Can’t Find a Dream Job? Create Your Own

Can’t Find a Dream Job? Create Your Own: "I was once unemployed, and I know the debilitating depression and the feelings of frustration and helplessness that can come with that. I’ve been stuck in a job I hate, and I felt imprisoned, trapped doing work that bored me while following orders of others and helping them achieve their goals."

Data visualization with Processing, Part 3: 2-D, 3-D, physics, and networking

Data visualization with Processing, Part 3: 2-D, 3-D, physics, and networking: "This final article in the 'Data visualization with Processing' series explores some of Processing's more advanced features, starting with an introduction to 2-D and 3-D graphics and lighting features. Then explore physics applications with graphical visualization, learn about Processing's networking features, and develop a simple application that visualizes data from the Internet."

Is There A Link Between Social Networking And Depression?

Is There A Link Between Social Networking And Depression?: "Facebook, MySpace and Twitter — most of us are on at least one. In fact, social networking has become such a part of our lives that there was even a movie made about it. Now, several new studies suggest that sites that are supposed to keep you connected, can actually leave you feeling depressed."

Create a Multi-boot USB Stick with MultiSystem

Create a Multi-boot USB Stick with MultiSystem: "Thanks to tools like Unetbootin and Ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator, creating a bootable USB stick with your favorite Linux distro has never been easier. But both of these utilities have one tiny shortcoming: they allow you to install only one distro on a USB stick. Enter MultiSystem, a nifty tool that can squeeze several distros on to a single USB stick. Not only that, MultiSystem lets you add a persistent storage for each distro, and the tool automatically generates a boot menu with a few handy options."

Create Keyboard Shortcuts for Web Apps with JavaScript

Create Keyboard Shortcuts for Web Apps with JavaScript: "Every time I see someone using the computer the hard and slow way, I have the urge to correct them. For example, when I’m in a meeting and someone is making a presentation using PowerPoint, and to go to the next slide, the presenter right clicks and scrolls to the next slide in the list and clicks on it, I feel like shouting out to them (and sometimes do): 'You ****, hit the right arrow on your keyboard!'"

The Craze Behind Caffeine

The Craze Behind Caffeine: "Though caffeine addictions can happen, they are less likely to occur if teens choose to surround themselves with peers who do not drink caffeine drinks. If more schools decide to stop the sale of these drinks, the likelihood of these caffeine cravings will decrease even more."

Pixar Short: Day & Night - An Inside Look

An Inside Look to Pixar's innovative short.

Adult Swim app brings full episodes and games to iPad and iPhone

Adult Swim app brings full episodes and games to iPad and iPhone: "Adult Swim is brining its lineup of shows and games to the iPad and iPhone via a new, free app. The app lets you watch full episodes of Adult Swim favorites, including Venture Brothers, Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and it also serves as a dashboard for Adult Swim games."

Ten of biggest ships in the world to be built revolutionising the way goods are carried round the world

Ten of biggest ships in the world to be built revolutionising the way goods are carried round the world: "IT will be the biggest, sleekest supermarket shelf-stacking delivery service in the world."

A Twitter copycat has China talking

A Twitter copycat has China talking: "Ye Fangzhao, a 31-year-old freelance brochure editor for auto companies, abandoned Twitter a year ago to start using Sina Weibo, China's homegrown equivalent. Now he's on the micro-blogging service 10 hours a day, using it to connect with motoring experts and keep up on trends."

Nickelodeon’s Kevin Richardson on his career in animation

Nickelodeon's Kevin Richardson on his career in animation: "“When I was a kid, my dad used to drop me off at the cinema,” Kevin Richardson, Senior Producer at Nickelodoen Kids and Family Games Group recalls. “The first movie I remember was Santa Claus conquers the Martians. Even as a kid I knew it was bad!” We sat down with Richardson to talk about his early passion and career in animation, his entry into games after seeing CD-ROMs in action, trying to combine work with his love for the outdoors and how producers can make sure they’re a valuable asset to their teams."

Microsoft is reaching out to give the Kinect modding community a big, warm hug with the release of official PC development tools this spring.

Microsoft is reaching out to give the Kinect modding community a big, warm hug with the release of official PC development tools this spring.: "Microsoft is reaching out to give the Kinect modding community a big, warm hug with the release of official PC development tools this spring."

How Stuff Works: How IBM’s Watson machine works

How Stuff Works: How IBM’s Watson machine works: "The last time a computer famously beat humans, the domain was chess. The thing that was most interesting about that victory is the dichotomy between humans and machines. The way a human plays chess and the way that a chess-playing computer plays chess have nothing in common. The computer uses a brute-force technique that looks at billions of possible moves to pick the best moves. A human can’t do anything close to that, so instead looks at many fewer possibilities through a lens of strategy and tactics. Technology has advanced to the point where it is now possible for a laptop computer to use brute force to beat most normal human players."

New Facebook "Breakup Notifier" App Takes the Fun Out of Friend-Stalking

New Facebook "Breakup Notifier" App Takes the Fun Out of Friend-Stalking: "Thanks to developer Dan Loewenherz, Facebook just got a little bit creepier—or more loving, depending on your point of view. That's all thanks to the new application Loewenherz recently released: Breakup Notifier."

Sony’s Hacker Ban Backfires

Sony’s Hacker Ban Backfires: "It looks like this hacking war still has a few battles to be fought. Last week, we reported that Sony were banning “jailbroken” or hacked PlayStation 3 consoles from accessing it’s online features."

Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka on how Sega is changing its game

Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka on how Sega is changing its game: "Takashi Iizuka is a difficult man to read. He often tends to slip into corporate speak, especially when discussing Sonic Team, the game development outfit he heads. Operating under the vast Sega empire, it's been responsible for developing all Sonic The Hedgehog games for the past few years -- and it's been a very, very bumpy ride."

Take Your Tech Off the Grid

Take Your Tech Off the Grid: "What do a tree-hugging hippie, a die-hard survivalist with a year's worth of Campbell's soup, and a sensible bill-paying adult have in common?"

How to Gain Respect and Make Professional Connections

How to Gain Respect and Make Professional Connections: "Listen, some people are born with that 'gift'. They can pick up on something and jump into any conversation whenever they want. Most people aren't built that way. Let's dive in and look at a few ways to improve. The goal is not to be the Anthony Robbins of your office, but perhaps with some work, you can take your game up a notch."

Do Your Gadget Lights Harm Your Health?

Do Your Gadget Lights Harm Your Health?: "Those LED lights are more than annoying; evidence indicates they might be downright dangerous."

Fighting over Kung Fu

Fighting over Kung Fu: "A Randolph artist is unleashing some litigious kung fu on the Hollywood studio behind the upcoming animated movie “Kung Fu Panda 2,” starring characters voiced by Jack Black and Angelina Jolie."

Cars 2 Toy Fair Preview Reveals New Facts, Characters From Movie

Cars 2 Toy Fair Preview Reveals New Facts, Characters From Movie: "Disney hosted a big shindig Monday at New York City’s Chelsea Piers, just blocks away from the Javits Center, where the 2011 American International Toy Fair is under way. Like the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides-focused gathering a few weeks ago, attending guests from the media, along with a select group of D23 fans, got an early glimpse of what to expect from the Cars 2 merchandise train."

Giant Solar Blast Headed for Earth

Giant Solar Blast Headed for Earth: "The biggest solar blast in four years erupted late Monday, and it’s sending jets of charged particles right at Earth. The spray will spark bright auroras when it hits the magnetosphere in the next 24 to 48 hours."

Little Big Planet 2 User Creates A Sackboy “Back To The Future”

Little Big Planet 2 User Creates A Sackboy “Back To The Future” : "When we reviewed Little Big Planet 2 last month, we predicted it wouldn’t be long before people used the game’s movie making tools to create LBP versions of their favorite movies. We didn’t have to wait long – check out this fantastic version of the Sack Back to the Future clock tower scene."

High-speed train system has a long way to go

High-speed train system has a long way to go: "The Obama administration is proceeding at full speed with plans to create a national high-speed rail system, proposing billions in next year's budget to help lay the groundwork. But political opposition and hefty costs could mean the ambitious program goes nowhere fast."

3 mobile payment products hint at the future

3 mobile payment products hint at the future: "We've been told that mobile payment is imminent. Now it might be true."

7 Timeless Tips That Will Supercharge Your Body, Mind, And Soul

7 Timeless Tips That Will Supercharge Your Body, Mind, And Soul: "Sometimes getting more of them can seem impossible. We’re plagued by the uncertainty of the future, and we have no idea what our purpose is."

NSW Ambulance Service hit by virus

NSW Ambulance Service hit by virus: "The New South Wales Ambulance Service was hit by a computer virus on the weekend which forced staff to switch off some computers for over a day."

LG’s Glasses-Free 3-D Phone is Pretty Impressive

LG’s Glasses-Free 3-D Phone is Pretty Impressive: "Unlike its underwhelming Optimus Pad tablet, LG’s Optimus 3D cellphone is rather impressive. Its 4.3-inch screen is capable of displaying 3-D without the need for a pair of 3D glasses."

A JavaScript 3D model viewer in your browser

A JavaScript 3D model viewer in your browser: "Although people talk of HTML5 being the future of the web, such a future also means JavaScript is becoming an ever more important part of web development. While HTML5 brings features like the Canvas tag for drawing in a browser, JavaScript is what you use to control what’s being drawn and the manipulation there of."

“Animation is Built On Plagiarism…”

“Animation is Built On Plagiarism…”: "Authors, artists, and inventors sit and brood about the need to keep their wares to themselves, and hunt out anyone who would dare “steal” their idea. In the successful cases, they can end up rewarding themselves but at the expense of social development."

Monsters Ick?

Monsters Ick?: "It's been a really long time since I first heard about the lawsuit against Disney/Pixar over Monsters Inc.... over three years, in fact... and I can't find any follow up news on the case."

How one man tracked down Anonymous and paid a heavy price

How one man tracked down Anonymous and paid a heavy price: "Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them. But matching their online identities to real-world names and locations proved daunting. Barr found a way to crack the code."

Learn electronics and microcontrollers using Arduino!

Learn electronics and microcontrollers using Arduino!: "So, I get two or three emails a day, all basically asking the same thing: 'Where can I learn about electronics?' In general, most of these people have seen some of my projects and want to be able to build similar things. Unfortunately, I have never been able to point them to a good site that really takes the reader through a solid introduction to microcontrollers and basic electronics."

Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer

Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer: "As Internet valuations climb and bankers and would-be buyers circle Silicon Valley in an increasingly frothy tech market, many eyes are on one particularly desirable, if still enigmatic, target: Twitter."

Digg must deversify to survive: Digg's Taco Shop in Dallas

Digg must deversify to survive: Digg's Taco Shop in Dallas: "Located on Hillcrest Avenue between Asbury and McFarlin Boulevard, Digg’s serves up tex-mex, burgers and now ... (drum roll please) margarita popsicles."

Fake Twitter Accounts Get Real Laughs in Washington

Fake Twitter Accounts Get Real Laughs in Washington: "Fake Twitter personalities mock actors like Chuck Norris and world leaders like President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, whose faux feed suggested that “Muslim Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants!” would be a great “political movie mash-up.”"

Twitter data privacy in dispute in WikiLeaks case

Twitter data privacy in dispute in WikiLeaks case: "Three people associated with the website WikiLeaks are asking a federal judge not to force the social networking site Twitter to turn over data about whom they communicate with online."

NASA’s gift to car makers

NASA’s gift to car makers: "The Department of Transportation, in its long-awaited report on Toyota’s infamous accelerators, has concluded that cases of cars suddenly speeding off on their own were the result of either sticky pedals, floor mats jammed against the pedals or, quite simply, driver error. In fact, the report cites driver error for most of the mishaps. Read about the report."

Using geospatial data in applications on Linux with GDAL

Using geospatial data in applications on Linux with GDAL: "Learn the concepts of geospatial data, including data formats, coordinate reference systems, and where to find data, and get an overview of tools available and how to use data in code. You'll construct an example application, using the Geospatial Data Abstraction Layer (GDAL) and UMN MapServer to demonstrate the concepts learned."

Safer Internet Day 2011 - "Internet, it's more than a game

Safer Internet Day 2011 - "Internet, it's more than a game.

Getting started with SSH, security, and configuration

Getting started with SSH, security, and configuration: "Are you a new UNIX® administrator who needs to be able to run communication over a network in the most secure fashion possible? Brush up on the basics, learn the intricate details of SSH, and delve into the advanced capabilities of SSH to automate securely your daily system maintenance, remote system management, and use within advanced scripts to manage multiple hosts."

One Per Cent: Forgiveness via iPhone: Church approves confession app

One Per Cent: Forgiveness via iPhone: Church approves confession app: "Selling for $1.99, 'Confession: A Roman Catholic App' was developed as an aid 'for those who frequent the sacrament and those who wish to return,' according to Little iApps, the firm behind the idea. Its makers insist it is not a replacement for confessing in person with a priest, but instead helps to keep track of all the evil things you have done since the last time you confessed by ticking off some of the most common failings. Deviants get the opportunity to add their own, bespoke, sins as they go."

Mother Finds Pornographic Material on Kids Cartoon DVD

Mother Finds Pornographic Material on Kids Cartoon DVD: "A New York City mother who bought a “Go, Diego, Go!” cartoon DVD at a Long Island Toys “R” Us store said she was shocked when she played the disc for her children – only to see pornography."

WikiLeaks’ UFO Cables: More About Raelian Cult Than Alien Life

WikiLeaks’ UFO Cables: More About Raelian Cult Than Alien Life: "If WikiLeaks didn’t already have the attention of the world’s conspiracy theorists, its founder Julian Assange grabbed the X-files crowd by their tin-foil helmet antennae in December, when he mentioned that the site plans to publish leaked cables that reference UFOs."

Motorola Xoom Tablet to Come with a $800 Price Tag

Motorola Xoom Tablet to Come with a $800 Price Tag: "Upon seeing the Motorola Xoom tablet when it was first introduced back at CES11, it’s obvious the allure that the device had over geeks and even the non-geeks in the room. Falling in lust with a gadget, while may be frowned upon by some, has never been that easy — especially if the tablet is the first Android offering to come with Honeycomb. Sadly, that lust can be dampened as easily upong learning the possible price of the Xoom."

2011 Super Bowl XLV Best & Worst Commercials

2011 Super Bowl XLV Best & Worst Commercials: "All the commercials HERE!!!!"

Super Bowl 2011 Commercials: The Unholy Triumverate Of Bud Light, Doritos, And PepsiMax

Super Bowl 2011 Commercials: The Unholy Triumverate Of Bud Light, Doritos, And PepsiMax: "No Super Bowl is complete without the commercials presumably targeted to your houseplants, i.e. The Bud Light/Doritos/PepsiMax Holy Trinity of Subhuman Advertising. Super Bowl 2011 has its fair share, and is thus complete, but that's no reason to be happy because these commercials should make you weep, especially because Bud Light commercials now seem witty compared to their competition."

Debian 6 Squeeze, the universal operating system, finally released

Debian 6 Squeeze, the universal operating system, finally released: "After exactly two years of development and with over 10,000 new packages, version 6 of the wunderkind jack of all trades, Debian, has been released. This release, along with support for i386, amd64, powerpc, sparc, mips, mipsel, ia64, s390 and armel architectures, also features a technical preview of Debian ported to the FreeBSD kernel, dubbed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD."

Tron Disc with .NET Microframework

Tron Disc with .NET Microframework : "Harford Hackerspace wanted to make our own Tron Identity Disc using the Netduino, allowing us to quickly load different versions of code to change the disc's functionality. David Powell, Gary W. Cygiel, Jeremy Ashinghurst, Paul King, Jason McMahon present a simple lightshow in this tutorial, developers can easily extend the code and hardware to produce an interactive game."

Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse

Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse: "It's easy to forget just how crazy things got during the Web 1.0 bubble in 2000. That was over ten years ago. For context, Mark Zuckerberg was all of sixteen when the original web bubble popped."

Robot Chicken: SW III Wins Annie Award

Robot Chicken: SW III Wins Annie Award: "Congrats goes out to the writing team of Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III for their win in the 'Best Writing In A Television Series' category at last night's Annie Awards ceremony. Along with Seth Green and Matt Senreich, the winning Robot Chicken writing team includes Geoff Johns, Matthew Beans, Zeb Wells, Hugh Sterbakov, Breckin Meyer, Mike Fasolo, Douglas Goldstein, Tom Root, Dan Milano, Kevin Shinick and Hugh Davidson."

And the WTF quote of the year goes to: Cheney says Egypt's Mubarak a good man

And the WTF quote of the year goes to: Cheney says Egypt's Mubarak a good man: "Former Vice President Dick Cheney praised Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday as 'a good man' and a strong friend of the United States, but said the Egyptian people will decide his fate as leader."

Facebook to unveil Menlo Park campus next week

Facebook to unveil Menlo Park campus next week: "The world's largest social network invited reporters to an event on Tuesday to showcase a new campus in Menlo Park, adjacent to its current headquarters in Palo Alto, California."

How To Limit Disk Space Usage By Users In Windows 7

How To Limit Disk Space Usage By Users In Windows 7: "You just bought a 2TB hard disk and weeks later, you find that you are running out of hard disk space again. Sound familiar? No matter how big your hard disks are, sooner or later they are going to run out of space. The rate your storage space diminishes will be even faster if your computer is shared by several users, unless you place a cap on your users disk space usage."

Radical new McLaren MP4-26 Formula 1 car unveiled in Berlin

Radical new McLaren MP4-26 Formula 1 car unveiled in Berlin: "While rival Formula 1 teams unveiled their new 2011 challengers at or before the recently test session at Valencia, McLaren opted to run its 2010 F1 car instead. The reason? Ostensibly to focus on the varied effects the new Pirelli tires. This week in Berlin, however, the British Formula 1 outfit joined the field and took the wraps off its new racer, the MP4-26, revealing a number of innovative and radical design elements."

Justin Bieber on SNL - Church Lady and the Roommate (FULL) Feb. 5, 2011 ...

Justin Bieber on SNL - Church Lady

Funny Video: Christina Aguilera mangles the National Anthem at the Superbowl

Funny Video: Christina Aguilera mangles the National Anthem at the Superbowl: "Superbowls are known for their 'wardrobe malfunctions' and live-on-TV mistakes, and it would appear that tonight's Superbowl is no different...or is it? Here at Comedy Examiner HQ, we're relatively sure that Christina Aguilera just mangled the second verse of the National Anthem...but no one here can agree what words she may have gotten wrong. What do you think? Read on and sound off below, my gentle Examiner readers..."

Seven Secrets for Maximizing Your Concentration Skills

Seven Secrets for Maximizing Your Concentration Skills: "Most of us struggle to stay focused. We live in a world of constant distractions – where emails ping up on our cell phones, where entertainment is always just a click away."

Rise of the machines: Un-manned X-47B robot stealth bomber tested by US Navy

Rise of the machines: Un-manned X-47B robot stealth bomber tested by US Navy: "The new stealth plane marks a radical departure for unmanned aircraft, which up until now required a ground based human pilot to guide them on missions."

Protesters improvise helmets and shields to protect against stones in Cairo, Egypt

Protesters improvise helmets and shields to protect against stones in Cairo, Egypt: "An anti-government protester wears a makeshift helmet during a stone-throwing battle with supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square, Cairo"

5 Steps to Avoiding the Ultimate Creative Block

5 Steps to Avoiding the Ultimate Creative Block: "I often get this question from a lot of people, “How do you keep your creativity intact and flowing?” The funny thing is I never knew what to really say until one morning when I woke up and I couldn’t think of anything to create or do. This was one of the most frustrating things I’ve ever had to go through. Sure you get a creative block now and then, but that is easily trumped by simply picking up a magazine and paging through it. This feeling I had was different. I had no motivation to do anything creative."

Corvette Caught in Slippery Situation

Corvette Caught in Slippery Situation: "All the power in the world wasn't helping out the owner of this spiffy sports car Friday morning as he spun his tires in East Dallas."

Google Gets Record 75,000 Job Applications in a Week

Google Gets Record 75,000 Job Applications in a Week : "Google Inc., the world’s biggest Internet-search service, received more than 75,000 job applications worldwide last week, setting a record for the company as it embarks on a hiring spree."

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8 Reasons to Make Pole Dancing a Part of Your Everyday Routine

8 Reasons to Make Pole Dancing a Part of Your Everyday Routine: "You can try to convince yourself all you want, but the odds are, you’re much likelier to go to the gym if you like what you’re doing. You can climb that stair master as long as you want, but will you feel sexy while doing so? Probably not. Thankfully, workout regimens have emerged that make it easy to feel sexy and svelte simultaneously. So, why is a risqué workout a better route? Here are a few reasons why you should don some hotpants and practice your pole skills."

More Americans borrow neighbor's Wi-Fi connection

More Americans borrow neighbor's Wi-Fi connection: "Borrowing your neighbor's unencrypted Wi-Fi connection has become a common practice in American society. In a recent Wakefield Research poll, commissioned by the Wi-Fi Alliance, 32 percent of respondents admitted to tapping into a Wi-Fi network that wasn't theirs – up from 18 percent in a December 2008 poll."

Ten Healthy Snacks To Eat At Your Desk

Ten Healthy Snacks To Eat At Your Desk: "Sweet potato stuffed with tuna? That may not sound like the most appetizing snack, but it's delicious, and it's got a great balance of protein, nutrients and fat. That's what you want when you're at your desk and hunger strikes in mid-morning or afternoon, says Los Angeles nutritionist Jonny Bowden, author of nine books including, most recently, Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long Term Weight Loss."

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook fan page hack: who was behind it?

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook fan page hack: who was behind it? "There are some clues left in the hacking of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page on Wikipedia – but what do they add up to?"

Project MAME and WeeCade - Build your own MAME cabinet

Project MAME and WeeCade - Build your own MAME cabinet: "Since the Project MAME I have wanted to build a micro MAME cabinet in acrylic sheets. But the process of designing all the small pieces with such precision has kept me from trying. At least till now :)"

Digg This: Reddit Serves Up a Billion Pages a Month

Digg This: Reddit Serves Up a Billion Pages a Month : "Reddit, the community news sharing site, has now joined the billion-page-per-month club, having served up some 1,000,404,480 pages to almost 14 million unique visitors in January, as measured by Google Analytics."

McBain: the Movie

McBain: the Movie: "Men are from Mars, women are from somewhere even crazier."

Want To Become Android Programmer?

Want To Become Android Programmer?: "The Linux Foundation has identified this 'demand' for Linux/Android professionals. The foundation is starting six new training courses dedicated to the development of Linux-based mobile operating systems Android and MeeGo. These courses will give professionals lucrative job skills while helping to advance Linux in this space."

New Tactics Ogre Trailer: Pretty Animation, No Gameplay

The Most Important Question You've Probably Never Asked

The Most Important Question You've Probably Never Asked: "There’s always something else that has to be done. We have to ask ourselves if something really has to be done, or if we’re avoiding something, because deep down we’re afraid. We’ve been told that we can’t follow our passion and make a living. There are a lot of naysayers around us, but are they right? Are they happy? In the end, all that matters is how you feel inside."