Buck Up Chinny: tweet-a-w/e using Asus wl-520gu and Xbee

Buck Up Chinny: tweet-a-w/e using Asus wl-520gu and Xbee: "A few of the geeks that I stalk follow on twitter have done some interesting things with the Asus wl-520gu wireless router. Jeff Keyzer of mightyOhm has a real nice series on using the router where he builds an open source wireless streaming internet radio receiver. He walks you step-by-step on why he chose the wl-520gu, how to load OpenWrt, adding a serial port header, and even interfacing it to an Atmel ATmega168 AVR microcontroller to drive an LCD. Very nice, thanks Jeff."

Twitter post leads to lawsuit

Twitter post leads to lawsuit: "The tweet has been circulated around the world as major news outlets, technology journalists and bloggers report on the lawsuit. And Twitter users have been reposting the original message, along with more vitriol against Horizon."

The Future of PG-13 Animation May Not Be PG

The Future of PG-13 Animation May Not Be PG: "At Comic-Con on Saturday, writers of such popular animations as 'Wonder Woman', 'Robot Chicken', and 'Justice League: New Frontier' spoke candidly about their frustrations with ratings-distorting content and gave a sneak peek at the future of animation."

A Katamari Damaci Wedding

This surely takes the wedding cake of all gaming weddings!

F-Secure: Chinese firms write world's first SMS worm

F-Secure: Chinese firms write world's first SMS worm - Network World: "'The worm is the first text message worm in history,' said Chia Wing Fei, security response senior manager at F-Secure. 'Our labs have received few confirmed reports from China and Middle East at the moment.'"

Mozilla starts preparing developers for Firefox 3.6

Mozilla starts preparing developers for Firefox 3.6 | Business Tech - CNET News: "Brace yourself for the vanishing menu bar because Mozilla has published an official feature list for Firefox 3.6 in the form of a guide for programmers who need to know about the changes."

Linux Foundation Debuts Linux-Branded Affinity Visa

NewsFactor Network | Linux Foundation Debuts Linux-Branded Affinity Visa: "Linux Foundation Introduces Linux-Branded Affinity Visa Platinum� Credit Card -- 100% of proceeds will go directly to open source community activities and members"

Ballmer: larger threat from Apple, Linux

Electronista | Ballmer: larger threat from Apple, Linux: "Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer today told those gathered at his company's financial analyst meeting that he fully anticipates stiffer competition, particularly from incumbent rivals like Apple, Linux and evetually Chrome OS. He contended that it was only natural for an OS as dominant as Windows to face a threat and maintained that Microsoft 'deserves competition' to remain healthy. In spite of particular inroads by Apple, Microsoft's devotion to improving its OS for Windows 7 would keep it afloat."

FAQ: Data shows overseas shift for U.S. IT jobs

FAQ: Data shows overseas shift for U.S. IT jobs: "This chart shows the shift in offshore headcount for 12 companies between 2006 and 2008. (Blue indicates the percentage of jobs outside the U.S.) The Indian firms, represented by the five companies to the right, have the bulk of their workers overseas. But U.S. IT services firms (shown on the left) have been gradually closing the gap. Source: Everest Group Inc."

Modern Networking Tactics for the College Student

Modern Networking Tactics for the College Student - Dumb Little Man: "It’s not what you know it’s who you know. These common words of wisdom hold especially true in today’s world where even the best and the brightest graduates have difficulty landing a job. In this economy, networking, more than education or job experience, is the key to professional success."

Two Questions to Help You Gain Perspective

Two Questions to Help You Gain Perspective: "What do near-fatal incidents, self reflection and death all have in common? They all, for me at least, help to put life into perspective. Each of these offers a different view point, for example a close encounter might help us to realise what really matters to us and what isn’t worth the stress. Similarly, self reflection can help us see where we may be wasting time or opportunities and how we can improve on that."

Building a Facebook Application: Part 1

Building a Facebook Application: Part 1: "The first part will cover the concepts of developing a simple Facebook application and also the way to write the Facebook profile."

Creating an Atom feed in PHP

Creating an Atom feed in PHP: "Atom is an XML specification that identifies information contained in a Web site. Using Atom, Web developers produce feeds that enable other Web developers (or consumers who use feed readers) to quickly locate and view information of interest on a remote site. Think of it as a Web site's index, available to anyone who wants it. Using PHP, a popular language of choice for most host providers, a Web developer can easily produce an Atom feed that can then be made available to the various feed readers and other Web developers. The ultimate result is a state-of-the-art information solution that enables the Web content to reach a much wider audience."

How to hijack 'every iPhone in the world'

How to hijack 'every iPhone in the world' - Yahoo! Finance: "If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly."

Bioshock Belt Buckle in Bronze

Bioshock Belt Buckle in Bronze: "You can make anything and you can make anything AWESOME with CNC machining. In this ible I'm going to demonstrate how I created these steampunk bronze Bioshock belt buckles from start to finish using Photoshop, Solidworks, DeskProto, and the Tormach 4-axis milling machine at TechShop. There's also good info here about silicone casting, getting custom metal work done, and how to give metal an antique 'dredged from the bottom of the sea' look."

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MySQL startup targets SSDs

MySQL startup targets SSDs • The Register: "Start-up Hexagram 49 has unveiled an engine dubbed RethinkDB. The company says it's optimized for SSDs, claiming it can deliver performance ten times faster than existing databases."

Extraordinary Uses for Shampoo

Extraordinary Uses for Shampoo | Life Hackery: "Shampoo is the solution you can rely on for total haircare. Through its foamy base, it collects dirt and dandruff from your hair and scalp, giving your locks a nice healthy shine. The funny thing is, haircare only takes a fraction of the solution’s uses. Shampoo’s base and formulation give it a handful of alternative uses, all of which make the solution a handy item to have."

Weird Vending Machines From Around the World

Weird Vending Machines From Around the World at WomansDay.com: "These days, with a pocket of change (or a credit card), an interested buyer can score a lot more than a can of soda from a vending machine. Eliminating the inconvenience of register lines and adapting to the needs of the modern, on-the-go shopper, most of the concepts below have taken off as successful franchises. As much as people might not like to admit their tendencies toward immediate gratification—sans the salesperson hassle—it can no longer be denied. The proof is in these ingenious dispensers."

7 Great VoIP Alternatives To Skype

7 Great VoIP Alternatives To Skype - Dumb Little Man: "Skype is one of the most widely used VoIP service providers for computer based communication in the world. The success of VoIP has taken the world by storm and most likely given many telephone providers a run for their money due to their great pricing structures."

Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: July 2009

Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: July 2009 : Introduction - Review Tom's Hardware: "If you don’t have the time to research the benchmarks or if you don’t feel confident enough in your ability to pick the right CPU, fear not. We at Tom’s Hardware have come to your aid with a simple list of the best gaming CPUs offered for the money."

Cheerleader sues school, coach after illicit Facebook log-in

Cheerleader sues school, coach after illicit Facebook log-in - Ars Technica: "A high school cheerleader claims a coach forced her to give up her Facebook account login information, only to see her account's contents shared widely with school officials, resulting in extensive disciplinary action. She's now suing everyone involved."

HadoopDB: An Open Source Parallel Database

HadoopDB: An Open Source Parallel Database - O'Reilly Radar: "The growing need to manage and make sense of Big Data, has led to a surge in demand for analytic databases, which many companies are attempting to fill (Teradata, Netezza, Vertica, DATAllegro, Greenplum†, Aster Data, Infobright, Kognitio, Kickfire, Dataupia, ParAccel, Exasol, ...). As an alternative to current shared-nothing analytic databases, HadoopDB is a hybrid that combines parallel databases with scalable and fault-tolerant Hadoop/MapReduce systems."

Linux clusters give Monash Uni a budget supercomputer

Linux clusters give Monash Uni a budget supercomputer - Hardware - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au: "Low cost, reliable clustering has enabled Monash University to deliver supercomputing power to its researchers."

15 Pieces of Furniture to Transform Your Space

15 Pieces of Furniture to Transform Your Space | WebUrbanist: "It’s hard to avoid mentioning the state of the economy these days, but why not make the best of it? Most of us have been downsizing our ways of spending in many different ways, and sometimes our living space can suffer. Here are 15 unique pieces of furniture that will help you upgrade and streamline the place you call home."

Hacker group L0pht makes a comeback, of sorts

Hacker group L0pht makes a comeback, of sorts - Network World: "The news report begins with shots of a tense space shuttle launch. Engineers hunch over computer banks and techno music pounds in the background. There is a countdown, a lift-off, and then you see a young man in a black T-shirt and sunglasses, apparently reporting from space."

'LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues' (ALL) - 6 New Screens

WorthPlaying - Xbox 360 (X360) , PlayStation 3 (PS3), Nintendo Wii, Xbox, PlayStation 2 (PS2), GameCube (NGC), PSP, Nintendo DS (NDS), GBA, Windows PC - All about games !: "LEGO Indiana Jones 2 presents a tongue-in-cheek take on all four cinematic adventures of pop culture’s most iconic archaeologist, including for the first time ever Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and will give players the ability to create levels of their own!"

Best and Worst Fast Food: McDonald's Edition - Fast Food Hacks

Best and Worst Fast Food: McDonald's Edition - Fast Food Hacks - Lifehacker: "No matter how well you plan, every day can't be an ultra-healthy, bring-your-own-lunch-to-work day. But just because you're eating at a fast food place doesn't mean all bets are off. Get to know your options with the healthiest and unhealthiest foods at McDonald's."

Almost all Windows users vulnerable to Flash zero-day attacks

Almost all Windows users vulnerable to Flash zero-day attacks: "The most-current versions of Flash Player -- 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) -- are vulnerable to hackers conducting drive-by attacks hosted on malicious and legitimate-but-compromised sites. Antivirus vendors have reported hundreds, in some cases thousands, of sites launching drive-bys against Flash."

3 Steps to Being Productive in Social Media

3 Steps to Being Productive in Social Media | Kyle Lacy, Social Media - Indianapolis: "Everyone loves social media. That is not the issue. There is really one huge issue that keeps individuals from using social media and that is time. Time can be an ugly thing if you are not productive with the tools and time given to you. How are you productive and manage your time effectively? I use the four-touch point model."

50 Epic Super Nerd Photos

Galleries - 50 Epic Super Nerd Photos - 50 Epic Super Nerd Photos_18: "I'm not a geek anymore!"

How to Make Kool Aid Wine: 12 steps

How to Make Kool Aid Wine: 12 steps - wikiHow: "This is a fun, extremely easy way to make very cheap but drinkable alcohol. It won’t replace a nice beer or wine, but it's perfect for occasions where you need plenty of cheap alcohol. The initial equipment investment is about $5, and ingredients will usually only cost you about $4 for 4L of “wine.” It’s around 8-10% alcohol. A litre translates to $1 for a night - you can’t beat that price in any store! It’s drinkable after about 2 weeks, but improves greatly after 3-4 weeks."

Functions that Create Functions in Powershell

Functions that Create Functions in Powershell | Python Programming: "Since I started using Powershell, I’m very picky about what I let on my path. I feel it’s much cleaner to create aliases or functions rather than letting all kinds of crud creep into my path."

Build a Web presentation application using Ajax technology

Build a Web presentation application using Ajax technology, Part 1: Developing the Web UI: "How does Google Docs put such amazing functionality into a Web application? They leverage Web 2.0 technologies, which provide robust functionality with relatively simple code. In this article, learn how to build a Web application to create slideshow presentations using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) technology."

My Big Stupid (still racist) Country and its Incomprehensibly Stupid Politics

My Big Stupid (still racist) Country and its Incomprehensibly Stupid Politics | Daily Sundial: "The article’s misleading title would lead you to believe President Obama called John McCain a jive turkey cracker or that he gave the Reverend Jeremiah Wright a terrorist fist jab on the White House Lawn while urinating in a United States Flag diaper. This is not exactly what happened."

Top 10 Ubuntu Programs (Redux)

Top 10 Ubuntu Programs (Redux): "Instead of listing programs from every system tab that Ubuntu gives us, I will simply report the good programs that are NOT included in Ubuntu and are worthy of mention."

How To Write When You Think You Can’t

How To Write When You Think You Can’t - Dumb Little Man: "When you have to write something and you feel as if a family of butterflies has taken up residence in your stomach, you aren’t alone. Many people become anxious when they attempt to write. Some get panicky at the sight of the blank page and say they have a writing phobia."

12 Creative Architectural Art Installations & Building Modifications

12 Creative Architectural Art Installations & Building Modifications | WebUrbanist: "When does a building transform from a shell into a work of art within itself? Can artists improve even beautiful architectural wonders, turning them into something more creative and meaningful? Some architectural art installations are done out of necessity because the work is simply too large to be contained. Others use the building to make a political statement, to give value to an abandoned space or simply for the pure joy of it."

Harry Potter and the Office of Unemployment

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Ice Age Enters Record Books

Ice Age Enters Record Books | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation: "A fact that took me by surprise: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is now the fifth-highest grossing animated feature of all-time at the worldwide box office."

Redmond Releases Code to Linux Kernel Community

Redmond Releases Code to Linux Kernel Community - PC World: "Microsoft, which has been at odds with the Linux community over the years because of intellectual property issues, said on Monday it has released 20,000 lines of Linux code to the Linux kernel community."

The Failure of Commercial Open Source Software

The Failure of Commercial Open Source Software - BusinessWeek: "So what happened to open source as a business? There was a wave of “commercial open source” companies that were going to change the world, including SugarCRM, Alfresco, Jasper, Pentaho, and ActiveGrid, a company I started in 2003 to bring open source software into businesses. Each of these companies were going to lower costs with the open source business model and displace existing vendors in categories such as CRM, Document Management, Reporting, and Business Intelligence."

Videogame Makers Can't Dodge Recession

Videogame Makers Can't Dodge Recession - WSJ.com: "The tentacles of the recession have reached into the videogame industry, a business that was long considered downturn-resistant."

The Incredible Shrinking… Comic Con?

Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » The Incredible Shrinking… Comic Con?: "Sadly, where this leaves all of us in the comics world is totally screwed. With a reported waiting list of 300 media/consumer products companies lined up for booth space here at San Diego Comic-Con International, the convention feels absolutely no restraint as regards raising booth rent. What does exist is a totally uneven playing field, where mom-n-pop comics retailers, publishers, and creators are now being asked to pay the same cost per square-foot as the international corporate giants"

6 Modern Technologies Animals Invented Millions of Years Ago

6 Modern Technologies Animals Invented Millions of Years Ago | Cracked.com: "Our species takes a lot of pride in technology, to the point that it's pretty much the one thing we lord over all the others. But maybe we're too quick to pat ourselves on the back; after all, what we still consider cutting edge, some creatures have been doing since before we even came along."

Super Search brings search overkill to Firefox

Super Search brings search overkill to Firefox | Web Crawler - CNET News: "If you're the type of person who uses a lot of search engines and doesn't mind having a toolbar installed, you might want to check out Firefox Super Search. This Firefox-only add-on puts the power of 160 search engines in one toolbar, with about 70 that can be searched right from the toolbar itself."

Yahoo Acquires Gmail Photo Management Add-on Xoopit

Yahoo Acquires Gmail Photo Management Add-on Xoopit - Business Center - PC World: "The team behind the Xoopit social photo management service, first developed as an add-on for Google's Gmail, are joining rival Web mail operator Yahoo, they announced late Wednesday."

WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing

WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing: "This article explains how to get started with three-dimensional drawing in WPF. It shows you how to build scene data, define lights, and use cameras to view a scene. It also shows how to use WPF's data binding and animation capabilities to make a scene move."

Twitter tips from the field

Twitter tips from the field: "Last week I posted several articles about the use of social media sites in general by businesses. This week I want to share the specific tips using Twitter for business, both as a means of promoting a company's brand and also to attract customers."

12 Exciting Ethnic Enclaves & International Districts

12 Exciting Ethnic Enclaves & International Districts | WebUrbanist: "Chinatown, Little Italy… you name the country and it probably has a “little” chip off the block somewhere else. These ethnic enclaves haven’t always had a happy origin but today they serve as showcases for their mother countries’ foods, goods and above all culture. Here are 12 of the world’s most interesting and occasionally unexpected ethnic enclaves."

Mourning the Death of Handwriting

Mourning the Death of Handwriting - TIME: "I can't remember how to write a capital Z in cursive. The rest of my letters are shaky and stiff, my words slanted in all directions. It's not for lack of trying. In grade school I was one of those insufferable girls who used pink pencils and dotted their i's with little circles."

Simplicity Redefined: Be Open to What Emerges

Simplicity Redefined: Be Open to What Emerges: "One of the things we’re told by productivity gurus is that we need to have clearly defined goals or outcomes — the better defined it is, the more likely you’ll achieve it.

And this is true, to some extent. It’s worked for me, when I visualized my goals and set my mind to achieving it, and took small action steps to get there … I achieved my goals."

Declassified Russian Cold War UFO Files More Abyss Than Close Encounters

Declassified Russian Cold War UFO Files More Abyss Than Close Encounters - ufos - Gizmodo: "We know this because on Friday Russia declassified pages and pages of its Cold War UFO sightings. A full 50% of the sightings were in the ocean, and a further 15% were in lakes like Baikal (the world's deepest)."

10 Awesome PuTTY Tips and Tricks You Probably Didn’t Know

10 Awesome PuTTY Tips and Tricks You Probably Didn’t Know: "In this article, let us review 10 awesome native PuTTY tips and tricks that you might have not explored earlier."

Practical Web Programming with the friendfeed API & Google App Engine

Practical Web Programming with the friendfeed API & Google App Engine: "The GAE is definitely worth learning, if Google is going to continue to support it. It’s basically free scalable hosting for your project (with some limitations) and you only pay for bandwidth plus storage needs over the free threshold (~5million pageviews a month). It was rolled out last year with Python support. Just recently they released java support, which enabled Quercus/PHP to work. Incidentally Quercus is much faster than normal php, but I do have an issue (hopefully something I can fix on my end)."

eBook (for free), 3 Steps to Satisfaction

My First eBook (for free), 3 Steps to Satisfaction: "Although a short read (~50pages) the topics covered are based on my discovery of a different way of valuing one’s productivity. When faced with difficulties while working on projects I am passionate about, I see them as welcome challenges to be overcome."

Getting Comfortable With People Who Make You Uncomfortable

Getting Comfortable With People Who Make You Uncomfortable: "If you’re out to create something truly great, you’ll likely need to challenge some widely held — but incorrect — beliefs. Challenging conventional wisdom is much harder than most people realize, and those that do make us uncomfortable. Which is why it’s so important to learn how to identify and embrace people who see the world differently than you do."

Nine Steps To Improve Your Programming Skills

Nine Steps To Improve Your Programming Skills: "To program, you must elicit ideas from other people and share your ideas with them. Sharing ideas comes in many forms: explaining how you did something. Suggesting a new practice for the team. And you cant stop at any point saying that you are a good programmer. You need to keep improving your skills."

Gridnite - the Unite-powered multiuser spreadsheet application

Gridnite - the Unite-powered multiuser spreadsheet application - Opera Developer Community: "In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to build a simple multi-user spreadsheet service in Opera Unite - this great new technology is, after all, about collaboration, and an ideal use case is locally hosted documents that can be collaborated on by multiple users across the Web."

Hubble captures rare Jupiter collision

ESA Portal - Hubble captures rare Jupiter collision: "The checkout and calibration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been interrupted to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. The spot, caused by the impact of a comet or an asteroid, is changing from day to day in the planet’s cloud tops."

A Computer Cracks the Cooperstown Code

A Computer Cracks the Cooperstown Code - WSJ.com: "Now that Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, fans the country over can return to the only thing they like as much as watching games: Arguing over who should join them in Cooperstown. Sadly, machine learning may have just taken much of the steam out of such arguments."

Chinese luxury cars being brought to U.S.

Chinese luxury cars being brought to U.S. - The Globe and Mail: "Bricklin, who plans to sell 250,000 vehicles in the first year, outlined to the dealers last week his plan to offer high-quality Chinese vehicles that 'redefine the price of luxury"

The curious case of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: racism or 'classism'?

The curious case of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: racism or 'classism'? | Midwest Voices: "if you follow the rule that usually the truth is somewhere 'in-between', you could probably come to this conclusion: The good Professor might have acted in a way most of us know NOT to act and the police might have been a little touchy when they arrested him."

The Dark Allure of Film Noir

The Dark Allure of Film Noir | WebUrbanist: "What is Film Noir ? Well basically it’s a cinematic term used to describe a certain type of movie. It’s hard to pin down with absolute precision, because it’s essentially about an instantly recognizable ‘look’ and ‘mood’."

Apple tablet in 2010?

Apple tablet in 2010?: "Rumors that have been swirling about Apple getting into the tablet market are suddenly gathering steam. Now the AppleInsider web site has stated that a, “10-inch, 3G-enabled tablet, akin to a jumbo iPod touch, is the latest brainchild of chief executive Steve Jobs.” The web site goes on to say that this means, “that the (tablet) device, which is expected to retail for somewhere between the cost of a high-end iPhone and Apple's most affordable Mac notebook, is bound to turn up any time between January and March (2010.)”"

DIY Magic Mirror

DIY Magic Mirror: "You supply the PC, monitor, picture frame, and choose which sensors to use. Build the Magic Mirror Sensor Hub yourself by purchasing this hardware and following these instructions or buy one pre-built. Then plug it into a PC USB port and install the DIY Magic Mirror Software."

Three Effective Ways to Enhance Your Willpower

Three Effective Ways to Enhance Your Willpower: "Control yourself!” We all say it, mostly to ourselves. We say it when we ‘indulge’ in behaviors that cause short-term gain for long-term pain. And guilt. I cite many of the usual suspects: eating the wrong things, being lazy, staying up too late, drinking too much. There are others, of course. Why do we do such things? After all, aren’t we entirely in control of ourselves all of the time?"

Mashups: The new breed of Web app

Mashups: The new breed of Web app: "Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0. This introductory article explores what it means to be a mashup, the different classes of popular mashups constructed today, and the enabling technologies that mashup developers leverage to create their applications. Additionally, you'll see many of the emerging technical and social challenges that mashup developers face."

Star Wars AT-AT Imperial Walker Loft Bed

Star Wars AT-AT Imperial Walker Loft Bed: "This is a loft bed I made for my son that resembles an AT-AT Imperial Walker.
I searched the Internet and found scale models, cakes, legos, baby strollers and costumes resembling an AT-AT, but never found a bed that resembled an AT-AT. So I made one.
Since it is made from materials readily available at Home Depot or Lowe's, I thought I would post a video/slide show of photos I took during the build process."

Why I'd rather beleive in god

At least God doesn't TAX me to death.

Bonlebon

P.S. You can create your own BUS sign HERE, have fun!

202 Star Wars T-Shirts [Lists]

  202 Star Wars T-Shirts [Lists] by Hide Your Arms: "I think that you’d be pretty hard pressed to find a series of movies that have gained as much of a following as Star Wars, and as you’d expect that has resulted in a huge amount of t-shirts being produced that reference the films in one way or another. So, being HYA, I thought that I’d better make an unnecessarily large list of them. As always, the t-shirts are not ranked, the numbers are merely there as an illustration so that we all know which is which, so being #1 or #202 means nothing. Some of these tees will be pretty recognisable as they’ve been featured on HYA before, and some were also in the 101 Robots List from last month, but if you know of any I haven’t featured then please let me know in the comments. The list has also been split up into pages to ensure swift loading times (my server may probably wouldn’t like people loading 202 pictures at a time)."

Moviegoers to get sneak peek of 3D Avatar footage

Moviegoers to get sneak peek of 3D Avatar footage | Entertainment | Reuters: "To stoke buzz for the sci-fi flick 'Avatar,' 20th Century Fox will take over as many Imax and 3D screens around the world as it can on August 21 to show 15 minutes of promotional footage, filmmaker James Cameron announced Thursday at the Comic-Con pop culture convention."

Fujifilm unveils world's first 3D digital camera

Fujifilm unveils world's first 3D digital camera - Gadgets: "When it comes to common camera technology in the modern consumer electronics market, hardware and image quality are often gauged upon aspects such as mega-pixels, zoom magnification and a plethora of enhancement tools. However, camera specialist Fujifilm is looking to take imaging to another level with the world’s first digital 3D device."

Top Ten - Shock jobs

Sky Sports | Home | Picks of the day | Top Ten - Shock jobs: "Every now and again certain things happen which appear to be so ridiculously unbelievable that you find yourself questioning whether what you have just seen/read/heard can actually be true, or whether there is a big hoax going on that everyone else has been informed about apart from you."

Human-like Vision Lets Robots Navigate Naturally

Human-like Vision Lets Robots Navigate Naturally: "A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots manoeuvre quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and to help guide the visually impaired."

WoW: Super Mario Theme

YouTube - WoW: Super Mario Theme: "it's Super Mario WoW!"

What Programming Languages Do Jobs Require?

What Programming Languages Do Jobs Require? | Regular Geek: "As a software engineer, you need to keep your skills sharp and current. This is a general requirement of the job. In addition to this, in the current economy you do not want to be without a job. Obviously, this means learning more about what your current company uses for all of its development. What if you do not have a job or you are looking to leave? What technologies or programming languages should you be looking into?"

Wal-Mart beats Best Buy with $298 laptop

Wal-Mart beats Best Buy with $298 laptop | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News: "Starting July 26 (this coming Sunday), Wal-Mart will begin selling a $298 Compaq Presario notebook (CQ60-419WM) with the following specifications: a 15.6-inch display, 3GB of memory, a 160GB hard-disk drive, a CD-DVD drive, and Windows Vista pre-loaded. The laptop will use a 2.10 GHz AMD Sempron SI-42 processor and Nvidia GeForce 8200M graphics."

Not All 500 GB Hard Drives Are Created Equal

Not All 500 GB Hard Drives Are Created Equal : Hard Drive Progress Visualized: Two 500 GB Notebook Drives Compared - Review Tom's Hardware: "When hard disk manufacturers transition from one product generation to the next, they typically introduce the new drives with higher capacities, better performance, lower power consumption, and improved feature sets. However, it becomes more difficult over time for manufacturers to improve their products, as most of the progress happens inside the drive. It turns out that only users who know about the details are able to tell apart outdated products from the latest ones that normally should be preferred."

Linux tip: Creating a pixel ruler from the command line

Linux tip: Creating a pixel ruler from the command line: "Learn how to use the Linux® command line and some basic Bash scripting techniques to draw lines and text on images using ImageMagick. And create a pixel ruler along the way."

Most expensive javascript ever?

Hallvord R. M. Steen - Most expensive javascript ever?: "I've wanted to tell this story for a while, and I don't think I'm spilling any beans or disclosing any sensitive information at this point."

HowStuffWorks "10 Most Dangerous Jobs in America"

HowStuffWorks "10 Most Dangerous Jobs in America": "Before you complain about punching the time clock, read this list for some perspective. Maybe the coffee stinks and you don't like your boss, but at least the threat of death or injury isn't perpetually hanging over your head. The order may change from year to year, but these are typically the most dangerous jobs in America."

Grand Canyon 3-D Tour

Grand Canyon 3-D Tour: "The links below give an end-to-end aerial geologic tour of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Sequencing through them simulates a nearly 300-mile trip starting with Glen Canyon Dam at Page, AZ, and continuing past the Grand Wash Cliffs to Lake Mead."

Javascript Event capture explained

Event capture explained - Opera Developer Community: "Occasionally I have been grumbling about un-intended event capture. Here is a more detailed explanation of the feature and the issues."

How to Plan a Kick-Butt Road Trip

How to Plan a Kick-Butt Road Trip - Dumb Little Man: "Do you have a bad road trip story? Join the club. Almost everyone I meet has one, and the ones that don’t have a bad story haven’t been on a road trip, so they don’t count. How do these vacations go wrong? The idea of the open road seemed so inviting when you said to your family or friends, “Hey, I know! Let’s go on a road trip!”"

DIY Lunar Lander

www.lushprojects.com - Lunar Lander: "I love Apollo era technology - all those banks of gages and switches and lights that flash. Very tactile unlike today's uniform monitors . Thunderbirds and other TV programmes of my childhood created a vision of a technical future that's so much more exciting that what we actually ended up with. For Lunar Lander I wanted to make a game that gives a friendly nod the past and also provides a different kind of entertainment to kids used to the sophistication of modern computer games."

3 Ways to Speed up Your Site with PHP

3 Ways to Speed up Your Site with PHP - Nettuts+: "These days, with broadband connections the norm, we don't need to worry as much about internet speeds or the filesize of our pages. However, that's not to say that we still shouldn't do so. If you wish to reduce the load times on your server, decrease the number of HTTP requests, and go that extra bit for your visitors, there are a few techniques that you can use. This tutorial covers a number of PHP tricks, including caching and compression."

Introduction to Unit Testing

Introduction to Unit Testing - Flashtuts+: "Unit testing is relatively new to ActionScript projects. Although FlexUnit has been around for a while it wasn't intuitive to set up and there were a lot of inconsistencies with the documentation. Lucky for us, FlexUnit is now built into Flash Builder 4. Although the documentation is still sparse, this tutorial will be a good primer for setting up a Test Suite, going over several unit test examples and showing how to run/analyze them."

10 Ways To Make Your Halloween Environmentally-Friendly

10 Ways To Make Your Halloween Environmentally-Friendly | Former Fat Guy Blog: "Here are just a few of the ways (10, to be exact) you can make your Halloween more environmentally friendly, and spend more of that clean-up time in bed. Perfect."

The Tale of the Lazy Architect

The Tale of the Lazy Architect: "Let me tell you a story about a system I worked on. It started as a Big Project for a Big Company, and pretty much snowballed into getting more and more features and requirements as time went by. I started up as the architect and team lead for this project, and I still consider it to be one of the best projects that I worked on and the one that I hold up to compare to others."

XML and PHP Simplified - XML,PHP and the Database

XML and PHP Simplified - XML,PHP and the Database: "In the previous article, we looked at how to use XML with PHP and saw that it was not very different from writing normal PHP procedures to interact with an XML document. Because PHP treats an XML document like a normal file, it is easy to interact with it, even though its structure is complicated. For example to create a XML document, we use the common functions that PHP uses to create files."

Forgot MySQL Root Password – How To Reset It?

Forgot MySQL Root Password – How To Reset It?: "This article explains how to recover mysql root password by setting a new MySQL password when you don’t remember your old one."

10 Ways to Look Good in Photos

10 Ways to Look Good in Photos | Online Savvy | Reader's Digest: "How to put your best face forward and pose like a model."

Apple: 'We can't build a great $399 computer'

Apple: 'We can't build a great $399 computer' | Companies News - Betanews: "Apple has posted its earnings for the third quarter of the 2009 fiscal year, which amounted (once again) to the best non-holiday quarter in Apple's history. The company's revenue grew 12% over last year to a total of $8.34 billion, with a net profit of $1.23 billion."

Google Expert Tips: How to Find Anything Fast

Google Expert Tips: How to Find Anything Fast - PC World: "Google catalogs an immense amount of data from all over the Web. These tools will help you find and organize just what you want, just how you want it."

'Incredible' new scar is spreading on Jupiter

'Incredible' new scar is spreading on Jupiter - Los Angeles Times: "An asteroid or comet plunged into the solar system's largest planet and left a mark that was first spotted Sunday. The event is the first of its kind in 15 years, JPL astronomers say."

A Primer on Roulette: Why Are You Playing This Game?

A Primer on Roulette: Why Are You Playing This Game? | The Art of Manliness: "The other articles in this series will be instructions, guides, tips and cautions. That is not how this article will read. This will be the literary equivalent of one of the more tasteless traffic safety films. Why? Simple. Around the world, even among the wealthy elite of players in the most exclusive European casinos, people play roulette. And around the world, even among the wealthy elite of players in the most exclusive of European casinos, people lose their money playing a game that is nearly by definition un-winnable. So I am not going to teach you any tricks. I am going to explain to you how the game is played, and explain why you can’t win. And if you have any sense, you will never play."

Is FOX Planning to Recast FUTURAMA?

forces of geek: Is FOX Planning to Recast FUTURAMA?: "As excited as I was about the return of Futurama, FOX has once again ruined that experience by their callous actions. According to no less than cast members John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, and Maurice LaMarche on their Facebook pages, a casting notice has gone out to replace actors DiMaggio, LaMarche, Billy West and Katy Sagal."

Augmented Reality Twitter App Looks Awesome. Hope Apple Thinks So Too.

Augmented Reality Twitter App Looks Awesome. Hope Apple Thinks So Too.: "So this a little bit old, but we’re just seeing it after Twitter’s chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury (who came over in the Summize acquisition last year) tweeted about it last week. Check out the video at the bottom of this post for TwittARound, a new augmented reality Twitter app for the iPhone 3GS. It looks pretty damn slick."

Hunt and Peck Keyboard

Hunt and Peck Keyboard | Desktop | Gear: "The perfect (and perfectly logical) computer keyboard for the one-finger typist. If you never took typing and still use the hunt-and-peck method, here's the keyboard for you.
The Hunt and Peck Keyboard($30) has an ABCDEF layout for those who cannot grasp typing at speed. If you want to go back QWERTY then press a button to return to a standard keyboard(QWERTY layout)."

Gentle Safe Cracker

Gentle Safe Cracker | Carlitos' Contraptions: "I found a little safe box in the garbage some time ago and I would really like to open it. The box features some dents and scratches that show some people tried to open it in the past but did not succeed. Also, when shaken, it produces some interesting noises that indicate it is not empty and may contain a valuable treasure some cool junk."

How They Built it: The Software of Apollo 11

How They Built it: The Software of Apollo 11: "When Apollo 11’s Lunar Module landed on the Moon 40 years ago today, the software that helped take humans to another celestial body was essentially built using paper-tape rolls and thick cardstock that was punched with special holes."

Build Wikipedia query forms with semantic technology

Build Wikipedia query forms with semantic technology: "By providing open access to increasing amounts of Linked Data, public SPARQL endpoints are boosting the growth of the Semantic Web by providing great data for you to use in your applications. As with many other data-driven Web sites out there, a Web page can be created by sending a query to these endpoints and then wrapping the results in HTML tags; the big difference for SPARQL endpoints is the public availability of this new data for your applications. This article shows how simple CGI scripting can get data from two different SPARQL endpoints to build applications that answer your user's questions about actors shared between two directors and which musicians have released which albums."

How To Cope When You're Feeling Exhausted

How To Cope When You're Feeling Exhausted - Dumb Little Man: "We all have days (and in some cases, weeks or months) when we just feel exhausted. Just getting out of bed feels like a huge effort, and by the time we’ve stumbled to work, downed a grande-sized triple-strength latte, and switched on the computer, we just want to go back to sleep. Whether the cause is a new baby, a bout of insomnia, a hectic life, or a change in routine, here’s some “do”s and “don’t”s to help you to cope with your exhaustion:"

Google’s Chiller-less Data Center

Google’s Chiller-less Data Center « Data Center Knowledge: "Google (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve its energy efficiency while making local weather forecasting a larger factor in its data center management."

Don't drop the soap

Don't drop the soap (Page 1) - News - Neworder: "You've been framed in a murder of a prominent politician. Since your country doesn't have the death penalty, you've been sentenced to spend the rest of your life in prison, but not just any prison, but the latest tax-dollar-saving addition to the department of correction's arsenal - the circular prison 4000. Now for the riddle:
The prison is very simple: you, the prisoner, are confined to the area of a circle. The perimeter of the circle is patrolled by a vicious guard dog (the dog can walk only on the perimeter of the circle). The dog can run up to 4 times faster than you and it's smart - it will always try to catch you. If you manage to reach the perimeter and the dog isn't there - you immediately escape and get a chance to clear your name.
The question is (of course) how the hell do you escape?"

Supersized burger-spotting

Six in the City - Supersized burger-spotting: "It's more than three feet high, boasting three patties weighing 45 lbs each, with a custom bun, more than a lb of pickles, 10 lbs of tomatoes, two lbs of onion, five lbs of lettuce, five lbs of cheese and two lbs of sauce."

YouTube Experimenting With 3D Web Videos

YouTube Experimenting With 3D Web Videos: "The news site’s Barry Schwartz discovered a recent thread on the YouTube help forum and found out an employee named Pete is experimenting with the 3D viewing feature on his 20% free fiddling time:"

Introduction to Server-side JavaScript

Introduction to Server-side JavaScript: "Although rich web sites and applications have become the norm in recent years, they can still be difficult to develop, maintain, and expand. Many of the challenges stem from the schism between client and server components. Client-side components usually consist of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, JS libraries, images, and whatever other files that are to be downloaded to the browser."

Senior City-zens 2: 10 More Of The World's Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities

Senior City-zens 2: 10 More Of The World's Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities | WebUrbanist: "It takes a village… at first, at least. Whether that village grows into a city depends on many factors; whether it remains inhabited through centuries, even millennia, of war, natural disasters and environmental degradation is another thing altogether. Following up on our original post, here are ten more ancient, still-inhabited cities that have withstood the test of time."

Views, URLs, and Generic Views in Django 1.0

Views, URLs, and Generic Views in Django 1.0: "Many developers new to Django get tripped up on the vocabulary and purpose of different pieces of the system—models, views, generic views, model managers, and so on. With some functions belonging to models and others to views, it can be confusing to know where to put the logic of your applications."

10 Ways To Give Yourself A Procrastination Inoculation

10 Ways To Give Yourself A Procrastination Inoculation: "You know what you need to do. You know why you need to do it. You even know what steps you must take to get it done. But there’s one small problem: you can’t seem to get moving. It’s a common problem. Maybe it’s chronic procrastination or maybe you’re just so overwhelmed that you feel paralyzed. Either way, the task you must complete is just sitting there, gathering metaphorical (or perhaps literal) dust, and growing more ominous by the day."

Is Your Job Costing You A Fortune? Ten Great Ways to Save Money At Work

Is Your Job Costing You A Fortune? Ten Great Ways to Save Money At Work - Dumb Little Man: "Are you trying to cut back on your spending, reduce your debts or increase your savings? A good place to start is by looking at your work-related spending"

Getting to Know Linux: Installing applications in Ubuntu

Getting to Know Linux: Installing applications in Ubuntu: "You have finally managed to get Ubuntu installed and you are up and running. And even though there are tons of new and exciting pieces of software on your hard drive, you still long for more. Never fear, installing applications in Ubuntu is as simple as it gets."

Best Buy lists well-equipped Acer laptop for $299

Best Buy lists well-equipped Acer laptop for $299 | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News: "Though listed among the 'new arrivals' on Best Buy's Web site, it is currently not available at stores or online. But there is anecdotal evidence of its existence. Very-recent user comments indicate that people have purchased the laptop and other stores, such as Wal-Mart Stores and Amazon (which shows it in stock), list it at a higher price."

Relay switch 4 long range remote shooting

Relay switch 4 long range remote shooting - a set on Flickr: "Explaining how to make a relay switch box to trigger my canon eos 5d with walkie talkies.
It works with any camera though!"

d-touch.org d-touch drum machine

d-touch.org d-touch drum machine: "The d-touch drum machine is a drum machine with a tangible user interface: it is controlled by placing and arranging physical objects on an A4 piece of paper, which we call the interactive area. The interactive area is arranged in 11 rows, each row corresponds to a different sound, as indicated by the text labels. The horizontal position of the blocks on the interactive area determines the timing of the sound trigger within the loop."

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II Roller Skating Tour previews this Saturday night

Shelly Smith : Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II Roller Skating Tour previews this Saturday night: "Given that 125,000 people are expected to attend Comic-Con International this week, chances are that at least a few of these folks have never been to a pop culture event quite like this. So they may not know quite what expect once they get to San Diego."

EtherCat controls robots

SemiAccurate :: News for the Everygeek: "IF YOU WANT to control devices that require precise, coordinated movements, protocols like TCP/IP have too much overhead and latency making life difficult or impossible. Luckily, a standard called EtherCat is aimed at fixing all the things that makes TCP/IP unsuitable while still running over low cost 802.3 Ethernet hardware."

Frakkin' Toasters, They're Everywhere

Frakkin' Toasters, They're Everywhere: "Apparently, last week people got all hot and bothered by a new Darth Vader toaster on sale at StarWars.com. Ooo, it burns an image of Vader on the toasts! While the idea of a shiny black Star Wars toaster is pretty neat, please, let us not ignore the fact that it's a blatant attempt to mimic the Battlestar Galactica Cylon toaster that came out last year, which burned the image of a Cylon Centurion on the toast."