Coke and Mentos Fountain at EepyBird.com

Coke and Mentos Fountain at EepyBird.com: "Thanks to The Coca-Cola Company and Mentos for helping make this video possible. Be sure to visit Coke.com to find out about our Poetry in Motion video challenge!"

The Secret Life Of Machines Home Page

The Secret Life Of Machines Home Page: "Just how does a video recorder work? And how about fax machines, cars, washing machines, electric light, telephones, vacuum cleaners, and refrigerators? You'll find the answers here. This site is designed as a companion to the TV series 'The Secret Life Of Machines' written by Tim Hunkin, and presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod."

Botnet Command and Control - Raw Executable Code

Botnet Command and Control - Raw Executable Code: "This shows one of the simplest spreading mechanisms bots use: raw executable code included in a simple field (in this case, the topic of a channel). Once connected, the victim's computer would then download this code and run it."

830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. - By Stefan Fatsis - Slate Magazine

830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. - By Stefan Fatsis - Slate Magazine: "On Oct. 12, in the basement of a Unitarian church on the town green in Lexington, Mass., a carpenter named Michael Cresta scored 830 points in a game of Scrabble. His opponent, Wayne Yorra, who works at a supermarket deli counter, totaled 490 points. The two men set three records for sanctioned Scrabble in North America: the most points in a game by one player (830), the most total points in a game (1,320), and the most points on a single turn (365, for Cresta's play of QUIXOTRY)."

'I didn't want to run companies' | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology

'I didn't want to run companies' | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology: "Apple's co-founder came to the company through a series of 'little accidents' and insists that he remains an engineer at heart

Interview by Bobbie Johnson
Thursday October 26, 2006
The Guardian

Technology Guardian: The heart of the new book is Apple and how you started the company.

Steve Wozniak: I think the early history - how the hell did you start this whole, basically, industry, this business, this company with absolutely nothing being so young. Just a bunch of ideas, where did the skills come from - how did it happen is just an amazing story."

Northwestern Infolab - Projects - News At Seven

Northwestern Infolab - Projects - News At Seven: "News At Seven is a system that automatically generates a virtual news show. Totally autonomous, it collects, parses, edits and organizes news stories and then passes the formatted content to an artificial anchor for presentation. Using the resources present on the web, the system goes beyond the straight text of the news stories to also retrieve relevant images and blogs with commentary on the topics to be presented."

"It's for you"

"It's for you": "This cute Coke ad's been out for almost a month now, but since I still haven't gotten tired of it, I thought I'd share it with the folks out there who aren't blessed with the wonders of Chinese TV. Through the magic of YouTube, then, here is 'Ringtone':

This is another in a series of Coke ads starring Wilbur Pan (潘玮柏) and Angela Chang (张韶涵). Here's an earlier spot, which, much like the S.H.E. World of Warcraft ads (endings 1, 2, 3), features Coke-stealing hijinks in a virtual environment."

eatingchinese.org :: View topic - Making Jian Bing -- YouTube videos

eatingchinese.org :: View topic - Making Jian Bing -- YouTube videos: "Here's a couple of nice videos of two different styles of jian bing (a.k.a. 'dan bing') beign made by streetside vendors, posted by 'sunnata' on YouTube. The 'Northern Style' jian bing is very similar to those that I enjoyed near Tongji University in Shanghai recently.
"

The Day That Nothing Happened

The Day That Nothing Happened: "The Wal-Mart in the basement of my building sells live frogs in a big aquarium, for eating. I don't know what surprised me more when I moved here - the frogs, or the Wal-Mart. Our favorite intergalactic retailer doesn't mess around when it comes to creating 'capitalism with Chinese characteristics', as a group of Kentucky tourists hunting fruitlessly for American cheese in the dairy aisle found to their chagrin the other day. The company knows its market; in addition to the frogs there are live turtles (plastic bar code tags threaded through little holes in their shells), a special hot Peking duck stand, endless noodles and only a small selection of beer and spirits, though you are welcome to down a big shot of Chivas regal from the sampling booth as you shop. Chinese "

YouTube - Dan Bing - Southern Style

YouTube - Dan Bing - Southern Style: "Slightly different from its Northern cousin. This egg pancake (dan bing) was an important part of my diet while living in Shanghai. "

The Daily WTF - Table Scan Hell

The Daily WTF - Table Scan Hell:


"Re: Table Scan Hell
by nonDev


Fred:

db2:

Nick:
[Obvious joke about mysql not being a real database]
[Lame recommendation to try postgresql, oracle, sqlite, etc]

[obligatory varchar2 dig]

[varchar2 retort]
[general, unrelated stab at the uselessness of VB, in any situation, and how solves all my problems]
"

The Logic of Collective Action

The Logic of Collective Action: "Special Interests and Economic Policy
There are a lot of government policies, like airline bailouts, that from an economic perspective don't make any sense at all. Politicians have an incentive to keep the economy strong as incumbents are reelected at a much higher rate during booms than busts. So why do so many government policies make such little economic sense?

The best answer I've seen to this question comes from a book that is almost 40 years old. The Logic of Collective Action by Mancur Olson explains why some groups are able to have a larger influence on government policy than others. I'll give a brief outline of The Logic of Collective Action and show how we can use the results of the book to explain economic policy decisions."

Boost socket performance on Linux

Boost socket performance on Linux:
"Four ways to speed up your network applications.

The Sockets API lets you develop client and server applications that can communicate across a local network or across the world via the Internet. Like any API, you can use the Sockets API in ways that promote high performance -- or inhibit it. This article explores four ways to use the Sockets API to squeeze the greatest performance out your application and to tune the GNU/Linux® environment to achieve the best results."

The truth about that one red paper clip

The truth about that one red paper clip: "Kyle traded his way up through a fish pen, a Coleman stove, a generator, a snowmobile, a van, one year's free rent in Phoenix, an afternoon with rock star Alice Cooper, and finally to the house, one year later.

That sounds impressive, but was it worth the time and trouble? The answer is yes, but not for the reasons we might think."

Take My Wallet, Please

Take My Wallet, Please: "What's a classic ploy?
A pickpocket squirts mustard on you unawares. He approaches you, points at the stain and starts to clean it. While he distracts you with one hand, he robs you with his free hand."

$.05 Toy Hovercraft / Helicopter

$.05 Toy Hovercraft / Helicopter: "This instructable will show you how to make a simple toy hovercraft for small children. It is suitable for daycare projects, science projects (aerodynamics and gyroscopes) as well as general fun. This is a project can be built by small children since it requires no cutting."

Fifteen Minute, Self-propelled hovercraft

Fifteen Minute, Self-propelled hovercraft: "This instructable coves how to build a hovercraft out of a foam tray, cardboard, and some other household items."

fish oil

Clayton Cramer's BLOG: "We are suffering, he believes, from widespread diseases of deficiency. Just as vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, deficiency in the essential fats the brain needs and the nutrients needed to metabolise those fats is causing of a host of mental problems from depression to aggression. Not all experts agree, but if he is right, the consequences are as serious as they could be. The pandemic of violence in western societies may be related to what we eat or fail to eat. Junk food may not only be making us sick, but mad and bad too."

The Corner on National Review Online

The Corner on National Review Online: "U.S. Math Scores [John Derbyshire]
Math-teaching anecdote from chez Derb. Nellie is doing factorization of quadratic forms—factorizing, for example, 2x^2+5x-3 into (2x-1)(x+3). She had done all the homework exercises, but had a test next day, so came up to my study to beg me to write out some more exercises she might try. "

Information

Information: "Gawker is an application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using a webcam. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users to record your image stream. Streams can also be combined to create a time-lapse movie with up to four locations side-by-side."

Hot Library Smut

Hot Library Smut: "Yesterday I came across a truly gorgeous book of photographs by Candida Höfer titled, Libraries, a title which pretty much says it all, because that is just exactly what it is, one rich, sumptuous, photo of a library interior after another. It’s like porn for book nerds. Seriously. They are gorgeous photos, nearly all without visitors and just begging to be entered. (ha. sorry.)

See below for 14 examples which I particularly liked, but keep in mind these 500px wide version can’t really compete with the big, glossy, real thing."

Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music!

Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music!: "Welcome to the Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music! I Am Making Each
Album Into A Listening Sound Page! I Hope You Enjoy Listening To Them As Much As I Did Recording Them! For Those Of You Who Think The Sound Files Have Too Many
Pops And Clicks, GOOD - That's The Way I Meant Them To Sound. Just Like You Are Listening To The Albums Yourself!"

RAND | Monograph/Reports | A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

RAND | Monograph/Reports | A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates: "Not long after research began at RAND in 1946, the need arose for random numbers that could be used to solve problems of various kinds of experimental probability procedures. These applications, called Monte Carlo methods, required a large supply of random digits and normal deviates of high quality, and the tables presented here were produced to meet those requirements.This book was a product of RAND's pioneering work in computing, as well a testament to the patience and persistence of researchers in the early days of RAND. The tables of random numbers in this book have become a standard reference in engineering and econometrics textbooks and have been widely used in gaming and simulations that employ Monte Carlo trials. Still the largest published source of random digits and normal deviates, the work is routinely used by statisticians, physicists, polltakers, market analysts, lottery administrators, and quality control engineers."

tacotrucks.net

Taco Trucks in Oakland

The Nietzsche Family Circus

The Nietzsche Family Circus: "The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote. "

Gnese - Comic Book DS

Gnese - Comic Book DS: "Comic Book DS is a program making it possible to read your Comic Books on your Nintendo DS."

vNES - Virtual Nintendo Entertainment System with 395 Games

vNES
Here, you can play NES Games in your browser, using Java Applet Technology. All you need is Java 1.5.0 or higher. If you need to upgrade, click here. Before you begin, please make sure you understand the controls. The controller at top will always remain there, for reference. We are not affiliated with Nintendo in any way. This is an emulator. It was built so we would have something to do.

Online Pirate Translator - Pirate Monkeyness

Online Pirate Translator - Pirate Monkeyness: "This here be an English t' Pirate translator. Jus' enter some English in the top, then skewer the 'Translate' button tah get the Pirate version. If ye're wantin' to know what's behind it, 'tis usin' some Javascript to hit a Perl script that does the translatin'. In other words, it's usin' some of that shiney, new AJAX stuff to get this done."

Ig Nobel prizes hail 'digital rectal massage' - opinion - 06 October 2006 - New Scientist

Ig Nobel prizes hail 'digital rectal massage' - opinion - 06 October 2006 - New Scientist: "Runaway electrical impulses in the vagus nerve cause intractable hiccups, so Fesmire attempted to block them by stimulating the nerve. Gagging, tongue pulling, sinus massage and pressing the eyeball to stimulate the vagus all failed to stop the hiccups. Then he remembered reading about a case in which digital rectal massage – inserting a finger into a patient’s anus – had slowed a racing heartbeat, an effect similar to runaway hiccups."

The Best Time to Buy Everything (Deal of the Day: Personal Finance) | SmartMoney.com

The Best Time to Buy Everything (Deal of the Day: Personal Finance) | SmartMoney.com: "We talked to the experts, and found the best time to buy everything from wine to wedding dresses."

Dead Bachelors in Remote China Still Find Wives - New York Times

Dead Bachelors in Remote China Still Find Wives - New York Times: "The rural folk custom, startling to Western sensibilities, is known as minghun, or afterlife marriage. Scholars who have studied it say it is rooted in the Chinese form of ancestor worship, which holds that people continue to exist after death and that the living are obligated to tend to their wants — or risk the consequences. Traditional Chinese beliefs also hold that an unmarried life is incomplete, which is why some parents worry that an unmarried dead son may be an unhappy one."

PODZINGER

PODZINGER: "PODZINGER unleashes the content within audio and video.
To find the podcast you want, don't just search for it ... ZING IT!"

laocoon.JPG (JPEG Image, 664x700 pixels) - Scaled (85%)

laocoon.JPG (JPEG Image, 664x700 pixels) - Scaled (85%)

Morse Resource

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

Welcome Makers! Thanks to the Make blog for the link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

USB webcam driver for Mac OS X

USB webcam driver for Mac OS X

United Nuclear - Neodymium magnets

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

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

United Nuclear - Scientific Supplies

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

Royal Society Publishing

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

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

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

Oracle Admin Scripts

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

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

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

MOO | Share your contact info and your flickr photos

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

How to talk like a pirate

How to talk like a pirate

The Master Key - Chapter 1.

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

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

DailyLit

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

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

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

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

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

another zit on the arse of the universe from warrenelliscom

warrenelliscom: "Second Life Sketches

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

The girl with error-message eyes."

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

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

Ryan Tomayko - Top.app

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

YouTube - Ellam Inba Mayam - Dance Fever

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

Bitsum Technologies Wiki - WRT54G5 CFE

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

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

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

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

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

Face Recognition Abilities - Self Evaluation

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

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

Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Unsolvable Math Problem

Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Unsolvable Math Problem:

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

Status: True. "

The Inflation Calculator

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

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

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

Flash video and no sound on OSX at fredericiana

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

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

(The same might apply to audio input)

debbiesidea.com: Welcome to DebbiesIdea.com

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

Fake model photography

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

BUILD YOUR OWN AIRPLANE!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spinner - Axeman's Nest

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

YouTube - PVC Recorder

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

Back Talk: Americans Hate their Fabulous Economy

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

iostream equivalent of fdopen()

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

Boing Boing: HOWTO wash dishes when camping

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

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

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

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

Easy, Cheap, Animated Cartoon in 10 Minutes

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

Digital Wire » Fun Google Search Tips

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HOPE Number Six

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed:

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

Dr. Carlson's Science Theater - powered by FeedBurner

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to Writely!

Welcome to Writely!:
"Your Documents
· Put your words into Writely quickly and easily.
Create new documents from scratch, upload them
from most popular file formats (including Word), or
e-mail them into Writely in batches.
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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."