ParkZone™

ParkZone™: slow model rc radio-controlled plane
"Vapor Bind-N-Fly
Innovation, convenience and ease of flight – an ultra-micro flyer for everyone. Small enough, and slow enough to be flown in a basement, garage, living room, or other indoor spaces."

Spektrum RC

Spektrum RC: "The 6-channel DX6i uses the same full-range DSM2 technology found in the Spektrum DX7 and includes an impressive list of programming features for both airplanes and helicopters that are simple to access and use. It comes with the new AR6200 DSM2 6-channel receiver that is robust enough to use in large models yet compact enough to fit in many parkflyers."

YouTube - E-Flite Blade 400 3D

YouTube - E-Flite Blade 400 3D: "A breakdown and review of the E-Flite Blade 400 3D including key features and selling points."

Tri-Turbo R/C Helium Blimp

Tri-Turbo R/C Helium Blimp: "Home > RC Flying Toys > R/C Blimps > Tri-Turbo R/C Helium Blimp"

Video Games - Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo Expands His Empire - NYTimes.com

Video Games - Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo Expands His Empire - NYTimes.com: "“He probably inspires 99 percent of the developers out there today. You can even say there wouldn’t be video games today if it wasn’t for Miyamoto and Nintendo. He’s the granddad of all game developers, but the funny thing is that for all of his legacy, for all of the mainstay iconic characters he’s designed and created, he is still pushing the limits with things like Wii Fit.”"

Tagline Guru — It’s Your Brand On the Line

Tagline Guru — It’s Your Brand On the Line
All about taglines!

The original Indiana Jones: Otto Rahn and the temple of doom - Telegraph

The original Indiana Jones: Otto Rahn and the temple of doom - Telegraph: "Like Jones, Rahn was an archaeologist, like him he fell foul of the Nazis and like him he was obsessed with finding the Holy Grail - the cup reputedly used to catch Christ's blood when he was crucified. But whereas Jones rode the Grail-train to box-office glory, Rahn's obsession ended up costing him his life."

[Re]Encoded dot Com � Blog Archive � 42 Awesome Business Card Designs (With Links to 100s More)

[Re]Encoded dot Com � Blog Archive � 42 Awesome Business Card Designs (With Links to 100s More): "In today’s tech-oriented world of short attention spans it is more important than ever to make a compelling first impression. A brilliant business card that speaks to your profession, serves some unusual function or that transforms into something else can be a great way to grab attention and inspire those you meet. Organized by category here are 42 extremely creative business card designs. Some of these are old, some new, but all are still amazing examples of out-of-the-box thinking in business card design."

Listing privileges recursively for Oracle users

Listing privileges recursively for Oracle users: "Listing privileges recursively for Oracle users"

7.7.�Summary

7.7.�Summary: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

--Jamie Zawinski, in comp.emacs.xemacs"

Mouth Organ Video - Metacafe

Mouth Organ Video - Metacafe: "how to make mouth organ from markers"

rst2a - about

rst2a - about: "rst2a was conceived by Andy Gayton, David Stokes, and Asi Behar as a solution to a persistent problem that plagued the team during their day jobs at Revver.

Every time a spec was needed, invariably, a debate over the format of the spec would arise - with developers preferring a plain text document on a wiki, and business people preferring traditional tools such as Microsoft Word based on a set template.

Cue reStructuredText - an easy-to-read, plain text document format designed to keep content and the style/formatting of content separate. Author the content once, then present it in a variety of formats - like html and pdf - with infinite possibilities for styles and templates.

After numerous proprietary-format-written specs that he couldn't open, Andy decided to build rst2a as an advocacy site to accomplish a few goals:

* Encourage the creation of additional rst styles.
* Present these styles in a digestable way, for people to download and use.
* Make it easy to convert rst documents to multiple formats, without having to install a heap of software locally.
* Help establish rst as a viable format for non-technical users."

Eye of the Goof: The Psychotronic Guide to Archive.org

Eye of the Goof: The Psychotronic Guide to Archive.org: "I've been spending a lot of time digging around in the Internet Archive. In the course of my excavations, I uncovered a metric buttload of old cult filmage in the public domain, and in a fit of obsessive-compulsive mania, decided to make a list that included every film in the archive that also makes an appearance in Michael Weldon's essential guide to midnight movies, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film."

MSR Asirra Project -- Installation

MSR Asirra Project -- Installation: "Protecting your web site with Asirra is easy. It just takes a few lines of code in whatever language your web service is written in. See these complete working examples:"

a very cute pig lesson

a very cute pig lesson: "how to draw a cute pig"

Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back

Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back: "And Stanford has a really interesting one, by and large: that their undergrads and their grad students come out, and they believe that C and C are the fabric with which God wove the Universe. OK? And they truly [think]: what is it with all these other languages?

Whereas like MIT and Berkeley, they come out, and they're like 'languages, languages, languages!' and you're like, uh, dude, you actually have to use C and C , and they're like 'oh.'"

Docutils: Documentation Utilities

Docutils: Documentation Utilities: "Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX. It includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language."

Overview — Sphinx v0.3 documentation

Overview — Sphinx v0.3 documentation: "Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects"

reST renderer

reST renderer: "reST to HTML conversion"

AEI - Short Publications - Measles Madness

AEI - Short Publications - Measles Madness: "As a culture, we have a troubling propensity to allow science to validate populist theories, but not to exclude them.

Our trust in the scientific process seems to be a one-way proposition."

Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary

Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary: "'A helpful translation guide for the Chinese phrases that are spoken in the Serenity 'verse.'"

File: GUIDE.txt

File: GUIDE.txt: "Getting Started With WWW::Mechanize

This guide is meant to get you started using Mechanize. By the end of this guide, you should be able to fetch pages, click links, fill out and submit forms, scrape data, and many other hopefully useful things. This guide really just scratches the surface of what is available, but should be enough information to get you really going!"

Python Package Index : mechanoid 0.6.9

Python Package Index : mechanoid 0.6.9: "Python Programmatic Web Browser

mechanoid is a programmatic browser written in Python. It is intended as an engine which will do things like log in as SourceForge project admin and do a Quick Release or send and receive Yahoo mail. mechanoid is a fork of John J. Lee's mechanize."

mechanize

mechanize: "Stateful programmatic web browsing in Python, after Andy Lester's Perl module WWW::Mechanize ."

Fairness, idealism and other atrocities - Los Angeles Times

Fairness, idealism and other atrocities - Los Angeles Times: "Commencement advice you're unlikely to hear elsewhere."

Dr. Dobb's | The Tcl/Tk and Python Scripting Environments | October 1, 1998

Dr. Dobb's | The Tcl/Tk and Python Scripting Environments | October 1, 1998: "A splash of sunset-colored paint streaking across its cover immediately establishes the lineage of Harrison and McLennan's Effective Tcl/Tk Programming. The same splash is on the cover of the original Tcl/Tk book -- Tcl and the Tk Toolkit by John K. Ousterhout, the father of Tcl/Tk. (Both books are part of the Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series edited by Brian Kernighan, the 'K' in K&R.)"

InformIT: Effective Tcl/Tk Programming: Writing Better Programs with Tcl and Tk - $39.99

InformIT: Effective Tcl/Tk Programming: Writing Better Programs with Tcl and Tk - $39.99: "# By Mark Harrison, Michael McLennan
# Published Dec 8, 1997 by Addison Wesley Professional. Part of the Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series series."

Slashdot | Effective Tcl/Tk Programming

Slashdot | Effective Tcl/Tk Programming: "Whether you're into sockets with Tcl or just want to use that text widget more effectively, you will find this book useful. I'm sure it will be coming off the shelf for reference much in the future."

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Effective Tcl/Tk Programming: Writing Better Programs with Tcl and Tk (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Effective Tcl/Tk Programming: Writing Better Programs with Tcl and Tk (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series): "I hope that other authors of computer books have a look at this book."

Concurrency with Python, Twisted, and Flex

Concurrency with Python, Twisted, and Flex: "Before wading into the world of Twisted, you should be forewarned. Twisted contains lots of libraries to do all kinds of things, and this abundance can be overwhelming. They use weird naming conventions, often making things up even though there are accepted names for things, so names are often nonsensical. The documentation sucks -- badly. You usually have to thrash around quite a bit to figure out what you need, and even then it requires luck (but the newsgroup tends to be helpful). There is an O'Reilly book on Twisted, but it's not great -- you get it anyway because that's the only book there is.

Normally, caveats like that might send you away from an open-source project. Despite the issues, Twisted is worth it because the code is very good, and it solves your problem. The project is very actively maintained, but it's by people who are good at writing (and testing) code, and not so good at documentation. It's definitely worth using, but you should be ready to roll up your sleeves. However, if you can fit your project within what I'm showing in this article, things should go easily."

Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera

Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera: "If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your point-and-shoot into a super camera just by adding a little special sauce to its firmware."

Pixels Go Mad - The Celebration Of Pixel Art | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine

Pixels Go Mad - The Celebration Of Pixel Art | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine: "Pixel art lives both in and beyond computer screen. Artists design pixel art posters, magazine covers, album covers, desktop wallpapers, paintings, “pixelish” video ads and even pixelated tattoos. And there is a good reason behind it: in times when popular design solutions strive for real-life-look or perfection pixel art offers a distinctive and creative artistic approach which is extremely expressive. In fact, pixel art can be impressive as well. This post attempts to prove just that."

"We Need Our Moms (A Sock Opera)" ecard at AmericanGreetings.com

"We Need Our Moms (A Sock Opera)" ecard at AmericanGreetings.com

Are you prepared?

Are you prepared?: "Imagine that you have no electricity, no gas, no water and no telephone service. Imagine that all the businesses are closed and you are without any kind of emergency services. What will you do until help arrives?

Click on the buttons to the right to find out how you can prepare yourself and your family for an emergency. You can also learn what to do in response to a specific disaster, like a tsunami, just in case."

Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X

Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X
"The tool I ultimately chose for the purpose of the detection itself is a little free app appropriately called Proximity. This is a thin little program that does one thing, but does it well -- that is to sit in the background and scan for a given Bluetooth device at regular intervals. When it detects a change in the device’s availability, it simply calls one of two Applescripts: One for the device leaving range, and another for when the device enters range.

So, armed with that I set out to create two Applescripts that would perform the following tasks:

When the Bluetooth Device enters range:

1. •Deactivate the Screen Saver Password.
   

2. •Deactivate the Screen Saver.
   

3. •Reconnect the phone to the OS X Address Book
   

4. •Sync the phone using iSync

When the Bluetooth Device leaves range:

1. •Activate the Screen Saver Password.

2. •Activate the Screen Saver."

saw this somewhere...

on your desk: anything that is not:
supplies
ref
decoration
equipment
represents a commitment


matrix of self-management


crazy master &
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perspective
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YouTube - Pikmin - Ai no Uta (English Lyrics)

YouTube - Pikmin - Ai no Uta (English Lyrics)

"Uprooted, we'll follow you alone.
Today once again we'll carry, fight, multiply and be eaten.
Dug up, we'll meet again and be thrown around.
But we'll follow you forever.

I guess it's time to play.
Maybe we'll go out quietly.
Ah... ah... falling in love...
Under that sky...

On this planet, where so mnay lifeforms live,
Today once again we'll carry, fight, multiply and then be eaten.
Uprooted, we'll gather, and be thrown.
But we won't ask you to love us.

I guess it's time to play.
Maybe we'll try harder.
Ah, ah... falling in love...
Under that sky...

We'll work together, fight, and be eaten,
But we'll follow you forever.
We'll fight, be silent, and follow you,
But we won't ask you to love us."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_no_Uta_(Strawberry_Flower_song)

Dan Lyons aka Fake Steve Jobs (Forbes) at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008

Dan Lyons aka Fake Steve Jobs (Forbes) at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008: "Dan Lyons aka Fake Steve Jobs (Forbes) at Web 2.0 Expo SF"

Orlando Sentinel - Craig Ferguson amuses at White House correspondents' dinner by Hal Boedeker

Orlando Sentinel - Craig Ferguson amuses at White House correspondents' dinner by Hal Boedeker: "But Scottish-born Ferguson was the main story, because he was providing the comedy."

ZooKeeper

ZooKeeper: "Building distributed systems is a zoo...

ZooKeeper is a service for coordinating processes of distributed applications. Historically distributed processes are coordinated using group messaging, shared registers, or distributed lock services. ZooKeeper incorporates elements from all these servers, but incorporates them into a replicated centralized service. The interface exposed by ZooKeeper incorporates the wait-free aspects of group messaging and shared registers with an eventing mechanism similar to those of locking services to provide a simple, yet powerful coordination service."

Printable Paper

Printable Paper: "Hundreds of papers you can download and print for free. We've got graph paper, lined paper, financial paper, music paper, and more."

Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows

Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows: "MPEG Streamclip is a powerful video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies.
MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL."

Nitpicker wiki / The Humane Interface

Nitpicker wiki / The Humane Interface: "A summary of design rules"

YouTube - Pikmin - Ai no Uta (English Lyrics)

YouTube - Pikmin - Ai no Uta (English Lyrics): "It's the famous Ai no Uta song from the Japanese Pikmin commercial with the lyrics translated into English. The song was made by Strawberry Flower. It's one of my favorite game related songs."

Lingon by Peter Borg

Lingon by Peter Borg: "Lingon is a graphical user interface for creating launchd configuration files for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). You get all your launchd configuration files listed hierarchically so you can easily see all and choose which one to edit. Editing a configuration file is easier than ever in this version and the most common settings are readily available."

Small Memory Software

Small Memory Software

Also Sprach Zarathustra as Performed by Deodato (1972) � Old School Music Lover

Also Sprach Zarathustra as Performed by Deodato (1972) � Old School Music Lover: "Also Sprach Zarathustra, op. 30 is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Also sprach Zarathustra. The composer conducted its first performance in Frankfurt."

Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org

Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org: "From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the 'Infocom Drive' — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company. Among the assets included: design documents, email archives, employee phone numbers, sales figures, internal meeting notes, corporate newsletters, and the source code and game files for every released and unreleased game Infocom made.

For obvious reasons, I can't share the whole Infocom Drive. But I have to share some of the best parts. It's just too good."

How to Make Great Fresh Mozzarella Cheese - Instructables - DIY, How To, food, home

How to Make Great Fresh Mozzarella Cheese - Instructables - DIY, How To, food, home: "There are a lot of recipes on the internet but a lot of them seem to skip an important step or 2 or don't really explain it well enough, so I have made many batches through trial and error combining things that I have learned and experimented with (so you don't have to) and come up with this recipe that seems to work real good."

TOADSoft.com - Home of the World's #1 Tool for Database Application Developers and DBAs!

TOADSoft.com - Home of the World's #1 Tool for Database Application Developers and DBAs!: "Instructions for Joining the Toad™ for Oracle BETA Program"

DarkCopy - Simple, full screen text editing

DarkCopy - Simple, full screen text editing: "DarkCopy is for anyone who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, and wants to increase productivity by focusing only on writing. It was created as a free, web-based clone of WriteRoom."

Chess

Chess: "Completely rewrite from OliThink with a very fast move generator (based on OliPerft). 100% stable. Engine runs without any chess information. No book, no pawnstructure etc. ELO about 2400, is able to beat strong engines like Crafty and Glaurung in tournament games."

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Sierpinski Cookies

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Sierpinski Cookies: "A few months ago we showed you how to make beautiful fractals in polymer clay. Take that idea, run with it, and where do you end up? In the kitchen, making Sierpinski cookies! These cookies, made from contrasting colors of butter cookie dough, are a tasty realization of the Sierpinski carpet, producing lovely, edible fractals. As with our earlier project involving clay, you can make these by using a simple iterative algorithmic process of stretching out the dough and folding it over onto itself in a specific pattern."

ukdigitalradio: News

ukdigitalradio: News: "Since the beginning of April 2008, the Birdsong channel has been upgraded to stereo and currently broadcasts 24 hours a day."

linux rpath

LDLIBS=-L$(LIBXML2)/lib -lxml2 -Wl,--rpath,$(LIBXML2)/lib

XML.com: XML Parser Benchmarks: Part 1

XML.com: XML Parser Benchmarks: Part 1: "These benchmarks cover event-driven parser models like SAX and StAX, object model parsers like DOM, and also new breeds of XML parsers like Apache's AXIOM, which only builds parts of the document tree in the memory."

Downloading MIDI Files

Downloading MIDI Files: "During the Disklavier/Video Recordings of the competition (2008), contestants performed on Disklavier Pro pianos in Moscow, Shanghai, Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. During the recording process, a high resolution XP Standard MIDI File was created. These XP SMFs were use for playback before the screening jury at the Piano Salon at Yamaha Artit Services Inc. in New York City."

Euler's Constancy

Euler's Constancy: "There never was a mathematician as productive as Euler. Math writer W. W. Rouse Ball computed that from 1736, when Euler began publishing regularly, to his death from a stroke in 1783,


there is for each and every fortnight in 47 years a separate effort of mathematical invention, digested, arranged, written in Latin, and amplified, often to a tedious extent, by corollaries and scholia. Through all this mass, the power of the inventor is almost uniformly distributed, and apparently without effort. There is nothing like this, except this, in the history of �science."

China, China's Boomtowns - National Geographic Magazine

China, China's Boomtowns - National Geographic Magazine: "But Wenzhou had the priceless capital of native instinct. Families opened tiny workshops, often with fewer than a dozen workers, and they produced simple goods. Over time, workshops blossomed into full-scale factories, and Wenzhou came to dominate certain low-tech industries. Today, one-quarter of all shoes bought in China come from Wenzhou. The city makes 70 percent of the world's cigarette lighters. Over 90 percent of Wenzhou's economy is private.

The Wenzhou Model, as it became known, spread throughout southern Zhejiang Province. Although nearly 80 percent of all Zhejiang entrepreneurs have a formal education of only eight years or less, the province has become the richest in China by most measures. The per capita incomes for both rural and urban residents are the highest of any Chinese province (this excludes specially administered cities such as Shanghai and Beijing). Zhejiang reflects China's economic miracle: a poor, overwhelmingly rural nation that has somehow become the world's most vibrant factory center."

Toad World > Community > Quest Experts' Blogs - How to use the Quest SQL Optimizer

Toad World - Community - Quest Experts' Blogs - How to use the Quest SQL Optimizer: "Quest SQL Optimizer can do an extensive transformation of the syntax of a SQL statement while still maintaining the exact same result set. This exhaustive transformation can produce hundreds of SQL alternatives. So it is necessary to have some insight as how to find a SQL alternative that is better than your original SQL statement without spending too much time. This is especially true when you have a SQL statement with complicated syntax."

QTCoffee

QTCoffee: "QTCoffee 1.2.5 is a set of command-line Mac OS X utilities for manipulating QuickTime movies and other QuickTime readable media (AVIs, MPEGs, as well as audio files such as MP3s and AACs)."

qt_tools

qt_tools: "QT_TOOLS is a small suite of Mac OS X command line tools for dealing with QuickTime movies. If you don't understand the cult of the command, that's fine: these tools are not for you!"

Sand Pile Model

Sand Pile Model: "This cellular automata models a granular material in a gravitational field. There are two kinds of cells. Immovable ground cells and movable sand grains. Grains fall from a source at the top of the window and proceed down to the ground. Grains pile up and redistribute themselves according to the cellular automata rules. Application of the rule is a little more sophisticated than the Game of Life or Forest Fire rules."

Ronald Rood's oracle blog: oracle 10.1.0.5 on Leopard

Ronald Rood's oracle blog: oracle 10.1.0.5 on Leopard: "I had my installation upgraded to 10.1.0.5 while running Tiger. After the leopard installation (I installed on a new volume and imported the users from the old volume) I only had to create the dba group like it was in tiger and assign it to my dba account."

Bitstrips: Page One

Bitstrips: Page One: "Top Bitstrips"

Vying Games : Cephalopod : Play

Vying Games : Cephalopod : Play: "Vying Games : Cephalopod |"

Dayrobber.com - 2. Jamaican Fried Dumplings

Dayrobber.com - 2. Jamaican Fried Dumplings: "This is how you make Jamaican Fried Dumplings!"

Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot - New York Times

Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot - New York Times: "But come on -- 13 percent of the camcorder market? This limited little thing? What's going on here? Having finally lived with the Flip, I finally know the answer: it's a blast. It's always ready, always with you, always trustworthy. Instead of crippling this 'camcorder,' the simplicity elevates it. Comparisons with a real camcorder are nonsensical, because the Flip is something else altogether: it's the video equivalent of a Kodak point-and-shoot camera. It's the very definition of 'less is more.'"

CSS Tutorial

CSS Tutorial: "Save a lot of work with CSS!

In our CSS tutorial you will learn how to use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once."

ORACLE-BASE - Schema Owners and Application Users

ORACLE-BASE - Schema Owners and Application Users: "In the context of this article, the schema owner represents the Oracle user that owns all your database objects, while application users are Oracle users that need access to those schema objects.

Allowing applications to make direct connections to the schema owner is a bad idea because it gives those applications far to many privileges, which can easily result in damage to your data and the objects themselves. Instead, it is better to define application users and grant those users the necessary privileges on the schema owners objects.

This article presents two methods for achieving this separation and highlights their pros and cons. For simplicities sake I've only defined two roles, but you can define as many roles as you wish, making the security as granular as you need for each type of application user."

Tom White: "Disks have become tapes"

Tom White: "Disks have become tapes": "MapReduce is a programming model for processing vast amounts of data. One of the reasons that it works so well is because it exploits a sweet spot of modern disk drive technology trends. In essence MapReduce works by repeatedly sorting and merging data that is streamed to and from disk at the transfer rate of the disk. Contrast this to accessing data from a relational database that operates at the seek rate of the disk"

wattzon.org

"The Game Plan : A solution framework for climate change and energy."

The Nine Billion Names of God

The Nine Billion Names of God: "By Arthur Clarke"

Retirement Planner - MSN Money

Retirement Planner - MSN Money: "Socking away money for retirement is a great idea, but how much do you really need to save? How long do you need to work to set yourself up comfortably in your golden years? Enter your information below, the charts and numbers on the right will change as you go along, so try a few different numbers and see how different scenarios might play out for you.

All amounts are calculated using today's dollar values. The rate of return on investments is adjusted for a 3% inflation rate."

Burn a DVD on Your Mac - Wired How-To Wiki

Burn a DVD on Your Mac - Wired How-To Wiki: "Apple first sold all of us on the digital music revolution using the slogan 'Rip, Mix, Burn.' Indeed, thanks to Apple software, it was suddenly dead simple to copy and burn music CDs using your Mac. But what about video DVDs? It turns out there are a few hoops to jump through, but in the end, it's pretty easy, even though you may need to invest in some additional software."

The Nuclear Weapon Archive - A Guide to Nuclear Weapons

The Nuclear Weapon Archive - A Guide to Nuclear Weapons: "A 'sister site' relationship has been established with Gregory Walker's Trinity Site. Greg and I are actively collaborating to provide the broadest variety of nuclear weapon information, in the most convenient form that we can. The two sites each have a different focus. The Nuclear Weapon Archive provides current information, technical data, and informative write-ups. The Trinity Site focuses on historical information, especially reproductions of public domain documents."

smuglispweeny: Tilton's Law: Solve the First Problem

smuglispweeny: Tilton's Law: Solve the First Problem: "Now they were stuck on some software problem and needed help fast. Their stack was Tandy, Cobol, and some micro database package. My skills were Apple, Cobol, and ISAM and in those days that was a deerskin glove fit so off I went for a mutual look-see."

Toolbox - Graphics program for Mac

Toolbox - Graphics program for Mac: "Toolbox is a visual programming tool which enables you to combine bitmaps, vector graphics and effects into amazing works of digital art."

:: DESTRUCTOID PC blog - Hardcore Gamer Community :: PC News, PC Hints, PC Cheats, and Codes on Video Games: PC, Wii, Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 2, Gam

:: DESTRUCTOID PC blog - Hardcore Gamer Community :: PC News, PC Hints, PC Cheats, and Codes on Video Games: PC, Wii, Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, PSP, DS, GBA & Retro: "Fez is obviously a platformer with a ridiculously cute (and adorably animated) main character. That is all well and good, but the minute I saw the game break the traditional 2D perspective and morph into this crazy 2D/3D ridiculously well-designed hybrid I almost fell of my chair and cried with happiness."

Subterranean Press � Audio: Trunk and Disorderly by Charles Stross

Subterranean Press � Audio: Trunk and Disorderly by Charles Stross: "[Editor’s note: Charles Stross is damned funny, both in person and on the page. You’ll have to take my word on the first count. As to the second, here’s a P. G. Wodehouse meets Robert A. Heinlein as filtered through Mr. Stross’s sensibilities. In other words, it’s funny and indescribable as hell, and probably my favorite story this year.]"

The Art of the Push-Up - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog

The Art of the Push-Up - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog: "Here’s a calculator to tell you how many push-ups you should be doing if you are in good shape."

An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up - New York Times

An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up - New York Times: "The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. It tests the whole body, engaging muscle groups in the arms, chest, abdomen, hips and legs. It requires the body to be taut like a plank with toes and palms on the floor. The act of lifting and lowering one’s entire weight is taxing even for the very fit."

Buzzard Blog: Tim Keller Speaks at Google

Buzzard Blog: Tim Keller Speaks at Google: "Tim spoke for about 35 minutes on 'The Reasoning Behind Belief in God,' the topic of his new book. Below is an outline and a few quotes and notes from Tim's 3-point message, the bulk of which centered on his 3rd point."

Youpi Key

Youpi Key keyboard macro "iKey is a utility that can eliminate repetitive actions. iKey allows creation of shortcuts that perform an action or sequence of actions each of which can be launched by key combinations, menu, timer, event or USB devices."

cx_Oracle executemany() Example

cx_Oracle executemany() Example: "executemany() is that it takes a sequence of mappings, as its second argument, not a sequence of sequences. The first argument is the statement itself. More specifically, that means a list of dictionaries."

def convertSequenceToDict(list):
"""For each element in the sequence, creates a dictionary item equal
to the element and keyed by the position of the item in the list.
Thanks to Dick Wall.
Example:
>>> convertListToDict(("Matt", 1))
{'1': 'Matt', '2': 1}
"""
dict = {}
argList = range(1,len(list)+1)
for k,v in zip(argList, list): dict[str(k)] = v
return dict

Getting the difference between dates

Getting the difference between dates: "Frequently we are asked -- how can I find the number of minutes between two dates or what is the amount of elapsed time. With Oracle Dates, this is pretty trivial, you can get either TOTAL (days, hours, minutes, seconds) between 2 dates simply by subtracting them or with a little mod'ing you can get Days/Hours/Minutes/Seconds between."

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control: "When you finally decide it's time to do something about that rat's nest of cables that's spreading like kudzu, you don't have to spend a lot of time and money to get it under control. Whether you're looking to stow your headphone wires tangle-free in your gym bag, hide the ugly wire spaghetti you keep kicking further under your desk, or organize your gadget chargers and power plugs, we've got some cord management tricks for you. Hit the jump for photos and videos of our top 10 favorite ways to get cables under control."

mozdev.org - livehttpheaders: index

mozdev.org - livehttpheaders: index: "Welcome to the livehttpheaders project.

The goal of this project is to adds information about the HTTP headers in two ways:

* First by adding a 'Headers' tab in 'View Page Info' of a web page.
* Second by adding a tool in the 'Tools->Web Development' menu to be able to display http headers in real time (while pages are being downloaded from the Internet.
* Third by letting you edit request headers and replay an URL (beta). Look for the Replay button in the live window!"

How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data

How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data: "Apple's .Mac syncing features are sometimes no exception to these problems, and even though Apple provides a number of decent solutions in its .Mac sync support pages, they don't always work. Fortunately, a brief adventure using .Mac sync chat support (found at the bottom of that aforelinked page) cleared up a repeating 'merge/overwrite' sync dialog problem for me, and we felt the procedure was worth sharing."

Ulf Wiger � Satnam Singh: Declarative Programming Techniques for Many-Core Architectures

Ulf Wiger � Satnam Singh: Declarative Programming Techniques for Many-Core Architectures: "From a Functional Programming seminar at Ericsson, 21 February 2008"

Programming in python: Lisp in a single expression

Programming in python: Lisp in a single expression: "#An interpreter for a simple scheme like lexically
#scoped language implemented as single python expression."

Retirement Planner - MSN Money

Retirement Planner - MSN Money: "Socking away money for retirement is a great idea, but how much do you really need to save? How long do you need to work to set yourself up comfortably in your golden years? Enter your information below, the charts and numbers on the right will change as you go along, so try a few different numbers and see how different scenarios might play out for you."

Top 10 Worst Captchas | John M Willis ESM Blog

Top 10 Worst Captchas | John M Willis ESM Blog: " Here are my top 10 worst Captcha’s ever."

Where to Find Free Math Courses Online -- Education-Portal.com

Where to Find Free Math Courses Online -- Education-Portal.com: "Taking a math course doesn't have to be expensive. There are many colleges, universities and other educational institutions that offer free math courses online."

How one man made an MMO: an interview with Gene Endrody

blog.hanfordlemoore - How one man made an MMO: an interview with Gene Endrody: "Gene Endrody is the man behind the free MMORPG Sherwood Dungeon and other multi-player games on maidmarian.com. Despite the fact that Gene had little programming experience, he’s managed to do all the development himself using off-the-shelf tools and build a loyal following that often reaches 4000 simultaneous players.

So how did this one-man-team do it? I wanted to know, so I interviewed him. We talked about his background, the technical aspects of doing an MMO with off the shelf tools, and how he built up his user base."

The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 146

The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 146:

William F. Buckley:
"It means a lot to me to say this: when I set out to explore the scene, I was determined to avoid one thing, and that was the kind of ambiguity for which Graham Greene and to a certain extent Le Carr�became famous. There you will find that the agent of the West is, in the first place, almost necessarily unappealing physically. He drinks too much, he screws too much and he’s always being cuckolded. Then, at some dramatic moment there is the conversation or the moment of reflection in which the reader is asked to contemplate the difficulty in asserting that there is a qualitative difference between Them and Us. This I wanted to avoid. So I was searching, really, for a little bit of the purity of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd in Blackford Oakes. Billy Budd has no sense of humor, and without a sense of humor you can’t be genuinely American. Therefore, Blackford Oakes couldn’t be Billy Budd. Furthermore, I made him almost spectacularly good-looking in defiant reaction to these semidisfigured characters that Greene and Le Carr�and Len Deighton specialize in."

Apache 2 Web server documentation: Apache2: Apache Portability Runtime library

Apache 2 Web server documentation: Apache2: Apache Portability Runtime library: "Apache Portability Runtime library"

Rogue Amoeba - Fission: Lossless Audio Editor for Mac OS X

Rogue Amoeba - Fission: Lossless Audio Editor for Mac OS X: "Fission is a streamlined audio editor designed to get you editing in minutes, not hours. Fission lets you copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files, all with no quality loss! Rapidly edit mono and stereo files in MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless and AIFF formats."

gperf example for keyword lookup

test_mimetype: test_mimetype.c mimetype.gperf
        $(GPERF) --ignore-case --struct-type --output=mimetype.c mimetype.gperf
        $(CC) $(COPTS) -o test_mimetype test_mimetype.c


%define lookup-function-name gperf_mimetype
%includes
struct mimetype_tbl { char *name; char *val; };
%%
"ai", "application/postscript"
"aif", "audio/x-aiff"
"aifc", "audio/x-aiff"
"zip", "application/zip"
%%
static char *mimetype(char *ext)
{
    struct mimetype_tbl *v = gperf_mimetype(ext, strlen(ext));
    return v ? v->val : NULL;
}


#include <stdio.h%gt;
#include "mimetype.c"

void t1(char *ext)
{
    printf("ext=:%s: type=:%s:\n",ext, mimetype(ext));
}

int main()
{
    t1("mp3");
    t1("jpg");
    t1("JPG");
    t1("JpG");
    t1("foo");
    return 0;
}

XML Editor

XML Editor: "Altova XMLSpy 2008 is the industry-standard XML editor and development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related technologies. It offers the world’s leading XML editor, the original graphical schema designer, a code generator, file converters, debuggers, profilers, full database integration, support for XSLT, XPath, XQuery, WSDL, SOAP, and Office Open XML documents, plus Visual Studio .NET and Eclipse plug-ins, and more."