Building a simple crystal radio.

Chapter 4: Radio: "A crystal radio is the distilled essence of a radio. It has very few parts, it needs no batteries or other power source, and it can be built in a short time out of things you can find around the house."

Microsoft fires another shot at Linux netbooks by extending XP availability

Microsoft fires another shot at Linux netbooks by extending XP availability: "Linux advocates had a lot of fun recently taking shots at Windows 7 Starter version, which Microsoft has positioned as an option for low-cost netbooks."

Amazon.com Disputes Hacker's Confession

Amazon.com Disputes Hacker's Confession: "Amazon.com denies a hacker's claim to have been responsible for numerous books for sale via Amazon.com losing their sales rankings over the weekend. The Amazon.com glitch affected more than 57,000 titles, and not just gay-themed books, as was widely reported."

DIY RSS Web Widget

RSS Web Widget: "In this article by Roshan Bhattarai, we'll see how to create a web widget which displays the links from the RSS feed of a specific URL. By the end of this article, you'll see how we can use Iframe to build a web widget."

Wall Street 2.0: The Twitter Script

Wall Street 2.0: The Twitter Script: "Not much is known about the the upcoming movie of Wall Street 2 other than it will once again team up actor Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko and director Oliver Stone. When 1938 Media’s Loren Feldman heard the news this morning, he decided to come up with his own script—on Twitter. Over the course of more than twenty Tweets, starting with this one, he roughed out the basic plot lines of the movie. Well, it could be the plot of the movie if Oliver Stone decides to make it about the Web 2.0 crowd."

Facebook Has Twitter Envy - But Why?

Facebook Has Twitter Envy - But Why? - ReadWriteWeb: "It is no secret that Facebook has Twitter envy. The number one social networking site is not content to win over rival MySpace. It is not satisfied being far ahead of Google on the social web. Facebook now has Twitter firmly in its crosshairs."

How To Add Bash Completion In Debian

How To Add Bash Completion In Debian | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "Bash completion is a useful tool for completion of file paths, commands etc. By default it is enabled on Ubuntu but not on Debian. With two simple steps it can also be enabled on Debian."

Reddit.tv: Why Hasn't Digg Done This Yet?

Reddit.tv: Why Hasn't Digg Done This Yet? - ReadWriteWeb: "Social news site Reddit launched a great new service today called Reddit.tv. The new page allows users uninterrupted viewing of videos submitted to Reddit. Videos are split into categories and top comments from Reddit users appear beside the video player."

Basic Authentication with Apache

Basic Authentication with Apache: "Over the past decade or so, Apache has more than proven itself as a great web server. It's flexible, fast, well-documented, free, and serves millions of web pages on the Internet every day. Apache can be configured to protect either the whole website or just certain sections of it, allowing access only to a few authorized users. This can be done by creating users and setting up a user authentication system so that when someone goes to a protected section of the website they are asked to enter a username and a password. Let's take a look at how this can done."

GPS Evidence Too Unreliable For Legal Purposes

GPS Evidence Too Unreliable For Legal Purposes -- GPS -- InformationWeek: "GPS devices can be easily jammed and their data can be spoofed, particularly when tied to cellular systems, experts argue."

Photojojo's Bad-Ass Bowler Camera Bag, zing!

Photojojo's Bad-Ass Bowler Camera Bag, zing!: "We understand the spot you've been put in. You've got one jazzy Mercedes of a camera, but because you want to protect it, you're forced to store it inside a shabby garage."

How To Be A Successful Evil Overlord

How To Be A Successful Evil Overlord: "Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well, there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However every Evil Overlord I've read about in books or seen in movies invariably gets overthrown and destroyed in the end. I've noticed that no matter whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad scientists, or alien invaders, they always seem to make the same basic mistakes every single time. With that in mind, allow me to present..."

Cheap ice cream and free cards: early Cheap Trick Thursday

Consuming Interests: Cheap ice cream and free cards: early Cheap Trick Thursday - News and tips for consumers on shopping, saving money, deals and credit - baltimoresun.com: "Cheap ice cream Wednesday night! Free business cards and resume copying through June 13! Free greeting cards, just in time for Mother's Day!"

Skills vs. Theory: Which Should Be Taught?

Skills vs. Theory: Which Should Be Taught? - TechOpinionation: "I was reminded of this topic by a post on CodeJustin that had a poll about whether or not you went to college for programming. For me the answer is yes and no. I went to college to learn many skills and much theory about computer systems, but 95%+ of what I use in my day-to-day job I've taught myself. However, that learned theory has formed a solid foundation for my learned skills."

Top 10 Tutorials for Web Designers

Top 10 Tutorials for Web Designers: "Designing for web requires extensive knowledge of the different web designing tools and techniques. To be an accomplished web designer it takes fluency in various software and markup languages involved in web designing. For any aspiring web designer it's important to develop an expertize over HTML, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, and CSS. Although there are various institutions that teach web designing, nothing can be better than honing your skills through self-tutoring. There are scores of free web design tutorials that provide you the best way to polish yourself for the professional world."

Presenting online

Presenting online | emmajane.net: "I've done a number of online presentations in the last couple of weeks and have gotten nice feedback from people. Presenting online is just like presenting in person, if you prepare your material, and you're passionate about the topic you're presenting, things should go well. Here are some notes on how I prepared for my two OpenWeek sessions this week."

Powerhouse Programs of Linux

Powerhouse Programs of Linux: "Linux comes packed with some pretty powerful tools. Here is a list of what I consider to be the powerhouse programs of Linux and some common usage for each."

Getting Into Linux the Easy Way (Linux for Beginners)

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Getting Into Linux the Easy Way (Linux for Beginners) - Finding Good-Quality, Fairly-Priced OEM Linuxes: "In Linux For Absolute Beginners: 3 Easy Ways to Test-Drive Linux I reviewed some simple ways to safely test-drive Linux. All of them involved selecting a Linux distribution to try, then downloading and burning it to a CD. Anyone can learn how to install Linux in different ways, such as dual-booting, standalone on a single PC, or in a virtual machine. While installing Linux is very easy as far as installing operating systems goes, it still requires a bit of geekery. If anything goes wrong it can eat up a lot of time troubleshooting, especially when you're not familiar with Linux."

Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web

Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web - O'Reilly Radar: "There's a lot of excitement about ebooks these days, and rightly so. While Amazon doesn't release sales figures for the Kindle, there's no question that it represents a turning point in the public perception of ebook devices. And of course, there's Stanza, an open ebook platform for the iPhone, which has been downloaded more than a million times (and now has been bought by Amazon.)"

Effectively Providing Alternate Content for a Flash Application

Effectively Providing Alternate Content for a Flash Application | InsideRIA: "Flash has an undeserved bad wrap in the Search Engine Optimization world. Some SEO experts even warn not to use Flash, because many search engines have trouble indexing Flash content. While Flash content is searchable by Google, it’s critical to use Flash wisely if you want your applications to be searchable by all search engines."

Microsoft keeps tabs in a crisis

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft keeps tabs in a crisis: "Microsoft has launched a trial product to connect users to the people and places they care about especially when crisis hits."

How Hackers Can Steal Secrets from Reflections

How Hackers Can Steal Secrets from Reflections: Scientific American: "Information thieves can now go around encryption, networks and the operating system"

Incredible Terminator Salvation Footage

Film news Incredible Terminator Salvation Footage | TotalFilm.com: "Packed full of freshly finished effects footage, they perform their job perfectly – making Terminator Salvation look like the greatest action film ever made."

Round up of ActionScript 3.0 and Flex optimization techniques and practices

Round up of ActionScript 3.0 and Flex optimization techniques and practices | InsideRIA: "A homework assignment I was recently given for a Java programming class involved a competition to see who could create the most optimized implementation of an interface which was provided by the instructor. It was a challenging and very fun assignment that I think the whole class enjoyed. I didn’t win the competition but still came out a winner because of my heightened interest in application optimization and performance tuning that I gained."

$100 card converts old PCs into Linux thin clients

$100 card converts old PCs into Linux thin clients: "Igel has released an add-in card that enables old desktop PCs to be turned into Linux thin clients on the cheap. The 'Igel TC Card' costs $100 and requires a computer to have an available PCI slot and an IDE interface, the company says."

How to Achieve Ambitious Goals

How to Achieve Ambitious Goals - Dumb Little Man: "I’m going to let you know how I achieve all those big goals that so many people think they can’t do. You can’t just wait around for the perfect opportunity because more likely than not, it will never come. Create your own opportunities and you will get what you want."

The RGB/Green.org Sustainability Challenge

The RGB/Green.org Sustainability Challenge: "Strengthen your local community with an organically grown Drupal site"

Learning How to Count (Avoiding The Fencepost Problem)

Learning How to Count (Avoiding The Fencepost Problem) | BetterExplained: "Counting isn’t easy. Suppose your boss wants you to work from 8am to 11am, and mop floors 8 to 11. Simple - it’s one floor per hour, right?

Nope! There are 4 floors to mop (8, 9, 10 and 11) but only 3 hours to work (8-9, 9-10, and 10-11).

Whoa — we count floors 8-11 and hours 8-11 differently? You bet. And somehow, if the boss said 'Mop floors 8 to 11 on April 8th to 11th' everything would be ok.

Today let’s unravel this counting mystery."

17 cool magnet tricks

17 cool magnet tricks - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories: "Here are seventeen of our favorite magnet tricks, projects and demos."

Examples and Tips for Great HTML/CSS Formatting

In the Woods - Examples and Tips for Great HTML/CSS Formatting: "An overlooked aspect of websites is the formatting of HTML and CSS documents. This affects validation, SEO, and visual ease of use. Visual ease of use is the last thing most authors tend to keep in mind, but it’s still very important. If you’re building a template for a client, or to sell on ThemeForest, it is important that it’s visually formatted properly. Here are some examples of well formatted HTML and CSS."

Weirdest Police stop ever!!!

YouTube - Police stops bicyclist WTF?: "Police stops bicyclist WTF?"

Canceling TV Shows Must Be Hard in the Microblogging Age

Canceling TV Shows Must Be Hard in the Microblogging Age: "in the era of blogs, social networks, and microblogging, fans of endangered shows can quickly organize and protest, and in some cases, even guilt network execs into giving them at least a bit more of their favorite programs."

Introducing jQuery

Introducing jQuery: "jQuery is an open source, cross browser JavaScript library that simplifies event handling, animations and developing Ajax - enabled web pages and promotes rapid application development. This article discusses jQuery - an open source JavaScript library, its features and how easily it can be integrated with Ajax and the ASP.NET MVC Framework to build applications that are rich, interactive and responsive."

Redmond Among Contributors to Open Source PHP Framework

Redmond Among Contributors to Open Source PHP Framework | Developer News | Redmond Developer News: "Zend Technologies releases updated open source framework with support from Microsoft, IBM, Google and others."

Monty Python Terry Jones Baby

Monty Python Terry Jones Baby: "'Monty Python' star Terry Jones is still making jokes at 67 - and children. The actor/comedian and his girlfriend Anna Soderstrom are expecting a child together."

17 Tips To Make Your Life Easier

17 Tips To Make Your Life Easier - Aimless Direction — Aimless Direction: "I received this as an email and instead of saving the email, I decided to post it here so that I know I always have these great tips on my site. I plan on trying every single one of them too. I actually just tried the dryer tip (#17) at the bottom, so we’ll see how that one works out. Oh yeah, I probably won’t be trying the hair conditioner on my legs for shaving either since, well…I’m a guy. A lot of these tips are things that I can actually use on a regular basis too."

Inside the baby mind

Inside the baby mind - The Boston Globe: "It's unfocused, random, and extremely good at what it does. How we can learn from a baby's brain."

Happy 20th b-day, Game Boy: here are 6 reasons why you're #1

Happy 20th b-day, Game Boy: here are 6 reasons why you're #1 - Ars Technica: "April 21 marks the 20th anniversary of the original launch of Nintendo's Game Boy. Ars marks the occasion with a look at six reasons why the Game Boy became one of the most successful consoles of all time."

Crimes committed by Ferris Bueller during his Day off

Crimes committed by Ferris Bueller during his Day off. | Ask Metafilter: "I would like a comprehensive list of each offense Ferris and his friends commit during the movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'. Ideally, please list the offense (criminal trespass to vehicle, battery, etc.) and the category of crime if it was committed by an adult (eg, felony, Class A Misdemeanor, etc.) Illinois jurisdiction. Thank you very much."

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs: "Downloadable and very printable, I find these PDFs extremely useful."

In tough times, frugal is cool again

In tough times, frugal is cool again -- chicagotribune.com: "Instead of emulating misers, consumers can resolve to spend money smarter and cut waste. With some effort and knowledge, most people can save at least $5,000 a year, Doble said."

Is "Good Enough" Good Enough?

Is "Good Enough" Good Enough? - Opinions by ExtremeTech: "Face it, there are applications that can consume vast amounts of PC and graphic horsepower. Games. Video encoding. Photo editing. All of these applications can eat processor cycles like there's no tomorrow."

10 Game-changing Tips from the World’s Top Freelancers

Secret Sauce: 10 Game-changing Tips from the World’s Top Freelancers - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog: "In this article we try to discover what separates the best from the rest. What are the world’s top freelancers doing that the rest of us aren’t?"

Worry-free Linux power-downs with Anacron

Worry-free Linux power-downs with Anacron: "Linux® ordinarily uses Cron to automatically perform routine system maintenance, such as rotating log files and updating spam filtering rules. This works well for servers and other systems that are powered on 24/7. If, however, you want to save power by shutting off the computer when it's not in use, as is common for desktop and laptop systems, Cron can't run. Not running Cron routinely can result in monstrously large log files and other problems. The Anacron utility provides a solution, enabling the computer to run regular maintenance jobs whenever the computer is powered on, even if those times are unpredictable."

Smoothly Animate a Caricature Using Motion Tweens

Smoothly Animate a Caricature Using Motion Tweens - Flashtuts+: "In this tutorial we'll see how we can create a caricature, split it into different layers then arrange the pieces properly as graphic symbols. Finally we'll look at how easily we can smoothly animate the caricature by using motion tweens. This is a lengthy tutorial, so let's get started!"

How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop

How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop - Psdtuts+: "In this tutorial, we'll go through all the steps of creating a flaming skull in Photoshop. We'll be using some images we shot ourself of flames, and a stock Designious vector skull to get us started. This tutorial covers some relatively simple steps and some clever photo manipulation techniques. Let's get to it!"

Adidas banned soccer commercial

YouTube - Adidas banned soccer commercial: "this is actually some shitty ass cigar commercial, to all those people who keep pointing that out, stfu, i get the point."

Recycling used light bulbs, esprit cabane, pretty recycling crafts

*** Recycling used light bulbs, esprit cabane, pretty recycling crafts: "To help preserve the environment, we can equip our homes with energy-saving light bulbs. Here is an opportunity to recycle old light bulbs into trendy hanging vases or salt and pepper shakers. These airy glass spheres can be poetically transformed in a thousand and one ways..."

Scientists mix in metal to make super-strength spider silk

Scientists mix in metal to make super-strength spider silk - Ars Technica: "Spider silk is already notable for being one of the most robust substances biology has produced. Now, scientists have found a way of making it even tougher: infiltrate metals into the proteins that comprise the silk."

Did Google Just Build its Own Version of Digg?

Did Google Just Build its Own Version of Digg?: "iGoogle is Google’s popular homepage product, where users can create custom homepages with widgets and unique backgrounds. Google released iGoogle gaming themes last month, but this new discovery might be a whole lot more interesting: there is an iGoogle gadget floating around with functionality similar to Digg, called What’s Popular."

Scripting Best Practices - Treat Your Variables Right

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Scripting Best Practices - Treat Your Variables Right: "Scripting languages are incredibly useful for quick-fix scripts. The problem with this is when the quick-fix script is still in place 6 months down the line, at which point the corners you cut because, hey, it's just a short-term fix, come back to bite you. Read on for some best practice tips to make the experience less painful."

The Joys of xargs - xargs and find

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - The Joys of xargs - xargs and find: "xargs is an incredibly useful command: it takes in input and executes your chosen command on it: xargs command. Deceptively simple in concept; extremely powerful in execution. It's most commonly used to execute one command on the output from another command (command1 | xargs command2), and most often the output-generating command is find (xargs is more flexible than the built-in -exec option). Here we'll look at xargs with find, and then at some other possibilities."

Stupid Firefox Tricks, Part I - Simple Bookmarklets: The Power of the Command Line in your Browser

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Stupid Firefox Tricks, Part I - Simple Bookmarklets: The Power of the Command Line in your Browser: "Firefox ... we use it all day, for everything from managing finances to socializing to playing games. But it's a large and complicated programs. Are you getting the most out of your browser? In this series, I'll offer some tricks you can use to spend less time getting more out of the web."

Four Easy Fun Useful Things You Can Do With Linux

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Four Easy Fun Useful Things You Can Do With Linux: "Today you get a hearty serving of some of my favorite tips and tricks, painstakingly accumulated and carefully squirreled away for a special occasion. Autumn is here, which is always special, so here they are."

Is this Obama's lost son?

I don't know you but the resemblance is uncanny.

Bonlebon

GeoCities will close later this year

GeoCities will close later this year. - Yahoo! GeoCities Help: "We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will be closing GeoCities later this year."

Hacking online games a widespread problem

Hacking online games a widespread problem | Gaming and Culture - CNET News: "It will likely come as no surprise to anyone familiar with virtual worlds and online games that they can be hacked. But what might come as a shock is the sheer breadth of types of exploits that are possible."

Debugging JavaScript: Understanding JavaScript Error Messages

Debugging JavaScript: Understanding JavaScript Error Messages: "One of the most pervasive criticisms about JavaScript is that it's painfully difficult to debug. Some shops (mine included) have gone to great lengths to minimize JavaScript code by transferring functionality to the server and using Ajax to feed values and properties back to the page. That's a reasonable solution for large applications, but it's a lot of overhead for smaller websites. The good news is that you don't have to be intimidated or turned off by JavaScript. There are plenty of ways to ferret out even the most obscure bugs, from writing your own tracing functions to developing in full-featured IDEs. In this article, we will be taking a look at the types of errors that you are likely to encounter in JavaScript development and how to minimize the chance of them cropping up in your code."

Speeding Windows Vista Startup

InformIT: Speeding Windows Vista Startup > Speeding Windows Vista Startup: "Do you find your Windows Vista boot time slowing you down? In this analysis of techniques for speeding Windows Vista boot times, Ed Tittel shows you how to tweak a single startup setting to get you back to work fast. Sometimes, the most impressive performance gains come from the simplest actions."

Creating a Fancy 3D-Effect GIMP Plugin in Python

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Creating a Fancy 3D-Effect GIMP Plugin in Python - Your Fresh New BlobiPy Plugin: "Last time I wrote about the basics of a GIMP plug-in written in Python. But how do you figure out how to do anything that's actually useful? This article will show you."

Beautiful and ecological, cardboard laptop case

Beautiful and ecological, cardboard laptop case: "Hi,
another laptop case? Yes - wen I make my firs Instructable this idea come in my mind. Fist is a very cheap and simple case, how everybody can make, but I don`t put accent to design
This is a more elaborate design solution, but I maintains green materials (98%) for a cheap and ecological solution.
Probable, at this dimension, can fit 2 OLPC, but I make for an 15,4' laptop (I don`t have one OLPC to measure and try) ."

10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited

10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited | How-To | Smashing Magazine: "Here, on the Smashing Editorial team, we always try to meet the expectations of our readers. We do our best to avoid misunderstandings, and we try to spread knowedge and present only the best design practices and development techniques. However, sometimes we do make mistakes. And when we do, we apologize and do our best to correct what we’ve done."

Gears of War model

YouTube - Gears of War model: "For the one who liked the game and the others.
This is my first video and my first model but I will ask you to be without any mercy in your comments.
Thank you for watching."

How to Make a Baby

YouTube - How to Make a Baby: "Take two people, add a little hot air, and boom! That's all there is to it! Captured over a period of nine months in our home in San Francisco."

Earth Day Tips: 7 Easy Ways to Conserve Energy and Save Money

Earth Day Tips: 7 Easy Ways to Conserve Energy and Save Money - ABC News: "Turning out the lights when you leave a room, driving only when you need to and shutting off the faucet when you brush your teeth are all simple ways to help the planet. But those same tips are also plenty good for your pocketbook."

Thanks for the memory

Thanks for the memory: "Understanding how the JVM uses native memory on Windows and Linux"

Linux fast-boot tech targets Windows users

Linux fast-boot tech targets Windows users: "Xandros announced a Linux-based fast-boot technology that can be downloaded and installed by Windows users on 'almost any PC.' The 'Presto' utility can power up (and down) laptops 'within seconds,' offering access to web, email, RealPlayer media, and an applications store (left), the company says."

10 ways of resetting a lost linux root password

10 ways of resetting a lost linux root password | Handle With Linux: "Luckily there are ways of getting access to systems without having the password. This is of course in a sense also a security risk. That's why you should always be aware that having unattended physical access to a computer system means the same as having root access to the operating system. Unless the information on a system is encrypted, it's only as save as the room it's in."

Creating A Bootable Ubuntu USB Thumbdrive From Windows With uSbuntu Live Creator

Creating A Bootable Ubuntu USB Thumbdrive From Windows With uSbuntu Live Creator | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "uSbuntu Live Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu 8.10 on it. This software also offers a new option for virtualization to run Ubuntu directly into Windows and without any setup or installation - this is done by using a portable version of VirtualBox. uSbuntu Live Creator not only supports Ubuntu 8.10, but also Kubuntu 8.10 and Xubuntu 8.10."

Twitter Boot Camp

Twitter Boot Camp - Training - O'Reilly Media: "Join O'Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly, Edelman Digital SVP Steve Rubel, and social media expert Sarah Milstein at this one-day boot camp. Attend this event to learn best practices you can immediately apply to engage your customers and grow your business."

Celebrate Earth Day by Sharing Your Green Living Tips

Celebrate Earth Day by Sharing Your Green Living Tips - O'Reilly FYI Blog: "We're celebrating Earth Day in our offices today by running a contest on Twitter (@oreillymedia). We're asking people how they're living green, and we've been getting a lot of great responses! Here are a few:"

The World of Windows: 10+ tweaks, tricks, and hacks to make Windows Vista fly

The World of Windows: 10+ tweaks, tricks, and hacks to make Windows Vista fly, Chapter 1: "Beginning way back with the release of Windows 1.0, Microsoft has been all about the GUI interface (more or less effectively). But sometimes you just want to run a program without having to navigate the GUI maze of menus and folders. Windows Vista, by default,"

Cassini's continued mission

Cassini's continued mission - The Big Picture - Boston.com: "NASA's Cassini spacecraft is now a nearly a year into its extended mission, called Cassini Equinox (after its initial 4-year mission ended in June, 2008). The spacecraft continues to operate in good health, returning amazing images of Saturn, its ring system and moons, and providing new information and science on a regular basis. The mission's name, 'Equinox' comes from the upcoming Saturnian equinox in August, 2009, when its equator (and rings) will point directly toward the Sun. The Equinox mission runs through September of 2010, with the possibility of further extensions beyond that. Collected here are 24 more intriguing images from our ringed neighbor."

A Reporter at Large: Brain Gain

A Reporter at Large: Brain Gain: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard. As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than forty hours a week; when he wasn’t on the job, he had classes. Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he couldn’t finish during the day, and weekend nights were spent drinking with friends and going to dance parties. “Trite as it sounds,” he told me, it seemed important to “maybe appreciate my own youth.” Since, in essence, this life was impossible, Alex began taking Adderall to make it possible."

How to inflate your tire with starter Fluid

how to inflate your tire with starter Fluid on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: "This seems like a mission for the Mythbusters"

This is Why Lenovo Sucks at Linux

This is Why Lenovo Sucks at Linux - Linux Today Blog: "I had to read this story Lenovo analyst: Linux on netbooks is doomed' several times because I couldn't quite believe what I was reading. Was this really Lenovo's Worldwide Competitive Analyst saying things like 'You have to know how to decompile codes and upload data'? Really?"

Securing a Web server

Securing a Web server: "Web servers are one of the many public faces of an organization and therefore are potentially an easy target. As a public resource, a Web server is like 'shark bait' for some. But it doesn't have to be: Learn how a Web server can be public and safe at the same time."

Ubunchu! The Ubuntu Manga is now in English

Ubunchu! The Ubuntu Manga is now in English « DoctorMO’s Blag: "A few weeks ago I mentioned a few artworks which I had found on my travels of the internet.

One of those things was Ubunchu, a Japanese Manga comic of 3 school students in a system-admin club who are getting into Ubuntu."

PyMOTW: multiprocessing, part 1

PyMOTW: multiprocessing, part 1 - O'Reilly Broadcast: "The multiprocessing module includes a relatively simple API for dividing work up between multiple processes. It is based on the API for threading, and in some cases is a drop-in replacement. Due to the similarity, the first few examples here are modified from the threading examples. Features provided by multiprocessing but not available in threading are covered later."

How do you get a Porsche Panamera onto the 94th floor?

Shanghai 2009: How do you get a Porsche Panamera onto the 94th floor?: "The day before the public unveiling of the Porsche Panamera at the Shanghai Motor Show, journalists were invited to the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center in China to catch a glimpse of Stuttgart's first four-door sedan. Providing further proof that both the Germans and Chinese are a persistent bunch, a team of workers proceeded to strap the Panamera onto a special pallet, tipped it on its tail and wedged the dark silver metallic sedan into the freight elevator to make the 1,394-foot trek up the world's third-largest building. The pictures tell the tale better than we can, so check them out in the gallery below, along with more live shots of the Panamera straight from Shanghai."

Make Your Own Web Site Badges with jQuery and JSON

Make Your Own Web Site Badges with jQuery and JSON: "Services like Flickr, Delicious, and Twitter all offer JavaScript badges or widgets you can add to your site. But if you already use a JavaScript framework on your site, like jQuery, why would you want to add more JavaScript? Besides, it’s more fun to make your own. All of these services also offer a JSON format feed API, and rolling your own widget is easy. Here’s one I whipped up in no time for Twitter using jQuery. You’ll be surprised at how little code it requires."

Teen Twitter worm writer gets job, spreads new worm

Teen Twitter worm writer gets job, spreads new worm : News : Security - ZDNet Asia: "The teenager who takes credit for the worms that hit Twitter earlier this week has been hired by a Web application development firm and on Friday released a fifth worm on the microblogging site, he said."

Google Developer Day US: Extending Google SketchUp – A Developer's View

Google Developer Day US: Extending Google SketchUp – A Developer's View :: Tech Videos, Screencasts, Webinars, Techtalks, Tutorials: "The world is not really flat; just check out Google Earth and the 3D Warehouse. Google SketchUp is a 3D modeling tool used to model buildings for Google Earth, visualize interiors, design furniture and basically work in 3D. With the latest release of Google SketchUp 6, you can now use HTML, JavaScript and the built-in Ruby API in concert to create compelling applications built on top of SketchUp to customize and/or automate certain tasks. Furthermore, our SDKs provide the ability to read/write SketchUp files and interoperate with the 3D Warehouse. We'll discuss some of the advances in the SketchUp Ruby API and how to integrate your creations with the 3D Warehouse."

Charming Python: Make Python run as fast as C with Psyco

Charming Python: Make Python run as fast as C with Psyco: "In some ways the design of Python resembles the design of Java. Both utilize a virtual machine that interprets specialized pseudo-compiled bytecodes. One area where JVMs are more advanced than Python is in optimizing the execution of bytecodes. Psyco, a Python specializing compiler, helps to even the playing field. Right now Psyco is an external module, but it could someday be included in Python itself. With only a tiny amount of extra programming, Psyco can often be used to increase the speed of Python code by orders of magnitude. In this article, David looks at what Psyco is, and tests it in some applications."

3-D modeling with SketchUp and Eclipse

3-D modeling with SketchUp and Eclipse, Part 1: Creating the bridge between SketchUp and Eclipse: "One of Google's most recent and popular tools, SketchUp, takes the pain out of 3-D modeling. Not only does SketchUp make it easy to create designs manually but it also allows you to automate the design process with Ruby scripts. Because managing and editing these scripts is so important, it helps to have a full-featured development environment like Eclipse. Learn how to configure SketchUp and Eclipse so you can edit scripts in Eclipse and automatically execute them in SketchUp."

Giant Alien Kubrick

ThinkGeek :: Giant Alien Kubrick: "What happens when you take a deadly extraterrestrial with chest-bursting parasitic offspring and acid for blood then turn it into a cute plastic figurine? Well you get these Giant Alien Kubricks of course. Made by toy master MediCom of Japan this 400% Kubrick stands almost 11' tall and features a lever to extend and retract it's teeth. Use it to discipline your Lego minifigs."

Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries

Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries | Linux Developer Network: "Dynamically linked shared libraries are an important aspect of Linux. They allow executables to dynamically access external functionality at run time and thereby reduce their overall memory footprint (by bringing functionality in when it's needed). This article investigates the process of creating and using dynamic libraries, provides details on the various tools for exploring them, and explores how these libraries work under the hood."

Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union

Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union: "Last week I sat down with Digg founder Kevin Rose to get the Digg “State of the Union.” The company, now more than four years old, has continued to grow incredibly since launching in late 2004 and regularly innovates with new products. They are rumored to be approaching profitability after making headcount cuts earlier this year. But much of the hype around Digg is now in the past. From 2006 onwards there were regular rumors of Digg being acquired. So many, in fact, that we called on CEO Jay Adelson to “Just sell Digg already” in late 2007."

Why Python is not my favorite language

Advogato: Why Python is not my favorite language: "I recently had an opportunity to develop a project in Python. I have previously had a largely neutral opinion about this language. However after more serious development I would like to share some doubts."

Ten Questions to Ask Potential Employers Before You Accept a New Job in Technology Consulting

InformIT: Ten Questions to Ask Potential Employers Before You Accept a New Job in Technology Consulting > Ten Questions to Ask Potential Employers Before You Accept a New Job in Technology Consulting: "Not all technology consulting gigs are created equal. Here ten questions you can ask — and what to look for in the answers — for when interviewing with a technology consulting firm."

Analysts: Sun's MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership

Analysts: Sun's MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership: "One year after spending $1 billion to purchase MySQL, the open-source database software company, Sun Microsystems is now being swallowed up by Oracle."

Using OpenOffice.org as an Outliner

Using OpenOffice.org as an Outliner - Linux Magazine Online: "Although OpenOffice.org Writer can't replace a dedicated outlining application, there are two ways to turn the word processor into a lightweight outliner. The easiest one is to press the Numbering On/Off button in the main toolbar or the F12 key. This turns the current line in the documents into a numbered entry and displays the Bullets and Numbering context toolbar which offers basic outlining tools."

10 Days Without Linux

10 Days Without Linux | LinuxHaxor.net: "I spend 8 hours a day in front of the computer I am also very proficient with all major operating systems and use them on a regular basis. So obviously I don’t understand how difficult it is for a typical computer user of one operating system to make a switch to another operating system and stick with it. I think in the middle of all the fan-boy war we sometimes fail to understand how difficult it might be for someone to make a switch.

So I decided to try it out myself."

Russian Ghost Rider’s Bike

English Russia » Russian Ghost Rider’s Bike: "If the Ghost Rider was from Russia he for sure would take this one for his rides…"

How slow can Linux go?

How slow can Linux go? - Computerworld Blogs: "If it has a CPU, you can run Linux on it. Xboxes or iPhones, cars or calculators, Linux can live quite happily on any of these devices. But, when it comes to the desktop or laptop, how much processing power do you need to run a modern Linux desktop?"

Does Anyone Love Java? Nah.

Bucky Bits: Does Anyone Love Java? Nah.: "How many thought leaders love Java? How many people whose opinions we care about love Java? I'd wager it's a very, very small number. Many of the most prominent in the Java world spend much of their time *working around* Java's limitations via frameworks, environments, and tools."

Practical Tips for Government Web Sites (And Everyone Else!) To Improve Their Findability in Search

Practical Tips for Government Web Sites (And Everyone Else!) To Improve Their Findability in Search - O'Reilly Radar: "In an earlier post, I said that key to government opening its data to citizens, being more transparent, and improving the relationship between citizens and government in light of our web 2.0 world was ensuring content on government sites could be easily found in search engines. Architecting sites to be search engine friendly, particularly sites with as much content and legacy code as those the government manages, can be a resource-intensive process that takes careful long-term planning. But
two keys are:


* Assessing who the audience is and what they're searching for
* Ensuring the site architecture is easily crawlable"

GPS navigation system on Nintendo DS

GPS navigation system on Nintendo DS -- NaviGadget: "Fab Chain of China has just come out with a product called Ranger that does just that: GPS navigation for NDS. It uses Google Maps (which raises some questions) can do 2D, fake-3D map rendering, uses a U-Blox GPS receiver, and can connect to other devices such as laptops and PDA’s too."

Self-Defense: Krav Maga

Self-Defense: Krav Maga - Men's Fitness: "Krav Maga became the official fighting system of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) when Israel became its own state in 1948. The discipline uses real-world techniques to get people out of dangerous situations and is still used by Israeli soldiers today."

50 Great Photographers You Should Know (with portfolios)

50 Great Photographers You Should Know (with portfolios) | Inspiration: "Being a good photographer is not easy, let alone getting to that professional level. This weekend, we want you introduce you some of the greatest photographers around the globe and their awesome portfolios. We hope you’ll be able to get some sort of inspiration from their work. In no particular order, here’s 50 Great Photographers You Should Know. Full list after jump."

How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation with Twisting Water

How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation with Twisting Water - Psdtuts+: "In this tutorial, we're going to create a fantasy photo manipulation mixing different images and learning to use and modify the stock images in a creative way. The idea is to get a compact image that looks absolutely real, and at the same time, absolutely impossible!"

When the Job Changes But the Programmer Doesn't Part II: Saving Frank's Job

When the Job Changes But the Programmer Doesn't Part II: Saving Frank's Job | JavaWorld's Daily Brew: "Others had several suggestions for methods that might help Frank make a successful transition. I'd like to think that some of these might work!"

Becoming the Paperless Office

InformIT: Becoming the Paperless Office > Becoming the Paperless Office: "K.J. McCorry, an efficiency and productivity expert, discusses on how offices can reduce paper and begin 'paperless' initiatives in their office."

Collaboration Is Key for Green IT

InformIT: Collaboration Is Key for Green IT > Chapter 3: Collaboration Is Key for Green IT: "Success for global green IT depends on the continued collaboration among groups within your company, among technology vendors, data center design and build businesses, energy utilities, governments, and other external organizations. In this chapter John Lamb, author of The Greening of IT, describes how to help make this collaboration happen."

HOW TO: Use Social Media for Sharing Music

HOW TO: Use Social Media for Sharing Music: "Social media gives people the opportunity to find, discovery, share, and reinvent music in new and interesting ways. The following is a step-by-step guide on how to share the audio experience with friends using web-based tools."

Playstation 3's Death Spiral

Playstation 3's Death Spiral - Lab Notes by ExtremeTech: "Is the Playstation 3 doomed? Given the continuing spiral of reduced sales of the console, and of games that ship for the PS3, the situation has never been more dire for Sony's premiere gaming console."

USB Syringe Flash Drive

Welcome to Usb.brando.com.hk: "USB Syringe Flash Drive with built-in flash memory lets you store your data on the go."

Visit Endor

Visit Endor: Brought to you by the imperial depart T-shirt from Zazzle.com: "A vintage-style melange ringer with a simple retro look. 70/30 cotton-poly blend. Baby rib contrasting collar. Durable double-stitched bottom hem and sleeves. Tailored fit. Imported."

Benefits for business from getting engaged in social media

Benefits for business from getting engaged in social media | BUSINESS: "Social networking sites have exploded in popularity with MySpace, Twitter and Facebook now a feature of the media landscape.

Not surprisingly many firms have also looked to exploit this new trend. But how much commercial benefit is there from a social network site?"

The strangest death of history

The strangest death of history | The Corner of the Mystery: "Gustav Ferdinand Von Kelps, was a physicist and mathematical German whom the �luck� to be one of the people with the most extraordinary death of the planet has had. It was born in the city of Nuremberg in 1905, grew up within a family upper middle class. Their parents from stimulated to boy to be developed it within the field of the physics and the mathematics. He was always the student who excelled in his class, by his intelligence and its curiosity. His grandfathers taught mathematical outpost to him after the class. Its curiosity did not have limits."

Tweetmeme: Faster, more viral than Digg

Tweetmeme: Faster, more viral than Digg | The Web Life | ZDNet.com: "Adding the “Digg This” button to your site was a no-brainer, but there’s a new button that might bring more traffic to your site. The folks at Tweetmeme, a site that aggregates the most active links on Twitter, have cloned the Digg button concept for Twitter."

‘PG-13′ GI Joe cartoon debuts online tomorrow

Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment » ‘PG-13′ GI Joe cartoon debuts online tomorrow: "GI Joe: Resolute, an “adult fan oriented animated mini-series,” kicks off on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim website tomorrow*. The web series is an hour long, and will run as 10 five-minute webisodes through April 25. Then the entire thing will be broadcast on Adult Swim on April 25 at midnight, which is the first place you’ll be able to see the final ten minutes. After that, the whole thing will be online for viewing."

Pop-up Image Widget using JavaScript, PHP and CSS

Pop-up Image Widget using JavaScript, PHP and CSS: "In this article by Roshan Bhattarai, we learn how to build a widget similar to the Mybloglog widget using external JavaScript along with PHP. By the time we finish, you would see a popup image whenever you move the mouse cursor over the widget. In the later section, you can see an example for extracting image details from a database and using it in the example."

London developer sells top-ranked Twitter account to CNN

London developer sells top-ranked Twitter account to CNN | Technology | guardian.co.uk: "There are two perennial questions about Twitter: why bother using it, and how is it going to make money? The second one, at least, may now have an answer thanks to James Cox, the London-based web developer who started the site's most popular account, @CNNbrk."

Learning Python and more with Videos

Learning Python, Linux, Java, Ruby and more with Videos, Tutorialsand Screencasts: "Aimed at new Python programmers, we're assuming you know a tiny bit about programming and nothing about using Python"

Earthquake proof your code!

Earthquake proof your code! - Storage Informer: "So, my first PR mentor taught me to start replies with the word ‘So’. This gives you valuable micro-seconds to compile a sophisticated and accurate reply to the daisy-cutter question just lobbed at you by the archetypal British reporter. Typically dressed in an old anorak, barely visible through a nicotine flavoured cloud and smelling of last night’s pub outing. However the British reporter has a mind like an attack sub, you don’t know it’s there until it lands a couple of nukes on your press release, is torpedoing your arguments, and its active pings are Mike Tysoning their way to the secret part of your brain marked ‘roadmaps’."

How-To: 10 Ways to Decorate With Thrifted Goods: 10 Photos

How-To: 10 Ways to Decorate With Thrifted Goods: 10 Photos | cheap and Chic, garage sales, how to | CasaSugar - Home & Garden: "Are you tempted to add some thrifted décor to your home, but don't know how to get started? If you're worried about integrating thrifted finds into your casa, take a deep breath and relax. There are definitely ways to add thrifted goods to your home that look great. Better yet, thrifted goods are an eco way to decorate, since reusing these products keeps them out of landfills. To find out how to decorate and renovate 10 thrifted goods, check out the slideshow."

Snakes on a plane force Qantas to ground flight

Snakes on a plane force Qantas to ground flight - Telegraph: "Four baby pythons that disappeared from their container in the cargo hold of a Qantas plane have forced the airline to ground the aircraft after staff failed to find the missing reptiles."

An Innovative Solution to Selling Your House

On The Block: "Say you are relocating -- from California to the East Coast for example. You have been trying to sell your home to no avail. On the other side of the country someone is in exactly the same predicament, except they are hoping to head to California. How about doing a 'permanent house swap'?"

The lifecycle of a trojan horse

Megapanzer » Blog Archive » The lifecycle of a trojan horse: "Summarizing the lifecycle of a trojan horse as “configuration, infection, action, deletion” would be too brief and you would miss a lot of important and valuable information that makes you understand how they are constructed, how the internal structure looks like and how to breathe life into them. I want to give you the whole, big picture of the trojan horse lifecycle, beginning from the stage of configuration over to its deletion and all the steps in between."

Pentagon spends $100 million on cyber attacks

Pentagon spends $100 million on cyber attacks - Security- msnbc.com: "Money spent to clean up after both external probes and internal mistakes"

How to make a botnet out of Skype or Google Voice

How to make a botnet out of Skype or Google Voice: "Flaws in popular Internet-based telephony systems could be exploited to create a network of hacked phone accounts, somewhat like the botnets that have been wreaking havoc with PCs for the past few years."

Another image-based Captcha method

Another image-based Captcha method | Crave - CNET: "Captcha, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is a method used by many Web sites to fight against computer-generated input. As computers get smarter, Captchas hves become more of a nuisance because most of them are now tough for us humans to pass."

Ruby for Pen-Testers: Announcing Ruby Black Bag

Matasano Chargen » Blog Archive » Ruby for Pen-Testers: Announcing Ruby Black Bag: "This post is part of an informal series discussing the Ruby programming language for various tasks related to penetration testing. Many of us at Matasano do a lot of our coding in Ruby. We like using it when we need to write our own tools (which we do frequently) because it helps us rapidly get off the ground doing all kinds of bespoke things that would be more tedious and time-consuming (or even impossible) using off-the-shelf tools. Go ahead! Call us fanboys (and girls!!!). We can live with it. We want to share some practical tips based on our experiences in this realm."

It’s Official: Twitter Is More Popular Than Britney

It’s Official: Twitter Is More Popular Than Britney: "Not a day goes by without hundreds of mentions of Twitter on blogs and TV (we’re as guilty as anyone), which naturally leads those still puzzled by the service or simply curious to learn more to search for it in Google. Those searches have been growing at a faster rate than even the service itself. In fact, the term “Twitter” seems to be one of the fastest growing search terms of all these days."

Are Twitter and Facebook Bad for You?

Are Twitter and Facebook Bad for You? | Mother Jones: "At least, that's what two new studies claim. USC researchers allege that speed-tweeting leaves no time for compassion. I wonder if this applies to recent-Twitter convert Jesus. (Apparently, Twitter may also have jumped the shark. Poor Biz Stone.)"

5 Beautiful Social Media Videos

Data Visualizations: 5 Beautiful Social Media Videos: "Data visualizations are a wonderful way to display the interactions between large groups of people within a network. Virtual places like Twitter (Twitter reviews), Facebook (Facebook reviews), or Flickr (Flickr reviews) can be easier understood when you see a visual representation of their inner workings. We’ve chosen five fresh videos that visualize various social media ecosystems."

Digg tries to make its new social news toolbar suck less

Digg tries to make its new social news toolbar suck less » VentureBeat: "Facing ongoing criticism from web publishers about its new toolbar, the DiggBar, social news site Digg has another company blog post up today describing how it’s turning the toolbar into a win for users and publishers and not just for the company itself."

Create Your Own Social Network with Ning > Create Your Own Social Network with Ning

InformIT: Create Your Own Social Network with Ning > Create Your Own Social Network with Ning: "Tom Bunzel points out a common trend in the tech world: Organizations are seeing the potential of creating their own social networks (outside of Facebook). One program/web site that empowers anyone to create a full-featured social network is Ning.com, which now boasts almost 900,000 members of various networks."

The “Extreme” Scarpar skateboard

The “Extreme” Scarpar skateboard >> GadgetGrid: "Welcome to the next level of extreme skateboarding. Scarpar, an Australian company has developed an adrenaline pumping, off-road riding powerboard that can be used in all terrains (grassy lawns, beaches, forests) and all weather."

Simplify business research with Google Ajax Search API

Simplify business research with Google Ajax Search API - O'Reilly Broadcast: "Business research usually starts with a list -- brands, competitors, people, products, whatever. Most people begin with Google, trying to discover commonalities, gather basic information, or just find out what all these things are. Then, there's a marathon session of cut and paste, with a hopefully tidy but usually messy document to show for the hours of work."

Bloom Filters Quickie

Bloom Filters Quickie » Andrei Zmievski: "It’s been a couple of month since the release of pecl/memcached and I was getting the urge to write something else. At the same time, I was reading up on Bloom filters, but couldn’t find a PHP extension that implemented them. Thus, pecl/bloomy was born. Now, you may be wondering, what the heck is a Bloom filter why in the blooming sky would I want to use it? Well, read on."

Tweenbots: Cute Beats Smart

Tweenbots: Cute Beats Smart - O'Reilly Radar: "If you wanted to build a robot that could go from one end of Washington Square Park to the other without your help how would you do it? How expensive in time and money would it be? Would you build or buy a navigation system? Construct a sensing system to detect obstacles? Or would you decide to take a different tact and use cute as your primary tool?"

Ashton Kutcher vs. CNN: Twitter Race to 1M Followers

Ashton Kutcher vs. CNN: Twitter Race to 1M Followers - ABC News: "The race is on in Twitterland, where actor Ashton Kutcher has announced that he will try to beat CNN to reach 1 million followers on the popular social networking site."

PHP Magic Features

PHP Magic Features: "For starters, let's take a look at the magic methods PHP provides. We will first go over the non-overloading methods."

Understanding Twitter.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Truly Groundbreaking Marketing Research: Understanding Twitter.: "Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies. It also functions as a vehicle for teasing peers until they commit suicide. In order to become a 'follower' on Twitter, teens first must flash their high-beam headlights at an oncoming motorist on the highway. Then, if that motorist flashes his or her high-beam headlights back in reply, the teen must kill the motorist in order to be initiated into 'following' the online gang. The catch is that one can only use 140 sentences to plan a total of 140 events—that is, any combination of orgies, gang fights, suicides, and highway killings totaling 140 planned situations or activities."

Ctrl + Alt + Del Pillow Set

Ctrl + Alt + Del Pillow Set: "The Ctrl + Alt + Del Pillow Set is a set of three pillows made from Eco-Felt (100% recycled Plastic bottles!) these 12″ pillows are soft yet durable. Now I’m pretty sure that you are not interested in what they are made of, but you have to recognize that they are pretty cute, especially if you love computers."

Polar Meltdown Triggers International Arctic Landgrab

Polar Meltdown Triggers International Arctic Landgrab: Scientific American: "As a nuclear-powered icebreaker crunched through 10 feet of August ice at the North Pole, Russian sailors readied two deepwater submersibles for their two-and-a-half-mile descent. Dubbed Mir 1 and Mir 2 (mir meaning “world”), the subs were aptly named—their deployment was about to catch the world’s attention. A hole opened in the ship’s wake, and the subs were lowered. At the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, one sub took seabed samples, the ostensible purpose of the mission, while the other deposited a titanium capsule containing a Russian flag, symbolically claiming this undersea turf for its homeland."

5 Pro Painting Tips Every Amateur Should Know

5 Pro Painting Tips Every Amateur Should Know - How To Paint Like a Professional Painter - Popular Mechanics: "The goal of every painter is to paint neatly and quickly. This can be challenging. My neighbor recently spent an entire week painting his bedroom, and ended up with nearly as much paint on himself as on the walls and ceiling. And in the end, believe or not, his wife decided she didn't like the color. He's now spending most of his time outside working on the lawn. Fortunately, there are dozens of tricks, shortcuts and trade secrets devoted to painting, many more than for any other home-improvement activity. Listed below are my five favorite painting tips, gleaned from years of personal painting experience and by watching pros on many job sites. Try one or all of the following techniques and I'm sure you'll end up with a paint job nice enough to show off to the neighbors."

Working with jQuery The UI project

Working with jQuery, Part 2: Intermediate JQuery: The UI project: "The jQuery UI package aims to create a well-defined and reliable set of user interface widgets that you can reuse within your own Web applications. The goal is to provide well-tested widgets that go beyond those available in HTML Input elements, and ease the work of all user interface developers."

Rules of social networking, revisited

Rules of social networking, revisited - Computerworld Blogs: "Last week I wrote about how rules of social networking are beginning to evolve as more people incorporate LinkedIn, Facebook, and the like into their personal and professional lives. Though I was merely looking at why and how these rules are emerging, some commenters wanted to know more about the rules themselves and I'm happy to oblige."

15 Firefox add-ons for Web developers

15 Firefox add-ons for Web developers | Webware - CNET: "I've been working on a new Web site for the past few weeks. But instead of doing it alone, I decided to get some help from Firefox extensions. They've made my work a lot easier, and they all can be downloaded in just a few seconds."

Five features that would make Vevo work

Five features that would make Vevo work | The Digital Home - CNET News: "Google and Universal Music Group last week announced Vevo, a music video site that will feature Universal's music videos running on YouTube technology. I use YouTube as my primary source of watching music videos, and I'm not convinced that I, personally, need a Vevo-like site in my life."

A dream team should investigate the meltdown

A dream team should investigate the meltdown - Los Angeles Times: "Keep grandstanders out and bring in people who really understand Wall Street."

Linux Life Insurance: 21 Top-Notch Backup Tools

Linux Life Insurance: 21 Top-Notch Backup Tools | bMighty.com: Blogs For Small Business and Mid-Sized Business: "Would you turn down a free insurance policy? That's exactly what Linux users get, thanks to this collection of free, open-source data backup tools.

I have tried a lot of backup software over the years. And I know that one person's perfect backup tool is another person's waking nightmare. It all boils down to finding the right tool to match your personal preferences and your company's business needs."

Tila Tequila Hit By Death Hoax On Twitter

Tila Tequila Hit By Death Hoax On Twitter - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News: "Tila Tequila is used to being thrust into the spotlight, but usually it's her doing. The 'Shot at Love' star (born Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen) allegedly got some unwelcome attention early Monday morning (April 13) when a person described as an obsessed fan reportedly hacked into her Twitter page and posted some disturbing news updates."

Hacker targets Twitter to teach the company a lesson in security

Hacker targets Twitter to teach the company a lesson in security: Scientific American Blog: "When computer programmers find security flaws in the programs they use (particularly software running on the Web), they have a choice: report the glitch to the software maker (which may ignore the warning) or find some way of publicly (and often illegally) exploiting it to make clear to the company how vulnerable its software is. A 17-year-old hacker claiming to be from Brooklyn, N.Y., this past weekend chose the latter path, unleashing at least two worms after discovering a weak spot in the social network site Twitter; the worms wended their way into a reported 190 user accounts and infected about 10,000 tweets (messages sent via the Twitter network), the company said yesterday."

Password Stealers Sit on Popular Download Sites

Password Stealers Sit on Popular Download Sites - PC World: "You might already know that it's easy for the bad guys to buy malware kits and ready-made digital nasties on black market Web sites. But some tools are even easier to pick up, such as a blatant IM password stealer available on a major download site."

When the Job Changes But the Programmer Doesn't

When the Job Changes But the Programmer Doesn't | JavaWorld's Daily Brew: "A programmer on your team is great at maintaining the old system. But the company has switched to a new platform. What do you do with the no-longer-effective developer?"

Free e-Book Download: George Clason’s The Richest Man In Babylon

RedFlagDeals.com: Free e-Book Download: George Clason’s The Richest Man In Babylon: "With a holiday weekend coming up, it might be a good time to kick back a do a little reading. If you don't have anything to read, check out a free e-book version of The Richest Man in Babylon (PDF). This is one of the earliest written books about personal finances (1926), but despite being more than 80 years old, it still has wisdom to impart even today. It's written as a set of parables in ancient Babylon, so it's certainly a change of pace from typical books serving up financial advice."

Five Things You Need to Know: U.S. Declares Economic War

Five Things You Need to Know: U.S. Declares Economic War-Minyanville: "Kevin Depew's Five Things You Need to Know to stay ahead of the pack on Wall Street:"

Modelers are dead! Long live the Modeler!

Modelers are dead! Long live the Modeler!: "Yutaka Igarashi’s work goes back to a Joseph Kosinski media course reference @ Columbia in the early 00’s. It may be that I am coming down from that “Oh So Sweet” sugar high that a nice script can give you or the frustration w/ the current crop of cad jockeys that can not model the simplest forms. Either way, Igarashi’s work is a much needed inspirational stopping point that will deliver you into a perverse world of hyper detailed vehicles and leave us questioning their true end use."

Google Zurich Office Tour

TechEBlog » Google Zurich Office Tour: "Here's an inside look at the incredible Google Zurich office. Their 'team is strong in all things maps and geo, even more so after having integrated several dozen specialists from Swiss company Endoxon, which Google acquired.' Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery."

"Puff " - The Dragon Enters

"Puff " - The Dragon Enters | Let's Make Robots!: "Puff is able to Put out Fires - He Scans his Head to find the Flames - he orientates towards the Flame - and Blows it out."

Open-source Linux tablet slims down

Open-source Linux tablet slims down: "After an accidental photo leak of the latest prototype of TechCrunch's WiFi-enabled tablet PC device, the technology blog site has revealed more details about the revision. The 'B.5' version (pictured) of the 'CrunchPad' is sleeker, and runs an Intel Atom instead of the previous Via Nano."

Quick Linux Tips: File Naming

Quick Linux Tips: File Naming: "If you are coming from the world of Windows you are pretty much used to naming a file whatever. You could have a file named “This Is My File And This File Is Called Meh.doc” In the world of Windows you wouldn’t have any problem with that file. In the world of Linux you might run across some issues."

Creating Screencasts under Linux

Creating Screencasts under Linux: "You all probably know what a screencast is. In my opinion, screencasts can greatly complement HOWTO documents and I strongly believe that they will be even more popular in the upcoming years. Although it would be more useful if this post dealt with how to create a screencast using free open-source software, I feel it is more important to describe the situation a user has to face while trying to create a screencast using two of the most actively developed FOSS tools for this purpose, recordmydesktop and istanbul."

Sinclair zx spectrum 8-bit micro computer gets modern makeover as linux pc

sinclair zx spectrum 8-bit micro computer gets modern makeover as linux pc on [technabob]: "Brian gutted the old ZX Spectrum and replaced its innards with an updated motherboard, running Debian Linux. In order to keep within the constraints of the machines’ form factor, the system runs off of an 8GB SDHC memory card instead of a hard drive. He even managed to get the old ZX chiclet keyboard to work as a proper USB device by rewiring it to the controller circuitry of a new keyboard."

Save Time, Money with Cellular Secrets

Save Time, Money with Cellular Secrets - ABC News: "Tricks to Stay Connected without Spending a Fortune"

Mario Bros theme Northern Mexico Style

YouTube - La cumbia de mario bros. - Los Sonoreños: "Mario Bros theme Northern Mexico Style."

How to harvest solar power? Beam it down from space!

How to harvest solar power? Beam it down from space! - CNN.com: "Jyoti is the Hindi word for light. It's something Pranav Mehta has never had to live without. And he is lucky. Near where he lives in Gujarat, one of the most prosperous states in India, thousands of rural villages lack electricity or struggle with an intermittent supply at best."

On programming language design

Mathematics and Computation » On programming language design: "Language design is like architecture. The architect is bound by the rules of nature, he has to take into account the properties of the building materials, and he must never forget the purpose that the building will serve. Likewise, the designer of a programming language is bound by the theorems of computability theory, he must take into account the properties of the underlying hardware, and he must never forget that the language is used by programmers."

10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates

10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates: "Twitter (Twitter reviews) updates are used to communicate everything from birthday wishes to political opinions. But there are some special, shining cases where the status update has been used to do some extraordinary things, from marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more."

How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who's Buying

How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who's Buying - ReadWriteWeb: "What are you doing? No what are you doing Apple, Skype, Flip, StubHub and Box.net?? These popular companies just couldn't resist paying off Twitter users to put advertisements into their Twitter streams using the new pay-per-tweet service Magpie. It's enough to make you question the true motives of any outspoken fan and the end result is pretty laughable when you take 'a bird's eye view.'"

TNT using social media for NBA coverage

TNT using social media for NBA coverage: "TNT is weaving Facebook and Twitter into its '40 Games in 40 Nights' campaign to promote its coverage of the NBA playoffs, which kick off April 19. The centerpieces of the campaign are an NBA on TNT Facebook fan page and the use of Twitter by eight of TNT's on-air hosts and analysts."

Google and Microsoft Battle for Twitter Advertising Deal

Google and Microsoft Battle for Twitter Advertising Deal: "We’ve seen this before. Social network rapidly rises to prominence, media declares it the next huge thing, and the Web’s biggest companies – most notably Google and Microsoft - battle it out to secure the advertising rights. Microsoft scored such deals with DiggDigg reviewsDigg reviews and FacebookFacebook reviewsFacebook reviews, while Google formed a partnership with MySpaceMySpace reviewsMySpace reviews at what by most accounts proved to be just about the peak of the social network’s success."

Eliminating web service dependencies with a language-specific abstraction barrier

VaporWarning» Blog Archive » Eliminating web service dependencies with a language-specific abstraction barrier: "Web services tend to deliver raw data payloads from a flat interface and thus lack the usability of native language APIs. Inevitably, when you program RPC-like interfaces for no language in particular, you incur incompatibilities for every particular language’s best practices, idioms, and data models. [*] The issue of appropriately representing exceptions and/or error codes in RPC-like services is a notorious example of this."

Cool Javascript snippet

google-code-prettify - Google Code: "A Javascript module and CSS file that allows syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page."

Official Google Blog: Will it lens?

Official Google Blog: Will it lens?: "Not long ago, a bunch of us in our Santa Monica office pooled together the money to buy a four-foot by three-foot Fresnel lens. We've since been spending our lunch hours out in the sun playing with it."

Zend offers PHP cure for Java bloat

Zend offers PHP cure for Java bloat • The Register: "Zend Technologies has built an application server for PHP that it hopes can slowly convert frustrated Java programmers as well as those relying on Java on the web and in the enterprise."

Google uncloaks once-secret server

Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech - CNET News: "Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency."

Shocking pictures and video of woman mauled by polar bear at Berlin Zoo

Shocking pictures and video of woman mauled by polar bear at Berlin Zoo - mirror.co.uk: "This is the terrifying moment when a woman tried to make friends with one of the world's most fearsome predators."

5 Tips For How To Optimize Your YouTube Videos

5 Tips For How To Optimize Your YouTube Videos: "Since YouTube is going to recompress whatever you give it, your goal should be to get the file into the highest res format that they will accept, so that they do not compress an already overly compressed video. Youtube will now accept up to 1GB, but I would shoot for about 20MB or so per minute - 100MB for 5 minute video. Larger than this may also work fine but your upload will be longer with no noticeable difference. You can try this out yourself."

Connect OpenOffice to MySql with Native Driver

Database/Drivers/MySQL Native/Alpha2 - OpenOffice.org Wiki: "Therefore the driver is also referred to as a native driver in the context of OpenOffice.org. The term native driver clashes with the MySQL definition of a native driver. MySQL Connector/OpenOffice.org does not implement the MySQL Client Server protocol. Technically speaking the MySQL Connector/OpenOffice.org is implemented as a proxy on top of the MySQL Connector/C++."

10 seriously useful Photoshop tutorials

10 seriously useful Photoshop tutorials | News | TechRadar UK: "Our colleagues over on Computer Arts magazine have been handing down Photoshop wisdom for over a decade.

Their website is a mine of information and not just for Photoshop tips, but for llustrator, InDesign, web design apps and much more.

We've had a poke around and chosen 10 of our favourite Photoshop tutorials. You can download free PDFs and accompanying files for every single one of these guides from the links in the article below."

Rule #4: Grow, Don't Build

Rule #4: Grow, Don't Build: "Since free software and other free culture products are formed by an organic, incrementalist process, they tend to be highly organic in their design as well. Free software is not so much built as it is grown. Thus, when considering a new project, you must think not about how to break it down into implementable chunks that can be assembled into a working product, but rather about how the project can organically grow—moving from working product to working product as it does so—becoming progressively more useful as it is developed."

Insert Images into Your Gmail Messages

Insert Images into Your Gmail Messages: "Like most other recent enhancements, “insert images” is an optional feature that can be found in Gmail Labs (under “Settings” -> “Labs”). Once enabled, you’ll get an insert image icon when composing a message (if you’re in rich formatting mode), and can then select an image either from your desktop or from a URL."

Vintage alien landscapes by Kazuaki Saito

Vintage alien landscapes by Kazuaki Saito ::: Pink Tentacle: "In the early 1970s, artist Kazuaki Saito’s fantastic alien landscape illustrations graced the covers of SF Magazine, Japan’s first successful and longest running science fiction periodical."

Google App Engine Blog: Seriously this time, the new language on App Engine: Java™

Google App Engine Blog: Seriously this time, the new language on App Engine: Java™: "Today, we're very excited to announce the availability of a new programming language for Google App Engine. Please welcome the Java runtime!"

Chained Exploits: Discover What Your Boss Is Looking At

Articles: "This chapter shows how to chain exploits together to intercept network traffic, in this case to spy on your boss. This chapter is useful not only for teaching the exploits, but also for showing risks to networks and countermeasures to minimize those risks."

jGuru: Self-Paced Course List

jGuru: Self-Paced Course List: "jGuru presents in-depth online courses on Java software development. Each course takes you step-by-step through developing your own software and includes course notes and exercises with sample code."

The dark side of Dubai

The dark side of Dubai - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent: "Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports"

Top ten reasons managers become great

scottberkun.com » Top ten reasons managers become great: "As a positive counterpoint to my list of why managers become assholes, and as a counterbalance to my tendency to write cynically, here’s a list of why people become great at managing others, trying as much as possible not to just do the stupid thing and invert my other list."

Use Windows Login in PHP Applications

Use Windows Login in PHP Applications: "As a developer you may run into a situation such as what I had, numerous applications deployed and or created and deployed.

With multiple logins for all the apps, we had to find way to integrate all logins for better management and maintenance.

Since we were using Apache with a PHP server, the solution was to find a way to consolidate the logins usin PHP.

The answer is ldap() (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), this built in function through PHP, allows you to create username and password schemes using existing Windows authentication."

You are not allowed to love Tofu

Woman's 'tofu' licence plate curdles in Colorado - Yahoo! Canada News: "One Colorado woman's love for tofu has been judged X-rated by state officials."

Five reasons to put Ubuntu Linux on your netbook

Five reasons to put Ubuntu Linux on your netbook | Roy Tanck's weblog: "The first couple of netbooks all had Linux pre-installed. Unfortunately, Asus chose to go with a custom Linux distribution for which it has yet to release its first update. No Firefox 3, no Flash 10 and no easy way to get additional software. Except for the easy to use interface, they came up with the worst example of what Linux can be. But if there’s one thing Linux offers its choice. It is my opinion that Ubuntu is the most user-friendly Linux distro out there, and I highly recommend giving it a go on your netbook."

10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now

1. Jobs Are The New Assets - 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now - TIME: "Your portfolio is down 50%, your mortgage is worth more than your house, and your savings account is barely visible. The job, meanwhile, is making a roaring comeback. Not in a statistical sense, of course. We are in a recession, after all: at 8.1%, unemployment hasn't been this high since 1983. But in terms of the American psyche — and a household's balance sheet — we're rediscovering the job as the most valuable asset a person can have."

Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream

Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream | CNN Showbiz: "In a case of converging technologies, Google App Engine took several steps toward the mainstream on its first birthday Tuesday at the same time that the concept of cloud computing in general is becoming more accepted."

Social Media Networking: Why You Need a Plan

Social Media Networking: Why You Need a Plan: "Did you plan your social networking activity? Or did you, like many of us, simply receive an invitation to join one of the hundreds of Social Networking sites and eagerly sign up? What happened?"

Google Street View

Google Street View (Phil Gyford’s website): "Street View might be pretty amazing now but it’s only going to get more amazing. Even if the technology stays exactly the same — which it won’t, it will only get better — Google Street View will become increasingly gob-smacking as the decades pass."

10 Special Purpose Linux Distributions

10 Special Purpose Linux Distributions | LinuxHaxor.net: "One of the several advantages of having many Linux distributions is that there is always one distribution that meets specific needs for a group of users with similar interests. Whether you are a student or a scientist or someone who believes in some religion; you could use one of these special purpose distribution and share with people with similar interest instead of creating and customizing something from scratch."

Shedding Some Light on Lightbox

Shedding Some Light on Lightbox: "Hello and welcome to the first part of what I hope will be an interesting series of articles on the various implementations of Lightbox."

Shelves For Life

Shelves For Life | Design | Home: "Wow, see the shelves, COol! You'll certainly use it(just the joke). Shelves For Life by William Warren. A solid, plywood set of floor-standing shelves are designed to last you a ligetime. Then, when your time arrives, the shelves can be taken apart and reassembled as a coffin.
'Shelves For Life is a self-initiated project to further explore ideas of built-in sentimentality within our possessions. The aim is to make stronger emotional relationships with our belongings and encourage life-long use. The shelves are CNC cut in oak veneered plywood to the customers measurements. They are intended to be used throughout life as storage for personal belongings. On death, the shelves are dismantled and rebuilt as a coffin. '"

The role of Software as a Service in cloud computing

The role of Software as a Service in cloud computing: "Want to know what role Software as a Service (SaaS) plays in cloud computing? Explore different flavors of SaaS, and see two examples of how SaaS works in cloud computing—namely, plant engineering management and distance learning—in the pay-on-demand infrastructure environment. Tune SaaS for optimal performance by combining the best of two worlds: multi-tenancy and virtualization. Discover solutions to the problems of unused resources and interoperability. And finally, understand that without proper planning and implementation, the costs of security safeguards can far outweigh the economic advantages of SaaS and cloud computing."

XML: The bridge between GWT and PHP

XML: The bridge between GWT and PHP: "Google Web Toolkit (GWT) applications, apart from connecting to servlets in time-honored Java™ fashion, can also use PHP Web services to send and receive data in XML. You'll explore methods to generate XML documents and process them, both in the Java language and in PHP."

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: Comparing Twitter and Blogosphere Latency

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: Comparing Twitter and Blogosphere Latency: "With all the bzzz around Twitter, and its apparent ability to walk on water right up to the brass ring of search, I’m still looking for the definitive study comparing discovery times in Twitter with those in other forms of social media. The study is pretty easy to perform:"

50 Creative Business Cards of 50 Graphic Designers

50 Creative Business Cards of 50 Graphic Designers | The Design Cubicle: "Last week’s post requested all designers and web developers interested to submit their creative business cards for an upcoming post on TDC…. and this week we have the results!"

Deploying Django applications to a production server

Deploying Django applications to a production server: "Django is a Python-based open source Web application framework that focuses on making the process of creating database-driven Web sites and Web applications easier. Getting started with developing Django applications is simple, as a development Web server is included with the framework. However, this server is not suitable for use in a production environment, so further steps are required to deploy your Django application to the Web. In this article, you will learn about the Django framework and how to install it on your local machine. Discover how a Django application is made and about the automatic administration interface created for your application. You will then find out how to deploy your Django application to the Web on a server running Apache and mod_python. Finally, learn how Django applications can and should be scaled as your application's requirements grow."

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website | How-To | Smashing Magazine: "Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world."

Webtunnel 0.0.5 Released - HTTP Encapsulation and Tunnel Tool

Webtunnel 0.0.5 Released - HTTP Encapsulation and Tunnel Tool | Darknet - The Darkside: "In that regard, it is similar to httptunnel, however, it has several key important differences: its server component runs in the context of a web server as a CGI application (with optional FastCGI support) so it does not need its own port, and supports most things that the web server supports, such as authentication, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS, and client certificates; it uses simple requests and responses so it works seamlessly through forward and reverse proxies; it is multi-threaded (actually multi-process using sockets for inter-process communication) to allow multiple parallel connections to multiple destinations simultaneously."

Free Action Game: Nexuiz 2.5

Free Action Game: Nexuiz 2.5 - Linux Magazine Online: "After almost a year of development, a new version 2.5 of the free Nexuiz open source action game has come out. What awaits users are some updated graphics and numerous fan-developed game levels."

A Simple Eclipse Plug-in Example

InformIT: A Simple Plug-in Example > 2.1 The Favorites Plug-in: "This chapter takes a step-by-step approach to creating a simple but fully operational plug-in. This process provides valuable firsthand experience using the Eclipse IDE and touches on every aspect of building and maintaining a plug-in."

Velma pinup NSFW

For All the Velma Fans Out There | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation: "It’s a special day when the quality of fan art exceeds the artistry of its animated source material. Then again, with Scooby-Doo, the bar was never set that high to begin with. The entire image — possibly NSFW — is after the jump. If you know who the artist is, please share the info in the comments."

Playing with Chroot

Playing with Chroot LG #161: "It took me a while to realise what chroot does. As I found out, it runs a command with the root directory for file name translation changed to the specified directory. Usually, only root can do this. [1]"

Joey's Notes: Using Squid Web proxy to control Web access

Joey's Notes: Using Squid Web proxy to control Web access LG #161: "This month's article covers configuration of the Squid proxy server on RHEL 5.x. Squid is best known for its Web proxy caching functionality; it's deployed in a vast number of installations in this aspect, and can drastically reduce server load by reusing commonly requested Web pages. It is also very handy as an access control mechanism for managing an internal network. Squid is very effective - but it takes proper configuration to make it do exactly what you want. This article is intended as a guide for achieving that configuration."

Pixar’s Latest Film Has Wall Street on Edge

Pixar’s Latest Film Has Wall Street on Edge - NYTimes.com: "Some industry watchers, a few of them still griping about the hefty $7.4 billion that Disney paid for Pixar in 2006, are fretting about the film’s commercial potential, particularly when it comes to benefiting other Disney businesses."

Comet Programming: the Hidden IFrame Technique

Comet Programming: the Hidden IFrame Technique: "As covered in Comet Programming: Using Ajax to Simulate Server Push, Comet is a Web application model that enables Web servers to send data to the client without having to explicitly request it. Hence, the Comet model provides an alternate mechanism to classical polling to update page content and/or data. In that article, we learned how to use XMLHttpRequest long polling to refresh page components and keep cached data in synch with the server."

How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds

How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds - Psdtuts+: "n this tutorial I will show you how to turn an overcast day into a stunningly dramatic scene with sunlight breaking through the clouds. This technique can be used for other applications as well. I originally came up with it when I needed to create shafts of light coming through a canopy of trees. The best part of this technique is that the beams are created from the actual imagery so they look very realistic. Lets get started..."