FREEDOM FIGHTERS FTW! Julian Assange: Hillary Clinton Should Resign

FREEDOM FIGHTERS FTW! Julian Assange: Hillary Clinton Should Resign: "Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, 'should resign.' Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder was replying to a question by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel over the diplomatic cable dump Assange's organization began loosing on the world over the weekend. Stengel said that the U.S. Secretary of State was looking like 'the fall guy' in the ensuing controversy and was her firing or resignation an outcome that Assange would want? 'I don't think it would make much of a difference either way,'"

LONE HEROES DO EXIST: WikiLeaks: US Army soldier Bradley Manning is prime suspect in leaks case

LONE HEROES DO EXIST: WikiLeaks: US Army soldier Bradley Manning is prime suspect in leaks case: "'I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like Lady Gaga... erase the music... then write a compressed split file,' he wrote in an online chat."

Photographic Evidence Proves That Squid Can Fly

Photographic Evidence Proves That Squid Can Fly: "Once, while boating off the coast of Jamaica in 2001, marine biologist Silvia Maciá and her husband caught a glimpse of an oddly familiar creature leaping from the waves, soaring with ease over the surface of the ocean. As the animal propelled itself for some 30 feet, Maciá realized she was witnessing the most unusual sight -- a flying squid. So intrigued by what she saw that day, Maciá would go on to co-author a paper examining similar observations, though essential photographic evidence of the incredible phenomenon remained elusive. That is, until now."

Multi ministry camera ban frustrates artists

Multi ministry camera ban frustrates artists: "On Saturday, November 20, 2010 the Kuwait Times published an article titled 'Multi ministry camera ban frustrates artists' in which incorrect information was provided. The newspaper regrets failing to verify the information. The article wrongly stated that a ban on DSLR cameras was implemented by the Ministries of Information, Social Affairs and Finance. This information is false. In a follow up investigation, it was proved that no such ban has been issued. We regret this error and deeply apologize for any inconvenience caused."

Suicides in pIctures

Suicides: "On September 15, 1959, I witnessed the bloody aftermath of a bombing at my elementary school, where a madman killed himself and five others by detonating a powerful bomb on the school grounds. This was an extremely
upsetting event for me and my fellow six-grade students, but no consideration was ever given to the treatment of our trauma. In fact, nothing much was even said about it when we returned to school the next day. Those of us who survived the blast and saw the bodies became part of a conspiracy of denial and were condemned to having to recover (from) this 'great image.'"

Stopping Time with a high speed camera and a train

The presidency of JFK, 50 years ago

The presidency of JFK, 50 years ago: "Fifty years ago this month, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States. He held the office for just over 1,000 days before his assassination, but they were significant days, and the man and his family became iconic around the world, especially capturing the imagination of Americans at home. This year, a four-year, $10 million effort to digitize the JFK Library and Museum’s archives is nearing completion, and LIFE Magazine has just released a series unpublished photos of the president. Collected here are a sampling of these photos, most from the JFK Library, some from LIFE and other press agencies, looking back 50 years ago."

Leslie Nielsen dead at 84

Leslie Nielsen dead at 84 : "The star of comedy hits such as 'Airplane' and the 'Naked Gun' series dies of complications from pneumonia, according to his nephew Doug Nielsen, who lives in Richmond BC and confirmed the news with CJOB's sister station CKNW......"

Five websites that used to rule the Internet - slashdot, reddit, MySpace, hotmail, Googloe, GeoCities, Facebook, digg, AltaVista

Five websites that used to rule the Internet - slashdot, reddit, MySpace, hotmail, Googloe, GeoCities, Facebook, digg, AltaVista: "The Internet generation is stunningly disloyal. Brands mean very little to us. Our parents might never have bought anything other than a Ford car, or a Westinghouse refrigerator, but we switch online services without a second thought."

7 Things you Learn at the Mall of Money

7 Things you Learn at the Mall of Money: "I was at the Mall of America Saturday and — guess what — it wasn’t that crowded. The place has turned Camp Snoopy into a SpongeBob shrine and made Dora the Explorer the host of some pretty scary ride (that I can’t remember the name of). Santa Claus was in there somewhere, too, but I never found him."

1128-WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Concern China Cyber Attacking American Computer Networks

1128-WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Concern China Cyber Attacking American Computer Networks: "A furious denial of service attack against website WikiLeaks.org today was an effort by a still unknown party to keep millions of visitors from viewing the U.S. embassy cable documents dispatched over the past three years. However, the effort was useless if unnecessary since the publisher had already distributed the documents to major newspaper publishers such as England's Guardian, France's Le Monde and the New York Times who all published portions of the leaked accounts now causing a stir in more than diplomatic circles."

Chainsaw Bike

Google Maps: New Bike Routes and Street View

Google Maps: New Bike Routes and Street View: "If you are a biking fanatic and dont have a regular route, then you may be pleased by what Google has just done. The internet leader is preparing to bring out an updated version of their maps with a new street view and bike routes."

12 Ubuntu Derivatives You Should Consider

12 Ubuntu Derivatives You Should Consider: "It's no secret that Ubuntu 10.10, or Maverick Meerkat, is one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions of all time for business and home users."

Drupal Web Services: Twitter and Drupal

Drupal Web Services: Twitter and Drupal: "In this article, by Trevor James, author of Drupal Web Services, we're going to integrate Twitter with Drupal. If you have a Twitter account, you can post your tweets to your Drupal site automatically at the same time you post them to your Twitter home page. You can also post node content from your Drupal site to your Twitter home page as tweets. We'll look at configuring this integration in detail and also look at setting up automatic actions and triggers to occur when you save a new node content on your Drupal site."

Awesome visualizations of internet and web tech

Awesome visualizations of internet and web tech: "Text and numbers are all good and well, but sometimes it’s nice to just be presented with a nice visual."

Mind Your Body: A Higher Road to Relaxation

Mind Your Body: A Higher Road to Relaxation: "Cool your exercise jets—the body's best cure for stress may be a little face time."

Web Python Tutorial

Web Python Tutorial: "This tutorial covers the WSGI specification and two web programming models that can be used with Python: the CGI standard and mod_python."

How to Verify if an Email Address Is Real or Fake

How to Verify if an Email Address Is Real or Fake: "Ever wonder whether an email address someone gave you—say billgates@gmail.com—actually exists? Tech blogger Amit Agarwal explains how to verify an email address using both simple and decidedly geekier methods."

Get Schooled: Gizmodo University

Get Schooled: Gizmodo University: "OK, we're calling it: Computers are more than a passing fad. We're so convinced of this, that we've teamed up with Sparkle Labs to teach you about electricity and electronics prototyping with series of interactive video classes."

The Real Story Behind Starbucks - Getting The Perfect White Balance

The Real Story Behind Starbucks - Getting The Perfect White Balance: "I know what you're thinking. Starbucks was made so you can slowly sip your hot Lattes and cappuccino while your army of photo assistants are setting up your clever array of strobes, monolights, 'kino-flo's and LED panels."

Turn Web Pages into Neatly Formatted PDF Documents with TidyRead

Turn Web Pages into Neatly Formatted PDF Documents with TidyRead: "Reading lengthy articles using a Web browser is rarely a pleasant experience. It's not only inconvenient but also rather distracting: most of the Web site is cluttered with all kinds of distractions like ads and widgets. To solve this problem, I use TidyRead. This handy extension for the Google Chrome browser (it works with Chromium, too) can extract the body of a Web page and present it in a reader-friendly form."

Confusion and Complexity: High time to prune the Creative Commons licenses?

Confusion and Complexity: High time to prune the Creative Commons licenses?: "In a recent blog, Nina Paley, the animator behind the free-licensed animated film, “Sita Sings the Blues”, complained of the enormous confusion caused by poor differentiation of the Creative Commons licenses. In particular, there’s a great deal of confusion over the difference between “NonCommercial” and “ShareAlike” licenses. Maybe the Creative Commons licensing system is still too complex? I’d suggest that only three licenses are really needed: “Attribution” (CC By), “ShareAlike” (CC By-SA), and “NonCommercial” (CC By-NC), and that the others are essentially deadweight that’s holding the movement back."

Ten Life Lessons from Richard Branson

Ten Life Lessons from Richard Branson: "Often witty, always insightful, here are some choice Branson quotes to ponder. Motivation often comes from unique places so if one of these strikes a chord, use it!"

Creating 2D games with Android and Blender

Creating 2D games with Android and Blender: "This article will cover one of the possible workflows that you can use in order to create Android games using Blender for content creation. This article is based on the knowledge that I could gather during the development of Egg Savior. For the programming part, I will assume that you have some knowledge about game creation in Android. If this is not the case, please start by reading these great tutorials before continuing. For the graphics part, I will assume that you know how to create graphics with blender. If this is not the case, please start by reading these great tutorials, or consider hiring a blender artist."

10 Awesome Magazine Subscriptions for Your Favorite Tech Geek

10 Awesome Magazine Subscriptions for Your Favorite Tech Geek: "The rapid progression of technology these days can leave even the most hardcore tech geek behind the times. In order to keep up with the latest innovations, modifications and adaptations, one must procure the necessary resources of technological news and information. This Christmas, consider giving your favorite tech geek the gift of knowledge — after all, you may not be able to afford whichever gizmo or gadget they've been fancying. A subscription to one or two of the following magazines is perfect for a person obsessed with computers, smartphones, HD TVs, cameras and more advanced technology that may not even exist yet."

The 6 Best Social Media Plugins for WordPress

The 6 Best Social Media Plugins for WordPress: "Social media: love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. During the past few years, social media -- along with Facebook and Twitter -- have grown by leaps and bounds in popularity. If you have a personal or professional blog, you are already part of the social media universe. A great way to increase the popularity of your blog is by using other forms of social media to promote it. Wordpress has many plugins to help you with this endeavor."

The lost scenes of Star Wars: A New Hope

The lost scenes of Star Wars: A New Hope: "At Star Wars Celebration V, George Lucas finally made the big announcement that the entire Star Wars saga would be released in a Blu-Ray box set in Fall 2011. Speaking about what will be included, Lucas said, 'They'll be different kinds of additional material,' adding, 'I think you've seen enough behind the scenes (material) for a lifetime. There's some really good material that will be included in there, (including) more deleted scenes that you haven't seen yet.' Lucas said these newly released scenes would be kept separate from the film itself."

Atari Re-Making Yar's Revenge, Teaser Trailer Destroys Childhood

Atari Re-Making Yar's Revenge, Teaser Trailer Destroys Childhood: "Great. Another androgynous anime commando space marine in power armor. Details are still scarce. Yar's Revenge is expected early next year for download on Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC. It will support local co-op, and probably make me die a little inside."

OnLive: Is it a console killer?

OnLive: Is it a console killer?: "Since developing high-end hardware like the PS3 and Xbox 360 costs millions and the pre-owned market and piracy is proving to be harmful to the traditional routes of retail gaming, could cloud-based systems like OnLive give gamers more options and developers more security?"

3D Blu-ray on PS3: why it's a letdown for home cinema

3D Blu-ray on PS3: why it's a letdown for home cinemar: "Extensive testing of an updated PS3 Slim and an older PS3 'Fat' reveals some shortfalls."

Augmented reality game Star Wars: Falcon Gunner out now

Augmented reality game Star Wars: Falcon Gunner out now: "Star Wars fans can finally get to sit in the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs in this latest game, Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner, and fly through their own neighbourhoods if they wish."

Apple iPad isn't just for work; check out games that are making way to tablet

Apple iPad isn't just for work; check out games that are making way to tablet: "That's right. The iPad has gradually become a hub for some pretty solid on-the-go gaming. Developers are still learning how to best utilize the gigantic touchscreen interface, but more and more often, we're seeing iPad-specific gems pop up in the iTunes Apps Store. The best part? Unlike consoles, most of the games come at comparable budget prices, while still offering plenty of fun."

Quick Tip: Fixing .3ds Imports in Blender

Quick Tip: Fixing .3ds Imports in Blender: "I/O, or the process of getting files from one program to successfully open in another, is something that I personally find incredibly frustrating, and after hours of troubleshooting you’re always happy to get any help you can! Today’s quicktip by regular Blender author Frederik Steinmetz addresses how to resolve an issue he ran into when importing .3ds scenes into Blender, and we think it’ll come in extremely handy! Let’s take a look…"

How to Hide Yourself From Selected Friends In Facebook Chat

How to Hide Yourself From Selected Friends In Facebook Chat: "Say you have just began chatting with your girlfriend on Facebook and suddenly some random stranger starts sending instant messages. In case of strangers and people whom you don’t know, you can always ignore the instant message and continue chatting with the person you were chatting with. But the situation gets worse when some close friend starts sating “Hello, how you doing” and you are busy fixing a date with your girlfriend."

If I Were a Billionaire...

If I Were a Billionaire...: "If I was a billionaire, I wouldn’t believe what I’m about to write. Firstly, because my training, and especially my experience of getting richer in a growth based economy would have taught me that these ‘perfect storms’ when resource/financial bottlenecks supposedly loomed, historically worked out to be opportunities that spiked my digital wealth and incremental social power. Secondly, if I were a billionaire I wouldn’t believe what Im about to write because all my peers, advisors and friends would tell me that it's caca. And lastly I wouldn’t believe what Im about to write as the implications would be too threatening, at least on the surface, to comprehend let alone integrate into my world view. All the same, if I were a billionaire, based on my understanding of our particular juncture of history, likely on the verge of transitioning away from marker claims back to real capital, here is what I would do...."

How to develop content management systems for hospitals

How to develop content management systems for hospitals: "Healthcare web design, marketing, and technology solutions are usually built using custom technologies and tools. Modern content management systems like WordPress and Drupal running on open source technologies like Apache, Linux®, MySQL, and PHP can do the job better, faster, and cheaper. This article explains various techniques hospitals can use with IBM and open source software to solve complex content management problems."

Network file systems and Linux

Network file systems and Linux: "Network File System (NFS) has been around since 1984, but it continues to evolve and provide the basis for distributed file systems. Today, NFS (through the pNFS extension) provides scalable access to files distributed across a network. Explore the ideas behind distributed file systems and in particular, recent advances in NFS."

Hiring trends among the major platform players

Hiring trends among the major platform players: "After re-reading Tim's post on the major internet platform players, I looked at recent hiring trends* among the companies he highlighted. First I examined year-over-year changes in number of job postings (from Aug to Oct 2009 vs. Aug to Oct 2010). Consistent with the recent flurry of articles about hiring wars, all the companies (except for Yahoo) increased** their number of job postings. Winning the battle for the Internet's points of control requires amassing talent"

Jimmy Kimmel’s “Unfriend Day” Is A Hot Start-up Idea

Jimmy Kimmel’s “Unfriend Day” Is A Hot Start-up Idea: "The idea behind the day is to encourage people to take stock of their ballooning Facebook friend lists and to cull the marginal folks. Kimmel has been pushing the idea on his ABC show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this month, including even a theme song from country singers Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker. The idea seems to have some resonance with people, with “unfriend” turning into a trending topic on Twitter earlier on Wednesday"

Professor to have camera implanted in head

Professor to have camera implanted in head: "So you will be among the first to understand why Wafaa Bilal, a professor of photography at NYU, has accepted a proposition to have a camera implanted into the back of his head that takes shots of what is going on behind his back."

Pixar’s Renderman Pro Server Price Drop

Pixar’s Renderman Pro Server Price Drop: "Pixar has just announced a new price for the RenderMan Pro Server software, dropping it an incredible 40% to only $2,000 per license (with additional discounts when buying multiple licenses). In addition, annual maintenance has dropped to $600 per license per year."

Six Ways to Trick Yourself into Working Harder

Six Ways to Trick Yourself into Working Harder: "Maybe you're worried that your only claim to fame is going to be 'World's Greatest Procrastinator' or 'Biggest Farmville Addict'. You've got some great dreams and ambitions – but you secretly doubt whether you can work hard enough to achieve them."

Largest bikini parade sets world record

Largest bikini parade sets world record: The Nashua Largest Ever Bikini Parade in Port Elizabeth, South Africa saw 605 enthusiastic participants braving the rain and walking a distance of more than one mile .99 miles (1.6 kilometers) around the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium - setting the new Guinness World Record for the largest bikini parade while raising awareness of cancer and funds for the Cancer Association of South Africa."

Subaru Impreza Design Concept shows new design theme

Subaru Impreza Design Concept shows new design theme: "Subaru has unveiled this Impreza Design Concept in LA, which previews the carmaker’s new “Confidence in Motion” design and brand strategy. The brand seems to change ideas with every generation of cars, so it’s anyone’s guess not just when this new look will debut, but how long it’ll last."

Java Exploits Up, Adobe Attacks Down

Java Exploits Up, Adobe Attacks Down: "Java exploits rose from 5 percent of all malware encounters in July to 7 percent in September. Conversely Adobe Reader and Acrobat experienced a decline in exploitats throughout the quarter, falling from 3 percent of all malware encounters in July to 1 percent in September."

Apple releases new iOS 4.2 gold code

Apple releases new iOS 4.2 gold code: "Wondering whatever happened to iOS 4.2? Although iTunes 10.1 dropped last week, Apple's firmware update never materialized--most likely due to a Wi-Fi bug that was discovered earlier in the week."

Ten shots of espresso in Brooklyn - porn in a cup

Ten shots of espresso in Brooklyn - porn in a cup: "This is for the person who wants to experience the limits of where coffee and espresso can go,' he said of the drink, which weighs in at 20 ounces."

Warner Bros. Vows to Prosecute Deathly Hallows Leaker

Warner Bros. Vows to Prosecute Deathly Hallows Leaker: "Warner Bros. is scrambling to identify who leaked the first 36 minutes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 to dozens of BitTorrent sites."

StarCraft II sets piracy record with 15.77PB downloaded

StarCraft II sets piracy record with 15.77PB downloaded: "Touted as the bestselling strategy game of all time, it's no secret that StarCraft II is immensely popular. Unfortunately for Blizzard, that popularity has earned its latest blockbuster a spot on an article titled '5 Torrent Files That Broke Mind Boggling Records'. According to TorrentFreak's numbers, StarCraft II has cemented its place in filesharing history as the torrent that has resulted in the transfer of the most data. That's quite the 'achievement' for a title released less than four months ago."

Ten lessons to learn from the Great Recession

Ten lessons to learn from the Great Recession: "In brief, here are the 10 key lessons the Conference Board's authors derived from the economic turmoil of the past two years"

When Attempts At Humor Go Wrong: The Robert Tychkowski Story

When Attempts At Humor Go Wrong: The Robert Tychkowski Story: "Unless you live under a rock, most people in the metro Detroit area know who Tychkowski is. He's the Edmonton Oilers beat writer for the Edmonton Sun and paid a visit to Detroit this past week to cover his Oilers' attempt at taking down the Detroit Red Wings. All was well in Motown until people read the opening lines of his preview story for the game:

DETROIT — Welcome to Detroit, where the forecast, as always, is muggy, with a chance of murder. When you’re trying to breathe a little life back into your year, this is not the place to visit. And not just because they use more white chalk at crime scenes than they ever did in the schools."

Nintendo tells developer to stay away from Wii Speak

Nintendo tells developer to stay away from Wii Speak: "It's not often that a company would specifically deter other companies from using its products, but that's exactly what happened between Nintendo and a developer of an upcoming online Wii game."

First Apple computer to be auctioned

First Apple computer to be auctioned: "Auction house Christie's is to put the lot up for sale on November 23rd and has set an estimate of between £100,000 and £150,000."

Behind the Scenes of Back to the Future: The Game

Behind the Scenes of Back to the Future: The Game: "Features the voices of Christopher Lloyd as Doc and a surprisingly decent Marty impersonator"

Teen Kills Mom Over PC Game Addiction, Commits Suicide

Teen Kills Mom Over PC Game Addiction, Commits Suicide : "A middle school student in Busan addicted to computer games killed his mother Tuesday in an argument over his playing games and then committed suicide."

Engineer refuses scanner, protects junk, gets investigated

Engineer refuses scanner, protects junk, gets investigated: "Patrick Smith, for example, a pilot and Salon.com blogger, describes the TSA policies in a touchingly vehement way: 'Somebody, somewhere, needs to shake us from this stupor of blind policy and blind obedience. I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't some test--a test of just how stupid Americans are. If TSA said that from now on we had to hop on one foot while humming 'God Bless America,' would we do that too?'"

SocialCompare: Products Comparison With A Social Twist

SocialCompare: Products Comparison With A Social Twist: "We do comparison everyday, every time. When the new Galaxy Tab is launched, we want to know how it stacks up to iPad. When the new version of Ubuntu is released, we want to know how much it has improved over its previous releases. It is no longer a question of how to do comparison, but a question of how to do it quickly, efficiently and accurately."

The Puzzling 3D Digital Art of Kazuhiko Nakamura

The Puzzling 3D Digital Art of Kazuhiko Nakamura: "Amid the sea of digital art displayed online, many artists get lost, but there’s simply no way to overlook the bizarre robotic creatures and complex machinery of Kazuhiko Nakamura. Eschewing the photorealism trend, this Japanese artist draws an incredible cornucopia of futuristic cyberpunk imagery from his mind and puts it together like a puzzle, one piece at a time."

The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)

The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts): "This article examines the real-world connection speeds for people in the top 50 countries on the Internet, i.e. the countries with the most Internet users."

Look, Ma! No keyboard! Voice input and response using fixed grammars

Look, Ma! No keyboard! Voice input and response using fixed grammars: "A variety of plain-text, application-specific formats exists for the definition of non-natural language grammars for the preparation of a voice recognition model. Programmers can use the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) not only to express many of these formats in an open-standards structure, but also to define rules for the dialog manager necessary for interpretation of the output generated by the recognition model. Explore SRGS and Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR)-like methods using PHP in the context of non-natural language-specific grammars in this article."

Going instant with PHP, XML, and jQuery

Going instant with PHP, XML, and jQuery: "Build 'instant' style features into your web site with a combination of jQuery, XML, and PHP. You can pick up and use the code that you find in this article as you wish."

Linux modprobe Command Examples to View, Install, Remove Modules

Linux modprobe Command Examples to View, Install, Remove Modules: "modprobe utility is used to add loadable modules to the Linux kernel. You can also view and remove modules using modprobe command."

lessons from a car-free life

lessons from a car-free life: "This past summer, my family (my wife, me, six kids) finally gave up our car. It was a liberating and scary experience."

XSSer v1.0 – Cross Site Scripter Framework

XSSer v1.0 – Cross Site Scripter Framework: "XSSer is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting XSS injections against different applications."

Home automation server with router

Home automation server with router: "This project will allow you to switch outlets/lights from your iPhone, or any browser.
You will also be able to send out serial commands remotely."

Scott Adams Blog: Facebook Killer

Scott Adams Blog: Facebook Killer: "Suppose a company offered you a billion dollars in exchange for a portion of your privacy. To make this arrangement palatable, imagine that the company promises that your data will only be used anonymously. You don't totally trust them, but it's not as if you rob banks in your spare time. You don't have much to hide."

Larry the Therapy Dog Wants a Hug

Larry the Therapy Dog Wants a Hug: "The website these pictures are from describe this as a Caucasian Shepherd Dog. The dog’s uses are supposedly for keeping live-stock protected in Russia, but I think it’s just used to train Predators when Aliens aren’t available… or used to eradicate swarms of the undead when things around Chernobyl go south."

Great Collection of Funny Demotivators

Great Collection of Funny Demotivators: "Motivation through de-motivation!"

The Phone Call Is Dead

The Phone Call Is Dead: "In the tech industry saying that something is dead actually means “It’s on the decline.” And yes, the phone call is on an inexorable decline."

When Cartoons Become Reality

When Cartoons Become Reality: "Have you ever wondered how would cartoon characters look like in reality? Some didn’t even have to put any effort in it, while others were creative in copying the cartoon characters."

LEGO NXT Swimming Pool Insect Terminator (SPIT)

LEGO NXT Swimming Pool Insect Terminator (SPIT): "Today I want to share with you a floating robot my children and I been designing and building over recent weeks."

Google and Facebook rivalry takes centerstage

Google and Facebook rivalry takes centerstage: "The technology industry's latest rivalry takes centerstage next week when Internet powers Google Inc and Facebook lay out their competing visions to create a new generation of Web services at a high-profile conference in San Francisco."

How to bind your favorite eBooks

How to bind your favorite eBooks: "So you've downloaded an eBook. Now what? Well, if you're a bibliophile like me, you might want to print out the ones you love. Like Curbly's new Make It! Secondhand Chic, for example. I'm lucky enough have the new edition to the Curbly Library in perfect-bound, so I'm set for hard copy. However, I had a copy of David duChemin's wonderful photography book '10' on my hard drive that needed to be birthed onto paper."

Debug Java applications remotely with Eclipse

Debug Java applications remotely with Eclipse: "You don't need to debug Java™ applications on just your local desktop. Learn how to spread around your debugging using different connection types that make up remote debugging. This article explains the features and examples that show how to set up remote application debugging."

FREE Modern Perl BOOK

FREE Modern Perl BOOK: "Why give away the text of this book? Ultimately, we hope that the book is useful. Countless programmers and dabblers will benefit from learning how to use Perl 5 well. We believe we'll reach more of them by encouraging everyone to share this book than by trying to maximize our profits."

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X: "Oracle and Apple® today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS® X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical client. OpenJDK will make Apple’s Java technology available to open source developers so they can access and contribute to the effort."

Bikini Photobombs!

Bikini Photobombs!: "Yeah, photobombers strikes once again! This time, you will see a lot of hot chicks bombed on photos. Njoy!"

Top 10 Fascinating Facts That Are Wrong

Top 10 Fascinating Facts That Are Wrong: "This is a list of facts and anecdotes that have a science-related slant. They are items of trivia that people all seem to know and share whenever the opportunity arises. But, at the List Universe we like to get our facts straight – and the items on this list are all dead wrong! Enjoy our thorough debunking of some of the silliest facts attributed to science."

Shocking Sexism Vintage Ads

Shocking Sexism Vintage Ads : "Equality between women and men has been and still is an endless discussion. Sexism has ruled from the mid-20 century, and some people will claim that it is still to be found on several places in society. Either way you will be a bit shocked when you take a look at these vintage ads with a lot of sexism. It is true that today’s advertisements are not exactly showing equality, but they are not as rough and right-forward as these ones."

10 Greatest Animal Photobombs

10 Greatest Animal Photobombs: "Whether it’s by leaping into the foreground or by doing something unspeakable in the background, it’s not at all difficult to leave a lasting impression in a photo. There was a time when we didn’t have a word for these random interlopers, but now that we do we can properly appreciate the fine art of photobombing."

Computational science: ...Error

Computational science: ...Error "…why scientific programming does not compute."

Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins

Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins: "You can see the beginnings of Google's ruin already, which was inevitable. Nobody can ever leave things alone even though they are working just fine. Someone always has to try to fix things when they're not broken. Once the process begins, it never ends, and it's begun at Google."

‘Too Asian’?

‘Too Asian’?: "When Alexandra and her friend Rachel, both graduates of Toronto’s Havergal College, an all-girls private school, were deciding which university to go to, they didn’t even bother considering the University of Toronto. “The only people from our school who went to U of T were Asian,” explains Alexandra, a second-year student who looks like a girl from an Aritzia billboard. “All the white kids,” she says, “go to Queen’s, Western and McGill.”"

Honda Air concept delivers lightweight engine wrapped in heavy style

Honda Air concept delivers lightweight engine wrapped in heavy style: "The design geeks at Honda's Advanced Design Studio have whipped up a new concept car called the Honda Air that is all eye candy yet anything but lightweight."

GameBoy IPhone Cases

GameBoy iPhone Cases: "ONLY 250 SPECIAL EDITION iPhone 3G / 3GS CASES LEFT WITH THE NINTENDO GAMBOY LOGO! BUY NOW! Future print runs will NOT have these logos!"

Viacom to sell Rock Band

Viacom to sell Rock Band: "Viacom plans to rid itself of Harmonix, the video game developer behind the Rock Band franchise, ending a failed foray into the gaming business."

The 50 Best Inventions of 2010

The 50 Best Inventions of 2010: "Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year's biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts"

Five Ajax best practices

Five Ajax best practices: "Learn five best practices you can apply to your everyday Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) development. The article introduces data formats, error handling, and some tools used to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that use Ajax. Discover how using these practices can help you write more efficient and robust Ajax code."

Introduction to the Foursquare API

Introduction to the Foursquare API: "This article introduces you to the world of the Foursquare application programming interface (API) and then walks you through the steps of creating a basic Foursquare application using PHP."

The lowdown on handwriting analysis

The lowdown on handwriting analysis: "Presents an account of a meeting with graphologist Andrea McNichol. Discusses basics of graphology including lack of credentials as a 'hard science.'"

10 Useful Tools, Websites And Tricks to Help You Master Linux Command

10 Useful Tools, Websites And Tricks to Help You Master Linux Command: "When it comes to Linux command, it is always a love and hate affair. Newbies tend to shun away from the command line as much as possible while the intermediate to expert users who are used to it will swear by it, and boost how much faster and more productive they have become due to the command line."

Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game

Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game: "It’s happening all around the world: people are taking pictures of their friends awkwardly lying face-down in all sorts of unlikely places. On top of statues, in the middle of roads, in front of famous landmarks – absolutely anywhere you can conceivably fit a horizontal human body, you’ll find someone playing the bizarre game. The weirder the place and the more people looking on, the better. You may ask why, but the people behind The Lying Down Game would rather ask “Why not?”"

6 Useful Steps To Tackle Procrastination

6 Useful Steps To Tackle Procrastination: "Procrastination is one of the biggest time wasters in life. When we procrastinate, we waste away valuable free time and put off important tasks we should be doing until it’s too late. When that happens, we panic and wish we started earlier. I know a few chronic procrastinators, and unfortunately they spend their lives in the cycle of delaying, putting off important tasks, procrastinating, avoiding work, and doing work only when it's inevitable. It's unfortunate because they are disgruntled with their lives and they often self-victimize about their situations, when they have put themselves there in the first place."

“Jonny Quest” Titles Remade in Stop Motion By a Fan

“Jonny Quest” Titles Remade in Stop Motion By a Fan: "Roger Evans, a Western artist who lives in Utopia, Texas (population: 241), also happens to be an obsessive fan of Jonny Quest. He’s given himself the challenge of reanimating the 1960s opening titles of the Hanna-Barbera series using stop motion animation."

The new Muslim cartoon superheroes

The new Muslim cartoon superheroes: "We are all familiar with the American superheroes Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, but what about Muslim superheroes, THE 99?"

Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit

Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit: "Apache has hit Oracle with an ultimatum: grant its independent implementation of Java a license or it's quitting Java's governing body."

Get your own personal 3D movie glasses for $120

Get your own personal 3D movie glasses for $120: "Movie studios pour in millions of dollars to make sure their projects use the absolute best in 3D technology, but then you, the viewer, are supposed to watch it with cheap, disposable 3D glasses. Now one optics company says 'not anymore.'"

Google Gives All Employees Surprise $1,000 Cash Bonus And 10% Raise

Google Gives All Employees Surprise $1,000 Cash Bonus And 10% Raise: "Google has given all of its employees $1,000 cash 'holiday bonuses' and 2011 salary increases of at least 10%, a loyal reader tells us."

The 'Mystery Missile': Plane, Secret Test, Backyard Project, UFO?

The 'Mystery Missile': Plane, Secret Test, Backyard Project, UFO?: "It's definitely not a bird, it might have a plane, but whatever it was, it had the military scrambling today to explain where a trail of vapor 35 miles off the Los Angeles coast came from."

"Swirl tubes" make quiet, efficent jet planes

"Swirl tubes" make quiet, efficent jet planes: "For anyone with even a hint of trepidation about flying, landing is almost always the worst. The ground, once so far away now looms, scary and real. Then there's the noise of the plane, a racket that sets us all on edge as we dangle in the sky, waiting for touchdown."

How To Monitor Your Linux Server With SMS Alerts And Performance Graphs

How To Monitor Your Linux Server With SMS Alerts And Performance Graphs: "This tutorial shows how you can monitor your Linux server with a tool from Bijk - with email and SMS alerts. Bijk is an open source application, for creating live graphs and alerts, thus monitoring your server performance. With the Basic version of Bijk, you can easily set up email alerts for monitoring almost everything on your server (system overload, disk space usage, Apache troubles, MySQL, etc.)."

And the Most Popular Way to Read an E-Book Is …

And the Most Popular Way to Read an E-Book Is ...: "Amazon’s Kindle has become the breakthrough e-reader since it was introduced only three years ago, fueling a nearly $1 billion business that Forrester Research says will triple in the next five years."

GM Is Building Electric Cars Again, Just Not For Americans (GM)

GM Is Building Electric Cars Again, Just Not For Americans (GM): "For the next few years, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car will be the sole focus of GM's advanced powertrain efforts for U.S. car buyers.

But that hasn't stopped it from putting battery electric cars into production elsewhere in the world."

50 Most Frequently Used UNIX / Linux Commands (With Examples)

50 Most Frequently Used UNIX / Linux Commands (With Examples): "This is not a comprehensive list by any means, but this should give you a jumpstart on some of the common Linux commands. Bookmark this article for your future reference."

Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds

Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds: "For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too."

'Wheel of Fortune' Contestant Solves 27-Letter Puzzle With Just One Letter as a Clue

'Wheel of Fortune' Contestant Solves 27-Letter Puzzle With Just One Letter as a Clue: "One woman's amazing feat of word game mastery on Friday's episode of 'Wheel of Fortune' left audiences amazed -- and maybe a little suspicious."

Top 10 Things You Should Not Share on Social Networks

Top 10 Things You Should Not Share on Social Networks: "Unless you've been living under a rock in 2009, you know that social networking Web sites are the latest and greatest way to interact with other users on the Internet. Thirty-five percent of adults on the Internet now have a profile on at least one social networking site, and 51 percent have more than one. Three-quarters of users between the ages of 18 and 24 have an online profile [source: USA Today]. The Pew Research Center found that 89 percent of these people use the sites to keep up with friends, 57 percent to make plans with friends and 49 percent to make new friends."

Las Vegas tunnel people: How 1,000 people live under shimmering strip

Las Vegas tunnel people: How 1,000 people live under shimmering strip: "Deep beneath Vegas’s glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth inhabited by poisonous spiders and a man nicknamed The Troll who wields an iron bar."

Microsoft vs. Software Piracy - Inside the War Room

Microsoft vs. Software Piracy - Inside the War Room: "AS the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, one morning in March 2009, a caravan of more than 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents set out on a raid."

The 7 Step Guide to Increasing Your Financial Peace

The 7 Step Guide to Increasing Your Financial Peace: "Financial peace. Those are two words that don’t typically go together. Money struggles often consume our lives…daily. For example, over 61% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, meaning one job loss, vehicle meltdown, or sickness could send most people spiraling out of control financially. This doesn’t have to be case though. If you desire to strengthen your financial position and experience calm, then here are 7 tips that will enhance your financial peace."

Open hardware: How and why it works

Open hardware: How and why it works: "Open source has been a successful driver in software innovation, but how does it -- or how can it -- apply to hardware? A number of hardware projects are testing open source concepts, from microprocessors to microcontrollers to complete single-board computers. This article discusses licensing, availability, community, and other challenges and successes in making hardware open."

Create dynamic graphs and charts using Dojo

Create dynamic graphs and charts using Dojo: "In the world of Web 2.0, web pages are becoming more like applications, and web development libraries (such as Dojo and jQuery) are playing an increasingly important role. In this article, learn to use the dojox.charting feature of the Dojo library for data visualization. You can quickly and easily add great-looking and functional dynamic charts and graphs to your web pages. All you need are some basic JavaScript skills and a copy of Dojo."

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Linux Strings Command Examples (Search Text in UNIX Binary Files)

Linux Strings Command Examples (Search Text in UNIX Binary Files): "When an application is deployed, mostly only the binary files are packaged. It would be helpful for the developers (who wrote the original program) and for the users to search for a some ASCII text in the binary file to understand more about the executable."

Full Size R2D2 on a budget

Full Size R2D2 on a budget: "This is a prop I built for a Star Wars party. I didn't want to spend a lot, but I did want it to look cool.
I know that there are some incredibly talented folks who put years of effort into making awesome R2D2 and other droids, but I wanted something inexpensive and I only had a few months until the party. So rather than use sheet metal and fiberglass, I used mostly cardboard and wallboard joint compound. I also use a lot of stuff that I had in my junkbox."

12 Incredible Objects Being Made With 3D Printers Today

12 Incredible Objects Being Made With 3D Printers Today: "Three-dimensional printing, a type of additive manufacturing, uses layers upon layers of material to build almost anything imaginable. Once a novelty reserved for architects and product designers, 3D printing is now making its way into nearly every corner of industry. Not only does the technology allow a product to go from concept to reality in a shockingly short amount of time, but it also allows companies to manufacture on demand, eliminating the need for costly storage facilities. As the world catches on to the amazing benefits of 3D printing, we’ve started to see some truly wonderful products made with this futuristic manufacturing method. These are just a few of the most incredible products to be printed rather than produced."

Patent database up and running

Patent database up and running: "U.S. Patent data that once carried a high access fee is now available for free online."

Myths about bilingualism

Myths about bilingualism: "The reality of living with two (or more) languages."

The Little Book of Procrastination Remedies

The Little Book of Procrastination Remedies: "I thought I should cover some of the best procrastination-beating strategies, in light of my recent book, focus. People seem to want ways to beat procrastination, so they can actually get down to focusing."

How to Pursue Your Dreams – Despite the Day Job

How to Pursue Your Dreams: "You've got big dreams. Perhaps they're recent, or perhaps they've been simmering away at the back of your mind for years. Maybe you haven't started yet, or maybe you've already made a lot of progress."

iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry

iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry: "This is how smartphone users see each other"

Confidence: Stepping Out

Confidence: Stepping Out : "You're not alone in shunning center stage—shyness and social anxiety are as natural as breathing. But doing advance prep for a party or taking small social risks can lead to breakthroughs in confidence. Here's how to relish even the brightest of spotlights."

Web designers, keep those page sizes down. It’s for your own good.

Web designers, keep those page sizes down. It’s for your own good.: "There are a number of factors that can make a web page slow to load, both on the client side (the browser) and on the server side, but one really big factor is page size, and that’s what we’ll be talking about in this article. Hopefully you’ll pick up some useful information along the way."

10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong

10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong: "Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. Here's how to think straight about dangers in your midst."

How to Hack Your Slow Cooker

How to Hack Your Slow Cooker: "Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks, shares a very technical tip on how to turn your slow cooker into a sous-vide machine. For more detailed information, check out his book, or write and persuade him to put the info up on his website."

Build a Good Habit in 30 Days

Build a Good Habit in 30 Days: "Building good habits takes time. If you practice a good habit for 30 days straight, you are most likely to follow it for a long time."

Monsters Attack! 26 Epic Retro Horror Movie Posters

Monsters Attack! 26 Epic Retro Horror Movie Posters: "Monster movies have a long and horrible past, full of rubber monster suits and endless damsels in distress. Despite the poor quality of the props, and the limited technology, movies like King Kong managed to make an indelible imprint on the modern consciousness… with a little claymation and a lot of screaming. Movie poster art is not as limited by technology, and these are some of the coolest classic monster movie posters."

Search and integrate Google Buzz Streams with PHP

Search and integrate Google Buzz Streams with PHP: "Google Buzz allows users to post real-time status updates, news, and content to their Google Account, and to subscribe to similar updates from others. Web application developers are able to access and search this content through the Google Buzz REST API. This article introduces the Google Buzz API and demonstrates it in the context of a PHP application, explaining how to search, retrieve, add, and edit different types of content on Google Buzz."

Virtual networking in Linux

Virtual networking in Linux: "With the explosive growth of platform virtualization, it's not surprising that other parts of the enterprise ecosystem are being virtualized, as well. One of the more recent areas is virtual networking. Early implementations of platform virtualization created virtual NICs, but today, larger portions of the network are being virtualized, such as switches that support communication among VMs on a server or distributed among servers. Explore the ideas behind virtual networking, with a focus on NIC and switch virtualization."

Boost Your Geek Cred With the Linux Credit Card (Really)

Boost Your Geek Cred With the Linux Credit Card (Really): "What is the coolest thing for a Linux fan to carry in their pocket? Why, the new Linux Tux credit card! The Linux Foundation teamed up with UMB Bank and CardPartner Inc. to create the Linux-branded Visa card. It's pretty much your typical credit card, except that, by applying for the card, you are also helping to promote Linux."

Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions

Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions : "Eric Goldman alerts us to the interesting bit of news that Google has sued the US government -- specifically the Department of the Interior, for not seriously considering Google Apps when it put out a Request for Quotation (RFQ) to handle its messaging needs. Specifically, the DOI stated upfront in the RFQ that the solution had to be part of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Google is making the argument that this is 'unduly restrictive of competition,' and it seems like they've got a decent argument there."

Controlling DC Motors from your Linux Box

Controlling DC Motors from your Linux Box: "Linux is the best general purpose operating system for controlling hardware. It allows fast and well-controlled access to Input/Output ports such as the parallel port and serial port as well as plug in cards. The Linux Gazette has two good articles on how to achieve this, see [1] and [2]. If you need real time response, consider the RTAI extension of Linux, again Linux Gazette has some very useful articles that use RTAI to achieve motor control [3], make a stroboscope [4], and use a joy-stick to control servo motors [5] ."

How to Quickly Fast Forward YouTube Video With Your Keyboard [Quick Tips]

How to Quickly Fast Forward YouTube Video With Your Keyboard [Quick Tips]: "While watching YouTube videos, you might come across some scenes that are stupidly boring and you just want to skip ahead to get to the next interesting scene. Other than the mouse, you can also use the keyboard to quickly fast forward (or rewind) the YouTube video. Let’s see how it can be done"

Why is a universal translator so elusive?

Why is a universal translator so elusive?: "With a global economy and flights that can take you all over the world in hours, why is it that we still struggle with a language barrier that technology is finding hard to break down?"

Bill Murray as other Wes Anderson characters

Bill Murray as other Wes Anderson characters: "Man, what if Spike Jonze had made Being Bill Murray instead? Casey Weldon did a series of paintings of Bill Murray as characters from Wes Anderson's movies...but non-Murray characters like Max Fischer, Margot Tenenbaum, and the Baumer."

Surprising Patterns in the Square Numbers (1, 4, 9, 16…)

Surprising Patterns in the Square Numbers (1, 4, 9, 16…): "Strange, but true. Take some time to figure out why — even better, find a reason that would work on a nine-year-old. Go on, I’ll be here."

Modern art was CIA 'weapon'

Modern art was CIA 'weapon': "how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War"

Weatherman Pumpkin Throw FAIL

While feeding the polar bears at the Zoo, the weatherman also threw in his microphone by accident. Plus, the next night followup to the accident.