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."

Google May Unveil 3D Moon Mapping Tool

Google May Unveil 3D Moon Mapping Tool - PC World: "The gang at Google is preparing to embark on some new type of mission, and speculation is running rampant that it's going to be a groundbreaking three-dimensional moon-mapping utility. The G-team is keeping quiet for now, but it's not hard to track the signals a"

PC Market Shrinks For First Time In 8 Years

PC Market Shrinks For First Time In 8 Years -- PC Shipments -- InformationWeek: "The decline in PC shipments is the first since the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, although that one was worse -- shipments fell by over 5 percent."

L.A. weighs plan to replace computer software with Google service

L.A. weighs plan to replace computer software with Google service - Los Angeles Times: "If OKd by the City Council, the plan would shift protection of internal data and public records from the city to the Internet giant. The LAPD has raised concerns about shielding arrest information."

[Update] Legoland to memorialize Michael Jackson as Lego figure

[Update] Legoland to memorialize Michael Jackson as Lego figure - Travel - LATimes.com: "The 4-inch-tall Jacko Lego — complete with a single white glove and red leather jacket — will be added to the Southern California section of Miniland, a panoramic tableau rendered completely in Legos. Starting Thursday, the mini-MJ can be seen at Legoland exiting a limousine in front of Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre amid paparazzi and fans under a marquee that reads “Thriller.”"

LEGO Indiana Jones 2 to Feature Co-op Level Creation

LEGO Indiana Jones 2 to Feature Co-op Level Creation - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads: "The sequel to LEGO Indiana Jones will be the first in the LEGO series to allow for level creation, and now a new report indicates that up to two players can craft block-based stages simultaneously."

Does Twitter Need to Contact Developers on All API Changes?

Does Twitter Need to Contact Developers on All API Changes?: "This morning, there’s been some buzz about new changes to the Twitter API. First noticed by SocialToo founder Jessie Stay, the new changes revolves around the “verify credentials” method of the API. Specifically, users can only verify their Twitter (Twitter) usernames and passwords 15 times per hour. While some developers are unhappy Twitter didn’t inform them of the change, the more important question is this: how many users are really going to be adversely affected by a change that is meant to stop hackers from stealing Twitter accounts?"

Pugnacious Propaganda: 15 Images Of The Art Of War

Pugnacious Propaganda: 15 Images Of The Art Of War | WebUrbanist: "Propaganda has many purposes but paramount is its use to promote war and bolster a united home front. While most people have some acquaintance with their own country’s graphic propaganda - often absorbed into pop culture - that of the “enemy” is far less familiar and thus, somewhat jarring. This selection of wartime propaganda from friends and foes alike takes no sides; instead it seeks to expose the bombastic, jingoistic and prejudicial properties all propaganda has in common."

Going Up? 15 Amazing Elevator Artworks & Advertisements

Going Up? 15 Amazing Elevator Artworks & Advertisements | WebUrbanist: "You’re crammed into a tiny space with several other people, spending an average of thirty seconds staring at either the floor or the wall. That’s what makes elevator advertisements and art so brilliant - people have little choice but to look. Marketers and artists have taken advantage of this very captive audience in some brilliant ways, from creating optical illusions with stickers to transforming the space into an apartment or even a disco club."

25 Amazing Retro Web Sites for Your Inspiration

25 Amazing Retro Web Sites for Your Inspiration | PV.M Garage: "A fresh post for this hot June with a Back to the Past.
With the term Retro we describe a review of past trends that relive in modern Design.
We’re watching, in these last years, as the use of illustrations from old posters, old-style typography, old cars, old packaging and old photos are popular also in Web Design. Many web designer use a collage of old stuff to advertise current products or to popularize new informations."

Mosaic House Numbers

Mosaic House Numbers: "I set out to make a mosaic project
for my house address numbers. I
wanted to cover up some dingy brass ones
that were already on the house."

Write Your Own Linux Twitter Client In Less Time Than It Takes To Find One!

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Write Your Own Linux Twitter Client In Less Time Than It Takes To Find One! - A Twitter Window: "That's all very well, you say, but if you use a commandline client, your friends will laugh at you and won't let you play in their reindeer games?

No problem -- Python, as you've seen in previous articles, is fully capable of doing graphics. I'll use Tkinter here."

5 Things Super-Happy Couples Do Every Day

5 Things Super-Happy Couples Do Every Day: "We paw each other in public. We goof around like a pair of simpletons. We basically act like giddy newlyweds in the middle of happy hour. Sometimes we'll do something so revolting, like sitting on the couch and drawing smiley faces on the bottoms of each other's feet, that we're forced to make hacking, gagging noises to maintain our dignity. Actually, this happened just last week."

Object-Oriented programming with JavaScript. OO Concept in JavaScript

Object-Oriented programming with JavaScript. OO Concept in JavaScript - ViralPatel.net: "Object-Oriented programming is one of the widely used programming paradigm that uses abstraction to create model based on real world. It is a model organized around “objects” rather than “actions” and data rather than logic. Historically, a program has been viewed as a logical procedure that takes input data, processes it, and produces output data. Object-oriented programming (OOP) uses “objects” – data structures consisting of datafields and methods – and their interactions to design applications and computer programs. Each object can be seen as a tiny machine which is responsible for the set of task assign to it."

Apple Shows Weakness In PC Market

Apple Shows Weakness In PC Market -- Apple Mac -- InformationWeek: "Apple's determination to remain a premium PC vendor has led to a significant drop in shipments in the second quarter, as consumers turned to lower-priced computers in tough economic times, an analyst firm said."

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind Power |

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind Power |: "It is natural that people who are considering generating electricity from wind power should be concerned about the advantages and disadvantages of the process in reaching a decision."

Clever Kids Put Pedometers on Their Dogs

Clever Kids Put Pedometers on Their Dogs: "It would be horrible, if it wasn't so funny. Or, maybe it would be funny, if it wasn't so horrible - children in an east London borough tricked researchers when they took the pedometers they'd been assigned to measure their activity levels, and put them on their dogs."

The Lego Girl Who Melted My Heart—and Will Melt Yours - Lego 1980

The Lego Girl Who Melted My Heart—and Will Melt Yours - Lego 1980 - Gizmodo: "I was born in 1972. Yes, I'm old. But that means I lived the Golden Age of Lego in 1979, and got to play with the coolest sets in history. I wasn't as cute as the Lego Alice-in-wonderland girl, though."

A Beautiful Method to Find Peace of Mind

A Beautiful Method to Find Peace of Mind: "How many times have you gotten upset because someone wasn’t doing their job, because your child isn’t behaving, because your partner or friend isn’t living up to his or her end of the bargain?"

Bill Gates offers the world a physics lesson

Bill Gates offers the world a physics lesson | Beyond Binary - CNET News: "In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken U.S. education system, Gates has managed to fulfill a dream of taking some classic physics lectures and making them available free over the Web. The lectures, done in 1964 by noted scientist (and Manhattan Project collaborator) Richard Feynman, take notions such as gravity and explains how they work and the broad implications they have in understanding the ways of the universe."

How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration

How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration - Psdtuts+: "In this tutorial, we'll change a full of sunshine, ordinary photograph into a gloomy image of the world after destruction of mankind. Using simple tools, we'll turn lively streets into abandoned ruins overgrown with weeds. A number of stock images and a few little tricks will let us optimize our work and make this job more interesting and spectacular. So let's go!"

How to Make Moving Pictures (Just Like Harry Potter!)

Photojojo » How to Make Moving Pictures (Just Like Harry Potter!): "In honor of the new Harry Potter movie (eeeeee! we can’t wait!) we’re teaching you how to make your own moving pictures."

Anonymous SSH Sessions With TOR

Anonymous SSH Sessions With TOR | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "OpenSSH is a great means to protect your connection from being sniffed by others. However, this isn't always enough. Simply proving that you connected to a server is enough to get incriminated. Unfortunately, SSH doesn't provide a native way to obfuscate to whom it connects. Instead, a proxy server can be set up. And this is where TOR comes to play. This howto covers installing TOR on a Debian based system and setting up SSH to use TOR."

Robo-Bats With Metal Muscles May Be Next Generation of Remote Control Flyers

NCSU News :: Robo-Bats With Metal Muscles May Be Next Generation of Remote Control Flyers: "Tiny flying machines can be used for everything from indoor surveillance to exploring collapsed buildings, but simply making smaller versions of planes and helicopters doesn't work very well. Instead, researchers at North Carolina State University are mimicking nature's small flyers – and developing robotic bats that offer increased maneuverability and performance."

Terrifying monster car

Crafty Crafty: Terrifying monster car by Elmer Presslee: "The monster car even has a brain for a cushion, and one large, horrible eye. It's designed and made by Elmer Presslee, and while disgusting, the craftsmanship and detail is strangely beautiful."

Some tips on finding good small business web design

Some tips on finding good small business web design: "Web designs are presentations of the content and layout of a website that are made available to the end-users via World Wide Web. Today, any business, whether it is large scale or small, requires a website to reach out to its prospective customers and clients. A skillfully created yet simple small business web design will work wonders for generation of its sales or revenue and consequently aid the expansion of that particular small business."

[How to] Fix - PHP Fatal Error: Out Of Memory

[How to] Fix - PHP Fatal Error: Out Of Memory: "The first thing I could think of was to restart the Apache httpd service. This immediately solved the issue. but I knew this is not a permanent fix for the issue. When I researched further, I got to know that the error comes when certain PHP scripts require more memory than PHP was allowed by default."

Philippines: Contraceptives As Life-savers

Philippines: Contraceptives As Life-savers: "Mina was too poor to buy pills and too powerless to say no to her husband whenever he came home drunk. 'I would always give in,' she said. 'Otherwise, he might have created a scene and disturbed my employer, Ate Cris, who took us all in, including my son, when I applied a"

Top Ten Disaster Preparedness Tips for Families

Top Ten Disaster Preparedness Tips for Families - Dumb Little Man: "Disasters, particularly of the weather variety, roll through our world in late spring and early summer. It's easy to prepare yourself and your family, much harder to pick up the pieces once damage is done. Having lived on the Gulf Coast in the path of hurricanes like Katrina, Jeanne, and Gustav, I can tell you the old ounce-of-prevention cliché is right on."

Damn Vulnerable Web App

Damn Vulnerable Web App | Get Damn Vulnerable Web App at SourceForge.net: "Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goals are to be light weight, easy to use and full of vulnerabilities to exploit. Used to learn or teach the art of web application security."

Future Computing: 15 Cool & Crazy Concept Computers

Future Computing: 15 Cool & Crazy Concept Computers | WebUrbanist: "Ever think computer company product planning sessions consist of throwing one wacky concept after another against the wall to see what sticks? Not much does and sure enough, the ash heap of tech history is littered with flubs, flops and FUBAR fiascos designed to fly high but destined to fail. Every so often, though, a diamond emerges from the dung heap and everything changes - the cliched “paradigm shift”. Here are 15 of the coolest, craziest computer concepts you’ll see today; diamonds in the rough perhaps but easy on the eye fer shure"

DIY Steadicam, Glidecam

DIY Steadicam, Glidecam: "This article isn't intended as a complete building guide...I really just wanted to chronicle some of the unique aspects of the stabilizer I put together. If you decide to copy what I've done here, I just ask that you give a little credit to 'YB2Normal' and send them over to my site to check out my other work. To be clear however, I take no credit for the physics behind why this works, or even the overall design. Really I only consider three aspects of the design original... the PVC gimbal, the use of all-thread for the main tube, and the wooden camera x-y plate."

15 Cute Vector Scenes

15 Cute Vector Scenes | Flash, Design, Vector, Photoshop, Adobe Tutorials | GraphicMania.net: "The most amazing about using vector art or illustrations is that you can use shapes and colors to deliver your idea. However, you can use any color scheme or shape to deliver the feeling behind the artwork more than images."

12 Essential Parenting Gadgets

12 Essential Parenting Gadgets: "Let's face it. Parenting is a decidedly low-tech job. But that doesn't mean you can't enlist some high-tech help to get you through that exhaustion and nervousness. To cut through the clutter, we've put together a list of gadgets to help parents survive the rough patches and better enjoy the precious moments."

Silicon Valley Rakes It in From Couch Potato Nation

Silicon Valley Rakes It in From Couch Potato Nation | NBC Miami: "A new survey taken by gadget-watcher Retrevo says that, although the economy is still down, consumers are not yet ready to show up to the party without the latest cool phone, and are picking up new digital TV sets to watch the new season of 'Entourage.'"

10 Smart Uses for Old Plastic Bags

10 Smart Uses for Old Plastic Bags: "Grocery bags seem to multiply like Tribbles―so you need new ways to reuse them."

Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Ubuntu 9.04)

E-LINUX.it News del 15/07/2009 00:24 - Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Ubuntu 9.04): "This guide shows how to install and configure Smokeping on Ubuntu 9.04 to monitor network latency. From the Smokeping web site: 'SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection.'"

Which OS would you want in a Netbook?

Which OS would you want in a Netbook? | The Digital Home - CNET News: "'(Acer Chairman) Wang pointed out that the dual-OS strategy is much safer for Acer, since consumer acceptance of the Android platform is unclear for the time being,' DigiTimes reported. 'Acer will be able to promote Android as a value-added feature, similar to Asustek Computer's Express Gate, to account for any price premium.'"

Hondurans 'have right to revolt'

BBC NEWS | Americas | Hondurans 'have right to revolt': "Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has said his supporters have 'the right to insurrection' in their bid to see him reinstated."

Which OS would you want in a Netbook?

Which OS would you want in a Netbook? | The Digital Home - CNET News: "A report surfaced on Monday claiming that the new Acer Aspire One Netbook featuring Android will start shipping in August. The price of the Netbook is still unknown."

Vacuum Tube Jump Drive Build

CF14 Industries - Vacuum Tube Jump Drive Build: "After reading a few articles and realizing that a 'vacuum tube Jump Drive' has yet to be successfully built... or one that i can find, that has been built... We decided it was time to attempt it. After a few broken vacuum tubes and a cut finger, we finally have something to show for it."

Feed your site with RSS and Atom

Feed your site with RSS and Atom: "For modern Web 2.0 sites, the ability to mash up information from different sources is a plus. You can use Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to get and process XML-based news feeds such as RSS and the more modern Atom Syndication Format. In this article, explore methods to access any appropriate feed—despite same-origin policy (SOP) limitations—and to process the incoming XML data."

Celebrating WWII and Korean War Aircraft Nose Art

Celebrating WWII and Korean War Aircraft Nose Art | WebUrbanist: "Decorating military planes with nose art has been a largely American tradition since WWI. During WWII and the Korean War, nose art surged in popularity with controversial images of cheesecake pinups reminiscent of Vargas girls, ferocious animals or scenes representing memories from home or the tour of duty."

Isometric map for hong kong

map for hong kong: "This a great way to display interactive maps. Google copying it in 3... 2... 1..."

Top 10 comic book cities

Top 10 comic book cities | The Critics | Architects Journal: "From Gotham City to Mega City One, the Architects’ Journal presents a selection of the greatest illustrated urban spaces"

Living with First-Person Shooter Disease

YouTube - Living with First-Person Shooter Disease: "Duke Nukem's disease is a scary one, Gene brings you the story of the life of a First Person Shooter."

Wiring Your Home with Cat 5e

Wiring Your Home with Cat 5e - How To by ExtremeTech: "Seems like everything has wireless capability these days—your laptop, printer, PDA, and even your DVR. This is all very convenient, but don't sound the death knell for good old-fashioned Ethernet cable just yet. If you're building a home network, a portion of it should definitely remain wired."

The Lightest Lightbox

The Lightest Lightbox: "There are several implementations of Lightbox. In a series of articles, I have covered three of them. The first, Shedding some light on Lightbox, covers the original implementation of Lightbox. The second one, Greybox, Lightbox Part 2, explains how you can use Greybox to display a web page in a div. In the last installment, we saw Thickbox 3.1, which can be used to display modal dialog boxes."

Google lawyer heads to Twitter

Google lawyer heads to Twitter | The Social - CNET News: "Google lawyer Alexander Macgillivray has joined Twitter as its general counsel, according to posts on Sunday from Macgillivray's personal blog and Twitter account."

Rumor: $800 Apple Tablet Coming in October

Rumor: $800 Apple Tablet Coming in October | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: "Apple fans have been clamoring for a Mac tablet for years, and year after year the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has disappointed them. Now a new report from Taiwan says the company plans to a release a $800 tablet in October."

Obama's teleprompter breaks in mid-speech

The Associated Press: Obama's teleprompter breaks in mid-speech: "President Barack Obama had just started a spirited defense of his economic stimulus plan on Monday when one of his teleprompter screens came loose, crashed to the floor and shattered into pieces."

'Watchmen' Featurette - why is Doctor Manhattan Blue?

10 Free Online Tools to Improve Browsing

10 Free Online Tools to Improve Browsing: "A few weeks ago we highlighted ten free and noteworthy networking utilities. Here we follow up with ten free Web-based sites/services (with a connectivity focus) that we think may come in handy."

Why Is OpenSolaris Gathering Dust on a Shelf at Oracle?

Why Is OpenSolaris Gathering Dust on a Shelf at Oracle? - PC World: "People outside of IT seldom think of Oracle as a Linux company, but it is. Not only does Oracle encourage its customers to use its own house-brand clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Oracle Unbreakable Linux, Oracle has long used Linux internally both on its servers and on some of its desktops. So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer appears to be: 'Nothing.'"

20 Things I'm Glad Life Taught Me

20 Things I'm Glad Life Taught Me - Dumb Little Man: "Here are 20 things that I personally came to understand and believe in. Your 20 could be totally different. Perhaps you only have 5, it doesn't matter. The key is that you learn from your life, your failures and your successes. Neglect any one of those and you are taking a rocky road to learning and personal development."

A Wandering Mind Can Be Hard at Work

A Wandering Mind Can Be Hard at Work - Mind Hacks - Lifehacker: "If you're an avid daydreamer whose mind regularly wanders off at the most inopportune moments—like in the middle of a conversation—don't be too hard on yourself. The WSJ reports that your wandering mind isn't idle after all."

Stroke of Genius: 10 Artists with Abilities Borne of Brain Damage

Stroke of Genius: 10 Artists with Abilities Borne of Brain Damage | WebUrbanist: "Imagine having a stroke, a severe brain injury or a tumor and suddenly waking up one day to find you’ve developed artistic talents to rival Picasso. It sounds impossible, but the brain is a mysterious organ, and sometimes, damage causes it to rewire itself in ways that reveal new talents even in people who could barely doodle a stick figure. From the engineer on disability who became a sought-after digital artist after a stroke to a woman whose dementia spurred remarkable creative output, these 10 artists were all transformed by neurological trauma or disorders."

Calculator For The Lego Construction Foreman

Calculator For The Lego Construction Foreman: "It’s a Lego, it’s a calculator, it’s all kinds of fun. Although I’d imagine it’s still not enjoyable enough to make people actually want to do math. In today’s world, if you really want to get some interest going, you’d have to create something like a breast shaped calculator that has 24 pressable, problem solving nipples. That would be money in the bank, my friend."

'Phooey' kicks into high gear

'Phooey' kicks into high gear - Entertainment News, Animation, Media - Variety: "Alcon Entertainment has geared up its live-action/animated version of 'Hong Kong Phooey' with Alex Zamm on board to direct from David Goodman's script."

The Latest Name for SQL Services Is a Cosmetic Change

The Latest Name for SQL Services Is a Cosmetic Change -- Redmond Developer News: "Microsoft once again is renaming its forthcoming data-oriented cloud services. The company's SQL Services will be called SQL Azure, while SQL Data Services are now called the SQL Azure Database. It's the third name for the platform originally known as SQL Server Data Services."

Joomla CMS and Its Advantages

Joomla CMS and Its Advantages | CMS Developer's Journal: "Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. In August 2005, Joomla originated from the Mambo content management system, which included the source code, as well as the development team. As Joomla code is open source, so it’s easy adaptable for anyone to write modules and extensions of the system. Joomla allows web designers to develop websites by combining modules, and requires no programming knowledge. Joomla framework is written in PHP, as are the modules used to customize websites"

Java Web services: The high cost of (WS-)Security

Java Web services: The high cost of (WS-)Security: "WS-Security offers powerful features for securing Web service applications, and for many applications these features are essential. But these features come at a high cost in terms of performance and message overhead. Dennis Sosnoski continues his Java Web services column series with a look at how using WS-Security or WS-SecureConversation affects Axis2 performance, and he discusses when the simpler (and better performing) alternative of HTTPS-secured connections is a more appropriate choice."

10 Wind Turbines That Push the Limits of Design - AWEA Report 20% Wind Report Card and Wind Turbine Design

10 Wind Turbines That Push the Limits of Design - AWEA Report 20% Wind Report Card and Wind Turbine Design - Popular Mechanics: "The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released their 20% Wind Report Card on July 8, following up on a study in which the Department of Energy proposed a goal where 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from wind energy by 2030. The AWEA gave the overall U.S. push for wind power a “solid B”—high marks from an advocacy group that grades U.S. infrastructure. The highest letter in the report was an A- awarded for “Technology Development.” This is no big surprise—for years now, the government, alternative-energy researchers and entrepreneurs have been putting time and money into making better tech for cleaner, more efficient energy production. Here are 10 wind turbine designs that push the limits of the current design and may help the U.S. get back to being an A student by 2030."

Alice Eve Cohen, What I Thought I Knew

YouTube - Alice Eve Cohen, What I Thought I Knew - 9780670020959: "A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible"

5 Features Internet Explorer Will Likely Crib from Firefox 3.5

5 Features Internet Explorer Will Likely Crib from Firefox 3.5 - PC World: "Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 browser launched today not only besting Internet Explorer 8 when it comes to features, in my opinion, but also when it comes to speed. As I'll predict here, for its next Internet Explorer launch Microsoft will crib innovative Firefox 3.5 features and skimp on giving credit. After all, haven't we seen Microsoft do this before? Remember where you spotted browser tabs the first time?"

9 Power Tips To Speed Up Your Web Browsing

9 Power Tips To Speed Up Your Web Browsing - Dumb Little Man: "Although the internet has been mainstream for over a decade now, high speed internet for everyone is still a distant dream. A huge number of users are still on dial-up. Those on broadband aren't always satisfied with the speed either. Everyone desires a faster web."

i.Saw - The World's First USB-powered Chainsaw

i.Saw - The World's First USB-powered Chainsaw: "Never before has a chainsaw been made available in such a compact and mobile form. Measuring no larger than the size of a regular computer keyboard, every effort has been made to ensure that proper grip – and safety – is not compromised."

The World's 10 Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities

Senior City-zens: The World's 10 Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities | WebUrbanist: "Urban society may seem a modern phenomenon but cities have been around for a lot longer than one might think. Indeed, once nomadic tribes began to settle in one location, they saw that it was good, became fruitful, and multiplied. Decades, centuries and millennia passed while war, climate change and human migration all took their toll. Relatively few ancient cities have managed to survive the test of time. Here are 10 that have not only survived, but continue to thrive."

Where to Get Your Textures - 19 Free Photo Source Sites for CG Artists

Where to Get Your Textures - 19 Free Photo Source Sites for CG Artists - Cgtuts+: "Finding the perfect photo texture, to get the look of your material juuuuuust the way you like it, can sometimes be a pain. But with the right resources at your disposal, perhaps it might not be quite as difficult, or time consuming, as you once thought. Below is a list of 21 awesome (and free) photo texture sources, that you can use to make your CG artwork that much better!"

Optimizing Lighttpd

Optimizing Lighttpd: "This article written by Andre Bogus will help us make Lighttpd work even faster. Before we start optimizing our Lighttpd installation, there are some things to consider such as where is Lighttpd going to run?"

Nintendo Papercraft - The resource for all your Nintendo themed papercrafts!

Nintendo Papercraft - The resource for all your Nintendo themed papercrafts!: "We know that Hello Kitty is not really Nintendo, but when PMF decided to dress her up as the Mario Bros, how can we not feature that here at Nintendo Papercraft."

Adam Air Flight 574 - Air Crash Investigation - A clue to what happened to Air France 447?

YouTube - Adam Air Flight 574 (Part 5) - Air Crash Investigation - National Geographic: "Flying into a storm, auto pilot disengage and plane stall are part of what happened around flight 447 from Sao Paulo to Paris"

Finally — a Wireless Keyboard You Can Love

Finally — a Wireless Keyboard You Can Love - PC World: "Let's face it, wireless peripherals don't always work all that well. But Adesso's new WKB-4100UB is the best I've used yet."

Wonderfully absurd escapes from mortal danger in the original G.I. Joe cartoon

Wonderfully absurd escapes from mortal danger in the original G.I. Joe cartoon. - By Adrian Chen - Slate Magazine: "Through a combination of terrible aim, superhuman jumping ability, and impossibly reliable parachutes, every combatant escaped even the most dire of situations without so much as the angle of his beret askew. The G.I Joe series is an ode to the improbable escape, and the thrill of the violence comes not from the possibility of death but from the zany ways the Joes and Cobras avoid it."

12 Gadgets That Saved People's Lives

12 Gadgets That Saved People's Lives: "Call it a stroke of luck, the hands of fate, or a touch from God. No matter what you call it, there's no denying gadgets have helped saved some lives. So keep that gadget close by, folks. You never know when your time is up."

Nvidia 3D Vision: Get Ready for 3D Gaming!

Techtree.com India > Reviews > Basics > Specials > Nvidia 3D Vision: Get Ready for 3D Gaming!: "I'm sure you enjoyed our in-depth article on the progression of 3D technology, and in case you missed it, you can read it here. Gone are the dorky glasses that we've seen in the past, now say hello to a very trendy looking 3DVision goggles from NVIDIA. Yes, 3D gaming or 3DStereo, that's how NVIDIA likes to call it, has finally hit our shores bringing new life to old games and making newer games even more fun."

No 3D DVD Release for Monsters Vs. Aliens

No 3D DVD Release for Monsters Vs. Aliens | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central: "We didn't provide a ton of coverage of Monsters Vs. Aliens when it was released theatrically, but considering 3D technology is such a hot topic nowadays, we thought this latest bit of news about the film's DVD format was topical and timely: Despite the fact that 3D showings accounted for 58% of the CG-animated film’s opening weekend box office take, home viewers won't have the same choice as it's only being released in 2D on DVD and Blu-ray."

4D Ultrasound Gives Parents Incredible First Pictures

4D Ultrasound Gives Parents Incredible First Pictures - KYPost.com: "The 4D ultrasound is becoming increasingly popular among expectant parents. The improved technology gives parents an image of their baby that is stunningly real."

From pythons to fungus, species invading US

The Associated Press: From pythons to fungus, species invading US: "A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom. The tragedy became the latest and most graphic example of a problem that has plagued the state for more than a decade: a nonnative species that is wreaking havoc in the Everglades, threatening people, the environment and native wildlife."

US worker dies in chocolate vat

BBC NEWS | Americas | US worker dies in chocolate vat: "A man has died after falling into a vat of hot chocolate at a factory in the US state of New Jersey."

4chan may be behind attack on Twitter

4chan may be behind attack on Twitter | The Web Services Report - CNET News: "Twitter saw a huge influx of fake accounts on Sunday, pushing the NSFW trending topic, #gorillapenis, all the way to the top of the list. Popular image board 4chan /b/, along with other various sites, appears to be behind this latest raid on Twitter. 4chan, a hub of Internet culture and memes, has long been the spawning point of various raids on sites, most recently YouTube Porn Day. Before that, they were responsible for hacking Time Magazine's voting system for the World's Most Influential Person, making the site's creator, moot, the winner by a wide margin."

Model, Texture, and Render a Photorealistic Kitchen in Blender and Yafaray

Model, Texture, and Render a Photorealistic Kitchen in Blender and Yafaray - Cgtuts+: "In this 96 step mega-tutorial, you will go through all the motions necessary to construct a complete, photorealistic kitchen scene in Blender, and then render it with Yafaray (a free ray tracing, open source rendering engine). Make sure that you have Yafaray and Python 2.5 installed. For more information on installation check out www.yafaray.org."

'Gatchaman' Teaser - ANIME EXPO '09 (off-screen)

YouTube - 'Gatchaman' Teaser - ANIME EXPO '09 (off-screen): "Imagi's latest computer animated film - Gatchaman. Trailer recorded off-screen @ the Anime Expo, July '09."

Seattle is The World Record Holding Zombie Capital of the World!

Seattle is The World Record Holding Zombie Capital of the World!: "On Friday I took a trip to Seattle to attend the Fremont Outdoor Movies 'Red White & Dead' zombie walk. There were over 6000 costumed zombie enthusiasts and broke the Guinness world record for the largest zombie mob. We are still waiting for the final tally but the current official numbers put Seattle well over the previously held record by several hundred zombies."

Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2

ESA Portal - Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2: "Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2."

Discover the power of Flex and CSS

Discover the power of Flex and CSS: "Leverage the powerful capabilities of CSS that are already built into the Adobe® Flex™ framework. This article provides the information you need to start using CSS in Flex, and then provides tips and techniques to speed up your workflow when designing and developing user interfaces with Flex."

Statistical Books, Manuals and Journals

Statistical Books, Manuals and Journals: "Lots of useful links to learn about statistics."

Dynamically generate OpenOffice documents on the client side with XPCOM

Dynamically generate OpenOffice documents on the client side with XPCOM: "With the Cross Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM) framework from Mozilla, you can dynamically export existing XML content into an OpenOffice document. The process also works for any other type of content supported by the transformation mechanism, such as XSLT. In this article, learn about a portable and cost-effective alternative to server-side solutions."

Netbook for a Buck, Sorta

Netbook for a Buck, Sorta - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com: "That’s the deal in play at Best Buy: A Compaq Mini 110c-1040DX netbook for a buck for customers who sign a two-year subscription plan for mobile Internet service with Sprint. The plan is estimated to cost $60 a month for 5 gigabytes of data."

Scripting the Vim editor, Part 2: User-defined functions

Scripting the Vim editor, Part 2: User-defined functions: "User-defined functions are an essential tool for decomposing an application into correct and maintainable components, in order to manage the complexity of real-world programming tasks. This article (the second in a series) explains how to create and deploy new functions in the Vimscript language, giving several practical examples of why you might want to."