Would you pay $1.2-million for this car?

Would you pay $1.2-million for this car?: "The two-tone grey ‘29 Duesenberg Model J Dual Cowl Phaeton that sold at a recent RM Auctions sale brought a somewhat surprising $1.2-million (U.S.). Even though it had been restored to pristine condition, the price was still about a quarter-million dollars more than expected for such a classic."

Cloud business analytics: Write your own dashboard

Cloud business analytics: Write your own dashboard: "Business analytics and cloud computing are hot, complex topics; the idea of combining the two could drive away those with less experience. But fear not: The author provides a simple look at the complex history of business analytics, illuminates the common points where both meet, explains the benefits that a cloud environment can bring to business analytics (and vice-versa), and gives you an example for writing your own cloud business analytics application."

The Simplest Diet for Lean Fitness

The Simplest Diet for Lean Fitness: "Today after more than five years of living healthy I am about 65 pounds lighter. I’m leaner than I’ve been since probably high school with the same pants size as I had in high school (32) — while being much stronger than I was back then. More importantly I am fitter: I can run and play sports and hike and do activities of all kinds better than ever before."

Pictures: Visiting Pixar

Pictures: Visiting Pixar: "One of the Your Mac Life listeners is Don Shank. Not only is he an accomplished artist and animator, he also works at what has to be the coolest, most creative company in the world — no, not Apple. Pixar!"

Chinese TV tries to pass ‘Top Gun’ footage off as real drill?

Chinese TV tries to pass ‘Top Gun’ footage off as real drill?: "China Central Television (CCTV) recently aired footage of a J-10 fighter (a predecessor to the J-20) allegedly destroying another aircraft during a training flight. But many viewers noticed something fishy — the images seemed eerily familiar.

Closer inspection revealed an uncanny similarity to a scene from the film 'Top Gun,' the 1986 Tom Cruise blockbuster."

Bond and Batman reject Henry Cavill is new Superman

Bond and Batman reject Henry Cavill is new Superman: "BRITISH actor Henry Cavill has been cast in the title role in Warner Bros' Superman reboot, to be directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Christopher Nolan."

Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon

Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon: "Apollo is a 524 km-diameter impact basin located within the center of the the giant South Pole-Aitken basin. Apollo is also a Constellation Project Region of Interest, identified by NASA as a notional area for future human lunar exploration"

'ThunderCats' to reboot soon on Cartoon Network

'ThunderCats' to reboot soon on Cartoon Network: "Warner Bros along with Japan's Studio 4°C are busy giving a modern look to the 80s cats .All the six characters of the original, Lion-O, Cheetara Panthroa, Tygra, and the twins wilykat and wilykit are being resurrected."

The Geekiest Gadgets of Macworld Expo 2011

The Geekiest Gadgets of Macworld Expo 2011: "we're not here to talk about that. Or Apple itself, for that matter. For us here at GeekTech, the gadgets and goodies on show are all we care about. And even though iGadget cases are always popular, there was still plenty to check out--even if you're not an Apple fan. Submitted for your approval are some of the geekiest things we spotted at Macworld 2011."

Saturday Night Live Recap: Jesse Eisenberg Meets Mark Zuckerberg, Fred Armisen Does His Hosni Mubarak

Saturday Night Live Recap: Jesse Eisenberg Meets Mark Zuckerberg, Fred Armisen Does His Hosni Mubarak: "Jesse Eisenberg brought his comedic chops to Saturday Night Live last night. Overall, he was one of the more subtly funny hosts this season, making us laugh without any over-the-top physical comedy"

Viva la Frog!

Viva la Frog!: "Two species of invasive frog which are hopping their way through Florida probably got to the state by hitching a ride on floating debris from Cuba, according to a study published on Wednesday."

5 Lessons That Professor Failure Taught Me About Success

5 Lessons That Professor Failure Taught Me About Success: "Failure has become a faithful friend throughout the years. Early on in my life I thought failure was my mortal enemy. But life’s experience has taught me that Professor Failure is on the academic staff of my personal University Of Success that I attend."

WikiLeaks' Assange denies wrongdoing, accuses US of 'death threats'

WikiLeaks' Assange denies wrongdoing, accuses US of 'death threats': "Julian Assange accused US lawmakers of calling for his “assassination” in a TV interview aired tonight -- as separate revelations emerged that the WikiLeaks founder disguised himself as an old woman in order to evade American intelligence officers."

The WTF movie stunt of the century

The WTF movie stunt of the century

One sexy Baroness

One sexy Baroness: "Baroness, you’re doing it right."

PDFZilla Time-limited Giveaway - Get PDFZilla For FREE!

PDFZilla Time-limited Giveaway - Get PDFZilla For FREE!: "This PDFZilla Time-limited Giveaway Promotion will be CLOSED on Feb 5th, 2011."

Incredible 3D Models of Star Wars Ships

Incredible 3D Models of Star Wars Ships: "We all have our geeky hobbies. Some of us collect Pokemon cards, others enjoy reading comic books, and some of us like to play video games. Ansel Hsiao likes to spend hours upon hours obsessively creating insanely detailed 3D models of spaceships from the Star Wars universe."

George Lucas thinks world will end in 2012, Seth Rogen says

George Lucas thinks world will end in 2012, Seth Rogen says: "'He claimed he didn't have a spaceship, but there's no doubt there's a Millennium Falcon in a garage somewhere with a pilot just waiting to go. It's going to be him and Steven Spielberg and I'll be blown up like the rest of us.'"

Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic - Smooth Criminal

Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic - Smooth Criminal

A chip off the old block

A chip off the old block: "Baffling: How did this block of wood end up on top of an iceberg?"

eyeOS – Web Desktop, Cloud Computing Operating System and Web Office

eyeOS – Web Desktop, Cloud Computing Operating System and Web Office: "is a disruptive desktop entirely usable from a web browser. It includes an office suite and some collaboration aplications, as well as a full framework to develop new web apps as if they were desktop apps. It’s Free and Open Source –so you can host your own system, keeping all your data under your control."

How to Start Your Morning and Set up the Day for Success

How to Start Your Morning and Set up the Day for Success: "Other days don’t go quite like that. In fact, for many people, these days are the more typical ones: You hit snooze repeatedly and get up late. You rush breakfast (or worse, skip it altogether), and you spend the first hour of your workday trying to find that really important file, or answering emails. By lunchtime, you feel as though you’ve not accomplished anything – and you can’t see the afternoon getting any better."

inFamous criminals that went to Harvard

inFamous criminals that went to Harvard: "Don't feel bad if you never made it to Harvard, you won't have to deal with their dishonorable legacy."

Jenga!!!!

Jenga!!!!

Gillian Anderson top ten

Gillian Anderson top ten

If Michael Jackson reached 81

If Michael Jackson reached 81, this is how it would have been. Courtesy of Cab Callaway.

How to scare an obese boy

How to scare an obese boy

You only have 3 minutes!

You only have 3 minutes!

3 Minutes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

How to Change the World: Mantras Versus Missions

How to Change the World: Mantras Versus Missions: "The ultimate test for a mantra (or mission statement) is if your telephone operators (Trixie and Biff) can tell you what it is. If they can, then you’re onto something meaningful and memorable. If they can’t, then, well, it sucks."

“Jeopardy” Champs No Match for IBM Super-Computer

“Jeopardy” Champs No Match for IBM Super-Computer: "Reigning all-time “Jeopardy!” champions have finally met their match in the form of a super-computer."

12 Ways to Jumpstart Your Life

12 Ways to Jumpstart Your Life: "Sometimes we get a little stuck in life -- we set New Year's resolutions and they peter out after a month, we want to exercise but can never get our butts in gear, we want to make positive changes but don't have the time or energy."

Simple screencasting

Simple Screencasting: "Record your desktop, speaker output and microphone at once, then output it to WebM, Ogg, or Matroska files. If you have the necessary codecs, you can even output to an AVI file or Matroska and h264. Control the size of the capture area, get a visual countdown to the start of recording, or just record a screencast of your favorite game. This is Tibesti Screencaster."

NASA Spinoff for Android is packed with information, purple

NASA Spinoff for Android is packed with information, purple: "NASA has released an Android application, called NASA Spinoff. The app is very purple, as you can see from the screenshots above, and it basically intends to be a mobile version of the NASA Spinoff publication, which features successfully commercialized NASA technology."

Caring for Your Joomla! Web Site and Helpful Tips

Caring for Your Joomla! Web Site and Helpful Tips: "Once your Web site is created and online, the work doesn't stop. It is important to note that being the administrator of a Web site takes ongoing work to keep it updated, to keep your content fresh, to advertise and market it, and to keep your visitors engaged. Depending on what type of site you have created, the workload may be more or less, but all Web site administrators need to take a proactive approach and stay on top of taking care of their Web site. This chapter will explain some best practices and simple steps to keep up your Web site and to continue growing your visitor exposure and brand reach."

4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web

4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web: "As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we’re finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? Where are the best columns and content offerings? How can we balance the need for timely, relevant information with reasonable limits of our ability to find, sort, fact check and validate information?"

Why has the longest golf drive record not been broken?

Why has the longest golf drive record not been broken?: "The record for the longest golf drive has stood unbeaten for 35 years and was achieved with a wooden club, so have three decades of improving golfing technology failed to make an impression?"

Robotnik says no for 15 minutes and two seconds

Play it on a computer you can lock behind a door and turn the volume to the max. You'll see people freaking out looking how to open the door.

Video Light Painting - The Easy Way

Video Light Painting - The Easy Way: "One of the most repeated questions we get on our light painting tuts is: 'Yes, but how about video? Can you light paint in video?'

Well, the short answer is yes you can, you would need to take roughly 24 pictures per second, drawing and re-drawing your light for every single frame."

Awesome Fan Made Poster For The Dark Knight Rises

Awesome Fan Made Poster For The Dark Knight Rises: "For a moment I thought I had come across something official here! It's that good. Have a looksee.."

From Paper To RingFlash In Few Easy Steps

From Paper To RingFlash In Few Easy Steps: "If you're into ring-flashes, this should be one of the most fun projects ever. It mixes together some paper, glue, scissors and, of course a strobe to print and then fold your ring flash."

Video: Student-Built CakeBot Recreates MS-Paint-Like Drawings in Frosting

Video: Student-Built CakeBot Recreates MS-Paint-Like Drawings in Frosting: "The AutoFrost robot converts digital scratchings to delicious cake decorations"

The Power of Asking for What You Want

The Power of Asking for What You Want: "Getting what you want out of life isn’t always easy. You can spend weeks, months or even years working on your goals. That’s a lot of effort and planning just to get from point A to point B. Worse still are the people who do nothing but wait around hoping that what they want will just appear in front of them."

3D Murals, Josh Pugh No glasses, or cross eyeing needed!!

3D No glasses by Jonathan Post

How To Protect Your Sensitive Documents In Windows 7 -

How To Protect Your Sensitive Documents In Windows 7 -: "Do you ever have a confidential document that you don’t want others to see? How do you protect it from creeping eyes? While there are many tools in the market, both free and paid, that allow you to encrypt your files and folders, we are not going to discuss about them today. Instead, we will talk about the built-in encryption function in Windows (available since Windows 2000). The tool that we are referring to is EFS (Encrypting File System"

Jeopardy's best face off with IBM computer

Jeopardy's best face off with IBM computer: "Two of Jeopardy’s! most celebrated winners will be going head to head with the newest IBM computer on the quiz show airing February 14-16th. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter will be competing with IBM’s new “Watson” computing system."

Venezuela demands TV soap featuring dog called 'Little Hugo' is dropped

Venezuela demands TV soap featuring dog called 'Little Hugo' is dropped : "President Hugo Chavez's government has ordered a private television station to stop showing a Colombian soap opera featuring a troublesome dog called Little Hugo owned by a girl called Venezuela who feels better off without him."

Gorillaz Reveal New Cartoon Bandmate

Gorillaz Reveal New Cartoon Bandmate: "Gorillaz have reportedly made an addition to their lineup of cartoon band members. In a post on their official website, the group revealed that their newest addition is called 'The Evangelist' and serves as a counterpart to the 'Boogieman' character that has appeared in their recent work."

Animal Weapons

Animal Weapons: "A funny collection of animals and weapons."

Rumor: Verizon to offer unlimited data plans for iPhone users

Rumor: Verizon to offer unlimited data plans for iPhone users: "We are preparing to cover Verizon's last-minute press conference on Tuesday, widely expected to host the unveiling of a Verizon-compatible iPhone. Trust us—it seems all but guaranteed at this point that it will be an iPhone event. And, according to a new rumor published on Sunday, Verizon will offer new iPhone users unlimited data options when the device launches on its network."

How I created my perfect programming environment

How I created my perfect programming environment: "One of my favourite things about the Linux desktop experience is how modular and flexible it is. If the attractive GUIs offered by comprehensive desktop environments such as GNOME or KDE don't meet your needs, it is relatively simple to swap them out for something different. Given enough time and appropriate motivation it is possible to create a completely bespoke desktop."

Introduction to Facebook APIs

Introduction to Facebook APIs: "You can incorporate Facebook functionality into your own applications. From the mobile perspective, the Facebook Platform supports APIs for mobile web applications, and mobile SDKs for native mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms. In this article, explore the Facebook Platform APIs and the Facebook SDK for Android, the SDK released by the Facebook mobile team."

Learn Linux, 101: Runlevels, shutdown, and reboot

Learn Linux, 101: Runlevels, shutdown, and reboot: "Learn to shut down or reboot your Linux system, warn users that the system is going down, and switch to a more or less restrictive runlevel. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn about shutting down, rebooting, and changing runlevels."

How to Become More Intelligent

How to Become More Intelligent: "This article will offer you five ways to increase your intelligence by showing you how to enhance your capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding and mastery."

Simple guide to speaking foreign languages

Simple guide to speaking foreign languages: "When I was 21 years old, the only language I spoke was English. I had done quite poorly in languages in school and believed that I was too untalented and even too ‘old’ to consider ever speaking a foreign language, even basically.

Now seven years later I speak eight languages fluently and can get by quite well in several others. In my day-to-day life I almost never speak English and my travels and scope of friendships have been greatly enriched because of this."

10 Surefire Ways to Screw Up Your iPhone App

10 Surefire Ways to Screw Up Your iPhone App: "So you want to build the next smash hit iPhone app? Extraordinary design is key to getting the attention of users and of Apple, so if an app exudes a stench of mediocrity, Apple won’t feature it and app shoppers probably won’t download it (even if they do, they won’t share it with others). The following are ten common iPhone app design and usability mistakes that can shatter hopes of success on the App Store."

Use Two Kinects For Real-Time 3-D Holographic Video Chat

Use Two Kinects For Real-Time 3-D Holographic Video Chat: "Oliver Kreylos, the Kinect-hacking pioneer who you might remember from our earlier roundups, can't seem to stop pushing the Kinect's 3-D holographic capabilities. This newest hack involves two Kinect sensors, a virtual office, and, improbably, a Nintendo Wii controller, but the end result is pretty amazing: Holographic video chat in full 3-D."

Microsoft's Ballmer hints at PC support for Kinect

Microsoft's Ballmer hints at PC support for Kinect Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer has hinted to the BBC that he will formally support PC use of the Kinect motion controller in the near future, saying Microsoft "will support that in a formal way in the right time".

How to make a Real Rorschach mask that changes and moves.

Impresive DIY mask

Ninja Moped - Insert Coin

Impressive piece of animation

Viral vanity plate deemed offensive by Va. DMV

Viral vanity plate deemed offensive by Va. DMV The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles revoked a man's vanity plate after deciding the plate advocated performing oral sex on children.

What Good Is A Computer Processor That Does Bad Math?

What Good Is A Computer Processor That Does Bad Math? One of the core functions of a computer processor is to perform the basic arithmetical functions of the system. Why would we want a processor that gets those basic calculations wrong? Carnegie Mellon's Joseph Bates has the answer.

Nvidia unveils site for 3D video, photos, sports

Nvidia unveils site for 3D video, photos, sports
Graphics chipmaker Nvidia, eager to hasten the arrival of the 3D graphics era and spur demand for new 3D hardware, today unveiled a site for content called 3DVisionLive.

Digg founder Kevin Rose embraces emai

Digg founder Kevin Rose embraces email Digg founder Kevin Rose is joining the ranks of entrepreneurs who are jumping on to the old-school newsletter format. He just announced his latest project, a newsletter called Foundation that will feature “video interviews, product reviews, rants, and early access to pre-launched websites.”

Build a digital book with EPUB

Build a digital book with EPUB Need to distribute documentation, create an eBook, or just archive your favorite blog posts? EPUB is an open specification for digital books based on familiar technologies like XML, CSS, and XHTML, and EPUB files can be read on portable e-ink devices, mobile phones, and desktop computers. This tutorial explains the EPUB format in detail, demonstrates EPUB validation using Java technology, and moves step-by-step through automating EPUB creation using DocBook and Python.

How to Delete Duplicates in iTunes

How to Delete Duplicates in iTunes One of iTunes’ greatest features is its ability to quickly and easily track down duplicates hiding in your library. Duplicates can be a big problem in that they not only use up extra hard drive space that is essentially wasted, but they also make your iTunes library messy, which many users don’t appreciate. With a couple of quick tips though, you can clean your library right up. There are two ways to clean your iTunes library up from within iTunes, one more generic and one very specific, so read on for more details!

And you had to say it... Hmmm :/

This is one of the moments where you have to STFU!