Shop That Built Batpod Replica Now Selling 5 (Street Legal) TRON Lightcycles On eBay

Shop That Built Batpod Replica Now Selling 5 (Street Legal) TRON Lightcycles On eBay: "the Parker Brothers team is building 5 custom one off 'Lightcycles' to the exact specs of the movie bikes. Each bike will be black with an accent color - 5 bikes with 5 different accent colors (red, blue, yellow, green, and orange). There will only be one bike made per color so if you must have a certain color...Disney designers built a 'movie prop' of this bike for the TRON Legacy promotions and not a running version so these will be the only known running versions to exist. The engineering behind a fully functional version is mindboggling to say the least."

Using Internet data in Android applications

Using Internet data in Android applications: "Many of your Android applications will need to interact with Internet data, which comes in a variety of formats. In this article, build an Android application that works with two popular data formats—XML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)—as well as the more exotic protocol buffers format from Google. You'll learn about the performance and coding trade-offs associated with each format."

Why do we (love to) hate Microsoft?

Why do we (love to) hate Microsoft?: "Tired of the endless 'but what have you done for us lately?' comments that follow Microsoft's every move, no matter how successful, communications head Frank Shaw rounded up some fun statistics to underline the fact that Microsoft is still the heart of the PC industry and the PC industry is still the heart of mainstream computing. My personal favourite is the snide but true comment that Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff can't make it through a single public announcement without mentioning Microsoft; Microsoft might be late to the cloud (if you can be late to a technology that's still nascent) but it's growing faster than rivals."

Building the world's most advanced aircraft carrier (photos)

Building the world's most advanced aircraft carrier (photos): "The keel for this new giant was laid in September 2009, and it is expected to move from drydock to water in July 2013. The new carrier is both named the Gerald R. Ford and is the first Gerald R. Ford class of aircraft carrier. It breaks new technological ground for the Navy because it has a new power plant design, a brand-new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, and a reduced weight and flexible infrastructure enabling the addition of new technology down the line."

Keep Your Files in Sync With SpiderOak

Keep Your Files in Sync With SpiderOak: "There are a myriad of online file storage, backup, and sync services on the Web. Some of them are specific to particular devices, such as the Asus EeePc. Others are tailored for specific operating systems, like Windows or Ubuntu. Then, there are some that work well with all kinds of devices and OSes and keep them in sync. SpiderOak is one such service."

Quick Tip: Creating Custom Marking Menus in Maya

Quick Tip: Creating Custom Marking Menus in Maya: "Whether created for a specific project or even if you’ve had the same ones for years, marking menus form an essential part of the Maya interface. In this time-saving quick tip tutorial, Pratik Gulati will be walking us through how to create our own marking menus from scratch in Maya 2009."

Where Twitter’s next big boost is coming from

Where Twitter’s next big boost is coming from: "That Twitter has been expanding well outside the borders of the United States is well known. It’s becoming a global social media phenomenon and much of its growth is currently coming from this international expansion. We thought it would be interesting to investigate where Twitter is growing the fastest right now."

Teaching Kids to "Cheat"

Teaching Kids to "Cheat": "I read an article a few weeks ago about all the ways kids cheat in school. I was prepared for a long list of terrible transgressions. About halfway through the list, I started to laugh out loud. I realized that almost all of the prohibited actions, such as getting help from other students and looking up material online, are things I require my students to do! As an educator who focuses on teaching students about innovation and entrepreneurship, I spend my time encouraging students how to find creative solutions to problems."

What Should Be In Every Designer’s Portfolio (but probably isn’t)

What Should Be In Every Designer’s Portfolio (but probably isn’t): "In this article, Harrison Ambs shares his thoughts on the pitfalls involved with being a designer, 3D or otherwise, and gives some excellent advice on making your portfolio stand out from the crowd. A must-read for anyone looking to make a living from their love of design."

Population Growth Must Stop

Population Growth Must Stop: "Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day. Rich nations have long assured poor nations that they, too, would one day be rich and that their rates of population growth would decline, but it is no longer clear that this will occur for most of today’s poor nations."

Having Enough Energy to Chase Your Passions – Outside Your Day Job

Having Enough Energy to Chase Your Passions – Outside Your Day Job: "You might dream of quitting your day job. Perhaps you want to be an artist, or a musician, or travel the world, or do volunteer work, or any number of other things. You might have a particular passion or keen interest – but the catch is, you still need to pay the rent."

Introducing Seven Popular Open Source Projects for .NET Developers

Introducing Seven Popular Open Source Projects for .NET Developers: "Despite the considerable time and resources Microsoft and the .NET community have invested in open source initiatives in recent years, it's surprising how often the two camps are treated as antithetical to one another. Yet the reality is that reliance upon open source development tools within the Microsoft community is significant and growing. In this article we'll shed some insight into this widespread practice, introducing seven open source solutions embraced by millions of .NET developers around the globe."

Sony PSP Homebrew Back On Track

Sony PSP Homebrew Back On Track: "Recently, numerous exploits have been discovered in several games. The latest one has spawned an e-loader which allows unsigned code to be executed. Currently in the early stages of developement, this e-loader has been tested and confirmed working with simple homebrew titles. No emulators yet though but these are sure to come….."

'Second Life' Creator Linden Lab Cuts Staff By 30 Percent

'Second Life' Creator Linden Lab Cuts Staff By 30 Percent: "Linden Lab, the company behind the 3D virtual world Second Life, announced this week that it will cut its staff by 30 percent."

Cisco to launch tablet-style computer

Cisco to launch tablet-style computer: "Cisco Systems yesterday announced that it is to launch a tablet-style computer aimed at big businesses in an early attempt to combine the consumer appeal of Apple's iPad with the functional needs of the corporate market."

Visual Storytelling: The Little Prince and Our New Embedded Charts

Visual Storytelling: The Little Prince and Our New Embedded Charts: "As the team responsible for Google’s Chart Tools, we continuously think about how to enrich your options for visual storytelling on the web. To be able to generate figures like the one above, we thought it will be cool to enhance the Image Chart API with the capability to draw TeX formulas and plot mathematical functions. Once we added these capabilities, we thought it would be even more useful to combine the two into one chart, and therefore developed a simple way to place one chart within another chart. This chart embedding is not just limited to formulas and equations; it can be applied to any combination of chart types."

Connect Your Favorite Text Editor to Google Docs Using GoogleCL

Connect Your Favorite Text Editor to Google Docs Using GoogleCL: "You can put Google's command-line tools (GoogleCL) to all kinds of clever uses from publishing blog posts to accessing and editing Google Docs documents using your favorite text editor. The latter can come in handy if you want to quickly modify the existing document, bypassing Google Docs' interface and the browser altogether."

Top 10 CSS Tools for the Design-challenged Web Developer

Top 10 CSS Tools for the Design-challenged Web Developer: "Part of getting older is realizing that certain talents in life simply do not come naturally. For instance, one talent in which I am particularly deficient is design. Whether drawing a picture, playing with Lego's, or even signing my own name with a flourish, the task is generally a frustrating, fruitless process. Yet Web design is an inescapable part of being a Web developer, often requiring the developer to be involved throughout the process."

Anger mounts over offshore drilling moratorium

Anger mounts over offshore drilling moratorium: "Anger mounted in Louisiana over a moratorium imposed on offshore drilling as President Barack Obama toured the oil spill disaster zone Monday vowing to protect the Gulf way of life."

The State of the Internet Operating System

The State of the Internet Operating System: "I've been talking for years about 'the internet operating system', but I realized I've never written an extended post to define what I think it is, where it is going, and the choices we face. This is that missing post. Here you will see the underlying beliefs about the future that are guiding my publishing program as well as the rationale behind conferences I organize like the Web 2.0 Summit and Web 2.0 Expo, the Where 2.0 Conference, and even the Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo."

Film - Surely It’s 30 (Don’t Call Me Shirley!)

Film - Surely It’s 30 (Don’t Call Me Shirley!): "WHEN the creators of “Airplane!” were lining up actors for their rollicking parody three decades ago, some of the straight-arrow character actors that ended up in the cast worried about the harm it might do to their careers. One of the most skittish participants: Peter Graves, the taciturn “Mission: Impossible” star who played the movie’s pilot, a kindly veteran who welcomes a little boy named Billy into the cockpit and asks questions like “Ever seen a grown man naked?”"

German coach bad manners

German coach bad manners: "He is supposed to share them."

The bright side of wrong

The bright side of wrong: "Our tendency to err is also what makes us smart. Here's what we'd gain from embracing it"

Various client-server communication mechanisms in an Ajax-based web application

Various client-server communication mechanisms in an Ajax-based web application: "A key part of any Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)-based web application is the communication layer between the client and the server. To implement this layer, you need to understand the various communication mechanisms that browsers provide, as well as each mechanism's pros and cons. In this article, learn to make the correct match between the specific communication needs of an application and the appropriate mechanism. Detailed examples show you how to create a communication layer that can meet these different client-server communication needs."

Hidden Logos: 12 Creative Designs with Secret Symbols

Hidden Logos: 12 Creative Designs with Secret Symbols: "A logo is a company’s most visible piece of visual branding, stamped on everything from billboards to promotional pens. But sometimes, you can stare at a familiar design again and again before noticing small but delightful hidden symbols, meaning and even messages. From binary code to the clever combination of interlocking shapes, these 12 logos pack in a little something extra."

Debian vs. Ubuntu: Contrasting Philosophies

Debian vs. Ubuntu: Contrasting Philosophies: "Debian and Ubuntu are distributions that lend themselves naturally to comparison. Not only is Ubuntu a continuing fork of Debian, but many of its developers also work on Debian."

Peppermint, a web-centric linux os

Peppermint, a web-centric linux os: "Kendall Weaver is the lead developer of Peppermint Linux, a free software OS based on Ubuntu and Weaver's work on Linux Mint. He was struck by the divide between bloatware desktops and lighter cloud-based OSs that weren't offering the format he was looking for."

Geekologie Reader Helps Build Millennium Falcon Play Fort For Make-A-Wish Foundation

Geekologie Reader Helps Build Millennium Falcon Play Fort For Make-A-Wish Foundation: "Geekologie Reader Brandon of Little Mountain Productions recently helped build this Millennium Falcon play-fort topper for 9-year old Christian as part of a Make-A-Wish Foundation wish-granting. Good lookin', guys."

Robo-Baywatch: Autonomously Patrolling Robot Lifeguard Swims at 28 MPH

Robo-Baywatch: Autonomously Patrolling Robot Lifeguard Swims at 28 MPH : "You’re caught by the ocean’s riptide, exhausted and barely keeping your head above water. Then your unlikely hero appears: a four-foot-long talking buoy. It’s EMILY, the robot lifeguard. Grab on, and it can bring you safely back to shore."

Friendly Vending Machine Dispenses Cans With a Smile

Friendly Vending Machine Dispenses Cans With a Smile: "Vending machines might keep us fed and caffeinated when we’re away from home, but they’re not exactly friendly, are they? They just sit there, waiting for you to do all of the work of choosing between the delicious choices. From a design perspective, the interaction patterns required for using a traditional vending machine are nowhere near pleasant for the human user. Industrial designer Guus Baggermans decided that something had to be done, so he created a friendly vending machine that would interact pleasantly with human users."

Has the G-20 doomed the recovery?

Has the G-20 doomed the recovery?: "So they've gone and done it. Even though the G-20 called the recovery “uneven and fragile” in the final declaration from its weekend confab in Toronto, the advanced economies also pledged to at least halve fiscal deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016."

Renting a Car? RTFM: Read the fine manual

Renting a Car? RTFM: Read the fine manual: "With no direct flights from Edmonton to Salt Lake City and not willing to spend half a day in airports or 36 hours to get there via Aeroplan, we decided it might be fun and easier on my back to rent a full-sized new car and take a little adventure. Jenn and Jenna at Hertz Edmonton fixed us up with a super deal on a 2010 Chevrolet Impala LT that not only offered us unlimited mileage, but also easily allowed us to cross the border into the US."

Developing for IBM i: Why Does It Need To Be So Hard?

Developing for IBM i: Why Does It Need To Be So Hard?: "There is something wonderful about being a computer programmer. Maybe it's the ability to see a problem with our computing experience and be able to fix it, in the same way a mechanic can see a problem with his car and repair it. We can be dissatisfied with our computers and do something about it."

Bilski and Software Patents: A Programmers Perspective

Bilski and Software Patents: A Programmers Perspective: "Unlike many of the visitors and contributors on this site, I am not a lawyer. I am a programmer who found this blog while chasing links across the Internet looking for information on software patents and what has now become one of the most anticipated Supreme Court decisions ever; Bilski v. Kappos. That was almost eight months ago at a time when I held what is probably a common view of software patents among programmers. Specifically, that they are immoral, unfair, and restrictive to innovation and creativity. I have since found that things are not as black and white as they appear and I’d like to share with you the problems as I see them, from a programmer’s point of view."

Build a web-based notification tool with XMPP

Build a web-based notification tool with XMPP: "Real-time web applications are networked applications, with web-based user interfaces, that display Internet information as soon as it's published. Examples include social news aggregators and monitoring tools that continually update themselves with data from an external source. In this tutorial, you will create Pingstream, a small notification tool that uses PHP and JavaScript to communicate over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), a set of XML technologies designed to support presence and real-time-communications functionality."

Your APPLE product kills people in Congo, learn more here...

Your APPLE product kills people in Congo, learn more here...: "Hello, I'm a Mac, and I'm helping fuel the war in the Congo -- the deadliest war in the world. So are PCs, cell phones, digital cameras and other electronics. That's what Apple's famous ads don't tell you. So actor/activist Brooke Smith and cinematographer Steven Lubensky teamed up with actors Joshua Malina and John Lehr to create a version that sets the record straight."

AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON

AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON: "When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got... A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker."

Eating Healthfully- A Long Term Vision

Eating Healthfully- A Long Term Vision: "It is a shame that so many people are obsessed with fad diets in order to quickly shed pounds and reach their desired weight. And yes extreme dieting of any form does work in the short terms but only for the weight to rebound back on and the body to regain its original weight or the weight it is comfortable at."

6 Cool Startpages That Can Make You More Productive

6 Cool Startpages That Can Make You More Productive: "The purpose of a startpage is to save you time by making the best use of that first browser window you open when you are starting the day."

HUGE list of scripts for zmud

HUGE list of scripts for zmud: "Thought I'd post this, after looking through and cleaning up my files, I found this and thought it would be of help to old and new players using zmud. Since this has been put together over the years, I'm sorry for not being able to give credit for all of it, but some of it is what I've written, most of it is from others and there are places where you can see where I've copied it from. Hope this helps."

How to keep Wall Street under control

How to keep Wall Street under control: "As the new financial regulatory overhaul makes its way through Congress, we've been thinking a lot about Jay, our boss and mentor at the Interactivity Foundation, who passed away last year at 95. If he were alive, he no doubt would be disappointed in the reactionary approach to banking reform being debated today."

Hard to port! Eject Goose, eject!

Hard to port! Eject Goose, eject!: "An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle patroled the launch area as the Space Shuttle Atlantis roared into space on its final flight in May. Check out the shadow of the plume on the ground!"

Camouflage Photography in the Animal World: 50 Astonishing Photos

Camouflage Photography in the Animal World: 50 Astonishing Photos: "Some animals have sharp teeth, some have fragile wings, some are predators, some chew on grass, but they all need to survive. Even if harder to believe, some carnivores can be extinct pretty fast, if they don’t find an “intelligent” method of hunting."

Cat survives microwave, tumble dryer and freezer ordeal!

Cat survives microwave, tumble dryer and freezer ordeal!: "A young boy's cat that was cooked in a microwave, then stuffed in a tumble dryer and freezer at the hands of thugs has managed to survive."

Apple to Costumers: We are right you are wrong!

Apple to Costumers: We are right you are wrong!: "Multiple Apple- and gadget-focused websites are receiving reports that the iPhone’s much-discussed “Retina Display” is susceptible to a yellow discoloration, either as a thin line of yellow or as a circular tint."

Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface

Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface: "The future of touchscreen interfaces is: you? A project between a Carnegie Mellon researcher and a couple of creative thinkers over at Microsoft Research have created Skinput, a Bluetooth-enabled device that allows you to use your own skin as a peripheral input device for devices like cell phones, MP3 players or gaming consoles."

Querious - MySQL Database Tool

Querious - MySQL Database Tool: "Querious is a MySQL database management application written from the ground up for Mac OS X. Unlike mindless Mac OS X ports of applications originally made for Windows or Linux, Querious works the way you'd naturally expect it to as a Mac OS X app. Querious is precise and easy to understand, giving you full control without getting in your way."

$240 High Res Rail SAR

$240 High Res Rail SAR: "Using a discarded garage door opener, an old cordless drill, and a collection of surplus microwave parts, a high resolution X-band linear rail synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging system was developed for approximately $240 material cost."

Was Venus once a habitable planet?

Was Venus once a habitable planet?: "ESA’s Venus Express is helping planetary scientists investigate whether Venus once had oceans. If it did, it may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth."

Chase Shows How To Play It Safe (When It Comes To Protecting Data)

Chase Shows How To Play It Safe (When It Comes To Protecting Data): "Have you ever wondered what happens to those little raw files in big shoots? I mean, big scale productions gotta worry more than simply unloading the card, importing to light room and get a good night sleep."

Working Hard Is not Enough. Here's 18 Ways to Work Smart

Working Hard Is not Enough. Here's 18 Ways to Work Smart: "All of us work hard in life - there is no doubt about it. We work hard in our jobs so we can excel at work. We work hard to maintain our relationships. We work hard so we can achieve the best results in our life."

My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto

My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto: "Gaming has been a part of my sons’ life since the moment he was born, so I was not surprised when he showed an interest in video games as early as the age of two. I started him off where I began my gaming career: the original Nintendo Entertainment System. He built up his hand-eye coordination and took the bridge out from under Bowser in no time. Then, one day, he got a glimpse of me playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and asked if he could play. What happened next was quite the eye-opener."

BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: BP AND THE AXIS OF EVIL

BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: BP AND THE AXIS OF EVIL: "BP is accused of destroying the wildlife and coastline of America, but if you look back into history you find that BP did something even worse to America."

Review: Futurama returns to Comedy Central

Review: Futurama returns to Comedy Centra "As 'Family Guy' did when Fox resurrected it three years after canceling that show (Fox canceled a lot of comedies in the early '00s that the network would probably like back now), we open with a few jokes about the long time off and the new regular home on cable. (After a trip through a well-traveled wormhole causes Professor Farnsworth to laugh, he says, 'It's sort of a comedy central channel.') There are probably too many of those jokes, especially since the movies (the last of which ended on a cliffhanger that tomorrow's first episode resolves) means it hasn't been that long since Fry (Billy West), Leela (Katey Sagal), Bender (John DiMaggio) and company have been featured in original adventures on television, and on this channel in particular."

How to Make Movie Torches

How to Make Movie Torches: "Wielded in scenes with angry mobs, where characters are lost in a jungle or a cave, or to light the streets of period films, torches add a unique sense of light and mood to a movie. If you are an emerging filmmaker and need to create working torches for your movie, long-lasting flames can be made with the use of rubbing alcohol as a fuel. Torches should be made and used only after taking fire-safety precautions."

Eight Ways to Make Good Use of Your Spare Minutes Online

Eight Ways to Make Good Use of Your Spare Minutes Online: "I bet you have a few spare minutes (or a fair bit more) online every day. Perhaps you end up surfing webcomics while you’re waiting for a big file to download, or maybe you’re browsing online in between phone calls, or during a lull in an instant messaging conversation. Whatever it is, you have a few minutes going spare … and you’re not doing anything productive during them."

Viacom Loses To YouTube In Landmark Copyright Case

Viacom Loses To YouTube In Landmark Copyright Case: "A federal judge handed Google Inc. a major victory Wednesday by rebuffing media company Viacom Inc.'s attempt to collect more than $1 billion in damages for the alleged copyright abuses of Google's popular YouTube service."

Drunk and depressed at Harry Potter's Wizarding World

Drunk and depressed at Harry Potter's Wizarding World: "Florida's new J.K. Rowling-inspired theme park should be the happiest place on earth. Why am I so miserable?"

All’s Fair in Love and Soccer

All’s Fair in Love and Soccer: "Cheating and working the refs are part of what make the beautiful game fun to watch."

Aluminum Fabrication

Aluminum Fabrication: "I get order of one off all aluminum Toyota 2000GT

I want show up this big project to you."

The Strangest Pictures I Have Seen #4

The Strangest Pictures I Have Seen #4 : "Another thing I learned at the NCS meeting is that a lot of old comic strips survive due to oft-inexplicable pockets of popularity abroad. The Phantom may run in fewer than six papers in the U.S., but he’s huge in Australia and India. The Katzenjammer Kids survive thanks to enduring success in Europe. Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey is, of course, one of the staples of the American newspaper page, but it’s even more popular in Scandinavian countries. Why? I don’t know. Ask Scandinavia."

When Animals Strike - Deer Attack

When Animals Strike - Deer Attack: "It's sweet vengence for Bambi as a hunter is mauled by an enraged deer in this once-in-a-lifetime footage."

Working @Disney

Working @Disney: "So I suppose I should start this post by explaining the unposted 'Disney Experience' post I discussed a few months back. I wrote about 3 versions of the post and just never found the balance of honesty and tact that I wanted. I either said too much that was unnecessary, or not enough to give a true flavor of my experience at the studio. That being said I'll try to sum it up this way. I believe any studio should be at least these three things (but particularly Disney):"

Kids Think Food Tastes Better From Cartoon-Decorated Packages, Study Finds

Kids Think Food Tastes Better From Cartoon-Decorated Packages, Study Finds: "Study Finds Junk-Food Marketing Changes the Tastes of Kids as Young as Age 4"

Compact Camera Hacks

Compact Camera Hacks: "I'm about to embark on an epic (for me at least) hiking expedition, and, in the name of minimising pack weight, my SLR is staying at home and my compact camera is coming out to play. BUT one thing I was potentially going to miss was the ability to use a polarising filter (most compact cameras have no ability to mount filters on them and my Canon Ixus 900Ti is no exception). I wanted to find a way to hold a filter in front of the my compact's lens in such a way as to: eliminate reflection from the rear of the filter; ensure the holder avoided blocking any of the sensors on the front of the camera, and; still be able to rotate the filter (a key requirement for using a polarising filter)."

Is Google far too much in love with engineering?

Is Google far too much in love with engineering?: "It's nice if a pilot has a background in flying. It's really quite special if a colonoscopist has a background in medicine. But does everyone who heads up a department at Google really need to have a background in engineering?"

8 Linux-based Live CD/DVD and USB Distros For All Occasions - PublicIP Zone, Knoppix, Linux LiveCD Router, Backtrack

8 Linux-based Live CD/DVD and USB Distros For All Occasions - PublicIP Zone, Knoppix, Linux LiveCD Router, Backtrack: "If you're new to the Linux or open source community, you might not have heard of live disc or USB distributions yet. They let you run a operating system on PCs without installing anything on the hard drive. It loads directly from the CD/DVD disc or USB flash drive. Many full Linux desktop distros, such as Ubuntu, can be ran in this live mode. However, there are also live distros created for a wide-variety of other specific applications and solutions. Here we'll review several of these. Let's get started!"

Adobe moves mobile Flash from rhetoric to reality

Adobe moves mobile Flash from rhetoric to reality: "After enduring months of scorn from Apple, Adobe Systems is set to begin a major effort to claim some of the mobile computing initiative for itself starting Monday night."

18 amazing Star Wars sand sculptures

18 amazing Star Wars sand sculptures: "Summer's just around the corner, so what better time to share some of the most awesome Star Wars sand sculptures ever created?"

GOAL! Twitter Traffic Spikes With World Cup Goals

GOAL! Twitter Traffic Spikes With World Cup Goals: "The social networking site is seeing huge traffic when a big goal is scored in the soccer tournament. Though Twitter normally sees about 750 tweets per second on an average day, there were 2,940 tweets per second, then a record, after Japan scored against Cameroon on Monday."

NetBeans Language Panorama : Erlang, Lisp, Scala, Python and Prolog

NetBeans Language Panorama : Erlang, Lisp, Scala, Python and Prolog: "Here are five dynamic languages that have support in NetBeans. You are probably familiar with the fact that NetBeans provides support for a large number of languages - Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Groovy, C, C++, JavaFX, Fortran and others but here are five languages that you may not have know that have NetBeans implementations -"

Googling from the Command Line with GoogleCL

Googling from the Command Line with GoogleCL: "Attention geeks: As if it wasn't fun enough to type various commands into any of Google's Web services, the search giant has just unveiled a new tool that gives you even more flexibility to run Google-based queries and actions without even having to load up a browser at all."

Restart a Frozen iPod or iPhone

Restart a Frozen iPod or iPhone: "Occasionally an iPod or iPhone may freeze or fail to respond to your commands. This can happen for a number of reasons and does not necessarily indicate a serious problem. Sometimes they just need a restart much like the way your computer needs a reset once in a while."

How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years

How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years: "This was originally a comment made in response to a hacker news thread titled: Ask HN: How to become a millionaire in 3 years? . The comment has over 200 upvotes, which means people found it useful. I decided to add more thoughts, refine existing ones, and put it in a permanent place. This is just my own humble advice and I hope it’s useful for entrepreneurs."

Managing Your Email Campaigns with phpList

Managing Your Email Campaigns with phpList: "The popular email campaign manager phpList is open source, free to download and easy to use. The company Tincan is the commercial sponsor behind phpList, which comes in two forms: a hosted solution or a download that you can set up yourself on your server. If you don't want to go through the hassles of setting up and managing the system, you should go for the hosted solution (starting at US$5 per month)."

Mickey Mouse Becomes A Speed Dealer

Mickey Mouse Becomes A Speed Dealer: "The following comic book ‘Mickey Mouse and the Medicine Man’ was released by Disney in 1951. In the strip, Mickey and Goofy discover a new medicine called ‘Peppo’ that represents amphetamine (speed). Their enthusiasm for the chemical pick-me-up leads them to become salesman for the product in Africa:"

Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico

Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico: "Based on recently revised estimates, BP's ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continues to leak 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day. The new figures suggest that an amount of oil equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could still be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days. Despite apparent efforts to restrict journalists from accessing affected areas, stories, video and photographs continue to emerge. Collected here are recent photographs of oil-affected wildlife, people and shorelines around the Gulf of Mexico on this, the 51st day after the initial explosion."

11 Creative Ways to Avoid Becoming a Workaholic

11 Creative Ways to Avoid Becoming a Workaholic: "Our culture celebrates workaholism. We hear stories of people who “burn the mid-night oil” at the office, or about individuals who never take vacations. Working a lot doesn’t mean you deserve a gold star or a raise."

Boyfriend set on fire...

Boyfriend set on fire...: "Jealous girl goes cuckoo cuckoo in the head over boyfriend."

Toy Story 3 Easter Eggs

Toy Story 3 Easter Eggs: "If you haven’t seen the film, be warned that this article references and scenes from the film which may be considered spoilers. I’ve tried to keep plot details out of this or vague. All of the screenshots were compiled through trailers, commercials and the batch of clips that Pixar has released to promote the movie (I’m sure there are many more easter eggs hidden in the 80% of the movie not online). Enjoy!"

Finding a cure for 'copy and paste'

Finding a cure for 'copy and paste' : "It's not surprising that time-starved language students reach for the web to copy other people's work, but introducing more creative writing tasks can help them rely on their own skills and avoid the copy-and-paste function"

PyFilesystem 0.3 released

PyFilesystem 0.3 released: "I am pleased to announce a new version of PyFilesystem (0.3), which is a Python module that provides a common interface to many kinds of filesystem. Basically it provides a way of working with files and directories that is exactly the same, regardless of how and where the file information is stored. Even if you don't plan on working with anything other than the files and directories on your hard-drive, PyFilesystem can simplify your code and reduce the potential of error."

8Bit Art Madness

8Bit Art Madness

Adult Fans of Lego: Earliest enthusiasts come of age and keep right on building

Adult Fans of Lego: Earliest enthusiasts come of age and keep right on building: "'The possibilities are endless,' says Piccirillo, now 26 and running a business in Phoenix that organizes after-school Lego clubs. 'You can go anywhere you want with it.'"

Gotta Nuke them All

Gotta Nuke them All-Kim Jong Il

Five tips for improving Linux security

Five tips for improving Linux security: "Protecting a networked computer is a never-ending challenge — even in Linux. These simple measures from TechRepublic’s Five Tips blog will help protect your Linux box. The advice is timely given the hubbub over Linux security."

17 computer geek jokes and truisms

17 computer geek jokes and truisms: "We computer geeks are a breed of our own, and as with any group of people with mutual references, we often make jokes and observations that are totally incomprehensible to outsiders."

7 Pieces of Wisdom from Socrates

7 Pieces of Wisdom from Socrates: "Through Plato’s writing (primarily) we’ve come to comprehend the depth of Socrates’ wisdom. Today I want to discuss seven life lessons based on the teachings of Socrates. Socrates said, “I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.” This article was written to make you think. He said, “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Let his words, kindle your flame."

Why an Ubuntu Tablet Won’t Sell

Why an Ubuntu Tablet Won’t Sell: "Canonical recently announced that they are developing a tablet version of their popular Ubuntu operating system, slated to be released in 2011. This comes hot on the heels of the release of the Apple iPad, and the rumors that HP plans to release a WebOS-based tablet sometime late 2010. However, Canonical’s foray into the tablet arena is fundamentally different from both the iPad and a WebOS tablet, and unfortunately reeks of a company failing to learn from their competitors successes and failures. Here are four reasons why an Ubuntu tablet simply won’t work."

The developer obsession with code names, 114 interesting examples

The developer obsession with code names, 114 interesting examples: "Code names have been around for a long time. Remember the Manhattan project in the 1940s? That turned out to be the atomic bomb. Thankfully, not all code names hide such sinister projects."

How to Perform Encrypted Google Searches From Firefox and Google Chrome

How to Perform Encrypted Google Searches From Firefox and Google Chrome: "Quite some days back, Google introduced encrypted Google searches. The concept of encryption comes into play when Internet services use secure socket layers, better known as SSL connections to encrypt the information that travels between your computer and their service."

This Is the Sharpest Deep Space Picture Ever Taken From Earth

This Is the Sharpest Deep Space Picture Ever Taken From Earth: "The secret to the LBT's amazing star-gazing is its new adaptive optics system that compensates for atmospheric distortions. A secondary mirror, just .06 inches thin, can be subtly manipulated into different shapes to correct incoming light that's been bent by the atmosphere. The mirror can make adjustments accurate to ten nanometers every thousandth of a second. With those constant corrections, the LBT's 27.6-foot mirrors can get a clear shot into the cosmos."

William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?

William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?: "William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game."

No Strobes, No Light Stands, No Modifiers, No Problem!

No Strobes, No Light Stands, No Modifiers, No Problem!: "With fluorescents of course. waintaminute! Fluorescents? Aren't those the things that make green harsh hideous light? Well depends. Netherlands photographer Ragoem Vakfotografie shows just what can be done with just a couple of those lengthy lights."

NetBeans IDE 6.9 Now Available for Download!

NetBeans IDE 6.9 Now Available for Download!: "NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces the JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for building JavaFX GUI applications, similar to the Swing GUI builder for Java SE applications. With the JavaFX Composer, developers can quickly build, visually edit, and debug Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and bind components to various data sources, including Web services."

FBI searches home of iPad 3G hacker

FBI searches home of iPad 3G hacker: "The FBI Wednesday searched the home of one of the alleged hackers who breached AT&T's website, capturing 114,000 e-mail addresses of Apple iPad 3G customers, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal."

Comparing the Lakers with cartoon characters

Comparing the Lakers with cartoon characters: "The image of Boston guard Nate Robinson jumping on Glen Davis' back will forever remain in Celtics lore. It signifies the Celtics' bench effort in their Game 4 NBA Finals victory over the Lakers. It showcases the slobber running down Davis' mouth. And it illustrates the close relationship between the two Celtics' reserves, which Robinson later compared with Shrek and Donkey, saying,'You can't separate us.'"

Touch Down Jesus statue razed by lightning in Ohio

Touch Down Jesus statue razed by lightning in Ohio: "It had stood at the non-denominational Solid Rock Church in Monroe since 2004, and had been dubbed the Touchdown Jesus and the Quicksand Jesus."

German throws puppy at Hells Angels bikers then flees on bulldozer

German throws puppy at Hells Angels bikers then flees on bulldozer: "A German student created a major traffic jam in Bavaria when he made a rude gesture at a group of Hells Angels, hurled a puppy at them and then escaped on a stolen bulldozer."

A tour of Eclipse Helios

A tour of Eclipse Helios: "Find out what's new in the latest simultaneous release from Eclipse"

Produce 60-second radio theatre with XML, PHP and Festival

Produce 60-second radio theatre with XML, PHP and Festival: "Produce and record a 60-second theatre sound play using XML, PHP, and Festival, and provide stage directions, inject sound effects, and control dialogue flow, with a cast of dynamically allocated Festival voices."

Soccer celebrations can be dangerous

Soccer celebrations can be dangerous: "This is why you shouldn't hang out of your car. #worldcup"

BP Plans to Buy Oil-Cleanup Machines from Kevin Costner

BP Plans to Buy Oil-Cleanup Machines from Kevin Costner: "BP plans to purchase 32 centrifugal oil-and-water separators built by a company backed by Kevin Costner, the actor's business partner told the Los Angeles Times."

Ozzy Osbourne's Genetic Code Being Mapped - The Early Show - CBS News

Ozzy Osbourne's Genetic Code Being Mapped: "Scientists Trying to Figure Out How He Survived Decades of Drug, Alcohol Abuse"

Turn Your (Rooted) Android Device into a WiFi Hotspot with Wireless Tether

Turn Your (Rooted) Android Device into a WiFi Hotspot with Wireless Tether: "There are two ways to turn your Android phone into a mobile wireless hotspot: you can either buy a device running Android 2.2 Froyo, or you can root your current Android phone and install the Wireless Tether application."

The 6 best investing ideas you've never heard of

The 6 best investing ideas you've never heard of: "Sure, you want to keep your investing as simple as possible. So you invest steadily and hold fast to some simple but time-honored strategies: Keep your focus on the long term. Subtract your age from 110 (or maybe 100) and hold that percentage in stocks. Diversify as much as you can. Rebalance your portfolio on a regular basis."

Choose to Spend Time on High Impact Activities

Choose to Spend Time on High Impact Activities: "As somebody with ADHD and an attention span of about 2 hours, I’m forced to continually understand my own productivity habits. As I study those habits, I realize more and more why the people of the world waste so much time."

PSP: I'm not dead yet

PSP: I'm not dead yet: "It was hard not to be reminded of Monty Python's famous sketch when Sony took the stage Tuesday during its E3 press conference, assuring the public that the PSP platform was still alive, kicking, and very much a viable platform. The company is right, to a degree: millions still play PSP games and own systems, and the platform is far from a failure. On the other hand, the PSP has still never materialized into the superior do-everything portable Sony once dreamed of it becoming."

North Korea training in public gym

North Korea training in public gym: "Watch North Korea's national football team training in a public gym in their warm up for the FIFA World Cup 2010."

60 Hot World Cup Soccer Fans (Pics)

60 Hot World Cup Soccer Fans (Pics): "he World Cup is finally upon us this week (officially starting Friday) and you know what that means, right? Non-soccer fans, who are only watching because it's a patriot's duty to, hoping the cameras can pan away from the game as often as possible to get a nice, long look at hotties like these. I'd say a 60/40 split between scanning the crowd for babes and soccer action would suffice. What do you think? There should at least be a peek into the crowd before every throw-in, free kicks, corners, and during injuries."

Self-styled Rambo American – ‘I’m here to behead Bin Laden’

Self-styled Rambo American – ‘I’m here to behead Bin Laden’ : "An American armed with a pistol, a dagger and a 40-inch sword claimed he was on a solo mission to kill Osama Bin Laden after being arrested in Pakistan."

Dark energy may not exist in space, scientists claim

Dark energy may not exist in space, scientists claim: "Dark matter and energy, the mysterious forces thought to make up 96 per cent of the universe, may not exist according to a groundbreaking study."

Automatically Generate Maps and Directions with Google Apps Script

Automatically Generate Maps and Directions with Google Apps Script: "Following up on our recent post about the new Doc List capability in Google Apps Script, we thought we’d take a moment to look a little more closely at another new feature in Apps Script - integration with Google Maps. Google Maps has had an API for quite some time, but now we’ve made it very easy to generate customized maps and driving directions straight from a script."

Star Wars from Atari to Intellivision

Star Wars from Atari to Intellivision: "We recap the last 27 years of video games based on George Lucas's enormously influential Star Wars franchise"

The Secret Of Monkey Island: SE Reviewed

The Secret Of Monkey Island: SE Reviewed: "Appletell has posted a new review of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition from LucasArts and Aspyr Media. The game is a 'reimagining' of the original 1990 title, updated with contemporary art, remastered music, full voiceover, and a new hint system. Appletel"

Python Language Upgrade Slithers Toward Final Release

Python Language Upgrade Slithers Toward Final Release: "Python 2.7, the last in the legacy Python 2.x dynamic language line, moved closer to general availability earlier this month when developers of the language put out a release candidate."

Vuvuzela Filter using Fedora

Vuvuzela Filter using Fedora: "If you, like me, like to watch the world cup in South Africa but hate the monotonous sound of the so called Vuvuzelas this post is for you."

Vuvuzela noise filter app for Mac OS X -

Vuvuzela noise filter app for Mac OS X -: "The vuvuzelas are certainly the most controversial theme of the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa. With a loudness of up to 120 db(A) and thousands of them used during the world cup games, they sound like a a swarm of monster wasps. It does not only make it nearly impossible for the soccer players to communicate acoustically on the playing field but does also annoy many fans who want to enjoy the world cup all over the world through television."

Ajax library smackdown: Dojo versus YUI

Ajax library smackdown: Dojo versus YUI: "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is everywhere, from the local newspaper to sites that CEOs surf. Contrary to popular belief, it isn't rocket science, especially with the right library. Explore the popular Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) and Dojo libraries, and learn how they can simplify typical Ajax techniques and make JavaScript easier to work with. Discover why you should use a library in the first place and how to choose among libraries. Get some specific examples from YUI and Dojo, as well."

Web Storage API: More Security, Efficiency and Capacity than Cookies

Web Storage API: More Security, Efficiency and Capacity than Cookies: "This article introduces the Web Storage API and explains how it enables storing data in a more secure and efficient way than cookies."

Star Wars Corsets

Star Wars Corsets: "California based costume and corset maker Evening Arwen has crafted a fine pair of fancy unlicensed corsets based on the costumes of Darth Vader and the Imperial Storm Troopers. These may be some of the most important corsets ever"

YAWW = Yet Another Waka Waka: Trafassi - Waka Waka

YAWW = Yet Another Waka Waka: Trafassi - Waka Waka: "I heard this version in St. Maarten"

Zamina (Waka Waka, time for Africa) Original Version

Zamina (Waka Waka, time for Africa) Original Version: "Zangalewa is a Cameroonian song. It is sometimes called Zamina undermined by the first words.
It is part of the repertoire of soldiers, but also groups of young and Scout , throughout Africa. Its rhythm is catchy and it can serve as song march.
It has been re made as the theme song for the FIFA world cup in South Africa featuring Shakira. It is a great honor considering the fact that Cameroon is the best soccer nation in Africa and is a great world cup hopeful."

9 Essential Tips To Speed Up Windows 7

9 Essential Tips To Speed Up Windows 7: "The Microsoft Windows 7 operating system has been designed for delivering better speeds than its predecessors. However, as time passes by, the laptop/PC might tend to get slower. This is not exactly the fault of the OS. As the matter of fact, it is a common problem faced by many operating systems."

10 Best PSD Web Templates Of May 2010 For Free Download

10 Best PSD Web Templates Of May 2010 For Free Download: "Templates are always in high demand among designers. When designers are ready to design web sites, first thing they look on the internet are new and fresh PSD templates."

Create 3D Anaglyph Images

Create 3D Anaglyph Images: "The following detailed (but not too lengthy) tutorial that shows how to make 3D red and blue images was written by David Cooper."

FTC Probes Apple Business Practices

FTC Probes Apple Business Practices: "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will investigate whether Apple Inc.'s business practices harm competition in the market for software used on mobile devices, people familiar with the situation said."

AT&T's Gaping Hole Exposes 114,000 iPad 3G Buyers' Email Addresses

AT&T's Gaping Hole Exposes 114,000 iPad 3G Buyers' Email Addresses: "In what is one of the biggest leaks of email addresses in recent history, a group called Goatse Security has published the personal email addresses of 114,067 iPad 3G purchasers according to Gawker. The email addresses were obtained in what appears to be a legal fashion by querying a public interface that AT&T accidentally left exposed."

Japanese Spacecraft Successfully Deploys Solar Sail in Spac

Japanese Spacecraft Successfully Deploys Solar Sail in Space: "The Japanese spacecraft IKAROS created centrifugal force by spinning, allowing it to launch the .0003-inch-thick sail. While deployment is a challenge in a zero gravity environment, spacecraft — unlike airplanes — don’t have to contend with drag, so with each photon of light that hits the sail, the spacecraft could gather speed. The sail isn’t yet propelling IKAROS; that will be the true measure of the mission’s success."

Some Redesigns For The BP Corporation

Some Redesigns For The BP Corporation: "We whipped up some redesign options for the BP corporation. You know, the guys behind the catastrophe down south. Quick, obvious, dumb solutions."

How to Make Hand Printed Mouse Pads

How to Make Hand Printed Mouse Pads: "Here at ManMade, we're always on the lookout for craft and home décor projects that’ll work from a masculine perspective, but to be honest, the stuff that gets us the MOST excited are gender-neutral projects – you know, those that can be customized to suit any taste, and are accessible to anyone."

Concrete mixer drags man into cement bucket

Concrete mixer drags man into cement bucket: "The man, identified as Xu of Huangshi, Hubei province, was pouring cement into the concrete mixer when the bag got caught on a blade, dragging him into the machine, Orange News reports."

Poland to chemically castrate pedophiles

Poland to chemically castrate pedophiles: "Polish lawmakers are praising the new law that allows forcible chemical castration of anyone found guilty of raping someone under the age of 15 or committing incest with a close family member, the BBC reports."

Chimp rapes a frog!

Chimp rapes a frog!: "Distracted by the spectators, the chimp moves away and continues pleasuring himself with the frog in an entirely different position. It only stops when a fellow chimp appears to take notice and looks like he wants his friend to share his toys."

Disney World photo captures couple together 15 years before they met

Disney World photo captures couple together 15 years before they met: "Thirty years ago, when they lived in separate countries long before they met and married, a family shot of little Donna at Walt Disney World captured Alex in a stroller in the background."

The Jack Bauer Guide to Getting Shi%#$ Done

The Jack Bauer Guide to Getting Shi%#$ Done: "Over the last week I’ve found myself absorbed in old seasons of 24. Despite having seen them already, for some reason they are still entertaining. Let’s face it. Jack Bauer is a bonafide badass and can teach us a thing or two about getting shi#$# done. Jack Bauer can stop a nuclear warhead from being launched in the span of 24 hours, and yet most of us don’t achieve near this level of productivity. He seems to get more done in one day than most of us do in a year. So, what is that Jack Bauer can teach us about getting shi#$# done?"

E3 2010's Top Ten Rumors

E3 2010's Top Ten Rumors: "Pre-show previews are all well and good, but let's be honest: it's not a real tech show without some pregame wild speculation. Here's a list of some of the bigger rumors that have been making face time all over the blogosphere ahead of the annual gaming show. Some, like the 3DS, are based on actual announcements—others, like the Wii HD, are the sort of rumor we see all the time."

How to Start a New Hobby Without Wasting Money

How to Start a New Hobby Without Wasting Money: "However, I'll bet you've had all sorts of hobbies and interests in the past which were short-lived - where you spent money on classes or items or books which you didn't really use. So how can you start a new hobby without wasting your hard-earned money?"

Funny Soccer Related Commercials

Funny Soccer Related Commercials: "The realities around soccer"

Sea Turtle Finds Lost Camera, Films Itself Swimming (Video)

Sea Turtle Finds Lost Camera, Films Itself Swimming (Video) : "When Dutchman Dick de Bruin accidentally dropped his waterproof video camera while scuba diving in Aruba, he must have figured he would never see it again--but he was wrong. Six months later, the camera was found on a beach in Florida, a thousand miles away containing an amazing video. It turns out the camera's strap became tangled around the shell of a passing sea turtle. Somehow, the animal had inadvertently switched the camera on, capturing at least part of its thousand mile journey on film."

How the iPhone 4 will change my family life

How the iPhone 4 will change my family life: "Here are my top reasons parents should be excited about Apple’s new baby:"

Shaun White jumps back on his skateboard

Shaun White jumps back on his skateboard: "It's been four months since Shaun White claimed his second gold medal in halfpipe snowboarding at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Not one to take the summer off, White will soon step on his board again — his skateboard, that is."

Step-by-Step : How to Make an Animated Movie

Step-by-Step : How to Make an Animated Movie: "In this in-depth article, Pratik Gulati walks us through the many stages involved in creating an animated movie from scratch, whether it be the next Hollywood blockbuster or the shortest of short films. So if you’re thinking about trying it yourself and want to know how it’s done, or even if you’re just curious about the process, this article is one you don’t want to miss."

Digg loses a third of its visitors in a month: is it deadd?

Digg loses a third of its visitors in a month: is it deadd?: "The recommendation site that trailblazed a new generation of sites saw an abrupt drop in unique visitors in April. A blip or a trend? And what can Kevin Rose do about it, if anything? (Updated)"

No Drama House - a Living Experiment

No Drama House - a Living Experiment: "This is just the most interesting project by Jean-Pascal Flavien. He created a house that purposely creates problems for it’s inhabitants! The experiment is creatively titled the No Drama House."

Google's background image experiment failed miserably

Google's background image experiment failed miserably: "Instead of the originally planned 24 hour marathon of background images on Google’s homepage, they opted for just a few. When the test started, there was some serious backlash almost immediately. Due to that, Google decided that it’s probably best to just pull the plug."

Create Wonderful Digital Pinhole Pictures Using a Tobacco Box

Create Wonderful Digital Pinhole Pictures Using a Tobacco Box: "Digital pinhole uses the same principles as a 'regular pinhole' i.e. a small hole instead of lens, but as all digital cameras, it provides a way to instantly view your image and 'change film' with less hustle."

2010Share 23diggsdigg Anime Leader to Create Home Video Adaptation of Award-Winning Video Game Franchise “Dragon Age”

2010Share 23diggsdigg Anime Leader to Create Home Video Adaptation of Award-Winning Video Game Franchise “Dragon Age”: "BioWare, an EA studio and FUNimation Entertainment, the leading distributor of Japanese animation in North America, announced today an agreement to create an anime feature film adapted from BioWare’s critically-acclaimed fantasy Action RPG franchise Dragon Age. Production of the Dragon Age anime movie is slated to begin in May 2010, with a home video release in 2011. Executive producing the film are Bioware’s Executive Producer MarkDarrah and Creative Director Mike Laidlaw, as well as FUNimation’s Fukunaga and Director of Original Entertainment Chris Moujaes."

Top 100: Great Movies Every Guy Must See

Top 100: Great Movies Every Guy Must See: "Guy movies look and feel a certain kind of way. Revenge, action, comedy, and yes, even a little romance, is what it takes to please us. We’re not even above embracing a kids’ movie once in a while. The qualities that we look for vary."

Escaping Hise Rise Buildings

Escaping Hise Rise Buildings: "In recent years we witness additional high-rise building large-scale disasters such as the fire at the 35-story Cook County Administration Building in Chicago, which killed six office workers and injured eight others in 2003; the fire at the 45-story LaSalle Bank building in Chicago, which injured 37 people, including 22 firefighter in 2004; the Windsor building fire in 2005, which destroyed the emblematic 28-story tower in the heart of Madrid's business district and the fire in a Russian office building, in 2006, in which nine people died and many others were injured after jumping from the burning building."

Flojuggler Your Web App Against PMS

Flojuggler Your Web App Against PMS: "Track periods of one or more girls. Seriously"

Data mining with WEKA, Part 3: Nearest Neighbor and server-side library

Data mining with WEKA, Part 3: Nearest Neighbor and server-side library: "Data mining can be used to turn seemingly meaningless data into useful information with rules, trends, and inferences that can be used to improve your business and revenue. This article covers the last common data mining technique, 'Nearest Neighbor,' and will show you how to use the WEKA Java™ library in your server-side code to integrate data mining technology into your Web applications."

In the Name of Love

In the Name of Love: "How to achieve emotional connection. Getting to that thing called love—from distance and alienation to contact and caring."

Study: Gamers' bodies like 60-year-old chain smokers

Study: Gamers' bodies like 60-year-old chain smokers: "So an intrepid university professor took it upon himself to see if he could settle this once and for all. According to the Telegraph, Dominic Micklewright, of the University of Essex in England, tested gamers' physical and physiological condition and compared them with that of, you know, real sports people who run around and look good while they're doing so."

Miles-Per-Gallon Is Just Stupid. No, Really, It Is.

Miles-Per-Gallon Is Just Stupid. No, Really, It Is.: "Americans aren't stupid. We're just badly informed. And occasionally, stubborn."

10 things I don't like about Ubuntu 10.04

10 things I don't like about Ubuntu 10.04: "I have to confess, this was one of the most challenging 10 Things articles I have ever written for TechRepublic. Finding 10 things I don’t like about Ubuntu 10.04 wasn’t easy. And “like” is, after all, such a relative term. But as we all know, no operating system is perfect. So after much thinking, I did come up with 10 things I don’t like about one of the best operating systems on the market. Do you think you will agree? Let’s find out."

Hacking RPMs with rpmrebuild, 2nd Edition

Hacking RPMs with rpmrebuild, 2nd Edition: "A couple of years ago, I discovered a tool called rpmrebuild while searching for a way to reverse-engineer the files installed on an older Fedora system back into the original RPM package. Rpmrebuild is able to reconstruct an RPM by looking up the information about the RPM's content stored in the RPM database. If you want to rebuild an old RPM that is not easily available on the Internet anymore, or if you need to tweak packages for your organization's internal releases, or even if all you want to do is study and learn a bit more about RPM packaging, rpmrebuild is a great tool to have."

Summer Blockbuster Movie Bust: On the Falling Box Office

Summer Blockbuster Movie Bust: On the Falling Box Office: "In May, the first month of blockbuster summer movies, Hollywood brought out its big guns — sequels to Iron Man, Shrek and Sex and the City, plus the pricey action-adventures Robin Hood and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time — and most of them turned out to be popguns. The month's total take was 11% below May 2009's in revenue and 19% down in attendance. Then last weekend, four more films opened: Get Him to the Greek, Killers, Marmaduke and Splice. They all 'underperformed,' in industry parlance, marking the first June weekend in five years that no new movie earned $20 million at the box office. The weekend gross dropped a parlous 28% from the same frame last year, despite a hefty rise in ticket prices."

How to Easily Fix Window and Linux Boot Problems with the Super Grub Disk

How to Easily Fix Window and Linux Boot Problems with the Super Grub Disk: "Just about anyone who’s attempted dual booting or another non-standard boot setup has, at some point, made their own system unbootable. If the words “GRUB Error 2″ or “No Valid System Disk Found” make you break into a cold sweat, then fear no more. Now you can include the Super Grub Disk in your geek arsenal, and say goodbye to boot errors. SGD can work with Linux or Windows systems to bypass or repair the broken bootloaders that have kept many of us awake at night, and all in under 2MB. That’s right, it can even run from a floppy disk."

Twitter Looking To Hire A Government Liaison In Washington D.C.

Twitter Looking To Hire A Government Liaison In Washington D.C.: "According to a job post today, Twitter is looking for a government liaison to serve as a point person for the company in Washington D.C. The staff member will be the first D.C.-based employee for Twitter."

Resident Evil the Maniac Mansion incident Part1

Resident Evil the Maniac Mansion incident Part1: "This is the first part of Resident Evil the Maniac mansion incident."

Make your own beer labels

Make your own beer labels: "Good labels make better beers."

Your Brain on Computers

Your Brain on Computers: "When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it."

An Inside Look at Bernie Madoff's Life in Prison

An Inside Look at Bernie Madoff's Life in Prison: "In prison he doesn’t have to hide his lack of conscience. In fact, he’s a hero for it."

Blind man survives flight hanging on plane’s landing gear

Blind man survives flight hanging on plane’s landing gear: "The 20-year-old man was “frozen stiff” but alive, the Austrian Times reports, when he dropped from the fixed landing gear of the United Arab Emirates State fleet aircraft after it landed at London-Heathrow airport."

New beer said to enlarge women’s breasts

New beer said to enlarge women’s breasts: "Bohza beer was originally developed as a health drink to help new mothers who have trouble breast feeding, the Austrian Times reports. It was unclear how the beer, fermented with wheat flour and yeast, helped the women breast feed."

10 Fictional Handicapped Characters

10 Fictional Handicapped Characters : "Our world is becoming increasingly more handicapped accessible, and more and more characters in popular culture are depicted as handicapped. Sometimes their disability is the focus of the story, and sometimes it isn’t even acknowledged. Either way, we are seeing more and more characters in fiction who are handicapped or disabled, and we welcome them alongside our other favorites. In no particular order."

DIY GlidePod

DIY GlidePod: "Maybe you saw the earlier review of the Barber Tech SteddiePod. I really liked this device. I think its a versatile tool for professionals; however, the $400 price tag may be out of reach for a lot of enthusiasts to seriously consider. That got me thinking about whether I could DIY something comparable for, oh, say, thirty bucks."

Pacman Call - Lady wants it disabled from google.

Pacman Call - Lady wants it disabled from google.: "Very Funny tech support call of an old lady wanting to get PacMan disabled from her 'homepage' because she can't use her computer with it there. Hilarity follows"

Steve Jobs to crowd: 'We're having a little problem here'

Steve Jobs to crowd: 'We're having a little problem here': "About 20 or 30 minutes into the big iPhone reveal, the Wi-Fi network that Jobs was using to show off Web browsing on the iPhone 4's revamped screen conked out, leaving Apple's normally poised, ultra-confident CEO a bit red-faced as the audience stared at a giant blank Web page."

Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman Kicked Off MTV Movie Awards In Funny Clip

Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman Kicked Off MTV Movie Awards In Funny Clip: "Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman kicked off MTV Movie Awards in funny clip. The 2010 MTV Movie Awards took place earlier tonight at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City,California,and acting legend Tom Cruise brought his funny “Tropic Thunder”' character Les Grossman to the event to kick off the show with a new clip that features Les as the producer of the awards"

World Cup 2010 a feast of technology and tribalism

World Cup 2010 a feast of technology and tribalism: "Chances are there will be fewer people at their desks, too, more people responding to e-mails on their BlackBerry and, oh yeah, the network might be a little sluggish as well."

Analysis: Android vs Windows a benefit for gadget makers

Analysis: Android vs Windows a benefit for gadget makers: "The arrival of competition in the form of new operating systems from Google (GOOG.O) is set to benefit both gadget makers and consumers, reducing prices and giving users more choice."

Oil slick will head north but not to Canada, computer simulations show

Oil slick will head north but not to Canada, computer simulations show: "Oil from the Gulf spill is likely to seep its way up the U.S. coast to North Carolina then spill into the wider Atlantic, computer simulations have found."

Steve Jobs and Apple Computer Modify the World

Steve Jobs and Apple Computer Modify the World: "While his genius might be obvious to the world, being called an innovator still has to feel good to Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple."

Ottawa animator bashed for Looney Tunes changes

Ottawa animator bashed for Looney Tunes changes: "An Ottawa animator is facing a wave of complaints from cartoon fans after giving a facelift to classic Looney Tunes characters."

When It Comes to Open Data, Is Transparency Enough?

When It Comes to Open Data, Is Transparency Enough?: "The push to free up more public information and make government more transparent is one of the primary goals of open data advocates and the “Government 2.0″ movement. But sociologist and Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd warned attendees at the recent Gov 2.0 conference that there’s a downside to such efforts. “Transparency is not enough,” she said (video is embedded below), and raw information without the ability to understand or make sense of it does no one any good."

How to Simulate a Torn Flag Animation using 3ds Max and After Effects – Day 1

How to Simulate a Torn Flag Animation using 3ds Max and After Effects – Day 1: "In this 3ds Max tutorial you will learn how to generate a torn flag animation using cloth simulation, and also how to combine all of the elements, such as the flag, debris, and dust, in order to create to the final scene in After Effects."

Pino: Lightweight Microblogging Client

Pino: Lightweight Microblogging Client: "If your microblogging activities are limited to the Identi.ca and Twitter services, Gwibber might be overkill for your needs. In that case, Pino is exactly what you need. This microblogging client is lightning fast, and it's not overloaded with features you might never use. But it does support multiple accounts, URL shortening, notifications, and even spell checking."

Continuous integration with Buildbot

Continuous integration with Buildbot: "The days of cowboy coding are long gone at most organizations, replaced by a renewed interest in generating quality software. Continuous integration (CI) testing is a vital component in the practice of agile programming techniques that lead to high-quality software. Learn the theory and practice of CI testing by exploring Buildbot, an open source CI system written in Python."

Anatomy of a Web Service: XML, SOAP and WSDL for Platform-independent Data Exchange

Anatomy of a Web Service: XML, SOAP and WSDL for Platform-independent Data Exchange: "Most applications are developed to interact with users; the user enters or searches for data through an interface and the application then responds to the user's input. A Web service does more or less the same thing except that a Web service application communicates only from machine to machine or application to application. There is often no direct user interaction. A Web service basically is a collection of open protocols that is used to exchange data between applications. The use of open protocols enables Web services to be platform independent. Software that are written in different programming languages and that run on different platforms can use Web services to exchange data over computer networks such as the Internet. In other words, Windows applications can talk to PHP, Java and Perl applications and many others, which in normal circumstances would not be possible."

Top 25 Open Source Project Management Apps

Top 25 Open Source Project Management Apps: "If you are a project manager or if you plan to become one — or even if you cannot manage your personal day-to-day tasks — you might require some help from a software system designed to simplify and streamline any project or multiple projects. To help you keep your projects within budget, we’ve gathered a list of the top 25 Open Source project management apps on the market now. “Open Source” means that the apps are free to use, and that you can tweak the code to your advantage if you so desire."

Amazing Star Wars prank: Astronomy dome turned into giant R2-D2

Amazing Star Wars prank: Astronomy dome turned into giant R2-D2: "Students at Minnesota's Carleton College turned the school's observatory into a giant R2-D2 as a prank. They'd better get an A+ for this."

Security High for China's College Entrance Exams

Security High for China's College Entrance Exams: "Police, security guards and volunteers manned test venues Monday as high-stakes college entrance exams began across China following a string of deadly attacks on schoolchildren."

Impact Flash on Jupiter

Impact Flash on Jupiter: "According to their images and videos, the impact flash happened at 20:31 UTC of June 3, 2010 and lasted only few seconds in Jupiter's faded south equatorial belt. The alert was first launched by Wesley and soon after confirmed by Go who happened to imaging the planet at the same time."

Happy 15th! JAVA

Happy 15th! JAVA: "A comment on my previous blog entry pointed out that Java's 15th birthday is right about now. It's been quite a roller coaster. Seeing what people have done with Java over the years has been totally awe-inspiring."

The Burger Lab: How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries

The Burger Lab: How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries: "It's time for another round of The Food Lab. Got a suggestion for an upcoming topic? Email Kenji here, and he'll do his best to answer your queries in a future post. Become a fan of The Food Lab on Facebook for play-by-plays on future kitchen tests and recipe experiments."

Wal-Mart partners with online school to offer college credit to workers

Wal-Mart partners with online school to offer college credit to workers: "Under a program announced Thursday, employees of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club will be able to receive college credit for performing their jobs, including such tasks as loading trucks and ringing up purchases. Workers could earn as much as 45 percent of the credits needed for an associate or bachelor's degree while on the job."

Creatures of the Mechazoic Era

Creatures of the Mechazoic Era: "In the non distant future."

Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself (60 Pics)

Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself (60 Pics) : "Unleash your inner creator."

Biological Motion and Happy Interfaces

Biological Motion and Happy Interfaces: "As humans we have a tendency to anthropomorphize inanimate objects, particularly ones we spend a lot of time with. Perhaps any readers with a background in psychology can provide theories for why we exhibit this irrational behavior in the comments below. But regardless of why, it's something we as a species do. We name our cars, we attribute gender to things that have none, and we think electrical outlets have faces (they look sad[1]). Even objects incredibly far from the depths of the uncanny valley can be a bit anthropomorphic—things like a file manager, or even a desk lamp."

Beyond The Pie Chart

Beyond The Pie Chart: "Much of the vast sea of data flowing around the world every day is left unexplored because the existing tools and charts can’t help us effectively navigate it. Data visualization, interactive infographics, and related visual representation techniques can play a key part in helping people find their way through the wide expanses of data now opening up. There’s a long history of depicting complex information in graphical forms, but the gusher of data now flowing from corporations, governments and scientific research requires more powerful and sophisticated visualization tools to manage it."

A Simple, Balanced Appproach to Your Diet

A Simple, Balanced Appproach to Your Diet: "We are endlessly compelled to listen to what is healthy and unhealthy, and it seems that the advice is constantly changing. The dietary advice offered by doctors a few decades ago would probably be seen as (quite literally) a recipe for disaster today, and perhaps today’s advice will fare no better with the passage of time."

The end of busy

The end of busy: "You can now make time for work you’re passionate about, for work that matters. You can make time for solitude, for creating. You can make time for contemplation, for yourself."

My thoughts on the Marmaduke movie

My thoughts on the Marmaduke movie: "I will say this right now: if there exists a finer metaphor for the creative bankruptcy of the Hollywood film system than a movie based on a half-century old comic strip that has been recycling the same five gags since blacks and whites had separate drinking fountains, I cannot imagine it."

Yahoo Goes All In With Facebook: Here Are The Screenshots

Yahoo Goes All In With Facebook: Here Are The Screenshots: "Tomorrow Yahoo will announce a relaunch of Yahoo Profiles and their “all in” integration with Facebook Connect, including on the Yahoo home page. We’ve all known deep integration with Facebook was coming, but until now it wasn’t clear exactly how deeply Yahoo would go."

Apple and Adobe lead web tool battle

Apple and Adobe lead web tool battle: "The technological landscape has long been defined by corporate conflict as companies attempt to win over consumers."

Graydon Smith Accused of Forcing Pregnant Teen Girlfriend to Sign "Abuse Contract"

Graydon Smith Accused of Forcing Pregnant Teen Girlfriend to Sign "Abuse Contract": "Graydon Smith's career in contract law is off to an unpromising start."

How-to: DIYDTG

How-to: DIYDTG: "For those unaware, the little acronym above stands for Do-It-Yourself-Direct-To-Garment printing. In layman’s terms, printing your own shirts and designs. Commercial DTGs can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 which for the hobbyist who only wants a few shirts is ridiculous. So you would think this field of technology would be hacked to no end, but we’ve actually only seen one other fully finished and working DIYDTG. So we took it upon ourselves to build a DIYDTG as cheaply and as successfully as possible."

How technology can keep you cool in hot Dubai

How technology can keep you cool in hot Dubai: "From an air-conditioned beach to skiing in the desert, it's still possible to maintain your cool in the searing heat of a desert, as Richard Taylor and Spencer Kelly demonstrate."

Astronaut's eye view: Mars Express orbiting the Red Planet

Astronaut's eye view: Mars Express orbiting the Red Planet: "The images show the spacecraft's slow descent from high above the planet, speeding up as closest approach is passed and then slowing down again as the distance increases. Towards the start of the video, the giant Martian volcanoes can be seen followed by the beginning of the ice coverage around the South Pole as the spacecraft crosses over to the night side of the planet. Shortly after emerging back onto the day side of the planet, the beautiful North Pole can be observed, followed by the long climb away from the planet over the equator. Finally, at the end of the movie, the disk of Phobos can be seen crossing from top to bottom of the image."

Poor Man's Porsche 911 GT3 RS

Poor Man's Porsche 911 GT3 RS: "The 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, basically a race car gone street legal, could be bit hard to get your hands on, with the $150,000 price tag and all. But when you really want one and you find yourself with too much time and colored paper on your hands, you can apply a little bit of them home engineering skills and build your own almost functional model. It may look like it’s made of pancake dough and it certainly doesn’t drive very well on a rainy day, but it’ll still get some ladies to turn their heads and check it out, mostly because they’re easy to fool."

The Top Ten Sci-Fi Babies

The Top Ten Sci-Fi Babies: "'Look out, puny world of humans, here I come!' Babies are supposed to be tender, fragile, and altogether lovable, not lethal weapons emerging from the womb ready to threaten mankind. Yet Vincenzo Natali's Splice, which opens tomorrow, features not one but two disquieting birth scenes. The second is more disturbing, as a quickly-developing fetus grabs hold of biochemist Sarah Polley and doesn't want to let go, requiring the intervention of fellow scientist (and love interest) Adrian Brody to come between them."

A job application gone very, very awry

A job application gone very, very awry: "The e-mail exchange started with the attorney suggesting that the paralegal do a few freelance projects for a month before coming on board full time — and somehow ended with this shockingly offensive line from the paralegal, in which he manages to dismiss an entire gender as well as an entire practice area in a single sentence: “It’s amazing that the Ma Bar lets women practice law. Shouldn’t you be home cleaning and raising children? As for your practice, its [sic] just Bankruptcy. It’s not difficult, and many Petitioners file pro bono [sic] and get discharges.”

The full back-and-forth e-mails, as provided by the attorney, follows. Oh, and word to the paralegal: The reason you haven’t found the attorney in Lawyers Weekly as a “Super Lawyer” is that we don’t publish that advertorial product."

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains: "During the winter of 2007, a UCLA professor of psychiatry named Gary Small recruited six volunteers—three experienced Web surfers and three novices—for a study on brain activity. He gave each a pair of goggles onto which Web pages could be projected. Then he slid his subjects, one by one, into the cylinder of a whole-brain magnetic resonance imager and told them to start searching the Internet. As they used a handheld keypad to Google various preselected topics—the nutritional benefits of chocolate, vacationing in the Galapagos Islands, buying a new car—the MRI scanned their brains for areas of high activation, indicated by increases in blood flow."

The Conversation: Nicholas Carr on the Internet and Your Brain

The Conversation: Nicholas Carr on the Internet and Your Brain: "Many Americans now live their lives out on the web, in a swirl of e-mails, photos, Facebook updates, articles, videos and other bits of digital news. Ten years ago, 44 percent of Americans used the Internet. Today, three-quarters of them do, according to the World Bank."

25 Characteristics of Highly Effective Social Media Campaigns

25 Characteristics of Highly Effective Social Media Campaigns: "There is so much rock and roll going on involving businesses running social media campaigns. However, there are not many social media rockstars. Their guitars vary. Some rock hard and some… not so hard. Some even have broken guitar strings. We don’t notice the size of their guitars though. What we notice is the kind of music they produce."

High school students face hard lesson in economics

High school students face hard lesson in economics: "Students graduating from high school this spring may be collecting their diplomas just in time, leaving institutions that are being badly weakened by the nation's economic downturn."

Fedora 13 released with open 3D drivers and Python 3 stack

Fedora 13 released with open 3D drivers and Python 3 stack: "The developers behind the popular Fedora Linux distribution announced on Tuesday the official release of version 13, codenamed Goddard. It brings some important platform improvements and several new desktop applications."

Computer Programmer Creates Anti-Bieber Software, Receives Death Threats from Angry Tweens Everywhere

Computer Programmer Creates Anti-Bieber Software, Receives Death Threats from Angry Tweens Everywhere: "It's finally happening: the Bieber Fever that has invaded the hearts and minds of millions of pre-teen girls is rearing its ugly head as a violent, bloodthirsty cult. The evidence is in the fact that anyone who crosses the Biebz now faces the wrath of cruel and malicious tweets and, in many cases, death threats. The latest soul to face the scorn of the Beliebers is Greg Leuch, a software programmer who recently created the Shaved Bieber application."

Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity

Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity: "Saturday Morning Science:
Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity onboard the International Space Station."