COED’s Cold War Cheerleader Showdown

let’s stoke the fires of East vs. West once again, for the sexiest feud this side of 1989, with COED’s ‘Cold War Cheerleader Showdown! (And if anyone knows how to convince the lovely ladies of the Middle East to shed those burkas, please let us know ASAP.)

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Truck surfing is here to stay

Odd way to travel but looks like fun.

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Get your enemy's name on a sewage

The college is building a new sewage plant. So, for the right price, you could have it named after you, a loved one, or someone who deserves it. Not everyone might think of that as an honor.

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Blind Activists Plan Protest Of Julianne Moore Movie

Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who's blind, such a scenario _ as shown in the movie "Blindness"

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Virgin to join climate experiment

Virgin Galactic is to look at carrying scientific instruments on board one of its space tourism vehicles to gather data on climate change.

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Home Robot Construction

For the last few months I've been working on a side project (about which I hope to be able to talk to you all in the future), but last week that project got to a place where it was going to be out of my hands for a while.

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How to Use a JavaScript Query String Parser

In this article you'll learn how to obtain and use the data from the query string portion of the URL by using a JavaScript query string parser.

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Installing Linux apps: A few good tips

Getting new software installed on Linux doesn't have to be hard, but it can differ depending on what you're installing

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Fighting the scourge of scareware

Microsoft and Washington State's Attorney General filed lawsuits against scam artists who frighten consumers into buying useless software.

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Make Perl Scripts More Readable With perltidy

Enter perltidy, a program generated from the Perl module Perl::Tidy, which saves you time by unmangling Perl code for you. You can download it from CPAN, or it may be available through your distro. (Debian and Ubuntu both provide it.)

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Workout routine kills 20 years old dude

THE full-time national serviceman had completed six chin-ups on his own. With some help, the 20-year-old tried to pull his chin above the bar for a seventh time.

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You Should Be Glad Your Kid's Stupid

Is your kid not destined to make the Honor Roll? Don't despair, a child with average intellect only makes life easier.

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Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP

In this chapter, learn how to access a database from the Web using PHP, read from and write to the database, and filter potentially troublesome input data.

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High-performance Ajax with Tomcat Advanced I/O

Reduce the number of concurrent threads by using a different request-handling model

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Disabled Fireman with 30 Years of Service Ends Homeless

Greg McDougall served on the front lines in Calgary for nearly 30 years and in 2001, he was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. Eleven months later the WCB cut off his payments and within a year McDougall was homeless.

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Darth Vader Goes Cuckoo

This is by far the FUNNIEST thing ever made this side of the Milky Way!! It was created entirely by using the true voice of Vader, Mr. James Earl Jones HIMSELF!



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Family Guy's Necrophilia Sequence Rated M

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found the episode, rated PG when it aired on Foxtel last year, should have been rated M.

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Engineers Aim To Solve 'Burning' Computer Problem

Two researchers at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science aim to lay the scientific groundwork that will solve the problem using nanoelectronics, considered the essential science for powering the next generation of computers.

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Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?

This idea has great potential.

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WALL•E made from LEGO

Trossen Robotics have produced their very own replica of the Disney•Pixar cutie made entirely from LEGO.

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Ignorance Was Bliss: Taking a Lego to the Eye

The school morning routine was interrupted by screams from our middle kid. After his screams briefly subsided, we found that he had been attacked by the two-year old wielding an out thrust Lego brick.

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Simple Instructional Video Creation on Linux

In this story I will share a simple process for creating instructional videos on a fairly common Ubuntu-ish desktop.

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100 reasons Linux beats Windows

Ok, enough! The month is almost over. Time for me to end it once and for all. Here are 100 reasons why Linux beats Windows. ‘nuff said.

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Fire SALE: Everything about planet Earth Must GO!!!

Brazil Officials Blame Global Food Prices for Sharp Rise in Destruction of Amazon Rain Forest

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Web 2.0 Challenges Traditional Government Communications

If you're over 20 years old, you probably have no idea what this means. It's an acronym for "too long, did not read," and text messaging users type it to describe most of the information that comes from traditional news sources.

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Apple stock bombs...

Apple Inc., the best-performing technology stock last year, dropped the most in eight years in Nasdaq trading after a Morgan Stanley analyst said price cuts will curb profit growth.

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Apple stock bombs...

Apple Inc., the best-performing technology stock last year, dropped the most in eight years in Nasdaq trading after a Morgan Stanley analyst said price cuts will curb profit growth.

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Amazing fantasy pictures

These artists really let themselves go with this set of awesome pictures.

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How to cast a face in plaster

Immortalize yourself.

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Hugh Hefner wants Sarah Palin to pose naked in Playboy

Showbizspy reports that Hefner said: "Palin would make a great centrefold. I don't know what it is, but there's something about a really sexy-looking woman wearing glasses. Imagine what she's like when those glasses come off. It would be a new definition of the word vice in vice president."

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Reality Strikes Playboy Mansion

Hugh Hefner has been advised to reduce staff in his multi-million dollar empire to weather the global economic turmoil, the London Telegraph reports.

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Songbird a music player with add-ons

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development. The project’s main aim is to create a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music.

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How to put together an awesome pirate costume for Halloween!

Don't be tempted by those trashy looking ready made pirate outfits that cost a fortune and fall to pieces at a drop of the hat! It is fairly cheap and easy to put together an awsome costume yourself, with a little bit of effort, using things already in your closet and strategic visits to your local thrift and party stores for additional items!

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Nikon and HP Collaborate to Develop HiRes Image System

have been working together since 2005 to develop high-resolution digital imaging technologies. The result of this collaboration is a new high-resolution digital imaging system for reproducing fine art

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Walmart to pull plug on DRM servers

So, Walmart is to pull the plug on its DRM servers and leave all the suckers customers who bought DRM-encumbered music up a creek without a paddle.

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Actor tells of Batman role in Justice League movie

ACTOR Armie Hammer, who was cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman in the now-shelved Justice League team-up movie, says he still hopes the film will get made.

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10 rules that ensure failure in business

Ian Mann is a business consultant. He provides insights from the latest business books for his clients

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‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ TV Series Preview

I’m not quite sure when this was originally released, but here’s a video preview of the upcoming animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

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FREE Official Ubuntu e-Book

It’s Linux for human beings–designed for everyone from computer novices to experts. Ubuntu is the most in-demand Linux distribution, and this official guide will get you up and running quickly.

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Red Hat HPC Linux cometh

RED HAT WILL announce its first high performance computing optimised distro, the Red Hat HPC on 7 October. The distro is a step forward from the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes.

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DIY Firework Ignition System

My project began several months ago as a conversation with my brother in law Tommy. He had found plans on the internet to build an enclosure with a set of light switches that could be used to set off fireworks by passing current through a strand of nichrome wire.

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BSQL Hacker - automate SQL Injections

BSQL (Blind SQL) Hacker is an automated SQL Injection Framework / Tool designed to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities virtually in any database.

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Apple opens a crappy store and fanboys make a line for it

This is not your fancy NY store yet people make a line for the opening of an Apple store. What the world has come to.

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Coming and Going: In-Flight Porn?

American Airlines' new in-flight Internet service, Gogo, may be a hit with users, but not necessarily with the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. At a meeting this month, union leaders told airline management it was worried about passengers trolling the Internet for porn while in flight

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Get a Xbox 360 Arcade System and Free LEGO Batman for $199

Amazon.com has a great deal on the Xbox 360 Arcade pack. You can get both the Xbox 360 Core Arcade system, which also includes several Xbox LIVE Arcade games, and LEGO Batman at $199.99

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LittleBigPlanet turns gamers into creators

A new videogame allows players to conjure up their own design ideas and create playable content that can be uploaded and shared.

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Wile E Coyote has to be advising the U.S. Government

Why does the American government consistently fail to foresee the future results of its own actions? Because it is incompetent. It is managing the financial crisis Wile E Coyote style.

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Bus Driver Thinks He Can Drive and Play PSP Simultaneously

Take heed that banning unsafe practices like that will hopefully eliminate other things people think they can do while driving, like this gentleman who could not put down his PSP.

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Can the IT-Business Marriage Be Saved?

Thirty years as a key priority, and still IT has a bad reputation for impeding progress, as illustrated by Gary Hamel's advice, "When you want to run a quick experiment, I tell people don't go through the IT division because they are just going to tell you 'no' and it's going to take forever to get it done."

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Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer

RyAnne Fultz, 33, says she suffered her worst epileptic attack in a year after she clicked on the wrong post at a forum run by the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation. Photo courtesy RyAnne Fultz Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine heada

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10 Essential Principles of the Javascript Masters

. Here are 10 tips from well-respected web developers within the JavaScript community.

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Web Python Tutorial

This tutorial covers two web programming models that can be used with Python: the CGI standard and mod_python.

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CSS: Elastic Design

It can be difficult to move from a static, pixel-based design approach to an elastic, relative method. Properly implemented, however, elastic design can be a viable option that enhances usability and accessibility without mandating design sacrifices.

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70 bits of gaming goodness

The Mignonette is a minimalist handheld gaming platform that we helped to design in a collaboration with Rolf van Widenfelt and Mitch Altman.

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Cocks playing sports [PIC]

A couple of cocks having fun.

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The Best PC Games to Ever Grace My Computer

Finally it had to be a game which either I lost track of time or willingly gave up time to play again and again, sometimes even to the detriment of school and/or work. Here are my picks...

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A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10

Perl is the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages: powerful and adaptable. It was first developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA in the late 1980s, as a way to make report processing easier.

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Using strace for Fun and Profit

New tool for taking the output from strace_analyzer and creating a simulation of the I/O pattern of your code on different storage hardware and file systems.

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Are some solar projects no longer ‘green’?

Conservationists worry that a plan for the Mojave desert will upset species’ habitats.

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Sharks with Legs

One of these sharks with feet could pretty much walk right up to you on dry land and eat you at any moment.

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Deal keeps U.S. on International Space Station

A political stalemate that threatened to boot the United States off the International Space Station eased on Thursday after U.S. lawmakers passed an exemption allowing NASA to buy rides from the Russians, agency officials said.

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Horny goat weed could be better than Viagra

The soft green heart-shaped leaf of the horny goat weed could hold the key to a new drug for treating erectile dysfunction. Researchers say the Viagra alternative could be as effective as the famous blue pill, but have fewer side-effects

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Open-source software gets a plug from Congress

IT’S RARE TO see a concept as technical as open-source software in a federal funding bill. But the House’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) (GCN.com, Quickfind 1209) includes language that calls for military services to consider open-source software when procuring manned or unmanned aerial vehicles.

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George Romero Milking the Zombie Teet Until its Bone Dry

The latest rumors surrounding George Romero are that he is making a sequel to Diary of the Dead but its not really a sequel. Reports claim that the film is set on an island three weeks after Diary happened

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Transmeta, Chip Patents Up for Sale

Low-power chip vendor looking for a buyer for what's left: a very popular portfolio of chip patents.

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Flash Video Glitch Allows Free Movie Downloads

A security hole in Adobe's ubiquitous online technology could open the door to swiping movies from Amazon's streaming video service.

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Ballmer gives Norwegian students free love

Microsoft believes it has "lost" a generation of developers who might have embraced Windows and .NET, thanks to the Mac and open source frameworks and operating systems

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Procrastination is....

Think they should include this in the Wikipedia definition of procrastination.

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Offline Ajax with Apache Derby

Learn how to use Apache Derby as a local data store that can be used to take your Ajax application offline.

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Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Apple's iPhone and Mac will lose

He thinks the same strategy that helped Microsoft become the leader on the desktop -- licensing its OS for use by other hardware makers -- will let it win out on smartphones. Long term, he said, the battle will be between the Symbian OS

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Have some fun with ubuntu!

Ever wanted to see what the all the jazz that “Ubuntu” is? Well you can do it now! No CD’s, no losing Windows, no geek magic to make your computer start.

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Airbag blow up in a refrigerator

They beat the mythbusters with this one.

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20 Most Nimble and Simple X Window Managers for Linux

One of the best ways to speed up your Linux desktop is to utilize an ultra-lightweight window manager. To all speed-conscious techies, minimalist lovers, and to those who are still hoping to revive their ageing computer hardware, let me introduce you to the 20 most nimble and simple X window managers for Linux.

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Training Neural Networks Using Back Propagation in C#

The back propagation algorithm has become the de facto training algorithm for artificial neural networks, and has been studied by the artificial intelligence community since the 1970s. It is used in commercial neural network software packages, such a MATLAB.

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Python: An Introduction to Bluetooth Programming

This tutorial on Bluetooth programming in GNU/Linux will continue to be freely distributed from this website, but if you find it useful, or would like to learn more about Bluetooth programming, please consider purchasing, borrowing, or otherwise obtaining a copy of the book. Cheers.

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The Lightweight User Interface Toolkit : An Introduction

The Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) is a versatile and compact API for creating attractive application user interfaces for mobile devices. LWUIT provides sophisticated Swing-like capabilities without the tremendous power and complexity of Swing. Designed from the ground up as an efficient mobile user interface toolkit, LWUIT provides man

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How the Googleplex Works

In Mountain View, Calif., just a few miles south of the San Francisco Bay, there's a complex of buildings that serves as the headquarters for one of the most powerful companies in the technology industry.

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Hear politicians' voices, not their words

Here's a chance to try some of those techniques for yourself. Branka Zei Pollermann from the Vox Institute in Geneva - mentioned in the article - uses auditory software to map seven parameters of a person's speech, including pitch modulation, volume and fluency.

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Ferrari V4 Superbike Concept

Ferrari is one of the most popular manufacturer of supercars but why not superbikes? That’s what an Israeli designer Amir Glinik decided to change. He has designed a Ferrari bike concept that looks pretty darn good. The heart of the bike is a V4 engine with a fluid share around it and a waterproof LCD touch-screen above the fuel tank.

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Hey that's Kal El Spaceship

Beijing-based architects MAD have designed a conceptual, star-shaped, mobile Chinatown.

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How Not To Use Your Wii Remote In the Company Of Ladies

BBC sketch comedy show The Wrong Door put together a handy PSA for those who tend to get a bit too excited during co-ed Wii play.




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Fiat’s 3D showroom takes top technology award

The stunning 3D ‘showroom’ featured on Fiat’s UK website has been crowned the Retail and Leisure Sector Technology Project of the Year at the important 2008 CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards.

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Mac in front of firing squad

Guess it refused to say where codename V was.

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This has to be a paradox or something

This is what you can refer to as weird.

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Town Celebrates Easter With FireWorks Warfare

And this is how you have fun during Easter.



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Meet the Kinky Cat

This cat loves a good spanking.



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Japanese hand made keyboards

Those Japanese always taking stuff to the next level.


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Animated Illusion, Solved!

3D animations on one piece of paper? See how it is done.



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The Eternal Struggle

Is an up hill battle for this lady.

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30 years of 'Incredible Stunts'

Courageous or insanely stupid, it is hard to take your eyes off the stuntmen and women paid to make Hollywood stars look cool.

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Think!!!

Now, after several generations, the "protections" provided to us and the exchange of servitude are enacted upon us when we are born, by default. Do we not get a choice? Could we not solve our problems by being loving and peaceful?

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Reducing CCD Noise with The GIMP

If you find it necessary to shoot with a higher ISO and you find that you have an unpleasant amount of noise in your image, this tutorial will help you improve the image. This technique also helps deal with with film grain from traditional photography that is uncovered by high-resolution scanning.

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Posters of the Spanish Civil War

This was a very interesting war from the media point of view.

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New Hope eyes coal-to-liquid concept

New Hope Corporation Ltd is investigating a novel concept that could allow the company to commercialise some of its coal resources in Queensland without the headache of infrastructure constraints.

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Seahawks fan accused of spitting on man's burger

A fast-food cook and Seattle Seahawks fan has been accused of spitting on a hamburger ordered by a man wearing Pittsburgh Steelers attire.

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Incredible WWII Dioramas

These make great pieces of historical re-enactments.

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Over half of Americans believe in guardian angels

Yet they won't save you from the financial crisis.

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Cell Phone Can Unlock Car, Start Engine

New Mobile Phone Can Wirelessly Unlock Car, Allows Engine to Be Started Without Key

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Integrating the Authorize.Net AIM API with PHP

Working with the Authorize.Net AIM API in and of itself is very easy to do. Between the integration guide and sample code a good programmer can have a working solution in only minutes.

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Trackbacks with Google Blog Search and Zend Feed

I’ve wanted to do automatic trackbacking by linking to posts that are linking to any given article of mine, for quite some time now.

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Networking 101: TCP In More Depth

Last week's introduction to TCP promised that this article would enlighten, entertain and obviate all other documentation. Well the last one isn't quite possible in this much space, but let's go ahead and take a look at TCP operational issues, now that we know a little about what TCP actually is.

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The unseen Soviet Russia

Remember that joke about the warning shots... It was even worse.

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Pow!!! Right in the kisser

A Horse strikes back!

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Disney, CBS dip into Netflix stream

Disney and CBS have inked separate deals to show TV series including "Hannah Montana" and "CSI" on demand and commercial-free to Netflix subscribers.

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McCain Gets More Questions on Fiorina’s HP Pay Package

After touring a solar power panel factory in rural, Freeland, Mich., a reporter asked McCain Tuesday if his campaign economic adviser, Carly Fiorina, who once led Hewlett Packard Co. but was forced to step down, should give back any portion of her golden parachute.

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Time to update the doomsday clock

Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant is nearing completion and the start-up of its reactor will soon become "irreversible", the Russian state-owned company that is building the power station said on Tuesday.

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McCain and the 'radical Islam' DVD

A U.S. Muslim advocacy group Tuesday asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate whether a nonprofit group that distributed a controversial DVD about Islam in newspapers nationwide is a "front" for an Israel-based group with a stealth goal of helping Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

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Enhance image overlay maps in Google Earth with altitude

Transform a set of planar images into 3-D visualizations

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Do-it-Yourself YouTube Uses Open Source Project Panda

Open source project Panda provides Software to create your own do-it-yourself video platforms -- provided you also pay for the Amazon Web Services.

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Automation with Python and STAF/STAX

The aim of this article by Javier Collado is to show how tasks may be automated using Python together with STAF (Software Testing Automation Framework) by means of an example.

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DIY Geiger Counter with USB Interface

A Geiger counter is composed of a high voltage generator, a geiger tube, an amplifier and a monostable. The following schematic show clearly these 4 parts. In the second part of this article will show how to connect this counter to a USB microcontroler and a computer.

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NY Tries to Make People Quit Smoking with Horrifying Images

Smokers in New York will have to face the truth about the harmful effects of smoking on their health, as the New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene decided to launch an aggressive campaign, showing people images with throat cancer, mouth cancer, gum disease or lung cancer, all caused by smoking.

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McCain’s Economic Plan: Everyone Marry A Beer Heiress

Everybody has beer in their blood.

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Why aren't we seeing any suicides on Wall Street?

If we're in the midst of a financial collapse, why aren't executives jumping out of office buildings?

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How to Throw a Football

The key: Don't flail. The power should come from your legs and core, not your arm. We know, we know, easier said than done. But with these basic steps and a few humiliating days of practice, no one will believe you were the perennial last pick in PE.

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Java Juice(R) Coffee Geek Technique Produces Portable Perk

- Stop the French presses. A new-school brew developed by Java Juice, Inc. fuels the future of coffee and allows coffee lovers to toss their brewers, grinders, filters and energy-sucking coffee machinery aside. Java Juice(R) may eventually render whole beans as old-school fuel.

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Heroes Girds for Grim Third Season

Brimming with dank cinematography, deadly earnest acting -- the fate of the world is still hanging in the balance, after all -- and at least two genuine WTF? moments, the Season 3 opener hopscotches full speed toward a dark destiny rife with betrayal, collapsing cities and reversals of fortune.

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Rejuvenating Your PC for Free: Speeding Up Your Windows PC

This tutorial continues Eric Geier's discussion and walk-through of techniques to make your PC healthier. You'll see exactly how you can increase your computer's performance, without spending a dime.

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Deceiving Billboard Ads - Mighty Optical Illusions

Browsing through my optical illusion collection, I found out I have dozens of cool billboard ads that I never published on Mighty Optical Illusions homepage. Most of them are deceiving, but few are just cool innovative thinking.

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Wii Grand Theft Auto 'Didn't Feel Natural'

Rockstar cofounder Dan Houser downplayed chances of a Wii entry in its megahit Grand Theft Auto series, saying it "didn't feel natural" compared to the opportunity to make a Nintendo DS game.

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‘Lego Batman’ Developer Will Never Make ‘Lego Halo’

Halo 3's fight is over. Finished, shall you say. Or is it? Of course not! Master Chief might be good at saving the universe, but he's better at something else: making mountains of money. That's why developer Bungie is looking to construct some more cash with their newest project: Lego Halo.

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Cost effective ways to survive college without being lame

Limited funds can make it difficult for students to cover food and transportation costs, let alone entertainment. Thrifty spending and creative cost-cutting can bail students out of boredom without breaking their bank accounts.

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How to be a leader like Bush

How to be a lame leader.

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Einstein’s Green Refrigerator May Be Poised for a Comeback

Many years after he revolutionized the field of physics, Albert Einstein took up a new task: inventing a better refrigerator. The 1930 appliance that he patented in partnership with a former student, Leo Szilard, had no moving parts and required no electricity, but was quickly forgotten as more efficient refrigeration technology was invented.

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Python 3.0 release candidate arrives

The first release candidate of Python 3.0, also known as Python 3000, has been released.

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Is ShareThis the next Digg?

ShareThis, a handy little widget that site managers can install to make it easier for readers to share and save Web pages, is preparing for a new release that gives the service Digg-like powers.

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Super GRUB Disk--A GRUB Repair Utility

Super GRUB Disk can fix a wide variety of boot-up problems on GRUB-based systems. It's easy to use, yet versatile. And, it's quite well-documented.

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Art of Assembly Language Programming free ebook

The Art of Assembly Language Programming (AoA), Randy Hyde's acclaimed text on assembly language programming, is the most-often recommended book on 80x86 assembly language programming in newsgroups, on web sites, and by word of mouth.

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Real time gas monitoring

I wanted to measure the gas usage of my gas heating in real-time and come up with the idea to use a mobile phone with a camera for that. The plan was to have the camera of a mobile phone looking on the burner and recognize if the flame is there or not.

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Real time gas monitoring

I wanted to measure the gas usage of my gas heating in real-time and come up with the idea to use a mobile phone with a camera for that. The plan was to have the camera of a mobile phone looking on the burner and recognize if the flame is there or not.

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Sun Tzu for the new millenium: How-to E-Maul localroger

I'm going to present to you tips, tricks, and techniques for e-mauling localroger. In theory many of these will work well against anyone, but I am writing this diary in the hopes that this will help give people that push to let localroger know he's a slimy douchebag, or if they're already doing that to help them spruce up their game.

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10 Best Hacking and Security Software Tools for Linux

Linux is a hacker’s dream computer operating system. It supports tons of tools and utilities for cracking passwords, scanning network vulnerabilities, and detecting possible intrusions.

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CSS Developer - Why Aren't You Using JQuery?

I know that many of you who read my blog are CSS guys and girls. If you're anything like me, you have some trouble with Javascript. That is why I am such a huge fan of the JQuery library.

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7 Ways To Inject Romance Into Your Relationship

Love is a never ending game of courtship, romance, respect and friendship. In most love relationships, there comes a time when the romance fades away. While the love grows stronger with each year we spend with our beloved partner, romance often dies.

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Even BS looks better on a 52" HD LCD TV

Say it ain't so.

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iPhone Gets Weak Reception in Japan

The iPhone is selling poorly in Japan because of price and network issues, reports tech columnist Gary Krakow.

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Making the Switch from Debian to Ubuntu and Back

Being based off of Debian I figured I would give it a shot, but it left me with nothing but disappointments. It felt too dumbed down, and the lack of a real root login bothered me. My brain always seemed to be on cruise control, which may be what some people aim for, but it was not my thing.

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Getting Started With AIR on Linux

In this tutorial Mike Chambers explains the basics of how to get setup with AIR on Linux

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Understanding Python

This talk aims to enlighten programmers new to Python about these fundamentals, the language mechanics that flow from them and how to effectively put those to use. Among the topics covered are duck-typing, interfaces, descriptors, decorators, metaclasses, reference-counting and the cyclic-garbage collector, the divide between C/C++ data and Python

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Python game programming tutorial.

They are an introduction to using python for game programming.

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An introduction to neural networks

Pattern learning with the back-propagation algorithm

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Disney's Magic Kingdom on Google Earth

On Thursday, Disney and Google announced an initiative that brings Walt Disney World into Google Earth. That means that most of the Manhattan-size group of theme parks is now available to view in 3D in the latest version of Google Earth.

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Rare bottle of cognac awaits 'last' warrior

This is a story about an old man, an even older bottle of cognac, and memories made when the world trembled. It begins on a beach in the South Pacific, jumps to a newspaper editor’s office in Atlanta and winds up in the dignified confines of a steak restaurant in San Francisco.

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City bylaws bring down pirate ship tree house

Architect Andrew Dewberry and a crew of friends spent Saturday dismantling the pirate ship tree house he's had in his Vancouver yard for two years. He said he had no choice after a court ordered it to be removed for not complying with city bylaws.

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Hyperwords for Firefox 5.0

Web browsers are becoming more advanced, but how many new and innovative features do we find in our mainstream browsers, with each new release?

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HP Slashes Corporate Marketing People

Reorganization results in about a hundred more pink slips at HP.

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PlanetEye Applies Pack Rat Mentality to Travel Planning

It’s kind of like putting all the goods that look interesting to you in a shopping cart, except that you can go back and easily put them back on the shelf with one click of the “remove” link.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin begins blogging

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog, candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinson's Disease and plugging his wife's genetic testing start-up firm.

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Jurors hear audio of OJ Simpson 'robbery'

Jurors have listened to an audio recording of American football great OJ Simpson and several friends as they burst into a hotel room and confronted two memorabilia dealers who were attempting to sell personal items belonging to the star.

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Disney will admit visitors free on their parks birthdays

This offer, announced this week, is part of a new Disney campaign encouraging "celebration vacations." The impetus: A North American survey that revealed vacationers today are motivated by events of "high personal significance" - anniversaries, graduations and, naturally, birthdays.

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New info on SEGA's Wii version of Sonic is 'Unleashed"

Some new information has been released in this month’s Nintendo Power magazine from developer SEGA on its upcoming multi-format release ‘Sonic Unleashed’, with the new specifically relating to the Wii edition of the game.

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12-Year-Old May Hold Key to Solar Energy

Solar technology is improving all the time, but one 12-year-old boy may have the key to making solar panels that can harness 500 times the light of a traditional solar cell. William Yuan is a seventh grader in Oregon whose project, titled "A Highly-Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UV Light,"

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Nerd Tests for you

There is a test right for you.

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Virtual Caves Of The World

From the comfort of your keyboard, browse the wonders of the underground! As a caver and photographer for over 35 years, I've collected images from caves all over the world.

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The ABCs of Point-and-Shoot Cameras

We'll show you how to select an easy-to-use, compact digital camera, and point you to some of our favorites.

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Amazon's Packaging Problem

I ordered a surge protector from Amazon.com a couple days ago. Today I got a giant box in the mail. I was confused, because it was way too big to contain my simple power strip

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Cisco set to acquire Jabber

It has been confirmed that Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire open source instant messaging company Jabber in a move which has surprised many in the market.

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Missprint sends democrat voters to hot line

It seems a "misprint" in a New Jersey telephone book has led to many people calling a phone sex service instead of reaching a New Jersey Democratic political organization.

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DIY Casting Resin Rings

In this video I walk through the process of making rings out of clear polyester resin, a type of moldable plastic. I show you everything from mold-making to embedments.

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OpenOffice Version 3, RC1 Adds Many Features

A version of the open source productivity suite OpenOffice.org version 3.0 is now out in a release candidate offering. While the most recent stable version is recommended for primary use at this point, and the release candidate is primarily for testing, some web workers who use this suite as a Microsoft alternative may want to try this pre-release

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Seinfeld is axed – even he can’t make Bill Gates look cool

He’s unlikely to miss the money, but Bill Gates is coming to terms with the fact that neither Jerry Seinfeld, nor a $300m (£160m) investment, can succeed in making him look cool.

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How to Make The Perfect Cup Of Coffee

What elements are involved in the making of a simple beverage. The Director of the Materials Library and Head of the Materials Research Group at King’s College London provides an audibly practical demonstration of the answer.

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Reverse SSH Tunneling HowTo

Have you ever wanted to ssh to your Linux box that sits behind NAT? Now you can with reverse SSH tunneling. This document will show you step by step how to set up reverse SSH tunneling. The reverse SSH tunneling should work fine with Unix like systems.

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Flower Fire Extinguishers

These may look like run-of-the-mill decorative silk flowers, but they’re actually fire extinguishers.

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Do It Yourself SSL Guide

There are many people who want or need to have the connection between the browser and the Web server encrypted, but haven't been able to set it up. This guide is intended to help people with the typical Apache on Linux setup to make encrypted connections available with a minimum of fuss

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Steve Jobs Needs New Clothes!

Calling Mrs.Jobs! Steve Needs A Wardrobe Intervention! If Janet Jackson had a "wardrobe malfunction" then it's clear that Steve Jobs has been in wardrobe meltdown for years and has finally arrived at the need for a wardrobe intervention.

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NZXT Avatar Gaming Mouse Review

When most gamers consider buying a new gaming mouse, they usually turn their attention to the Big Three: Logitech, Microsoft, and Razer. All three of said companies have provided us with fun peripherals to shoot the bad guys for many years, but there are other companies out there with gear that would like to get in on the action.

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Video: CCTV reveals last moments of Spanair flight

Dramatic CCTV footage has revealed the final moments of the Spanair flight that crashed last month near Madrid, killing 154 people.

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PHP upgrade improves Windows support

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) 5.3, a significant upgrade to the server-side scripting language for Web applications, is expected to be available in a beta release in October, a representative of the PHP community said on Wednesday.

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Using Online Gaming Tricks To Increase Audience Engagement

Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and other sites that we don't think of as games nonetheless use the principles of gaming to keep their audience engaged, said online game developer Charles Forman at a presentation at Web 2.0 Expo.

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E - TextEditor | The next generation Text editor

E is a new text editor for Windows, with powerful editing features and quite a few unique abilities. It makes manipulating text fast and easy, and lets you focus on your writing by automating all the manual work. You can extend it in any language, and by supporting TextMate bundles, it allows you to tap into a huge and active community

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iNap, Best application for the iPhone commuter

Clever uses of location services always impress me, and iNap is one of the best, especially if you're a frequent above-ground trans commuter. Set your destination point on Google Maps and feel free to snooze away without missing your station

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20/09 Software Freedom Day

Sun sees the promise of open source software as the perfect way for society and business alike to forge a world of expanded opportunity, increased flexibility, and continual innovation.

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Top 10 greatest movies starring 'Saturday Night Live' alums

I give you the top 10 movies starring actors who were once part of the cast of "Saturday Night Live." There were a few films that I felt really bad about leaving off this list, so I included a list of honorable mentions at the bottom.

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'The Conduit' (Wii) Controller Mapping Contest

High Voltage Software's The Conduit is a stunning first-person action shooter that promises to provide some of the best visuals seen to date on Nintendo's Wii gaming console.

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Mr. & Mrs. Darth Vader

The Dark Lord of the Sith has finally found love.

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Thumbnail images in PHP

At times we need to change image size . Now I show you how we can do that by PHP.

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Russian lawmakers target Halloween, Valentine's Day

Russia is opening a new front in its battle with the West over last month's fighting in neighboring Georgia: a move to ban the Western holidays of Halloween and Valentine's Day as bad influences on the nation's youth.

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How To Make a Bookmarklet For Your Web Application

Browser buttons (bookmarklets) are shortcuts that act like a simple browser plugin. Their advantages include:

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Calculus: Overcoming Our Artificial Need for Precision

Accepting that numbers can do strange, new things is one of the toughest parts of math

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Google Chrome Options

If you haven’t noticed yet, Google Chrome supports a bunch of command line options. You can get a listing of all command line options from chrome_switches.cc. Obviously, some of them look quite powerful. Is that a concern? Well, IMHO, I think so but there is no reason to panic just yet.

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Google Chrome JavaScript Is Powered with a V8 Engine

Although Google Chrome's V8 sports neither fuel injection nor dual-overhead cams, it does have full compilation even for dynamic languages and new garbage collection features, resulting in much faster Web 2.0 applications.

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Canvas set to boost AJAX

Canvas, a planned HTML standard for arbitrary graphical rendering in browsers, presents a game-changing technology for high-quality graphics in AJAX applications, an advocate said at the ZendCon 2008 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. this week.

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Cops in Illinois get an encounter of the freak kind

Is that or Dunkin' Donuts sells LSD muffins.

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Zend adds Flex to PHP for developing rich Web apps

Pairs PHP on servers with Adobe's Flex technology on clients

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DIY Quick-Touch Automated Laundry Chute

Just what you always wanted - an automated laundry chute. Jitendra Tailor of Winnipeg created a laundry chute that opens and closes on its own. Drop your clothes on the trap door (built into the floor of an upstairs bathroom) and the door opens, dropping your clothes down to the laundry room.

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Sam & Max Season One Coming to the Wii

Telltale and The Adventure Company have teamed up to bring Sam & Max Season One to the Wii. The Wii version of the popular PC adventure game will be in retail stores across North America starting October 7.

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ITC to probe Nintendo Wii patent infringement

The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to look into Hillcrest Laboratories' allegations that Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) infringed Hillcrest's patents in making its popular Wii video game, the ITC said on Wednesday.

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An Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

The purpose of a data-interchange format is to transfer information between potentially incompatible technologies. For example, the sender may be a Java application running on Unix and the receiver could be a Visual Basic program running on Windows. In this instance one would require a standardized format to send the data because the applications c

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Wall Street Clearance! Everything Must Go!

After refusing to save Lehman Bros. from extinction, the Fed has stepped in to loan $85 billion to AIG until the troubled insurer can sell its assets--in effect, temporarily buying the company.

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How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company

When it’s all said and done, your customer doesn’t care about your process. In the end, none of this matters if the design experience is wrong. Effective design establishes the emotional relationship you develop with a brand. Learn why design is more important than you think.

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GetBodySmart: Interactive Tutorials On Human Anatomy

An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology

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Stack Overflow: Digg-like Q&A site for programmers

The new Stack Overflow site looks like it might be one of those sites with a nice twist. It has a Digg-like look and voting structure. Its twist is that it is a Q&A site for programmers to post and answer questions.

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Why Digg is the New Digg and You're My New Editor

At the Web 2.0 Expo "social media" is on everyones' lips. But are its days numbered?

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Palin Imitates Peggy Hill

And that's why Palin sounded familiar to me.

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Super Mario LEGO

I want one of these, are you listening Lego?

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Google forced to accept anti-abortion advertising

Google Has been forced to abandon its ban on religious organisations placing anti-abortion ads on its site after it was sued by a pro-life charity.

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psad - Intrusion Detection with iptables

psad is a collection of three lightweight system daemons (two main daemons and one helper daemon) that run on Linux machines and analyze iptables log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic. A typical deployment is to run psad on the iptables firewall where it has the fastest access to log data.

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How to Not Get an IT Job: 10 Tips

the following guide to tech job-hunting faux pas can help. By avoiding these mistakes, you increase your chances of increasing your salary. And that’s a good thing.

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Flash Player 10 Coming Around the Final Bend

Adobe has issued its second release candidate of Flash Player 10, which should be approaching the finish line. Developers have not only fixed a number of bugs, but added a few new features.

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Meet 1,000 Companies Running Ubuntu Linux

Works With U is creating a list of 1,000 noteworthy Ubuntu deployments across the globe. But we need your help. If your business runs Ubuntu — or if you know of a business that runs Ubuntu — please fill out this quick survey.

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Build a simple WYSIWYG Web page editor

This article describes a simple system that lets users of your Web site build their own Web pages. With it, they can place text and images on their page, arrange them to their liking, and save their work. The code in this article stands alone, without any third-party libraries.

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A Six-Pack of Light Beer

Recycle some used bottles into a powerful set of solar-charged lanterns

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World famous people in one picture

Your favorites and no so favorites gather together on this picture.

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The ultimate apology template

Don't know how to say sorry? This is the form for you.

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Seems the polar caps are pissed [PIC} NSFW

Maybe is all your mind.

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Muslim Massacre game pulled, along with a genuine apology?

Muslim Massacre is a game which puts players in control of a soldier whose mission it is to rid the world of every last Muslim. Nice. The Internet-only game caused controversy amongst the Muslim population and has now been pulled from the website. In its place is a grovelling apology from the creator of the game.

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Now fear stalks British banks

Speculators hunting for next victim target UK institutions

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Energizer announces Power & Play charging system

Energizer announced rechargeable systems for all three major consoles today that include a charging base, replacement battery covers and rechargeable batteries.

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Apple to Sony & Nintendo: Let the Games Begin

Steve Jobs, as he was launching the latest version of Apple’s iPod, declared war on game console makers Sony and Nintendo. “It’s the best portable device for playing games,” Jobs said of the new iPod touch. Using the touch and the iPhone, Apple hopes to do battle with the Nintendo DS and PSP.

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''ASCII art'' in the 1950s

According to History of ASCII Art, a Korean gentleman named Gwang Hyuk Lee (or Gwank Hyuk Lee?), around the time of the Korean war, drew a picture of Jesus Christ (entirely by hand) using the entire text of the Book of John.

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World's richest got even richer last year

Even as world financial markets broke down last year, personal wealth around the world grew 5 percent to $109.5 trillion, according to a global wealth report released on Thursday by Boston Consulting Group.

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Porn passed over as Web users become social

Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru.

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Make your graphical text semantic and searchable

Use CSS image replacement to maintain semantic meaning

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Develop PHP applications with Picasa Web Albums

Integrate data from Picasa Web Albums into a custom PHP application

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Steve Jobs on Death

This is a thought provoking excerpt from Steve Jobs' Stanford 2005 commencement speech.






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Don't fall for top 3 fitness fallacies

Maybe it's the Internet or the late-night infomercials, but compared to my early days in this business, today's personal-training client is a lot more astute when it comes to the facts and fallacies of fitness.

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DIY 3in1 Stepper Motor Controller

Of-course there are other projects based on this idea around the web, but what makes this one special, it’s he’s features. There are 3 stepper motors controlled by a single ATmega8 that runs at 8 MHz, and a motor driver for each motor. The motors and their drivers were recovered from an old printer.

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Setting Password Policy With PAM

The PAM module pam_cracklib can enforce both length and complexity. For length, it uses the minlen option. For complexity, it has options dcredit, ucredit, lcredit, and ocredit, which refer to digit, upper-case character, lower-case character, and other character, respectively.

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Falcon: get to grips with a real gaming experience

Imagine playing a basketball videogame in which you can actually feel the weight of a virtual ball in your hand as you toss it towards the hoop for a match-winning penalty throw.

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Silverlight at the Democratic National Convention

After being pretty disappointed in the coverage that NBC had for the Olympics (Silverlight was pretty cool, the coverage provided by NBC was terrible), I thought I would check out the Democratic National Convention online with Silverlight.

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Razor Profiler - An Automated JavaScript Profiling Tool

Razor Profiler(beta) is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally.

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Why Chrome won't rule the world (yet)

Computerworld — I like Google's new Chrome Web browser a lot -- as in, I think it's going to change the desktop world in a way we haven't seen since Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina released the first modern Web browser, Mosaic, back in 1993

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What Would You Do If You Didn’t Have To Work?

Lottery tickets offer us the dream of escaping to a different life. Often I find myself wondering what it would be like if I didn’t have to work full time. I always imagine spending more time on my open source software projects, getting in better shape and doing some freelance consulting to pay the time.

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Search the Internet the easy way

Joongel is a web application for searching and navigating through the most popular sources on the Internet. Our search method is based on the location of the user and traffic ranking from Google, Hitwise, Compete, Comscore, Quantcast and more.

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How Important is Formal Education in Web Working?

In my four years of web working, it is rare that people ask for my resume, and even rarer for them to ask about my educational background. Usually, all they want to see is my portfolio or a list of URLs where they can see my previous work.

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Venom won't fight spiderman anymore [PIC]

He has other problems to care about.

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Hackers 'find black hole in atom smasher computers'

Hackers claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos, British newspapers reported on Saturday.

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A LEGO Skateboard

I didn't want to imitate any particular design, so I came up with my own. I call it my NATEboard.

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Fight Google by competing with it rather than feeding it

In America, we love a success story. But we distrust too much success. No one today is more successful than Google. So it is no surprise that the US justice department appears to be looking at whether Google has grown too big and successful.

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Cloud computing with Linux

Cloud computing and storage convert physical resources (like processors and storage) into scalable and shareable resources over the Internet (computing and storage "as a service").

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All you wanted to know about Linux Security

Conference papers, technical documents, white papers, and other publications.

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DIY a Roomba that cuts the grass

RoboCut, is a BASIC Stamp powered robot. Two 12Volt motors with gearbox gives the two large drivewheels good traction and the robot can manouver in very small areas.

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Ceate easy GUIs in Python with EasyGui

Experienced Pythonistas need support for quick and dirty GUI features. New Python programmers need GUI capabilities that don't require any knowledge of Tkinter, frames, widgets, callbacks or lambda. This is what EasyGUI provides. Using EasyGUI, all GUI interactions are invoked by simple function calls.

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Share Data Seamlessly

The NeGP (National e-Governance Programme) is a huge initiative, but there has been much duplication and several interoperability issues, observes one of the essays included in Infrastructure & Governance. Highlights typical operational issues: such as the need for seamless data sharing between the police department and the passport office.

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DIY Realistic Werewolf Costume

Create your own werewolf costume! Moving jaw, padded body, lots of fur!

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How to make the Jigsaw Killers headtrap for next to nothing

This build is again designed to be very cheap and is also made from cardboard and newspaper and PVA. The details will be written as completely as possible but it is worth noting that this is only one design.

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Is Digg allowing its own grave to be dug?

A recent report says there's a "Digg Throat" who is using his popularity at Digg to get paid for boosting other peoples' submitted articles onto the Digg home page

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Build a 60 Watt Solar Panel

So I decided to try my hand at building my own. I used common tools and inexpensive and easy to acquire materials to build a solar panel that rivals commercial panels in power production, but completely blows them away in price. Read on for step by step instructions on how I did it.

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Convert more than 400 graphic files with XnView

Software to view and convert graphics files. Free graphic viewer and photo viewer. Supports more than 200 graphics formats, and runs on many platforms.

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FirePHP and Zend Framework 1.6

This means that if you use Zend Framework (ZF) you can now log to your Firebug Console via FirePHP without needing to download any other PHP files such as the FirePHPCore library.

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Cops Need Warrant for Cellphone Location Data

The government cannot force your cellphone provider to turn over stored records about your location without proving to a judge there is probable cause you have violated the law, a federal district court ruled Wednesday.

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One-in-Five Employers Use Social Networking Sites 2 Research

Could your future boss be perusing your profile? Twenty-two percent of hiring managers said they use social networking sites to research job candidates, up from 11 percent in 2006, according to a nationwide survey of more than 3,100 employers from CareerBuilder.com.

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Dilbert will need to think outside the cubicle

The government plans to send more engineers into schools to promote their glittering profession. They will follow in the footsteps of gauche cartoon engineer Dilbert, who told a bemused class of kids: “Engineering is one of the best careers available. For the next 20 years I’ll sit in a big box called a cubicle.

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LED Coffee Table

This project is the game of pong with a new twist and an interesting implementation. The original idea for this project was to design a coffee table to have integrated LEDs. W

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YouTube Bans Terror Training Material

The popular video-sharing website YouTube has introduced new regulations aimed at purging the site of terror-related materials.

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The Simpson's wins 10th best cartoon Emmy

"The Simpsons" once again claimed U.S. television's highest honor for a prime-time cartoon on Saturday at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, extending the show's record winning streak.

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No need to be a super geek to be computer smart

Even if you are ignorant when it comes to computers, these tips will get you headed towards the light. Think of them as six small steps away from ignorance.

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Real Heroes, Fake Stories

a fighter pilot from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington returns from a training mission, finds out that a plane, United Airlines Flight 93, has been hijacked and is heading for Washington, then takes off without refueling and low on ammunition in pursuit.

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Dark Knight trailer Kobe Batman Bryant + Kevin Joker Garnet

Check out this Dark Knight trailer featuring Kobe Bryant as Batman taking it to a crazed Kevin Garnett as the Joker.





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NBA Teams as Batman Villains

One of comics' most tragic villains, Two-Face was once a celebrated district attorney named Harvey Dent. When crime boss Sal Maroni threw acid on Dent during a trial, it scarred Dent's visage and psyche.

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What happens when you apply every filter in Photoshop

Obviously what this guy should have done instead of posting his picture on the internet.

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MS-DOS/MSDOS Batch Files: Batch File Tutorial and Reference

The versatile MS-DOS/MSDOS Batch Language automates routine tasks with Batch files (lists of Batch commands). Learn how to write Batch files with this free, interactive Course and built-in Batch Reference. You need no prior knowledge of Batch files: you're guided through each step on screen in your Web Browser – no need for printouts.

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24 Kick Ass Portfolio Designs

My Top 24 Favorite Websites (Portfolio Focused) Please keep in mind the focus of this post was not the actual work inside the portfolio (although awesome), it was to show the best portfolio design websites.

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