What's Not To Buy: It's The Economy Stupid

What's Not To Buy: It's The Economy Stupid - 31/10/2008: "Concrete reasons why a yield of almost 14% on this share is an investment mirage."

Helping Jack rest in peace this Halloween

Helping Jack rest in peace this Halloween: "If one-quarter of the households in Metro Vancouver carve a Halloween pumpkin this week, that amounts to approximately 200,000 pumpkins.

While they're a happy sight on Halloween night, if they end up in trash cans and dumpsters, they amount to a gargantuan pile of organic material that will rot in landfills and generate methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Consider the math: each pumpkin weighs about five kilograms, so 200,000 pumpkins add up to about 1,000 metric tonnes of organic material. That's about the same weight as 300 elephants. It's a resource that doesn't have to be trashed."

Asleep or Awake, Brain Functions the Same

Asleep or Awake, Brain Functions the Same - washingtonpost.com: "The mind functions essentially the same when asleep as when awake, a new study shows."

Wearing red drives men crazy - proven

Wearing red drives men crazy - proven | The Observers: "A study published on Tuesday claims to prove that women wearing red are more likely to drive men crazy than if clad in any other colour. We tested the theory on our Observers from Iran to Japan, and found it not far from the truth."

Top 10 Countries Censoring the Web

Top 10 Countries Censoring the Web: "Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world, but not in all of them. Some countries are trying hard to keep an iron hand over the flow of information that takes place on the Web. Below you will find the most controversial ones."

Someone Didn’t Want This Getting Out

Someone Didn’t Want This Getting Out: "Maybe we’re better off not knowing."

Your Business Method Patent Has Just Been Invalidated

Your Business Method Patent Has Just Been Invalidated - washingtonpost.com: "If you are one of the recipients of the 1,300 business method patents issued in the U.S. last year, or the thousands more that have been issued rampantly and indiscriminately over the past decade, you are probably out of luck. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled today that business methods are not patentable unless they meet fairly narrow rules. What this means for Internet companies and patent trolls alike is that many of their existing patents may be invalid?at least until the case is heard by the Supreme Court, assuming it is appealed."

Teacher’s sexy strip caught on camera

Teacher’s sexy strip caught on camera | News.com.au Splat! Blog: "I mean, the female teacher must be a desperate attention slut if she has to get up and do that sort of thing. But I still say it’s not in the same ball-park as disguising your underage student and driving her to a lake and sexually abusing her."

After a Month, Hubble Is Clicking Away Again

After a Month, Hubble Is Clicking Away Again - washingtonpost.com: "The Hubble Space Telescope is working again and taking spectacular pictures, officials said yesterday, but a planned space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the orbiting observatory will be delayed a second time and will not take place until May at the earliest."

20 Things That Make You A Man

20 Things That Make You A Man » pTickle: "Opening jars. - nnng… she’s struggling. You take it from her hands, open it effortlessly and pretend she loosened it for you. She didn’t. Jars are men’s work."

12 WTF Coffins to Die For

12 WTF Coffins to Die For: "Well, it’s Halloween, so I’m feeling obligated to write a list about something Halloweeny. I received a tweet this morning showing hanging coffins, and thought they might fit well into a list of bizarre coffins.I have no idea if this list will interest anyone, but I was surprisingly intrigued (and shocked) as I did my research. Hope you enjoy!"

The Quick 10: 10 Ways to Kill Time

mental_floss Blog » The Quick 10: 10 Ways to Kill Time: "Happy Halloween, everyone!!! To celebrate my absolute favorite holiday, I’ve got a treat for you… no tricks required. If your afternoon is deadly dull, here are 10 frightfully ghoulish quizzes (or other forms of distraction) to keep your spirits up until you can transform to your true self this evening."

Geeky Halloween Pumpkins and Costumes

Geeky Halloween Pumpkins and Costumes | WebUrbanist: "Halloween has come around once more and geeks worldwide are rousing themselves from their basements and consoles to enjoy the best Friday the 31st has to offer. It takes a lot to scare, excite or even impress a geek, however… geeky Halloween pumpkins and costumes don’t just have to be good, they’ve got to be BLOODY great!"

Eight Ways To Increase Your Energy Levels

Eight Ways To Increase Your Energy Levels | Dumb Little Man: "One of the more common complaints generally comes right after lunch. Yes, we're talking about the afternoon slump that occurs because something has sucked out every bit of energy you had. This lunch coma can be a huge show-stopper for some."

Automatic Ball Launcher Project

Automatic Ball Launcher Project - a set on Flickr: "I built this for fun, and the dogs get to play fetch while I watch."

Discovering More Ways to Share on Your Windows Network

InformIT: Discovering More Ways to Share on Your Windows Network > Network Storage Drives: "Discover three must-have accessories for your network if you want to seriously share files, printers, and media. Find out how to improve the mundane file and printer sharing methods offered free by Windows, in order to make them more convenient and dependable. See how easy it is to share those digital photos you have stored away on your computer with everyone."

Best crypt ever

A Man Called Freud Can't Keep His Phobia Buried - WSJ.com: "But it isn't a conventional final resting place. Inside the crypt, there's a TV, also a water pitcher and a fruit pantry. Fresh outdoor air flows in through four vents from the chapel roof. Within reach of the coffin are two makeshift megaphones -- plastic cones attached to tubes running out through the wall."

10 Things You Should Do Immediately After Installing Ubuntu 8.10

10 Things You Should Do Immediately After Installing Ubuntu 8.10: "In today’s Linux Gyan, we help you get-things-working once you have installed the Intrepid Ibex. Most people expect certain functions to work out-of-the-box in a modern operating system. Features like MP3 playback, DVD authoring and playback, DivX support, flash player etc to name a few. Unfortunately, due to certain ethical reasons, Ubuntu doesn’t provide such features out of the box."

Five Movies and TV Shows This Election Has Tainted Forever |

Unreality - Five Movies and TV Shows This Election Has Tainted Forever |: "The results of this next election will change the course of history as we know it. However, it’s also tarnished the way I look at some of my favorite shows and movies. Will they actually be ruined forever, or is there hope that the memories might someday fade?"

Graphical Remote Control Desktops for Linux - Controlling Windows Computers From Linux

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Graphical Remote Control Desktops for Linux - Controlling Windows Computers From Linux: "Controlling Windows Computers From Linux"

PHP Tutorials Utopia: 13 Vital PHP skills for every novice PHP developer and solutions

PHP Tutorials Utopia: 13 Vital PHP skills for every novice PHP developer and solutions - aComment.net: "Today, I’m going to write about PHP, The most popular server-side scripting language. There are lots of articles & tutorials online that help novice PHP developers to learn PHP step by step. In this post I’ve listed some of the best PHP tutorials, articles & resources in some of the most important PHP skills. After reading the following tutorials and learning them (of course not all of them), you are free to name yourself a semi-professional PHP developer!"

10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs

10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs at Ririan Project: "Each lesson might be difficult to integrate into your life at first, but if you ease your way into each lesson, one at a time, you’ll notice an immediate improvement in your overall performance. So go ahead, give them a try."

HOW to backup WII GAMES.(guide)

HOW to backup WII GAMES.(guide): "This article is aimed at someone that has not followed the modding scene for the Nintendo Wii and wants to be caught up in one quick de-briefing. The contents of this file could become outdated very quickly because the modding scene is exploding right now. I will do my best to keep it updated so if you see the date is really old shoot me an email and I will update it or at least say that nothing really revolutionary has happened in the modding scene."

Get to know Obama - Japan

Japan | InSight America: "The small city of Obama, on the West coast of Japan, is a normal enough place. Obama (which means “small beach”) has a natural harbour and is one of the closest places in Japan to mainland China; historically it has benefited from the trade that followed that geography. It was the main trade route from China and the Korean peninsular to the old capitals of Japan, Nara and Kyoto."

How to make money with free software...

SPE IDE - Stani's Python Editor: How to make money with free software...: "The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group of architectural offices (unstudio, nox, ...) and artists were invited, including myself. The goal of the competition was not to design a building, but the new 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The winner will be rewarded with a nice price, but most of all with the honor: his design will be realized and will be a legal coin within the Netherlands."

Gimp-Tutorial-Paths---The-Basics-(Vector-Art-Series-Part-1)

Gimp-Tutorial-Paths---The-Basics-(Vector-Art-Series-Part-1) | Manuales y Tutoriales | ¿Noticias de Internet y Tecnologia?, Seguilaflecha: "This is part one of an on-going series of tutorials on creating Vector Art. This one is particularly basic, but you gotta learn to walk before you run, eh? My aim over the series is to teach you the skills needed to create the sort o…"

Creating A Retro Grunge Poster

Creating A Retro Grunge Poster | Photoshop Tutorials: "This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro,"

Make a 3D colour explosion

Digital Arts - Features - Make a 3D colour explosion: "James Davies shares tips on how to blend vector images and Photoshop trickery to jaw-dropping effect."

Designing APIs Related to LINQ Support

InformIT: Designing APIs Related to LINQ Support > 9.6 LINQ Support: "This excerpt provides a very brief overview of LINQ and list guidelines for designing APIs related to LINQ support, including the so-called Query Pattern."

Sarah Palin effigy has been taken down

Sarah Palin effigy has been taken down - Los Angeles Times: "After days of nationwide controversy, a West Hollywood homeowner has removed an effigy of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin that was hanging from a noose off the side of his house."

10 Ways to Use Laser Sharp Focus to Get More Done

10 Ways to Use Laser Sharp Focus to Get More Done | Zen Habits: "There’s an old Confucius saying that goes “If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.” This is especially true when forming new habits and trying to be more productive, but how many times do we do exactly the opposite?"

Giant lego man appears on Brighton beach

Giant lego man appears on Brighton beach - Telegraph: "A giant Lego man is attracting attention on a beach in Brighton - but mystery surrounds how it got there."

From MP3 to audio in 3D

From MP3 to audio in 3D | Technology | Los Angeles Times: "Karlheinz Brandenburg of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology helped develop the MP3 format more than a decade ago, setting the stage for a new era of music consumption. Lately, he's been adding a new dimension to his audio achievements -- technology to deliver sound in true 3D"

Tesla's Tower of Power

Damn Interesting » Tesla's Tower of Power: "In 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordinary structure. Over a period of several years the men had managed to assemble the framework and wiring for the 187-foot-tall Wardenclyffe Tower, in spite of severe budget shortfalls and a few engineering snags. The project was overseen by its designer, the eccentric-yet-ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943)."

7 Incredible Bugs With Man Faces

7 Incredible Bugs With Man Faces | Environmental Graffiti: "The insect world never ceases to amaze. These colorful bugs boast familiar patterns like faces or tribal masks on their shields. While potential predators waste prescious time wondering whether it’s food, enemy or prey, the masked creatures plot their protection tactics or escape."

15 Radical Ways to Recycle Airplanes and Parts

15 Radical Ways to Recycle Airplanes and Parts | WebUrbanist: "Everything wears out sooner or later and aircraft are no exception. What becomes of these winged wonders once their airborne adventures have ended? Some are merely abandoned; transforming from “I soar” to eyesore. Others take on new life through recycling. Here are 15 well-grounded examples."

Pumpkin Carving Made Easy

Pumpkin Carving Made Easy | Popular Science: "Get a leg up on the competition with the Dremel Cordless Pumpkin Carving Tool"

The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use

The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use | Noupe: "If you are trying to do pixel-perfect cross-browser CSS layout, then you have probably ran into problems with IE . I am going to highlight the top 7 CSS hacks that we often use to have pixel perfect design."

How to install Firefox 3 without borking your Firefox 2 installation (it’s easy!)

How to install Firefox 3 without borking your Firefox 2 installation (it’s easy!) | Brad Grier | Byte-Sized Technology In Easy-to-Understand Language | bgrier: "So I need to run Firefox 2 and 3 off the same machine. I needed to install Firefox 3 without breaking my Firefox 2 installation.

Here’s how I did it."

How To Build A Simple Catapult

How To Build A Simple Catapult - Video: "Use popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and a milk jug lid to make a quick catapult."

How To Build A Simple Catapult - Funny bloopers are a click away

Use BitTorrent to Upgrade to Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’

Use BitTorrent to Upgrade to Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’ | TorrentFreak: "Ubuntu, the open source GNU/Linux based operating system, is about to release its next big update - Intrepid Ibex. In the past, the update servers would crash very quickly on a big release day, making it hard for people to get the latest update. With BitTorrent, however, this can be easily avoided."

Would The Internet Exist Without Linux?

Would The Internet Exist Without Linux? | PCMech: "The internet as we know it today predominantly runs on Linux. There’s an extremely high probability that the internet connection you’re using right now is connected thru a Linux server - and routed thru many other Linux servers along the way."

Security analyst warns of 'Google hacking'

Security analyst warns of 'Google hacking' - Network World: "Even with rising awareness about data security, it takes all of a few seconds to pluck Social Security numbers from Web sites using targeted search terms, said Amichai Shulman, founder and CTO for database- and application-security company Imperva."

20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design

20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design - Six Revisions: "The following websites deal with interface design, user experience, user-centered design, usability, and everything in between – all with the goal of enhancing the user’s interface."

Writing your personal statement

Writing your personal statement: "The difference between an ordinary and a special personal statement is in the planning. You should think about what you want to include in your statement and then prepare a draft version. Once you have written a draft copy you should check it to make sure that it flows in a logical order and then check the spelling, punctuation and grammar."

Twittering Teddy Bear using Arduino Microcontroller

My Home 2.0 - DIY - STEPS: "Guru Alison and I performed some, uh, innovative 2.0 surgery on an old childhood friend. The result: a real-time Twittering, talking, live-streaming social media phenomenon. I worked with my team at the Drexel Music and Entertainment Technology Lab to develop Teddy’s text-to-speech software."

Build a witnesscam

Atmel AVR Design Contest 2006: "The WITNESSCAM is a self-recording surveillance camera that’s perfect for the home or office. The innovative, ATmega32-based system features a VGA CMOS color camera, a passive-infrared (PIR) movement sensor, and a 1-GB SD card. The aesthetically pleasing prototype looks like an ordinary alarm detector, but when it detects movement, it silently starts recording. You can control the camera an infrared remote. The interactive camera responds with voice prompts, and the circuit can recognize when the box is open"

Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony!

Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com: "With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t save it."

Why Voting Technology Must be Open Source - O'Reilly Broadcast

Why Voting Technology Must be Open Source - O'Reilly Broadcast: "Here's a video they published documenting some of the 'vote switching' problems which have been reported in West Virginia"

McDonald's Halloween Pails

SydLexia.com - McDonald's Halloween Pails: "Back in the day, McDonald's had the absolute best kids' meals, because they got all the good licenses. Whether it was Hot Wheels, Legos, Disney, Nintendo, Fraggles, The Berenstain Bears, Batman, or Looney Tunes, McDonald's almost always had something cool inside their Happy Meals. Hell, even their original toys were pretty cool. Toys like the Food Changeables and the Fast Mac cars were pretty solid too. But every so often, McDonald's would offer up a Happy Prize that was less than spectacular. You see, not all the Happy Meal prizes were toys. To help promote Santa Claus: The Movie, McDonald's gave away books. Like, with words and everything. Sure, they were a lot nicer than your average Happy Meal prize... BUT THEY WERE FUCKING BOOKS. Even worse were the lunchboxes. For some reason, some at McDonald's thought that cheap plastic monochrome lunchboxes emblazoned with McDonaldland characters would be a good prize. They weren't. Luckily for McDonald's, those crappy prizes have long since been forgotten by most people. So now I want to talk to you about a much more famous set of non-toy McDonald's prizes: the Halloween pails."

Goodbye Fedora, Welcome Ubuntu

Goodbye Fedora, Welcome Ubuntu | Clement Nyirenda's blog world: "I started thinking that Ubuntu is great. I asked for the installation disk, installed it on my PC and I am now in my third week with Ubuntu Hardy.I am finding it more ejoyable than Fedora.And I would like to say goodbye Fedora and welcome Ubuntu!!!"

Build a stylish image gallery using Lightbox 2 and JavaScript

Build a stylish image gallery using Lightbox 2 and JavaScript: "The Web has increasingly become a medium for showing off art. From candid snapshots taken by an amateur photographer to professional art galleries, Web pages are primary vehicles for displaying images. But a beautiful image is hindered—or aided—by its frame. Using a simple JavaScript library, you can 'frame' your online images beautifully and provide an intuitive user interface along the way."

XML for publishing

XML for publishing: "This article describes how you can convert documents designed for print publishing to structured documents. The sections that follow cover the logical musts to ensure that publishing is possible—even easier—following a transition to XML. The focus is on how to design structure for your content."

Build seven good object-oriented habits in PHP

Build seven good object-oriented habits in PHP: "With PHP's object-oriented (OO) language features, if you aren't already creating your applications with OO principles in mind, these seven habits will help you get started in the transition between procedural programming and OO programming."

High-performance XML parsing in Python with lxml

High-performance XML parsing in Python with lxml: "lxml is a fast yet flexible library for XML processing in Python. It comes bundled with support for XML Path Language (XPath) and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT), and it implements the familiar ElementTree API. In this article, you focus both on the ease of use provided by lxml and on its high-performance profile when processing very large XML data."

Get to know GCC 4

Get to know GCC 4: "In the last few years, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has undergone a major transition from GCC version 3 to version 4. With GCC 4 comes a new optimization framework (and new intermediate code representation), new target and language support, and a variety of new attributes and options. Get to know the major new features and their benefits."

Video Games Help Elderly Drivers

ABC News: Video Games Help Elderly Drivers: "Old Brains Learn New Technology Tricks For The Road"

NASA Building Robot Psychiatrist for Depressed Astronauts

FOXNews.com - NASA Building Robot Psychiatrist for Depressed Astronauts - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News: "Your work is dangerous and your co-workers rely on you to stay alive. But you can never get far from those colleagues. You can't see your family for months, even years. The food isn't great. And forget stepping out for some fresh air"

Bandai robot keeps eye on your home

Bandai robot keeps eye on your home | The Japan Times Online: "I, robot: Bandai's robot designers must be fans of the iconic sci-fi movie 'Forbidden Planet.' While Sony has forsaken its line of Aibo robot dogs, it solidified the spirit that Japanese robots should have a high cuteness factor."

YouTube - Autodesk internal discussion about Softimage

YouTube - Autodesk internal discussion about Softimage:



"Even with 3D Max purchasing Maya via the Alias takeover, their plans for a professional 3D animation package have come up short again."

Yoga and trumpets put eyes at risk

Yoga and trumpets put eyes at risk | The Australian: "EVERY day activities like swimming, doing a gym workout or playing a musical instrument could be making pressure-related eye diseases worse, Australian research says."

Google Adds Gadgets to Gmail

Google Adds Gadgets to Gmail - News and Analysis by PC Magazine: "Google on Monday announced the release of a number of 'experiments' for Gmail. Users can now add gadgets to the left-nav of their Gmail account, beside Labels and Gchat."

What to do if they "unregister" you from voting

goodvote.org: "When you go to vote, do you know what to do if someone tells you you're not on the list or there's a problem with your voter registration?"

God as Computer Programmer

Mangalorean.Com- Serving Mangaloreans Around The World!: "Some Important Theological Questions are Answered if we think of God as a Computer Programmer."

Beer drinkers slay brewing giant over pricing scandal

Beer drinkers slay brewing giant over pricing scandal: "Beer drinkers are hailing a victory against brewing giant Fosters over a pricing scandal linked to the downsizing of their favourite stubby."

Visualizing Data with Flot

Visualizing Data with Flot - NETTUTS: "There are a lot of tutorials on how to make CSS bar graphs. But sometimes, bar graphs aren't enough. What if our data tracks change over time and a line graph is more appropriate? Or maybe we're not satisfied with just a bar graph. Enter Flot, ajQuery plugin that lets us make good looking graphs with ease."

Tweak Imperfect Digital Photos With Web Applications

Tweak Imperfect Digital Photos With Web Applications - Lifehacker Australia: "While a big selling point for digital photography is that you can take multiple shots and then discard the duds, you don't always get the chance to do that. Sometimes a single imperfect picture is all you've got, but that doesn't mean your finger has to stray to the Delete key straight away. Here's a handful of our favourite web apps for tweaking photos, offering ways of redeeming those less than perfect snaps without even having to install any software."

8 Tremendously Important Ways That Gratitude Can Change Your Life

8 Tremendously Important Ways That Gratitude Can Change Your Life | Zen Habits: "One of the things that has had the biggest effect on my life is the realization of the power of gratitude. Simply giving thanks."

8 Bookmarklets that Simply Kick Ass!

8 Bookmarklets that Simply Kick Ass!: "I’ll admit, I’m a huge Firefox fan, and always found add-ons to fill my browsing needs. Then Google launched Chrome, and I had to give it a try. Chrome has now become my default browser on my XP laptop, and while trying to find workarounds for add-ons, I spent some time with bookmarklets."

Spooky space pictures: a Halloween gallery

Gallery - Spooky space pictures: a Halloween gallery - Image 1 - New Scientist: "To celebrate Halloween, New Scientist Space has assembled a gallery of spine-tingling images from space. Part 2 of the gallery will be posted later in the week - check back if you dare."

Horses at work and at play

Horses at work and at play - The Big Picture - Boston.com: "The 2008 Breeders' Cup World Championships were held last weekend at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Horses and jockeys raced 14 championship races of differing grades and surfaces, and prizes totalling $25.5 milllion were awarded. Collected here are photos from the Breeders' Cup, and several others, taking a look at horses in the news around the world recently, at work and at play."

Inside Netsecurify

Inside Netsecurify | GNUCITIZEN: "Netsecurify is a free, automated information security testing tool which we exclusively offer to organizations and initiatives which desperately need security services but cannot afford to buy. In today’s market conditions this pretty much includes everybody."

BMW wants to help develop open-source in-vehicle platform

BMW wants to help develop open-source in-vehicle platform - Autoblog: "Automakers have been adding electronic gizmos to vehicles for decades, and operating systems have been developed to allow each system communicate with one another. The OSs are different from one brand to the next, but BMW wants to help develop a system using an open-source Linux platform it's helping to create along with Google and Wind River Systems."

Shut down idle computers on your network automatically

Shut down idle computers on your network automatically: "Save electricity, bandwidth, and wear by detecting inactive systems on your network and shutting them down automatically"

How to manage your response to a crisis

How to manage your response to a crisis - Times Online: "Carly Chynoweth asks how companies can survive and thrive when things go wrong"

Keeping vision 20/20 in a 24/7 digital world

Keeping vision 20/20 in a 24/7 digital world: "Many parents become concerned after looking to the Internet for information about computers and eye problems. The Web abounds with articles allegedly written by eye-care professionals stating that many ophthalmologists believe increased computer use by children puts them at risk for early development of nearsightedness, or myopia."

Sun Speaks Out on the Future of the Java Platform

Sun Speaks Out on the Future of the Java Platform: "Danny Coward, chief architect of the Client Software Group at Sun Microsystems, discusses Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10 and the future of the Java Platform with eWEEK."

IIS Rewriting vs ASP.NET Routing

InfoQ: IIS Rewriting vs ASP.NET Routing: "With the recent release of URL-rewrite module for IIS 7.0 and the inclusion of ASP.NET routing into the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, many ASP.NET developers are questioning how these two features relate to each other and when each should be used."

Unmanned aerial vehicle and bomb disposal robot unveiled

Gulfnews: Unmanned aerial vehicle and bomb disposal robot unveiled: "Police authorities in Makati and Manila have unveiled innovative solutions to address local security concerns using readily available materials and low cost technology."

Getting robots in to clean high-rise windows

Getting robots in to clean high-rise windows - ISRAEL21c: "While the world is likely to continue needing police officers and firefighters, and trappers will continue to brave the cold waters of Alaska to find the pricey crabs, high-rise window washers could become a thing of the past thanks to Israeli company Skybot."

Woers from the PC guy: Fake Presidential Trivia

Author John Hodgman's Fake Presidential Trivia : NPR: "It got us to thinking — what makes someone presidential? Is it experience, wisdom — or the ability to turn things invisible?"

The Challenger Disaster, Financial Collapse–and Viable Solutions

Dissident Voice : The Challenger Disaster, Financial Collapse–and Viable Solutions: "Richard C. Cook is the author of Challenger Revealed, and the forthcoming, We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform. His work is widely disseminated on the Internet."

How we could save money, time, and the environment by making homes easy to remodel

How we could save money, time, and the environment by making homes easy to remodel - The Boston Globe: "How we could save money, time, and the environment by making homes easy to remodel"

I lost 9st by kicking my incredible Coke habit

I lost 9st by kicking my incredible Coke habit - WalesOnline: "SUPER-SLIMMER Jason Morgan has lost almost nine stone in just seven months – by quitting his 10 litre-a-day Coca Cola habit."

Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire - Fox Networks - Fuzzy Door Productions

Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire - Fox Networks - Fuzzy Door Productions | Fast Company: "Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane nabbed a record $100 million deal with Fox and is teaching Google new ways to exploit the Web. Could this crude frat-boy cartoonist really be a model for business in the postmodern age?"

Access Linux Platform upgraded, downsized

Access Linux Platform upgraded, downsized : News : Communications - ZDNet Asia: "The next version of the Access Linux Platform has been unveiled, alongside a lightweight version of the mobile operating system for low-cost handsets."

The dark (theme) side of Firefox

The dark (theme) side of Firefox - Mozilla Links: "For those inclined to black or dark desktops, here are six nice Firefox themes you want to give a try."

Halloween + Air & Space Museum = Awesome!

Halloween + Air & Space Museum = Awesome! | Geekdad from Wired.com: "One of my kids' favorite museums is the National Air & Space Museum's annex near Dulles Airport. And, like most kids in the U.S. under 15, one of their favorite holidays is Halloween. Last night, at an annual event called Air & Scare, they (and my wife and I) had a chance to combine the two."

How to do the Joker makeup with gelatin

YouTube - How to do the Joker makeup with gelatin: "I currently work at Easley's Fun Shop in Phoenix, AZ and have been getting a lot of questions on how to do the Joker makeup for Halloween. This is my version"

Autodesk Signs Agreement with Avid Technology to Acquire Softimage

Autodesk - Autodesk Signs Agreement with Avid Technology to Acquire Softimage: "Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Autodesk to acquire substantially all of the assets of Avid’s Softimage business unit for approximately $35 million."

Oprah Plugs the Kindle and Offers up a $50 Discount

Oprah Plugs the Kindle and Offers up a $50 Discount: "The endorsement does come with a fringe benefit however. A $50 price break is offered when using the promotional code OPRAHWINFREY during checkout. So if you’ve been waiting for a price drop before you pick up a Kindle this brings the device down to a modest $309.00 USD until November 1st 2008."

Enhancing Your Network with Voice and Video Gadgets

Enhancing Your Network with Voice and Video Gadgets > VoIP and Wi-Fi Phones: "Eric Geier covers accessories and gadgets you can use on your wired or WiFi network. You'll discover ways to stream video, audio, and data across your network or around the world — enhancing your network and opening up more ways to share. Plus, you'll save time and money to get the biggest return possible on the investment of your home or office network."

Fun with Linux Commands-II - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Fun with Linux Commands-II - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | Quick Tweaks: "When you are new to Linux you often seek to get help from others and almost most of the advices you get will be in the form of some commands such as ps, top, modprobe, lspci etc. Be careful when you run these commands as some Anti-Linux a**holes try to fool new Linux users in the name of tips and tutorials.If after following such command(s), you lose all your files, no one is to be blamed but you."

Ridiculous Resumes - Unix, Linux And Everything In Between

Ridiculous Resumes - Unix, Linux And Everything In Between: "Hope you enjoy these, and have a relaxing Sunday :)"

How to Clear/Flush DNS cache in Windows / Linux / Mac Machines

How to Clear/Flush DNS cache in Windows / Linux / Mac Machines: "If you continually get DNS errors while trying to brows any site, but the same site on another computer on the same network is working fine. Then this problem is because of the DNS cache of the machine and you need to reload your DNS cache on that machine."

How to fix an Ubuntu crash

How to fix an Ubuntu crash: "Here’s a summary of the problem. I wanted to try Ubuntu to see what all the hype was about. I downloaded the latest LiveCD for 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and booted it up. Liking what I saw, I started the install process. From that point, until just before the install was completed, my computer would lock up hard. Every time."

How to Convert .BIN/.CUE Files to .ISO in Ubuntu

How to Convert .BIN/.CUE Files to .ISO in Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Geek: "An ISO image is an archive file (a.k.a. disk image) of an optical disc using a conventional ISO (International Organization for Standardization ) format that is supported by many software vendors. ISO image files typically have a file extension of .ISO. Occasionally, you might come across a disc image in the BIN format. While there are ways to use BIN/CUE’s in Linux, it is much easier to convert them to the standard ISO format."

Building hit by lightning

Building hit by lightning: "Honey is time to sell the condo!"

China's stone forrest

China's stone forrest: "One of those places you have to visit to believe it (content in Spanish but you are just there for the pics)"

The Sarah Palin look is Halloween's must-have

The Sarah Palin look is Halloween's must-have - Telegraph: "As Americans prepare for this week's barrage of Halloween celebrations and parades, the Sarah Palin 'look' is the hottest item for partygoers who want to make a political statement on the eve of the presidential elections."

Facebook to allow corporations to advertise via users’ referrals

Facebook to allow corporations to advertise via users’ referrals - Times Online: "Facebook plans to allow users to advertise products on behalf of companies in a move that will increase significantly the number of corporate messages on the site."

Epic Fail: Five Doomed Tech Initiatives

Epic Fail: Five Doomed Tech Initiatives: "Technology initiatives come and go. Some have proved resilient and useful, like USB, HDMI, and the good old PCI bus."

Microsoft Arc Mouse Review

Microsoft Arc Mouse Review: "Microsoft's Arc Mouse has a fitting name—a symmetrical, well crafted semi-circle shape that is suitable equally for righties and lefties. Forget the traditional soap design seen with most mice. The Arc can fold up like a flip phone for easier storage along with an auto-shutoff when closed shut. It is held together by a metal hinge that can withstand 25 pounds of pressure. Guided with a laser sensor and three Teflon pads, the Arc Mouse is fitting for smooth tracking across multiple surfaces."

5 Reasons Why Apple TV Sucks!

5 Reasons Why Apple TV Sucks!: "As an Apple TV owner I, unfortunately, have to agree with him. While Apple TV has made some progress, there's still quite a bit missing from it in order for it to really hit a home run. So here are five reasons why Apple TV sucks. If Apple pays attention to this list it might still be possible to save Apple TV from oblivion. If not then oh well, Apple TV was somewhat fun while it lasted."

Safe Coding Practices

Dr. Dobb's | Safe Coding Practices: "Gwyn examines several types of coding vulnerabilities and examines how you can mitigate the risk of exploit within your code."

Mythbusters Electric Cars vs. Gas Vehicles - Jamie Hyneman on Fuel Economy

Mythbusters Electric Cars vs. Gas Vehicles - Jamie Hyneman on Fuel Economy - Popular Mechanics: "In a PopularMechanics.com exclusive, Jamie Hyneman breaks down his team's most recent eye-popping experiment: rolling out a Ferrari, Harley, ATV, compact car and hand-built go-kart to the track, and pitting each against its electric-propulsion counterpart. The bottom line? Plug-in vehicles aren't just clean, they're fast—and might be easier to build than a toy car."

How To Build a 3D Lego Halloween Pumpkin

How To Do A 3D Lego Halloween Pumpkin: How To Build a 3D Lego Halloween Pumpkin: "While this Lego Halloween Pumpkin is not as spooky and macabre as the sectioned Lego minifig showing his skeleton and inner guts, it is a complete must in any geekabolous nerdy Halloween decorations. In fact, I would be building a whole bunch of this following these very simple instructions:"

A Sed and Awk Micro-Primer

A Sed and Awk Micro-Primer: "This is a very brief introduction to the sed and awk text processing utilities. We will deal with only a few basic commands here, but that will suffice for understanding simple sed and awk constructs within shell scripts."

Why artist Bob Staake is still using Photoshop 3.0 in 2008

Macworld | Creative Notes | If it ain’t broke, don’t upgrade it: "Chances are you’ve seen Bob Staake’s work at some point. Besides contributing to more than 40 books as author, artist, or both, Staake’s also done illustrations for clients as diverse as The New York Times and Anheuser Busch. His work has graced everything from advertisements and games to Hallmark greeting cards and the cover of The New Yorker."

r/c rear window hand flips off tailgaters

r/c rear window hand flips off tailgaters on [technabob]: "Available from Perpetual Kid, the remote-controlled electroluminescent sign ($40) can be set to display a multitude of digit combinations. You can even animate the fingers in sequence. But there are only a couple of signs that I think would be of much use for most of my roadtrips."

Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet… to Help NASA

Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet… to Help NASA | Universe Today: "A company owned by Google's founders has just brought a 1982 light attack Dornier Alpha Jet. H211 LLC owns several aircraft that are frequently used by Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and in an 'unusual' agreement signed last year, H211 managed to get the rights to operate from an airstrip ten minutes away from Google HQ near the south end of San Francisco Bay, California. This isn't any ordinary airstrip, it is Moffett Field, owned by the NASA Ames Research Center…"

DjangoCon 2008 Video Sessions

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.: "Videos of the sessions from DjangoCon 2008, the first ever international Django conference. DjangoCon 2008 was hosted by Google's Open Source Team at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, USA Sept. 6 & 7, 2008.
From:GoogleDevelopers"

Ubuntu's Live USB Disk Creator

[Phoronix] Ubuntu's Live USB Disk Creator: "In this article we are providing a quick look at this utility to easily spin your own USB disk images."

AC/DC “Rock N Roll Train” – the world's first music video in an Excel Spreadsheet

AC/DC “Rock N Roll Train” – the world's first music video in an Excel Spreadsheet: "AC/DC smashes through your firewall with real rock ‘n’ roll! Download the spreadsheet to watch the Rock N Roll Train video in all it’s Low Definition™ glory!"

That’s how they deal with traffic offenses in China

That’s how they deal with traffic offenses in China ! [Photos] | c77c Blog: "Well, That’s how they deal with traffic offenses in China, Make it easy make it simple ."

7 Close Calls in the Nuclear Age

mental_floss Blog » 7 Close Calls in the Nuclear Age: "Here’s a formula for fun: Arm two superpowers to the teeth with thousands of nuclear warheads. Make sure they are deeply hostile and suspicious of each other. Now, cut off diplomatic communication, stir in about 50 smaller countries with their own agendas on each side, and—voilà!—you’ve got yourself a cold war!"

HOW TO - Make Star Wars Halloween Costumes for Dogs

Craftzine.com blog: HOW TO - Make Star Wars Halloween Costumes for Dogs: "Ever since last Halloween, I've wanted to make Lulu an Ewok costume for Halloween. Last year I just didn't have the time so I knew I had to get this going this year. It turned out her two best friends Gello (Darth Vader) and Lucy (Princess Leia), wanted costumes too for the upcoming neighborhood Halloween pet party this Sunday."

Top 5 Unsolved Brain Mysteries

HowStuffWorks "Top 5 Unsolved Brain Mysteries": "you could be forgiven for wondering if neuroscientists are just big slackers. As it is, mysteries galore abound in those 3 pounds, and until fairly recently, scientists lacked the equipment to accurately study the brain. With the advent of brain imaging technology, it's possible that they'll continue to learn more."

82 Epic Natural Phenomena and Disasters

82 Epic Natural Phenomena and Disasters | WebUrbanist: "Sectioned according to the four classic elements of earth, water, fire and air, here are 52 elemental phenomena and formations, 30 environmental disasters and to round it off: 100 beautiful HDR photographs of the natural world."

10 Impressive Rails Apps Built in 48 Hours or Less

10 Impressive Rails Apps Built in 48 Hours or Less - Mashable: "It’s hard to pick from such a comprehensive list, but here are my thoughts on ten applications to watch out of all 137. Take a look at these, then go see the rest of the 137 and place your own vote while the voting is still open. You could influence the “next big thing” in Web 2.0."

Are You Employed or Employable? (video)

Are You Employed or Employable? (video) | CenterNetworks: "There's been a lot of talk lately about people being let go across large technology companies and startups. I'd like to share something with you that a CIO once told me a long time ago. It's about always being employable instead of just being employed. I created the video below to explain the difference. Think about it."

Some Productive Ubuntu Kung Fu

Book Excerpt: Some Productive Ubuntu Kung Fu: "Here are a few of my favorite pointers to increase productivity if you're an Ubuntu user. None of the tips are specific to Ubuntu, and with a little wrangling should work on any GNOME-based Linux desktop. All are taken from my new book Ubuntu Kung Fu, which contains over 300 other tips on the topic of productivity, security, performance, image editing, the command-line, hardware, and much more."

Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows security fix

Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows security fix • The Register: "Microsoft has released an emergency security update for a broad swath of its users that patches a critical security hole that is already being exploited in the wild."

40 Tips for optimizing your php code

40 Tips for optimizing your php code // Reinhold Weber: "Some bits of PHP code that will speed up your web app."

35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials

35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine: "We’ve scoured the Web to find some impressive Photoshop tutorials that can help you achieve an 'old-fashioned' look-and-feel in your designs. In this post, we go back to the 1900’s all theway to the 1980’s to showcase a variety of vintage- and retro-inspired designs that involve poster art, collages and graphical elements. Whether you’re into print design or web design, you’ll find something you can use or build upon."

54 Inspirational Quotes To Jumpstart Your Day

54 Inspirational Quotes To Jumpstart Your Day | Alex Shalman . com: "You can read them all at once, or separate them for each week of the year. Read them in the morning, on the weekends, or as part of a weekly review. Put a post-it note on your wall, carry them in your pocket or write them on your hand."

Make Something New with Your Old Digital Camera

Make Something New with Your Old Digital Camera: "In this article we've put together some fun and useful ideas for what you can do with your old digital camera."

Superhero Copywriting Tips: “Holy Persuasion, Batman!”

Superhero Copywriting Tips: “Holy Persuasion, Batman!” | FutureNow's GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog: "Audiences love superheroes because they dramatize these psychological conflicts in exaggerated, symbolic glory. Superheroes are not only uniquely talented but uniquely broken; their very talent is what alienates them from the same society they struggle to help with their superpowers."

Layoff Sign: Boss's Cold Shoulder

Layoff Sign: Boss's Cold Shoulder - WSJ.com: "Marcia Finberg's relationship with her boss had been cordial during the three years she worked as vice president of marketing and business development for a Phoenix hospital. Her boss, the CEO, always made small talk and followed up with her on projects. When this rapport suddenly stopped, Ms. Finberg knew something was up. Three months later her job was eliminated."

Stairs to nowhere

Top of Tyrol by Astearchitecture: "
Innsbruck-based architects Astearchitecture have completed a mountain-top viewing platform above a glacier in Tyrol, Austria."

Awesome Examples of Macro Phototgraphy

Incredible pictures of animals: "There is a world yet to discover with macro photography."

How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?

How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? - Population Reference Bureau: "One reason the question keeps coming up is that somewhere, at some time back in the 1970s, a now-forgotten writer made the statement that 75 percent of the people who had ever been born were alive at that moment."

Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users

Google Code Blog: Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users: "I am thrilled to announce that today we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world."

How to Build a Robot Tutorial

How to Build a Robot Tutorial - Society of Robots: "Build a quality robot for under $50 - on your own!"

What are the 20 most significant comics in American comics history?

Comic Book Resources > Permanent Damage - 10-22-2008: "The schedule got tightened a bit with the graphic novel, so I'm a little under the gun this week, but someone asked me about this awhile ago and I've been meaning to answer. The following are, in chronological order, comics that changed the nature of the industry. Not necessarily permanently, and it's not all a matter of artistic value. In fact, little of it is. But let's face it: despite the thousands of comics published, there are very few - very few — that seriously changed either the business or public perception of it. These did."

Java on Google App Engine? Not yet

Java on Google App Engine? Not yet | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET: "Reports out of a Google developer conference in India indicated that Google was primed to add support for Java programs running on its presently Python-only Google App Engine. Java support is a top request for the Web application hosting site, but fans would be better off holding their horses for now."

How to Write a Silverlight Application

InformIT: How to Write a Silverlight Application > Application Principles: "This chapter covers Silverlight application principles and the components to a Silverlight XAP, introduces XAML and explains how to integrate code with your display XAML, and shows you what the Silverlight run-time does under the hood."

Selectively Deleting Memories

ABC News: Selectively Deleting Memories: "Research in Mice Suggests It Might Be Possible to Delete Specific Memories"

Bill Gates' mysterious new company

Bink.nu | Bill Gates' mysterious new company - Bink.nu: "Just months after his Microsoft farewell, Bill Gates is quietly creating a new company -- complete with high-tech office space, a cryptic name and even its own trademark."

First Impressions of My New Android Phone

First Impressions of My New Android Phone - O'Reilly Broadcast: "Unlike the Blackberry, the T-Mobile Android phone can charge off of a USB cable. Unlike the iPhone you don't need a special application like iTunes to manage files and music. You can just dump files in like its a regular USB disk"

XSS-Proxy is an advanced Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attack tool

XSS-Proxy: A tool for realtime XSS hijacking and control: "If you are not famliar with XSS, then I recommend you check out the primer links/docs below to get a better of idea of what XSS is and how to detect it, fix it, and exploit it."

10 Fun Firefox Add-ons

TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL: 10 Fun Firefox Add-ons: "Since there are already plenty of lists out there that features some of the most essential add-ons, I'm left with sharing to you all this collection of fun Firefox add-ons. So what exactly is a fun add-on? --It is an add-on that's simply made for entertainment purposes."

Perl 6 isn't vaporware

Perl 6 isn't vaporware |Fatal Exception | Neil McAllister | InfoWorld: "A Perl project contributor takes me to task for selling the next-gen dynamic language short"

Linux Gaming Console Coming in November

Linux Gaming Console Coming in November | OStatic: "If anything, this release will heat up the 'Linux isn't an operating system for gaming' chorus."

IBM Study Finds Consumers Prefer a Mobile Device Over the PC

IBM Study Finds Consumers Prefer a Mobile Device Over the PC - MarketWatch: "IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released new survey results which reveal that over 50 percent of consumers would substitute their Internet usage on a PC for a mobile device. Expanding on the May 2008 'Go Mobile, Grow' study produced by IBM's Institute for Business Value, the survey identifies new findings that validate previous conclusions on how consumers will be open to full adoption of the mobile device as the hub for Internet activity."

UNBELIEVABLE: 2 small planes collide in air in Colo; no injuries

The Associated Press: 2 small planes collide in air in Colo; no injuries: "A sheriff's department plane carrying inmates collided with another small craft in the air over western Colorado on Wednesday, but both landed safely and no injuries were reported, authorities said."

Twitter grows like wildfire, but MySpace still on top

Twitter grows like wildfire, but MySpace still on top | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET: "Nielsen has released numbers for its estimates on the biggest and fastest-growing social media sites in the U.S. for the month of September, and there are a few surprises."

Border-Crossing Cards Can Be Copied - WSJ.com

Border-Crossing Cards Can Be Copied - WSJ.com: "New U.S. border-crossing cards can be copied and remotely disabled with off-the-shelf equipment, researchers said, the latest finding of security weaknesses in wireless technology"

The Inclusive 4GB SD Card Workaround Solution for Wii

The Inclusive 4GB SD Card Workaround Solution for Wii! - Cheap Ass Gamer: "Okay! Now we all know that Nintendo's official line is that cards larger than 2GB will not work on the Wii...and for the most part this is true. However...what about a 4GB SD (NOT SDHC) card that PRETENDS it's a 2GB, but then over time can be slowly expanded to meet it's 4GB potential?"

Insanely detailed carved halloween pumpkins

Gallery / Toys and Collectibles - Villafane Studios Artist Ray Villafane: "Who knew you could work pumpkins this way."

'Atomic pen' writes with individual atoms

'Atomic pen' writes with individual atoms ::: Pink Tentacle: "An Osaka University research team has demonstrated an “atomic pen” that can inscribe nano-sized text on metal by manipulating individual atoms on the surface."

Subversion Best Practices

Subversion Best Practices - Quick Notes: "This is a quick set of guidelines for making the best use of Subversion in your day-to-day software development work including why and when to branch, learn about merging."

Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux

Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux: "Mr. Gavin provides tools for systems data collection and display and discusses what information is needed and why."

Justice is coming to all of us matter what we do...

I'll drink to that.

Bonlebon

P.S. ALWAYS keep an eye on the watchmen.

Best digital SLR for beginners

Best digital SLR for beginners - Digital Cameras: "If you're looking to buy your first dSLR, you're spoilt for choice — or possibly overwhelmed by the options."

Keep an Eye on F#

Redmond Developer News | Keep an Eye on F#: "The marriage of F# and Visual Studio has brought about unprecedented ease of use for a functional language, as well as excellent project- and team-organization facilities."

The Scan That Didn’t Scan

The Scan That Didn’t Scan - NYTimes.com: "This is a story about M.R.I.’s, those amazing scans that can show tissue injury and bone damage, inflammation and fluid accumulation. Except when they can’t and you think they can."

Lazy Linux: 11 secrets for lazy cluster admins

Lazy Linux: 11 secrets for lazy cluster admins: "Visit the inner sanctum of lazy Linux admins and discover how to reduce effort, regardless of number of nodes"

Cloning your Ubuntu Installation

Cloning your Ubuntu Installation « PHP::Impact ( [str Blog] ): "It’s always handy to have a complete list of packages installed, specially if you want to create a system that is similar to a different system you have already set up. In this post I’ll cover how you can export a list of installed packages on one Ubuntu system, and import them into another to build a duplicate system."

The compelling economics of Linux: What it means for the future of computing

The compelling economics of Linux: What it means for the future of computing : Jim Zemlin: "Today the Linux Foundation issued a report looking at the value of the Linux platform in terms of code. This was an update of a 2002 study that estimated the value then at $1.2 Billion."

Netflix: Blu-ray Players Will Replace DVD Players

Netflix: Blu-ray Players Will Replace DVD Players: "Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said yesterday that he believes that the Blu-ray high-def disc player will ultimately replace the standard-def DVD player."

Social Tetris Costume

The Diary of Tetris: "Time to gather some friends and build a social costume theme."

This is How You Use the Google Maps API - screencast

This is How You Use the Google Maps API - screencast - NETTUTS: "You've used Google maps many times, but there is only one problem: you have no idea how to use the API. Well get out your spoon and dig in!"

How to Create an Object-Oriented Blog Using PHP

How to Create an Object-Oriented Blog Using PHP - NETTUTS: "the purpose of this tutorial is not to make a 'better' blog but to use the process of making a blog to learn about advanced database structure techniques and how to use data more efficiently by utilizing objects in PHP."

YouTube - Jesse Kalisher's Photography Tips - How to Become a Brilliant Photographer #1

How to Become a Brilliant Photographer #1: "Terrific tips on how to become a brilliant photographer with internationally acclaimed photographer, Jesse Kalisher"

Baghdad dog Ratchet arrives in US

Baghdad dog Ratchet arrives in US | NEWS.com.au: "A PLAYFUL black dog named Ratchet has landed in the US to start a new life with the army member who rescued him from a burning pile of rubbish in Iraq."

Anatomy of a Web Service Contract

InformIT: Anatomy of a Web Service Contract > 4.1 What is a Web Service Contract?: "This chapter explains the Web service contract from a conceptual and structural perspective"

DIY Phot-o-lantern

Phot-o-lantern: "Here is a relatively easy way to to take a photo of yourself, a friend, or a random celebrity and carve them into a jack-o-lantern."

DIY Melon Brains

Melon Brains: "Even vegetarian zombies crave these brains!"

Customize a Google Maps result page with Google Mapplets

Customize a Google Maps result page with Google Mapplets: "Create a client and server-side solution using RSS, XSLT, PHP, KML, and JavaScript"

Intelligent agents and the Semantic Web

Intelligent agents and the Semantic Web: "This article provides an overview of the Interlinked Semantic Web, agent technologies, and an example of the two combined."

How to manage your response to a crisis

How to manage your response to a crisis - Times Online: "Carly Chynoweth asks how companies can survive and thrive when things go wrong"

Ubuntu Basics - Appearance

Ubuntu Basics - Appearance | PCMech: "Some great tips to get the best desktop aesthetics."

9 tips for Ubuntu notebook users

9 tips for Ubuntu notebook users — Ubuntu Kung Fu: "Here are some tips for Ubuntu users who use notebook computers, including how to sync files effortlessly between a laptop and desktop, how to switch CPU speeds on the fly from the desktop, how to power-save your hard disk, and more. Only one or two are specific to notebooks so desktop users may find them interesting too."

The Unofficial 5-Step Guide to Keeping Up With Linux

The Unofficial 5-Step Guide to Keeping Up With Linux: "Keeping up with Linux is a time-consuming endeavor. Linux is frequently changing, and it's so large and widely used that it is nearly impossible to keep up with all the evolution. With open source communities come power, productivity and efficiency; so much that it is difficult to know what is happening."

Actual chickens win Plat'Home's 'Will Linux Work?' contest

Actual chickens win Plat'Home's 'Will Linux Work?' contest | Negative Approach - CNET News: "Plat'Home, the maker of small, tough, eco-friendly servers that I've blogged about before, ran a contest this summer about ideas. They called it the 'Will Linux Work? Contest' and solicited ideas how to use Linux, how to abuse Linux, how to push the limits."

The 10 best FREE shoot 'em ups

The 10 best FREE shoot 'em ups | GamesRadar: "Gaming is an expensive hobby. After all the money you’ve spent on games, consoles and peripherals, isn’t it about time you got something for nothing? Of course it is. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the best FREE shoot ‘em ups we could find."

Beijing official given death sentence

Beijing official given death sentence - KHL Group: "A former Beijing vice-mayor in charge of overseeing construction projects for the Beijing 2008 Olympics has been given a death sentence, suspended for two years, for corruption, according to on-line news agency China Daily."

OpenAjax Alliance Sets Standards for Metadata, Widget Interop and Mashup Security

OpenAjax Alliance Sets Standards for Metadata, Widget Interop and Mashup Security: "The OpenAjax Alliance has made good on promises it made earlier about boosting enterprise-class Web development with new Web 2.0 specifications and widget standards."

Python Tricks

Python Tricks: "Here, I am collecting python snippets that I find enlightening and/or just useful."

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis - Mashable: "There are countless simple online services and tools dedicated to helping you take control of these elements. We’ve put together a list of over 200 to help you do everything from manage your personal and professional finances to find a job in your given field, get discounts at local and online stores, and much more."

JavaServer Faces (JSF) vs Struts

JavaServer Faces (JSF) vs Struts: "I would have to say, the most common question or feedback came along the lines of comparing Struts to JSF. I thought it would be a good idea to compare JSF to Struts by evaluating various features that an application architect would look for in a Web application framework. This article will compare specific features."

UFO archive release: The best pictures on file

UFO archive release: The best pictures on file - Telegraph: "The archive of 'Close Encounters' released by the Ministry of Defence contains thousands of A4 pages of dry official paperwork... and a handful of science fiction gems."

What Does Joe the Programmer Think?

What Does Joe the Programmer Think? | Advice and Opinion: "In 2000 any programmer who knew something about a hot development language could walk down the street and get a job paying high five figures or low sixes. Then the dot com bubble burst and by 2002 those same programmers were lucky to have a steady job. By 2004 things were picking up again and the last couple of years have been pretty good for programmers with the right skills. What’s next?"

12 Common Sense Questions to Find Your Career: What Is the Expected Life Cycle for What You Want to Do? (Time is Everything!)

12 Common Sense Questions to Find Your Career: What Is the Expected Life Cycle for What You Want to Do? (Time is Everything!): "Timing, when, how long, life span, selling season, and marketability are key concepts when you are looking for your ideal job/career. They are the easiest to overlook. This article presents you with the top 10 questions that address the issue of timing and the top 5 strategies for dealing with timing and life cycle issues."

Geeky halloween costumes for your geeky girlfriend/wife/mistress/etc...

Exclusive Sexy Costumes, Sexy Halloween Costumes, Outfits and Lingerie Available Only at 3WISHES.COM: "These costumes come a little bit expensive but they are worth every penny."

Scripting languages your developers wish you'd let them use

Scripting languages your developers wish you'd let them use | ITworld: "n this article, I share a few up-and-coming scripting languages that really ought to be on your company's radar, with a few passionate arguments from developers who have adopted them."

Fun with Linux Commands-I

Quick Tweaks » Fun with Linux Commands-I: "This post will serve two purposes: to learn Linux commands in a fun way without putting so much load on your memory power (that’s why I will post only five commands), and to realize the power of wonderful Linux commands."

Linux industry now worth $25 billion

Stats: Linux industry now worth $25 billion: "The Linux Foundation has strategically leaked a report showing that the 'Linux ecosystem' — distributors, resellers, support specialists, and other hangers-on of the free-to-download operating system — is now worth $25 billion."

Canonical Expanding Online Store to Drive Ubuntu Linux Deployments

Canonical Expanding Online Store to Drive Ubuntu Linux Deployments | The VAR Guy: "Businesses don’t buy operating systems. They buy applications. With that fact in mind, Canonical is gradually expanding its online store for Ubuntu Linux applications. It’s a smart move — but solutions providers will need to keep their expectations for the store under control. Here’s why."

Textbooks built to fit student budgets

Textbooks built to fit student budgets | csmonitor.com: "Schools, nonprofits, and publishers go digital in an effort to create less-expensive textbooks."

The ultimate guide to HDR photography

The ultimate guide to HDR photography by Photocritic: "Haunting, surreal, and quite possibly the first major way in which digital photography does something which film photography can’t emulate - or even come near. HDR - or High Dynamic Range - photography is nothing new, but as new tools and techniques make the artform more available, HDR photography is taking off in a big way."

Why should I Use a Speedlight

Exploring Small Strobes: Why should I Use a Speedlight | DIYPhotography.net: "Light is what sculpts your scene. You can have the best composed shot but if your lighting is crap, good chances that your shot will be also. And sometimes to get good light, you’ll need to work with artificial light sources. One of the most popular light source used by photographers are strobes; also called flashes."

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy: "So maybe a recession is a good time to start a startup. It's hard to say whether advantages like lack of competition outweigh disadvantages like reluctant investors. But it doesn't matter much either way. It's the people that matter. And for a given set of people working on a given technology, the time to act is always now."

JSON for the masses

JSON for the masses: "JavaScript has been portrayed as a very ugly language. It’s been abused, misunderstood, and kicked around like the poor step-child as known in fairytales. That’s all going to end this year. As many know, Stuart Langridge proclaimed that 2005 would be the year of the DOM. He was in fact…correct. 2006 will be the year of Object Notation"

Planning your CSS

Planning your stylesheet - the definitive guide: "The more we rely upon CSS, the larger and more complex stylesheet files become. Planning and organising your stylesheet is essential to creating a lean, manageable website. There are many ways of organising CSS code but the following are best practice..."

PHP Video Tutorials for Your iPod

PHP VIDEO TUTORIALS FOR BEGINNERS ON IPOD: "Because of recent demand, I decided to release my PHP video tutorials in iPod format - that means they play on your iPod."

Do those Amish Heat Surge heaters I see advertised in newspapers really work?

Amish heaters aren't special: "Sure, they work, but don't be fooled by claims that they will make your 'heat bill hit rock bottom, ' or that they're an 'Amish man's new miracle idea.' Such claims are misleading; they're simply electric space heaters."

5 GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know!

Help For Linux: 5 GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know!: "Photoshop is undoubtedly more useful graphic designers, however for making quick tweaks, nothing beats GIMP. Recently GIMP 2.6 was released, so I decided to make this tutorial for those who still haven't discovered the magic of GIMP and don't know how to use GIMP productively."

The Best How-To Videos Of 2008

The Best How-To Videos Of 2008 | Wonder How To Video Awards: "The 2008 WonderHowTo Video Awards is our first annual competition that celebrates excellent instructional videos… on any topic under the sun. Since we source and index videos from more than 1900 specialty sites around the world, we are delighted to get front row seats to every insanely wonderful tutorial that is produced."

Simpson's Movie movie references

Simpson's Movie movie references: "The Simpsons movie honors the movie industry with many dark and not so dark references. The page is in Spanish, feel free to use your preferred online translator. Although the pictures are dead on."

World Animal Day

World Animal Day: "Half the world's mammals are declining in population and more than a third are probably threatened with extinction, according to an update of of the Red List (an inventory of biodiversity issued by the IUCN), released on October 6, 2008. Below is a collection of recent photos of animals around the world - Happy (belated) World Animal Day. (38 photos total)"

24 Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities

24 Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities | WebUrbanist: "What in the world could cause an entire city to be abandoned? Some become unlivable due to environmental disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear meltdowns (as with Pripyat, shown below)."

The Statistical Universe

Seed: The Statistical Universe: "We look up to an expanse of sky that is billions of light-years in size, but the universe may be far larger than what we are able to see."

DARPA Contract Description Hints at Advanced Video Spying

DARPA Contract Description Hints at Advanced Video Spying - washingtonpost.com: "Real-time streaming video of Iraqi and Afghan battle areas taken from thousands of feet in the air can follow actions of people on the ground as they dig, shake hands, exchange objects and kiss each other goodbye."

Asus breaks sub-$300 price barrier with Eee PC 900A at Best Buy

jkOnTheRun:Asus breaks sub-$300 price barrier with Eee PC 900A at Best Buy: "Let's get the sub-$300 netbook party started! Pereira just pinged me to share this Best Buy link which shows the white Asus Eee PC 900A available for $299."

Microsoft and Google face off in Washington

Microsoft and Google face off in Washington - International Herald Tribune: "After Google and Yahoo announced an advertising partnership in June, letters from consumer groups and advertising associations poured into U.S. government regulators, urging them to support or block the proposed deal."

Spider-Man's sticky suit gets real

Spider-Man's sticky suit gets real-Health/Sci-The Times of India: "Liming Dai of University of Dayton, Ohio and Zhong Lin Wang of Georgia Institute of Technology have revealed that they have successfully used nanotubes to make a material that is 10 times sticker than some gecko lizards' feet, and can also be easily unstuck with a tug in the right direction."

Tips and tricks to turn you into a faster, smarter web designer

Tips and tricks to turn you into a faster, smarter web designer | News | TechRadar UK: "Productivity-boosting ideas to guarantee great results"

How to create Tabs with CSS and jQuery from scratch

How to create Tabs with CSS and jQuery from scratch - O'Reilly Broadcast: "Another feature that is often added to Web 2.0 sites is tabbed content. I'm not talking about tabbed navigation. Tabbed content is when different chunks of HTML are shown depending on what tab is clicked."

The Next Web: "Web * e^(t/Tau)" (or "Just Say No to 2.0")

The Next Web: "Web * e^(t/Tau)" (or "Just Say No to 2.0") - O'Reilly Broadcast: "'Amid the gloom and anxiety of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, which started in the United States in 1929 and then spread to the rest of the world, there are hopes that Capitalism 2.0 (if it ever comes about) will result in a more equal society. 'There is a tremendous opportunity now to narrow the income gap,' says Sam Pizzigati of the Institute for Policy Studies, a Washington think tank.'"

Europe delays its ExoMars mission

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Europe delays its ExoMars mission: "Europe is delaying its flagship space mission to Mars by more than two years."

Updating your system: GNU/Linux 5, Windows 0

Updating your system: GNU/Linux 5, Windows 0: "when it comes to system updates — GNU/Linux beats Windows."

20 Strange Interior Architectural Sculptures

20 Strange Interior Architectural Sculptures | WebUrbanist: "f you set most artists loose in a building that was about to be demolished, you might get some unforgettable results. You’d no doubt see plenty of new paintings on the walls, some slice-of-life installations, and maybe even a gravity-defying upside-down room setting."

How to Make Work Feel Effortless

How to Make Work Feel Effortless | Zen Habits: "We spend a lot of time trying to find ways to be more productive. To do things faster, better, cheaper and spend our time more effectively. But instead of just doing more in less time, maybe we should focus on actually enjoying the work we’re doing instead."

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes: "Without a doubt, a logical and structured layout is the best way to go. Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have."

Comparing Computer Languages - String Functions

Comparing Computer Languages - String Functions: "This will give you a good perspective on how various languages manage strings"

How I built an electricity producing wind turbine

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."

Build a Water Rocket Launcher

Build a Water Rocket Launcher: "Before you actually start building the water rocket, here is a little overview of how it works so you know why you are doing what you are doing. And rest assured that there are over 50 photographs below to take it one step at a time--although I hate to think how many trees will have to give their lives if someone actually prints it all out!"

Gnip Eases Data Portability for Web 2.0

Gnip Eases Data Portability for Web 2.0: "Gnip says it provides a simpler way of moving data from one social network to another. The service is being used by some of the most popular destinations on the Web, including Twitter, Delicious, Flickr, Digg and Plaxo. Shane Pearson, Gnip's new head of products, speaks with eWEEK about the company and his role."

Scientology Vs. The Internet: Why Kids On The Internet Are Scientology's Most Powerful Enemy

Scientology Vs. The Internet: Why Kids On The Internet Are Scientology's Most Powerful Enemy: "Tom Cruise has personally, PERSONALLY, been pwned. This weekend, an anonymous Internet group (named Anonymous — these are not masters of subtlety) started a war with the Church of Scientology by hammering the group's web site; Scientology.org is down after a brief traffic spike."

Web Data Offers New Slant on Traditional Horse Race

Web Data Offers New Slant on Traditional Horse Race - WSJ.com: "The first real 'Internet election' has produced an explosion of statistics that has overwhelmed political junkies used to relying on more traditional measures of campaign success, such as polling and fund-raising."

LittleBigPlanet Draws on User-Generated Content

Community Gaming - WSJ.com: "Unlike some videogame companies that have flashy offices in Los Angeles or San Francisco, developer Media Molecule has a studio located in the modest British town of Guildford above a bathroom-products showroom. And the company's mascot, in contrast to tough guys like Grand Theft Auto IV's Niko Bellic, is an obsidian-eyed ragdoll named Sackboy."

For sale: Yourself, in Legos

For sale: Yourself, in Legos | Oddly Enough | Reuters: "Or how about life-size Lego replicas of you and your beloved for $60,000?"

LEGO Utensils

SNACK & STACK UTENSILS: "Snack & Stack is sized for kids and grown-ups alike! The silicone handles of these mid-size utensils lock together securely for easy storage and packing, not to mention endless amusement!"

10 Ways To Improve Yourself While Broke

10 Ways To Improve Yourself While Broke | Dumb Little Man: "I'll get into a couple of ways I'm earning money right now, but the general point is that self-improvement doesn't have to stop just because you're broke as a joke."

Pa. man chews through belly-busting, 15-lb. burger

Pa. man chews through belly-busting, 15-lb. burger - Yahoo! News: "It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds."

Fan Sues Yankees for Fraud Over Steroids Allegations

FOXNews.com - Fan Sues Yankees for Fraud Over Steroids Allegations - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "A longtime baseball fan is suing the New York Yankees over some players' reported use of performance-enhancing drugs, saying he wants repayment for $221 in tickets and a public response from his once-beloved team."

Rethinking the Simpsons

Disney Emerges a Winner

Disney Emerges a Winner - BusinessWeek: "It hasn't been fashionable to be a big, groaning media conglomerate for a long time. So the remaining giants ardently woo investors, trying all manner of story and seduction to win a little bit of love, to be seen as not just like all the other guys."

20 Creative Chairs and Chair Designs

20 Creative Chairs and Chair Designs | WebUrbanist: "We spend much of our working lives occupying chairs, but since we never really see them we sometimes take them for granted. Luckily there are clever and talented designers willing to renegotiate our relationship with chairs."

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes: "The quotes in each of the categories listed below are some of my personal favorites that I've collected over the years. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do."

Ten Slutty Costumes not to let your daughter dress in for Halloween

YesButNoButYes: Ten Slutty Costumes not to let your daughter dress in for Halloween: "Fathers, I beg you - take note - DO NOT LET YOUR DAUGHTERS DRESS LIKE TARTS. Sheesh. Let's have a look at some of the worst examples I could find."

Top 7 Girls That Can Help With Your Homework

Top 7 Girls That Can Help With Your Homework | My Chill Pill: "These girls have the BB package- brains and body. I wouldn't mind taking lessons from them because I KNOW I can teach them a few things."

McCain Photoshoped

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Photoshop contest!: "Thanks to Reuters for the excellent fodder! We're too lazy to photoshop this pic, but you might not be...
e-mail your entries to lizb at wfmu dot org. UPDATE: check out tons of great photo remixes below the jump!"

Disney unveils a 1920s theme for California Adventure

Disney unveils a 1920s theme for California Adventure - Los Angeles Times: "Bob Weis is executive vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering and creative leader for California Adventure's renovation and expansion. “We’re taking them to a more idealized, more nostalgic feel of California.,” he said."

Free Phone Calls On Your iPhone with Fring

» Free Phone Calls On Your iPhone with Fring: "fing is a free iPhone app that allows you to use IM chat technology for free phone calls. fring is a mobile internet & community portel to be used with your social network sites, IM chat software and VoIP services like Skype."

Handsets to become crime targets

BBC NEWS | Technology | Handsets to become crime targets: "The risk of spam and viruses that attack mobile devices is set to rise, says a report."

Email Scam Targets Microsoft Customers

Microsoft® Malware Protection Center : Email Scam Targets Microsoft Customers: "Email scams are a common way to spread malware and/or steal personal information. Some great guidelines to help you protect yourself from such scams are outlined here: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/email.mspx"

Rip Web Pages With Web-Harvest

Web-Harvest Project Home Page: "Web-Harvest is Open Source Web Data Extraction tool written in Java. It offers a way to collect desired Web pages and extract useful data from them. In order to do that, it leverages well established techniques and technologies for text/xml manipulation such as XSLT, XQuery and Regular Expressions. Web-Harvest mainly focuses on HTML/XML based web sites which still make vast majority of the Web content. On the other hand, it could be easily supplemented by custom Java libraries in order to augment its extraction capabilities."

Pumpkin symbol marks sex offenders' homes

Washington Times - Pumpkin symbol marks sex offenders' homes: "That is the symbol on a sign they are required to post on their doors with a warning, in capital letters, to trick-or-treaters: 'No candy at this residence.'"

Sleeping Giants: 5 Go-Getters Who Found Time to Nap

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Sleeping Giants: 5 Go-Getters Who Found Time to Nap: "Call it a power nap. Call it a break. Whatever you call it, don't assume that somebody who sneaks in a few winks in the middle of the day can't also take care of business ..."

Porting Javascript Applications to the iPhone

Dr. Dobb's | Porting Javascript Applications to the iPhone | October 16, 2008: "I admit when the iPhone was first pitched as a web-application platform, I was among many who clamored for the ability to write native iPhone applications. The phone runs a stripped-down version of Mac OS X, after all. Fortunately, after a year Apple has allowed us to do just that. In the interim, however, I've had an attitude adjustment in that I believe the iPhone can also serve—within limits—as a decent web-application platform. To understand my change of heart, some background information is in order."

Introduction to AJAX calls using jQuery and PHP

Introduction to AJAX calls using jQuery and PHP » phpMash: "This is an introductory explanation of using jQuery to interact with your PHP application through AJAX. I’ll start with the basics, so some readers may want to jump straight to the code."

Taking Ajax further with PHP

Taking Ajax further with PHP « Blog « Peter Upfold: "Today, we're going to take Ajax a little further, by building a little application where our user selects a product from a pop-up list, and then we do a little Ajax dance to get some product details (and an image) and display them in a box below. We'll be making our own little XML schema which we'll use to pass information between the JavaScript in the user's browser and our PHP script on the server."

RSS Ajax JavaScript ticker

RSS Ajax JavaScript ticker: "In this tutorial, I'll show you how to combine RSS, Ajax, and JavaScript to create a live RSS ticker. Thanks to Ajax, the conventional roles of server side and client side programming are reversed in an application like this as JavaScript- not PHP- is used to handle much of the work, including parsing the RSS file."

Exposing the 'Jesus' Brother' Fraud

Exposing the 'Jesus' Brother' Fraud - TIME: "For as long as man has worshipped a god, there have been forgers, crafty hucksters who seize on a believer's desire to possess material proof of the divine. In Jerusalem, it is a bountiful trade. The old adage is that if all the splinters of the True Cross were gathered from across Christendom, it would yield a wooden crucifix the size of a Manhattan skyscraper. Even back in the Middle Ages, pilgrims visiting Jerusalem told of hawkers who sold counterfeit bones and relics of saints."

Frame Injection Fun

Frame Injection Fun | GNUCITIZEN: "Frame injection vulnerabilities, although some people might consider them the same as HTML injection/XSS or even a subset, they really are not the same."

DarthCast .My next portable Dreamcast

benheck.com Forums :: View topic - DarthCast .My next portable started. FINISHED :): "Well I decided to try my hand at another Lazer Doodle mod. This time I am going for a Dreamcast."

Microsoft Explorer Mouse and Explorer Mini Mouse Review

Microsoft Explorer Mouse and Explorer Mini Mouse Review - CPUs, Boards & Components by ExtremeTech: "Microsoft's patented BlueTrack Technology, which is the tracking engine inside the Explorer Mouse and Explorer Mini Mouse we review today, may very well be the next step in this evolutionary sequence."

New York Times sets campaign finance data free

New York Times sets campaign finance data free » VentureBeat: "The New York Times continues to redefine the role of a big newspaper with today’s release of its first application programming interface (API). Using the Campaign Finance API, developers will be able to incorporate data about who donated to which presidential candidate — the same data used to build The Times’ campaign finance map (pictured below)– into their own applications. Coming up next will be an API to access The Times’ movie reviews."

NASA to Start Long Distance Repairs on Hubble

ABC News: NASA to Start Long Distance Repairs on Hubble: "NASA to Start Long-Distance Repairs on Hubble, Hopes Photo System Back to Normal by Friday"

Using XMLHttpRequest

Using XMLHttpRequest - MDC: "XMLHttpRequest makes sending HTTP requests very easy. You simply create an instance of the object, open a URL, and send the request. The HTTP status of the result, as well as the result's contents, are available in the request object when the transation is completed."

Blender Defender - Keeping cats off kitchen counters

MAKE: Blog: Blender Defender - Keeping cats off kitchen counters: "I have a problem with my cat jumping up on the counter and eating my plant up there, so I pointed a network camera at it and ran some motion detection software. As soon as my computer detects motion on the counter, it sends a signal to turn on an extremely loud blender and a strobe light, scaring the cat off the counter."

Some wise words

Five Ways to Keep Up With Linux

Five Ways to Keep Up With Linux: "Keeping up with Linux is a time-consuming endeavor. Linux is frequently changing, and it’s so large and widely-used that it is nearly impossible to keep up with all the evolution. With open source communities come power, productivity, and efficiency; so much that it is difficult to know what is happening."

How To Get Moving and Stop Procrastinating

How To Get Moving and Stop Procrastinating : "Listen, we all have lists like this, either on paper or in our brains. If you can't get yourself to just get this stuff done, change your routine a little. Here are some different ways to get over that “I don’t want to” feeling"