The Best Way to Successfully Overhaul Your Life

The Best Way to Successfully Overhaul Your Life | Zen Habits: "I’ve done it before and I’m sure many of you have as well: decided I wanted to completely change my life, from diet to exercise to productivity habits to spending and career and family and more."

Coder Who Says Py: The staleness of the standard library and adding new things

Coder Who Says Py: The staleness of the standard library and adding new things: "If you happen to follow certain members of python-dev on Twitter you may have noticed a discussion going on over Zed Shaw's 'Curing Python's Neglect' post about inconsistencies in the language and the standard library, focusing mostly on the latter. This caused some people to say Zed should be lindberg'd (link is currently down) for complaining about the state of Python's standard library without offering solutions. This then led to Zed responding about how there is a double-standard for accepting changes between Python committers and everyone else which has led to crap making it into the standard library."

Graphical Python Programming part 2: Write Your Own Screensaver

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Graphical Python Programming part 2: Write Your Own Screensaver - Getting Random: "You can use that to make some whizzy color-changing graphics -- lines constantly redrawing in different positions and colors. You could make a screensaver!"

Google I/O 2009 - Day 1 Recap

Google Code Blog: Google I/O 2009 - Day 1 Recap: "Day 1 of Google I/O was an action-packed endeavor, shared with an excited community of developers on the ground learning about developing web applications with Google and open technologies, and showcasing some of their best apps."

Google I/O 2009 - Day 2 Recap

Google Code Blog: Google I/O 2009 - Day 2 Recap: "Despite a late night letting loose at the After Hours party, developers managed to wake up in time for the early morning Day 2 keynote (after having been promised yet another exciting surprise). This morning, we unveiled an early look at Google Wave, a new collaboration and communication product. Lars and Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon presented the vision behind Google Wave and a live demo of it in action. All Google I/O attendees will receive developer sandbox accounts to test out and build on the Google Wave APIs."

Chrome Experiments at Google I/O

Google Code Blog: Chrome Experiments at Google I/O: "Google I/O is well underway, and we're excited that we've been able to highlight some Chrome Experiments at the event. During the keynote on Wednesday, we opened with the following video. Matt Waddell from our Developer team composed the music playing in the background. We're posting a subtitled version of the video, so you can enjoy the song in all it's HTML5 glory."

No Erotic Services? No problem for prostitutes on craigslist

No Erotic Services? No problem for prostitutes on craigslist - Ars Technica: "Erotic Services is long gone and has been replaced by a new and improved 'Adult' section. But what changes does this new section really bring? Not many, it turns out, as prostitutes are still listing their services there and elsewhere on Craigslist, just with more creative wording and less explicit pictures. The relative safety of their profession after the changes, however, may be up for debate."

L0phtCrack - Windows & Unix Password Auditing & Recovery

L0phtCrack - Windows & Unix Password Auditing & Recovery: "We made L0phtCrack available once again because hard core security professionals have found it to be the best and have yearned for up-to-date OS support. After 12 years, L0phtCrack is still a mainstay at many leading security consulting firms and the US military."

Seven Ways to De-Stress Instantly

Seven Ways to De-Stress Instantly - Dumb Little Man: "Imagine it’s Monday morning. Over the weekend, you had a major argument with your partner (and you’re both still sulking), your alarm clock fails to go off, you try to get your usual breakfast only to find that the cereal box is empty and the milk’s gone sour, and then the car won’t start. By the time you get to work, you’re already feeling frazzled – and then your boss dumps an “urgent” project on your desk. You know you’ve got a backlog of emails to deal with from last week and you can feel your stress levels and blood pressure going through the roof."

LEGO Agitprop

LEGO Agitprop - a set on Flickr: "LEGO creations with a political twist."

The 8 most successful open source products ever

The 8 most successful open source products ever | Royal Pingdom: "Open source in itself is a success story. From being a niche concept, it has become a mainstream movement (well, more or less) and has received the attention of both individuals and businesses worldwide."

Crane of the future arrives

Cranes Today - Crane of the future arrives: "Tadano has launched what it is calling the first of the “cranes of the future”; a new automated mobile crane called Robotops."

An Inside Look at Bing

An Inside Look at Bing | Software Development in the Real World: "Microsoft will release Bing early next week, a search engine that finally has the potential to steal away some of Google’s dominating market share. I will be honest I was a little sceptical when I first heard about Bing (codename Kumo). In fact the original title for this article was going to be a lot more negative. But now that I have had the chance to use it for real world searches, I am impressed and have switched my search engine from Google to Bing. It was a no brainer. Bing won me over in about 10 minutes."

Reading and Writing to Excel Spreadsheets in Python

Dev Explorer - Reading and Writing to Excel Spreadsheets in Python: "One of my primary uses of Python in the business environment is to produce reports from various data sources. The humble spreadsheet has become one of the most widely used file formats within business for its flexibility and scalability. Having the ability to produce spreadsheets using an automated system can be useful, as they can be easily integrated into existing business systems. This is possible to achieve using .NET technologies of course and when working on a Windows platform I would advise using the Jet engine."

3 Ways to Get More Done With the Power of Less

3 Ways to Get More Done With the Power of Less | Zen Habits: "Along with my own deepening mindfulness meditation practice, I’ve found Leo’s writing to be extremely helpful in my ongoing discovery of why I am on this planet."

WarVOX: Wardailing made easy

WarVOX: Introduction: "WarVOX is a suite of tools for exploring, classifying, and auditing telephone systems. Unlike normal wardialing tools, WarVOX works with the actual audio from each call and does not use a modem directly. This model allows WarVOX to find and classify a wide range of interesting lines, including modems, faxes, voice mail boxes, PBXs, loops, dial tones, IVRs, and forwarders. WarVOX provides the unique ability to classify all telephone lines in a given range, not just those connected to modems, allowing for a comprehensive audit of a telephone system."

Asus and Microsoft join forces against Linux

Asus and Microsoft join forces against Linux - vnunet.com: "Microsoft and Asus have launched a marketing campaign to encourage netbook users to use Windows rather than Linux."

The answer to your financial worries: Get Rich Cheating

The answer to your financial worries: Get Rich Cheating | tech-informer.com: "I just came across the video shown above, and this seems like another book which would crack me up. It’s a book called “Get Rich Cheating: The Crooked Path to Easy Street” by Jeff Kreisler."

Coming soon: Google Android applications on Ubuntu

Coming soon: Google Android applications on Ubuntu: "While Google Android is built on the Linux kernel, all of the applications for the mobile operating system actually run on a custom Java runtime. In other words, Google Android doesn't run most native Linux applications, and most Linux distributions can't run Google Android apps... yet. But Canonical is working on software that would allow Google Android programs to run natively on Ubuntu Linux."

To Catch a Slacker, with an Iphone!

by : Yahoo! Tech: "A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip class."

Amazing Trained Gold Fish Team Swim in Formation

YouTube - Trained fish - amazing: "I don't know what he's saying, or how he did it, but this is amazing."

Incredibles - The Chairs

Incredibles - The Chairs: "What is this? This is my dedication to the creative team behind Pixar's movie The Incredibles. I loved the depth of the world, the buildings, the gadgets and most of all I loved the chairs. Enjoy!"

Create GPX files with your TomTom (2)

Raskas’ blog » TomTom - Everything is possible… You only have to find out how.: "An other application for the TomTom devices is nmealogger. This logger will log all the data received from the gps device into a file. This data includes the actual position, the current date and time, the amount and reception of the satellites, …
The format of information which is generated by a gps device is mostly in the NMEA format, it is also stored in a file in that format. The information of these files can be converted to any other format by gpsbabel."

YouTube - Drunk russian ninja

YouTube - Drunk russian ninja: "Drunk russian performing quite advanced ninja moves :P"

Game Theory, Machine Learning and Better Bidding Strategies

Dr. Dobb's | Game Theory, Machine Learning and Better Bidding Strategies | May 18, 2009: "By combining techniques from game theory and artificial intelligence, computer scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a better way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction modeled after commodity and financial securities markets."

Mike Judge's latest cartoon no Goode

Mike Judge's latest cartoon no Goode | Entertainment | Television | Reuters: "Sadly his latest animated series 'The Goode Family,' which premieres Wednesday on ABC, doesn't hit the bar Judge has set for himself."

Here comes summer's first Linux netbook

Here comes summer's first Linux netbook - Computerworld Blogs: "Reports of the Linux netbook's death at the hands of Microsoft have been greatly exaggerated. A flood of Linux netbook news will be made next week at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, but, after Intel announced the beta of Moblin 2, HP have decided not to wait until then and made an important Linux netbook announcement this week."

Google lauds the Web as programming model

Google lauds the Web as programming model ( - Software ): "Preaching the Web as the new programming model, Google officials lauded several technologies, including 3D browser capabilities and an ability to easily add Google applications to Web pages, at the Google I/O conference on Wednesday."

The Programmable Synthesized Guitar

The Programmable Synthesized Guitar: "Our project recreates the experience of playing an acoustic guitar electrically using vibration sensors, push buttons and the Karplus-Strong algorithm."

Kicking the Tires on Your Next CMS

Kicking the Tires on Your Next CMS: "This month I want to look at which CMS is right for you, and how you figure that out. Before we can do that though, you need to ask yourself some questions--like who you are and what you want."

Buttery Soft Pretzels

Buttery Soft Pretzels - All Recipes: "'After spending so much money on those Mall bought pretzels, I thought I'd try making some myself. So here's a recipe that has worked for me. These pretzels are a bit sweeter than other types and are buttery. These are great plain with a bit of pretzel salt or coated with cinnamon and sugar. Once finished, dip the hot pretzel in melted butter and coat with your favorite flavors. Enjoy!'"

Take off the tape and ride!

Take off the tape and ride!: "I have painted a couple bikes for my friends so I thought I would share some tricks I learned in the process."

Creating Classes in Excel

Articles: "The goal of this chapter from Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .NET, 2nd Edition is to show you how to create your own objects, including how to create a single custom object and then create a collection containing multiple instances of the object, and how to trap and raise events within your classes."

New York Times Hires a Social Media Editor

New York Times Hires a Social Media Editor | The Blog Herald: "Regardless of your political leaning, you would be hard pressed to dispute the fact that the New York Times was at one point the most significant print news source on the planet."

Five Amazing Geek Toys and Their Modern Equivalents

First Webkinz » Five Amazing '80's Geek Toys and Their Modern Equivalents - Wired News: "Companies also began to innovate on educational toys for kids, whether it was teaching them about electronics, programming, or offering educational games."

Properly Erase Your Physical Media

Lifehacker - Properly Erase Your Physical Media - Hard Drives: "'The average person who knows anything about computers could plug in these disks and just go surfing,' Kessler said. 'I know they found a guy's foot fetish on one disk. He'd been downloading loads and loads of stuff on feet. With what we got on that disk — his name, address and all of his contacts — it would have been extremely embarrassing if we were somebody who wanted to blackmail him.'"

DIY, No-Electricity Lighting from 2-Liter Bottles

Lifehacker - DIY, No-Electricity Lighting from 2-Liter Bottles - Household: "Got a shed or garage you like to tinker in during the day and want to save a little cash on the cost of lighting it? Polish off your a few two-liters and let's DIY."

iTunes on the Wii!!!

hackaddict.net: Tutorial: iTunes on the Wii!!!: "This tutorial will show you how to stream your iTunes music library to your Wii through the Opera browser. The Opera browser can be download to your Wii for free from the 'Wii Shop Channel.' This tutorial will work with both a Mac and a PC."

Office Supplies Challenge; Liquid Fuel Rocket

Office Supplies Challenge; Liquid Fuel Rocket: "Liquid Fuel Rocket made from office supplies. Warning, this is kinda dangerous, I had one blow up in my hand already, it was more startling than anything, the two halves flew off in different directions, (wear leather gloves just to be safe.). But they'll fly about 75 feet straight up."

The Great Ethanol Scam

The Great Ethanol Scam - BusinessWeek: "Not only is ethanol proving to be a dud as a fuel substitute but there is increasing evidence that it is destroying engines in large numbers"

Top 8 Low Back Exercises Without Any Equipment - Fitness&Healtfacts.com | Discover the best fitness&Health News

Top 8 Low Back Exercises Without Any Equipment - Fitness&Healtfacts.com | Discover the best fitness&Health News | Discover the best Fitness&Health Products: "Top 8 Low Back Exercises Without Any Equipment


Six Pack Abs Expert Reveal His 8 Favorite Low Back Exercises Using Only Your Body Weight. A strong lower back is crucial for a healthy back and stronger core. This video is for those people that requested me to make this video. For a complete six pack abs workout program, visit my site."

Distributed computing with Linux and Hadoop

Distributed computing with Linux and Hadoop: "Every day people rely on search engines to find specific content in the many terabytes of data that exist on the Internet, but have you ever wondered how this search is actually performed? One approach is Apache's Hadoop, which is a software framework that enables distributed manipulation of vast amounts of data. One application of Hadoop is parallel indexing of Internet Web pages. Hadoop is an Apache project with support from Yahoo!, Google, IBM, and others. This article introduces the Hadoop framework and shows you why it's one of the most important Linux®-based distributed computing frameworks."

Overcoming the Fear of Success

Overcoming the Fear of Success - Dumb Little Man: "I've got a problem. At least, I used to. Success freaked me out. I thought I wanted to be successful, but I really didn't."

Custom self-contained hanging Wall-PC

Custom self-contained hanging Wall-PC - Charlotte NC Web Design, Development - Glowview Blog: "I had an old Sony Vaio laptop lying around collecting dust and my choice was either to sell it on Ebay or think of something creative to do with it. I chose the creative route because that’s certainly more enjoyable than putting together an Ebay listing, for me at least."

Implement a Map Using the Google Map API for Flash

Implement a Map Using the Google Map API for Flash - Flashtuts+: "In this tutorial we'll see how we can create a map in Flash using the Google Map API. We'll cover some of the basics such as zooming in on the map and adding some controls. We'll also look at how we can add markers to our map and how we can load data using an XML file."

Towel Day - Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams

Towel Day - Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams: "Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour."

The Future of Search

The Future of Search | Software Development in the Real World: "Microsoft is getting ready for battle with Google with Bing.com. Internally Bing has been talked about as Kumo.com. Over the next few months, Microsoft is going to spend $100 million dollars on promoting Bing.com. But what is Microsoft bringing to the table with Bing.com? Microsoft has certainly done their homework over the last several years. They seem to think they have a great product now, let’s see how well it does against Google.com!"

Web 2.0 for your home/Twitter for your grocery list

μblog: engineering from the trenches » Web 2.0 for your home/Twitter for your grocery list: "I have hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon and created an account for my FreeBSD media server. My goal was to have the machine check Twitter periodically and send any tweets designated for it to a small thermal printer. This way, if I wanted to remind myself to pick up some milk and bread, I could send a tweet @routed and it would be documented. I bought a Verifone PrintPak 300 credit card receipt printer off eBay for a very reasonable $20 shipped."

The Dos and Don'ts of a Java Position Interview

The Dos and Don'ts of a Java Position Interview: "I'm sure many of us in the Java field have been through this — the interview that's going to get our next job! I'm also sure many of us have checked the usual places on the Net for hints about how to prepare for 'the perfect interview.'

If you're like me, I'm sure you found the usual 'advices,' advice that I personally never found to help that much. This is advice like show enthusiasm, ask questions, and make sure you study the company web site before the interview."

9 Practical Ways to To Help Stay Focused - Dumb Little Man

9 Practical Ways to To Help Stay Focused - Dumb Little Man: "Do you have a million things to do and unsure where to start?

Your attention is everything these days. As the media and the people in your environment will always find new ways to distract you from what's important, it's even more important today to maintain your focus.

By doing so, you remain to be 'the eye of the storm,' calm and focused. Being focused is more of an art than it is a science. Here are 9 practical ways to stay focused:"

What made those old, 2D platformers so great?

What made those old, 2D platformers so great? « Significant Bits: "A little while ago I dug into Scary Girl for not being a very fun game. This brought up some discussion about what actually makes a good 2D platformer, so I decided to expand on the topic. Below is a list of what I see as three common aspects of many classic platforming titles. These point are not the only things that made those games great, but they’re a shared base that appears again and again."

Microsoft arms half-wit developers with PHP handgun

Microsoft arms half-wit developers with PHP handgun • The Register: "Fail and You Terrible things are about to happen in Microsoft's web application hosting environment, Windows Azure. Redmond's Slugworth, desperate to keep up with Mountain View's Chocolate Factory, has introduced support for PHP on their web application platform. Microsoft's Windows Azure is a competitor to Google App Engine and is trying to gain popularity by supporting interoperability and standards. And don't fall asleep within four hours of reading that sentence or a blood vessel will burst in your brain as your subconscious tries to make sense of it. You've been warned."

How much is your identity worth?

How much is your identity worth? - science-in-society - 25 May 2009 - New Scientist: "HOW curious. Early this year my bank sent me a replacement credit card. I hadn't asked for one, and the bank did not elaborate except to refer vaguely to 'security' issues."

Primate Eye Evolution: Small Evolutionary Shifts Make Big Impacts -- Like Developing Night Vision

Primate Eye Evolution: Small Evolutionary Shifts Make Big Impacts -- Like Developing Night Vision: "In the developing fetus, cell growth follows a very specific schedule. In the eye's retina, for example, cones -- which help distinguish color during the day -- develop before the more light-sensitive rods -- which are needed for night vision."

5 Tips to Becoming a Development Rock Star

5 Tips to Becoming a Development Rock Star | Software Development in the Real World: "So you want to become a software development Rock Star? I had someone ask me the other day “How can I become a software development rock star?”. The only true way of course is to practice, practice, practice. But what about some easy to follow tips? I had come up with a few in the last year that I wanted to share, so I decided I would put the tips all in one place for him to read."

Aussie prisoners escape lock-in with Ubuntu PCs

Aussie prisoners escape lock-in with Ubuntu PCs - Hardware - iTnews Australia: "The Alexander Maconochie jail in Canberra will this week deploy 30 more Ubuntu Linux-based computers for prisoner use after a successful first phase."

Wii Fit board speaks to Linux

Wii Fit board speaks to Linux | Crave - CNET: "Case in point, Matt Cutts has connected a Wii Fit balance board to a Linux box via Bluetooth. So far, all he can do is weigh himself in kilograms and move a red dot around by leaning in different directions on the balance board."

EXCLUSIVE: WHAT WENT WRONG WITH TERMINATOR SALVATION?

EXCLUSIVE: WHAT WENT WRONG WITH TERMINATOR SALVATION?: "The Terminator Salvation you saw on movie screens this weekend was not always the Terminator Salvation that was meant to be. Like in the franchise itself, history has been changed, and the original script for Terminator Salvation ended up getting gutted. You can still see the outlines of that script in the current film (a form of deja vu, as similar vestigial script elements can be seen in this summer's blockbuster hit Star Trek), but the specifics that might have made Terminator Salvation if not better at least more interesting are gone."

Former employee sues over 'Batman' harassment

Former employee sues over 'Batman' harassment: Rutland Herald Online: "A Shaftsbury resident is suing Vermont Composites and one of its employees for wrongful termination, creating a hostile work environment and intention of emotional distress because, among other reasons, the employee consistently called him 'Batman.'"

Beyond BlackBerry, high-tech execs shun gadgets

Beyond BlackBerry, high-tech execs shun gadgets | U.S. | Reuters: "You'd think the leaders of the world's biggest and coolest tech companies would be total gadget freaks, 'tricorder'-carrying whiz kids sporting the latest doodads months before the masses.

Think again."

The Remote Wine and Dine: Keep Your Clients Happy With Extras

The Remote Wine and Dine: Keep Your Clients Happy With Extras: "Working on the web is great, but you miss out on some great business-building opportunities if you’re far removed from the majority of your clients. Business lunches and dinners are a fantastic tool for greasing the wheels of profitable partnerships, but if you’re in Taipei and your client is in Reno, it can be a little hard to coordinate. What web workers should not do, and what we too often do, is just shrug our shoulders and leave it at that."

Moving house: How a little old lady spent 23 years single-handedly dismantling her cottage brick by brick and rebuilding it 100 miles away

Moving house: How a little old lady spent 23 years single-handedly dismantling her cottage brick by brick and rebuilding it 100 miles away | Mail Online: "For a labour of love, it was the DIY job of the century. Brick by brick, the gutsy little old lady demolished her precious home, pulling each medieval nail from its ancient oak beam."

7 Simple Ways to Improve Your Home Office

7 Simple Ways to Improve Your Home Office: "Since we spend a lot of time in our home offices, it’s a good idea to set them up according to our needs. But if you don’t have the time or money for a complete office makeover, even a few simple changes can turn your home office from drab to inspirational."

If they can break the law, why can't we?

If they can break the law, why can't we? • The Register: "Lies, spin and establishment contempt for the rules by which the rest of the population are meant to live, are nothing new."

Tie-pography

Tie-pography - Ed Nacional / Graphic Designer / Brooklyn, NY: "Display typeface constructed from a personal tie collection. A large amount of the collection was acquired from my dad, the rest bought at flea markets, thrift stores with a few brand new purchases sprinkled throughout. I hope to soon extend this project to add alternates, numbers and ligatures as the collection grows."

Django powered microframework

djng—a Django powered microframework: "I presented a keynote at EuroDjangoCon in Prague earlier this month entitled Django Heresies. The talk followed the noble DjangoCon tradition (established last year with the help of Mark Ramm and Cal Henderson) of pointing a spotlight at Django’s flaws. In my case, it was a chance to apply the benefit of hindsight to some of the design decisions I helped make back at the Lawrence Journal-World in 2004."

Breaking Into a Home With an iPhone

Breaking Into a Home With an iPhone | GNUCITIZEN: "Got the idea? No! Let me explain. What you see in the video above is an application for the iPhone which gives you detailed characteristics of properties (houses) in USA. You can either search the map or just use your GPS coordinates to get information such as price of the house, number of floors, number of rooms, pictures taken from inside the house if the house was part of any register (letting agencies etc.) before you moved in, and other interesting information."

How To Make Maps The Center Of Your UI (And How Not To)

Google Code Blog: How To Make Maps The Center Of Your UI (And How Not To): "The oldest saw in real estate is that the three most important things about a house are location, location, and location, and at Redfin we took that as our user interface mantra as well. We made a decision early on that we were going to build a dynamic AJAX web app where the Google Map wasn't just a feature of the application but was the main driver of user interaction. The map is how users tell us where they want to search and what houses they are interested in buying, and our users tell us time and again that the map is what keeps them coming back."

VIM as Python IDE

VIM as Python IDE | Alain M. Lafon: "Finding the perfect IDE for Python isn’t an easy feat. There are a great many to chose from, but even though some of them offer really nifty features, I can’t help myself but feel attracted to VIM anyway. I feel that no IDE accomplishes the task of giving the comfort of complete power over the code - something is always missing out. This is why I always come back to using IDLE and VIM. Those two seem to be best companions when doing some quick and agile hacking - but when it comes to managing bigger and longer term projects, this combo needs some tweaking. But when it’s done, VIM will be a powerful IDE for Python - including code completion(with pydoc display), graphical debugging, task-management and a project view."

Visual Studio 10 Beta is Available

Visual Studio 10 Beta is Available | Software & Engineering: "Every few years, Microsoft releases an upgrade to its venerable set of development tools: Visual Studio.

Despite being heavily biased towards the technologies that Microsoft is currently pushed, and the advance of other IDEs such as Eclipse, there are many reasons why Visual Studio is still so widely adopted in the industry"

A funny programmer cartoon

A funny programmer cartoon. « Programming: Robots & Video Games: "Cartoon of python programming"

Human soul is wiped out by human flood

Watch the video at 0:44... is hilarious.

Twitter passes Bebo and Linkedin while MySpace heads earthwards

Twitter passes Bebo and Linkedin while MySpace heads earthwards | Technology | guardian.co.uk: "Though you may think that Twitter gets, oh, far too much attention, the reality is that this is something that is growing fast. Damn fast. So fast that it has recently left not only the New York Times but also Digg - remember Digg? - and social networks Bebo and LinkedIn in its rear-view mirror."

Google Chrome’s JavaScript Engine Is CRAZY FAST

Google Chrome’s JavaScript Engine Is CRAZY FAST | PaulSpoerry.com: "I’ve been pretty excited about the entry of the Chrome browser into the browser wars. For starters it has the full force of Google behind it. Secondly, since they essentially launched the AJAX revolution with GMail Google is keenly aware of JavaScript performance. Let’s put it this way… very fast JavaScript only makes sites which make heavy use of JavaScript more useable."

V is for TV remake

V is for TV remake | Psychosomatic Rants: "If you still don’t remember, don’t worry because ABC is doing a remake of the old mini-series. The modern day remake is going to be entitled, Yeah, you guessed it, ‘V’"

MySQL: Forked Beyond Repair?

MySQL: Forked Beyond Repair?: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions the effect recent developments in the MySQL community will have on MySQL's future in the wake of Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Even before Oracle announced its buyout, there were signs of strain within the MySQL community, with key MySQL employees exiting and forks of the MySQL codebase arising, including Widenius' MariaDB."

How Google's cute "doodles" became Satan's pawns

How Google's cute "doodles" became Satan's pawns - Ars Technica: "Google's use of a 'fossil' doodle this week sparked a bit of controversy, but that's nothing new for the company. Its cute pictures have been angering (a few) people for years."

Cool Your PC or Laptop with Ionic Wind

Cool Your PC or Laptop with Ionic Wind - Tom's Hardware: "Tessera is developing a cooling system that charges ions to move air particles away from a laptop's heat source."

Google falling behind Twitter, admits chief

Google falling behind Twitter, admits chief | Business | guardian.co.uk: "Co-founder Larry Page says search engine has been losing out to micro-blogging site in battle to provide real-time information
• Chief executive hints that Google could go into partnership with Twitter"

Install the GNU ARM toolchain under Linux

Install the GNU ARM toolchain under Linux: "Many tools are available for programming various versions of ARM cores, but one particularly popular set is the GNU ARM toolchain. Learn more about embedded development using the ARM core as well as how to install the GNU tools and begin using them."

Michael Bay, master of the 'huge canvas'

Michael Bay, master of the 'huge canvas' - Los Angeles Times: "Michael Bay is lean, walks with purpose and carries his chin and shoulders at an imperious tilt, and on a recent afternoon at his work compound in Santa Monica it was easy to envision him as some proud matador; Bay, like those bullfighters in Barcelona, thinks of himself as a mayhem artist in the crowd-pleasing business."

Air Force Responds to GPS Outage Concerns

Air Force Responds to GPS Outage Concerns - ABC News: "U.S. Air Forces Tweets That GPS Won't Go Down Despite Reports That It Is Vulnerable"

PeteTether 1.1 - A Wireless Portable USB tether

Pete's Tech Ramblings...: PeteTether 1.1 - A Wireless Portable USB tether: "As there have been so many questions for more details, I figured I'd help out and do a full dissection and build, this time in a more proper working configuration (I never intended to keep it hanging out there like that long term, it was more the proof of concept) Also for anyone building this, all risks are yours and your mileage may vary."

The Long Shot

The Long Shot § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM: "From the Chilean seaside town of La Serena, it’s a journey of 80 kilometers to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), through the Elqui River Valley, past huddled clusters of houses and lush fields of papayas, watermelons, and grapes, gradually dissolving into a sere alpine scrubland of cacti, stunted trees, and sun-warmed dust."

Database/Data Model Round-Trip Engineering with MySQL

Database/Data Model Round-Trip Engineering with MySQL: "In this article, Djoni Darmawikarta shows how to maintain an existing MySQL database using Power*Architect. Particularly, he shows by examples, how to reverse engineer an existing MySQL database, update the resulting data model, compare the updated model with the 'old' database, and implement the updates by forward-engineering them back to the database."

Preventing Remote File Includes Attack on your Joomla Websites

Preventing Remote File Includes Attack on your Joomla Websites: "There are many types of attacks that can happen to a website. In a previous article, Preventing SQL Injection Attacks on your Joomla Websites was discussed. In this article by Tom Canavan, we will take a look at how Remote File Include(RFI) attacks occur, and how it can be prevented."

Deploying Disney: How Social Engineers Take Advantage of Childhood Lessons

InformIT: Deploying Disney: How Social Engineers Take Advantage of Childhood Lessons > The Level of Risk Is Rising: "Security consultant Chris Nickerson points out that social engineers (the kind you hire as consultants) aren't evil; in fact, they want to help you prevent people from stealing your secrets. But longtime teaching from 'Uncle Walt' and his many animated characters may make it easier for attackers to get at your mind."

15 Outstanding Free Text Editors for Designers & Coders

15 Outstanding Free Text Editors for Designers & Coders: "In this post, I have compiled a list of some of the best free text editors for designers and coders which will fulfill your needs. These softwares were designed specifically for coder’s needs. I know the preference of operating system varies among us techy people, so I tried to collect a few for each operating system: Windows, Mac, and Linux. So enjoy the post, if you use any of the ones below, or have had experience with any of the ones below please comment and let us know of your experiences, so others can learn from them as well."

Digg: Shouts Out, Share on Facebook and Twitter In

Digg: Shouts Out, Share on Facebook and Twitter In: "During Digg's Townhall (embedded below) this evening, founder Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson announced that the shout feature on Digg will be removed later this week to be replaced with a new share option that will 'streamline your ability to share on Facebook and Twitter.'"

Python programming with Excel, how to overcome COM_error from the makepy generated python file

Python programming with Excel, how to overcome COM_error from the makepy generated python file: "To run the above, you need Mark Hammond's pywin32 to generate the PythonCOM package. Read O'Reilly's Python Programming on Win32 for more information on what PythonCOM packages are."

Create a Fun Tweet Counter With jQuery

Create a Fun Tweet Counter With jQuery - Nettuts+: "In this tutorial, we will look at using jQuery to call Twitter’s API and then use the results to create a widget for a blog or personal website that shows what hours during the day we tweet at the most."

Django Dash

Home - Django Dash: "The Django Dash is a chance for Django enthusiasts to flex their coding skills a little and put a fine point on “perfectionists with deadlines” by giving you a REAL deadline. 48 hours from start to stop to produce the best app you can and have a little fun in the process."

Cleaning Car Carpet and Upholstery

Cleaning Car Carpet and Upholstery : ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine: "There's nothing worse than buying a new car, and weeks later, it looks more lived-in than a 100-year-old house. Drive-thru food and drinks, kids with sticky candy, and drooling Fido also do their fair share toward making your car's interior — be it leather, cloth, or carpet — look beaten and worn. By maintaining the appearance of the vehicle inside as well as out, you retain the value of the car, which will help you when it's time to trade it in or sell it. Here are a few helpful hints to help you tackle the spills and spots:"

DIY DrumKitKit

DrumKitKit: "The Drum Kit - Kit lets you turn your Arduino into a drum kit. Imagine the fun you could have building a drum kit and then “rocking the house”."

Use command-line tools in PHP

Use command-line tools in PHP: "Run shell commands in your Web applications"

Better Django models

Better Django models: "After graduating from the five-minute wiki to real-life applications, Django programmers can easily create confusing, hard-to-maintain, or inefficient model classes. Learn how to avoid common querying mistakes, use model managers to encapsulate complex queries, and take advantage of the powerful new aggregation features available in Django V1.1."

Linux-ready netbook touted as "Student rugged"

Linux-ready netbook touted as "Student rugged": "Dell is readying a netbook for the K-12 educational market with a rubberized case and an optional touchscreen. Incorporating an Intel Atom N270 with 1GB RAM, the Latitude 2100 offers a 10.1-inch display, WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, up to 250GB storage, and Ubuntu Linux, says Dell."

What is creativity?

What is creativity? | Fuel Your Creativity: "There was a great discussion going on over at Janko’s site, jankoatwarpspeed.com about what creativity is. We thought it sparked such a great discussion that we wanted to get more input on the topic from our community, so we asked Janko if he’d be interested in posting it over here as well. As you know “creativity” is near and dear to us so my hope is that you will share your thoughts with us! -Adelle"

10 Great Surface Pattern Designers

10 Great Surface Pattern Designers | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials: "There are excellent articles on the web showing beautiful patterns applied on websites, wallpaper, fabrics and other things and I really like patterns and admire the designers that are master on this craft. Because of that I will list below 10 great surface pattern designers and some examples of their work. Also if you have suggestions of other designers leave a comment and let us know."

10 Futuristic User Interfaces

10 Futuristic User Interfaces | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine: "Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn’t matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don’t manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough. To gain the interest in a new product or technology, users need to understand its advantages or find themselves impressed or involved."

10 Gadgety Reasons to Stay in Bed All Weekend

Gizmodo - 10 Gadgety Reasons to Stay in Bed All Weekend - Beds: "Another long workweek draws to a close, and that means its time for the Thank Giz It's Friday roundup of gadgets to help you get the most out of your weekend—or, in this case, the least. In fact, the focus this week is to supply you with 10 good gadgety excuses to stay in bed. Naturally, you probably have a few questions about how this can be done, so let's get started."

Tweet-a-watt - How to make a twittering power meter...

Tweet-a-watt - How to make a twittering power meter...: "This project documents my adventures in learning how to wire up my home for wireless power monitoring. I live in a rented apartment so I don't have hacking-access to a meter or breaker panel. Since I'm still very interested in measuring my power usage on a long term basis, I built wireless outlet reporters. Building your own power monitor isn't too tough and can save money but I'm not a fan of sticking my fingers into 120V power. Instead, I'll used the existing Kill-a-watt power monitor, which works great and is available at my local hardware store."

Five Ways to Increase Your Wi-Fi Network's Range

InformIT: Five Ways to Increase Your Wi-Fi Network's Range > 1. Relocate Modem and Router (Free!): "Discover ways to extend your wireless network, from things you can do without spending a dime to adding additional APs. Whether your signal needs a little boost, or you need to quadruple the Wi-Fi footprint, Eric Geier, author of Wi-Fi Hotspots: Setting Up Public Wireless Internet Access, comes to your side. Soon you'll be able to surf and share much more efficiently."

Under the Hood: Building a Better Engine

Under the Hood: Building a Better Engine: In-Depth Reports: "As demand grows for faster vehicles with cleaner emissions, engineers are rethinking engines and the fuels that make them go"

Ketchup Bottle as Pancake Batter Dispenser

Ketchup Bottle as Pancake Batter Dispenser: "A clever way to repurpose an everyday item."

Microsoft and Open Source

Microsoft and Open Source | Python Programming: "In
a couple of weeks, I‘m participating in an internal “Presentation Idol”competition.
It’s a contest of presentation skills against impressive competition (I can’t name
names, but rest assured it’s a strong group) being judged by Microsoft executives
(again, I can’t name names, but this time it’s because I don’t know who’s judging)
in front of what I assume will be a large technical internal Microsoft audience. To
top it off, we each only get three minutes and thirty three seconds each to deliver
our presentations."

Open Database Alliance to Save MySQL

Open Database Alliance to Save MySQL - Linux Magazine Online: "MySQL founder Monty Widenius and the Finnish MySQL services and support company Percona have joined forces to create the Open Database Alliance. The intention of the new consortium is to protect the open source status of essential MySQL components."

Nagios Founder Comments on Icinga Fork

Nagios Founder Comments on Icinga Fork - Linux Magazine Online: "Nagios Enterprises founder and Nagios maintainer Ethan Galstad has admitted to development bottlenecks in his project and recognizes that Nagios developers want a stronger participation in the Icinga fork project. Nevertheless, he's disappointed that Icinga didn't engage with him before they struck off on their own."

Steam-Powered Dragon Is a Fearsome Tin Beast

Steam-Powered Dragon Is a Fearsome Tin Beast : Nerd Approved - Gadgets and Gizmos: "Powered by a nickel-plated brass boiler double-acting Wilesco steam engine, this 3 1/2 foot long tin dragon will strike fear into the hearts of your household pets. It may also strike fear into the heart of your wife after she finds out how much you spent on this thing. Additional images are available after the break."

Get Ready For Real Time Digg, Whatever That Means

Get Ready For Real Time Digg, Whatever That Means - washingtonpost.com: "Like everyone else, Digg has a serious case of Twitter envy. And they're doing something about it."

Gnip Adds Facebook Data To Its API Mashup

Gnip Adds Facebook Data To Its API Mashup - washingtonpost.com: "Gnip, a platform that helps move data around from one social network to the next, is now integrated with Facebook so that the platform can access data via Facebook's recently launched open API stream."

Turn Your Fridge Into a Food Diary Guest Post from Chichi of My Chalkboard Fridge

Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | My Chalkboard Fridge: Turn Your Fridge Into a Food Diary Guest Post from Chichi of My Chalkboard Fridge: "A while back I transformed the surface of my refrigerator into a giant chalkboard and began to record what I cooked in the kitchen and harvested from our garden. It was a handy way to plan meals and to jot down shopping lists, and every few days my boyfriend would grace the board with a whimsical drawing or two. At the end of each week we snapped a picture of the chalkboard to commemorate the bounty that we had consumed, and the pictures in turn formed a diary of our delicious lives.

A chalkboard fridge is exactly what it sounds like, but it’s also so much more than that. There’s something special about committing what you eat to the written word and if you do so for long enough, a chalkboard fridge becomes a culinary journal, helping you to reflect on what kind of an eater you are."

Hard Truck Puzzle

Hard Truck (Page 1) - News - Neworder Forums: "A truck driver is delivering a shipment of windows vista cds from microsoft to the local landfill. On the way to the landfill the truck driver is so happy to drive this load, he decides to drive slowly and enjoy every second of it; so on the way there he does 50 km/h.
At what speed should he drive back to microsoft (and collect his next batch of CDs) so that the AVERAGE speed of this the whole trip (to the landfill and back) will be 100 km/h?
i.e. if i drive at 50km/h from A to B, at what speed should i drive back so that the average speed of the entire trip A->B->A will be 100km/h?

Try to solve this without doing the actual math."

What Makes Us Happy?

What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009): "How’s this for the good life? You’re rich, and you made the dough yourself. You’re well into your 80s, and have spent hardly a day in the hospital. Your wife had a cancer scare, but she’s recovered and by your side, just as she’s been for more than 60 years. Asked to rate the marriage on a#FF0000 scale of 1 to 9, where 1 is perfectly miserable and 9 is perfectly happy, you circle the highest number."

How to Mine Twitter for Information

How to Mine Twitter for Information: "Twitter’s built-in search engine is probably my favorite way to find information in Twitter. It is great for quick searches to find specific pieces of information, watching trending topics, and persistent vanity searches for your name or company. While I do use the search engine to type in queries, the real power is in using RSS feeds for searches and running them through Yahoo Pipes for additional filtering."

HOW TO: Simplify Your Social Media Routine

HOW TO: Simplify Your Social Media Routine: "Simplifying will help you stay in touch, and continue to participate in the conversation, without losing sight of your mission and the important work you need to get done."

JavaScript for hackers

JavaScript for hackers - Opera Developer Community: "I love to use JavaScript in unexpected ways, to create code that looks like it shouldn't work but does, or produces some unexpected behavior. This may sound trivial, but the results I've found lead to some very useful techniques. Each of the techniques described can be used for XSS filter evasion, which was my original intention when developing them. However, learning such JavaScript can dramatically increase your knowledge of the language, helping you become better at cleaning up input, and increase web application security."

Yahoo! Pipes and the HTML5 canvas tag

Google Code Blog: Yahoo! Pipes and the HTML5 canvas tag: "Yahoo! Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types (json, xml, rss, and atom) and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web service without ever having to write a line of code. Pipes also allows you to create feeds from web sites that don't provide RSS/XML by extracting data straight from the HTML document. In this post, we'll talk about how the Pipes editor uses the HTML5 canvas tag extensively, challenges we faced using the canvas tag and a few solutions we came up with to address said challenges."

Improving image maps with SVG and XSLT

Improving image maps with SVG and XSLT - Opera Developer Community: "(X)HTML has a feature for adding linked areas to images: Image maps. These serve their purpose well, but in some situations a graphically more appealing solution is desirable. In this article, I will take you step by step through an example of how XHTML, SVG and XSLT can be combined to create enhanced image maps."

Is Google Afraid of the Big, Bad, Wolf?

Is Google Afraid of the Big, Bad, Wolf? digg Share this on Facebook Huffpost - stumble reddit del.ico.us ShareThis RSS: "So, if you were one of a handful of geeks on Friday night you were glued to a live video stream that was something of a cross between Mission Control at NASA and a skit from Saturday Night Live, then you witnessed the live launch event for WolframAlpha."

Amazing SQL Injection World

Pangolin - Amazing SQL Injection World | No security, know yourself!!!: "Pangolin is an automatic SQL injection penetration testing tool developed by NOSEC. Its goal is to detect and take advantage of SQL injection vulnerabilities on web applications."

Ubuntu gets Web-based file sync and sharing

Ubuntu gets Web-based file sync and sharing : News : Software - ZDNet Asia: "Canonical has begun beta-testing a file-synchronization service called Ubuntu One for its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system."

Puppy Pulling Power

Puppy Pulling Power: "With a bunch of puppies and a phone that automatically takes a photo when a girl smiles at it, I'm going to do a test to find out, once and for all, which breed will give a guy the most puppy pulling power."

StarCraft II Graphical Updates: Before And After

Kotaku - StarCraft II Graphical Updates: Before And After - PC: "The art team for upcoming real-time-strategy StarCraft II has been busy. It's been adding new animations and improving textures. Check out the before and after pictures of the game's insectoid Zerg faction."

Top Ten Songs to Have Sex To

YesButNoButYes: Top Ten Songs to Have Sex To: "The wine bottles have been emptied, the warm breeze off the ocean runs through her hair causing her to tuck the wayward strands behind her ear. Through the dancing glow of the candles, and the way she's kissing your neck ... repeatedly, you know that tonight is going to be a good one. In order to enhance the mood, you randomly punch a button on your iPod, which brings up 'Unskinny Bop' by Poison, ruins the mood, and causes your date to lose all interest. No sex tonight. No crushing of that ass. Instead, you and Bret Michaels are re-living the 80s, while your girl is putting her clothes back on and heading out the door."

Tabletop Pinball

Tabletop Pinball: "This is a tabletop pinball machine made from all scrap wood and bits and pieces of things I've held onto just waiting for a project like this."

Creating Relationships on Twitter or Annoying Tweeps

Creating Relationships on Twitter or Annoying Tweeps. Case Study. | Peter Drew: "Today I did an experiment on twitter, between my

2 twitter accounts

@peteinoz = 21,826 followers

@peterdrew = 32,010 followers

On each account I sent 1 tweet.

Got any short Jokes? :) tweet em to me :) the @peterdrew account.

Got any short Jokes? :) tweet em to me :) the @peteinoz account.

Why? as a way to interact with and have a conversation

my followers and see what happened."

Python XSS flaw left Google open to attackers

Python XSS flaw left Google open to attackers | IT PRO: "Google recently fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to take over a number of its services."

What You Need to Know Before Going under the Knife

[Slide Show] Sealing the Deal: What You Need to Know Before Going under the Knife: Scientific American: "Every operation starts with a cut and ends when the incision is closed. And though the closing act that follows a complicated surgery may seem almost incidental, a surgeon's choice of needles, sutures or adhesives to do the job plays a big part in how well and how quickly the patient heals."

Top 10 Ajax Tutorial For You

Top 10 Ajax Tutorial For You: "Recently we are concentrating on tutorials a lot. Results: Top 10 Tutorials to Develop iPhone Apps and Top 10 Nginx Tutorial to help you out. This time I decided to pick a web technology, Ajax. In the recent years, there has been a greater thrust on developing rich Internet applications. The web developers are driven to newer technologies that could enrich users experience. With technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Flex, Web is as appealing as never before."

Frog defies gravity

Frog defies gravity - 12 April 1997 - New Scientist: "USING a giant magnetic field, scientists at the University of Nottingham and the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands have made a frog float in mid-air."

How David Beats Goliath

Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 per cent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten times as powerful—in terms of armed might and population—as its opponent, and even in those lopsided contests the underdog won almost a third of the time."

File Sharing in Grails

File Sharing in Grails: "Besides posting messages, our users also want to be able to upload files to share with other members of their team. Sounds good! But wait a minute, isn't file uploading a bit of a pain? First of all, we need to read the binary file data off the request, and then we need to figure out where to put the file. Do we store it on the file system, or in a database? Well, let's take a look."

25 One Page Portfolio Websites of Designers on Twitter

25 One Page Portfolio Websites of Designers on Twitter | The Design Cubicle: "One page portfolio have become increasingly popular among graphic and web designers as a means to simply navagation by introducing their business and services, display contact information and showcase their work all on a one successful single page portfolio website."

Graphical Python Programming With PyGTK

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Graphical Python Programming With PyGTK - Making a Push Button: "Whitespaces and formatting are meaningful in Python, so the code is posted both inline in this article, and on a separate page which is linked at the bottom."

Ubuntu Tip:How to Add Date And Time To Your Bash History

Ubuntu Tip:How to Add Date And Time To Your Bash History | Ubuntu Geek: "This is very useful tip if there are multiple people maintaining or using ubuntu desktop,server or even if you are the maintainer, but can’t remember exactly when you did or changed something."

JSF 2 fu, Part 1: Streamline Web application development

JSF 2 fu, Part 1: Streamline Web application development: "With version 2.0, Java™Server Faces (JSF) makes it easy to implement robust, Ajaxified Web applications. This article launches a three-part series by JSF 2.0 Expert Group member David Geary showing you how to take advantage of the new features in JSF 2. In this installment, you'll learn how to streamline development with JSF 2 by replacing XML configuration with annotations and convention, simplifying navigation, and easily accessing resources. And you'll see how to use Groovy in your JSF applications."

Beautiful Creatures Underneath The Sea

Beautiful Creatures Underneath The Sea | WireSmash: "We know that there are creatues in our world that we will never be able to see them live in person. So i posted a pictures of beautiful creatures that live very deep under the sea"

Game over for Linux netbooks?

Game over for Linux netbooks?: "A well-known Linux analyst has published a blog saying that Linux is failing in the once-promising netbook market. Bill Weinberg's blog in LinuxPundit paints a bleak picture for Linux on netbooks this year, while a CNET story suggests that netbooks in general are seeing high returns."

Field: Experimental Programming IDE

Field: Experimental Programming IDE | Digital Tools: "MIT Media Lab staff (the Open Ended Group) is working on a new kind of programming tool called Field. It connects everything. Not only various programming modules and components, but also different styles of generating, editing and testing code are provided. For example textual coding with auto-complete, visual coding, timelines, live-coding, flow-management etc."

Pattern matching in Python

Pattern matching in Python: "Pattern matching is most powerful when it enjoys first-class support in a language. In addition to succinct syntax, this affords you the ability to integrate pattern matchers with control constructs, allowing conditional execution of code based on various patterns. It also may give you a degree of composability not possible otherwise. For example, Erlang has not only a case statement, but allows for clauses in functions, so that pattern matching is done on the arguments of functions with the same name and arity."

Monitor Bandwidth Usage with vnStat

Monitor Bandwidth Usage with vnStat - Linux Magazine Online: "In these days of bandwidth caps and pay-per-kilobyte rates, keeping an eye on your bandwidth usage makes a lot of sense. While there is no lack of bandwidth monitoring utilities, vnStat stands out from the crowd thanks to its ability to store monitoring data in a database and resume monitoring automatically on reboot. This means that once installed and configured, vnStat quietly monitors a specified network interface and saves the collected data. You can then use vnStat's command parameters to view detailed reports of your bandwidth usage."

Google Answers the Twitter Threat With Time-Based Search Options

Google Answers the Twitter Threat With Time-Based Search Options: "Google (Google reviews) has just made search a lot more useful, and real-time search offerings (i.e. Twitter Search, OneRiot, and Tweetmeme) are about to feel the power of the Google juggernaut. Why? Because of the release of Google Search Options, a new Google search feature that provides the user the ability to drill down search results by recency, content type, and more."

How to Learn a Little Every Day

How to Learn a Little Every Day - Dumb Little Man: "Something can be said for knowing a little bit about a lot of things. Being an everyman or everywoman can propel you to a more efficient, productive and fulfilled personal and professional life. Whether it’s keeping up on current events, a new hobby or interest or simply any new idea, taking a small amount of time to learn something every day is a great way to add to your personal knowledgebase."

Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software

InformIT: Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software > Office and Productivity Software: "Before you pay another cent to Microsoft or another software publisher, read this article by Eric Geier to discover whether you can use a free open source application instead. Just about every commercial app you use on a daily basis will have an open source alternative, whether you use Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux."

Fun Hacks and Cool JavaScript

YouTube - Ben Lisbakken - Fun Hacks and Cool JavaScript: "In this session, learn advanced Javascript, why App Engine is so easy to develop on, protecting from XSRF vulnerabilities, cutting the load time of your app in half, and hear about general client-side web app techniques. These lessons are taught in the context of the design and development of the AJAX API Playground (http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playgr ound/), a tool which can help developers learn about and experiment with many of Google's APIs."

Before and after: lisa and todd’s pdx bungalow

Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » before and after: lisa and todd’s pdx bungalow: "when describing my reaction to lisa and todd’s portland home makeover, the words “shocked”, “overwhelmed” and “amazed” definitely apply. prior to purchasing their new home, lisa and todd’s bungalow was occupied by various squatters and approximately 50 cats. lisa said, “…the smell was so bad people had to cross to the other side of the street when they came near the house.” when they foreclosed on the house and it was time to gut everything, it took 10 industrial sized dumpsters to clean out all the trash and junk (there was so much garbage that there was only a small walkway to each room just big enough for a body to fit)."

The Hidden Costs of Not Planning for Disasters

InformIT: The Hidden Costs of Not Planning for Disasters > Loss of Customer Confidence: "During these trying financial times, are you having trouble obtaining money for your disaster recovery plan? It might be high time to refine your approach. Leo A. Wrobel and Sharon M. Wrobel, specialists in disaster recovery and business resumption planning, explain how to help your executives focus on the true costs involved in failing to plan."

An Introduction to Concurrent Java Programming

InformIT: An Introduction to Concurrent Java Programming > Why Concurrent Programming?: "Are you afraid of concurrent Java programming? Do the words 'thread of execution' conjure up unpleasant images? Well, there's no need to fear. The java.util.concurrent package contains some really useful classes that are flexible, lightweight, and fully tested, so there's no need to roll your own concurrent code. Stephen Morris provides an easy on-ramp to this often-neglected coding area."

12 Worthy Alternative Browsers for Linux

12 Worthy Alternative Browsers for Linux | MakeUseOf.com: "Even though Firefox is the default browser in most Linux distro, that doesn’t mean you have to confine yourselves to Firefox. While I love Firefox for its user friendliness and its marvelous library of extensions, there are times where I hate it when it becomes a memory hogs and causes my computer to crash."

Introduction to Android development

Introduction to Android development: "Android is a complete operating environment based upon the Linux® V2.6 kernel. Initially, the deployment target for Android was the mobile-phone arena, including smart phones and lower-cost flip-phone devices. However, Android's full range of computing services and rich functional support have the potential to extend beyond the mobile-phone market. Android can be useful for other platforms and applications. In this article, get an introduction to the Android platform and learn how to code a basic Android application."

Modern Fossils

Christopher Locke's Heartless Machine - Modern Fossils: "These are modern fossils. They are made from actual archaic technology that was once cutting-edge. Most of these examples were discovered in the United States, although the various species are represented all over the world. It is sad, but most of these units lived very short lives. Most people attribute the shortened lifespan to aggressive predators or accelerated evolution, but this is not necessarily true. It has been shown recently that the true demise of most of these specimens came from runaway consumerism and wastefulness at the high end of the food chain."

Facebook Under Fire for Allowing Holocaust Deniers

Facebook Under Fire for Allowing Holocaust Deniers - ABC News: "So when the 25-year-old student from Portland, Ore. heard that the social networking site was under pressure to ban Holocaust denial groups, he decided to join one.

Now, he's one of 39 Facebook users listed as members of the group 'Holocaust: A Series of Lies,' a community for those who, like Hodroj, do not believe that the genocide of about 6 million Jews during World War II ever took place."

3-D modeling with SketchUp and Eclipse, Part 2: Coding with the SketchUp scripting language

3-D modeling with SketchUp and Eclipse, Part 2: Coding with the SketchUp scripting language: "Scripts allow you to add automation, animation, and geometric computation to your SketchUp designs. With the right code, SketchUp can become a rendering tool like Maya or a mechanical design tool like AutoCAD. This article, the second in a two-part '3-D modeling with SketchUp and Eclipse' series, describes a number of the basic classes used in SketchUp scripts and provides examples of their usage. With these classes, you can construct any 3-D figure composed of line segments and faces. Then you can configure the appearance of each face with colors and images."

KPhotoAlbum for Linux

KPhotoAlbum : Home: "If you are like me you have hundreds or even thousands of images ever since you got your first camera, some taken with a normal camera other with a digital camera. Through all the years you believed that until eternity you would be able to remember the story behind every single picture, you would be able to remember the names of all the persons on your images, and you would be able to remember the exact date of every single image."

Getting a Jump-Start with IronPython

Getting a Jump-Start with IronPython: "As a .NET developer, you’ve probably heard IronPython mentioned in a blog post or an article, but do you know what it is? IronPython is Microsoft’s implementation of the Python language. Python is known for readability and its’ proponents claim that applications written with Python are done faster, use fewer lines of code and are more maintainable than those written using more traditional languages. The great thing about IronPython is that you get the advantages of the language, while being able to leverage your knowledge of the .NET framework. In this article by Darrell Hawley, we will cover a few basic aspects of IronPython and use them to create a Windows Form."

Art on a napkin

Simon Schubert: "2d pictures by folding pieces of paper."

Sweet Georgia Brown & tractor (edited version)

YouTube - Sweet Georgia Brown & tractor (edited version): "Forget the metronome, use a tractor!"

Repair Damaged Walls with this INGENIOUS Trick of the Trade

Repair Damaged Walls with this INGENIOUS Trick of the Trade » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: drywall, repair, drywall_repair, walls: "This is one of the best DIY tips I've ever come across. In the video below, a pro shows us how to easily patch holes in drywall without nails, tape, wood or ANY backing material whatsoever. To give it a go yourself, all you need is a scrap of drywall and some compound. Ingenious!"

YouTube - Snatch Wars (Snatch Vs Star Wars)

YouTube - Snatch Wars (Snatch Vs Star Wars): "Meet Brick Vader, London's Lord of the Sith. The world of Guy Ritchie's Snatch and Star Wars collide on the Eastend of the Death Star. Goody gumdrops! Enjoy it or we'll cut your f**kin' jacobs off."

Reverse engineering a pager - part I

Reverse engineering a pager - part I « adafruit industries blog: "It’s Friday night at Adafruit, usually that means we take apart something… Here’s part I of reverse engineering a pager ("

Is the Linux Foundation Our NRA?

Is the Linux Foundation Our NRA?: "I wonder if the Linux Foundation is prepared to go to task for us, the Linux users, the Linux supporters, the Linux developers and the Linux Foundation members? I wonder if they are our National Rifle Association (NRA)? I wonder if the Linux Foundation is prepared to meet the challenges of the future for Linux as it transforms and conforms into something totally new (GNU?)."

Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow

Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow - O'Reilly Radar: "I am never more painfully reminded of the limits of symmetric “friend”-based social networks than I am when I post a book review on Goodreads. I love books, and I love spreading the word about ones I enjoy (as well as ones I expected to enjoy, but didn’t quite). Most of the time, my reviews go out quietly to a small group of friends, whose book recommendations I also follow. It’s a lovely social network"

Meet The Man (BUM) Behind Digg.com

Meet The Man Behind Digg.com | NBC Los Angeles: "Adelson contended that Digg has a hundred thousand highly engaged users, and Corcoran pressed Adelson on the value issue, and the CEO stated 'advertising works for us,' but noted that he doesn't have to limit his monetization to selling banner ads. Digg is in talks with companies like The New York Times to discuss ways to better analyze --and presumably, monetize -- the firehose of traffic going out from its home page."

JavaScript is a Real Language

PaulBarry.com - This Just In: JavaScript is a Real Language: "Some people think of JavaScript as that crappy language that runs inside of browsers. The truth is that the languages is not that bad, aside from a few warts (void/explicit return, global by default I'm looking at you), it's pretty nice. I think it's gotten a bad wrap for a few reasons."

Why Bandwidth is Cheap Downtown

T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer: Why Bandwidth is Cheap Downtown: "Are you looking to expand your business bandwidth at bargain prices? Then go downtown. You'll find more competition and lower prices in the heart of the city than anywhere else. Well, if you can't afford to move there for the outstanding bandwidth pricing, I do have an alternative that's just as good for many companies."

Alternatives to Windows, Mac, Linux and online applications

Alternatives to Windows, Mac, Linux and online applications | AlternativeTo.net: "AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you suggestions on great alternatives! Instead of listing thousands of more or less crappy applications in a category, we make each application into a category. Think of it like forever evolving blog posts about good alternatives to the software that you're not satisfied with. And the 'blog posts' are generated by you through suggestions, comments and votes."

The longcat humor compilation

The longcat humor compilation | WireSmash: "You all probably haven seen the original picture of the cute funny looking longcat that was on the internet and made quite a buzz.But here is a compilation of the humor buzz and it shows what people came up with and what can photoshop do these days. Just relax and laugh and enjoy!!!"

10 Cool Murphy Beds for Decorating Smaller Rooms

10 Cool Murphy Beds for Decorating Smaller Rooms: "When it comes to being truly space conscious, Murphy beds do a great job in conserving precious space. In 10 Cool Murphy Beds for Decorating Smaller Rooms we set out to highlight different models that may work in your particular space. Challenges in space decorating can start with a spare bedroom, a college dormitory, or even a first apartment. Whatever the need, we realize that smaller square footage footprints are becoming more common in housing. Now the good news is that needs drive new technology and innovation which brings forth designs we perhaps have not seen in the past."

Drink-Slinging Droid

Drink-Slinging Droid | Popular Science: "A robot that tends bar like a pro (and never needs a tip)"

DIY: A Newspaper Baler, Updated from the Archives

PopSci DIY: A Newspaper Baler, Updated from the Archives | Popular Science: "Streamline your environmentalism with this easy and inexpensive project"

Last Dance with the Shuttle: What's in Store for the Final Hubble Servicing Mission

Last Dance with the Shuttle: What's in Store for the Final Hubble Servicing Mission: Scientific American: "Last month marked the 19th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, an orbiting observatory that has become a household name and a linchpin of astronomical science. The telescope has proved remarkably resilient, enduring numerous glitches over the years—from a flawed primary mirror at deployment to a serious electronic failure this past September. Each time, Hubble has held on until astronauts arrived to perform repairs, an operation that is about to take place for the final time by a shuttle crew."

Fluid Sculpture

Fluid Sculpture on Vimeo: "This is a small prototype of what I'll be showing at the 2009 Maker Faire, May 30-31st in San Mateo."

10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners

10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners | LinuxHaxor.net: "This is the first part of the series, in the near future we will have a list for “Intermediate and Advanced Linux Users” and “Linux System Administrators”. If you have any suggestions feel free to share them with us in the comments."

Digital Receipts

ECE 4760 Digital Receipts Lab Report: "Our final project is a conceptual prototype of a digital receipt system. The basic idea is when making a purchase with a credit or ATM card, the transaction information is automatically packaged and sent to a webserver where it can be logged in a database. A web interface would then allow consumers to log into their accounts and view their transactions online all in one place."

Build a Facebook application with Zend Framework

Madarco DevBlog » Blog Archive » Build a Facebook application with Zend Framework: "I've just finished a Facebook game, so here a quick tutorial on how to use Zend Framework to build a Facebook Application."

pykeylogger

SourceForge.net: pykeylogger » home: "PyKeylogger is a free open source keylogger written in the python programming language, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. I threw it together one day after not being able to find a simple and trustworthy (as measured by the availability of source code) keylogger for windows, and it sort of snowballed from there. It is currently available for Windows (NT/2000 and up), and Linux (using Xlib, so won't work on the console)."

19 Impressive Online Image Editors

19 Impressive Online Image Editors: "Image editors can cost you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, and some of them (not mentioning any names!) are notorious for being resource hogs. What’s a budget-conscious web designer to do?"

HOW TO: Use Twitter for Customer Service

HOW TO: Use Twitter for Customer Service: "Customer service can evoke some serious misgivings or negative emotions. Although customer support is designed to help the consumer, the pain of waiting for a phone representative and the impersonal emails can cause more damage than good for a brand. People are turned off by the term and companies have begun to use different terminology to describe their efforts."

Coding Horror: Pseudocode or Code?

Coding Horror: Pseudocode or Code?: "Although I'm a huge fan of Code Complete -- it is my single most recommended programming book for good reason -- there are chapters in it that I haven't been able to digest, even after 16 years.

One of those chapters describes something called the Pseudocode Programming Process. And on paper, at least, it sounds quite sensible. Before writing a routine, you describe what that routine should do in plain English. So if we we set out to write an error handling lookup routine, we'd first write it in pseudocode:"

How to Hack Together a Twitter Client

OPEN Forum by American Express OPEN | | How to Hack Together a Twitter Client: "Sometimes you can make do with what’s available. Take, for example, Twitter clients. Until someone creates my fantasy Twitter client, I am using an application that doesn’t have “Tw” anywhere in its name or heritage. It’s called NetNewsWire."

psp-3000 hacked: one small step for hackers, one giant step for homebrew

psp-3000 hacked: one small step for hackers, one giant step for homebrew on [technabob]: "And so it has come to pass: a group of developers calling themselves Team Typhoon recently achieved a breakthrough in hacking the PSP-3000 via member Davee’s ChickHEN Homebrew Enabler. As proof, a Team Typhoon member posted a video of ChickHEN at work on YouTube, adding, “This proves that the code survives a reboot and the system software and MAC address can be changed.”"

Tips For Taking Great Macro Photography

Tips For Taking Great Macro Photography | digital cameras shout!: "The term macro photography is a situation whereby you get up close and personal with your subject. True macro photography is working on approximately 1:1 ratios or closer. This produces an image that is true to the size or much larger than the subject being photographed. It is easy to get confused with this type of photography in terms of what is considered really macro. Normally macro photography ranges from life size 1:1 up to ten times enlargement 10:1, which is believed to be the exact definition of macro photography."

An unthinking programmer's guide to the new C++

An unthinking programmer's guide to the new C++ • The Register: "So what's all this about a new C++ standard, Verity?"

Using PC and Mac Interchangeably

Using PC and Mac Interchangeably - WSJ.com: "There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions about them, and we aim to help."

Get an Eee PC 1000HA Netbook for $290 shipped

Get an Eee PC 1000HA Netbook for $290 shipped | The Cheapskate - CNET News: "The Asus Eee PC 1000HA is widely regarded as one of the best Netbooks on the planet, if not the best. Most vendors sell it for $350 and up, but ZipZoomFly has the Eee PC 1000HA-BLK026X for $289.99."

Dell May Be Working On Android Netbook

Dell May Be Working On Android Netbook -- Android PC -- InformationWeek: "Dell shipping an Android netbook would give a significant boost to the Google-inspired OS and could encourage other computer makers to follow."

20 Beginner Tips for Taking Digital Photography

20 Beginner Tips for Taking Digital Photography | digital cameras shout!: "Digital cameras are one of the greatest inventions of modern times. We are so fortunate to have this modern convenience called Digital Photography. To be able to capture a precious moment or beautiful scene at the click of a button, is something we should not take for granted."

Programming Twittering with Visual Basic

Programming Twittering with Visual Basic: "Twitter provides a unique communications platform. I like to think of it as a massively multi-player text messaging platform. The basic concept has three main actors: statuses (messages), followers (people who follow other people) and followees (people who are followed). Data basically flows like this: people post statuses, which are persisted into the sender's Twitter feed and replicated into their followers' Twitter feeds."

Vizio Takes Top North American LCD-TV Sales Slot

Article - WSJ.com: "Between January and March, the company surged past Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. (SSNHY) to become the leading North American seller of LCD-TVs, iSuppli reports."

Star Trek looks to enter new box-office galaxy

Star Trek looks to enter new box-office galaxy | Reuters: "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 'Star Trek' debuts in movie theaters on Thursday backed by huge hype, but whether the film based on a 43-year-old franchise can win young fans and big box office returns has industry watchers scratching their heads."

Why Twitter Matters for News

Tim O'Reilly - Why Twitter Matters for News - O'Reilly Radar: "Twitter has been used for a lot of different purposes, and one has been to report breaking news. But there's been some criticism of how Twitter deals with news, such as the Swine Flu outbreak. With that in mind, O'Reilly Week in Review talked to Tim O'Reilly himself, co-author of the new Twitter Book, about the role of Twitter in informing the public."

BlenRig 3.0 Alpha is out with Muscle Simulation

BlenRig 3.0 Alpha is out with Muscle Simulation at BlenderNation: "One of the main features of BlenRig 3.0 is it´s muscle simulation system based on Shrinkwrap. Check it out on my site, there are some pictures there, a short testing video and more info. The rig is available at the downloads section."

Facebook Connect Now Live On Digg

Facebook Connect Now Live On Digg - washingtonpost.com: "Digg has done a lot of talking about integrating Facebook Connect, but not much in the way of actual implementing. That changes today, we've heard from a source close to the company, and Digg will go live with the service some time today. Facebook gets another big name partner on its increasingly popular Facebook Connect platform."

Windows 7 Eases PC-To-PC File Transfers

Windows 7 Eases PC-To-PC File Transfers -- InformationWeek: "Microsoft's new OS makes it simpler to move apps and settings from one system to another."

Connect a Dodge Viper to your computer

Connect a Dodge Viper to your computer | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews: "Still sleep in a race car bed? Then Road Mice is for you. These mice are faithful replicas of cars such as the Chevy Corvette and Ford Mustang. The company behind Road Mice, Four Door Media, just announced three new models, the Dodge Viper, Chrysler PT Cruiser, and Chrysler 300C. Considering the financial threats to Chrysler's existence, those models might not be around long as actual cars, so the mice may prove to be collectors' items."

Snake Stroller Joins Google Earth Wonders

Snake Stroller Joins Google Earth Wonders - ABC News: "A few weeks ago, ABCNews.com went to the ends of Google Earth (and Google Maps, too) to explore some of the most interesting images left behind by pranksters, artists, Mother Nature and everyday people.

Some of the discoveries are real, others seem more like wishful thinking. Regardless, millions of Google Earth prospectors mine reams of satellite and aerial images to find the best ones."

Google Seeking Solution to Blogger FTP Woes

Google Seeking Solution to Blogger FTP Woes - Business Center - PC World: "People and organizations who host their Blogger blogs outside of Google have experienced technical problems with the service's FTP publishing functionality, prompting Google to apologize."

How to Punch

How to Punch - Men's Fitness: "OK, tough guy, you think you know how to throw down? You could probably use a few tips on how to punch with maximum power. Here they are, courtesy of Ross Enamait, a boxing trainer and former boxer in Vernon, Conn."

Debunking 10 Myths About Dieting

You Can Eat After 8 P.M. - Debunking 10 Myths About Dieting - TIME: "It doesn't matter what time of day you eat. It is what and how much you eat and how much physical activity you do during the whole day that determines whether you gain, lose, or maintain your weight. No matter when you eat, your body will store extra calories as fat. If you want a snack before bedtime, think first about how many calories you've eaten that day."

Access Your Apps and Docs Remotely with FreeNX

Access Your Apps and Docs Remotely with FreeNX - Linux Magazine Online: "The ability to control your primary machine remotely can come in rather handy when you need to access your documents and applications using your netbook or laptop. While you might be tempted to go with a solution based on the popular VNC protocol, you should keep in mind that it has two serious limitations: it's both insecure and slow. A much better solution is to use the FreeNX server and an NX client, which offers a secure connection that works well even with a slow modem link -- a boon for users on the move."

Strategies for keeping your job

Strategies for keeping your job - May. 5, 2009: "Forget boasting and flattery. If you want to avoid getting laid off, right now it's all about the money."

How to Grow New Organs

How to Grow New Organs: Scientific American: "When two of us (Langer and Vacanti) last wrote in this magazine 10 years ago about prospects for tissue engineering, the very idea that living flesh could be “constructed” by following engineering principles and combining nonliving materials with cells sounded fantastical to many. Yet the need for such transplantable human tissues to replace, restore or enhance organ function was, and remains, urgent. Today nearly 50 million people in the U.S. are alive because of various forms of artificial organ therapy, and one in every five people older than 65 in developed nations is very likely to benefit from organ replacement technology during the remainder of their lives."

User Personalization with PHP

User Personalization with PHP: Home Page: "In this article, we will be looking at the home page of the application. This is the first page that the user will see after they have gone through the authentication process. The page will provide links and access to the rest of the application, except the admin section."

Facebook Marketing: Targeting Your Profile

InformIT: Facebook Marketing: Targeting Your Profile > Welcome to Facebook Marketing: "Award winning technical writer Steve Holzner explains the basics of Facebook marketing, including an overview of Facebook, how to sign up, and understanding your profile."

Programming in python: Create a popup bookmarklet

Programming in python: Create a popup bookmarklet: "Create a popup bookmarklet from some html content."

Indiana Jones Would Whip Han Solo's Wookie

Indiana Jones Would Whip Han Solo's Wookie | NBC Miami: "The show is being co-produced by “Heroes” star Milo Ventimiglia, who bills “Ultradome” as a special effects-laden exercise in determining such pressing questions of our time as whether Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones could beat Harrison Ford as Han Solo."

60 Beautiful Ubuntu Desktop Wallpapers

60 Beautiful Ubuntu Desktop Wallpapers | Wallpapers: "We’ve previously showcased some really nice Mac wallpapers and Windows wallpapers. This time around we want to give Ubuntu a try. This following entry is dedicated to all you Ubuntu users. We figured you could wear it proud and for starters, a nice Ubuntu wallpaper on the desktop."

Twittl: The Love Child of Digg and Twitter

Twittl: The Love Child of Digg and Twitter: "Twittl is an interesting idea that probably won’t work. It’s a DiggDigg reviewsDigg reviews-like site, where users can upvote and comment…tweets. Why would you want to rate tweets, you wonder? Well, tweets are often links to interesting stuff: articles, top lists, images and so forth."

Tweetmeme Is Getting Freakin' Awesome

Tweetmeme Is Getting Freakin' Awesome - washingtonpost.com: "Tweetmeme is on a tear. According to Compete, the Twitter-centric link tracker went from nowhere in February, 2009 (with 26,000 unique visitors) to more than tenfold increase in March (to 385,000 uniques). Nick Halstead, The CEO of UK-based Fav.or.it, the company behind Tweetmeme, tells me he is tracking closer to 200,000 uniques a month based on yesterday's visitors, but that he is adding 50 percent a week. Tweetmeme seems to be pulling way ahead of the other Twitter link sites such as Twitturly or Twit Links. Any way you slice it, Tweetmeme is doing something right."

Mind-controlled prototype wheelchair

Mind-controlled prototype wheelchair is awesome - SlipperyBrick.com: "This awesome mind-controlled wheelchair prototype has been developed at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. As you might expect, it uses an EEG cap worn on the head, a P300 neurophysiological protocol and automated navigation."

Funny Venns Diagrams

Venns - a set on Flickr: "Venn diagrams to fight off boredom. Or mental inactivity. God knows a quiet moment would be terrifying."