: "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 . . ."