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 testi