Researcher shows how to hack ATMs with “Dillinger” tool

Researcher shows how to hack ATMs with “Dillinger” tool: "Barnaby Jack showed a live demonstration of how he hacked two different Windows CE-based ATMs on stage during a talk this afternoon at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Jack was scheduled to give the talk a year ago, but it was canceled after an ATM vendor objected to his then-employer, Juniper Networks. This year, Jack switched jobs to IOActive. The ease with which he hacked the machines should be a wake-up call for banks."

KTooN 2D Animation Tool Kit | Free your imagination!

KTooN 2D Animation Tool Kit | Free your imagination!: "With the coming of the first beta version of the KTooN's 0.9x generation and our website re-launch, we are starting a new phase in the history of this project, with the strong wish of taking the 2D animation magic to the free software world."

Pornographic cartoon images far from innocent, court hears

Pornographic cartoon images far from innocent, court hears: "Animated depictions of child pornography should not be trivialized or mistaken for cartoons, an Ottawa court heard Tuesday during the sentencing of a Gatineau, Que., man found with nearly 2,000 graphic images on his computer."

Programmer’s life (cartoon)

Programmer’s life (cartoon): "Programmers carry small world with their selves. They require really small things to be happy. If they done their tasks according to specs, they will be very happy. Some times little showstopers make them sad, and they got frustrated. And start thinking different kind of things like switching the job, how cruel the managers are, do I get appraisal etc, etc."

Google: The search party is over

Google: The search party is over: "Yes, the company is still growing at rates that would be the envy of the rest of the Fortune 500. But its core business is slowing, its stock is down, its Android mobile platform generates scant revenue, and competition (hello, Facebook) is fierce. Can Google find its footing in this brave new world?"

A Must-See Video of Microsoft's Street Slide, Better Than Google Street View

A Must-See Video of Microsoft's Street Slide, Better Than Google Street View: "Microsoft Research demonstrated a new street-level image viewing option that knocks the socks off of Google Maps Street View this week at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. Called Street Slide, the technology allows users to zoom out from the fish-eye pannable photos you see on standard street view options and instead see a series of flat panoramic photos stitched together like a timeline."

Brilliant Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorials From 2010

Brilliant Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorials From 2010: "Adobe Photoshop CS5 is a new, but experienced kid on the block. With its new powerful features, it provides designers with a flexible tool for printing, making a video or designing for the Web. Some of the features added in Photoshop CS5 are Puppet Warp, 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé, smart radius feature, Content-Aware Fill and Raw Image Processing, to name a few. In this post we showcase Adobe Photoshop CS5 tutorials from which you will learn a lot about different features of Adobe Photoshop CS5."

Dreadnought mod

Dreadnought mod: "Warhammer 40K fans rejoice, there's an awesome mod coming to your computer screens soon. Even if you're not a fan of Warhammer, pinchillo's Dreadnought mod is definitely worth a look for its superb looks and the skill on show."

Disney Hurts Hand-Drawn Animation With Beauty and the Beast 3D

Disney Hurts Hand-Drawn Animation With Beauty and the Beast 3D: "Disney's Beauty and the Beast, a film that set the standard for not just animation, but for the art of musical storytelling, garnered such critical praise in its initial theatrical release that it received multiple Academy Award nominations. Had Walt Disney been alive, he would have surely been proud -- the founding father of Walt Disney Studios had spent much of his career fighting for the recognition of animated films within the Hollywood establishment."

Video Technology Added at New Meadowlands Stadium

Video Technology Added at New Meadowlands Stadium: "For the Giants and the Jets, the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is more and better video than people can get at home. This season, the New Meadowlands Stadium will offer fans free smart-phone applications that they can glance at to see video replays, updated statistics and live video from other games — and that will work only inside a stadium."

Why Facebook is better than Quora... or is it?

Why Facebook is better than Quora... or is it?: "Here are the reasons Facebook is better than Quora, and why it will eventually destroy Quora"

Jack's Joker suit up for sale

Jack's Joker suit up for sale: "The outfit Jack Nicholson wore to play the villainous Joker in Batman is to go under the hammer in a film memorabilia auction."

'Piranha 3D' exclusive: First pic of the killer fish from this year's goriest movie

'Piranha 3D' exclusive: First pic of the killer fish from this year's goriest movie: "In this week’s issue of EW, you’ll find an article by yours truly about Piranha 3D, the new movie from horror-meister Alexandre Aja and a film that everyone involved insists is the goriest release of the year, and possibly of all-time. We’ve also got the first ever photo of one of the titular fish — you can check it out above. It’s a nasty looking beastie to be sure, and a chilling reminder to younger readers not to flush live tropical fish down the toilet."

First 3D Camcorder for Consumers Unveiled by Panasonic

First 3D Camcorder for Consumers Unveiled by Panasonic: "Panasonic has unveiled its first two consumer camcorders capable of recording video in 3D. They look like regular video cameras and can record conventional 2D images, but by adding a lens adapter, they can capture in 3D."

First 3D Camcorder for Consumers Unveiled by Panasonic

First 3D Camcorder for Consumers Unveiled by Panasonic: "Panasonic has unveiled its first two consumer camcorders capable of recording video in 3D. They look like regular video cameras and can record conventional 2D images, but by adding a lens adapter, they can capture in 3D."

Protect And Secure Your Android Phone With Lookout Mobile Security

Protect And Secure Your Android Phone With Lookout Mobile Security: "In the past, when it comes to security, we are always discussing about means to protect our PC from virus, malware and hackers. With the rising popularity of smart phone, such as iPhone, Android phone, blackberry etc, we are starting to see more and more concern for mobile security. Hence, it is no surprise that more and more security apps now exist for the your mobile device. Now, if you are carrying plenty of sensitive data on your mobile device and hoping to find a way to protect yourself, then Lookout Mobile Security would be a great choice."

A Quick-Start Guide to Cinema 4D

A Quick-Start Guide to Cinema 4D: "In the first of several tutorials looking at the different aspects of Cinema 4D, Aleksey Voznesenski begins by giving a fast-paced, quick-start overview of the interface, basic primitive objects and lighting/HDR maps. If you’ve always wanted to try C4D, or even if you’ve got a good amount of experience using it, this tutorial will help get everyone up to speed for the amazing Xpresso and Rigging tutorials we have coming up!"

5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies): "Even in gun-crazy America, most of us aren't shooting things as part of our day-to-day routine. So most Americans actually know very little about guns. Hollywood writers realized this a long time ago and, being writers, used it as an excuse to never do any fact-checking ever again."

Development of a 3D Multiplayer Racing Game

Development of a 3D Multiplayer Racing Game: "Racing games are one of the most popular categories of games and their development has always been a challenge to the game programmer, due to their demands in computer resources and fast networks. Most commercial games have been developed in C++, which is a mature programming language used by experienced programmers in the industry. However, network development, mobile gadgets, and hardware development have highlighted the need for a dynamic, continuously developed, portable, and object-oriented programming language for game development. Java seems to have these characteristics and sometimes can be faster than C++. The traditional game industry can also gain from Java. New game consoles are based on network services and there are thoughts of establishing Java as a mainstream technology in game development in the future."

A Linux experiment gone horribly...perfect!

A Linux experiment gone horribly...perfect!: "After doing everything I (and the consultancy I work for) would have done, I determined that the best approach was to re-install the OS. Problem is, he couldn’t find his restore discs and (as I mentioned earlier) he didn’t want to shell out the money for Windows 7. This laptop was just going to be his spare laptop for home use (it was his primary laptop at work)."

Making Our Minds Last a Lifetime

Making Our Minds Last a Lifetime: "Cognitive therapies, supplements and activities are the key ingredients in keeping the brain fit and fighting the aging process."

Firefox 4 Gets Second Beta Release

Firefox 4 Gets Second Beta Release: "After a short delay, Mozilla released the next version of its Firefox browser, with many bugs fixed, improved speed, and support for CSS Transitions."

4 Useful Extensions to Improve Firefox Memory Usage

4 Useful Extensions to Improve Firefox Memory Usage: "It is a known fact that Firefox is a memory monster. It consumes your memory like there is no tomorrow. Load up a few tabs and it starts to slow down (or even crash). This is also the main reason why many people are ditching Firefox for Google Chrome. If you are bothered by this memory issue, but are not able to switch to other browsers because of the heavy dependency on the extensions, here are another 4 extensions that can solve/reduce the memory issue and make you a happy Firefox user (hopefully) again."

Speaking UNIX: Get to know Ksplice

Speaking UNIX: Get to know Ksplice: "Ksplice applies kernel patches on-the-fly—no reboot required—in a fraction of a second. Here's a hands-on guide to performing painless system updates."

How To Discover Your Productivity Patterns

How To Discover Your Productivity Patterns: "Beyond these genuinely unique contributions, daily work-related tasks and responsibilities generally fall into the four categories described below. The key to discovering your productivity patterns is to identify what tasks you spend your time on and then organize and plan them in a way that allows you to make the most of your time. When you do, you’ll find that you are able to get more work done in a shorter amount of time, and your sense of accomplishment and satisfaction of a job well done will grow."

the best goal is no goal

the best goal is no goal: "The idea of having concrete, achievable goals seem to be deeply ingrained in our culture. I know I lived with goals for many years, and in fact a big part of my writings here on Zen Habits are about how to set and achieve goals."

Zombiefied Star Wars-Poster

Zombiefied Star Wars-Poster: "No survival guide could save you from the zombie force."

High Altitude Balloon Transmitter

High Altitude Balloon Transmitter: "A small group of high school students taking an AP class for college credit launched a high-altitude weather balloon with a small payload. In addition to a video transmitter and GPS transmitter, they decided to include a simple transmitter built from scratch. This is the story of the project, with emphasis on the simple transmitter’s design, construction, implementation, and reception (which surprised me, being detected ~200 miles away and lasting the entire duration of the flight!)"

Strange But True: Tattooed LEGOS

\Strange But True: Tattooed LEGOS: "The mad men behind Pilot Extra-Fine ball-pens (aka Barcelona’s Grey agency) have created a great viral marketing featuring LEGOS with drawn on “badass” tattoos. Straight out of your mother’s nightmares, these LEGOS have dedications to Harley Davidson, lots of angry skulls, and in one instance, a rather racy tramp stamp. Click through to view our favorite tatted up bad boys."

How to Backup in Linux Using Mondoarchive Command

How to Backup in Linux Using Mondoarchive Command: "Data loss is a horrible reality and it may occur to any system, nevertheless of the hardware and system configuration. You can prevent such situations by creating a reliable and complete backup of your storage media."

Perl creator Larry Wall hints at final Perl 6 release

Perl creator Larry Wall hints at final Perl 6 release: "In his annual 'State of the Onion' speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language might finally be released soon. He also ruminated about the effect that Perl 6 would have, once it is released."

Sustaining Innovation

Sustaining Innovation: "How top IT organizations come up with bright ideas, time after time"

Java is too complicated, let's start over

Java is too complicated, let's start over: "s Google fracturing Java, or saving it? I asked those questions, somewhat in jest, a couple of weeks ago. I think the truth is something closer to this: Google is an enormous company that cheerfully allows various business units to chart their own paths, using available tools. For some, Java, conveniently open sourced, is one of those tools."

This Invisible PC Mouse Only Cost $20 to Make

This Invisible PC Mouse Only Cost $20 to Make: "Three students from MIT's Media Lab have created an invisible computer mouse costing only $20 to build. Instead of the typical hands-on peripheral, the 'invisible mouse' uses a line-capped infrared laser and an infrared tracking camera to interpret the user's hand movements. In turn, those movements are translated into on-screen actions such as button clicking and cursor placement."

FARTING MAKES BOYS SMARTER

FARTING MAKES BOYS SMARTER: "The Center for Education Policy has released the results of a study that proves conclusively that farting raises IQ levels in boys."

COMIC-CON 2010: The not-ready-for-prime-time convention?

COMIC-CON 2010: The not-ready-for-prime-time convention?: "Laughter erupted throughout the crowd. This year, Comic-Con has struggled to stay clean – or at least clean enough for the family audience that organizers say they want to attract. But profanity and onscreen violence kept creeping into the annual comics, games and toys gathering."

The Top 25 Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians

The Top 25 Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians: "Take a man. Add eye work (unisex glasses if eye wear is needed)and Botox. Mix in a bad haircut or unfashionably long hair--if possible a dye job. A little doughy-ness doesn't hurt, either. Have a weakness for turtlenecks and by all means fight aging like it's a battle you can win if you try just a little harder, and there you have it: The winning formula to become a man who looks like an old lesbian."

Toilet Tech: A Power Generator Turns Falling Wastewater Into Electricity

Toilet Tech: A Power Generator Turns Falling Wastewater Into Electricity: "Here’s a novel way to get a little more out of time spent in the bathroom. An industrial design student at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, has created a clever power generator that turns falling wastewater into electricity. The HighDro Power is a waterwheel-like turbine that can be incorporated into the pipes of tall buildings to turn one man’s waste into another man’s wattage."

Welcome to Google Lit Trips!

Welcome to Google Lit Trips!: "This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!"

Laser light Kills Canon 5D Mark II

Set Up a Fully Automated, Torrent-Seeding Media Center

Set Up a Fully Automated, Torrent-Seeding Media Center: "We've featured a fully automated media center set-up before, but Lifehacker reader Andre has improved on these methods, allowing you to download torrents to your media center while still seeding them to others."

Web Workers rise up!

Web Workers rise up!: "Picture this. You are the dear leader of the little-known land of ScravaJipt, reigning supreme over all you survey. You have a chief servant to look after you, buy your clothes, press the buttons on your mobile phone. But there are times when this gets too much for him. He gets overloaded with all those chores so you have to outsource certain tasks to specialists (one to press buttons, one to buy shirts, another to buy trousers). Luckily for him, there are plenty of workers you can rely on. Similarly, luckily for web developers there are digital specialists that can take over certain tasks when our JavaScript engine gets overloaded. Meet Web Workers, one of many technologies that, together with HTML5, are forming the next generation of the open web."

Great FUTURAMA art

Great FUTURAMA art: "Futurama as you never seen it before."

Mattel loopz: if simon married merlin and had a kid

Mattel loopz: if simon married merlin and had a kid: "Music pattern-matching games like Guitar Hero owe a lot to the early electronic games of the 1970s like Simon and Merlin. Now Mattel is back with a brand new music game which feels like a modern homage to the classics."

6 Beautiful Android Live Wallpapers to Make Your Phone Stand Out

6 Beautiful Android Live Wallpapers to Make Your Phone Stand Out: "In January 2010, Google released Android 2.1. Amongst a bevy of features released in this version of the mobile operating system, Google also added the live wallpapers function. What makes this live wallpapers different from the conventional static wallpapers is the richer, animated and interactive backgrounds."

A Complete Guide to Google Special Search – How to Use Google A Lot More Creatively

A Complete Guide to Google Special Search – How to Use Google A Lot More Creatively: "Google is no doubt the most popular search engine till date. Millions of people across the globe use it everyday to search for content, pictures, blogs and everything else. The reason of the huge popularity of Google is because the results are so relevant and match closely with what the user is searching for."

Dragon Shoulder Puppet - Easy to Make!

Dragon Shoulder Puppet - Easy to Make!: "Start with some tinfoil armature for the head and jaws (teeth) - (and a nice tail) - wrap with some 26 gauge wire, then smooth on the Sculpy clay finish with some texture, and bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Then you make a wooden chassis with the vinyl tubing afixed to where the head will swivel, add the head on a long threaded rod, put in some eyehooks - attach some cable (through the vinyl tubing) to the eyehooks, then wrap the body with some duct-tape, hot-glue the feather boa around and around, affix the skeleton hands (painted gloss black) - and then the neodynum magnets (for the vest and the bottom of the dragon. Ta-Da - EASY!"

DIY 3D Printing with and old HP 450 DEMO

How to make a timelapse shared memory server

How to make a timelapse shared memory server "The basic idea is this. You’ve got an old computer lying around. You’ve got a webcam or something else that can take pictures. So you can make yourself an information appliance. A simple one function shared device."

‘Twitter Doctors’ Lists Medical Kings of Social Media

‘Twitter Doctors’ Lists Medical Kings of Social Media: "Twitter Doctors is a new online directory that is trying to rank all of the doctors with Twitter accounts, putting the ones with the highest influence score at the top. The directory also lists the number of tweets, followers, and retweets each doctor has. However, the site’s usefulness isn’t all that clear. What does the site actually tell us about these doctors?"

Dr. Pepper learns about social media boundaries the hard way

Dr. Pepper learns about social media boundaries the hard way: "There's always a fine line between cutting edge marketing and offensive pulp. And in social media you learn the difference fairly quickly. For example, Coke is now trying to stem the damage that ad agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine created on Dr. Pepper's U.K. Facebook campaign."

How to host a Website using Dropbox

7 Reasons Why Techies Love Inception

7 Reasons Why Techies Love Inception: "With opening weekend box office receipts of $62.8 million, it’s clear that the film “Inception” appeals to a broad audience, but Silicon Valley in particular is burning with love for this movie. And I can see why: I loved Inception because I am a geek and a techie at heart. Why does being a geek mean that this movie appeals to me? True to the spirit of the movie, let me address that question on multiple levels. (Don’t worry — I’ll try to do this in a way that doesn’t have too many spoilers)."

Top 10 DIY Food Geek Projects

Top 10 DIY Food Geek Projects: "The best-tasting food is the kind that comes from your own efforts, because victory tastes oh-so-sweet. Conquer KFC-style fried chicken, smoky barbecue, wood-fired pizza, five-minute bread, and other DIY delicacies with these great food-focused projects."

Daft Punk: FINAL!

Daft Punk: FINAL!: "ts been a long road. Seventeen months, countless hours, multiple dead ends, hundreds of lessons learned, and one helmet made. In the past two installments I've discussed sculpting, resin casting, chroming and vacuum forming. This is where the magic happens though... Illumination."

Longest Eclipse Ever: Airplane Chases the Moon’s Shadow

Longest Eclipse Ever: Airplane Chases the Moon’s Shadow: "Eclipse hunters set a new record on July 11 for the longest eclipse ever observed by civilians chasing the moon in an airplane. While hundreds of eclipse enthusiasts flocked to islands in the South Pacific to watch the moon blot out the sun, astronomer Glenn Schneider and colleagues climbed to 39,000 feet to spend 9 minutes, 23 seconds in the moon’s shadow."

Fart-Operated TV Remote: This Will End Badly

Fart-Operated TV Remote: This Will End Badly: "An intrepid modder by the name of Schmidtn decided to build himself a remote control that, when it detected the foul odour of flatulence, would change the TV to a random channel. How fiendishly brilliant."

Laser weapon image - Raytheon's killer laser--4, UAVs--0 (photos)

Laser weapon image - Raytheon's killer laser--4, UAVs--0 (photos): "-If you thought laser weapons were just military writer's futuristic fantasy, think again. On Tuesday, Raytheon and the U.S. Navy announced that they have successfully used a high-power, solid-state laser, in conjunction with a Phalanx Close-in Weapon System, to knock four UAVs out of the sky off the coast of California."

MS "killed" PC/Xbox cross-platform play

MS "killed" PC/Xbox cross-platform play: "Microsoft scrapped plans to allow PC and Xbox 360 gamers to play shooters like Unreal Tournament 3 and Gears of War online together because during tests 'console players got destroyed every time'."

12 Top Spy Gadgets

12 Top Spy Gadgets: "From power strips that spy on you, to ballpoint pens that double as document scanners, here are 12 snoopy gadgets that capture voice, video, or data, and can track you down surreptitiously."

Lionsgate moves 'Saw 3D' release date to avoid face off with 'Paranormal Activity 2'

Lionsgate moves 'Saw 3D' release date to avoid face off with 'Paranormal Activity 2': "All of the 'Saw' movies since 2004's original have opened on the weekend before Halloween and Lionsgate had the same plan for this year's installment. However, in January Paramount made clear its intentions of supplanting 'Saw' with its fresh horror series by dating 'Paranormal Activity 2,' a follow-up to last year surprise low-budget hit, on the same date, Oct. 22."

Lionsgate moves 'Saw 3D' release date to avoid face off with 'Paranormal Activity 2'

Lionsgate moves 'Saw 3D' release date to avoid face off with 'Paranormal Activity 2': "All of the 'Saw' movies since 2004's original have opened on the weekend before Halloween and Lionsgate had the same plan for this year's installment. However, in January Paramount made clear its intentions of supplanting 'Saw' with its fresh horror series by dating 'Paranormal Activity 2,' a follow-up to last year surprise low-budget hit, on the same date, Oct. 22."

Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell Returns

Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell Returns: "It's been 28 years since Nolan Bushnell founded Atari for just $500. The businessman, who used Pong to first launch the arcade craze in 1972 and later brought gaming into the living room in 1984 with the Atari 2600, is now back with the company."

Apple Fans Ignore Antennagate, Seek Gadget Happiness

Apple Fans Ignore Antennagate, Seek Gadget Happiness: "When Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs announced he was giving away $30 plastic cases to iPhone 4 owners on July 16, Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief. There would be no recall of the more than 3 million reception-challenged devices that had been sold since the iPhone 4’s debut on June 24."

DIY miniMAME

DIY miniMAME: "So the other week I decided to make a MAME cabinet for my Acer Aspire One netbook. I have broken down the results into 2 pages, the Design of the cabinet and the Construction of the cabinet."

Keep Tabs on Your Data with Pygmynote

Keep Tabs on Your Data with Pygmynote: "When it comes to filers and pilers, I firmly belong to the latter category. I do like to keep all my disparate data -- notes, links, to-dos, etc. -- in one application, so when I need to find something, I have to look in one place. That's why I wrote a simple Python command-line tool that acts as my personal data manager. While there are many open source applications out there that provide this type of functionality, none of them scratch my particular itches. So I wrote my dead-simple script that does pretty much anything I need. The first version of Pygmynote was released in August 2008, followed by a major update in January 2009. A few days ago, I released version 0.5.1 which fixes a few annoying bugs and adds a couple of new features."

Top 10 New Features in CSS 3

Top 10 New Features in CSS 3: "The latest version of Cascade Style Sheets, CSS 3, was developed to make Web design easier but it became a hot topic for a while because not all browsers supported it. However, trends change quickly in technology and all browser makers currently are implementing complete CSS 3 support. Making that process easier for the browser manufacturers is CSS 3's modularized specification, which allows them to provide support for modules incrementally without having to perform major refactoring of the browsers' codebases. The modularization concept not only makes the process of approving individual CSS 3 modules easier and faster, but it also makes documenting the spec easier."

How to be Insanely Productive and Still Keep Smiling

How to be Insanely Productive and Still Keep Smiling: "Do you want to be more productive? Maybe you do, but I’m sure you don’t want to feel stressed, overwhelmed, or unhappy – which happens to many super-productive people."

7 Reasons Why You Are Time Poor

7 Reasons Why You Are Time Poor: "While we all have the same amount of time in the day, why is it that some people seem to accomplish a ton more than you? From the President to the postman, people all have the same time frame but accomplish loads more than in a single day that you seem to accomplish in a week."

What Happened to M. Night Shyamalan?

What Happened to M. Night Shyamalan?: "Has any recent director begun with greater promise or had a worse trajectory of achievement?"

Columbus too obese for ambulance stretchers

Columbus too obese for ambulance stretchers: "Apparently, according to the Columbus Dispatch, some residents in that city are so overweight they’re too much for paramedics to handle, literally. The Columbus Division of Fire has armed up over the last couple of years with stretchers that can haul around patients who weight up to 650 pounds — only that’s not good enough. No, it appears the city is now considering purchasing high-dollar stretchers that can support even heavier loads, up to 1,000 pounds. Why? Well, according to the Dispatch, about twice a month paramedics have to move patients who are too heavy for the existing equipment, meaning twice a month eight to ten city employees are filing new health insurance claims for back injuries."

Play Games for 50 Hours, Earn a World Record

Play Games for 50 Hours, Earn a World Record: "A group of Dutch gamers have set a new world record for playing videogames by playing Red Dead Redemption for over two days straight."

The '2204355 ' Google search: Dancing chicken man is latest internet viral

The '2204355 ' Google search: Dancing chicken man is latest internet viral: "By typing the numbers 2204355 and pressing Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button for searching the user is treated to a man dancing with chicken drumsticks."

How to Sync Your MS Office Documents to Online Office Apps (Google Docs, Zoho, Office Live)

How to Sync Your MS Office Documents to Online Office Apps (Google Docs, Zoho, Office Live): "One of the advantages of using a Web based office suite is that it allows you to share the document with your friends/colleagues and get them to collaborate on the document. On the other hand, using Microsoft Office on your computer allows you to make use of the rich formatting/editing tool to improve your productivity. Wouldn’t it be great if you can get the best of both worlds, by editing your documents in Microsoft Office, and upload/publish/sync the edited version back to the web based office apps? In this article, we will see how this can be done with three popular online office suite – Google Docs, Zoho and Office Live."

4 Ways of Executing a Shell Script in UNIX / Linux

4 Ways of Executing a Shell Script in UNIX / Linux: "There are four ways to execute a shell script. Each way has it’s own meaning as explained in this article."

Add your own GIMP features

Add your own GIMP features: "The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a robust application for editing and manipulating digital images. Because it's open source software, any developer is allowed to modify and extend it with even more features. In this article, you will learn how to get started with the GIMP code, how to build the project from the Git repositories, and how to find your way around the code tree. And you will build an example application that creates a whole new painting tool for the program."

Super Sketchy: 15 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Websites

Super Sketchy: 15 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Websites: "How do you make a website visually dynamic, without using any special effects? There’s nothing quite like the artsy and adventurous look of hand-drawn graphics. The juxtaposition of these spontaneous, free-flowing, real-world elements against the sometimes cold and impersonal nature of the internet infuses some much-needed character and warmth into a wide range of websites, from health insurance blogs to record companies.
PSYOP"

10 Best Rollercoaster Souvenir Photos Ever

10 Best Rollercoaster Souvenir Photos Ever: "Here are 10 of the best rollercoaster souvenir photos ever and in the entire universe and for all time…."

Two chicks flashing on roller coaster NSFW

Two chicks flashing on roller coaster NSFW: "And that yhey the theme park sold millions of pictures!"

Get ready to floor it at Ferrari World

Get ready to floor it at Ferrari World: "A hundred days before it opens to the public, the new theme park on Yas Island has unveiled its full list of attractions."

Google's latest invention may lead to a severe loss of app-etite

Google's latest invention may lead to a severe loss of app-etite: "I see that Google has launched a new online tool that may eventually make you wish you'd never been born. It's called App Inventor, and it's a kind of DIY kit that will allegedly enable non-techies to build applications for Android smartphones. 'To use App Inventor,' says Google, 'you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires no programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behaviour.'"

How to Draw a Realistic Mobile Phone with Photoshop

How to Draw a Realistic Mobile Phone with Photoshop: "In this Photoshop tutorial, we will draw a realistic mobile device. Our aim is to make our work appear so realistic that it looks just like a regular product shot. We will cover basic concepts for drawing a true to life object, making a basic pattern for the speakers of our mobile device, leveraging plenty of layer styles to keep our techniques flexible and non-destructive, and more. The key technique we will stress upon is paying attention to the small details, which greatly affects realism."

Windows vs Ubuntu: in a nutshell

Windows vs Ubuntu: in a nutshell: "Well, now the PC maker’s had time to think the matter through, another page has appeared on the Dell website, condensing the whole Windows vs Ubuntu debate into about 100 words."

Linux To Dominate Mobile Market By 2015

Linux To Dominate Mobile Market By 2015: "A recent study has predicted that by 2015, Linux-based operating systems will power the majority of mobile handsets except for high-end smartphones."

How to View and Delete Iptables Rules

How to View and Delete Iptables Rules: "Use the iptables list option to view, and iptables flush option to delete all the rules as shown below. You should have root permission to perform this operation."

Project: Paper-Clone

Project: Paper-Clone: "Welcome to the chamber of paper and glue, Frankenstein Junior. Ever considered to create life not only in a virtual world but also physically, so that you can have your Alter Ego right beside you?
Create a clone and experience the joy of a buddy that is never mean and always loyal and patient, and, most important of all, resembles you if you want him to. That is what makes him unique and proves your skill undeniably ."

Eating fish weekly may lower risk of age-related eye disease

Eating fish weekly may lower risk of age-related eye disease: "Older adults who eat fatty fish at least once a week may have a lower risk of serious vision loss from age-related macular degeneration, according to a U.S. study."

Mobile speed camera roll into action

Mobile speed camera roll into action: "Motorists are reminded mobile speed cameras will be out from today patrolling the state’s high crash risk areas."

'Robot Chicken' / 'Titan Maximum' Animation News

'Robot Chicken' / 'Titan Maximum' Animation News: "Stop-action animation on the Adult Swim programming block again cues up a few notable dates in the late summer months. Green and Senreich's Robot Chicken: Star Wars prepares fans for its third chapter of sith-stomping action, while the 1980s-inspired giant robot comedy Titan Maximum readies its first significant home video release. The late night programming of Adult Swim has presently set a number of series premiers and whatnot on schedule for the coming months; the items noted here are a sampling of relevant news items."

Damn the assholes with BP stock

Missing Missy: perhaps the best email forward of all time

Missing Missy: perhaps the best email forward of all time: "I am usually not a fan of forwards, but this is really funny. A woman loses her cat and asks her designer friend to drop everything and make a poster to post around the neighborhood. Anyone who works in a service role (developers, marketers, pr peeps) gets these kind of requests from friends, but they never quite turn out this funny."

Photoblog: Another offshore wind farm under construction

Photoblog: Another offshore wind farm under construction: "It will be the first of several massive wind farms which are larger than 500MW each (meaning they can produce close to 2 TWh of electricity per year), and a price tag in the EUR 1.5-2 billion range. That price can be split roughly in 3 similar-sized bits, being (i) the turbines, (ii) the marine construction work, including the foundations, and (iii) the rest, including development costs, electrical equipment (high voltage transformer station and cables) and, if relevant, financing costs. The size of the different fractions can vary depending on the distance to shore, water depth, site conditions and regulatory framework (in Germany, for instance, you don't need to build the high voltage export cable as this has to be taken care of by the grid operator)."

How To Take Screenshots on your Android Phone (Rooted Phone Only)

How To Take Screenshots on your Android Phone (Rooted Phone Only) : "Unlike the iPhone, there is no easy way for you to take screenshots of your Android phone. The only way is to install the Android SDK and run the ddms from there. However, if you have rooted your phone, this will be a different story. There are several useful apps in the marketplace that allow you to make screen capture of your Android phone (they only work if you have rooted your phone). Let’s take a look."

5 Key Steps That Will Improve Your Decision Making

5 Key Steps That Will Improve Your Decision Making: "Put another way, you would do well to make smarter decisions. You don't need to be smarter to make smarter decisions (in fact, a lot of smart people make make a lot of stupid decisions), but by simply remembering the following five techniques, you can make smarter decisions starting right now."

Transformable NXT WallE

Transformable NXT WallE: "This Lego NXT Wall-E transformable robot is fully self controlled, it uses Lego Mindstorms programming environment. It is for all I know the first in Lego build look-alike which is capable to transform automated. The transformation is quite similar to the original wall-e does it. Cool! By Andreas."

Extraordinary Light Stencil Urban Art Pictures by Tigtab

Extraordinary Light Stencil Urban Art Pictures by Tigtab: "Graffiti-ridden derelict sites have been given a much needed face-lift with extraordinary light art by Tigtab. Each image is created with the help of stencils. These intricate designs are revealed after a burst from a camera flash lights up the inside of the box. In this picture, a pond scene is created in a flooded derelict building."

G.I. smash! Army tests HULC robotic exoskeleton

G.I. smash! Army tests HULC robotic exoskeleton: "Lockheed Martin has received a $1.1 million contract to test its next-generation HULC exoskeleton that can give troops superhuman strength and endurance, as well as reduce injuries from heavy loads."

Researchers: Authentication Crack Could Affect Millions

Researchers: Authentication Crack Could Affect Millions: "Due to a reporting error, the story, 'Researchers: Authentication crack could affect millions,' posted Thursday, incorrectly described the target of an attack on Internet authentication systems. The attack targets digital signatures used by authentication tokens sent by the browser to prove that the user is logged into the Web site."

Damn Vulnerable Linux - The most vulnerable and exploitable operating system ever!

Damn Vulnerable Linux - The most vulnerable and exploitable operating system ever!: "Usually, when installing a new operating system the hope is that it’s as up-to-date as possible. After installation there’s bound to be a few updates required, but no more than a few megabytes. Damn Vulnerable Linux is different, it’s shipped in as vulnerable a state as possible."

How to trick people into thinking you're good looking

Machine gun-toting robots deployed on DMZ

Machine gun-toting robots deployed on DMZ: "DEMILITARIZED ZONE, Korea — Security along the DMZ has gone high-tech, as South Korea has quietly installed a number of machine gun-armed robots to serve as the first line of defense against the potential advance of North Korean soldiers."

Ghosting The Machine

Ghosting The Machine: "This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a desktop/server). Credit goes to 'topdog' for this."

How to Create Your Own Customized Ubuntu Live CD

How to Create Your Own Customized Ubuntu Live CD: "We love a good live CD, but what if your favorite one doesn't quite have every application or tweak you need? Here's how to roll your own Ubuntu Live CD, with all the packages you want, and some nice customizations, to boot."

Firefox security test add-on was backdoored

Firefox security test add-on was backdoored: "he Mozilla Sniffer add-on would have introduced an unexpected vulnerability in any application being tested — whenever a login form was submitted, the add-on secretly sent a copy of the URL, password and other details to an IP address presumably controlled by the malicious author."

Gourmet Java technology for Android applications

Gourmet Java technology for Android applications: "Java™ language is the tool of choice for Android developers. The Android runtime uses its own virtual machine, Dalvik, which is not the usual Java virtual machine that most Java developers are used to. Dalvik supports most of the features in the Java programming language—but not all of them. In this article you will learn advanced Java features and how they are implemented on Android. This includes features such as concurrency, networking, and database access."

Logo Fail: 10 Ways to Avoid Making a Creative Logo

Logo Fail: 10 Ways to Avoid Making a Creative Logo: "A well-designed logo is timeless, simple, memorable, versatile and appropriate. But then there are the hideous, the bizarre, the unreadable and the offensive (whether due to unintended double entendres or Comic Sans). The things that make a logo truly awful aren’t easy to define, but you know a bad one when you see it – clip art, raster graphics, unrelated imagery and poor choices in typeface. Except in the hands of a truly exceptional designer, these 10 mistakes will cripple any corporate branding strategy."

Career of Your Dreams, Career of Your Genes

Career of Your Dreams, Career of Your Genes: "People bring a unique predisposition or set of expectations to the workplace that may be harder to modify than previously thought. And though tinkering with the lighting or buying a better printer or hiring companionable staff may improve job satisfaction, it may not help as much as one might hope. These same genetically influenced tendencies, in more 'satisfied' types, may help explain why some people persist at interesting or fulfilling jobs even when they offer only modest pay or slim hopes of advancement. When we like what we do we may be more tolerant of troubles that arise from time to time in any work."

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: "Now web designers and developers can join the iPhone app party without having to learn Cocoa's Objective-C programming language. It's true: You can write iPhone apps quickly and efficiently using your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book shows you how with lots of detailed examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on exercises."

How to Listen to Dylan: Square One

How to Listen to Dylan: Square One: "For the 1st time Dylan listener we recommend you start off with this album. Why? Well, it’s got a little something for everyone. There’s straight up rock and roll: “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and “Maggie’s Farm.” There’s acoustic folk: “Mr. Tambourine Man”, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” and “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’--Each with Dylan signature harmonica shreds."

Hibiki Kono climbs a brick wall after turning himself into Spiderman

Hibiki Kono climbs a brick wall after turning himself into Spiderman: "SCHOOLBOY Hibiki Kono climbs a sheer brick wall after turning himself into Spiderman - with the help of two £14.98 Tesco Value vacuum cleaners."

You Built What?! The 200-MPG Aerocycle

You Built What?! The 200-MPG Aerocycle: "A motorcycle with an aerodynamic shell gets more than 200 miles per gallon"

OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head: "The OGB is keen to promote the uptake and open development of OpenSolaris and to work on behalf of the community with Oracle, as such the OGB needs Oracle to appoint a liaison by August 16, 2010, who has the the authority to talk about the future of OpenSolaris and its interaction with the OpenSolaris community otherwise the OGB will take action at the August 23 meeting to trigger the clause in the OGB charter that will return control of the community to Oracle."

The elements of change

The elements of change: "Change can be a difficult thing. Most people want to change their lives, in some way, but find it difficult to either get started or to sustain the change for very long."

Star Wars Subway Car

Star Wars Subway Car: "For our latest mission, we staged a reenactment of the first Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star Wars on a New York City subway car. The white walls and sliding doors on the train reminded us of the rebel ship from the movie, and we thought it would be fun to see how people would react to a surprise appearance by the iconic characters. We spread out the actors along the train line, staging it so they would enter the right car at the right time. Enjoy the video first and then go behind-the-scenes with the photos and report below."

Free Mega Games Pack For Linux

Free Mega Games Pack For Linux: "Remember a time when the most complex aspect of a game was unwrapping the packaging? It was a time when a first-person shooter truly was just about one person doing a whole lot of shooting and not much else. It was a time when RAM was still counted by the megabyte and 1024×768 resolution was considered high-end."

Google shares stats about all websites, but not their own

Google shares stats about all websites, but not their own: "Google is a bit of a paradox. On one hand, it promotes openness, with a stated mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” An admirable goal. On the other hand Google is often secretive when it comes to publicly sharing information about its own websites and services."

Apple Deleting Threads Discussing Consumer Reports Statement from Its Forums

Apple Deleting Threads Discussing Consumer Reports Statement from Its Forums: "On Monday, Consumer Reports stated on its blog that after testing three different iPhone 4 units and concluding that the antenna issue is indeed very real and present, it won’t recommend the iPhone 4 until Apple releases a free and permanent solution to the problem."

Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors?

Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors?: "The documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? accused General Motors of conspiring with the oil industry and politicians to shelve its popular and promising EV1 in the 1990s. How things have changed. On Wednesday GM unveiled its long-awaited and much-hyped electric Chevy Volt, just one of a fleet of electric cars that will soon be whirring through your neighborhood."

What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain

What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain: "We've covered all kinds of caffeine 'hacks' here at Lifehacker, from taking 'caffeine naps' to getting 'optimally wired.' And, of course, we're obsessed with the perfect cup of coffee. But when it comes to why so many of us love our coffee, tea, soda, or energy drink fixes, and what they actually do to our busy brains, we've never really dug in."

Abandoned Prison From the Period of Stalin's Rule

Abandoned Prison From the Period of Stalin's Rule: "To most of us it is well known that Russia’s darkest period was during the rule of communism regime, especially the period of Stalin’s rule.Stalin’s communist regime had zero tolerance for any other political opinion so everyone who opposed and questioned the ideas of communism was declared enemy of the state. Stalin was known by his cruel rule and he was especially cruel against those who didn’t like his ideas. During his regime, there were plenty of prisons which were full of political convicts. One of such prisons was Obdorsk prison which, as many other prisons, was also place where convicts were executed on a daily basis.The prison was built in period between 1937 and 1939. After the end of Stalin’s rule, prison became a mental hospital. Today, those buildings are abandoned but there are still traces of cruel happenings which occurred in that place."

T.25 City Car: A Tiny $9000 Car That Gets 74MPG

T.25 City Car: A Tiny $9000 Car That Gets 74MPG: "Priced at just $9000, Gordon Murray's T.25 City Car weighs 1200-pounds, gets 74mpg, and boasts 'a customizable interior with enough room for two (small) people to squeeze in behind the driver, who sits front and center.' News report after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery."

19 Facts You May Not Have Known About the Star Wars Universe

[Via: Online PhD]

Migrate your Linux application to the Amazon cloud, Part 1: Initial migration

Migrate your Linux application to the Amazon cloud, Part 1: Initial migration: "Cloud computing and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) are well documented, but what's often not discussed is how to get a running application into a cloud environment. Discover how to move an application into the cloud and take advantages of the features this setup has to offer."

Overcoming Terror

Overcoming Terror: "While the well-meaning 300-word document goes on to reveal a few other curious dos and don'ts for a doomsday scenario (e.g., ingesting potassium iodide is definitely a bad idea when radioactive iodine is coursing through the atmosphere), what's missing from the text is an acknowledgment of the psychological damage that such cursorily assembled, blithely disseminated information can wreak on the public. Presumably intended as a mental health balm in this time of unprecedented global stress, these simplistic big-blast CliffsNotes merely skate atop the frozen pond of the nuclear nightmare, ultimately leaving the befuddled citizen to wonder--and often panic--about the real and present danger that lurks just beneath the ice."

Schedule Meetings Easier with Tungle

Schedule Meetings Easier with Tungle: "One of the hardest things about a meeting is the scheduling. I know when it is time to schedule a board meeting, I run into all kinds of schedule conflicts. To make things even harder, people use different email clients and smart phones. This makes it harder to send meeting requests by email.

Tungle.me helps relieve the pains associated with scheduling a group meeting by gathering the best common times for all of the invitees."

Major Microsoft re-org to avert Windows' cloud cannibalization

Major Microsoft re-org to avert Windows' cloud cannibalization: "Microsoft's $14bn server and tools unit has undergone a major shake up in order to squeeze money from the Windows Azure cloud without cannibalizing Windows Server and tools."

Jedi A-holes

Amateur unearths 52,000 Roman coins worth $1m

Amateur unearths 52,000 Roman coins worth $1m: "An amateur treasure hunter armed with a metal detector has found over 52,000 Roman coins worth $1 million buried in field, one of the largest ever such finds in the UK, said the British Museum."

Water Powered Calculator

Water Powered Calculator: "This Instructable will show you how to make a very simple water powered calculator.
I built this because there was a time that we forget to buy a supply of AAA, AA, C, D and LR44
battery so I built this. It solve my problems so it might do the same for you too. Check out for more projects by: angelo10."

Odd Couple: Alibaba Invites eBay for a Talk

Odd Couple: Alibaba Invites eBay for a Talk: "Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma’s invitation to Kobe Bryant to be a guest speaker last year at the company’s annual summit of entrepreneurs surprised some people, the NBA star not being well known for his expertise on e-commerce."

Driving While Texting, Sinking to New Lows

Driving While Texting, Sinking to New Lows: "Texting like a madwoman, toes flapping in the breeze, tooling on down the highway: This diva was not only the embodiment of distracted driving, but a genuine trailblazer."

A Visit To The TV Set Factory

A Visit To The TV Set Factory: "Have you ever been interested in television set manufacture? Today you have a chance to know how your best friend was produced."

Dump Microsoft, Use Linux to Save Money, U.K. Officials Suggest

Dump Microsoft, Use Linux to Save Money, U.K. Officials Suggest: "U.K. government staff suggested replacing Microsoft Corp. operating systems on computers with free alternatives in response to a call for ideas for Prime Minister David Cameron’s cost-cutting drive."

App Inventor for Android

App Inventor for Android: "You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone."

Liquid armour 'can stop bullets'

Liquid armour 'can stop bullets': "The researchers have combined this 'shear-thickening' liquid with Kevlar to create a new bullet-proof material."

10 Most Sinister Organisations

10 Most Sinister Organisations: "Today’s date is the five-year anniversary of the London bomb attacks, which left 52 people dead and over 700 injured. There are organisations that have been set up all around the world with some pretty evil agendas. The main reasons behind their purposes is more often than not polictically or religiously motivated. Through acts of extreme violence, terrorism and murder they show very little disregard for the safety of the innocent people. But then again the innocent people, in their eyes, are most often the targets. Here is a list of ten of some of the world’s most sinister organisations who will stop at nothing to reach their life’s objectives."

Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller: "Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as 'Spaceship Earth', ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres."

Access Hulu from Outside the U.S. Without a Proxy Server

Access Hulu from Outside the U.S. Without a Proxy Server: "We've featured one or two ways to watch Hulu from outside the US, but one user over at Reddit has discovered another method, no outside proxy server required. All you need is a Firefox add-on and a few blocked ports."

Create a survey or poll for your blog with Google Docs and Spreadsheets

Create a survey or poll for your blog with Google Docs and Spreadsheets: "You may have noticed the snazzy poll I posted on my blog the other day. There’s a number of different survey and poll plugins for WordPress but all the ones I’ve looked at have caveats and limitations. You can also use a service like SurveyMonkey but it has some data limitations for free accounts. Instead, I used Google Docs and Spreadsheets to create a survey quickly and easily. Here’s how to do it."

How To Disable Ping Replies in Linux using icmp_echo_ignore_all

How To Disable Ping Replies in Linux using icmp_echo_ignore_all: "Someone can flood the network with ping -f as shown in “Ping Example 5″ in our earlier Ping Tutorial article. If ping reply is disabled we can avoid this flooding."

Using Dual Displays on Linux

Using Dual Displays on Linux: "Here is a brief description of the things that need to be considered and configured."

Travels With Teo: Linux Netbook Hits the Road - Road Trip! Recording the Sand Creek Fiddler's Jam

Travels With Teo: Linux Netbook Hits the Road - Road Trip! Recording the Sand Creek Fiddler's Jam: "A couple of months ago the nice ZaReason people sent me their Teo Ubuntu netbook to review. I was favorably impressed and gave it a positive review. Then they let me take it on my vacation, so little Teo traveled 2500 miles with us. This was the ultimate portability, performance, and battery test. How did Teo do? Splendidly."

Fake iPhone costs $75 in the Philippines

Fake iPhone costs $75 in the Philippines: "Plenty of knock-off iPhones have surfaced over the years, but here's a fresh look at a model that's being sold today in the Philippines under the name i9 iPhone. According to CNET reader Samuel Sandoval, who shot a short video of the phone (Facebook sign-in required), it costs around $75 and has dual-SIM slots, which means you can be on two different carriers at the same time. There's even a nice Apple logo on the back of the phone."

The Mona Lisa Curse

Enjoy Your Fright: The World's 10 Scariest Airports

Enjoy Your Fright: The World's 10 Scariest Airports: "Flying may be one of the safest methods of transportation but it doesn’t always look that way, especially when flying in and out of certain airports. These 10 air travel destinations challenge the skill of pilots, the structure of aircraft, and the underwear of passengers."

Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks

Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks: "What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port? Quite a lot, with the right software. Learn how to encrypt your work, run whole systems, rescue Windows, and customize your thumb drive with these USB-geared tricks."

The Illusionist.- Animated Movie Trailer

Disney has nothing over these guys.

19 "Barefoot Bandit" About to get Caught

19 years old "Barefoot Bandit" About to get Caught: "The cat-and-mouse game an elusive fugitive from Camano Island is playing with police cannot go on forever."

This is the best fart of your day

How to Automate Your Podcast Downloads with gPodder

How to Automate Your Podcast Downloads with gPodder: "If you’re a fan of podcasts, you’ve probably at some point become fed up with manually finding and downloading your favorites. This can be a real pain for people who count on fresh daily podcasts to make it through the work day, so multiple solutions have been attempted to make this process simpler. One such project is gPodder, a Python/Linux application that can help you find, download, and transfer new podcasts automatically. Today we’ll show you how to use gPodder to automate downloads for multiple unique podcasts."

Carl Sagan: A Universe Not Made For Us

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins: "The hoard, which was valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor."

Pictures of Berlin in May 9th 1945.

Pictures of Berlin in May 9th 1945.: "The Soviet Victory Day or May 9 marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War (also known as the Great Patriotic War in theSoviet Union and some post-Soviet states). It was first inaugurated in the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the surrender document late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May by Moscow Time)."

'Virginity test' helps free 3 in Vietnam rape case

'Virginity test' helps free 3 in Vietnam rape case: "An acupuncturist who claims she can detect a man's virginity based on a small dot on the ear has become a minor celebrity in Vietnam, where she is credited with helping to free three convicted rapists from prison."

There is no 'free' lemonade

There is no 'free' lemonade: "n giving drink away, girls ignore rules of economics -- and sum up what's wrong with U.S."

The Saber-Toothed Cat’s True Secret: Its Super-Strong Arms

The Saber-Toothed Cat’s True Secret: Its Super-Strong Arms: "Don’t be fooled by those sinister fangs: For saber-toothed cats, much of the killing power was concentrated in the front limbs."

Create Database-driven Resource Bundles with Java and MySQL

Create Database-driven Resource Bundles with Java and MySQL: "In Java, the preferred method for handling multilingual text is to use ResourceBundles for simple text and ListResourceBundles for more complex data types. As I alluded to in my Isolating Locale-specific Text in International Java Applications article, that approach has drawbacks."

World's Largest Skateboard Disaster

My son, my Nintendo DS hero

My son, my Nintendo DS hero: "A BRAVE seven-year-old boy has been hailed a hero for saving his mum after their car rolled while trying to miss a kangaroo."

U.S. Program to Detect Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure

U.S. Program to Detect Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure: "The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed 'Perfect Citizen' to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program."

NASA SERIOUS GAME SIMULATION | Real-Time 3D Space Visualization

NASA SERIOUS GAME SIMULATION | Real-Time 3D Space Visualization: "n ‘Moonbase Alpha’, players will step into the role of an exploration team member and will be immersed in a futuristic 3D lunar settlement. Their mission is to restore critical systems and oxygen flow after a nearby meteor strike cripples a solar array and life support equipment. Available resources include an interactive command center, a lunar rover, mobile robotic repair units and a fully stocked equipment shed."

Linux: The Mom & Pop's Operating System

Linux: The Mom & Pop's Operating System: "This month's article isn't much of an article, but more like an interview. It's not very technical, but potentially satisfying. True or False? If you have been around Linux for a few years, you may have been called an open source advocate, a computer guy or just a plain and simple nerd. Probably true, right? For years, that's how Linux has been seen by many outside the open source community, and even a few within it. This article, I mean interview, is a living example that this stereotype does not stand true any longer."

Why can't you do 1:1 for $300 a kid? Wait, you can!

Why can't you do 1:1 for $300 a kid? Wait, you can!: "A colleague asked me the other day about potential costs for a 1:1 deployment in a high school. He had a number of $300 per computer in his head. $500 per computer, however, seemed a lot more realistic to me. After all, people see the prices on the sorts of netbooks I reviewed this weekend and get a serious case of sticker shock, forgetting that the average bargain basement netbook isn’t running an OS that can join a domain, lacks Office or anti-malware, and presents durability concerns for younger kids and capability concerns for older kids."

Rube Goldberg Machines: Making the Simple, Complicated

Rube Goldberg Machines: Making the Simple, Complicated: "Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who loved to draw incredibly complicated machines designed to complete wonderfully simple tasks. Incarnations of Rube Goldberg machines have been featured in films, commercials, and competitions, because of their mesmerizing and entertaining function. Here are 10 examples of Rube Goldberg’s enduring oddball legacy:"

What it takes to be a top 100 website (charts)

What it takes to be a top 100 website (charts): "Everyone knows that the really big and popular websites have a ton of visitors. But how many? How much does it take to reach the top?"

7 Steps to Creating a Successful Online Business

7 Steps to Creating a Successful Online Business: "We all want to create a passive online business that allows us to travel the world, sip drinks on the beach and enjoy life to its fullest. But does that reality exist? Is it possible to create a successful online business that practically runs itself? I would say it is, but it requires a few important steps, seven to be exact."

Thinking XML: The XML flavor of HTML5

Thinking XML: The XML flavor of HTML5: "6 recommendations for developers using the next generation of the web's native language"

4 Linux Games You Probably Have Not Played

4 Linux Games You Probably Have Not Played: "It is no secret that Linux is not a popular gaming platform. Despite that stigma, however, the open nature of Linux makes it easy, even for relatively inexperienced developers, to produce quality games. Therefore, while the number of high-rated Linux game titles may be small in comparison to Windows or gaming consoles, there are a number of quality free and commercial games out there."

RPM Command: 15 Examples to Install, Uninstall, Upgrade, Query RPM Packages

RPM Command: 15 Examples to Install, Uninstall, Upgrade, Query RPM Packages: "RPM command is used for installing, uninstalling, upgrading, querying, listing, and checking RPM packages on your Linux system."

Apache Unleashes New Tomcat Open-Source Web Server

Apache Unleashes New Tomcat Open-Source Web Server: "The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Version 7.0 release of Apache Tomcat, the popular open-source Java web server. Tomcat 7.0 is the first major release of the software since 2006."

10 Reasons Why the PC Is Here to Stay

10 Reasons Why the PC Is Here to Stay: "The PC as you know it is obsolete. So sayeth Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who took the stage at the Wall Street Journal's D8 conference in June to talk about what he sees as the coming 'post-PC era.'"

Digg v4 hands-on: A better Digg, but is it enough?

Digg v4 hands-on: A better Digg, but is it enough?: "Social news site Digg.com is set to launch the fourth major iteration of its site. Last week the company invited an extra 20,000 users to its version four alpha test--a number that is likely to grow in the coming days and weeks."

Developers playing bigger role in next PlayStation

Developers playing bigger role in next PlayStation: "In an attempt to make the next PlayStation more developer-friendly than the current version, Sony is enlisting the help of its in-house developers, according to a top company executive."

How to fix overheating laptops

How to fix overheating laptops: "Do you know that you can be injured by your overheating laptop? You probably don‘t, but that is why Sony is recalling over 500,000of its most popular laptops. The laptops are said to be in danger of overheating and can burn users."

Shaquille O'Neal, computer hacking mastermind?

Shaquille O'Neal, computer hacking mastermind?: "You heard it here second — Shaquille O'Neal is the mastermind of an illegal computer hacking ring that may be prosecuted like a mob case in the 1950s. Totally makes sense, and totally a credible lawsuit that will for sure result in a severe punishment for O'Neal. He's probably one of those 'Anonymous' guys on 4chan too."

Passion is vital for new entrepreneurs

Passion is vital for new entrepreneurs: "The key to starting a successful small business is the same as building a successful marriage. And while careful planning, a flexible strategy for growth and good communication skills are all important, without a passionate devotion each endeavour is doomed."

Home Ec: 5 Laundry Myths, Debunked

Home Ec: 5 Laundry Myths, Debunked: "Before Patrick Dempsey captured hearts as Dr. McDreamy in Grey's Anatomy, the actor starred in one of my favorite '80s flicks, Can't Buy Me Love. In the film, you witness one fatal laundry foul: using club soda and salt as a quick fix for a wine stain.Turns out some other commonly used laundry tricks are actually wrong too."

How To Make Teenage Sex and Kindergarten children convicted felons

How To Make Teenage Sex and Kindergarten children convicted felons: "Two 13-year-old Oregon boys are facing serious sex charges for allegedly slapping female classmates’ bottoms as a form of horseplay. MCMINNVILLE, Ore., July 22 (UPI) — Police arrested Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison of McMinnville and if convicted could be permanently marked as sex offenders, The Portland Oregonian said Sunday. The teens also could spend as long as 10 years in juvenile detention if found guilty. While the boys’ parents have opposed such a harsh penalty, McMinnville District Aattorney Bradley Berry said such youthful acts could have longstanding consequences for the alleged victims. “These cases are devastating to children,” he said. “They are life-altering cases.” Interviews with the boys’ fellow students found other teens were engaging in similar behavior at the time and two of the female victims have since recanted their statements. The Oregonian said the boys are due in court on Aug. 20 to answer to all charges stemming from the February event. (Follow-up below)"

Customizing MediaWiki

Customizing MediaWiki: "MediaWiki is the popular wiki engine behind sites like Wikipedia. Its power and flexibility makes it an excellent choice for a community-driven knowledge base. The ease of developing various extensions for MediaWiki is one of the sources of this flexibility. This article will show you how to create different types of extensions for MediaWiki: wiki variables, special pages, and new tags. You'll also get a quick overview of what you'll need to do to create skins for MediaWiki."

Stubborn Inflation Raises Fear for British Recovery

Stubborn Inflation Raises Fear for British Recovery: "Unlike in the United States and in countries that share the euro, inflation in Britain never came close to zero in 2009. And while core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, has declined in countries like France, Germany, Italy and the United States since the beginning of 2008, it has risen in Britain and is now above 3 percent, more than twice the rate in the euro zone."

Big Oil Firms Accused of Human-Rights Abuses in Burma

Big Oil Firms Accused of Human-Rights Abuses in Burma: "To the list of Big Oil companies with p.r. problems add two more: Chevron and French energy giant Total. In a report published on Monday, the NGO EarthRights International accuses the firms of being implicated in human-rights violations in Burma, claiming that soldiers guarding Chevron and Total's natural-gas pipeline in the country have murdered locals and forced others to do backbreaking, unpaid labor in order to keep the gas exports flowing smoothly."

Top 10 Must-See Things on Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

Top 10 Must-See Things on Inca Trail to Machu Picchu: "Backpacking South America can be a daunting task for many backpacking enthusiasts. There is so much to see in the country, but one spot experience that shouldn’t be missed is the Inca trail to Machu Picchu. Here is a list of things to see"

Iran government issues style guide for men's hair

Iran government issues style guide for men's hair: "Ponytails are out but side-partings and Elvis quiffs are in. Not the latest fashion advice from a celebrity magazine, but a list of acceptable male hairstyles issued by the Iranian government."

A Conversation Between Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking

Mastering the Android Development Tools

Mastering the Android Development Tools: "Android developers have more than a dozen development tools at their disposal to help facilitate the design of quality applications. This chapter walks through a number of the most important tools available to help you develop Android applications faster and with fewer roadblocks."

Lego soccer table

Lego soccer table: "Fra Fondi sent us info on this awesome soccer (foosball) table, made entirely of Lego parts, and programmed and controlled (sounds, score-keeping) with the Lego WeDo kit."

Another rare white raven spotted near Qualicum Beach

Another rare white raven spotted near Qualicum Beach: "Some say it's the water they drink. Others claim it's the pure island air. We may never know, but it doesn't matter. Another white raven has been born in Qualicum Beach."

Using Google Public DNS to Speed Up Your Internet Connection

Using Google Public DNS to Speed Up Your Internet Connection: "Google Public DNS is a DNS service provided by Google with the aim of helping you to improve your browsing experience. Since Google’s search engine already crawls the web on a daily basis and in the process resolves and caches DNS information, they are able to bring back DNS information much faster than your ISP."

Surf Photography Primer

Surf Photography Primer : "Below, you will find an introductory guide to the beautiful art of Wave Photography, covering all the key components, from choosing a camera to finding the right kind of waves. Enjoy the ride!"

Making Movies with Free Software

Making Movies with Free Software: "Sometimes life is very circular. Once upon a time, I was a film major. Then I was an astronomer, then I was unemployed for quite awhile, during which time I discovered free software, and as a result of my various rantings about it, I started writing for Free Software Magazine. Now it seems that I’ve become a film-maker again. I’m working on not one, but two animated science-fiction films using free software tools, intended for a free-licensed release on the internet under new distribution models. And, being a writer, I’m going to write about it. I think it will be both entertaining and useful."

Make a Camping Trip De-Skunking Kit

Make a Camping Trip De-Skunking Kit: "A camping or hiking trip can go all wrong if your dog gets hit by skunk spray. Be prepared. Put together your own de-skunking shampoo kit just for good measure. Here's what you need to put in your kit:"

Raunchy ads 'put flight attendants at risk'

Raunchy ads 'put flight attendants at risk': "EROTIC airline ads are putting cabin crew at risk of sexual harassment and abuse, Australia's peak flight attendant union says."

How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)

How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025): "Welcome to the Internet! By following the simple rules below, you make sure your internet experience is smooth and risk free."

Squeeze More Battery Life from Your Linux Netbook with Jupiter

Squeeze More Battery Life from Your Linux Netbook with Jupiter: "One of the major selling points of Eee PC netbooks is their impressive battery life which is achieved by utilizing the Asus Super Hybrid Engine (SHE) technology. While it's designed to work under Windows, you can take advantage of this technology if you're running a Linux distro on your Eee PC, courtesy of the Jupiter utility. Although this tool is designed primarily for Eee PC netbooks, it works well on pretty much any notebook. So if you want to squeeze as much battery life from your machine as you can, Jupiter is worth a try."

10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets

10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets: "Did you know that your tweets have an expiration date on them? While they never really disappear from your own Twitter stream, they become unsearchable in only a matter of days. At first, Twitter held onto your tweets for around a month, but as the service grew more popular, this 'date limit' has dramatically shortened. According to Twitter's search documentation, the current date limit on the search index is 'around 1.5 weeks but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow.'"

Missing in MiG Alley | MiG vs Sabre Anatomy

Missing in MiG Alley | MiG vs Sabre Anatomy "The Soviet MiG-15bis and the American F-86 Sabre pushed aviation technology to its limits during the Korean War. When they met in dogfights over the Yalu River, in an area nicknamed MiG Alley, both fighters overshadowed their predecessors through sharp climbs, steep dives, tight turns, and nearly supersonic speeds. They were closely matched in myriad ways, but the planes' designers made different structural and aerodynamic trade-offs while developing their rival jets. Along with pilot skill and luck, these technological differences helped determine which side prevailed in any given dogfight. In this interactive, take a close look at these two pioneering planes and see how they differed.—Rima Chaddha"

Sense of touch influences our decisions

Sense of touch influences our decisions: "ARE you sitting comfortably? It could affect your impression of this story. So say researchers who have shown that tactile sensations can influence the judgements we make in everyday situations."

Java 4-Ever Trailer

How to sleep on a long haul flight

How to sleep on a long haul flight: "To the annoyance of people around me I have no trouble sleeping on long haul flights. And I don't take any fancy medication to do so. Having traveled a lot I've come to the conclusion that sleeping on a plane is a matter of attitude and a little preparation. This post is not for people who travel business or first class. It's for the average stiff who, like me, travels hundreds of thousands of miles in economy class."

Bruce Lee Animation Clip - Tribute to the master

9 Steps to Reverse Dementia and Memory Loss as You Age

9 Steps to Reverse Dementia and Memory Loss as You Age: "Dementia is a big problem and growing every day. Ten percent of 65-year olds, 25 percent of 75-year olds, and 50 percent of 85-year olds will get Alzheimer's disease -- at a cost of $60 billion a year to society. Worse, the number of people with Alzheimer's is predicted to triple in the next few decades. It is now the seventh leading cause of death.(i)"

Top 10 Geekiest Marriage Proposals

Top 10 Geekiest Marriage Proposals: "Take a look at our collection of super-cool geeks who made that extra effort to incorporate their passion for tech and online life into securing the all-important “yes” from the person they love. Be sure to let us know your favorites in the comments below."

Spoil a great vacation by watching TV

Spoil a great vacation by watching TV: "A movie theater experience absolutely anywhere!
Take it on a long commute, on the plane, or even
on a camping trip."

Program in IRP

Program in IRP: "To program in IRP#IRP, join the #IRP channel on irc.freenode.net, then simply write, in plain English, in polite command form, what you intend for your program to do. If other IRP programmers (knowingly or not!) are on the channel, and are in a good mood, you should get the appropriate response."

Top 10 Stop Motion Videos on YouTube

Top 10 Stop Motion Videos on YouTube: "Stop motion film-making is a labor of love, so consider this collection of 10 amazing mini stop motion movies a love song to the format.

Encompassing music, graffiti, photography, computer gaming and even horror, these YouTubeYouTubeYouTube videos show off some inspiring creativity and represent hours and hours of work.

Have a browse through our top picks and then let us know your favorite stop motion movies in the comments below."

52 Cool Facts About Social Media

52 Cool Facts About Social Media: "As social media continues to gain acceptance as a bona-fide communications platform, I thought it might be fun to have a cool fact about it for every week of the year.

So, here are ten facts about the five most well-known social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and blogging – with two more bonus facts thrown in just for fun. (And to get to the figure of a fact a week for a year)."

World Cup replica made of cocaine found in Colombia

World Cup replica made of cocaine found in Colombia: "A replica World Cup trophy seized by anti-drugs police in Colombia is made out of cocaine, lab tests have confirmed."

Tooth Regeneration Gel Could Replace Painful Fillings

Tooth Regeneration Gel Could Replace Painful Fillings: "Could this new gel be the biggest dental breakthrough since the introduction of fluoride?"

Deriving new business insights with Big Data

Deriving new business insights with Big Data: "Emerging capabilities to process vast quantities of data are bringing about changes in technology and business landscapes. This article examines the drivers, the new landscape, and the opportunities available to analytics with Apache Hadoop."

Create a Complete Strobing System From Foamies & Velcro

Create a Complete Strobing System From Foamies & Velcro: "The line, which can be made in about 20 minutes total (or less), includes a foamy & Velcro based speedstrap and an assortment of Strobist friendly foamy & Velcro based modifiers: a snoot, a Gobo and a bounce card. You now I love foamies and Velcro so this is like a small party for me."

Drug Smuggling With Submarines

Drug Smuggling With Submarines: "The greatest obstacle facing drug cartels has always been transporting narcotics from the poor regions that produce them to the less-poor areas that buy them. In the early part of the 2000s, a time still dominated by incarcerated Cali Cartel heads in Colombia, a technological breakthrough was made on this front: privately made drug-filled torpedoes and semi-submersibles."

BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales.

This was the most emotionally disturbing video I have ever done!
A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100 Dolphins in the oil, some dying. I also photographed a Sperm Whale covered in oil all around it's blow hole.
Please spread this around the world. Send me any links to places it gets posted so I can follow.
I want to piss off the world. Who will answer for these gentle creatures?

DAN the MAN

Greedy people deserve each other.