Free coldplay mp3: Viva la vida

Free mp3 coldplay: "Coldplay thanks everybody for the good year."

Free to Read: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tales of the Jazz Age: "Kudos to the writer that made an over 2 hours movies for this short story."

Creating Snazzy Effects in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7

Articles: "With the invention of the electronic calculator, schoolchildren are the only ones who fret over doing arithmetic by hand. Similarly, you might be surprised at how many commercial artists don’t draw from scratch anymore. Many of them earn their daily bread using computer graphics software such as Photoshop Elements to make photos look like fine art."

Super Nintendo cartridge wallet that plays sounds, gives light, and stores keys

Super Nintendo cartridge wallet that plays sounds, gives light, and stores keys: "I love any and all things Nintendo, but recently my controller themed, leather wallet has just been falling apart. Then an idea struck me, since I couldn't find a wallet that could hold all of my stuff for cheap, I would make one myself! And what better a wallet to make than another Nintendo wallet? I found a four pack of SNES games at Goodwill and knew immediately what I had to do to make this wallet epic. If you complete all of the steps in this instructable you will have; a SNES cartridge wallet with the faceplate as your ID or picture of choice, plays videogame (or ironically money themed) noise, switch on/off emergency lighting, and a compact place to store your spare keys and/or USB thumb drive! What the talk you will be."

Twitchy, Your E-waste Friend

Twitchy, Your E-waste Friend: "He's cleaner than a hamster, and has more personality than most reptiles, and is much smarter than this dog I used to have. Plus, he's made out of junk and is lots of fun to build."

Solar PV tracker

Solar PV tracker: "For a class project (PV Design, Appalachian State, Dr. Dennis Scanlin) I decided to try making a low cost PV tracker. Being able to follow the suns path through the sky can raise your system output considerably (30-50%), but the argon filled ones can be a bit pricey, and seem to be a bit unsteady in wind. I looked at several different designs, looked at what materials I could find, and this is how I did it."

Programming "By Contract"

Programming "By Contract": "A cool guide on writing robust code"

Caffeine Content of Drinks

Caffeine Content of Drinks: "The most complete list of beverage caffeine content online. Find the amount of caffeine in coffee, tea, soft drinks, and energy drinks. Click on the column titles to sort that column."

How to secure your Vista PC in 10 easy steps

How to secure your Vista PC in 10 easy steps: "While Windows Vista may be Microsoft's most secure operating system ever, it's far from completely secure. In its fresh-from-the-box configuration, Vista still leaves a chance for your personal data to leak out to the Web through Windows Firewall, or for some nefarious bot to tweak your browser settings without your knowing.

But by making a few judicious changes using the security tools within Windows Vista -- and in some cases by adding a few pieces of free software -- you can lock down your operating system like a pro."

Building a DIY beauty dish

Light and Pixels - My Photography Journal » Blog Archive » Building a DIY beauty dish: "The beauty dish is a light modifier that provides sort of an intermediate result between a soft box and a bare bulb. The beauty dish has been said to provide a light for beautiful people because it can show all of the imperfections in skin - especially if used wrong. This is true when used too far away from the person being photographed. The light is best used close up and just above to the subject."

Fake IDs not clever enough

Fake IDs not clever enough | The Daily Telegraph: "ONE of history's finest cash counterfeiters was caught, according to folklore, only because his copies were better than the Government's original notes."

Stealing: DirecTV Installer Tips Himself By Stealing Your Roll Of Quarters And Gun

Stealing: DirecTV Installer Tips Himself By Stealing Your Roll Of Quarters And Gun: "Reader Angel writes that a DirecTV installer in Oklahoma added a cable to her house, and subtracted $10 in quarters and a nine millimeter."

Is Obama a full-on geek, or just 'nerd adjacent'?

Is Obama a full-on geek, or just 'nerd adjacent'? - Features, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent: "Get ready for the geek-in-chief. President-elect Barack Obama used to collect comic books, can't part with his BlackBerry, and once flashed Leonard 'Mr. Spock' Nimoy the Vulcan 'Live Long and Prosper' sign."

5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year

5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year | FlowingData: "Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools. In both cases though it brings data -- which is oftentimes cryptic -- to the masses and shows that data is more than a bucket of numbers. Data is interesting. As we collect more and more data about ourselves and our surroundings, the data and the visualization will only get more interesting. On that note, I give you FlowingData's picks for the top 5 data visualization projects of 2008. Visualizations were judged based on the use of data, aesthetics, overall effect on the visualization arena, and how well they told a story."

jQuery Tool Tips, For & By a Javascript Noob

ghettocooler.net » jQuery Tool Tips, For & By a Javascript Noob: "I’ve recently been using, and falling in love with, a Javascript library you’ve probably heard of - jQuery. So when I needed Tool Tip functionality for a project, the one thing I was sure about was that jQuery was the way to go. I tried writing some things myself and didn’t like the results. Then I tried a couple of different jQuery based Tool Tip plugins, which worked OK, but I knew they were cumbersome & supurfulous."

How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP

How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP: "This article describes how to configure Microsoft Windows XP to automate the logon process by storing your password and other pertinent information in the registry database. This feature permits other users to start your computer and to use the account that you establish to automatically log on."

Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile's G1) and offer them on the Android Market."

Social networks talk hidden architectures

Social networks talk hidden architectures • The Register: "While they might be well known, though, the companies tend not to discuss the architectures that underpin their services. Are they running some cleaver RESTful science behind the scenes or are they just using a vanilla combo of PHP on lots and lots of Windows or Linux servers?"

Gentoo Sucks, Ubuntu Doesn’t.

Gentoo Sucks, Ubuntu Doesn’t.: "I used Gentoo for a few years, and at first I loved it. Mainly because of portage, but the only distro I had experience with before Gentoo was Slackware, and I used to install packages and dependencies manually, so you can see why Gentoo would was so appealing to me."

Municipalities open their GIS systems to citizens

Linux.com :: Municipalities open their GIS systems to citizens: "Many public administrations already use open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to let citizens look at public geographic data trough dedicated Web sites. Others use the same software to partially open the data gathering process: they let citizens directly add geographic information to the official, high-quality GIS databases by drawing or clicking on digital maps."

Python on Android

Python on Android | damonkohler: "Here's an early Christmas present for all those Python fanatics (self included) out there! With a lot of help from my friends (thanks Manuel and Thomas!) I managed to install Python 2.4.5 on my G1. It's still rough around the edges, but I think it's a good start. Klaus Reimer has a nice overview of how to cross-compile Python. My instructions borrow a lot from his."

6 Presidential Siblings and the Headaches They Caused

mental_floss Blog » 6 Presidential Siblings and the Headaches They Caused: "Every aspect of the American presidency comes under intense scrutiny, but few parts of a president’s life contain as many amusing, slightly sordid anecdotes as their siblings’ behavior. When a new president takes office, his ne’er-do-well siblings receive a whole slew of opportunities for corrupt behavior, legal scrapes, and generally humiliating mayhem. Here are a few of our favorites:"

Recession Tips For Web Designers

24 ways: Recession Tips For Web Designers: "For web designers, there are four keys to surviving bad economic times: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and be sure you are communicating with your client. As a reader of 24 ways, you already do good work, so let’s focus on the rest."

Wii slot is for discs only, not credit cards

PSA: Wii slot is for discs only, not credit cards - Nintendo Wii Fanboy: "Unfamiliar with the Virtual Console, the mother asked for further explanation, which HUELEN10 offered, saying, among other things, that it requires the user to 'put in her credit card when prompted on the Shop Channel, and get the amount of points she wanted.'"

Grimmest Economics Forecasts for 2009 : Economics

Grimmest Economics Forecasts for 2009 : Economics : Business : Blogs.com: "cheer up: being cheery is the human way, says Live Science: 'In the face of a sliding economy, lost jobs, vanishing retirement and checkbooks in the red, everyone just keeps on going. In fact, we keep on smiling....it helps us stay alive, and sane.' And Contrarian Profits, for one, isn't giving up on the USA: Yes, 'pain will precede the promise,' the blog says, but 'we have the potential to end up with a new, fair, transparent and judiciously regulated environment where capital formation can again spread its wings and the U.S. economy can fly.'"

Make Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Woolen winter mittens in minutes by Anita Evangelista Issue #84: "There’s nothing so comfy and warm in the snowy dead-of-winter as a pair of thick, soft woolen mittens. Many of us have fond childhood memories of a favorite pair that accompanied us out to play or to collect firewood. Wool makes one of the warmest and most sturdy winter fibers, is a renewable resource and, with basic care, can last literally for decades."

How Negotiation Works

HowStuffWorks "How Negotiation Works": "'I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.' Does this sound like a good deal to you? The answer probably depends on how much extra interest you'll collect from me on Tuesday, if you trust me to pay and if you want to prevent bitterness from growing between us. If you're interested, you probably want to draw out or alter the terms."

Color + Design Blog / Color Basics: The Munsell Color System

Color + Design Blog / Color Basics: The Munsell Color System by COLOURlovers: "Albert Henry Munsell was an American painter and teacher of art. As a painter he was noted for seascapes and portraits but he is most well known for an early attempt at creating an accurate system for numerically describing colors, now known as the Munsell Color System. His research began in 1898 with the creation of his color sphere, or tree, and came into light with the publication of A Color Notation, in 1905."

How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop - PSDTUTS: "Most of you probably know those awesome letters that were generated with 3D programs. But what about when you don't have any particular program and you need to make 3D typography? This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop. Check it out!"

What Is Your Chance of Fulfillment? (Not Success, but Fulfillment!)

InformIT: A Career Changer's Checklist - 12 Common Sense Questions to Find Your Career: What Is Your Chance of Fulfillment? (Not Success, but Fulfillment!) > Top 10 Questions: "In this eleventh question in the Career Changers’ Checklist, Warren Wyrostek examines the role of fulfillment as you prepare to change careers. Whether you are changing careers or searching for the ideal job or career, the question that has to be asked is this: Will you be fulfilled? This article presents you with the top 10 questions to assess whether the job/career you have in mind will offer you a sense of fulfillment."

R.I.P. WB Cartoon Mural

R.I.P. WB Cartoon Mural | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation: "Here’s a sure sign of the apocalypse — or at least the end of a local cartoon landmark. Warner Bros. has quietly removed its huge Looney Tunes/Hanna-Barbera/Warner Animation mural (above) during Christmas week. Bugs Bunny and company have adorned the Burbank studio at Olive and Pass Avenues for over 15 years."

10 Linux Predictions for 2009

10 Linux Predictions for 2009: "Everyone wants to know what's going to happen in the new year as if anyone can accurately predict these things. However, one can deduce, with reasonable accuracy, that there will be innovations that are designed to get our attention. This is my list of Linux-oriented predictions for 2009.
The keyword for 2009 is Innovation."

Build A Net Gun

Build A Net Gun: "I will show you how to build a net gun out of materials available at any big box home improvement store. This net gun is capable of firing a 90 square foot net 15 to 25 feet using 80-100 psi of compressed air. The net is reusable, assuming your prey doesn't destroy or run off with it. The launcher section is modular and can be removed in case you want to modify it or use a different design. You could thread on some 1' PVC pipe and have a Christmas Cannon."

URL redirects open scareware loophole at major sites

URL redirects open scareware loophole at major sites: "URL redirect notifications are often meant to serve as security measures, but at least one malware blackhat is exploiting these services and redirecting site visitors from the website they think they are about to visit to a spyware-infested haven. That's bad enough on its own, but the as-yet-unknown assailant has also used search engine optimizations to push the polluted redirectors higher in Google's search rankings."

Testing - the pain, the power, the money

Testing - the pain, the power, the money | ITworld: "The first big dirty secret of coding is that to do it well, you need to spend as much time coding around your core code as you spend, coding the core code itself."

Running a Service in the Azure Cloud

Running a Service in the Azure Cloud: "For over two weeks now, I’ve been running a service in the Azure cloud that aggregates calendar events from Eventful.com and from a diverse set of iCalendar feeds. My aim is to recreate and then extend my experimental elmcity.info community information hub, while exploring and documenting the evolution of Azure and the layered services emerging on top of it."

So, you want to make a web page!

HTML Tutorial: "Hello. My name is Joe and I'm going to give you a few simple lessons on how to make a Web Page. I must warn you though, this is for 'all wet behinda ears' Newbies. If you're at all experienced at this sort of thing, you'll probably find this tutorial a bit of a yawner."

How to Tune Your Guitar - For Beginners

How to Tune Your Guitar - For Beginners | Guitar Lessons for Beginners: "Keeping your guitar in tune is essential to becoming a good guitar player. You need to tune your guitar each time you play it. And often, while you are playing you’ll have to re-tune (since playing it stretches the strings and they can get out of tune)."

How To Succeed in Radio (Podcasting maybe)

How To Succeed in Radio | The Blog According to Buzz Bishop: "I spoke at a broadcasting class this week. Columbia Academy is in Vancouver and is a rotating program for students to learn radio. They have different sections going on all the time, so you just pop in when you can, rotate through all the classes and graduate when you’re done. It’s about $13 000 for a 10 month program."

Displaying maps with OpenLayers

Linux.com :: Displaying maps with OpenLayers: "Google Maps gives you a quick and easy way to add maps to your Web site, but when you're using Google's API, your ability to display other data is limited. If you have your own data you want to display, or data from sources other than Google, OpenLayers, an open source JavaScript library, can give you more options."

Patterns and string processing in shell scripts

Linux.com :: Patterns and string processing in shell scripts: "Shell programming is heavily dependent on string processing. The term string is used generically to refer to any sequence of characters; typical examples of strings might be a line of input or a single argument to a command. Users enter responses to prompts, file names are generated, and commands produce output. Recurring throughout this is the need to determine whether a given string conforms to a given pattern; this process is called pattern matching. The shell has a fair amount of built-in pattern matching functionality."

How Sony Can Boost PS3 Sales

How Sony Can Boost PS3 Sales: "As this holiday’s video game sales are tallied up, one thing is already clear: As an article in the Wall Street Journal makes clear, Sony’s PlayStation 3 remains in a fairly distant third place, still eclipsed by Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii. While it’s probably too drastic for Sony to walk away from the PS3, I definitely think they need some bold and creative changes to make their console competitive, namely to acquiesce to market realities while leveraging two underutilized assets. Here’s how:"

How To Do Almost Anything With Social Media

HOW TO 2008: How To Do Almost Anything With Social Media: "oday, as the year draws to a close, we bring you a hand-picked selection of Mashable’s social media How-To articles in 2008; some holiday reading, perhaps, or something to refer back to once you restart the daily grind in 2009. Enjoy!"

The Art of Radical Exclusion

The Art of Nonconformity » The Art of Radical Exclusion: "If I fail to fulfill a commitment I’ve made in a timely manner, it’s because of a conscious choice I’ve made. If I don’t return the phone call I said I would, it’s because I chose to do something else."

The Dick Tracy Phone is now a reality

LG-GD910, the first 3G HSDPA Wrist phone from Korea : Akihabara News .com: "LG Korea is proud to announce their latest wonder, the LG-GD910, the first 3G HSDPA with Video Conference capabilities and an impressive 1.43” color touchscreen LCD, TTS (Text To Speech), MP3... Apparently aiming both the Korean and European market, this masterpiece will be introduce next january at the 2009 CES."

Couple arrested in Christmas Day brawl over video game

Couple arrested in Christmas Day brawl over video game - BostonHerald.com: "A Portsmouth, N.H., couple yesterday blamed each other for their black and blue Christmas when they got into a violent fight - and arrested - after an argument over a gift of the popular Nintendo video game."

Hope Fades for PS3 as a Comeback Player

Hope Fades for PS3 as a Comeback Player - WSJ.com: "But early results from this holiday season aren't promising. U.S. sales of the PS3 fell 19% last month from a year earlier, while sales doubled for the Wii console and rose 8% for the Xbox 360, according to research firm NPD. Analysts say they expect PS3 sales for this month to be flat or lower than last year, while sales for its rivals are likely to rise. And Sony may not reach its goal of selling 10 million PS3 consoles in the fiscal year through March, analysts say."

Proposed New Java Language Features in ActionScript

Proposed New Java Language Features in ActionScript | JavaWorld's Daily Brew: "In a recent blog post, I postulated that many individuals who are most vehemently in support of specific new features for the Java programming language probably owe at least a portion of this opinion to their experience with that feature in a different programming language. In this blog posting, I am going to look at some of the proposed new features and syntax for the Java programming language that are currently available in ActionScript 3."

36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work

36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work | JobMob: "You might want to bookmark this article and come back to it when you’re updating your resume. Enjoy!"

Why games are the key to Linux adoption

Why games are the key to Linux adoption - The Warden: "I just ordered my first computer yesterday. It’s a real he-man’s gaming computer: 4GB RAM, a 250 GB SATA 3gb/s hard drive, a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo processor, a Nvidia 9800 graphics card, and a comfortable 20″ monitor. But while these were all expensive (especially the video card), none of them compared to one item on the list: Windows. That’s the hope that Linux companies must look forward to."

The Process of Designing a Product

The Process of Designing a Product - Joel on Software: "We've talked about the principles of good design, but principles only give you a way to evaluate and improve an existing design. But... how do you figure out what the dang design should be in the first place? Many people write big, functional outlines of all the features they thought up. Then they design each one, and hang it off of a menu item (or web page). When they're done, the program (or web site) has all the functionality they wanted, but it doesn't flow right. People sit down and they don't know what it does, and they don't know how to accomplish what they want."

11 ways to create a successful Linux distro

11 ways to create a successful Linux distro | News | TechRadar UK: "What can you do to stand out from the hundreds of other Linux distros that already exist?

There are a number of angles you can explore for this – choose one, two or all of them if you want!"

Is Blu-ray Doomed?

Is Blu-ray Doomed? | Maximum PC: "Doubts have been cast on the success of the Blu-ray format ever since it debuted. Initially, the format appeared to be doomed due to a poor adoption rate, thanks mainly to a host of factors, including the PS3’s initial tribulations, popularity of the DVD format, and the steady rise in the popularity of digital downloads."

PC Graphics: The Year Behind, The Year Ahead

PC Graphics: The Year Behind, The Year Ahead - 3D Graphics, Audio & HDTV by ExtremeTech: "We say this every year, and every year it's true: No home computer technology moves as fast as the graphics business. Standards update frequently, the rate of computational power trends faster than Moore's Law. All this creates an exciting rush to not only be the fastest, but a feature-set push and compatibility bragging rights that you just don't see in many other markets. It also means that 'news' comes and goes faster than you could possibly cover it."

2008 Top 10 Editorial Cartoons

Top 10 Editorial Cartoons - TIME: "The ups and downs of 2008 in great cartoons."

Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students

Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students: "Since 1999, java.sun.com writers have interviewed Java developers from diverse backgrounds and solicited their advice for students. In this article, 11 top Java developers share the fruits of long experience."

The Polaroid - Imperfect, Yet Magical

Critic’s Notebook - The Polaroid - Imperfect, Yet Magical - NYTimes.com: "The next few months will end an era that began six decades ago with a contraption called the Model 95 camera. That accordion-style machine delivered instant photography at a price tag equivalent to some $850 today. The SX-70, which spit out color prints, arrived in 1972. American life during the late 20th century had found its Boswell."

How I Created Raspberry Frog

Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | tutorial: "In this tutorial, I will show my process of how I made my Raspberry Frog entry. I will be going over the main steps but I will not go over layer masking or adjustment layers in depth. This is my first tutorial so please let me know if there's anything that I missed or that is confusing."

Lego Masturbator Machine Will Make Mindstorms NXT Sales Explode (NSFW)

Lego Masturbator Machine Will Make Mindstorms NXT Sales Explode (NSFW) - Gizmodo Australia: "While picking the Best of Lego 2008, a naughty reader sent me this Lego Mindstorms NXT Masturbator machine. It's no Robotech thruster or pink blowjob machine but, if you have an hexagonal penis, get it."

10 Religious Holidays Not Yet Exploited by Hallmark

mental_floss Blog » 10 Religious Holidays Not Yet Exploited by Hallmark: "What’s not to love about holidays? You get to take off work, everyone’s in a great mood, and there’s always plenty of delicious food lying around. Wouldn’t it be great if we could sustain all that fun and excitement throughout the year? Well, you’re in luck. So sit back, crack open a Good Book, and get ready to celebrate these 10 major religious holidays that still aren’t on Hallmark’s radar."

Transform the Image into Digital Painting

How to Draw Manga -- Manga University How to Draw: Tutorials: "I used to CG trace my pictures, but I have found that that takes too long, and that it is easier just to use an inked sketch. Once you have decided what picture you want to color, retrace the image onto a clean piece of paper and carefully ink it. It usually helps to use big paper and thin pens, so you can get a really crisp, thin outline. If you mess up the inking, you can clean it up with whiteout or by fixing it in Photoshop."

Many choose to buy new gadgets over fixing old ones

Many choose to buy new gadgets over fixing old ones | Money | Winnipeg Sun: "After a cell phone goes skinny dipping in a portable coffee mug, many are likely to think it worthy of a repair instead of financing a new one."

Reducing Disk IO By Mounting Partitions With noatime

Reducing Disk IO By Mounting Partitions With noatime | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "Linux has a special mount option for file systems called noatime. If this option is set for a file system in /etc/fstab, then reading accesses will no longer cause the atime information (last access time - don't mix this up with the last modified time - if a file is changed, the modification date will still be set) that is associated with a file to be updated (in reverse this means that if noatime is not set, each read access will also result in a write operation). Therefore, using noatime can lead to significant performance gains."

The Heartbeat Of A Game Project

Gamasutra - Analysis: The Heartbeat Of A Game Project: "In this analysis, originally printed in Game Developer magazine earlier this year, former High Moon Studios programmer Noel Llopis provides a guide for setting up your own build server to quickly and reliably compile code for various platforms or ensure assets and levels load correctly, leaving you to work on what's really important -- the game."

Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley

Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley - WSJ.com: "For more than 30 years the entrepreneurship-venture capital-IPO cycle centered in Silicon Valley has generated new wealth, commercialized innovation, and created new companies and industries. It's also spun off millions of new jobs. The great companies created by this process -- Intel, Apple, Google, eBay, Microsoft, Cisco, to name just a few -- have propelled most of the growth in the U.S. economy in the last two decades. And what began as a process almost exclusively available to scientists and engineering Ph.D.s became open to just about anyone with a good business plan and a healthy dose of entrepreneurial drive."

How do I install Ubuntu Linux on a Netbook?

How do I install Ubuntu Linux on a Netbook? :: Free Tech Support from Ask Dave Taylor!: "I just bought a slick ASUS Eee PC netbook, model 1000HA, and want to configure it to work with both Microsoft Windows XP, which is already installed, and Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux. How can I do that without having to reinstall WinXP?"

Ubuntu 4GB Ram Limitation and Solution

Ubuntu 4GB Ram Limitation and Solution: "I've total 8 GB RAM installed in my dual boot Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (32 bit) version HP workstation. But free -m command only shows 3291 (3G) memory. How do I use 8GB RAM under Ubuntu Linux?"

Ubuntu-sponsored FOSScamp builds community

Linux.com :: Ubuntu-sponsored FOSScamp builds community: "he week-long Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) meets every six months at changing locations to discuss what will be in the next release of Ubuntu. The mostly unpublicized FOSScamp always meets the weekend before. The FOSScamp un-conference has no program, no invited speakers, and costs nothing. Like some sort of geek Woodstock but smaller, the Ubuntu hip just show up."

Planetary gear calling card

Planetary gear calling card by phooky - Thingiverse: "A calling card with working planetary gears. Astound your friends, frustrate your nemisii."

There's No Pain-Free Cure for Recession

Peter Schiff Says There's No Pain-Free Cure for Recession - WSJ.com: "As recession fears cause the nation to embrace greater state control of the economy and unimaginable federal deficits, one searches in vain for debate worthy of the moment. Where there should be an historic clash of ideas, there is only blind resignation and an amorphous queasiness that we are simply sweeping the slouching beast under the rug."

3 awesome resources for Cross Browser Coding

Mukul Kumar's Blog: 3 awesome resources for Cross Browser Coding: "I have been doing a bunch of reading, here are three of best articles I have read on cross browser coding. They cover – a) rendering, b) events compatibility and c) cookie restrictions."

3 Top inspiration video to Watch

3 Top inspiration video to Watch | Affiliate Marketing Help 1-800 Blog: "The US economy is shambles.
Here are three inspiration videos to cheer you up."

How To Calibrate Your New HDTV (and Not Lose Your Mind)

How To: How To Calibrate Your New HDTV (and Not Lose Your Mind): "Until a few days ago, I'd never calibrated my TV. There are a couple reasons for this. First, and most simply, I'm not down with buying a calibration disc that I will likely use once then never touch again. And second, to me, HDTV calibration is the gadget geek's equivalent to chasing the dragon. I've seen endless A/V forum posts of new TV owners begging and pleading for that one true setting for their new high-definition slab—it's not pretty. There is an easy way, though, tucked inside hundreds of THX-certified DVDs already out there, and it's quite possibly already in your movie collection."

How to examine and kill MySQL client processes

How to examine and kill MySQL client processes: "A useful MySQL command for keeping track of client-server transactions is the SHOW PROCESSLIST command. And you can use the ID's it returns to kill any errant processes."

Ham radio transmitter from a CFL bulb

MJRainey - Das DereLicht: "This electronic puzzle was a result of my changing a defective compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) in my kitchen. For some reason, I began to wonder if it would be possible to build a QRP CW transmitter using the electronic components salvaged from this derelict lamp."

Recycling that old TV? That may not be a good idea

Recycling that old TV? That may not be a good idea | Technology News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "Old electronics gear can end up in poor nations using risky techniques"

Beware Holiday e-Greeting Cards, Digital Hitchhikers

Beware Holiday e-Greeting Cards, Digital Hitchhikers - Security Fix: "Cyber crooks are once again blasting out fake holiday e-greeting cards in a bid their special kind of cheer. Also, there are signs that computer viruses may again be piggybacking on digital photo frames and other data storage devices that make popular holiday gifts."

Control a Remote PC with Ease for Free

Control a Remote PC with Ease for Free - Business Center - PC World: "I'm constantly accessing different computers, but I don't need to get up from my chair to swap PCs. Instead of walking between them, a VNC (virtual network computer) setup lets me log into remote machines that are across the room or around the world. Now I can manage software installations, see if a download is complete, or just troubleshoot from anywhere."

Fast Fixes for Common PC Problems

Fast Fixes for Common PC Problems - PC World: "Struggling with dead components, a recalcitrant Windows, and uncooperative applications? Our easy hardware repairs, simple software remedies, and quick tweaks will put your PC in the pink."

Men enjoy computer games 'because of basic urge to conquer'

Men enjoy computer games 'because of basic urge to conquer' - Telegraph: "Men's passion for computer games stems from a deep-rooted urge to conquer, according to research that will confirm the suspicions of 'Nintendo Wii widows' across the country."

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 8.10

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 8.10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 8.10 server."

Gifts: The 6 Choices You Have When You Get a Crappy Gadget Present

Gifts: The 6 Choices You Have When You Get a Crappy Gadget Present: "If you're known in your extended family as the 'tech guy,' then some aunt has probably gotten you a terrible gadget gift in the past. What to do in this situation? Let's explore your options."

140 Laid Off from Free Radical

140 Laid Off from Free Radical - G4tv.com: "UK developer, Free Radical, maker of such games like HAZE and TimeSplitters has laid off 140 of its employees, leaving a skeleton crew of 40, and it's also up for sale."

Using Google App Engine as Your Own Content Delivery Network

24 ways: Using Google App Engine as Your Own Content Delivery Network: "In this article you’ll find out how to set up a CDN on Google App Engine. You’ll get the development software running on your own computer, tell App Engine what files to serve, upload them to a web site, and give everyone round the world access to them."

8-Bit Jesus: Full Album Release

8-Bit Jesus: Full Album Release | Doctor Octoroc: "Just in time for Christmas, it’s the full version of 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games. This full release contains 18 tracks total, including improved variations of a few of the original nine! Please be sure to check out the new amazing cover art for the full release, designed by Jude Buffum."

An Introduction to the Yahoo! Query Language Platform

An Introduction to the Yahoo! Query Language Platform: "Yahoo! has released a base platform that opens up Yahoo! user data via web standard APIs and also provides a framework for how developers, publishers, and advertisers can build applications on and off Yahoo!."

How kangaroo burgers could save the planet

How kangaroo burgers could save the planet - environment - 25 December 2008 - New Scientist: "COWS, sheep and goats may seem like innocent victims of humanity's appetite for meat, but when it comes to climate change they have a dark secret. Forget cars, planes or even power stations, some of the world's worst greenhouse gas emitters wander idly across rolling pastures chewing the cud, oblivious to the fact that their continuous belching (and to a lesser degree, farting) is warming the planet."

Amateur Mathematicians Solve Real-World “Problems”

Amateur Mathematicians Solve Real-World “Problems”: "Procrastination, wardrobe malfunctions, understanding women: mathematicians have devised equations to solve these and other, similarly important everyday problems."

It's OK to Cry, Possibly Even Beneficial

ABC News: It's OK to Cry, Possibly Even Beneficial: "Rottenberg, assistant professor of psychology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, is one of a handful of scientists who is focusing on a subject that is extremely difficult to study. There's lots of anecdotal evidence about crying dating back over many centuries -- because crying is something all of us know something about and it is among the most universal of human experiences."

Needed: A New IT Employment Model

Needed: A New IT Employment Model - O'Reilly Broadcast: "The news on the web is not likely to give a lot of holiday cheer to anyone - Google announcing that they were ending the contracts of some 10,000 part time and contract employees, Sun reducing their force by nearly 6,000, Yahoo 'trimming' 1,000. Yet these are small potatoes compared to some 24,000 laid off at Bank of America and a mind-boggling 60,000 people - the size of a smallish city - being let go by Citibank."

Sanyo Develops Full-HD Surveillance Camera Based on Xacti Camcorder

Sanyo Develops Full-HD Surveillance Camera Based on Xacti Camcorder -- Tech-On!: "Featuring a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (full HD) and a 10x zoom optical system, the camera has specifications comparable to those of the camcorder. It employs Sony Corp's CMOS sensor whose optical size is 1/2.5-inch and resolution is about 4 Mpixels. The manufacturer's suggested retail price is ¥294,000 (approx US$3,254). The monthly output is 500 units, according to Sanyo."

Nintendo NES Console Repair Guide

Nintendo NES Console Repair Guide: "Chances are if you've ever owned or played a NES, you've experienced the blinking screen or have had trouble playing your games. The cause for all these problems is bad electrical connections between your game cartridges and the NES console caused by a worn out 72 pin connector, dirt and corrosion."

Create a Complete Vexel Image Using Photoshop

Create a Complete Vexel Image Using Photoshop - PSDTUTS: "This tutorial will instruct the reader on how to take a picture and create a vexel image out of it, through Photoshop. Numerous vexel techniques are taught. You'll learn how to use the Pen Tool, and then put it to good use to construct hundreds of shapes that will compose a full vexel image."

How to reinstall and restore your Windows PC in 8 easy steps

How to reinstall and restore your Windows PC in 8 easy steps: "If nothing else fixes a PC problem that's impossible to live with, starting over from scratch may be the best solution."

How a Grinch Stole PC Speed - MSNBC Wire Services - msnbc.com

How a Grinch Stole PC Speed - MSNBC Wire Services - msnbc.com: "Giving a laptop as a gift to your kids this year? Don't let a Grinch steal its speed. Diskeeper Corporation is saving Christmas with the new Diskeeper® 2009 Home edition. Now you can give the gift of speed along with holiday cheer."

Top 10 Biggest Bogus Tech Rumors of 2008

Top 10 Biggest Bogus Tech Rumors of 2008 - washingtonpost.com: "Hollywood gossip mongers have Paris Hilton and Brangelina to spread rumors about. In the tech world, we have Apple-product and Yahoo-merger rumors to mull over. And just as Brad and Angelina didn't split in 2008 (contrary to rumors), neither did Yahoo find someone to hook up with."

PlayStation 3 console sales lag behind the competition

Postbulletin.com: Rochester, MN: "The PS3 is turning into a punching bag. In November, sales of Sony's console actually fell from a year ago, while the Wii and Xbox 360 numbers grew."

Wiimote mashup with Google Maps creates Tokyo jogging sim

Digital World Tokyo | Wiimote mashup with Google Maps creates Tokyo jogging sim: "The interface, which is a little slow, is controlled simply by sticking a Wiimote in your pants pocket and running on the spot in front of the computer, revealing Tokyo in all its glory as you virtually speed through Shibuya, Shinjuku and the rest."

Touchscreen EEE for < $50! without soldering!

touchscreen EEE for < $50! without soldering!: "want a touchscreen, bluetooth, other random stuff in your eeepc but dont know how to solder and got a budget to stick to ???

ill show you how :)"

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Visual Basic How Do I Video Series

Visual Basic How Do I Video Series: "On this page you will find dozens of videos designed for all Visual Basic developers, from the novice to the professional. New videos are added regularly, so check back often."

How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week

How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week :: Elite By Design: "So you want to master Photoshop huh? You’ve come to the right place. This is the first part of a three part series that will help you to master Photoshop in and out in just one week. Today’s part is all about getting to know the basics of the program and how to operate the complex software - nothing amazing, but you need to crawl before you can walk!"

100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access

100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access - College Degree.com: "Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all. You don't have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives, to religious studies, to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you."

JavaScript Inheritance via Prototypes and Closures

JavaScript Inheritance via Prototypes and Closures | ruzee.com - Steffen Rusitschka: "JavaScript as a prototypical language offers loads of solutions to implement classes and class inheritance. When coming from an Object Oriented language such as Java or Ruby, these solutions aren't obvious at the first glance."

Famous Awk One-Liners Explained

Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part II - good coders code, great reuse: "“What are these famous Awk one-liners?”, you might wonder? Well, they are concise and beautiful Awk programs that span no more than 70 characters (less than one terminal line). They were written by Eric Pement and are floating around on the Internet as ‘awk1line.txt‘ file."

Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site

Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site: "A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow cellular connections.

Here are a few of the lessons we learned (sometimes painfully) while developing this site"

Hack Allows you to Sync your iPhone with More than One Computer

Hack Allows you to Sync your iPhone with More than One Computer - iPhone Hacks: "When you try to sync your iPhone with iTunes library on another computer, you are prompted by the warning message seen in the screen shot below informing you that your iPhone is synced with another iTunes library and the only choice at this point is to either 'Cancel' or 'Erase and Sync' from this iTunes library."

Building a iPhone web app in under 50 lines with Sinatra and iUI

Building a iPhone web app in under 50 lines with Sinatra and iUI - The Devver Blog: "One awesome thing about the iPhone is that it can display documents very nicely, including Word, Excel, and PDF files. However, the other day I was complaining that it’s not very easy to view the documents you store on your computer on your iPhone. Sure, you could email them to yourself, but then you have to search through your mail on your iPhone to find your documents. And I’m sure there is a snazzy iPhone app from the App Store to do this as well. But instead, let’s build a quick web app using Sinatra and iUI."

The top 5 Linux myths: Why you shouldn’t fear the penguin

The top 5 Linux myths: Why you shouldn’t fear the penguin - Gadgetell: "Now, what to the do with the old computer, or even with the netbook? Why not give your old computer a new life by running Linux on it? It may seem like a scary thought, but chances are you have a few misconceptions about Linux and that’s keeping you from making the jump."

Eco friendly Christmas tree decoration

Eco friendly Christmas tree decoration: "Decorate your Christmas tree with these funky and good looking hanging decorations made from recycled circuit boards. The metal bits will catch the light, and they'll look great on your tree, under all your (low energy) lights."

Now you can throw the real F-Bomb

Stupidiotic F-Bomb: "Sometimes you just gotta drop the “ F ” Bomb. Release some of that inner rage. Just drop this softball sized bomb to hear it yell out “FUCK!” followed by an explosion sound. Soft and safe to toss around the home or office. Let the F-Bombs fly."

Atari promises it won't suck this time

Atari promises it won't suck this time • The Register: "French game publisher Infogrames became the latest company in a long line of Atari brand necromancers by purchasing of the ailing firm last October. The company recently announced it will release 14 games in 2009 under the Atari brand, most of which tap into Hollywood movie licenses like Ghostbusters and the Chronicles of Riddick."

The Atari generation discovers Facebook

The Atari generation discovers Facebook - The Independent Windham Area Edition: "Popular for years with college students, the online site is now a destination for those in their 30s"

Alternative to the bar scene

Alternative to the bar scene - PlayDate Savannah offers fun and games - News - Community - Connect Savannah - Savannah: "Remember how much fun it was to play Hungry, Hungry Hippos? Or Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em robots? Maybe board games were your forte: Scrabble, chess. Or action games such as Twister or Pictionary. Then there were video games, ranging from Pac Man to Super Mario Bros."

Notorious Super Mario Bros. Clone DS Bound

The Escapist : News : Notorious Super Mario Bros. Clone DS Bound: "An unusual retro blast from gaming's past is getting another shot at infamy on the DS in Europe."

Nintendo, Dentsu to distribute video on Wii

Nintendo, Dentsu to distribute video on Wii: Nikkei | Technology | Reuters: "Game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will team up with ad agency Dentsu Inc to launch a video distribution service on the Wii console, in a move to establish a new revenue stream, the Nikkei business daily said."

Merry Christmas Commodore 64 Style!!!

YouTube - Commodore 64 Christmas Demo (1982): "Demo video program promoting the debut of the Commodore 64 computer system, set to various short holiday carols with animation. At the end comes the sale pitch, promoting it's whopping 64 kilobytes of RAM, eye-blazing 16 colors, and all for the amazingly low price of just under $600. Wow!"

Nobel Prize Foundation Caught Up in Corruption Probe

American Thinker Blog: Nobel Prize Foundation Caught Up in Corruption Probe: "According to the Times, a member of Nobel medical prize jury also sat on the board of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca that benefited directly from the award of this yearʼs prize."

Dogbert Teached Jim Cramer How to be a Stock Market Expert

Stock Market Expert: "All Jim Cramer needed to be famous was an infamous character."

25 Resources to Get You Started with PHP from Scratch

25 Resources to Get You Started with PHP from Scratch - NETTUTS: "PHP is a scripting language that is perfect for developing dynamic web pages and applications. You may be a PHP ninja, or perhaps you don't even know what PHP stands for. However, if you plan on or are involved in any kind of web development, you are bound to run into this fantastic and easy to learn web language. Today we will review 25 resources to get you started with PHP."

Some U.S. employers avoid layoffs with other cuts

Some U.S. employers avoid layoffs with other cuts - International Herald Tribune: "A growing number of employers, hoping to avoid or limit layoffs, are introducing four-day workweeks, unpaid vacations and voluntary or enforced furloughs, along with wage freezes, pension cuts and flexible work schedules. These employers are still cutting labor costs, but hanging onto the labor."

First Photos, Details of Energizer Solar Recharger

Exclusive: First Photos, Details of Energizer Solar Recharger - GoodCleanTech: "Yesterday's sneak peek at the Energizer Rechargeable Solar Charger, a portable solar-powered AA and AAA battery charger that transfers sunlight to power, was a little light on the actual details. Don't blame us, it won't debut until January's CES. Today, we've got the exclusive inside scoop on what promises to be a neat little gadget--replete with photos you won't find anywhere else. Apparently, the device:"

Breaking the Consumption Addiction: Can You Be Clever?

Breaking the Consumption Addiction: Can You Be Clever? | Environment | AlterNet: "Forced to pinch pennies, Americans are finding clever ways to cut back. A break in the consumption cycle may be a good thing in the long run."

New Years Looney Tunes marathon

New Years Looney Tunes marathon | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation: "Looney Tunes make a return appearance to television on New Years Day when Cartoon Network is scheduled to broadcast an all-day 14-hour marathon of classic Warner Bros. cartoons"

Batman’s Shakespeare Bust

Cool Stuff: Batman’s Shakespeare Bust | /Film: "Featured in WIRED Magazine’s “Top 100 Gifts”, The Shakespeare Statuette with Hidden Remote Control can be used to switch a door, lights, music, — anything that works on electricity"

Batman: Arkham Asylum Lands the Voices of Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy

Batman: Arkham Asylum Lands the Voices of Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy: "Publishers Eidos and Warner Brothers Interactive have announced that they have secured the talents of actors Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy, who will voice characters in the upcoming game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, a third person detective game to be released on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC."

Sony PlayStation 3 Still Loses Money for the Company

Sony PlayStation 3 Still Loses Money for the Company - X-bit labs: "Despite of earlier reports that Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. managed to halve production cost of the PlayStation 3 video game console already in 2007, according to a recent teardown analysis, the console still costs $448 to build, thus, being money losing machine for Sony. Still, it is considerably lower cost than initially."

Notebook Computers Outpace Desktop PCs

Notebook Computers Outpace Desktop PCs - WSJ.com: "World-wide shipments of notebook computers rose nearly 40% from last year to 38.6 million units as desktop shipments fell 1.3% to 38.5 million units, technology-research firm iSuppli reported Tuesday."

Why Software Language Engineering?

InformIT: Why Software Language Engineering? > 1.1 An Increasing Number of Languages: "This chapter explains why languages are becoming more and more important in computer science and why language engineering, the art of creating languages, is an important topic for computer scientists."

Digg's in a hole

Digg's in a hole - BloggingStocks: "In a market starved for venture capital, Digg recently was able to go against the grain and snap up $28.7 million from Greylock Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, Highland Capital Partners and the Omidyar Network."

Aluminum Can Ornaments

Little House in the Suburbs: Aluminum Can Ornaments: "Today's post began where so many of our posts seem to originate: The Recycling Bin"

US questions net overhaul plans

BBC NEWS | Technology | US questions net overhaul plans: "Plans to offer hundreds of new web addresses as alternatives to .com have been criticised by the US government."

FLOSS Manuals sprints to build quality free documentation

Linux.com :: FLOSS Manuals sprints to build quality free documentation: "Documentation is one area in which free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) is weakest. A project called FLOSS Manuals is trying to remedy this situation. The idea behind project is to create quality, free documentation for free software."

Natural Swimming Pools and Ponds

Natural Pools - Natural Swimming Pools and Ponds - thedailygreen.com: "Read on for more info on natural pools -- sometimes called green pools or organic pools -- and photos of some of the most gorgeous designs around."

Tutorial: Build a Shopping Cart with Spring Web Flow 2.0

Tutorial: Build a Shopping Cart with Spring Web Flow 2.0 - Wheeler Software: "This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to build a shopping cart using the new Spring Web Flow 2.0 framework."

Microsoft warns of SQL attack

Microsoft warns of SQL attack - Network World: "Microsoft issued a security advisory late Monday, saying that the bug could be exploited to run unauthorized software on systems running versions of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005."

ZDNet’s top 5 topics

The year in review: ZDNet’s top 5 topics | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: "Welcome to ZDNet’s year in review and our most popular blog posts based on traffic for 2008. Let’s start our countdown."

Dynamic Language IDEs: Aptana Pydev and DLTK Python

InfoQ: Dynamic Language IDEs: Aptana Pydev and DLTK Python: "Most dynamic languages IDEs share the same difficulties, so it might be interesting to see what others are doing; therefore, besides Ruby, this time we take a look at Python, a language not that different from Ruby."

How SPAM became spam

Food Bits | How SPAM became spam | Food Processing: "How could there be a downside to having one of your marquee brands on the lips of every business computer user every business day? If the word is Spam and you’re Hormel Foods, you take the good with the bad."

New AdWords options for iPhone and G1

Official Google Mobile Blog: New AdWords options for iPhone and G1: "Today, the Google mobile ads team is announcing a new campaign-level option that allows those of you who are AdWords advertisers to show your desktop text and image ads on the iPhone, the T-Mobile G1, and other mobile devices with full (HTML) Internet browsers. The ads can point to desktop landing pages so you don't need to create mobile landing pages or ads in mobile formats."

A 'Hulu for music' is a fine idea

A 'Hulu for music' is a fine idea | Digital Noise: Music and Tech - CNET News: "On Saturday, Warner Music pulled all videos involving its music from YouTube after failing to reach a licensing deal with the Google-owned video site. (More accurately, it asked YouTube to pull them, and YouTube was forced by law to comply.) Now, Silicon Alley Insider reports that Warner and the other three majors--Universal, Sony, and EMI--may be in talks to create their own YouTube competitor."

Xmas: 8 Gadgets For Last Minute Shopper Horde Fighting

Xmas: 8 Gadgets For Last Minute Shopper Horde Fighting: "You already know what it will take to beat down a zombie horde, but a throng of frantic last minute shoppers is another matter altogether. Here are the tools you need to win the day."

Rock Band Feature: Harmonix's Top Tips For Drummers

Rock Band Feature: Harmonix's Top Tips For Drummers | Game | Life from Wired.com: "Drumming in Rock Band got you licked? Can't get your feet and hands to do what you want them to? You're not alone. Even if you're an expert videogame guitar player, drumming is a whole new can of worms. In fact, it's practically identical to the actual instrument, which means that if you want to start from scratch and work your way up to Expert level, you've got a lot of practice ahead of you."

Nothing Escapes the Pull of a PlayStation 3, Not Even a Black Hole

Nothing Escapes the Pull of a PlayStation 3, Not Even a Black Hole - washingtonpost.com: "Scientists scrimp on supercomputer costs but still manage to solve a cosmic quandary with a little help from Sony's PS3."

10 New Year’s resolutions for IT pros

10 New Year’s resolutions for IT pros | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com: "The beginning of a new year provides a great opportunity to refine some of the finer IT practices and to engage new technologies to keep our collective juggernaut rolling. Here are some pointers to consider for the coming year."

New guidelines boost web access

BBC NEWS | Technology | New guidelines boost web access: "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced a new standard to make sites more accessible to older and disabled people."

How to Turn a Gift Bow into a Flower

How to Turn a Gift Bow into a Flower » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: bows, ribbon, bow-mums, ribbon-flowers: "If you save gift bows like I do, you probably have a sack of them, all of which are looking a little crunched up by now. Here’s a great–and EASY–way to remake them into bow mums."

Xmas: 8 Gadgets For Last Minute Shopper Horde Fighting

Xmas: 8 Gadgets For Last Minute Shopper Horde Fighting: "You already know what it will take to beat down a zombie horde, but a throng of frantic last minute shoppers is another matter altogether. Here are the tools you need to win the day."

Mom, Nurses Say 'Angel' Captured on Camera

MyFox Dallas | Mom, Nurses Say 'Angel' Captured on Camera: "Look closely at this surveillance photo from a hospital in North Carolina. Some people swear the bright spot near the middle of the frame is not sunlight, but an angel that saved a teenaged girl from the brink of death."

Five Tips for Better Holiday Photos

Five Tips for Better Holiday Photos - PC World: "This season is the stuff that cameras are made for: holiday lights and decorations, brightly wrapped presents, kids anxiously darting around the tree. Your camera is probably getting excited just thinking about the opportunities you're going to give it in the next few days. So as you get ready for the veritable Olympics of personal digital photography, consider these five tips for taking better pictures. Also, if you're shooting outdoors, don't forget my advice on winterizing your camera. And since you'll be taking a lot of pictures indoors, be sure to review my tips for taking better pictures of people and how to get better results in difficult lighting."

Don't like speed cameras? Use them to punk your enemies

Don't like speed cameras? Use them to punk your enemies: "Whenever a new, relatively unpopular technology hits the streets, you can always count on teenagers to try and exploit it for their own gain. Such is the case with speed cameras, as high school students in Maryland have begun playing the 'Speed Camera Pimping Game,' wherein they attempt to punk the not-so-accurate cameras by creating faux license plates that can be traced back to peers and teachers they have it out for. The trend has parents and law officials worried, and it raises even more questions about the cameras' usefulness."

Planning Your BIRT Report

InformIT: Planning Your BIRT Report > Identifying the content of the report: "The tutorial in the previous chapter demonstrates how easy it is to build reports using BIRT, so you may be puzzled when you next see a chapter recommending that you plan your report development. This chapter receives its prominent position because as you need to address more complex reporting requirements, you will find it is much more efficient to work from a plan."

How to Make an Origami Reindeer (with pictures)

How to Make an Origami Reindeer (with pictures) - wikiHow: "This origami reindeer is a simple design, and can be attempted by a paper folder of any level. It's great for using up unwanted murky brown origami paper, and it can make for a creative Christmas decoration!"

19 Tips for In-Game Advertising

19 Tips for In-Game Advertising - Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology: "I wrote down these thoughts some time ago for a project we did together with Futurelab; they were intended as closing remarks for a larger work on in-game advertising. Some of these tips may seem trivial in the real world, but turn out more useful in the context of a game space. Others may be less intuitive to someone unfamiliar with the medium. I hit a writing block at #19; perhaps you could add one more to round it off."

5 Awesome free PHP web hosting services

5 Awesome free PHP web hosting services: "In this post I want to suggest you five interesting free web hosting services (totally Ad-Free) which offer a lot of advanced features such as FTP access, PHP and MySql support, custom domain and free subdomains."

DIY - Create your own Bokeh

DIY - Create your own Bokeh | DIYPhotography.net: "Bokeh is an adaptation from a a Japanese word meaning blur. In photography this term is used to describe the quality of the areas in the picture which are not in focus."

Photo Backup: An Intro to Data Security

Photo Backup: An Intro to Data Security: "Backing-up your photos is definitely important, but more important is getting in the habit of doing so. As time goes on and our skills increase, we tend to take more photos. Cameras keep getting bigger and pumping out more pixels too. I recently wrote about my exponential photo collection, and this illustrates what I’m talking about. If you don’t have good habits with your backups right now, you’ll be in a world of hurt one or two years down the road."

Mamma Mia: How Universal Are Using Music from the 70’s to Build a 21st Century Business

Mamma Mia: How Universal Are Using Music from the 70’s to Build a 21st Century Business « Music Industry Blog: "Universal Picture’s ‘Mamma Mia! The Movie’ has just become the most successful film musical of all time with 2.25 million first day US sales and previously 1.6 million first day UK sales (which in per capita terms means that British sales were three and half times more successful.) UK 1st week sales peaked at 3.5 million, over a third higher than that blockbuster Titanic. Mamma Mia has also been seen by over 32 million people world wide and there are eight different theatre productions currently globally."

jQuery Cheat Sheet

jquery12_colorcharge.png (PNG Image, 1313x900 pixels) - Scaled (60%): "Cool Cheat Sheet to have handy."

Building an Arduino-based laser game

Building an Arduino-based laser game, Part 1: Arduino basics: "Jump-start your electronics projects with the open source hardware and software platform Arduino"

Windows 7: Linux Terminator

Windows 7: Linux Terminator - PC World: "The threat to Windows comes entirely from 'netbooks' -- lightweight, inexpensive laptops that typically use Intel 's low-powered Atom processor and don't come with substantial amounts of RAM or powerful graphics processors. They're designed mainly for browsing the Web, handling e-mail, writing memos, and taking care of simple word-processing or spreadsheet chores."

Millennium Falcon Paper Craft

SF PaperCraftGallery: "Great paper craft for those snowy days."

An end to the Google bonus fairytale?

An end to the Google bonus fairytale? | Digital Media - CNET News: "Google employees, some of whom have reportedly grown used to fairytale-like cash bonuses on the north side of $20,000, apparently got coal in their stockings this year. Certainly that's the takeaway for gossip blog Valleywag, which in a headline likened this year's bonus to 'dogfood'--a euphemism for in-house testing--because Google would like some feedback."

1-up and Super Mushroom Ornaments

1-up and Super Mushroom Ornaments: "Power up your Christmas and give your tree Extra Life with these super cute Super Mario ornaments you can make in an afternoon! They're fast and inexpensive, so go ahead and build an entire Mushroom Kingdom!"

Open source auditing tool boosts election integrity

Open source auditing tool boosts election integrity: "We have looked closely in the past at the importance of post-election audits and the essential role that they play in guaranteeing election integrity. Many state and local governments have been slow to institute adequate audit procedures, but that could soon change. Colorado's Boulder County has taken a big step forward with a comprehensive auditing strategy that leverages open source software to boost election integrity."

Getting Started with the Twitter API

Getting Started with the Twitter API: "Twitter's API lets you read and write Twitter messages with minimal coding in nearly any programming language. In fact, you can use this Application Programming Interface without doing any programming."

Using JavaScript To Call PHP Database Routines Between Windows

PHPBuilder.com, the best resource for PHP tutorials, templates, PHP manuals, content management systems, scripts, classes and more.: "In an effort to bring high ease of use, some of us provide a HTML styled select or drop-down list of selections the user can make. It's not too hard to have PHP build a variable that holds a select option list"

The year 2008 in photographs

The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com: "2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Watch for part 2 and part 3 tomorrow and the next day."

Scientists extract images directly from brain

Scientists extract images directly from brain ::: Pink Tentacle: "Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep."

Forget Depp: Somali pirates risk all for riches, women

Forget Depp: Somali pirates risk all for riches, women | csmonitor.com: "There's at least one job these days that's recession-proof, if you can handle shark-infested seas, outrun some of the world's most powerful navies, and keep your cool when your hostages get antsy."

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you | Encosia: "If you’re doing this on a public facing* website, you are doing it wrong.

Instead, I urge you to use the Google AJAX Libraries content delivery network to serve jQuery to your users directly from Google’s network of datacenters. Doing so has several advantages over hosting jQuery on your server(s): decreased latency, increased parallelism, and better caching."

Javascript in Modern Web Design

Javascript in Modern Web Design | Idea-Design: "In today’s web design, Javascript is a must-have component. Aside from its functionality, Javascript can enhance user experience by creating transitional effects such as fading and sliding animation. Thanks to the open source Javascript frameworks, we don’t need to write custom Javascript from scratch anymore. Here are 47 Javascript plugins that you can use to enhance the user experience and functionality of your website. Don’t forget to check out the sample sites, which show how the plugins can be used."

Be careful how you Wii over Christmas, fat boy

iTWire - Be careful how you Wii over Christmas, fat boy: "Doctors are predicting that the number of 'Wii Knee' injuries caused by games consoles could rise over the holiday period. Lazy gits are apparently most at risk"

Wii-controlled robots made for combat

Wii-controlled robots made for combat - Discovery.com- msnbc.com: "Using the controller from the popular Nintendo Wii gaming system (the 'Wiimote') scientists from the Idaho National Laboratory, working with engineers from the U.S. Army, Foster-Miller, and iRobot, are developing novel ways to control military robots."

Google Chrome To Become Default Internet Web Browser

Google Chrome To Become Default Internet Web Browser: "Several computer vendors are exploring the possibility of including Google Chrome as the default Internet Web browser of choice. Most PCs and laptops traditionally come with Microsoft's Internet Explorer installed."

Lego Star wars 5×10-foot Hoth base diorama

5×10-foot Hoth base diorama includes teeny tiny minifig footprints | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog: "Mark Borlase’s most recent revision to his colossal 5′X10′ Hoth base diorama is a marvel to behold. The entire display consists of 55,000 to 60,000 pieces and has cool features such as 50 real lights and a remote controlled mechanism that deploys troops from the AT-ATs."

'Despereaux' best animated feature in a while

Deseret News | 'Despereaux' best animated feature in a while: "'The Tale of Despereaux' has a few elements of the classic Disney cartoons of old, not the least of which is a reluctant hero who sports oversized ears. ('Dumbo,' anyone?)"

You Cannot Trust Your Life to Your Cell Phone Or a GPS Unit

You Cannot Trust Your Life to Your Cell Phone Or a GPS Unit: "You cannot trust your life to your cell phone or a GPS unit! With the proliferation of the new tech devices this holiday season, more and more people are trusting their lives to cell phones and GPS units. We are also hearing and reading more stories where this dependence has resulted in disaster."

Show Off Your Team Geek Allegiance

Show Off Your Team Geek Allegiance - Asylum | Men's Lifestyle | Humor, weird news, sex tips, fashion, dating, food and gadgets: "When picking sides, do you go with the Siths or the Assassins? You can now represent for the 'Star Wars' Bad Guy squad with athletic jerseys -- football, baseball, basketball and that one with the ice."

Mac Whacked by PC

The Ethicist - Mac Whacked by PC - Question - NYTimes.com: "Another college professor and I wanted a student to work on a project of ours, but she is a Mac user and the project required a program written for the PC. My colleague’s husband, a Ph.D. in computer science, suggested an alternative program the student could download. She did; her computer froze and would not restart. The husband refused to assist her further. As the spouse of a colleague and the person whose advice caused the problem, isn’t he obligated to help?"

Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009

Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009 | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com: "In yet another reprieve for Windows XP, Microsoft is allowing system builders to continue to obtain copies of Windows XP to preload on PCs through June 30, 2009."

U.S. Computers Generate Most Malware

U.S. Computers Generate Most Malware - Business Center - PC World: "American websites host more malware and computers relay more spam than any other country, the latest security report showed."

Open source success due to Microsoft, claims report

Open source success due to Microsoft, claims report - Network World: "The success of open source software is now being driven by its rapid commercialization and not simply its appeal to evangelistic developers, a new report has suggested."

Create and edit vector graphics for free

Create and edit vector graphics for free: "Creating graphics on a computer affordably can prove a difficult task, especially for images besides rasters. Some people need to create images which can be expanded on massive scales; they need a vector editing application. Adobe Illustrator CS4, the leading vector editor for Mac and Windows, costs £567… a pretty high price tag, you must agree!"

The 25 Best Horror Films of All Time

The 25 Best Horror Films of All Time (Well, 1990 - present) - Cinematical: "Ooooh, everyone loves a list. Or ... some people love them and other people hate them, but they're still really fun to talk about on a bored Sunday afternoon. (Which today is.) So long story short: I'm friendly with a few bloggers who are part of a horror borg known as The League of Tana Tea Drinkers, and when I heard they were putting together a list of the finest 'modern-era' horror films of all time, I raised my hand and went 'Ooooh, ooh, pick me! I know the answers!' until they said 'Fine, you can participate if you SHUT UP.' And so I did."

10 programming languages worth checking out

H3RALD : 10 programming languages worth checking out: "If you program for fun or profit, chances are that you know C, C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby. These programming languages are all widely known, and, to a different degree, used in commercial applications. At least some of them can safely be considered mainstream, even if that word has become so overused and misused that has almost lost its original meaning, if it ever had one. If you are earning your living by coding, it’s often one of these languages that pays the bills. Nevertheless, true hackers frequently meander in other directions, exploring and discovering different paradigms and methodologies, sometimes to the most esoteric extremes."

What is the Hypergrid?

What is the Hypergrid? « justincc’s opensim blog: "Essentially, a Hypergrid is a confederation of OpenSim systems that have enabled the Hypergrid facility. Each user has a home grid or standalone where their user profile, avatar appearance and inventory is stored. Possible homes range from a standalone on the user’s own machine up to a large OpenSim grid hosted by a third party."

MySQL vs PostgreSQL

MySQL vs PostgreSQL - WikiVS: "MySQL vs PostgreSQL is a decision many must make when approaching open-source relational databases management systems. Both are time-proven solutions that compete strongly with proprietary database software. MySQL has long been assumed to be the faster but less full-featured of the two database systems, while PostgreSQL was assumed to be a more densely featured database system often described as an open-source version of Oracle. MySQL has been popular among various software projects because of its speed and ease of use, while PostgreSQL has had a close following from developers who come from an Oracle or SQL Server background."

How SEXY is your voice How to make your voice deeper

Happy Brain Storming: "Voice. One uses it and becomes a politician; another misuses it and can’t order a pizza over the telephone properly.

But as for most human tools, your voice is also OPEN to improvement and development."

Useful Uses Of netcat

Useful Uses Of netcat | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "This short article shows some useful netcat commands. netcat is known as the TCP/IP swiss army knife. From the netcat man page: netcat is a simple unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable 'back-end' tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities."

AJAX file upload tutorial

AJAX file upload tutorial: "First of all I have to say that to create a pure AJAX file upload system is not possible because of security limitations of JavaScript. All of the Ajax upload systems I know use some third party tool/package or only mimics the AJAX feeling. Even so it makes file upload process a bit nicer. In the next section I will present you a solution which imitates the AJAX process, but uses a normal upload process and iFrames."

6 Crazy Cures For Your Common Ailments! » Health Watch Center

6 Crazy Cures For Your Common Ailments! » Health Watch Center: "These cures are strange but totally effective solutions to treat some of the most common ailments."

The 10 Signs of Intellectual Honesty

The 10 Signs of Intellectual Honesty | The Design Matrix: "When it comes to just about any topic, it seems as if the public discourse on the internet is dominated by rhetoric and propaganda. People are either selling products or ideology. In fact, just because someone may come across as calm and knowledgeable does not mean you should let your guard down and trust what they say. What you need to look for is a track record of intellectual honesty. Let me therefore propose 10 signs of intellectual honesty."

Start using crontab for automation

Eric Wendelin’s Blog » Start using crontab for automation: "I seem to preach a lot about automation for productivity, and with good reason. You should not have to perform mundane tasks repeatedly. Crontab is a fantastic tool for simply running exactly what you want at times you specify."

10 Tips for Avoiding Customer Contact

10 Tips for Avoiding Customer Contact | Search Commander Blog - Scott Hendison: "Whatever your reason, if you’d like to avoid interaction with your Web visitors as much as possible, I’ve put together this web designers checklist of the Top 10 ways you can avoid visitor engagement, with a bonus tip at the end for no extra charge."

Fast & Frequent Spider Indexing

Fast & Frequent Spider Indexing | Search Commander Blog - Scott Hendison: "Obviously, the key to fresher cache dates is getting more frequent visits by the spiders, and these are all ways I can think of to increase that frequency. If you have other suggestions, BELIEVE me I want to hear about them, so don’t you dare leave without adding a comment!"

7 Delicious Meat Alternatives (and Not a Lick of Tofu in Sight)

7 Delicious Meat Alternatives (and Not a Lick of Tofu in Sight) | EcoSalon - The Green Gathering: "When you get hungry, and I mean hungry, it’s your body calling out for protein. While you don’t have to go full-time veg to green your lifestyle, many people are surprised to learn that simply cutting back on meat consumption is one of the most significant ways to help the planet. And it doesn’t require subsistence on tofu. (Personally, I find tofu delicious, but it’s one of those vegetarian protein sources people either really love or really don’t.)"

20 Gorgeous College Campuses

20 Gorgeous College Campuses -- Education-Portal.com: "Some college campuses are just more attractive than others. Here is a list of beautiful college campuses in the United States."

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will | The A.V. Club: "'There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.'"

10 Handwritten fonts you can't miss

10 Handwritten fonts you can't miss: "This is a list of my preferred Handwritten fonts I often use in my design projects. I included a link to download each font apart and some suggest about how you can use them."

5 Ways To Fix A Stuck Pixel On Your Screen

5 Ways To Fix A Stuck Pixel On Your Screen | MakeUseOf.com: "A dead or stuck pixel on an LCD screen or TFT can be incredibly annoying. You’ll be staring at it for days on end, wondering for how long you’ll be without your screen or maybe your entire laptop if you decided to turn it in for repair or replacement. All that grieve over something as unimportant, yet highly irritating as a malfunctioning pixel"

Anatomy of Linux process management

Anatomy of Linux process management: "The creation and management of user-space processes in Linux® have many principles in common with UNIX® but also include several unique optimizations specific to Linux. Here, review the life cycle of Linux processes and explore the kernel internals for user process creation, memory management, scheduling, and death."

How to Build a Huge Christmas Lighting Display

Holdman Christmas: "Below is a behind the scenes tour of the display. It includes a lot of information about the arches, megatree, and how things are set up. Runs almost 30 minutes."

Behind the Scenes - Holdman Christmas Display from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

How To Survive A Family Christmas

How To Survive A Family Christmas (Leisure & Hobbies: Seasonal Humour): "Very funny, but the truth and nothing more."

Seasonal Humour:How To Survive A Family Christmas

Homemade Titanium

Homemade Titanium | Popular Science: "An iron crowbar costs about $8; one made of titanium, $80. Solid-titanium scissors start at $700, and don't even ask about the titanium socket wrench. Titanium must be a rare and precious substance, right?"

Storing Arbitrary Messages in Remote DNS Caches

Landon Fuller: "In each DNS query, 7 bits are reserved for a number of flags, one of which is the Recursion Desired (RD) flag. If set to 0, the queried DNS server will not attempt to recurse -- it will only provide answers from its cache.

Combine this with a wildcard zone and it's possible to signal bits (RD on), and read them (RD off). To set a bit to 1 the sender issues a query with the RD bit on. The wildcard zone resolves all requests, including this query. The receiver then issues a query for the same hostname, with the RD bit off. If the bit is 1, the query will return a valid record. If the bit is 0, no record will be returned."

10 Steps to Learn a New Coding Language Fast

10 Steps to Learn a New Coding Language Fast - NETTUTS: "Learning a new language can seem like a daunting task. However, as it is with all types of learning, there are certain techniques and practices that will help you learn the language faster and more efficiently. Here are 10 of the best practices that aspiring programmers can use to quickly start programming in a new language."

10 things for non-coders to do with free software over Christmas

10 things for non-coders to do with free software over Christmas: "Some of us will find some kind of alleged spare time on our hands over the next few weeks. Certainly, there’s often some kind of break from “work” over the festive season. Traditionally free software developers have used such times for long coding sessions, get-togethers and “hack-fests”. Of course we’re not all hard-core (or even soft-core) hackers so here’s a few suggestions for the rest of us who might want to try something new over Christmas."

Introducing The Dojo Toolkit

Introducing The Dojo Toolkit - Opera Developer Community: "The Dojo Toolkit is a collection of uniform JavaScript components to assist with any of your web development needs. The Base dojo.js provides a collection of 'must have' APIs for your most common needs, and provides an entire library of functionality built around a 'use at will' philosophy. Dojo is completely free, and is dual-licensed under the AFL and new-BSD Open Source Licenses, providing peace of mind about the history and future of the project."

Augmented Reality Coming to Your Desktop Soon

Augmented Reality Coming to Your Desktop Soon - Business Center - PC World: "A Tokyo-based start-up has taken the wraps off new 'augmented reality' software that allows the real world and computer imagery to meet on the desktop."

GRUB recovery after installing Windows XP

GRUB recovery after installing Windows XP « Boolean Island !: "If any one use dual boot system then after installing windows again we lost GRUB loader. It can recover in various method. Here i discuss GRUB recovery using Live cd. For this we have to boot our system by Live cd."

20 Extremely Useful Life Hack Videos

20 Extremely Useful Life Hack Videos ~ ButterBlog: "For some reason I've been saving all the life hack videos I've come across in the last couple years, probably cause I'm always looking for the easy way to do things. If your like me, then your going to really enjoy these video life hacks below. (I'll be adding more and more hacks as I come across them). Enjoy!"

40 Places for College Students to Find Free Unabridged Books Online

40 Places for College Students to Find Free Unabridged Books Online -- Education-Portal.com: "The cost of books can add up quickly when you are a college student. Fortunately, there are a lot of great sites that offer free unabridged books online. Here are 40 of the best places to find free textbooks, audio books and full-text works of fiction and nonfiction."

Severed cable disrupts web access

BBC NEWS | Technology | Severed cable disrupts web access: "Internet and phone communications between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have been seriously disrupted after submarine cables were severed."

Python 3 primer

Python 3 primer, Part 1: What's new: "Python 3 is the latest version of Guido van Rossum's powerful general-purpose programming language. It breaks backwards compatibility with the 2.x line but has cleaned up some syntax issues. This article is the first in a series that talks about the changes that affect the language and backwards compatibility, and it provides examples of new features."

Java Performance: Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows Vista

[Phoronix] Java Performance: Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows Vista: "Have you ever wondered on what operating system Java works the best? While by no means is it a conclusive multi-platform comparison, for this article we ran a number of Java benchmarks on both Windows Vista Premium and Ubuntu Linux to see how the Java Virtual Machine performance differs. In addition, when running Ubuntu we had tested Sun's official Java package as well as the OpenJDK alternative."

Open source programming languages for kids

Linux.com :: Open source programming languages for kids: "The past couple of years have seen an explosion of open source programming languages and utilities that are geared toward children. Many of these efforts are based around the idea that, since the days of BASIC, programming environments have become far too complex for untrained minds to wrap themselves around. Some toolkits aim to create entirely new ways of envisioning and creating projects that appeal to younger minds, such as games and animations, while others aim to recreate the 'basic'-ness of BASIC in a modern language and environment."

Working With Multiple Boot Environments on the OpenSolaris OS

Working With Multiple Boot Environments on the OpenSolaris OS: "Often, developers must maintain multiple system configurations and switch back and forth among them for testing. With the introduction of ZFS in the Solaris 10 OS in 2005, you could take snapshots and clone file systems with minimal space overhead and time delay, thereby backing up and restoring environments. However, several steps were involved, particularly if the environment contained multiple file systems"

The adventure of PHP and the magic quotes

The adventure of PHP and the magic quotes

Starting Social Media: Building on What You Have

Starting Social Media: Building on What You Have | Altitude Branding: "You don’t have to turn your entire world on its head to adopt social media. It’s not about taking everything you’ve already done and chucking it wildly out the window in favor of a revolution."

11 Internet Marketing Trends To Ignore in 2009

11 Internet Marketing Trends To Ignore in 2009 | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing: "After having a bit of success with my 11 Internet Marketing Trends to Ignore in 2008, I thought I'd give it another shot."

Six Lessons You Learn By Playing Santa

Six Lessons You Learn By Playing Santa | Dumb Little Man: "Being Santa can be awfully daunting but there are a few good lessons to be learned once you step into those big black boots. They are lessons that we all knew at one point but for some reason, most have forgotten them. Perhaps it's because an iPhone didn't tell us so!"