life

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Testing Your Website in a Realistic Environment

In the third article in his website performance series, Ivan Pepelnjak describes an environment that allows you to perform realistic tests of your website.

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Have python lived out its usefulness?

This time we chat with Guido van Rossum, Monty Python and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fan. Van Rossum is best known as the author of Python, and currently works for Google, CA where he gets to spend at least half his time developing the language.

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A Lesson in Responsible Paternity

Funny but true.

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Photo with Flash and Without Flash

You can tell the difference.

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The High Cost of a 'Free Credit Reports'

A couple of months later, Mr. Steele noticed the site had been charging his credit card. While he believed he had signed up for a free report, he had actually enrolled in a credit-monitoring service that cost $14.95 a month. He says he never expected that it would cost anything.

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My 10 favorite typefaces

As someone who has a soft spot for typography in general, it is a rather difficult taks to choose my top 10 favorite typefaces. It feels a bit like shifting through all those nice (600 and more) entries I received for the ‘What is Graphic Design’ poster competition from a while ago. What a tough job that was selecting the winners. So here we go…

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Three Quick Tips To Make Your PHP Understandable

Producing code that clearly conveys a developer's intent is key to any well written application. That not only applies to PHP, but every programming language. Developers who emphasize the creation of legible code tend to create applications which are easier to both maintain and expand upon.

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How Much Is Antivirus Slowing Down Your PC?

I hear tons of complaints about how this-or-that suite slowed the computer to a crawl, added minutes to boot time, or made web surfing unbearably slow. But I can't rely on anecdotal evidence for reviews - I had to develop some repeatable and quantifiable tests to see just how much a given suite affects performance.

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The Disappointment of Wi-Fi

Today's wireless connections should be free and far more powerful, widespread, and flexible than they are.

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