Morse Resource

Morse Resource: "MorseResource - Tools to help learn or improve your Morse code skills.

Welcome Makers! Thanks to the Make blog for the link

Morse code is fun. It's fun to know, fun to use, and has roots in the earliest days of radio. Copying and sending morse code are skills that require practice. There are a lot of books, programs, and tapes that can help you learn Morse Code, but I wanted a way to practice copying code anywhere. I came up with the idea of morse code podcasts, and that was the initial motivation for this web site.

In the process of building this site, I wrote a page that let me test the morse code generation, and that became the Morse Code generator page that's available."

The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected: Three kids on a seven-year shoot produce one heck of an homage

The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected: Three kids on a seven-year shoot produce one heck of an homage:

"Last February, Eric Zala received a signed letter from Steven Spielberg.

'Dear Eric,' it began. 'Wanted to write and let you know how impressed I was with your very loving and detailed tribute to our Raiders of the Lost Ark.'"

The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected: Three kids on a seven-year shoot produce one heck of an homage

The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected: Three kids on a seven-year shoot produce one heck of an homage:

"Last February, Eric Zala received a signed letter from Steven Spielberg.

'Dear Eric,' it began. 'Wanted to write and let you know how impressed I was with your very loving and detailed tribute to our Raiders of the Lost Ark.'"

USB webcam driver for Mac OS X

USB webcam driver for Mac OS X

United Nuclear - Neodymium magnets

United Nuclear - Neodymium magnets: "THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT TOYS AND CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS! KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN! - THESE CAN EASILY CRUSH FINGERS! WE CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURY OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY THESE POWERFUL MAGNETS.

If you really need unbelievably powerful magnets, here they are.
Uses include magnetic steering of nuclear particles in accelerators, levitation devices, magnetic beam amplifiers, scrap iron separators, etc.
Beware - you must think ahead when moving these magnets.
If carrying one into another room, carefully plan the route you will be taking. Computers & monitors will be affected in an entire room. Loose metallic objects and other magnets may become airborne and fly considerable distances - and at great speed - to attach themselves to this magnet. If you get caught in between the two, you can get injured.
Two of these magnets close together can create an almost unbelievable magnetic field that can be very dangerous. Of all the unique items we offer for sale, we consider these items the most dangerous of all. Our normal packing & shipping personnel refuse to package these magnets - our engineers have to do it. This is no joke and we cannot stress it strongly enough - that you must be extremely careful - and know what you're doing with these magnets.
Take Note: Two Super magnets can very easily get out of control and break fingers and even your arm if opposing poles fly at each other. If working with multiple Supermagnets, always handle one magnet at a time, secure it, then proceed to the next magnet."

United Nuclear - Scientific Supplies

United Nuclear - Scientific Supplies: "Scientific Equipment & Supplies "

Royal Society Publishing

Royal Society Publishing: "Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Journals Digital Archive following its official launch this week. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings.

For the first time the Archive provides online access to all journal content, from Volume One, Issue One in March 1665 until the latest modern research published today ahead of print. And until December the archive is freely available to anyone on the internet to explore.

Spanning nearly 350 years of continuous publishing, the archive of nearly 60,000 articles includes ground-breaking research and discovery from many renowned scientists including: Bohr, Boyle, Bragg, Cajal, Cavendish, Chandrasekhar, Crick, Dalton, Darwin, Davy, Dirac, Faraday, Fermi, Fleming, Florey, Fox Talbot, Franklin (pictured), Halley, Hawking, Heisenberg, Herschel, Hodgkin, Hooke, Huxley, Joule, Kelvin, Krebs, Liebnitz, Linnaeus, Lister, Mantell, Marconi, Maxwell, Newton, Pauling, Pavlov, Pepys, Priestley, Raman, Rutherford, Schrodinger, Turing, van Leeuwenhoek, Volta, Watt, Wren, and many, many more influential science thinkers up to the present day."

Oracle Admin Scripts

Oracle Admin Scripts: "The following scripts and tools are available for free download."

Puzzle Pirates - View Thread - Create a Puzzle Pirates Commercial video! Winners announced!

Puzzle Pirates - View Thread - Create a Puzzle Pirates Commercial video! Winners announced!: "An amazing number of entries, and again such skill! We so much enjoyed watching these and judging them - whether it was screenshots or animation or live action or lego, you did brilliantly! This was judged by the OceanMasters, by the Ringers in the office, and by the dashing Captain Cleaver himself. "

MOO | Share your contact info and your flickr photos

MOO | Share your contact info and your flickr photos: "# Choose your favourite Flickr pics
# Make 100 different cards for $19.99
# Add your personal details on the back
# Share with friends!"

How to talk like a pirate

How to talk like a pirate

The Master Key - Chapter 1.

The Master Key - Chapter 1.: "'Electricity,' said the old gentleman, sagely, 'is destined to become the motive power of the world. The future advance of civilization will be along electrical lines. Our boy may become a great inventor and astonish the world with his wonderful creations.'

'And in the meantime,' said the mother, despairingly, 'we shall all be electrocuted, or the house burned down by crossed wires, or we shall be blown into eternity by an explosion of chemicals!'"

DailyLit

DailyLit: "Too busy for books? Read them by e-mail."

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock"

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock"

another zit on the arse of the universe from warrenelliscom

warrenelliscom: "Second Life Sketches

Below, a random person I spotted in Transylvania two minutes after the grid went back up earlier today. In her eyes, you can make out part of an error message, denoting that a graphic or script from her customised “avatar” or representative form in Second Life is missing. It means that the system, that’s been crashing and hiccuping constantly since an upgrade on Wednesday, is failing to find and/or process the entirety of her body. Elsewhere, I’ve seen people wearing that message over swathes of their skin, projected there by the system.

The girl with error-message eyes."

The top 10 classical music downloads on iTunes. By Marc Geelhoed - Slate Magazine

The top 10 classical music downloads on iTunes. By Marc Geelhoed - Slate Magazine: "The top 10 best-selling classical 'songs' on iTunes show exactly this split between calm and stormy. The list also shows an unhealthy obsession with Andrea Bocelli,"

Ryan Tomayko - Top.app

Ryan Tomayko - Top.app: "One thing that's always bothered me about MacOS X's Terminal.app is that you can't really run multiple applications."

YouTube - Ellam Inba Mayam - Dance Fever

YouTube - Ellam Inba Mayam - Dance Fever: "'Solla Solla Enna Perumai' - from the 1981 film."

Bitsum Technologies Wiki - WRT54G5 CFE

Bitsum Technologies Wiki - WRT54G5 CFE: "This is a project started by Jeremy Collake (aka db90h) to flash a Vxworks based WRT54G/GS v5-v6 with third party linux firmware without the use of JTAG or serial cables. After considerable research and time, this has been accomplished!"

The Chronicle: 9/15/2006: A Pop Quiz for Constitution Day

The Chronicle: 9/15/2006: A Pop Quiz for Constitution Day: "In late 2004, Congress passed a law (118 Statute 2809, 334-45 [§ 111]) mandating that 'each educational institution that receives federal funds for a fiscal year shall hold an educational program on the United States Constitution on September 17 of such year for the students served by the educational institution.' Sadly hundreds, if not thousands, of American institutions of higher education failed to stage Constitution Day events in 2005, the first year of mandated observance — thereby imperiling their federal subsidies. In an effort to help colleges and universities comply with federal law, we have prepared the following quiz that can be distributed to professors, administrators, and students alike."

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Japanese Surf Versions of Classical Themes (MP3s)

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Japanese Surf Versions of Classical Themes (MP3s): "Here's the great Japanese guitarist Takeshi Terauchi with his band The Bunnys adding the fuzz to eleven well known classical themes from his LP, Let's Go Classics."

Face Recognition Abilities - Self Evaluation

Face Recognition Abilities - Self Evaluation: "How good is my face recognition?

In order to help you assess whether or not you have face recognition problems, we have two tests available."

Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Unsolvable Math Problem

Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Unsolvable Math Problem:

"Claim: Student mistakes examples of unsolvable math problems for homework assignment and solves them.

Status: True. "

The Inflation Calculator

The Inflation Calculator: "
The following form adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2005. (And don't use any commas in the numbers...) Enjoy!"

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Make a Video Feedback Screen Saver in Quartz Composer

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Make a Video Feedback Screen Saver in Quartz Composer: "Quartz Composer is an easy to use tool that lets you create amazing digital art, even interactive digital art, without writing a single line of code. You might already have it: Quartz Composer is included as part of developer tools package (Xcode) that comes with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger. In this tutorial, I'll show how to get started with Quartz Composer. No prior programming experience is required. As an example, we'll build a video feedback screen saver that can take input from an iSight camera."

Flash video and no sound on OSX at fredericiana

Flash video and no sound on OSX at fredericiana:
"Every once in a while though, on Mac OS X it can happen that these Flash video players don’t have sound anymore.

1. open /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup
2. check the properties for Built In Output.
3. It might be set to 96KHz. Change it to 44KHz and audio in Flash will return immediately."

(The same might apply to audio input)

debbiesidea.com: Welcome to DebbiesIdea.com

debbiesidea.com: Welcome to DebbiesIdea.com: "Debbie's idea was to fill a simple need: to help a reader decide which book to read first of an unfamiliar author."

Fake model photography

Fake model photography: "With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they're actually of miniature models.
It doesn't take much to fool the mind of the viewer, but there are a few basic rules you can follow to help convince your audience that they're looking at a railway set rather than the real world; see the section on picking the right photo at the bottom of this page. You'll need a copy of Photoshop CS or later to follow this tutorial. "

BUILD YOUR OWN AIRPLANE!

BUILD YOUR OWN AIRPLANE!: "This is a design for a business card that I use. The first version was done in 1995, but I still carry them around. It usually gets a good response, although most people don't actually get down and use their glue and scissors. Suits!"

Paul Desmond: A Life Told in Pictures, Music and Memories/Jerry Jazz Musician

Paul Desmond: A Life Told in Pictures, Music and Memories/Jerry Jazz Musician:

"from
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
by Doug Ramsey

Doug Ramsey's biography of saxophonist Paul Desmond is a lavish, detailed work of art, filled with photographs, letters, and memories of a complex and frequently inspiring life. Paul Desmond: A Life Told in Pictures, Music and Memories, a Jerry Jazz Musician production published in cooperation with Ramsey and Parkside Publications, features photographs and excerpts from the book, as well as sound samples of Desmond's music."

: "USB adaptors & DIY antenna = 'Poor Man's WiFi' ?"

: "USB adaptors & DIY antenna = 'Poor Man's WiFi' ?"

Spinner - Axeman's Nest

Spinner - Axeman's Nest: "The spinner is completely homemade, using an old mouse. A cleaner solution would be a microcontroller with a custom firmware and a single sensor, but mouse hack is waaay faster! The starting point is this VHS VCR head drum. When You remove the motor, You have a nice flywheel and a 6mm shaft already mounted on two wonderful ball bearings. "

YouTube - PVC Recorder

YouTube - PVC Recorder: "Here's a HowTo on building a pvc recorder out of cheap parts (pvc pipe and dowel rod) and common tools. "

Back Talk: Americans Hate their Fabulous Economy

Back Talk: Americans Hate their Fabulous Economy: "For the moment, I'll simply note that I have identified what may be a contributing factor to our unwarranted despair: reporters rarely use charts, and that allows them to wax poetic about the 'jobless recovery,' 'worrisome signs of inflation,' 'record setting deficits,' and other such nonsense."

iostream equivalent of fdopen()

Index of /MLO: "fd.tar.gz "

Boing Boing: HOWTO wash dishes when camping

Boing Boing: HOWTO wash dishes when camping:
"To clean eating implements adequately, Hargreaves proposes a rigorous approach to washing in which backpackers would first fill each of three large bowls or buckets with about 5 liters (1 1/3 gallons) of clean water. Next, add 5 milliliters (1 teaspoon) of detergent to the first container and 10 ml (2 tsp) of 4-percent chlorine bleach (a common commercial preparation) to the second. To wash dishes and utensils, remove most food residues in the first bowl and, in the second, scrub the items until they are visibly clean. A quick rinse in the third bowl removes the odor of the cleaning chemicals...

By comparison, the methods that are currently most popular among expedition companies removed more than 99 percent of bacteria during the first step. But the quick rinses after that step failed to consistently remove remaining bacteria.
"

Cover - Nuclear War Survival Skills FREE BOOK (280 pages) On-Line! Also, Potassium Iodide (Iodine) Anti-Radiation Pill FAQ, sources.

Cover - Nuclear War Survival Skills FREE BOOK (280 pages) On-Line! Also, Potassium Iodide (Iodine) Anti-Radiation Pill FAQ, sources.:"Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition - Cresson H. Kearny"

Easy, Cheap, Animated Cartoon in 10 Minutes

Easy, Cheap, Animated Cartoon in 10 Minutes: "Finally I came up with a very easy and fun way to do animations which can be both expressive, do not require redrawing of the whole character each frame, and allow very easy modification: without messy erasing and without having to use a computer mouse or computer drawing tablet. For this method all you need is a 'dry erase' board ('whiteboard'), a usb camera, a computer, and some free software. "

Digital Wire » Fun Google Search Tips

Digital Wire » Fun Google Search Tips: "the ultimate guide to google"

Project Management Source: Lessons from Project Management: 101 ways to organize your life

Project Management Source: Lessons from Project Management: 101 ways to organize your life: "Project Management (and life) Wisdom straight from the mouths of the horses – oops, I mean project managers:"

The Most Important C++ Non-Book Publications...Ever

The Most Important C++ Non-Book Publications...Ever:
"In this article, Scott Meyers shares his picks for the five most important non-book publications in the history of C++, along with why he chose them."

Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: Ten Things to Learn This School Year

Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: Ten Things to Learn This School Year:
"Ten Things to Learn This School Year

I’m on the campus of UCSB this week at family camp, and it's inspired me to blog about what students should learn in order to prepare for the real world after graduation. This is an opportune time to broach this subject because the school year is about to begin, and careers can still be affected."

HOPE Number Six

HOPE Number Six:
"Audio from the all of the presentations is now available!

HOPE Number Six was this summer's hacker conference sponsored by 2600 Magazine. Presenters and artists from all nationalities and disciplines participated in this forum. HOPE Number Six covered all aspects of hacking, the community surrounding it, and its effects across the world. For three days, The Hotel Pennsylvania was the nexus of discussion, planning, and activity for hacker ideas, opportunities, and understanding."

BBC NEWS | Health | Tea 'healthier' drink than water

BBC NEWS | Health | Tea 'healthier' drink than water:

"The Tea Council provided funding for the work. Dr Ruxton stressed that the work was independent. "

The Volokh Conspiracy - Google as a Source of Writing Advice:

The Volokh Conspiracy - Google as a Source of Writing Advice::

"[...]
Google to the rescue: Google reported for me 400,000 results for 'what matters is the,' 35,000 for 'what matters are the' (which I think is grammatical, but for reasons I don't want to get into here), and fewer than 1000 for 'what matter are the.' Matter settled."

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed:

"Glyn Hughes'
SQUASHED PHILOSOPHERS
THE books which defined the way The West thinks now...
In their own words... but condensed and abridged into something like readable"

Dr. Carlson's Science Theater - powered by FeedBurner

Dr. Carlson's Science Theater - powered by FeedBurner: "If you're curious, I am a High School Chemistry and Physics teacher in the Lafayette, IN area. The 'Dr' in my title is not a medical doctor, but I did recieve a Ph.D. in Computational Biochemistry at Caltech in Pasadena, California.

I hope you enjoy the videos and maybe even learn something in the process!"

Botnet Eavesdropping: Inside the Mocbot (MS06-040) Attack

Botnet Eavesdropping: Inside the Mocbot (MS06-040) Attack: "Stewart, a senior security researcher with LURHQ's Threat Intelligence Group, set up a way to silently spy on the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure, and his findings suggest that for-profit spammers are clearly winning the cat-and-mouse game against entrenched anti-virus providers."

Botnet Eavesdropping: Inside the Mocbot (MS06-040) Attack

Botnet Eavesdropping: Inside the Mocbot (MS06-040) Attack: "When Joe Stewart spotted a variant of the Mocbot Trojan hijacking unpatched Windows machines for use in IRC-controlled botnets, he immediately went to work trying to pinpoint the motive for the attacks."

Welcome to Writely!

Welcome to Writely!:
"Your Documents
· Put your words into Writely quickly and easily.
Create new documents from scratch, upload them
from most popular file formats (including Word), or
e-mail them into Writely in batches.
· Keep them online and edit them from anywhere.
Organize your documents by tags, or click to star
the important ones. You can see at a glance who
last edited a document and when.
· Get them back out just as easily.
Download your documents in batches for safe-
keeping (in HTML), or save them individually in PDF, RTF, ODT or Word format."

Mind is Moving

Mind is Moving:
"What is a Hexayurt?
A hexayurt is a new design for refugee shelters. The 'hexayurt design pattern' simplifies geodesic dome geometry so that it can be built using standard 4' x 8' sheet goods of whatever kind are appropriate to the task at hand: hexacomb cardboard, plywood, foam. The design has been slightly tested in the real world and stands up very well."

Joel Johnson: Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work: Unlimited Edition

Joel Johnson: Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work: Unlimited Edition: "Here was a working artist distilling his craft into 22 panels that could be used to teleport across the occasional creative wasteland, yet each example was dashed off with effortless skill."

Joel Johnson: Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work: Unlimited Edition

Joel Johnson: Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work: Unlimited Edition: "Here was a working artist distilling his craft into 22 panels that could be used to teleport across the occasional creative wasteland, yet each example was dashed off with effortless skill."

Network Your Backyard - Popular Science

Network Your Backyard - Popular Science: "Surf the Web from the hammock out back (or the park down the block) with this solar-powered Wi-Fi extender"

Race Car Insanity Test - Amish Donkey

Race Car Insanity Test - Amish Donkey:
"[1] Turn on the Speakers and allow the page to load fully
[2] Stare at the Picture without laughing for 60 seconds
[3] If you start laughing consider yourself legally insane"

Woot: The Community: SanDisk 256 MB MP3/WMA Player with FM Tuner and Voice Recorder

Woot: The Community: SanDisk 256 MB MP3/WMA Player with FM Tuner and Voice Recorder:

"I recommend downloading both user guides:
http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/File/tech/docs/dap-user-guide-v2.0.pdf
and, a more graphical
http://tinyurl.com/js3du
The firmware upgrade is at:
http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1239

When installing the upgrade, the root directory is the player itself on your file tree, (e.g., sdmx1).

Just drop your files/folders onto the player itself - SDMX1 - and fuggadebout the subfolders. "

Just Letters - A browser based multi-user Flash game

Just Letters - A browser based multi-user Flash game: "'Someone keeps stealing my letters...'"

How does one write an OCI program? | Oracle FAQ

How does one write an OCI program? | Oracle FAQ: "Look at this very basic sample Oracle OCI8 program:"

Welcome

Welcome: "A Design System for Interactive Fiction
Based on Natural Language"

Bill Watterson's RAREST!

Bill Watterson's RAREST!: "Today's topic isn't clippings, though, it's even scarcer material. 'The Complete Calvin and Hobbes' wasn't completely complete. Most of what you're about to see, you've never seen before."

August 2006 Survey: CIOs Put Out Help-Wanted Sign for Business-Savvy IT Professionals

August 2006 Survey: CIOs Put Out Help-Wanted Sign for Business-Savvy IT Professionals: "Hiring will increase for programmers, systems developers, project managers and business analysts who really understand business."

No Invite Needed For Google Analytics - CyberNet News: Hardware, Downloads, Gadgets...Technology Done Right!

No Invite Needed For Google Analytics - CyberNet News: Hardware, Downloads, Gadgets...Technology Done Right!: "The Google Analytics Blog has announced that you no longer need an invitation to receive the Website statistics tracking for free. Just head on over to the Google Analytics site and login with you Google account. "

No Invite Needed For Google Analytics - CyberNet News: Hardware, Downloads, Gadgets...Technology Done Right!

No Invite Needed For Google Analytics - CyberNet News: Hardware, Downloads, Gadgets...Technology Done Right!: "The Google Analytics Blog has announced that you no longer need an invitation to receive the Website statistics tracking for free. Just head on over to the Google Analytics site and login with you Google account. "

USATODAY.com - YouTube fixes stuff during outage

USATODAY.com - YouTube fixes stuff during outage: "A database glitch plunged popular video-sharing website YouTube into darkness for at least five hours Tuesday, leaving millions of users without service.

Company officials did not return phone calls, offering only a brief statement.

'We are experiencing a temporary site outage due to a database-related issue,' said Julie Supan, YouTube's senior marketing director, in a statement at noon PT. 'Our engineering team expects the site to be up and running in the next few hours.'

Keynote Systems, which tracks Internet performance, began fielding calls from YouTube users at 8 a.m.. By 1 p.m., the site had been restored."

MySQL Powering Web 2.0

MySQL Powering Web 2.0: "Leading Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Habbo Hotel, Linden Labs, CyWorld, Technorati, Facebook, FeedBurner, Feedster, Wikipedia, Digg, LiveJournal, Mixi.jp, SimpleStar, PhotoBucket, 37signals, del.icio.us, Trulia, Neopets, and Zimbra have all selected MySQL to power their explosive growth -- due to the database's speed and ability to easily 'scale-out' on low-cost hardware."

The Mad Housers - Emergency Heating Stove

The Mad Housers - Emergency Heating Stove: "The Mad Housers stove is simply and cheaply made, yet puts out a surprising amount of heat. Properly used and maintained, a stove can last for a couple of years or more."

Woot : Winners' Gallery: the Best of Contest 85

Woot : Winners' Gallery: the Best of Contest 85: "d00d aDjUsT yr KAMMM!!! "

YouTube - Funny Tetris Video

YouTube - 陣内智則　テトリス: "面白すぎぃぃ"

Neatorama » Blog Archive » The 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the Universe.

Neatorama » Blog Archive » The 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the Universe.: "Hard questions that matter, like 'can a pregnant woman drive in the carpool lane?' or 'how can I win at that ultra-important-corporate-decision-making- process, rock-paper-scissor?' and of course, 'is turkey a country or a bird first?'."

YouTube - Mountain Dew TV Ad "Master" (extended version)

YouTube - Mountain Dew TV Ad "Master" (extended version): "Learn to Master the Dew in this extended version"

Aviation Videos - bandwidth courtesy of the Alexis Park Inn & Suites

Aviation Videos - bandwidth courtesy of the Alexis Park Inn & Suites: "Over the years we have accumulated many fascinating and educational aviation-related videos. Some depict terrible accidents, while others are just plain cool."

Dynamically-Stable Mobile Robots in Human Environments - Projects - Microdynamic Systems Laboratory

Dynamically-Stable Mobile Robots in Human Environments - Projects - Microdynamic Systems Laboratory: "We have begun our research program by developing a person-sized mobile robot that has only a single spherical wheel."

Old Testament Parenting | Catholic-Pages.com

Old Testament Parenting | Catholic-Pages.com: "Laws of Forbidden Places

Of the beasts of the field, and of the fishes of the sea, and of all foods that are acceptable in my sight you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the hoofed animals, broiled or ground into burgers, you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the cloven-hoofed animal, plain or with cheese, you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the cereal grains, of the corn and of the wheat and of the oats, and of all the cereals that are of bright color and unknown provenance you may eat, but not in the living room. Of quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen after-meal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room.

"

PSOUG Morgan's Library Morgan Daniel Oracle SQL PL/SQL

PSOUG Morgan's Library Morgan Daniel Oracle SQL PL/SQL: "Examples and Reference Materials for Oracle 10gR2 Database and Related Technologies"

Oracle Sequences

Oracle Sequences: "Version 10.2"

Star Trek Inspirational Posters

Star Trek Inspirational Posters: "EXPENDABILITY
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back."

Graffiti Research Lab » LED Throwies

Graffiti Research Lab » LED Throwies: "LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials."

Musicmatch Jukebox - World's best music player

Musicmatch Jukebox - World's best music player: " The Most Powerful Way to Experience Digital Music
• Play and organize your music collection
• Create custom playlists from your music library
• Burn and rip your own music CDs
• Transfer music to your portable MP3 player and listen anywhere"

ReadyMade: MacGyver Challenge - Altoids Tins

ReadyMade: MacGyver Challenge - Altoids Tins: "But Ken Kirkpatrick, creator of the Altoids Mini Speakers, rocks the hardest."

Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver.

Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver.: "Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.

Juice Receiver is Free Software licensed under the GPL.

If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere. "

Upside-Down-Ternet

Upside-Down-Ternet: "My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun."

The Cute Side of The Force

Buzz.Pics: "Bilden du ser har vi hittat på det världsomspännande datanätet Internet."

Retro Thing: Home Moviemaking Kit - 1930's

Retro Thing: Home Moviemaking Kit - 1930's: "The vast majority of home movies are shots around the house, vacations, holidays, and the like. Every once in a while amateur movie makers get a bit ambitious and take a shot at making a film with a story. Here is a kit from the 1930's to let a filmmaker do just that.

Hm_kit_02

Inside the box are several complete scripts, special props mentioned in the scripts, title cards, even pre-made animated titles to splice in!"

Honda Worldwide | ASIMO

Honda Worldwide | ASIMO: "New ASIMO
The New ASIMO has made great leaps forward from its predecessor. In fact, the New ASIMO can walk along with you (holding your hand if you wish), and features advanced mobility, to the extent that ASIMO can now move carts and other objects around at will. And, with a newly developed total control system that controls all of ASIMO's functions, ASIMO can autonomously act as a receptionist, or even deliver drinks on a tray. The New ASIMO is also more agile than before, being able to run at 6km/h, and even turn whilst running."

Even More Mario: Orchestra + Singer Recreate Mario Music in Awesome Ways at TV in Japan

Even More Mario: Orchestra + Singer Recreate Mario Music in Awesome Ways at TV in Japan: "Some time it’s as easy as saying ‘You rock, Japan.’ Seriously, they do."

YMCK Official Web Site

YMCK Official Web Site: "Magical 8bit Plug is a plug-in style software-synthesizer for producing primitive electronic sounds like the old 8bit game consoles. In Macintosh environment, it runs with AU (Audio Units)-supporting applications: ex. Logic, Digital Performer, Garageband. In Windows environment it runs with VSTi supporting applications: ex. Cubase. Most of the software/hardware synthesizers include the most primitive waveform: square wave and pulse wave. But almost none of them include the pseudo-triangle or the low-resolution noise that will most characterize the 8bit sound's unique taste. Magical 8bit Plug will help you producing the old 8bit sounds by providing those unique waveforms."

Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants

Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants: "I started writing an internal blog at Amazon.com in summer 2004. It wasn't (and isn't) endorsed by Amazon; it's just my personal blog, where I wrote whatever was on my mind, usually at home late at night after a few glasses of wine. I did this for about a year, and wound up with about 50 articles, essays, and unstructured tirades. It was fun. People inside the company knew it was all in fun, and none of us took it very seriously."

So how do you code an AJAX Web page?

So how do you code an AJAX Web page?: "August 03, 2006 (Computerworld) -- This article is excerpted from the soon-to-be-published book AJAX: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML by Edmond Woychowsky, copyright Pearson Education Inc. Reprinted with permission from Pearson Education, all rights reserved. The book is part of the Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series."

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: The Expert Mind -- [ PSYCHOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCE ] -- Studies of the mental processes of chess grand

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: The Expert Mind -- [ PSYCHOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCE ] -- Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well: "This rapid, knowledge-guided perception, sometimes called apperception, can be seen in experts in other fields as well. Just as a master can recall all the moves in a game he has played, so can an accomplished musician often reconstruct the score to a sonata heard just once. And just as the chess master often finds the best move in a flash, an expert physician can sometimes make an accurate diagnosis within moments of laying eyes on a patient."

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Blog Archive » Longest Running Scientific Experiment

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Blog Archive » Longest Running Scientific Experiment: "In 1984, the European Journal of Physics published a report on the three longest-running scientific experiments. The youngest of the three experiments (shown above), begun in 1927, has been measuring the fluidity of high-viscosity pitch by counting the frequency of drops out of a funnel (they fall once every 8 or 9 years–though no one has ever been around to see it happen). "

Image Asset Management

Image Asset Management: "There are currently (December, 2005) two programs which stand out for me, and which have been embraced by professional photographers. These are Photo Mechanic and IView Media Pro. These are by no means the only programs in their fields, and many would argue for other contenders. But, if you sit down with working photographers and glance over their shoulders as they work on location with their laptops, or in their studios, these two programs are more often than not the ones that are in use. They are also the ones that I use."

YouTube - Appalachian State University is HOT HOT HOT

YouTube - Appalachian State University is HOT HOT HOT: "Appalachian State University is HOT HOT HOT"

So, how do you boil an egg? | the Daily Mail

So, how do you boil an egg? | the Daily Mail: "The question has vexed cooks for decades. But now experts at the British Egg Information Service say they have devised a foolproof way to tell when an egg is boiled to perfection: a high-tech ink logo stamped onto the shell that indicates when the egg is soft, medium or hard-boiled.

But can a complex culinary art really be reduced to a science? Looking at the advice of leading chefs, it seems the answer is that no two can agree on a single method — and Delia Smith actually offers two . . ."

American Prospect Online - Surviving Sudoku

American Prospect Online - Surviving Sudoku: "Surviving Sudoku
How the Japanese puzzle's invasion has rocked the world of American crossword writers -- and what they’re doing to cope."

Modern Mechanix » There’s plenty of room at the bottom

Modern Mechanix » There’s plenty of room at the bottom: "This is a condensed version of a talk titled “There’s plenty of room at the bottom” that Richard Feynman gave in 1959. It is generally considered to be the first speech about nanotechnology."

Psychology Today: A Nation of Wimps

Psychology Today: A Nation of Wimps: "Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the bumps out of life for their children. However, parental hyperconcern has the net effect of making kids more fragile; that may be why they're breaking down in record numbers. "

Redrawing the College Map - New York Times

Redrawing the College Map - New York Times: "The swelling population of 18-year-olds — members of the demographic behemoth known as the echo boom, offspring of the baby boomers — is expected to peak in 2009, when the largest group of high school seniors in the nation’s history, 3.2 million, are to graduate. While a slow descent is projected to follow, the growing value of a college degree means record high enrollments every year until 2015, according to a June report from the United States Department of Education."

Lessons from the Navy

: "Part 4: Lessons Learned from the Whole Sorry Affair

* Don't ever write anything you would be ashamed to sign. I learned this lesson before I left the hallowed halls of OCS, and have followed it religiously ever since.
* Keep your word. 'Nuff said there.
* Don't be content with the path of least resistance -- have the courage to stand up for your convictions. I'd like to say I mastered this particular concept early on, but I can't. It is a lesson you have to keep teaching yourself over and over for your entire life.
* If the system's broke, the way to get somebody to fix it is not to find the easiest work-around, but to insist on using the system the way it was intended to be used and letting the results speak for themselves.
* Work through the chain of command. If you don't, your voice will never have credibility with those who can make changes, and your point, however well- taken, will be justifiably ignored."

The Navy and Starfleet

: "Toto, I Don't Think We're in the Alpha Quadrant Anymore:
Nine Reasons Why a Starfleet Education Won't Prepare You for the Real Navy"