Favicon Generator and Gallery

Favicon Generator and Gallery: "Welcome to favicon.co.uk where you can generate your own Favorites Icon for your website and view a gallery of some of the ones that have been created."

Psychology Today: Dumped, But Not Down

Psychology Today: Dumped, But Not Down: "Rejection is a fundamental law of the (social) universe. But if you laser in on every dis, you'll likely trigger a self-fulfilling prophecy. Rejection-sensitivity is on the rise, but you can learn to brave even the biggest brush-offs. "

PIKAPIKA

PIKAPIKA: "This animation was created from a lighting doodle project through which we met various people in various places. The surprise and joy that brought life to the doodles linked one person with another. This communication naturally took form in the work. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the participants!"

American Shower and Bath Corporation

American Shower and Bath Corporation: "[Shower Kits] [32' (81.3cm) & 36' (91.4cm) Corner Entry Shower Kits] "

Getty images

Getty images: "Footage Liberated"

Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 2nd Edition

Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 2nd Edition: "By Steven Feuerstein & Bill Pribyl; ISBN 1-56592-335-9E
Second Edition, published September 1997."

Oracle PL/SQL Programming

Oracle PL/SQL Programming: "Oracle PL/SQL Programming is the name of a book first published by O'Reilly Media in 1995. Written initially by Steven Feuerstein, and now co-authored by Bill Pribyl, Oracle PL/SQL Programming or OPP is now in its third edition and is widely hailed as the 'bible' for PL/SQL developers. Hundreds of thousands of copies of this book have helped countless developers take full advantage of the PL/SQL language."

The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies

The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies: "The Taxonomy is more useful than the alphabetical index for studying the logical relationships between fallacies. To understand an individual fallacy, it may be helpful to move upward in the Taxonomy via the 'Type' link, in order to understand the more general fallacy of which it is a subfallacy. Also, moving downward via the 'Subfallacy' link can help in understanding a general fallacy through seeing a more specific version of it. Finally, moving sideways via the 'Sibling' link can help to explain the nature of a fallacy by comparing it with a similar one of the same basic type. Some individual fallacies―such as Wishful Thinking―are found in more than one spot in the Taxonomy, which is because they are subfallacies of more than one type of fallacy."

Gateway Pundit: Goodness... What's Happened to France?

Gateway Pundit: Goodness... What's Happened to France?: "Volunteers hold a U.S. flag as they form a human chain to honor fallen U.S. troops in World War Two and form the words 'France Will Never Forget' as a symbol of the friendship between France and the U.S. in Omaha Beach, near the U.S. Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, western France, June 30, 2007."

Video TEASER FWNF : france will never forget - FERBUS, france, will, never, tribute - Dailymotion Share Your Videos

Video TEASER FWNF : france will never forget - FERBUS, france, will, never, tribute - Dailymotion Share Your Videos: "france will never forget"

Fighting the Flying Circus

Fighting the Flying Circus:

"FIGHTING THE FLYING CIRCUS
BY EDDIE RICKENBACKER

This on-line edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's World War One memoirs dates from the original version published by Stokes in 1919. Captain Rickenbacker, originally from Ohio, was best known as one of the Commanders of the 94th 'Hat-in-the-Ring' Squadron, a crack unit of pilots which included many former members of the famed Lafayette Escadrille. The 94th ended the war in France with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. Captain Rickenbacker later belonged to an association of pilots and Great War air veterans who, in the years immediately following the Second World War, invited many of the new 'young' aces from the Pacific and European theaters for informal lectures. These men never lost their keen interest in aviation."

ANTs | High performance RDBMS - Ants Software Seeks To Migrate Sybase Users To Oracle

ANTs | High performance RDBMS - Ants Software Seeks To Migrate Sybase Users To Oracle: "Ants Software previously billed itself as a high-performance relational system; it's now emphasizing its ability to migrate database users away from Sybase to Oracle."

Package Design Magazine--Packaging, Branding and Design News for the flexible, plastic, and corrugated packaging industry

Package Design Magazine--Packaging, Branding and Design News for the flexible, plastic, and corrugated packaging industry: "Nine emotional triggers were uncovered as having a strong correlation between likelihood of purchase and brand equity:

1. Pride - Feelings of status conferred by the brand

2. Empowerment - A sense of control in overcoming daily problems

3. Trust - Faith in the ability of the brand to perform an expected function

4. Identification - A sense of shared values with the brand

5. Familiarity - A feeling of knowledge about the brand

6. Warmth - A positive feeling of intimacy toward the brand

7. Curiosity - A desire to get to know the brand better

8. Relevance - A feeling of emotional fit with the life of the consumer

9. Approachability - A lowered-risk willingness to obtain the brand"

Ratatouille Wine

Wine Spectator | Articles | Unfiltered June 27, 2007: "We have to admit, when we heard Disney had teamed up with Costco to put a cartoon character on a wine label, we scratched our heads. About as good an idea as the candy cigarette, was our first thought. Then we went online and saw the trailer for the new Pixar film Ratatouille, and only two words came to mind: Brilliant. Marketing. Ratatouille is the story of a rat named Remy who's working behind the scenes in a top Paris restaurant. The chefs, it turns out, are no good--it's the rat who's secretly adding spices and adjusting stocks to win diners' acclaim. Since food and wine go so well together, Disney has introduced the Ratatouille wine, being carried by Costco, to help promote the food-friendly film. Of course, the wine is French--a 2004 white Burgundy from the M�con's Ch�teau de Messey, and will be available Aug. 1 at Costco stores in 18 states for $13. We just hope it's OK to sneak some of the wine into the theater while we watch the movie."

Global Nerdy � Blog Archive � Laws of Software Development

Global Nerdy � Blog Archive � Laws of Software Development: "Inspired by Phil Haack’s article 19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development, I decided to collect laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table.

This is by no means a complete list of laws; I’ve purposely stuck to the ones that apply to everyday software development and steered clear of the more theoretical ones. Maybe I’ll compile a more complete list someday.

You’ll notice that some of the laws come from the world of biology — they also appear in some lists of software laws, and I think they still apply."

Sue's Blog... again...: How to Add Tabs to SQL Developer

Sue's Blog... again...: How to Add Tabs to SQL Developer:
"Suppose you want to add a new tab to your tables definitions that shows all the column comments, or more partitioned information, or sub-partitined information."

3D-Stereogram Tetris by ~3Dimka on deviantART

3D-Stereogram Tetris by ~3Dimka on deviantART: "Artist's Comments
The idea is not that new, but this might be the first flash version of Magic Eye Tetris.
There's no preloader, so please be patient while whole thing being loaded.

Flash itself does not have ability to render stereograms so I had to prerender all 256 combinations of cells in a row. That's why the file is pretty big ( 1.4 Mbytes).

Playing tetris in Magic Eye mode is quite a challenge, so I really appreciate your try. And please drive responsible after ;) LOL
As for me, I can play this legendary game for hours and hours. Oh yeah, some creds to the creator of tetris Alexey Pazhitnov - [link] (thanks man!)

Have fun!
3Dimka"

Browser emulator

Browser emulator: "Sorry, due to heavy load on the server, browsing is quite slow.
On the positive side, it makes the experience even more authentic..."

Discover APL | Vector - the array languages

Discover APL | Vector - the array languages: "The 1960s and 70s saw many efforts to produce VHLLs that would lower the skill requirements for programmers, a general strategy of industrialisation. The APL community played no part in this. Iverson stressed the importance of APL as a “tool of thought”, a notation to help humans describe and solve complex problems. We were not trying to make everyday programming easy; we wanted to solve harder problems faster. (The complete code for calculating the mean of a list of numbers requires 4 characters in J.) Ironically, experience shows APLs are easier for novices to learn than conventional PLs."

kuler

kuler:
Adobe Color Matching

Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, Introduction

Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, Introduction: "HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH FROM 1961

Karl Kempf
Historical Officer
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
November 1961
PREFACE

This historical monograph covers the pioneer efforts and subsequent contributions of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in the field of automatic electronic computing systems during the period 1942 through 1961.

"

comp-tree.png (PNG Image, 6601x3822 pixels) - Scaled (15%)

comp-tree.png (PNG Image, 6601x3822 pixels) - Scaled (15%)

InnoVis - Phyllo Trees

InnoVis - Phyllo Trees: "PhylloTrees: Phyllotactic Patterns for Tree Layout

We explore the use of nature’s phyllotactic patterns to inform the layout of hierarchical data. These naturally occurring patterns provide a non-overlapping, optimal packing when the total number of nodes is not known a priori. PhylloTrees are a family of expandable tree layouts that we developed based on these patterns."

Lighthead - Caffeine

Lighthead - Caffeine: "Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu."

Home Zone - Adapting your Mac to wherever you are

Home Zone - Adapting your Mac to wherever you are: "Home Zone monitors Airport networks and Bluetooth devices in your proximity and can automatically trigger user-definable actions when configured networks or devices appear or disappear.

Available actions include enabling or disabling the screen saver password, switching network locations, setting the system volume, locking all keychains or opening any file, application or URL."

Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime� components

Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime� components: "Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:

* AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
* MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
* AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
* Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

"

Oracle-on-Linux Installation Guides

Oracle-on-Linux Installation Guides: "This page contains a collection of install guides and tips that worked best for customers as reported in the Linux Discussion Forums and OTN Installfests. "

Ning - Create your own Social Networks!

Ning - Create your own Social Networks!:

"Get Your Own Social Network!

Ning is the only online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds."

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Cooking hot dogs via electrocution

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Cooking hot dogs via electrocution: "How to cook hot dogs... with electricity!

[Disclaimerzilla: While we could give you lots of warnings about all the different dangers involved and how to possibly skirt them, the simple truth is that this just isn't safe. If you are foolish enough to attempt this, you will have to deal with pointy things, raw electricity out of the wall, hot steam, and the possibility of fire. If that isn't enough, and you succeed, you are still faced with the possibility of having to eat a hot dog. In summary: do not, under any circumstances, cook hot dogs this way.]"

Swarm Behavior - National Geographic Magazine

Swarm Behavior - National Geographic Magazine: "A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots."

Milan Airport Pickpocket Video - Gridskipper, the Urban Travel Guide

Milan Airport Pickpocket Video - Gridskipper, the Urban Travel Guide: "Check out this MSNBC clip of young Italian rapscallions pickpocketing travelers in broad daylight, immediately after said travelers stagger out of a Milan airport train station."

Milan Airport Pickpocket Video - Gridskipper, the Urban Travel Guide

Milan Airport Pickpocket Video - Gridskipper, the Urban Travel Guide: "Check out this MSNBC clip of young Italian rapscallions pickpocketing travelers in broad daylight, immediately after said travelers stagger out of a Milan airport train station."

What is PowerShell?

What is PowerShell?: "Windows PowerShell (previously known by its code name, Monad) is a command-line tool built upon .NET that includes an entire .NET-based scripting language that is probably as useful as other scripting languages such as Perl.

PowerShell is available for free and runs on any of the newer Windows operating systems. It can be downloaded from the main PowerShell site."

XMLRPC Debugger

XMLRPC Debugger

Instructions on usage of the debugger:

1. Run a 'list available methods' action against desired server
2. If list of methods appears, click on 'describe method' for desired method
3. To run method: click on 'load method synopsis' for desired method. This will load a skeleton for method call parameters in the form above. Complete all xmlrpc values with appropriate data and click 'Execute'

Example:

Server Address: phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net
Path: /server.php

Behr.com Explore Color

Behr.com Explore Color: "With ColorSmart, you can now select and purchase 8 oz samples of your colors to try out at home."

Disk Inventory X 1.0 - MacUpdate

Disk Inventory X 1.0 - MacUpdate: "Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called 'treemaps'.
If you've ever wondered were all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question."

Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Set newer portable Macs' sleep mode

Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Set newer portable Macs' sleep mode: "There are some downsides to this, however. You’ll give up some hard drive space, for instance—an amount of space equal to your machine’s RAM, plus another 750MB. So on my MacBook, that’s 2.75GB of drive space, or just under 4 percent of my drive’s capacity. In addition, putting the machine into sleep mode takes notably longer. If you watch the video I created, there’s a delay of 10 or so seconds between the time the lid is closed and the power light goes from solid to its normal gentle blinking state. It’s during this time that the machine is writing the contents of RAM to the hard drive. As I noted, in theory nothing should go wrong if you decide to open the lid during this period (when you realize you forgot to print that one important document, for instance). However, there are quite a few stories of people doing just this, and winding up with a machine with a black screen, requiring a full restart to recover."

United Kingdom English for the American Novice

United Kingdom English for the American Novice: "United Kingdom English for the American Novice
Sixth Edition, July 1983
'English' to 'American' Dictionary

The items in this dictionary were collected while I lived in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1983. The work is no longer maintained and so contains dated references to people of the time. The definitions are my interpretation of explanations from Brits with whom I came in contact and hence may not be complete or even totally accurrate."

Screeds

Screeds: "Another of Mankind's master intellects, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, has approached bureaucratic inefficiency from the standpoint of the incentives that govern the use of resources, particularly money. He presented the following matrix of spending decisions:

The Benefit Will Accrue To Me
The Benefit Will Accrue To Others
The Cost Will Be Borne By Me
The Cost Will Be Borne By Others


This is the incentives matrix each of us faces any time he has to make a spending decision."

"

Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics:

1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

"

Growing Tomatoes Upside Down? An Alternative Garden Plan

Growing Tomatoes Upside Down? An Alternative Garden Plan: "We've been growing our tomatoes upside-down for the past three years and really have fun growing them this way! We also grow tomatoes in the ground, and, by comparison, the ones in the upside-down buckets seem to have a little better yield than the same varieties grown in the ground. I attribute it to the fact that the branches have less stress while growing, and have better air circulation. Of course, you have to grow smaller varieties or ones that are suited for container growing, or the yields will be less.

We've experimented with growing peppers and have found that sweet bells do not do good because the branches break very easily. Varieties such as Cayenne, Tabasco, or ones that produce small fruit, will grow fine."

Click opera - She comes in colours

Click opera - She comes in colours: "In just nine months, Pantone has completely changed its meaning in Japan. Once a fistful of numbered swatch cards that pernickety designers would menace printers with, it's now become a trendy consumer buzzword in Japan, and, some might say, a byword for the newly-acceptable face of colour in a nation which dips in and out of chromophobia."

The Secrets of Oracle Bitmap Indexes

The Secrets of Oracle Bitmap Indexes

"Characteristic of Bitmap Indexes

• For columns with very few unique values (low cardinality)

Columns that have low cardinality are good candidates (if the cardinality of a column is <= 0.1 % that the column is ideal candidate, consider also 0.2% – 1%)

• Tables that have no or little insert/update are good candidates (static data in warehouse)
  
• Stream of bits: each bit relates to a column value in a single row of table

create bitmap index person_region on person (region);

Row Region North East West South
1 North 1 0 0 0
2 East 0 1 0 0
3 West 0 0 1 0
4 West 0 0 1 0
5 South 0 0 0 1
6 North 1 0 0 0

Advantage of Bitmap Indexes

The advantages of them are that they have a highly compressed structure, making them fast to read and their structure makes it possible for the system to combine multiple indexes together for fast access to the underlying table."

Disgraceland, PRC

Disgraceland, PRC: "Once upon a time in a land called Xi Pu, just west of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in the People's Republic of China, there was a tourist theme park... The World Landscape Park. As a business venture it failed, and today the park lies abandoned and decaying. Personally, I think it's a lot more interesting this way than it could ever possibly have been when it was open."

Returning Rows Through a Table Function in Oracle

Returning Rows Through a Table Function in Oracle: "In Oracle9i, we are now able to call a table function within the FROM clause of a SQL statement and have it return a result set that mimics what we would normally expect from a traditional SQL SELECT statement."

OraFAQ Forum: PL/SQL Experts => can function return multiple rows

OraFAQ Forum: PL/SQL Experts => can function return multiple rows: "Simply replace num_tab with a type of your choice, change the code in the package body, and you're go for launch."

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Timing out function

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Timing out function: "This recipe presents two ways to time out the execution of a callable."

Weight Training

Weight Training: "Better performances can be the product of a number of factors. This product is primarily the outcome of efficient technique, the progression of speed and the maturing competitive attitude on a sound basis of general endurance, all round strength and general mobility. The development of all round strength is best achieved via circuit training and then progressing this through weight training."

Why Every Man Should Lift Weights � Self Improvement Blog - BrianKim.net

Why Every Man Should Lift Weights � Self Improvement Blog - BrianKim.net: "When you start lifting weights and begin to see all the positive benefits, there’s no going back. The benefits will drive you to keep on doing it, which continues the cycle, which then inevitably installs a great habit. You’ll feel more happy, energetic, focused, tough, accomplished and you won’t want to let go of the cause. "

Weight training: Are you using good technique? - MayoClinic.com

Weight training: Are you using good technique? - MayoClinic.com: "You don't have to be a bodybuilder or professional athlete to reap the benefits of a weight training program. Weight training — a form of strength training — can improve your strength, increase your muscle tone, help you lose fat and gain muscle mass, and improve your bone density. But if done incorrectly, weight training won't give you these benefits and can lead to injury."

The $72 PC - Popular Science

The $72 PC - Popular Science: "Luis Bruno
The Cereal PC
Sporting a metal ductwork shell, a Wi-Fi card and a touchscreen, this morning companion will automatically serve up the day’s weather and news headlines for breakfast reading.

With antiquated components flooding the surplus-parts market and free operating systems only a click away, building a fully functional computer has never been such a bargain. No, the $72 PC won’t replace your new dual-core, Vista-shredding laptop. But with its compact size and solid-state components (no hard drive or CD drive), it’s perfect for building into custom enclosures and for specific tasks like Web surfing or playing games. The computer boots from a USB flash drive running an operating system called Damn Small Linux that can handle just about any job. Got any grand ideas for a sub-C-note PC? Send them to us at h20@time4.com."

XML-RPC for C and C : Useful XML-RPC Hacks

XML-RPC for C and C : Useful XML-RPC Hacks:


"Python XML-RPC Debugger (by Graham Dumpleton)
This includes a Python Tk GUI."

Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing

Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing: - by Charles Dodgson

The New York Times > Magazine > Slide Show >

The New York Times > Magazine > Slide Show >: "People and their Avatars"

Video Games - China - Money - Online Games - New York Times

Video Games - China - Money - Online Games - New York Times: "It was an hour before midnight, three hours into the night shift with nine more to go. At his workstation in a small, fluorescent-lighted office space in Nanjing, China, Li Qiwen sat shirtless and chain-smoking, gazing purposefully at the online computer game in front of him. The screen showed a lightly wooded mountain terrain, studded with castle ruins and grazing deer, in which warrior monks milled about. Li, or rather his staff-wielding wizard character, had been slaying the enemy monks since 8 p.m., mouse-clicking on one corpse after another, each time gathering a few dozen virtual coins — and maybe a magic weapon or two — into an increasingly laden backpack."

SVS Animation 3433 - Rise of the Three Gorges Dam

SVS Animation 3433 - Rise of the Three Gorges Dam: "Some call it the eighth wonder of world; others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator. One of the few man-made structures so enormous that it's actually visible to the naked eye from space, NASA's Landsat satellite has had a closer look, providing detailed, vivid views of the dam since its inception in 1994."

CanMag- Ratatouille Concept Art and Fun Facts!

CanMag- Ratatouille Concept Art and Fun Facts!: "Disney/Pixar has sent over a batch of concept art for Ratatouille along with an intensive list of fun facts from the film's production. "

Cooking For Engineers - Recipe File: Ratatouille

Cooking For Engineers - Recipe File: Ratatouille: "With Ratatouille (a new animated movie from Pixar) coming out in a couple weeks, I thought it would be fitting for me to present a recipe for Ratatouille (a dish from Provence). This is a wonderfully flavorful vegetable dish that can be served as either a side or as a main entree.

There are a variety of recipes for Ratatouille and the ingredients often change from cook to cook, but most contain eggplant (aubergine), garlic, onions, zucchini (Italian squash or marrows), and bell peppers. Usually the recipe is seasoned with Herbes de Provence, but (as in this recipe) it can be as simple as parsley and basil. Often the individual vegetable components are cooked separately in olive oil, but I like this recipe that cooks the vegetables together. "

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes!

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes!: "While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, I developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct. Give it a try!"

blog.pmarca.com

blog.pmarca.com: "From an interview in Der Spiegel, the German news magazine, in 2005:

The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem."

blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in: "In this post, I provide an overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.

To start, my personal opinion is that the new Facebook Platform is a dramatic leap forward for the Internet industry.

Here's why:

Veterans of the software industry have, hardcoded into their DNA, the assumption that in any fight between a platform and an application, the platform will always win."

blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity: "One of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures is indulging in productivity porn.

Productivity porn (or, for those really in the know, 'productivity pr0n') consists of techniques, tactics, and tricks for maximizing personal productivity -- or, as they say, 'getting things done'.

Having enjoyed such fine purveyors of prodporn as Merlin Mann, Danny O'Brien, Gina Trapani, David Allen, and Tim Ferriss, I'd like to return the favor with the following: the Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity."

C R Y P T O N O M I C O N

C R Y P T O N O M I C O N:

"In the Beginning was
the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson"

Mac OSX: Burn an ISO image to cdrom from command line - Tech-Recipes.com

Mac OSX: Burn an ISO image to cdrom from command line - Tech-Recipes.com:

hdiutil burn image.iso

How victim snared ID thief / She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell

How victim snared ID thief / She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell: "How victim snared ID thief
She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell"

How To Tie A Sarong (Root category: Made By You)

How To Tie A Sarong (Root category: Made By You): "How To Tie A Sarong"

Untitled Document

Untitled Document: "How to Tie a Pareau
A pareau is a traditional Polynesian garment that can be worn as several dress styles, a wrap, or as a skirt. It is one dress, in one size that gives you many unique ways to wear it. They're the perfect casual wear or cover-up, anywhere... just tie it and GO!"

RaidenX.net - RAIDENX

RaidenX.net - RAIDENX: "Use your ARROW KEYS to navigate through menu. In game navigate your ship, using ARROW KEYS, over the enemy base destroying everything as you proceed further. Use 'Z' KEY to shoot and 'X' key to throw bomb. Collect the weapon upgrades to strengthen your armor before you fight the bosses. Have Fun! Bookmark Raiden X Now"

Overlearning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Overlearning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Overlearning is a pedagogical concept according to which newly acquired skills should be practiced well beyond the point of initial mastery, leading to automaticity."

ASCII Generator

ASCII Generator
" ASCII Generator is a wrapper written in php for a nice program called FIGlet (see questions about FIGlet)."

PLY

PLY: "PLY (Python Lex-Yacc)

Welcome to the PLY homepage. PLY is an implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python. If you don't have the slightest idea what that means, you're probably in the wrong place."

Linux.com | It is can be LOLCODE time plz?

Linux.com | It is can be LOLCODE time plz?: "
HAI
I HAS A CHEEZBURGER ITZ 1
IM IN YR LOOP
VISIBLE 'I has dis many: ' N CHEEZBURGER
IZ CHEEZBURGER BIGGER THAN 11 O RLY?
YA RLY
GTFO
NO WAI
UP CHEEZBURGER!!1
KTHX
KTHX
KTHXBYE
"

Innovation | Lessons from Apple | Economist.com

Innovation | Lessons from Apple | Economist.com:
"The first is that innovation can come from without as well as within. [...] This approach, known as “network innovation”
[...]
Second, Apple illustrates the importance of designing new products around the needs of the user, not the demands of the technology.
[...]
a third lesson from Apple is that smart companies should sometimes ignore what the market says it wants today.
[...]
The fourth lesson from Apple is to “fail wisely”.
[...]
None of these things, of course, guarantees success: you can buy in clever ideas, pursue simplicity, ignore focus groups and fail wisely—and still go bust."

Flash Pacman

Flash Pacman: "Flash Pacman"

The real origin of Laugh-Out-Loud Cats on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The real origin of Laugh-Out-Loud Cats on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: "The strip was entitled 'the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats' and featured the exploits of one Meowlin Q. Kitteh (a sort of cat hobo-raconteur) and his young hapless kitten friend, Pip."

A better soda can stove - YGingras.net

A better soda can stove - YGingras.net: "When the coolness of hi-tech settles down, backpackers agree that it pays to keep it simple. The stove that packs the most bang per gram, that will never fail, is so simple that no one wants to sell it. It's the soda can stove."

Neatorama � Blog Archive � The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century.

Neatorama � Blog Archive � The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century.: "The disaster at Lake Nyos was only the second such incident in the recorded history—the 1984 incident at Lake Monoun was the first. To date, scientists believe that only three lakes in the entire world, Nyos, Monoun, and a third lake called Lake Kivu on the border of Congo and Rwanda, accumulate deadly amounts of dissolved CO2 at great depths."

South Fork American River Rafting > 2 Day Trips

South Fork American River Rafting > 2 Day Trips: "Select from the following 2-Day Trips:
We offer two different options:
South Fork 2-Day 'Car Access' Camp Trips
2 days on the South Fork
Upper section 1st day, Lower section 2nd day
30 hours, 21 miles
Lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch "

How to Change the World: The Nine Biggest Myths of the Workplace by Penelope Trunk

How to Change the World: The Nine Biggest Myths of the Workplace by Penelope Trunk: "I liked Penelop Trunk's interview so much that I asked her for more material. Here's her list of the nine biggest workplace myths:"

College Graduation: Ten Things I Wished I Had Known | Scriptorium Daily

College Graduation: Ten Things I Wished I Had Known | Scriptorium Daily: "Forget the Commencement Address . . . which is like telling you to forget Harry Reid. There are ten things I wished I had known on graduating from college. These are not the most important things, just the things nobody told me that would have been useful. Some I stumbled on myself, others I learned by making mistakes."

instructables : How to Make Carbonated Fruit

instructables : How to Make Carbonated Fruit: "Using dry ice, cut up fruit and a strong plastic bottle you can make carbonated fruit. It's refreshing, bubbly, and totally unique."

Tableau Software

Tableau Software: "Tableau is a visual analysis and reporting solution that allows people to explore and analyze databases and spreadsheets with simple drag and drop operations."

Flash MP3 Player Manufacturer

Flash MP3 Player Manufacturer: "Chipset: ALI 5661P, Sigmatel 3507 (optional)"

'Star Wars' at 30: Still a geek's paradise

'Star Wars' at 30: Still a geek's paradise: "Friday marks the anniversary of the 1977 movie that made it cool to be a sci-fi dork."

Google Trends: May 22, 2007

Google Trends: May 22, 2007: " Hot Trends (USA)"

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?: "BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, blogging will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking BlogThis! creates a mini-interface to Blogger prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then publish or post from within BlogThis!"

BBspot - 5 Grammar Tips You May Not Have Known

BBspot - 5 Grammar Tips You May Not Have Known: "Using improper grammar on the Internet will open you up to ridicule and make you seem dumber than you really are. Memorize these tips and soon you'll be correcting others instead of being corrected urself."

Nintendo News from The Hylia - Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc.

Nintendo News from The Hylia - Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc.: "There are many Nintendo titles out there that simply have outstanding music, many of which are released onto a formal OST in Japan. Unfortunately, the rest of the world rarely gets to enjoy these CDs unless one imports them for a hefty price, which is rather unfair. Gathered here are the soundtracks to various Nintendo albums."

The Air Car

The Air Car: "The fiberglass MiniC.A.T. runs on compressed air, and offers zero pollution and very low running costs"

Woot : Hammock Chair of Death - Two-Pack

Woot : Hammock Chair of Death - Two-Pack:
"There are only three problems with this two-pack of sporty nylon hammocks:

1. Random Colors: We can’t tell you if the fabric will be verdant green, vibrant red, understated tan, brilliant blue, or imperial purple. We don’t know if you’ll get solid hardwood or black aluminum dowels. And the two hammock chairs in your pack probably won’t match.

2. Missing Minor Pieces: All this means is that the optional eye lag screw and s-bolt are not included, so you’ll have to use the accompanying length of rope to tie it to a sturdy limb (the default mounting method anyway). Or you can pay four or five times as much for the chairs with the screws. You buys your hammock chair and you takes your choice.

3. Possible Death: The chairs might kill you."

Scratch | About

Scratch | About:
"Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design."

Hackety Hack: the Coder's Starter Kit

Hackety Hack: the Coder's Starter Kit:
"YOUR FIRST PROGRAM

One of Hackety Hack's sincere pledges is to make the most common code very easy and short. Downloading an MP3 should be one line of code. A blog should be very few.

For example, our sample blog:

blog = Table('MyBlog').recent(10)
Web.page {
blog.each do |entry|
title entry[:title]
puts entry[:editbox]
end
}

TRY THESE RED GOGGLES

Presently, Ruby is the only language taught by Hackety Hack. And it's a great one to start with. Ruby was born in Japan, but has found a wealth of friends across the world. As you can see above, Ruby is a combination of simple words and punctuation."

License to sin -- Asking people to think about vice increases their likelihood of giving in

License to sin -- Asking people to think about vice increases their likelihood of giving in: "A new study by researchers from Duke, USC, and UPenn is the first to explore how questioning can affect our behavior when we have mixed feelings about an issue. The study, forthcoming in the June issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, found that asking people questions, like how many times they expect to give in to a temptation they know they should resist, increases how many times they will actually give in to it."

Build A Mini Spud Gun Out Of Stuff You Can Find Around The House Video

Build A Mini Spud Gun Out Of Stuff You Can Find Around The House Video: "I will teach you how to build a combustion powered mini spud gun from stuff you can find around the house.It will take you less than 10 min! And they are tons of fun!"

"Is Christianity Good for the World?"

"Is Christianity Good for the World?" | Christianity Today:
"Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson debate.

Theologian Douglas Wilson and atheist Christopher Hitchens, authors whose books are already part of a larger debate on whether religion is pernicious, agreed to discuss their views on whether Christianity itself has benefited the world. Below is their exchange, one in a series that will appear on our website over the course of this month."

Freedom to Tinker � Blog Archive � You Can Own an Integer Too — Get Yours Here

Freedom to Tinker � Blog Archive � You Can Own an Integer Too — Get Yours Here: "Now, thanks to our newly developed VirtualLandGrab technology, you can own a 128-bit integer of your very own.

Here’s how we do it. First, we generate a fresh pseudorandom integer, just for you. Then we use your integer to encrypt a copyrighted haiku, thereby transforming your integer into a circumvention device capable of decrypting the haiku without your permission. We then give you all of our rights to decrypt the haiku using your integer. The DMCA does the rest.

The haiku is copyright 2007 by Edward W. Felten:

We own integers,
Says AACS LA.
You can own one too.

Here is your very own 128-bit integer, which we hereby deed to you:

C7 23 77 CF B0 99 9F 89 26 33 97 00 43 4A EA 87

If you’d like another integer, just hit Shift-Reload, and we’ll make a fresh one for you. Make as many as you want! Did we mention that a shiny new integer would make a perfect Mother’s Day gift?"

Improve your photography with clasical art.

Improve your photography with clasical art.:
"When Photoshop entered the CS series it included a new tool called 'Match Color.' This tools was made so that you could match a series of photos to one another.

But there is another thing you can do with 'Match Color' that is much cooler: You can match the colors in your photos to those in famous paintings."

HuffPo Hotlinking Redux - Wizbang

HuffPo Hotlinking Redux - Wizbang: "Yesterday I highlighted a case of what I suspected to be garden variety hotlinking at The Huffington Post by Max Blumenthal. Max Blumenthal is an employee of Media Matters, a writer for Nation magazine, and the son of former Clinton adviser and journalist Sidney Blumenthal. Huffington Post wasn't the only place Blumenthal's screed against Christopher Hitchens was posted. He posted the same piece on his own site and Smirking Chimp. The Family Research Council photo of Hitchens was altered by the webmasters at FRC to gently inform Blumenthal that hotlinking without permission is not a good idea."

LOLTrek � Live Granades

LOLTrek � Live Granades: "What if lolcats had a TV channel? What kind of shows would be on it?

The answer is clear: they would show Star Trek."

No Deltree Command? - Windows 2000 and DOS

No Deltree Command? - Windows 2000 and DOS: "SUMMARY: A Windows 2000 or Windows XP replacement for the Deltree command can be found here.

You may remember that some versions of DOS had a DELTREE command to remove a directory as well as all of its subdirectories and contained files. Windows 2000 and Windows XP do not have this command, but you can emulate it with the RD (RMDIR) command.

For example, the following Windows 2000 or Windows XP DOS command deletes the C:\BLAH directory and all subdirectories WITHOUT ANY WARNING:

RD C:\BLAH /S /Q"

VDH's Private Papers::Nemesis

VDH's Private Papers::Nemesis: "But we need look only to the Ancient Greeks for the best insight.

The Greeks believed that insolence naturally leads to bullying, or hubris. This arrogance induces a mad behavior called ate. Finally, that recklessness earns well-earned destruction unleashed by the god Nemesis."

in·so·lent [Origin: 1350–1400; ME <>insolent- (s. of insoléns) departing from custom, equiv. to in- in-³ + sol- (s. of solére to be accustomed) + -ent- -ent]