Interesting and/or useful URLs

 

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How do I get an OpenID?

http://openid.net/get/

-Surprise! You may already have one. If you use any of the following services, you already have your own OpenID: ...

 

Police Blotter: Google searches nab hit-and-run driver

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10143275-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

-Google searches for phrases including "hit-and-run" nab California investment banker who claimed he believed he killed a deer instead of a person.

 

Our world may be a giant hologram

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

-"If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

 

Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/is-ignorance-really-bliss/

-Are people with lower intelligence happier than those with higher intelligence?

 

How novels help drive social evolution

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126914.500-how-novels-help-drive-social-evolution.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

-Literature "could continually condition society so that we fight against base impulses and work in a cooperative way"

 

How Google Is Making Us Smarter

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/feb/15-how-google-is-making-us-smarter

 

Neoteny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny

-also called juvenilization, is the retention, by adults in a species, of traits previously seen only in juveniles

 

Top 7 alternative energies listed

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16419-top-7-alternative-energies-listed.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

 

Explaining the curse of work

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126901.300-explaining-the-curse-of-work.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

-This is "Parkinson's law", first published in an article of 1955, which states: work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

 

With Steve Jobs Sidelined, Who Will Evangelize Brand Apple?

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=133711

 

Hustle and Patience: What It Takes to Succeed in 2009

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/01/13/hustle-and-patience-what-it-takes-to-succeed-in-2009/ 

 

Open-plan offices are making workers sick, say Australian scientists

http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,24906913-5017672,00.html

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24906579-12377,00.html

-"In 90 per cent of the research, the outcome of working in an open-plan office was seen as negative, with open-plan offices causing high levels of stress, conflict, high blood pressure, and a high staff turnover.

 

How to Become a More Effective Learner

http://psychology.about.com/od/educationalpsychology/tp/effective-learning.htm

 

Is Quantum Mechanics Controlling Your Thoughts?

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/feb/13-is-quantum-mechanics-controlling-your-thoughts

 

Guarding the boundaries

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Guarding-the-boundaries-3979

-On the moral consequences of relativism (from "The Dictatorship of Relativism.")

 

Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2009/01/search-without-effort-quick-search-box.html

 

“Magic” Software Can Predict What CD You’ll Be Buying

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/magic-software-can-predict-what-cd-youll-be-buying/

 

Top 11 compounds in US drinking water

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16397 -top-11-compounds-in-us-drinking-water.html

 

Chocolat Brewery 

http://www.sapporobeer.jp/chocolatbrewery/

 

 

20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do)

http://www.bspcn.com/2009/01/03/20-weird-logos-that-work-and-why-they-do/

 

Timing is Everything (Music)

http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/723/full

-Time is the stuff of music: music manipulates our experience of time; it plays with the rhythm of experience; it stretches and complicates our relationship to the passing of time. If the world of physics is a space-time continuum, music is a pitch-time continuum.

 

Yoshimoto Cube

http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/a-nishi/y_cube/z_y_cube.html

 

Favorite posts of 2008

http://www.kottke.org/09/01/favorite-posts-of-2008

 

New book explains how Sony inadvertently helped make Xbox 360

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/12/31/new-book-explains-how-sony-inadvertently-helped-make-xbox-360/

 

Lake Superior State University 2009 List of Banished Words

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

 

Cornell Note-taking system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Notes

 

One year worth of images give some amazing videos

http://eirikso.com/2008/12/27/one-year-worth-of-images-give-some-amazing-videos/

 

Think Differently

http://www.ltlprints.com/blog/think-differently/

-"Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer."

 

DIY external iPhone keyboards get a tad more practical

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/diy-external-iphone-keyboards-get-a-tad-more-practical/

 

The Flipper Challenges the Crawl

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/weekinreview/21stelter.html?_r=3

-The crawl, as it is called, the unending stream of news capsules that have inched relentlessly across the bottom of cable news programs for seven years, disappeared from CNN last Monday.

 

How your friends' friends can affect your mood

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126881.600 -how-your-friends-friends-can-affect-your-mood.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

-Recent research shows that our moods are far more strongly influenced by those around us than we tend to think. Not only that, we are also beholden to the moods of friends of friends, and of friends of friends of friends - people three degrees of separation away from us who we have never met, but whose disposition can pass through our social network like a virus.

 

A Box Full of Awesome

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/12/31/a-box-full-of-awesome/

-This [Snap Circuits] has to be one of the funnest, most accessible geeky kid’s toys ever. It completely takes away the overhead of electronics assembly, allowing even very little kids to assemble circuits well before you’d trust them with a soldering iron. All the pieces are color-coded in bright primary colors with the standard circuit notation imprinted on top.

 

Mastering the art of the all-you-can-eat buffet

http://1000awesomethings.com/2008/12/29/864-mastering-the-art-of-the-all-you-can-eat-buffet/

 

The Top 10 Green-Tech Breakthroughs of 2008

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/the-top-10-gree.html

 

12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/12-good-gadgets.html

 

What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html ?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss

-TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.

 

3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-01/st_3st

 

Evolution of game controllers

http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/05/13/evolution-of-game-controllers/

 

Keynes’s difficult idea

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/keyness-difficult-idea/

-the fact that economies can suffer from insufficient aggregate demand because people want to acquire liquid assets rather than real goods.

 

Why the Death of S.U.V.’s?

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/why-the-death-of-suvs/

-When gas prices got high, it became uncool to own an S.U.V. Perhaps the process for going from cool to uncool is not easily reversible. Once something is uncool, it remains uncool for a long time, even when the forces that caused it to be uncool recede.

 

SandScapes Lite

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/sandscapes-lite

 

25 Years of Mac - The History of the Apple Macintosh

http://www.mac-history.net/

 

Analyst says Steve Jobs' spirit has been institutionalized

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/23/analyst_says_steve_jobs_spirit_has_been_institutionalized.html

 

id3lib-ruby

http://id3lib-ruby.rubyforge.org/

 

Set half-star ratings directly in iTunes

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20081220090352648

 

How to get really fast (Rubiks Cube)

http://www.lar5.com/cube/speed.html

 

Reimagining Programming Book Covers

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/14/reimagining-programming-book-covers/

 

The science of Eurovision - a song for eurovisiopsephology

http://network.nature.com/people/scottkeir/blog/2008/05/26/the-science-of-eurovision-a-song-for-eurovisiopsephology

Comparison of Eurovision Song Contest Simulation with Actual Results Reveals Shifting Patterns of Collusive Voting Alliances.

http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/2/1.html

 

Portishead play

http://www.seeqpod.com/playlist/music/mp3/d/p/kf5r56.html

 

iPod and iPhone: TV out support

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1454

 

Hackintosh Netbook Chart

http://www.maclife.com/article/news/netbooks_taking_osx

-The fine folks at Boing Boing Gadget put together a nice chart of the most popular netbooks and their hackintosh compatibility.

 

The scientific guide to gift wrapping

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026873.800 -the-scientific-guide-to-gift-wrapping.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

 

How our thirst for status robs us of our leisure

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/276b9784-c7e6-11dd-b611-000077b07658.html

 

Why music?

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=12795510

-Biologists are addressing one of humanity’s strangest attributes, its all-singing, all-dancing culture

 

Dear Economist: What’s the best Christmas present?

http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2008/12/dear-economist-what%E2%80%99s-the-best-christmas-present/

 

Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery

http://io9.com/5114611/buildings-that-look-like-famous-spaceships-a-gallery

 

To Learn a language you first have to have something to say

http://authenticbattledamage.blogspot.com/2008/12/to-learn-language-you-first-have-to.html

 

17 Pushbutton Configurations that Didn’t Make the Cut 

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20611

-Ever wonder who came up with the order of numbers on a telephone? Ever wonder why it isn’t the same as those on a calculator, or a keyboard, ascending from lowest to highest? After all, adding machines and mechanical calculators were around for at least a few hundred years before the invention of the pushbutton phone.

 

The Decline of Civilization

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/12/17/the-decline-of-civilization/

-From Aristotle to Dubya

 

Five Centuries of Board Games

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/11/board-games.html

 

Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/17/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2008/?pid=9

 

Auction theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_theory

 

Il Cucchiaio d'Argento per iPhone

http://www.cucchiaio.it/cucina/iphone/index.cfm?menu=1&lingua=_it

 

ZIRP!

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/zirp/

-That’s zero interest rate policy. And it has arrived. America has turned Japanese.

 

Daily Routines

http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/

-How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days.

 

20 Classic Hip Hop Album Covers Recreated in LEGO

http://www.formatmag.com/features/lego-hip-hop-album-covers/1

 

Is This the Thinnest House in the World?

http://gizmodo.com/5109494/is-this-the-thinnest-house-in-the-world

 

Pixies, Sheilas, Dirtbags and Cougar Bait: Modern Slang

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081229/crain/single

 

A healthy planet? Top 10 environment articles in 2008

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16249 -a-healthy-planet-top-10-environment-articles-in-2008.html ?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

 

My favorite iPhone shortcuts

http://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2008/11/my-favorite-sho.html 

 

More time = shorter letter

http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=84

 

50 Strange Buildings of the World

http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/

 

Bored? Your brain is disconnecting

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026865.600 -bored-your-brain-is-disconnecting.html ?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

-When your mind wanders during a boring task, it may be because parts of your brain simply disconnect.

 

10 useful iPhone tips & tricks

http://www.taptaptap.com/blog/10-useful-iphone-tips-and-tricks/

 

2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/index.html#top

 

‘Ferrari GT: Evolution’ rolls into the App Store

http://osxreality.com/2008/12/09/ferrari-gt-evolution-rolls-into-the-app-store/

 

SimCity iPhone Impressions

http://kotaku.com/5104230/simcity-iphone-impressions

 

After The Crisis: A Parody of 15 Corporate Logos

http://www.businesspundit.com/after-the-crisis-a-parody-of-15-corporate-logos/

 

Give everyone CO2 permits, say scientists

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16228 -give-everyone-co2-permits-say-scientists.html ?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

 

Helping people, for once: A refrigerator that doesn’t require electricity

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/09/helping-people-for-once-a-refrigerator-that-doesnt-require-electricity/

 

Reading Trails

http://www.readingtrails.com

 

Best Books of the 20th Century

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6.Best_Books_of_the_20th_Century

The worst books of all time

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2.The_worst_books_of_all_time

 

HOWTO: Be more productive

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity

 

Sublime & Sensual Smoke Art

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/08/sublime-sensual-smoke-art.html

 

Understanding Art for Geeks

Capolavori dell'arte in versione "avanzata"

http://www.corriere.it/gallery/Scienze/vuoto.shtml?2008/01_Gennaio/geek/1&1

http://www.corriere.it/gallery/Scienze/vuoto.shtml?2008/01_Gennaio/geek/2&1

Partial set

http://buntornpanya.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html

http://s128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/siemias/Blog/art-greek/

 

If other artists drew the Mona Lisa

http://aviary.com/bizblog/posts/if-other-artists-drew-the-mona-lisa

 

Hierarchy of Beards Print

http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=WON-BEARDS&Category_Code=WON

http://wondermark.com/xyz/beardposter_lg.jpg

 

What Would Keynes Do?

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/12/04/depression-deflation-velocity-oped-cx_bb_1205bartlett.html

-The government should spend on stuff, not on bad assets.

 

http://bio-bak.nl/

-interesting ui and site

 

Obsolete Technology - Old Computers

http://oldcomputers.net/pics.html

 

Auto Bailouts and the Innovators Dilemna [sic]

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/auto-bailouts-and-the-innovators-dilemna/

 

Transferring your iTunes Library

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/

 

Grand Theft Auto, Twitter and Beowulf all demonstrate that stories will never die

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/25/bostory125.xml&page=1

-Storytelling is under assault in schools, universities and from the internet, but the power of narrative shows no sign of waning

 

One Woman's Story as Told by Shuffle Mode

http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/65330.html

-How much can someone tell about you by looking at what's on your iPod? Try this -- set your iPod on shuffle mode, then write up a list of Big Life Events. Each milestone gets its own randomly selected theme song, for better or for worse, and the result is your life's soundtrack. One thing it taught Amanda Deprospero: She needs to clean out her playlists.

 

Life Is A Highway: Study Confirms Cars Have Personality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081125161542.htm

-Now a study co-authored by a Florida State University researcher has confirmed through a complex statistical analysis that many people see human facial features in the front end of automobiles and ascribe various personality traits to cars -- a modern experience driven by our prehistoric psyches.

 

imeem

http://www.imeem.com/

-imeem is a social network that enables users to discover, interact and express themselves with media, including music, video and photos, and form connections based on shared tastes and interests.

 

Freeview (Australia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(Australia)

 

The Web Gallery of Art

http://www.wga.hu/

 

The Museum of Online Museums | MoOM

http://www.coudal.com/moom/

The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies

http://www.drawger.com/show.php?show_id=32

 

Personality test based on Jung - Myers-Briggs typology

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

 

Star Wars Vs. Star Trek

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ijDlbvAxw

 

Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=patternicity-finding-meaningful-patterns&print=true

-Why the brain believes something is real when it is not

 

Forty-Somethings On Facebook

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/11/23/facebook-adults-networking-oped-cx_tv_1124varadarajan.html

-The more I thought about this, the more I realized that I belong to a cohort--the 40-somethings--that has a peculiar relationship with Facebook. It is a cohort that is entirely comfortable with computers, but which also has a memory of the courtesies and languor of the pre-computer age. We read a lot online, but also have newspapers delivered to our homes. We write e-mail as if we were born with the skill to do so, yet we wrote letters by hand until we were well into our 30s.

 

Consider This...The Stupidest Exercise Machine You'll Ever See

http://www.burbia.com/node/2113

 

Can the can

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12630201&CFID=31056247&CFTOKEN=41038121

-The idea that graffiti-spraying and other forms of low-level delinquency promote further bad behaviour has now been tested experimentally

 

Mystery piano in woods perplexes police

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/11/23/massachusetts.piano/index.html?eref=rss_latest

 

Slideshow -- Tech of Yesteryear: Where Old Computers Find Their Final Resting Place

http://www.cio.com.au/article/268510/slideshow_--_tech_yesteryear_where_old_computers_find_their_final_resting_place

 

Elf | New Account

http://www.libraryelf.com/SignUp.aspx?library=CharlesSturt

-Sign up for your personal library reminder account. Avoid overdues with email notices early reminders before due dates.

 

Play Splitter

http://www.kongregate.com/games/EvgenyKarataev/splitter/

 

On the Death and 441-Year Life of the Pixel

http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=153

 

Typealyzer

http://www.typealyzer.com/

The analysis indicates that the author of http://b-list.blogspot.com/ is of the type: ISTP - The Mechanics

The analysis indicates that the author of http://bruno-rants.blogspot.com/ is of the type: ISTJ - The Duty Fulfillers

The analysis indicates that the author of http://bruno-orto.blogspot.com/ is of the type: ESTP - The Doers

The analysis indicates that the author of http://bruno-andrighetto.tumblr.com/ is of the type: INTJ - The Scientists

The analysis indicates that the author of http://rfar.tumblr.com/ is of the type: INTJ - The Scientists

 

GenderAnalyzer -  Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman

http://genderanalyzer.com/

We think http://b-list.blogspot.com/ is written by a man (84%).

We think http://bruno-rants.blogspot.com/ is written by a man (69%).

We guess http://bruno-orto.blogspot.com/ is written by a woman (55%), however it's quite gender neutral.

We have strong indicators that http://bruno-andrighetto.tumblr.com/ is written by a man (96%).

We think http://rfar.tumblr.com/ is written by a man (63%).

 

7 Financial Tips From the Great Depression

http://blog.mint.com/blog/finance-core/7-financial-tips-from-the-great-depression/ 

 

We’ll Fill This Space, but First a Nap

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/technology/28proto.htm?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1226776353-EvZlcqvAJ6cbP0d6awuRDQ

-Some large companies provide EnergyPods, leather recliners with hoods to block noise and light, to help employees take naps and return to work refreshed.

 

The Child Trap (Books)

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/11/17/081117crbo_books_acocella?currentPage=all

-Overparenting is the subject of a number of recent books, and they all deplore it in the strongest possible terms.

 

LibraryThing

http://www.librarything.com/

 

JS-909

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/JS-909/

 

Google Earth - Ancient Rome

http://earth.google.com/rome/

 

The World’s Geekiest T-Shirt Has a Wi-Fi Detector

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/11/12/the-world’s-geekiest-t-shirt-has-a-wi-fi-detector/

+Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/illuminated/991e/

 

Gary Becker Thinks the Most Addictive Thing Is …

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/gary-becker-thinks-the-most-addictive-thing-is/

 

Polaroid PoGo handheld colour printer

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/12/review_printer_polaroid_pogo/

-Weren’t Polaroid cameras fun? Now you can capture those days all over again, only with smaller, more expensive instant photos, using Polaroid’s new PoGo printer.

 

Old To Gold Spot

http://www.youtube.com/user/oldtogold

 

The Matrix Runs on Windows

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349

 

Stimulus math (wonkish)

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/stimulus-math-wonkish/

 

Election Result Maps

http://paradox1x.org/archives/2008/11/election-result-1.shtml

 

Oxford compiles list of top ten irritating phrases

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-list-of-top-ten-irritating-phrases.html

 

More Ammunition for People Who Hate Daylight Saving Time

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/more-ammunition-for-people-who-hate-daylight-saving-time/

 

The Medici Meltdown

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/30/medici-banks-meltdown-oped-cx_ms_1031simonetta.html

 

The make-your-own-universe kit

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/the-makeyourownuniverse-kit.html

 

Scientists prove it really is a thin line between love and hate

http://www.independent.co.uk:80/news/science/scientists-prove-it-really-is-a-thin-line-between-love-and-hate-976901.html

-Scientists studying the physical nature of hate have found that some of the nervous circuits in the brain responsible for it are the same as those that are used during the feeling of romantic love – although love and hate appear to be polar opposites.

 

Classics: Reading redefined, for iPhone & iPod Touch

http://classicsapp.com/

 

15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have

http://freelancefolder.com/15-top-site-elements/

 

World of Solitaire

http://worldofsolitaire.com/

-A full in-browser Solitaire game

 

Codeweavers CrossOver Pro and Games are free for today

http://www.macscoop.com/articles/2008/10/28/codeweavers-crossover-pro-and-games-are-free-today

 

Biblioteca (progetto Manuzio)

http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/index.htm

 

Umberto Eco: Sette anni di desiderio

http://tecalibri.altervista.org/E/ECO_sette.htm

  

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aesop/a3t/

 

A Universe of Books: Borges's 'Library of Babel'

http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-universe-of-books-borgess-library-of-babel/86435/

 

Confederate Renovatio Concept Motorcycle

http://www.uncrate.com/men/cars/motorcycles/confederate-renovatio-concept-motorcycle/

Confederate B91 Wraith Motorcycle

http://www.uncrate.com/men/cars/motorcycles/confederate-b91-wraith-motorcycle/

 

Seven of the greatest scientific hoaxes

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn15012-seven-of-the-greatest-scientific-hoaxes.html

 

2009 Bubble Calendar

http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=3261

 

The Pony eReader

http://booksellercrow.typepad.com/the_bedside_crow/2008/09/the-pony-ereade.html

 

The Solar Furnace (+)

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/10/solar-furnace.html

 

Ranking methods to save the world

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn15037-ranking-methods-to-save-the-world.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

Rare, Potent Greenhouse Gas Is Rising "Quasi-Exponentially"

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/24/rare-potent-greenhouse-gas-is-rising-quasi-exponentially/

 

Google's Very Own Fighter Jet Taking To The California Skies

http://gizmodo.com/5068208/googles-very-own-fighter-jet-taking-to-the-california-skies

 

Yellow Dots of Mystery: Is Your Printer Spying on You?

http://www.instructables.com/id/Yellow_Dots_of_Mystery_Is_Your_Printer_Spying_on_/

 

Gizmo puts cold callers on hold

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7682111.stm

 

Denon jumps in the vinyl-to-MP3 turntable game with high-end DP-200USB

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/21/denon-jumps-in-the-vinyl-to-mp3-turntable-game-with-high-end-dp/

 

The credit crisis as Antarctic expedition

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/offair/2008/10/the_credit_crisis_as_antarctic.html

 

Early Apple Concept Designs from Hartmut Esslinger

http://www.applegazette.com/mac/must-see-early-apple-concept-designs-from-hartmut-esslinger/

 

A Trio of Album Artwork Utilities for iTunes

http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/10/a-trio-of-album-artwork-utilities.html

+Amazon Album Art Widget

http://www.widget-foundry.com/widgets/amazonart.htm 

 

The Theory and Practice of Blackmail

http://www.slate.com/id/2202210/

 

Global Warming Math: The Hard Numbers

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/nov/18-global-warming-math

-A clear-eyed look at the magnitude of global warming problem—and the cost in getting rid of it.

 

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

 

2008 Nobel Prizes

http://nobelprize.org/

2008 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2008

Best Microscopic Images of 2008 Announced

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/photogalleries/best-microscope-photos/index.html

 

WhoCallsMe

http://whocallsme.com/

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/0882439200

 

Everything You Need to Know About the Financial Crisis

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-financial-crisis-a-guest-post-by-diamond-and-kashyap/

 

Breakthrough Science: Turning CO2 into Fuels

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/13/turning-carbon-into-feul/#more-15311

 

The eyeballing game

http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/

-overall score: 2.67

 

OLO’s iPhone-powered computer: a Redfly for Apple?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/12/olos-iphone-powered-computer-a-redfly-for-apple/

http://olo-computer.com/

 

The Archbishop's Dostoevsky

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk:80/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article4905068.ece

 

eBooks@Adelaide

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/

 

10 Creepiest Old Ads

http://weirdynews.blogspot.com/2008/10/10-creepiest-old-ads.html

 

Women have so many don'ts. What's a guy to do?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article4846940.ece

 

The Credit Crisis and the Bailout in Plain English

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/9/30/21320/5383

The Money Meltdown

http://www.themoneymeltdown.com/

 

List of Ig Nobel Prize winners (2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#2008

 

5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/10/02/5-great-science-books-to-expand-your-mind/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_great_science_books.php

 

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Genius

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/01-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-genius

 

Google Search 2001

http://www.google.com/search2001.html

 

Light Switch Complicator

http://jwz.livejournal.com/942917.html

 

Here Are Things I Like blog

http://blog.onpaperwings.com/

 

xkcd - Height

http://xkcd.com/482/

 

How Should We Allocate CO2 Permits?

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/how-should-we-allocate-co2-permits/

 

Invention special: Green technology

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14840-invention-special-green-technology.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

The Element That Could Change the World

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/29-the-element-that-could-change-the-world

 

The 10 Most Absurd Social Networks

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/0,1206,pg=0&s=25306&a=232498,00.asp

 

The 10 Most Absurd Social Networks

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/0,1206,pg=0&s=25306&a=232498,00.asp

 

Judge this book by its cover

http://www.judgeby.com/

 

iYo YoYo

http://www.peterthuvander.se/#

 

Quarter of workers' time online is personal

http://msn.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10534055

 

Economix blog

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/

 

Economists on the Bailout

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/economists-on-the-bailout/

 

Unmastered software complexity and the Panic of 2008

http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/803

 

Oblique Strategies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

 

Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' campaign created with Macs

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/19/microsofts_im_a_pc_campaign_created_with_macs.html

 

Powering the Planet With Sun-Harnessing Balloons

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/19-powering-planet-with-sun-harnessing-balloons

 

In pain? Take one masterpiece, three times a day

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926744.900-in-pain-take-one-masterpiece-three-times-a-day.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

Democracy on the wane

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/09/14/democracy_on_the_wane/?page=full

-In country after country, democratic reforms are in retreat. The surprising culprit: the middle class

 

The Problem with Every Implementation of a "Forgot Your Password?" Feature I've Seen Online

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/09/19/TheProblemWithEveryImplementationOfAForgotYourPasswordFeatureIveSeenOnline.aspx

 

How SEC Regulatory Exemptions Helped Lead to Collapse

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/regulatory-exem.html

 

The iPhone Development Story

http://www.mikeash.com/?page=pyblog/the-iphone-development-story.html

 

19 Really Cool Gadgets for Your Office or Cubicle

http://thehottestgadgets.com/2008/09/19-really-cool-gadgets-for-your-office-or-cubicle-001534/

 

Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind

http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i04/04b01001.htm

 

The Differences Between Star Wars & Harry Potter

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/09/16/the-differences-between-star-wars-harry-potter/

 

ebooks, or Where can I find books to read with Stanza?

http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/where_to_get_books

 

FileMaker Version History

http://lowendmac.com/software/f/filemaker.html

 

Could an Inner Zombie Be Controlling Your Brain?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/15-could-an-inner-zombie-be-controlling-your-brain

 

Bring your own light sabre: Uni launches Jedi course

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/12/2362719.htm

 

24

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/09/24.html

 

LEGO Album Covers

http://www.flickr.com/groups/lego_album_covers/pool/

 

How to Use 43 Folders

http://www.43folders.com/howto

 

The moral content of economic terminology in the popular press: A guide

http://bluematter.blogspot.com/2008/09/moral-content-of-economic-terminology.html

 

The Art of Nomography I: Geometric Design

http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/the-art-of-nomography-i-geometric-design/

-Nomography, truly a forgotten art, is the graphical representation of mathematical relationships or laws (the Greek word for law is nomos).

 

An Essential, Concise History of the LHC, 2002–2008

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/10-an-essential-concise-history-of-the-lhc

 

Forty Years On (Review)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15504&R=13C06CFF2

-mentions Kundera

 

10 things you don’t know about the Earth

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/09/09/10-things-you-don%E2%80%99t-know-about-the-earth/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/08/ten-things-you-dont-know-about-the-earth/

 

On Stupidity

http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/08/2008080101c.htm

-A cartload of recent books suggests that it's time to reverse the customer-service mentality plaguing academe

 

10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/08-10-everyday-technologies-that-can-change-the-world

 

BBC 'News'

http://po-ru.com/bbc-news/

 

Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/top-10-amazing.html

 

25 Truly Stunning HDR Pictures

http://www.digitalpicturezone.com/digital-pictures/25-hdr-pictures/

 

Jacket Lunch Box

http://jakeben.blog111.fc2.com/

 

Mozart, Metallica fans kindred spirits after all: research

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/05/2357087.htm

 

Behavioural economics: is it such a big deal?

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10359

 

Cindy McCain's $300,000 Outfit

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/cindy-mccains-300000-outfit.html

 

The 50 Worst Cars of All Time

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/completelist/0,,1658545,00.html

 

http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/images/gerbil.jpg

 

What Is This? The Surface of Mars?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/03-what-is-this-the-surface-of-mars

-The bright red fingers of the Rio Tinto, an acidic river in southwest Spain, are seen in this aerial photograph.

 

Klein bottle, 1995-1996.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I046/10314758.aspx

 

Announcing Cappuccino

http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2008/09/04/announcing-cappuccino/

First Look at Cappuccino and Objective-J

http://theocacao.com/document.page/593

 

The monetary density of things

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/density

-We have collected here a bunch of examples for different things that represent a wide range of monetary value per unit weight, in what might make a useful calibration chart for your future idiomatic usage.

 

What Invisible Things Are in the Surfaces You Touch and Air You Breathe?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/29-what-invisible-things

 

World's Smallest Book

http://www.selectism.com/posts/archive/2008/august/27/worlds_smallest_book/index.htm

 

Typographunnies

http://type.salsen.com/

 

Unobtainium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

-is a humorous neologism that refers to any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application.

 

9 amazingly unique bridges you may not have seen

http://deputy-dog.com/2008/08/26/9-amazingly-unique-bridges-you-may-not-have-seen/

 

Zero to Production in 15 Minutes

http://blog.headius.com/2008/08/zero-to-production-in-15-minutes.html

-deploying a Rails app using JRuby

 

RESTful JSON

http://bitworking.org/news/358/restful-json

 

Why is Python more fun than Java?

http://brizzled.clapper.org/id/75

 

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283639

 

10 Principles of the CSS Masters

http://nettuts.com/html-css-techniques/10-principles-of-the-css-masters/

 

What will the Olympics ever do for us?

http://timharford.com/2008/08/what-will-the-olympics-ever-do-for-us/

 

15 Spectacular Lightning Images

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/15-spectacular-lightning-images/

 

Introducing Fortune Cookies to China

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/funny-little-curved-cookies/

 

Computer with banks' customer data sold on Ebay

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/26/2347276.htm

 

First, Second, or Third Person?

http://www.markbernstein.org/Aug0801/FirstSecondorThirdPerson.html

-When planning a Web site, when is it best to use first person? When do you choose third person? Under what circumstances is it wise to directly address the reader?

 

Marvelous Magazine Ads from 1904

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/08/23/marvelous-magazine-ads-from-1904/

 

Going for gold, but at what cost?

http://www.theage.com.au/national/going-for-gold-but-at-what-cost-20080823-40xd.html

-"The real price of a gold medal would be three, four or five times higher, up to $100 million," Dr Connor, from the Australian Defence Force Academy, told The Sunday Age.

 

Shoot the pigeon

http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11991176&fsrc=rss

-Olympic sports we would like to see at London 2012

Unusual sports dot Olympic landscape

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/08/08/life/doc489c5b9dbb5ef219675398.txt

Discontinued Olympic Sports

http://www.topendsports.com/events/discontinued/unusual.htm

 

How To: Live the Cloud Life

http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/08/21/how-to-live-the-cloud-life

 

Multitasking messes with the brain in several ways

http://www.metafilter.com/74295/Interestingly-Im-reading-Lifehacker-while-posting-this#2226670

-plus links to related items

 

Finishers Wanted

http://unweary.com/2008/02/finishers-wanted.html

 

What it takes - it's not praise and neither is it born-with talent

http://www.paradox1x.org/weblog/kmartino/archives/019721.shtml

 

Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work

http://www.43folders.com/2008/08/20/creative-paradox

 

Wedding thrashers

http://www.suntimes.com/news/1112809,CST-NWS-wed18.article

-Newlyweds are Tasered, arrested at reception melee, and again two days later

 

Mayor to Ugly Women: I Was Just Trying to Up Your Market Value

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/mayor-to-ugly-women-i-was-just-trying-to-up-your-market-value/

 

Some Important Numbers For Developers

http://www.jroller.com/rolsen/entry/some_important_numbers_for_developers

 

speed/validity selectors test for frameworks

http://mootools.net/slickspeed/

 

Rules To Follow When Cell Phones Drop Coverage

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2008/08/17/rules-to-follow.html

 

Telescopic Text

http://www.telescopictext.com/

 

How to Hitchhike Across the Globe Without Leaving Your Living Room

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/05-how-to-hitchhike-across-the-globe

-The 360° World Atlas turns anyone with a computer into a global traveler.

 

13 things that do not make sense

http://www.sixside.com/13_things_that_do_not_make_sense.htm

 

How to Work Better by Fischli/Weiss (1991)

http://ego-technique.tumblr.com/post/31409245/how-to-work-better-by-fischli-weiss-1991

 

Demotivator Posters - Thumbing your nose at corporate America

http://www.squidoo.com/demotivator

 

The First Poem Written for Computers

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/poem.htm

 

10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life

http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/07/10-practical-uses-for-psychological.php

 

19 Most Essential Open Source Applications That You Probably Want To Know

http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/08/12/19-most-essential-open-source-applications-that-you-probably-want-to-know.html

 

genealogy of influence

http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/

ramazon - amazon related

http://goosebumps4all.net/ramazon/

 

Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products”

http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/

 

Business Requirements are Bullsh!t

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirements-are-bullshit.html

-ONLY BUILD STUFF FOR YOURSELF. That's the Golden Rule of Building Stuff. If you're planning to build something for someone else, let someone else build it.

 

Police's fridge-magnet calling card

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2008/08/polices-fridge-magnet-calling-card.html

 

Ideas, Execution, and the Rare Auteur

http://www.43folders.com/2008/08/11/ideas

 

One of the Funniest Code Comments I’ve Read

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/08/05/one-of-the-funniest-code-comments-ive-read/

 

Should Top Performers Work Alone?

http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/berkun/2008/07/should-top-performers-work-alo.html

 

Internet Memes

http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes

 

Economics Does Not Lie

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_economics.html

-Though economics as a discipline arose in Great Britain and France at the end of the eighteenth century, it has taken two centuries to reach the threshold of scientific rationality.

 

How to move your iTunes library (more safely than I did)

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/08/06/how-to-move-your-itunes-library-more-safely-than-i-did/

iTunes library, fixing a broken one or moving one

http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/07/20/itunes-library-fixing-a-broken-one-or-moving-one/

 

General Electric's 1978 Widescreen TV (actually Big Screen)

http://www.retrothing.com/2008/08/general-electri.html

RCA Selectavision 400: Timeshifting Not Allowed

http://www.retrothing.com/2008/08/rca-selectavisi.html

 

Rich People Rooftops NYC

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwillys/sets/72157606566769262/detail/

 

Tilings Encyclopedia

http://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/tilings/

-In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

 

Five scientific discoveries that got the wrong name

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn14461 -five-scientific-discoveries-that-got-the-wrong-name.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

Meet the rich

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/aug/04/workandcareers.executivesalaries

-The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever. But that doesn't seem to bother Britain's wealthiest earners. In an extract from their new book, Polly Toynbee and David Walker describe the jaw-dropping arrogance they encountered when they asked some of the fat cats to justify their lives of luxury

 

Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-snoozing-makes-you-smarter&print=true

-During slumber, our brain engages in data analysis, from strengthening memories to solving problems

 

Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it

http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

 

Garfield Lost in Translation

http://blogoscoped.com/files/garfield.html

-All cartoons are automatically translated from English to Chinese and back using Yahoo or Google.

 

In search of epiphany

http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-search-of-epiphany.html

 

The Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/psychiatric-infrastructure-of-city.html

 

FlipBook

http://flipbook.tv/

 

Unnecessary Knowledge

http://www.unkno.com/

 

For Some Products, Prices Have Been Falling

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/07/for-some-products-theres-been-major.html

 

9 ways you can take advantage of this terrible economy

http://www.lyved.com/business_money/9-ways-you-can-take-advantage-of-this-terrible-economy/

 

Is agile only for elites?

http://www.hans-eric.com/2008/03/28/is-agile-only-for-elites/

 

Make your own iPhone

http://web.mac.com/aoshima731/iWeb/aoshima/Special.html

 

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

 

How the Mind Works: Revelations

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21575

 

You’re Doing It Wrong If

http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/07/28/youre-doing-it-wrong-if/

 

do-ocracy

http://www.communitywiki.org/en/DoOcracy

-an organizational structure in which individuals choose roles and tasks for themselves and execute them. Responsibilities attach to people who do the work, rather than elected or selected officials.

 

Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=451

-Shirky’s Law states that the social software most likely to succeed has “a brutally simple mental model … that’s shared by all users”.

 

iTunes 7.7 Corrupts Accented Artist and Track Names

http://db.tidbits.com/article/9705

 

Carbon negativity

http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2008/07/carbon-negativity/

-I met a fellow called Tim Kruger this week, who was keen to tell me about his idea for a process to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

 

The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company

http://www.paulgraham.com/prcmc.html

 

Wordle

http://wordle.net/

-a toy for generating “word clouds” from text

 

ScrnShots: Share your inspiration

http://www.scrnshots.com/

 

Brooks's law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law

 

Inspirational Quotes on Success, Failure and Happiness

http://particletree.com/notebook/inspirational-quotes-on-success-failure-and-happiness/

 

Calendar

http://www.destroytoday.com/?p=Lab&id=21

 

The Best, Weirdest, and Most Wonderful Gadget Designs of 2008

http://gizmodo.com/5027619/the-best-weirdest-and-most-wonderful-gadget-designs-of-2008

 

Managing green tech complex, expensive, requires "eco-czar"

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080722-managing-green-tech-complex-expensive-requires-eco-czar.html

 

Datamob

http://datamob.org/

-Datamob highlights the connection between public data sources and the interfaces people are building for them.

 

Gone, and Being Forgotten

http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=cjtGhcnt3vYPDhDdjtvfySgdzkqpzShC

-Why are some of the greatest thinkers being expelled from their disciplines?

 

Copyrights and geographic price descrimination

http://goodmorningeconomics.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/copyrights-and-geographic-price-descrimination/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

 

Bargains That Aren't

http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_07-13-2008/2Bargains

http://timharford.com/2008/07/bargains-that-arent/

-Not everything that seems like a bargain will really end up saving you money. Luckily, behavioral economists are finding the gimmicks and tricks that regularly lure us to spend more. Read this—and don’t get caught!

 

Turf War (Book review)

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/21/080721crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all

-Lawns in the U.S. cover an area roughly the size of New York State; each year, forty billion dollars is spent on their upkeep.

 

Black–Scholes model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes

-Black–Scholes model is a mathematical model of the market for an equity, in which the equity's price is a stochastic process.

 

7 Reasons Why the New iPhone Sucks

http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22279/52271-seven-reasons-new-iphone-sucks

5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/5-reasons-to-avoid-iphone-3g

 

(Book) Covers

http://covers.fwis.com/about.php

-Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design.

 

Random Recipe Generator

http://jamesoff.net/site/fun/random-recipe-generator/

 

Ferrari Announces Hybrid Development, World Officially Gone Mad

http://jalopnik.com/397975/ferrari-announces-hybrid-development-world-officially-gone-mad

 

Op-Ed: Cap & Trade vs. Tax

http://www.pewclimate.org/press_room/opinion_editorials/oped_miamih07122007

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_mac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae

 

Topfield TF4410PVRt

http://www.itopfield.com.au/aus/product/detail.asp?idx=199

 

Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day.

http://www.bubblecalendar.com/index.htm

 

Aurora Feint

http://aurorafeint.com/

-interesting iPhone puzzle/adventure game

 

DEFENDER of the favicon

http://www.p01.org/releases/DHTML_contests/files/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/

Experimental dynamic XBM test, favicon "VU meter"

http://schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/page-player/xbm-test.html

 

How Fair is Monopoly?

http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Steprans/Courses/2042/Monopoly/Stewart2.html

 

30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/30-most-incredible-abstract-satellite-images-of-earth/1324

 

What are Smells Made of? (Book Review)

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/14-what-are-smells-made-of

 

How Your Brain Can Control Time

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/11-how-your-brain-can-control-time

 

Radiohead Use Fancy Technology in Camera-Free Video

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/142023-radiohead-use-fancy-technology-in-camera-free-video

 

After Bill Gates, five possible futures for Microsoft

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/24/26FE-microsoft-gates-future_1.html

 

The Checklist

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande

-If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?

 

Fixing the Vista PR Disaster with More Marketing

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=234479

-According to Wired Magazine, Apple spent 150 million to develop the iPhone. So 300 million might produce a couple of really innovative products, if Microsoft knew how to innovate. That would be a big PR win, and one that would generate a revenue stream, instead of just throwing it away on the ad company (kudos to the ad company, though -- they clearly know enough about selling to sell this campaign to Microsoft).

 

10 Steps to Becoming Fluent in a Language in 6 months or Less

http://matadorstudy.com/10-steps-to-becoming-fluent-in-a-language-in-6-months/

 

Bozzetto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bozzetto

Allegro Non Troppo

http://www.amazon.com/Allegro-Non-Troppo/dp/B00014NE6M

Europa & Italia

http://www.infonegocio.com/xeron/bruno/italy.html

 

'The Dumbest Generation' by Mark Bauerlein (Book review)

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book5-2008jul05,0,3980465.story

 

Why small prizes make it easier to win

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0c63f3dc-4712-11dd-876a-0000779fd2ac.html

 

Why Fly When You Can Float?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/business/worldbusiness/05dirigible.html

-As the cost of fuel soars and the pressure mounts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, several schemes for a new generation of airship are being considered by governments and private companies.

 

Pac-Man, Space Invaders Laser Body Mods

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/video-pac-man-s.html

-Tattoos are so last century; nowadays all the cool kids are using high speed laser etching machines to burn gaming icons.

 

Beeswax: Free Productivity App in the Spirit of Lotus Agenda

http://www.43folders.com/2008/06/28/beeswax-free-productivity-app-spirit-lotus-agenda

 

SimplyNoise.com

http://simplynoise.com/

-The best free white noise generator on the Internet... White noise can aid sleep, soothe migraines, block distractions ...

 

How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-07/st_essay

-In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese.

 

Bachelorhood And Its Discontents

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/22098/sec_id/22098

-Marriage, the philosophical bachelor holds, will not only deprive one of his liberty, lighten his wallet and suck the romance from life, but it will prove an exacting hindrance

 

10 Ways Methane Could Brake Global Warming—or Break the Planet

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/04-10-ways-methane-could-brake-global-warming

 

How The Bubble Bursts

http://www.minyanville.com/articles/index.php?a=17847

-Now that we’ve seen the beginning stages of deflation, it’s becoming clearer what’s going on and what’s important: to conserve capital. To save.

 

An anti-stagflation strategy: move back home

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7bb429e2-4446-11dd-b151-0000779fd2ac.html

 

The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work?

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=233945

 

Color Image Scale

http://particletree.com/notebook/color-image-scale/

 

Manure thief falls into dung, flees naked

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/29/2288876.htm

-A woman trying to make "manure bombs" using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police said.

 

Pigeons smuggle drugs, phones into Rio prison

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/27/2288463.htm

-A sharp increase in drugs and mobile phones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials - until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne.

 

Reading Process Is Surprisingly Different That Previously Thought, Technology Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070910092543.htm

-When we read, our eyes look at different letters in the same word and then combine the different images through a process known as fusion, researchers have found.

 

How to sing like a planet

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/04/23/notes042308.DTL&nl=fix%22

-Scientists say the Earth is humming. Not just noise, but a deep, astonishing music. Can you hear it?

 

8 Free Online Resources For Learning A New Language

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/06/25/8-free-online-resources-for-learning-a-new-language/

 

Pseudo-modern? (The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond)

http://www.philosophynow.org/issue58/58kirby.htm

 

Rotating skyscraper plans unveiled

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/25/2285385.htm

-An architect has unveiled plans to build the world's first rotating skyscrapers.

 

Extreme regex foo: what you need to know to become a regular expression pro

http://immike.net/blog/2007/06/21/extreme-regex-foo-what-you-need-to-know-to-become-a-regular-expression-pro/

The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions

http://immike.net/blog/2007/04/06/the-absolute-bare-minimum-every-programmer-should-know-about-regular-expressions/

5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should Know

http://immike.net/blog/2007/04/06/5-regular-expressions-every-web-programmer-should-know/

 

Programming Language Popularity

http://www.langpop.com/

 

Universcale

http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index.htm

-See our Universcale and experience the sizes of various objects.

 

Mini-Mizer

http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini/

-a Flash-based toy where you can Picture Yourself In Plastic!

 

Dual personality of glass explained at last

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14179 -glasss-dual-personality-explained-at-last.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-Although glass feels like a solid, its molecules cannot quite settle into a regular 3D lattice and, given enough time, it flows like a liquid. Quite why glass behaves like this has been unclear.

 

The Myth of Multitasking

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking

 

http://trends.google.com/

 

http://sites.google.com/

 

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your "Wetware"

http://pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning

 

20 Things You Didn't Know About... The Summer Solstice

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice

 

 

http://slate.tunes.org/

 

Transdniestria

 

http://codex.wordpress.org/Styling_for_Print

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URL

iBatis

http://www.theadvisors.com/langcomparison.htm

 

Cubicles: The great mistake

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/09/magazines/fortune/cubicle_howiwork_fortune/index.htm?cnn=yes

 

http://www.cabochon.com/%7Estevey/blog-rants/index.html

 

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

 

 

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006013009291731&lsrc=osxh

 

http://metaatem.net/words/bruno%20andrighetto

http://www.lispworks.com/downloads/index.html

 

Starting Forth, by Leo Brodie

http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/sf.html

 

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide (First Edition)

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/

 

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/08/16/apache.html?CMP=OTC-13IV03560550

 

Six JavaScript features we do not need any longer

http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=104

 

Successful Strategies for Commenting Code

http://particletree.com/features/successful-strategies-for-commenting-code/

 

http://sarissa.sourceforge.net/

 

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005070300463515&lsrc=osxh

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301711

 

Macintosh Garden, a site devoted to preserving Macintosh abandonware games

http://mac.the-underdogs.org/index.php

 

Do the Math: Brits Concoct Sitcom Formula

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C95750%7C1%7C,00.html

-"Comedic value is determined by multiplying the recognizability of the main char

acter (R) by their delusions of grandeur (D). This is added to the verbal wit of

the script (V), and the total is multiplied by the amount someone falls over or

suffers a physical injury (F). "The difference in social status between the highest- and lowest-ranking charact

ers (S) is added, and finally the total is divided by the success of any scheme

or stratagem in the show (A). Each term in the formula is assigned a value up to

a maximum of 10 to give an overall scientific score."

 

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/WebMapForm.html

 

http://ntp.natdata.net/PropertyView/search/portalSearch?streetno=19%20angley%20ave&suburb=findon&region=SA&EXTRA=client:upmarket

 

http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectID/C13F7E6B-B05E-43DF-80D62B635DF9DD9F/310/266/ART/

By providing links to other sites, name of your website does

not guarantee, approve or endorse the information or products

available at these sites, nor does a link indicate any association

with or endorsement by the linked site to name of your website.

http://www.rssowl.org/

http://www.forgetfoo.com/?blogid=3436

 

Drop the mouse and step away from the PC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7329279/

-Frustrated consumers make things worse after computer crash

 

Spruced-Up Site Maps

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprucemaps/

Hybrid CSS Dropdowns

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid/

 

http://www.laserp.com/fun_page.htm

http://www.neuroticweb.com/recursos/css-rounded-box/index.php?idioma=en

http://www.redalt.com/Tools/ilyc.php

 

Apple vs PC

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=2016&display=photoshop#entries

Computers bad for kids

http://go.theregister.com/feed/2005/03/21/computers_bad_for_schools/

 

http://kalsey.com/2003/05/css_tabs_with_submenus/

http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/

http://struts-menu.sourceforge.net/

 

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050310143412616

http://naa.gov.au/about_us/find-of-month/default.html

http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/destroy.html

 

http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/scripts/scripts11.php?page=1#findalbumartwork

Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael L. Scott

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558604421/

 

http://www.sandcastsoftware.com/articlesandtutorials/brownbag/index.html#tapestry

http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?anchor=my_tapestry_experience

 

http://www.tetris1d.org/

 

http://www.onlinetoolsteam.com/WindowsExposer/Default.asp

http://www.microcreate.co.uk/alt_tab_thingy.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

http://www.pearson.ch/Informatik/Manning/1469/1932394060/ArtofJavaWebDevelopment.aspx

 

http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

http://raibledesigns.com/repository/images/bartgoogle.gif

http://www.webagent007.com/

http://www.2advanced.com

http://www.crazedadman.com/

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/MyNewWebsite/newlook-noiframe.html

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/MyNewWebsite/newlook.html

 

http://appfuse.dev.java.net/

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/01/os_quiz.php

http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/acme/ branching/

 

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=59301879

Rudder discussed what Microsoft calls the Indigo programming model, a version of which is due to be released in March in advance of Microsoft's next version of Windows, dubbed Longhorn...

*Initially the task of adding security to a Web service took 20,379 lines of code; adding reliable messaging took 5,988 lines of code and adding transactions took 25,507 lines of code, Rudder said. With an additional 4,442 for infrastructure plumbing, the total came to more than 56,000. Now security, reliable messaging, and transactions each require one line of code, he said

*A version of Indigo should be ready in a matter of weeks. With a nod to the fuzzy nature of software-development deadlines, Rudder told about 2,000 developers at the conference that Indigo will be available for early adopters in March, "even if that means March 38."

 

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2004/jw-0628-build_p.html

http://www.jroller.com/>

http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/project

http://www.qos.ch/logging/thinkAgain.jsp

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/craigmcc/20040927#struts_or_jsf_struts_and

https://equinox.dev.java.net/framework-comparison/WebFrameworks.pdf

http://macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050130184054216

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050123205848370

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43081-2005Jan27.html

http://www.springframework.org/

 

http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/itinfo/ituneslibrarymanager.php

use a folder action on Downloads to move files to appropriate location

http://www.ianywhere.com/downloads/sqlany.html

 

Anthill Build Management Server - Build and Release Management Tool

www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/

CruiseControl

http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/

JUnit-based automated regression test frameworks

http://rhea.redhat.com/bboard-archive/acs_design/000ccN.html

XTest Home

http://xtest.netbeans.org/

JUnit Test Generator

http://sourceforge.net/projects/junittestmaker/

JUnit best practices

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1221-junit.html

 

http://www.javapractices.com/

http://www.onjava.com/topics/java/Java_Design

 

iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449

What are the iTunes library files?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660

 

Agile Software Development

http://www2.umassd.edu/swpi/xp/papers.html

-Articles, Papers, Resources etc

 

Taking More Risks Because You Feel Safe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801816.html

 

2008 Design Trends (websites)

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/2008-design-trends/

 

How to nap

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/naps/

 

Is the Universe Actually Made of Math?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/16-is-the-universe-actually-made-of-math

-Unconventional cosmologist Max Tegmark says mathematical formulas create reality.

 

Halfbakery: Self-Mowing Lawn

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Self-Mowing_20Lawn

 

Pandemonium

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/pandemonium.html

 

The Cure for Procrastination: Discipline

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/05-the-cure-for-procrastination-discipline

 

A Mac OS X-style Dock In JavaScript

http://www.safalra.com/web-design/javascript/mac-style-dock/

 

The 50 Best Pun Stores

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/06/06/the-50-best-pun-stores/

 

112 candles for Europe's oldest man

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/07/2268228.htm

-Europe's oldest man, World War I veteran Henry Allingham, has marked his 112th birthday and attributes his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women."

 

9 Mind Blowing Flash Animations

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/06/03/9-mind-blowing-flash-animations/

+Icon War

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jvdkuyp/flash/see.htm

+LineSuperFollow

http://patterngame.com/linesuperfollow.swf

+Jackson Pollock

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

 

Online viewer for PDF, PostScript and Word

http://view.samurajdata.se/

 

Wikilivres

http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/index.php/The_Little_Prince

http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/index.php/Category:Music_sheets

 

Read at Work

http://readatwork.com/

 

We're sorry this is late; we really meant to post it sooner

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/uoc-wst010907.php

-Research into procrastination shows surprising findings

 

Procrastination Flow Chart!

http://www.upcool.com/funny/Procrastination_Flow_Chart_

 

StyleTap Announces Plans To Bring Thousands of Mobile Applications To Apple iPhone

http://blogs.styletap.com/styletapnews/2008/05/styletap-announces-plans-to-bring.html

 

Are Americans Really Reading Less?

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/are-americans-really-reading-less-303/?mod=WSJBlog

 

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/

 

Cities and Ambition

http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html

 

30 Beautiful And Original Product Designs

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/05/27/30-beautiful-and-original-product-designs/

 

Life in a Lazy Universe

http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/life-in-lazy-universe.html

-I've seen lots of articles on simulated reality recently. Supposing for a bit that this is a sensible hypothesis to entertain and not just a science fictional conceit, what might be the consequences of supposing that such a 'reality' is running on a machine with lazy evaluation?

 

What happened to the Food!

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/05/26/what-happened-to-the-food/

 

Pixar: On-line library -- by date

http://graphics.pixar.com/

 

The Technology Cliff: How Time Off From Programming Affects Your Chops

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/05/15/technology-cliff-how-time-off-from-programming-affects-your-chops/

+Two Flaws With "Time Off From Programming"

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/two-flaws-with-time-off-from.html

+Response to ‘Two Flaws With “Time Off From Programming”‘

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/05/24/response-to-two-flaws-with-time-off-from-programming/

 

The tax that might just save the world

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9e94c06e-2607-11dd-b510-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

 

The obvious difference between Mac and Windows applications.

http://goobimama.blogspot.com/2008/05/obvious-difference-between-mac-and.html

 

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

formula 1 user interfaces

http://www.oobject.com/category/formula-1-user-interfaces/

 

This Week in Aptonyms

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/this-week-in-aptonyms/

+Aptonyms

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/aptonyms/

 

The Secret History of Star Wars

http://www.secrethistoryofstarwars.com/

 

Disconnecting Distraction

http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html

 

Cubescape - Your own digital landscape

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/save.php

 

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/business/04unbox.html?_r=1

 

Behind the masks

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2280514,00.html

-Unlike Tony Blair, Gordon Brown doesn't seem comfortable in his own skin and we are suspicious of his reserve. But is our obsession with sincerity in politics a good thing? With George Orwell, the patron saint of straight-talking as his guide, David Runciman asks when openness becomes just another form of hypocrisy

 

Cover Stories, Old and New

http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2008/0515_cover_storie.php

-(P)ast a certain age — or perhaps a certain stage in a career — most acts’ new album cover designs lose that singular, epochal quality that was so common to their early releases. That is, where an act might once have released iconic albums replete with cover art that not only reflected their time but also defined it, those acts’ older, mid-life incarnations tend to release album covers that only lamely follow ripened trends.

 

Biblical to bizarre: American baby names run the gamut

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/13/2243271.htm

-Planning on naming your baby Jacob or Emily? Be forewarned, those two names topped the US most popular list again last year - Emily for the 11th year running.

 

English 'self-important and irritating', says new travel guide

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/11/2241261.htm

-England is an irritating and insular country full of overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts, a new guide warns tourists.

 

Presenting Code

http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/General/PresentingCode.red

 

Exporting Keynote 3 as PDF

http://blog.zenspider.com/2007/10/exporting-keynote-3-as-pdf.html

 

rsync Tips & Tricks

http://sial.org/howto/rsync/

 

Getting started with awk

http://doc.ddart.net/shell/awk/

 

16 Tips For Getting Good Sleep

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gretchen-rubin/16-tips-for-getting-good_b_102003.html

 

What Will It Take To Ditch All That Carbon?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/19-what-will-it-take-to-ditch-all-that-carbon

 

Five things humans no longer need

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn13927 -five-things-humans-no-longer-need.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

Ask Your Doctor About mod_rails

http://nubyonrails.com/articles/ask-your-doctor-about-mod_rails

 

Google Doctype. "Written by web developers, for web developers."

http://code.google.com/docreader/#p(doctype)s(doctype)t(Welcome)

http://code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/Welcome

 

Processing.js

http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

-the Processing visualization language (ported) to JavaScript, using the Canvas element

+Some Chrome For Pjs

http://hackety.org/2008/05/09/someChromeForPjs.html

 

Jean-Pierre Hébert: Mac-Controlled Algorithmic Art

http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hebert/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss

 

All the World In A Song

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/247-all-the-world-in-a-song/

 

iDial Brings Nostalgia To Your iPhone

http://www.iphoneskinning.com/2008/03/idial-brings-nostalgia-to-your-iphone.html

 

freecycling

 

Movado Fiero Tungsten Carbide Watch

http://www.amazon.com/Movado-Fiero-Tungsten-Carbide-0605619/dp/B00178US60/

 

Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_rocket_man;_ylt=Alp2KM6q16lDL7x0uzFIMxxbbBAF

 

Deploying Rails Applications

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780978739201/#top

 

http://tinydb.org/

http://tinydb.org/i0 - a poem

 

UK.gov torpedoes personal carbon credit plans

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/11/personal_carbon_trading_torpedoed/

 

Cryptograms

http://blog.pentagram.com/decipher/

-A series of fourteen cryptograms

 

Non-stick gum a step closer

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/08/2239101.htm

-A British company developing a non-stick chewing gum that can be easily removed from pavements and shoes has raised 10 million pounds ($AUS20.7 million) to help bring its product to market.

 

Shock gardening troops attack urban eyesores

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/30/2231498.htm

-An army of self-styled guerrilla gardeners is growing across the world, fighting to transform urban wastelands into horticultural havens.

 

Inbox Hero

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/05/07/inbox_hero

 

Walking Bike

http://maxknight.co.uk/2008/04/14/walking-bike/

 

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=all

 

The NeoCube

http://www.theneocube.com/

 

Hope playing cards help inmates to solve crimes

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/03/2234511.htm

-Inmates in 58 county jails across New York are getting playing cards with the pictures of missing persons in hopes the photos will jog memories and help solve cold cases.

 

Is It Wednesday? Better Bring an Umbrella.

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/30-wednesday-better-bring-an-umbrella

 

Shock gardening troops attack urban eyesores

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/30/2231498.htm

 

What laptop does Steve Ballmer use for his presentations? Right...

http://flickr.com/photos/paintitblack/2439080330/

 

(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/28/really-stunning-pictures-and-photos/

 

Learning How to Read Slowly Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/books/22read.html

 

Conquering Your Fears, One Synapse at a Time

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/28-conquering-your-fears-one-synapse-at-a-time

 

Andy's Playing Cards - Introduction & History

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Musee/7685/cards.htm

A Short History of Italian Playing Cards

http://www.altacarta.com/english/research/italy-short-history.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards#Italian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carte_bergamasche.jpg

 

Window dressing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_dressing

 

Dog Diary vs. Cat Diary

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Humor/otherhumor/dog_cat_diary.htm

 

Dell to Offer Windows XP Beyond June 30 Cutoff

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145145/dell_to_offer_windows_xp_beyond_june_30_cutoff.html

-Dell will take advantage of a licensing option in Vista Business and Vista Ultimate that lets PC makers provide XP under the Vista license, which Microsoft calls a "downgrade" license. (Enterprises with site licenses have these same rights with any version of Vista.) In essence, the user is buying a Vista license that it can apply to XP, and Microsoft can still claim a Vista sale.

+http://gizmodo.com/384368/

 

The Physics of Whipped Cream

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/25apr_cvx2.htm?list832167

 

5 Appliances You Can Buy That Might Be Smarter Than You Are

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/home_improvement/4260394.html

 

SPOT watches, R.I.P.: 2004 - 2008

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/

 

Brain region lights up for power and profit

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13764-brain-region-lights-up-for-power-and-profit.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

The Massive, Expensive Problem of Obsolete Tech

http://gizmodo.com/382621/the-massive-expensive-problem-of-obsolete-tech

-Windows vs. OS X. The latter is lighter, faster and springier, because it dumped all of the Classic OS's code. A fresh start, with a transition eased by the Classic emulation scheme. Windows Vista, on the other hand, is burdened by 20 years of legacy code, code that it could be argued is essentially obsolete.

 

Five Best DVD Ripping Tools

http://lifehacker.com/380702/five-best-dvd-ripping-tools

 

Playing Cards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards

The World of Playing Cards

http://www.wopc.co.uk/

Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games

http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/Playing%20Cards/index.html

Encyclopedia of Playing Cards

http://www.djmcadam.com/playing-cards.html

International Playing-Card Society

http://www.i-p-c-s.org/index.html

Andy's Playing Cards

http://a_pollett.tripod.com/

The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards

http://members.aol.com/rslancastr/blgupc/blgupc.htm

B-List/archive-2003-08.html

 

Ben Wilson's Monocycle Calls for Pert Buttocks

http://gizmodo.com/382443/ben-wilsons-monocycle-calls-for-pert-buttocks

1873 Monocycle Replica Is a Mechanical and Engineering Marvel

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/handcrafted-wonder/1873-monocycle-replica-is-a-mechanical-and-engineering-marvel-289603.php

 

Urinal Elephants invade Japan

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/urinal-elephants-invade-japan/

 

Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test

http://www.news.com/Office-2007-fails-OOXML-conformance-test/2100-7344_3-6237855.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

 

Housework helps combat anxiety and depression

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19826523.700 -housework-helps-combat-anxiety-and-depression.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

-One 20-minute session of housework or walking reduced the risk of depression by up to 20 per cent. A sporting session worked better, reducing risk by a third or more. Failing housework or sport, says Hamer, try to find something physical to do. "Something - even for just 20 minutes a week - is better than nothing."

 

Stunt driver sinks Bond car into lake

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/20/2221869.htm

-A James Bond stunt driver has crashed 007's famous Aston Martin DBS into Italy's Lake Garda ahead of filming on the secret agent's latest movie, ANSA agency reported.

 

Museum exhibits world's largest chip packet collection

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2216845.htm

-You might think they belong in the trash, but what according to the Guinness Book of Records is the world's largest collection of used chip packets went on show in a German museum this week.

 

Bogan Pl residents lobby for name change

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/12/2215081.htm

-Residents of a street on Sydney's North Shore have been moved to action by the negative connotations of their street name.

 

Excitement brews over tea cosy exhibition

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/09/2211698.htm

-A travelling exhibition of tea cosies is causing a stir across Queensland.

 

WeRobot / alienWe

http://www.chopshopstore.com/quickorder/index.html

-name the robots and aliens

 

The Dirty Truth About Plastic

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/18-the-dirty-truth-about-plastic

-BPA and other plastics may be as harmful as they are plentiful.

 

Were I to seek examples of the subjunctive...

http://johnaugust.com/archives/2008/subjunctive

 

What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968)

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/

 

CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not.

http://commandshift3.com/

-Except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites.

 

Self-stirring cup could signal the end for the humble teaspoon

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=560068&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490

 

Mac vs. PC: The Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html

 

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

 

hPDA Nano

http://www.flickr.com/photos/merlin/2381466392/

 

Bosses' power to check email

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/bosses-power-to-check-email/2008/04/13/1208024990775.html

 

Server Admin Tools 10.5

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/serveradmintools105.html

Server Admin Tools 10.4

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/serveradmintools104.html

 

Chuang Tzu & Wittgenstein

http://selfdivider.com/base/?p=258

 

Ten weirdest computers

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13656 -ten-weirdest-computers.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

"You Just Readed This Headline Correctly"

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/apr/10-you-just-readed-this-headline-correctly

-the formula shows that verbs have their own “half-life,” that is, the time it takes for half of the verbs in a particular group to become regular.

 

World's Most Amazing Trick Shot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTGBOKqccw&NR=1

-billiard balls + dominoes

 

Google App Engine for developers

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/04/google-app-engine.html

 

Ten Thousand Cents

http://www.tenthousandcents.com/top.html

-"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task.

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/RandomBannergram.html

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/RandomBannergram-Alt.html

 

RubyAMP

http://code.leadmediapartners.com/tools/rubyamp

RubyAMP is a TextMate bundle that makes you more productive in editing, navigating, and debugging Ruby code.

 

Indexed

http://indexed.blogspot.com/

 

Google App Engine

http://code.google.com/appengine/

 

10 Cool Gadgets You Can't Get Here--Yet

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144127/article.html

 

Take Control of Your Maps

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/takecontrolofyourmaps

 

Stefanie Posavec "On the Map"

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/04/stefanie_posave.php

 

Quake 3 + iTouch

http://hermitworks.blogspot.com/2008/04/quake-3-itouch.html

 

SMS text messaging worth 100 B dollars in 2007

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/09/sms-text-messag.html

 

A Dose of Human Kindness, Now in Chemical Form

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/apr/04-a-dose-of-human-kindness-now-in-chemical-form

-Researchers investigated the role that the hormone oxytocin plays in regulating our generous behavior.

 

Static Maps API Developer's Guide

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/

 

Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?

http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/health-fitness/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we_2_printer.shtml

-A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.

 

Some Heroes

http://www.paulgraham.com/heroes.html

 

Stylophone Original

http://www.firebox.com/product/1902#playit

 

Irregular Webcomic!: Maxwell's equations

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1420.html

 

THE SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES - The Videos

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/

 

Daily caffeine 'protects brain'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm

 

The Great Forgotten Clean-Energy Source: Geothermal

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/apr/03-the-great-forgotten-clean-energy-source

 

10 Best: April Fools' Gags (the Web Is Closing for Spring Cleaning!)

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/16-04/st_best

Top 10 April Fools' Pranks for Nerds

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2008/03/pranks08

 

Offices and The Creativity Zone

http://hivelogic.com/articles/offices-and-the-zone/

 

http://www.liveplasma.com/

 

eHow | How To Do Just About Everything!

http://www.ehow.com/

 

How To Videos on Wonder How To - Instructional Video Tutorials & Hacks

http://www.wonderhowto.com/

 

How to Dry a Wet Book

http://www2.lib.udel.edu/Preservation/wet_books.htm

 

Legs, pygmies and cheese top British odd book poll

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/31/2203589.htm

-According to a new poll, the oddest book title of the year in Britain was If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs.

 

Outback farmer investigates 'space junk' find

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/31/2203579.htm

-A south-west Queensland grazier says he is hoping to discover the origins of a suspected piece of space junk discovered on his property.

 

A Victim Treats His Mugger Right

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89164759

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Favourites/MusicCDs.html?2007

 

Parkour (sometimes abbreviated to PK) or l'art du déplacement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

-an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body

 

Bean

http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html

-Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable.

 

Simply Logical

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach/SimplyLogical.html

-Intelligent Reasoning by Example

 

How to Disagree

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

 

Writing the nation

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10093

-Put it down to the lack of a national epic. Many countries have a single, agreed national text, as distinct from an oral myth—a literary classic that for centuries has celebrated its country's founding and virtues. Manzoni's The Betrothed, Tolstoy's War and Peace and Cervantes's Don Quixote removed a crucial pressure from their successors. In Britain, the situation is different. There is no ancient national epic ...

 

A Brief History of Cutting Code in a Universe Three Doors Down

http://bendiken.net/2008/03/28/cutting-code-three-doors-down

 

Productivity Variations Among Software Developers and Teams: The Origin of "10x"

http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2008/03/27/productivity-variations-among-software-developers-and-teams-the-origin-of-quot-10x-quot.aspx

 

Sustainable Development in Ruby: Introduction

http://avdi.org/devblog/2008/03/25/sustainable-development-in-ruby-introduction/

 

Shepherd sues Russian space agency over rocket crash

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/29/2202441.htm

-A shepherd is suing Russia's space agency for compensation after he said a three-metre-long chunk of metal from a space rocket fell into his yard, just missing his outdoor toilet.

 

Glasses don't mean you're a nerd, just smart: study

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/27/2201085.htm

-New research shows that wearing glasses does not mean you are a nerd, but it could be a sign that you are more intelligent.

 

The 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html

 

7 Jobs That Are Better In Video Games Than In Real Life

http://www.omglists.com/article/69116/7-jobs-that-are-better-in-video-games-than-in-real-life/

 

Obama 'related to Bush and Churchill'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/26/2199175.htm

-Barack Obama is Brad Pitt's distant cousin, while Hillary Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie.

 

Circuitry Snacks

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/circuitsnacks

-Here we present what is arguably the tastiest way to design and learn about electronic circuits: make circuitry snacks!

 

Does a boomerang thrown in space return to its pitcher?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13525-does-a-boomerang-thrown-in-space-return-to-its-pitcher.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-The boomerang behaved no differently than on Earth, flying back to Doi after he threw it. "It flew just like on Earth, and I was really surprised and impressed,"

+Boomerang returns, even in space

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/21/2196406.htm

-In an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back, much like on Earth.

 

On Borrowed Time

http://bostonreview.net/BR33.2/gecan.php

-Urban decline moves to the suburbs

 

Pitch perception skewed by modern tuning

http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19526194.100 &feedId=online-news_rss20

 

Twiddla is a Free no-setup, web-based meeting playground.

http://www.twiddla.com/

 

keming. noun. The result of improper kerning.

http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_a_new_typography_term.html

 

http://www.amazon.com/tag/amazon%20oddities/

 

'Stereotype threat' affects women's driving

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/24/2197722.htm

-New research shows calling women lousy drivers may be a self-fulfilling prophecy because it disrupts their focus.

 

Man builds house of chocolate

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/23/2196847.htm

-A Croatian man has claimed that he has built the biggest castle made of chocolate after working for 24 hours on his candy construction in a central Zagreb square, national television has reported.

 

Stressed Singapore hunts for happiest person

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/20/2196195.htm

-A search has been launched for the happiest person in Singapore, where a recent survey found that 90 per cent of its population feel that life is stressful.

 

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html

 

Hubble Finds an Hourglass Nebula around a Dying Star

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/nebula/planetary/1996/07/

 

The Sad Truth About Relationships

http://www.fliggo.com/video/NTtenBNg

 

Google Visualization API Gadget Gallery

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gadgetgallery.html

+Google Visualization API

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/

 

Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity - In Words of Four Letters or Less

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html

 

Drug dealer appeals to judge's romantic side

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/20/2195889.htm

-A defence lawyer for a Darwin man has argued he should receive a lesser penalty to allow him to travel overseas and make a marriage proposal.

 

Alice Springs town song to play in public toilets

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/19/2194264.htm

-The Alice Springs Town Council has moved to make public toilet experiences more pleasant - with music.

 

Winemaker's nose insured for $8.5 million

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/19/2193953.htm

-The Lloyd's of London insurance market has insured the nose of a leading wine maker and taster for 5 million euros ($8.5 million), covering the Bordeaux producer against the loss of his nose and sense of smell.

 

Man to sell life in internet auction

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/18/2193214.htm

-A Perth man offers his house, job, lifestyle and friends to the highest bidder in an online auction.

 

The First, The Free, and the Good

http://stevenf.com/2008/03/the_first_the_free_and_the_good.php

-My current hypothesis is that there are at least three positions of prominence in each segment -- three ways to be number one, if you will: The First One, The Free One, and The Good One.

 

"Disks have become tapes"

http://www.lexemetech.com/2008/03/disks-have-become-tapes.html

 

The Subprime Primer

http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true&pli=1

 

Kriegspiel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_%28chess%29

-is a chess variant ... each player can see their own pieces, but not those of their opponent.

 

101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site

http://www.insidecrm.com/features/101-web-site-fixes-031808/

 

nudist typeface

http://www.craigoldham.co.uk/experimental/nudist-typeface/

-I created the typeface after I overheard someone in the studio say "…that type is indecent!"

 

Football fans and stadiums do not affect home wins

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726475.100-football-fans-and-stadiums-do-not-affect-home-wins.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-Heuer and Rubner confirmed teams have a home advantage over away sides: on average, home sides scored 0.7 more goals per game than visitors. However, they found that no team was inherently better at home than any other

+Moving stadium dents team performance

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3296

 

Google Sky

http://www.google.com/sky/

+Google Sky: hands on, plus Top 10 uncommonly cool sights

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080315-google-sky-hands-on-plus-top-10-uncommonly-cool-sights.html

 

Fighting the Urge to Fight the Urge

http://www.wfs.org/Dec-janfiles/Soc_trend_MA08.htm

-Every day, we pressure ourselves to control our impulses—to work harder rather than go home early, to avoid sugar, carbohydrates, and transfats; to save instead of spend; and to exercise courtesy rather than snap at the barista who flubbed our order. Meanwhile, we can't ride the subway, turn on the TV, or open a magazine without finding an ad urging us to self-indulge. Balancing these two competing forces sometimes seems impossible. A new report from two Canadian researchers suggests why: Our capacity for self-control is far shallower than we realize.

 

Ten things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/03/12/ten-things-you-dont-know-about-the-milky-way-galaxy/

 

New Minimalism in Web Interface Design

http://rainfall-daffinson.com/minimalism/

 

Rats eat farmer's life savings

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/14/2189267.htm

-An Ethiopian farmer who stashed his life savings of more than $12,000 in a haystack has lost almost one-third of the deposit to rats who gnawed it away, state media said.

 

Bear convicted of stealing honey

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/14/2189099.htm

-A Macedonian court convicted a bear of theft and damage for stealing honey from a beekeeper who fought off the attacks with thumping "turbo-folk" music.

 

Military mistakenly drops dummy bomb on Okla. building

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/03/14/5008511-ap.html

-An Air National Guard jet mistakenly dropped a 10-kilogram non-explosive, practice bomb on a Tulsa, Oklahoma, apartment complex, damaging the foundation but none of the occupants

 

They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09digi.html ?_r=1&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin

-ONE year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to “upgrade”?

 

Hard-wired for the ups and downs

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23358497-27702,00.html

-Human beings are naturally hierarchical and they like arranging themselves into hierarchies of skill, age, wealth, competence, experience, whatever. We can deny it if we want, but we all know that when the chips are down and the anarchists have formed the anarchists' association, the first thing they do is elect a governing committee.

 

Get Back to Your Mac Without Paying for It

http://lifehacker.com/365673/get-back-to-your-mac-without-paying-for-it

 

Get that job at Google

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html

 

Women caught with skeleton in suitcase

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/13/2188256.htm

-Police at Germany's Munich airport stopped two Italian women who were carrying luggage containing the remains of a man who died in Brazil 11 years ago.

 

British man loses grape lawsuit against shop

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/13/2188100.htm

-An accountant who tried to sue British retail chain Marks and Spencer after he slipped on a grape and injured himself has lost his case and been ordered to pay legal costs.

 

What Makes People Give?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/magazine/09Psychology-t.html ?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=john%20list&st=nyt&scp=1

-List and Karlan considered the usual answers (to make the world a better place, to see your name printed in the back of an annual report and the like) too pat, too simple — and sometimes just wrong.

 

The Geometry of Music

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1582330-1,00.html

-Borrowing some of the mathematics that string theorists invented to plumb the secrets of the physical universe, he (Dmitri Tymoczko) has found a way to represent the universe of all possible musical chords in graphic form.

 

World’s oldest animation, 5,200 years old

http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/worlds-oldest-animation-5200-years-old/

-An Italian team of archaeologists unearthed the goblet in the 1970s from a burial site in Iran’s Burnt City, but it was only recently that researchers noticed the images on the bowl tell an animated visual story.

 

Cats Help Shield Owners From Heart Attack

http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080221/cats-help-shield-owners-from-heart-attack.htm

-Study finds 30% risk reduction when felines are in the home

 

Blockbuster movies and word of mouth

http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2008/03/blockbuster-movies-and-word-of-mouth/

-A new NBER paper \pdf from Enrico Moretti finds that films which outperform expectations on their opening week continue to outperform expectations - but not if the outperformance was the result of weather. The effect is stronger for previously unknown films about which audience has weak preconceptions

 

Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080304150459.htm

 

New British camera detects weapons, drugs under clothes

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/09/2184542.htm

-A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people's clothes from up to 25 metres away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry.

 

7 Fake Startups Compete for 'Worst Website Ever'

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/sxsw-7-fake-sta.html

 

3-Way Chess

http://meignorant.com/3-way_chess

 

If Version Control Systems were Airlines

http://changelog.complete.org/posts/698-If-Version-Control-Systems-were-Airlines.html

 

On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles

http://tomayko.com/weblog/2008/03/07/your-clever-weblog-title

 

OK to lie about adultery: Italian judges

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/08/2184085.htm

-Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married women are entitled to lie about committing adultery, even in judicial investigations, to protect their honour.

 

Drunk crew crashes tank into house

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/08/2183988.htm

-A Russian tank crashed through a villager's house after the crew stopped to buy more vodka at a nearby shop.

 

Electrocybertronics

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/last-page-200803.html

-Want to put your company or product on the cutting edge of science? Simple. Add a trendy prefix or suffix to its name. But beware: what linguistic fashion raises up, it can also bring down.

 

The Incredibly Strong See-Through Bicycle

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/06-see-through-bike

-On the Arantix Mountain Bike from newbie Delta 7 Sports, the typical solid-cylinder tubing has been replaced by an airy, see-through lattice woven from a carbon-fiber composite and bundled in Kevlar string. The resulting gossamer web may look delicate, but pound for pound this quirky construction—called IsoTruss—is stronger than steel, aluminum, and titanium. It’s even stronger than solid carbon composites, the current front-runners among ultralight bike frames.

+A-bike

http://www.a-bike.co.uk/

-fold-up bike

 

Simplicity

http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/05/simplicity/

-What can we learn about usability...

 

Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/229/1

-It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a puff of gas and then retrieved it a split second later.

 

Microsoft Excel: Revolutionary 3D Game Engine?

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php?print=1

 

Bees to help sniff out quality wine

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/07/2182826.htm

-Scientists at the Queensland Brain Institute are using bees' noses to help develop a machine that can smell the difference between a good and a bad wine.

 

I Don't Multitask

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/03/06/i_dont_multitask.html

 

Mind-reading machine knows what the eye sees

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13415-mindreading-machine-knows-what-the-eye-sees.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-A device that reveals what a person sees by decoding their brain activity could soon be a reality, say researchers who have developed a more sophisticated way to extract visual stimuli from brain signals.

 

The Borderline Whack-Jobs Who Pioneered Psychoanalysis

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/05-the-borderlin-whack-jobs-who-pioneered-psychoanalysis

-Some were fanatical prudes, while one was dubbed “the Pied Piper of carnality.”

 

How Retailers Trick You in to Buying Stuff You Don’t Need (and How to Fight Back)

http://www.joeconsumer.info/index.php/shopping/29/how-retailers-trick-you-in-to-buying-crap-you-dont-need-and-how-to-fight-back/

-Shoppers have been as thoroughly studied as lab rats and the research has resulted in scientifically proven approaches to influence shopper’s emotions, to heighten their insecurities and to trick them in to buying things they don’t need or want. Joe Consumer has put together 10 of the most common retail tricks, along with tips for how to avoid being taken in. While some of these things may seem like common sense, each is a reaction to a specific tactic retailers use to get you to buy just one more thing.

 

Daylight Saving Wastes Energy, Study Says

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120406767043794825-UOLcfJA8x9Gw9ozbCz77MiLmtaE_20080327.html ?mod=tff_main_tff_top

-For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, reduces energy use. But a unique situation in Indiana provides evidence challenging that view: Springing forward may actually waste energy.

 

Dave Veloz's Steampunk Remake

http://steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml

 

What may happen in the next 100 years - from the year 1900

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/03/02/what-may-happen-in-the-next-100-years-from-the-year-1900/

 

Hex silliness

http://www.me3dia.com/archives/2008/02/26/hex_silliness/index.php

 

List of collective nouns by collective term A-K

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term_A-K

List of collective nouns by collective term L-Z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term_L-Z

 

Dutch history pointing to real estate fall

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/28/2148237.htm

-The house sugar merchant Cornelis Sasbout built in 1617 at number 150 on Amsterdam's Herengracht canal tells a cautionary tale about investing in property - prices fluctuate wildly, but are ultimately flat.

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/JavaScript/RandomBannergram.html

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/degrees_minutes_seconds.html

 

Teleportation? Very Possible. Next Up: Time Travel.

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/teleportation-very-possible-next-up-time-travel

 

pi10k - Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence

http://www.avoision.com/experiments/pi10k/pi10k.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

 

Want to buy a fake Ferrari?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/29/2175963.htm

-Italian police have found a new height of craftsmanship and cunning when they broke up a ring selling fake Ferrari cars for a fraction of the real price.

+Turning Pontiacs into Ferraris

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/02/28/4882784-ap.html

-Italian financial police have busted a ring of counterfeiters who built fake Ferraris and sold them for as little as $30,000 a car, officials said Thursday.

 

Computers See Diseases Written All Over Your Face

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/computers-see-diseases-written-all-over-your-face

-a faster, potentially cheaper approach that uses computer analysis to spot facial characteristics associated with a variety of genetic disorders.

 

FILE Magazine - Unexpected Photography

http://filemagazine.com/

http://www.filemagazine.com/galleries/archives/images/action.jpg

 

Fried chicken bandits trade bucket for wheelie bins

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/28/2175271.htm

-Tweed Heads police say a man is in custody after a late-night raid on a Murwillumbah fried chicken shop in northern New South Wales.

 

Activists give bullfighters a dressing-down

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/27/2174285.htm

-A group of animal rights activists undressed at Sydney's Circular Quay today to protest against bullfighting in Europe.

 

Woman 'gives birth hanging from tree'

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/woman-gives-birth-hanging-from-tree/2008/02/26/1203788301281.html

-PNG woman accused of sorcery gives birth while struggling to free herself from tree, reports say.

 

Fancy footwear for police dogs

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/fancy-footwear-for-police-dogs/2008/02/26/1203788285789.html

-Police dogs in the western German city of Duesseldorf will no longer get their feet dirty when on patrol: The entire dog unit will soon be equipped with blue plastic fibre shoes, officials said.

 

Man clings to car roof while punching girlfriend

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/man-clings-to-car-roof-while-punching-girlfriend/2008/02/25/1203788177560.html

-A man fighting with his girlfriend clung to a car roof and punched her through the window as she drove more than 1.6 km on a busy road, hitting several other cars, police said.

 

MyRP

http://www.myrp.com.au/

-Welcome to Australia's #1 Property Information Service

 

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GRAPHIC.html

 

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Relativity

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/20-things-you-didn.t-know-about-relativity

 

Resurrecting MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate

http://jannisleidel.com/2008/02/missingdrawer/

 

clbuttic ?

http://www.google.com/search?q=clbuttic

 

Music special: Five great auditory illusions

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13355-music-special-five-great-auditory-illusions-.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

Big Spanish Castle

http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.html

variations on the spanish castle illusion

http://www.johnsadowski.com/2006/06/color-illusion-variations.html

 

Man pays $17K for 4 strands of hair

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/02/23/4871767-ap.html

-LEXINGTON, Ky. - It might not even really be George Washington's hair - but it still sold for $17,000.

 

'Fridge' and 'Tractor' make for outback mayoral contest with a difference

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/25/2171196.htm

-There is an unusual mayoral contest shaping up in Queensland's south-west.

 

Punter wins millions on 50p stake

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/24/2170847.htm

-A punter in Britain has won 1 million pounds ($2.13 million) for a stake of just 50 pence ($1.06).

 

Lohan, Murphy score top Golden Razzies

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/24/2170815.htm

-Lindsay Lohan, Eddie Murphy win the worst actors gongs at the Golden Raspberry Awards.

 

Newcomer takes title in penny farthing championship

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/23/2170770.htm

-The town of Evandale in northern Tasmania has stepped back in time for the running of the prestigious national penny farthing championship.

 

'Are Women Human' vies for oddest book title gong

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/23/2170758.htm

-They may not leap off the shelves into the best-seller category, but the books shortlisted for the oddest book title prize certainly grab the attention.

 

'Girl' at school was 39-year-old man

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/23/2170604.htm

-A Japanese man was arrested for trespassing this week after turning up at a high school dressed in a girl's uniform and a long wig, local police said.

 

Drunk driver parks at police station

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/23/2170560.htm

-Police in the western Canadian town of Wetaskiwin did not have to do much work when they arrested a drunk driver at the weekend - he had parked his car next to their offices and wandered inside.

 

Married couple battle for Logan mayoralty

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/22/2169978.htm

-A married couple are running against each other in the contest for the Logan City mayoralty in south-east Queensland.

 

Japanese women hairstyles track economy ups and downs

http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-32004620080218

 

Are catnaps as beneficial as actual sleep?

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726444.600-are-catnaps-as-beneficial-as-actual-sleep.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

Sleep hormone may make you forget

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn12930-sleep-hormone-may-make-you-forget.html

 

Duty Calls - comic

http://xkcd.com/386/

 

Obsolete Skills

http://obsoleteskills.com/Skills/Skills

Obsolete skills

http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/16/obsolete-skills/

 

Java 5 Rant

http://www.clintonbegin.com/2008/02/clintons-java-5-rant.html

 

Moab 80 s.p.a.

http://www.moab80.it/contenuto/prodotti.html

 

Social Media in the 1990’s

http://www.copybrighter.com/blog/social-media-in-the-1990s

 

Extracting Square Roots with pencil and paper

http://www.qnet.fi/abehr/Achim/Calculators_SquareRoots.html

 

http://www.getdrawit.com/

 

http://changesapp.com/

 

http://www.sunrisebrowser.com/en/

 

File Format Documentation Collection

http://www.schnarff.com/file-formats/index.html

 

Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired

http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/02/optimally_wired_a_caffeine_use.php

 

Anti-loiter device makes kids 'guinea pigs'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/20/2167362.htm

-A civil liberties group is opposed to the use of high-pitched devices to deter youths from loitering at Ceduna in South Australia's far west.

 

High-pitched sound to deter youth

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/19/2166716.htm

-High pitched sounds heard only by young people are one of the measures being planned to deter teenagers from hanging around at night.

 

Inaudible song tops NZ charts

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/19/2166349.htm

-It is a doggone chartbuster - a song audible only to dogs has topped New Zealand record charts, and is now looking to go global.

 

Licence plate sets new world record

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/18/2165145.htm

-A licence plate bearing simply the number "1" sold for what organisers said was a record $US14 million at a charity auction in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/mega_lib_search_tool/

 

Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/nov/30/uknews

-A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.

 

20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life

http://zenhabits.net/2008/02/20-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-starting-out-in-life/

 

Eyeball Stickers

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/5057/

 

Six Principles for Making New Things

http://www.paulgraham.com/newthings.html

 

The use and misuse of sound

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10711614&fsrc=RSS

-calls have been made this week to ban the use of the Mosquito, a high-pitched-noise generator that is used to disperse groups of unruly teenagers from congregating points such as shopping centres and housing estates.

 

Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth

http://io9.com/356862/top-5-ways-to-hack-the-surface-of-the-earth

 

Victoria Victorious Over Rest Of Australia

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/236-victoria-victorious-over-rest-of-australia/

 

Google Maps: Lecco

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=lecco&ie=UTF8&ll=45.853673,9.390221&spn=0.062411,0.132351&t=h&z=13

 

Driver abandons busload of ex-prisoners at store

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/02/15/4849259-ap.html

-A driver who apparently took her work rules very seriously abandoned a bus full of former prisoners along a highway because her hours for the day were over, police said.

 

Top 9 unique structures soon to be built

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/02/14/top-9-unique-structures-soon-to-be-built/

 

CO2 sponges could scrub emissions clean

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13321-cosub2sub-sponges-could-scrub-emissions-clean.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-Researchers at the University of California synthesised a range of new sponge-like substances with pores just the right size to trap molecules of CO2. The most efficient of them can absorb 83 times its own volume of the gas.

 

Lost work Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_work

-A lost work is a document or literary work produced some time in the past of which no surviving copies are known to exist. Works may be lost to history either through the destruction of the original manuscript, or through the non-survival of any copies of the work. Deliberate destruction of works may be termed literary crime or literary vandalism. In some cases fragments may survive, either found by archeology, or sometimes reused as bookbinding materials, or because they are quoted in other works.

 

The Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test

http://www.andrewlipson.com/lstest.html

-I'm ILUG (Mensch) - sometimes :)

 

ChangeWave survey shows consumers abandoning basic models for advanced RIM and Apple phones

http://www.changewave.com/freecontent/viewalliance.html?source=/freecontent/2008/02/alliance-020108-SeismicShiftToSmartphones.html#top

 

High-pitched sound used to deter teenagers

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/14/2162976.htm

-British shopkeepers have sparked outrage with their new approach to repelling problem teenagers.

 

'Policeman of the year' arrested for extortion

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/14/2162700.htm

-A two-time Mexico City "policeman of the year" has been arrested on suspicion of extorting money from illegal "car-watchers" who demand tips for kerbside parking.

 

No Children's Tale

http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=28q1gbsyq6hr9j017jvf9g7r1d1qlp8n

-Aesop's translators have had varied agendas... Little in literature seems smaller or simpler than Aesop. People assume that everyone has read the fables, or had the fables read to them. Thanks to Aesop, we have a common understanding of a wolf in sheep's clothing, the lion's share, the hare versus the tortoise, the playful grasshopper, sour grapes, squeaky wheel, and much more.

 

Running Numbers

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/01/21/080121ta_talk_surowiecki

-Flawed as they are, though, the employment numbers represent a dramatic and valuable economic innovation.

 

Could smart traffic lights stop motorists fuming?

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13306-could-smart-traffic-lights-stop-motorists-fuming.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-Traffic lights that wirelessly track vehicles would speed up journeys, reduce fuel consumption and improve urban air quality, say researchers

 

Color Pencils Reviewed

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-02-11-n78.html

 

Child-Man in the Promised Land

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_single_young_men.html

-Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood.

 

ifacethoughts Blogshelf

http://ifacethoughts.net/blogshelf/

 

Alltop: We've got Mac news covered

http://mac.alltop.com/

 

Hugh Atkin's YouTube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/hmatkin

 

Handshake leads to assault charge

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/10/2158974.htm

-An American lawyer has been charged with assault for allegedly shaking a federal prosecutor's hand so forcefully that it injured her shoulder.

 

Scientists to send baby fish into space

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/09/2158495.htm

-Scientists plan to launch 60 tiny fish on a zero gravity rocket ride from above the Arctic Circle on Monday to try to plumb the secrets of motion sickness.

 

Automatic writing

http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2252153,00.html

-Philip M Parker, a professor of management science at Insead, the international business school based in Fontainebleau, France, patented what he calls a "method and apparatus for automated authoring and marketing". Turn to page 16 of his patent, and you will see him answer the "Why?" question.

 

Rearranging Stars to Communicate with Aliens

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/rearranging-stars-to-communicate-with-aliens

-This month I seriously propose that we begin the process of repositioning the sun and other nearby stars in order to send signals to aliens, and that we begin the search for signs that aliens might have done the same for our benefit.

 

Three Smart Things You Should Know About Leap Years

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-02/st_3smart

 

flash rube goldberg product catalogue

http://producten.hema.nl/

 

The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/the-evolution-of-tech-companies-logos/

 

6 Formulas for More Output and Less Overwhelm

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/02/07/6-formulas-for-more-output-and-less-overwhelm/

 

The 7 Wonders of the Food Coloring World

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/19/the-7-wonders-of-the-food-coloring-world/

 

Whatever Happened to . . . Subliminal Advertising?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/whatever-happened-to-subliminal-advertising

 

English villagers turn to donkey power

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/08/2157593.htm

-The central English village of Chalford has decided to take a page from its past by employing donkeys to haul groceries to homes on top of a hill.

 

Japanese scientists make paper planes for space

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/07/2157295.htm

-A spacecraft made of folded paper zooming through the skies may sound far-fetched, but Japanese scientists plan to launch paper planes from the International Space Station to see if they make it back to Earth.

 

If Osama's Only 6 Degrees Away, Why Can't We Find Him?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/if-osama.s-only-6-degrees-away-why-can.t-we-find-him

-The famous 6 degrees of separation theory fades under scrutiny.

 

14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/14-best-ways-to-use-your-computer.s-spare-time

 

Seung Hee Son: umbrella bag

http://designllama.blogspot.com/2008/01/seung-hee-son-umbrella-bag.html

http://funtasticus.com/20080124/umbrella-bag/

 

Red tape wrecks British pancake race

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/06/2155542.htm

-A traditional Shrove Tuesday pancake race in Britain was tossed off the menu due to overbearing health and safety regulations, newspapers reported.

 

Photo in the News: Python Bursts After Eating Gator (Update)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html

-Wildlife researchers with the South Florida Natural Resources Center found the dead, headless python in October 2005 after it apparently tried to digest a 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) American alligator. The mostly intact dead gator was found sticking out of a hole in the midsection of the python, and wads of gator skin were found in the snake's gastrointestinal tract.

+http://humanelement.blogspot.com/2007/04/giant-python-vs-alligator.html

 

Creative thinking rules

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/creative-thinking-rules/

 

Apple //c unboxing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dansays/sets/72157603835099525/

 

NASA beams Beatles 'Across the Universe'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/05/2154343.htm

-An intergalactic celebration of The Beatles will be launched with the beaming of their peace anthem Across the Universe into outer space.

 

Earth Class Mail

http://www.earthclassmail.com/

 

Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani

http://www.classicitaliani.it/index.htm

(inc Pirandello, Svevo, Dante, Machiavelli)

+Luigi Pirandello - Uno, nessuno centomila

http://www.classicitaliani.it/index111.htm

 

http://www.filosofico.net/uunnoness1centmil.htm

 

Nearly quarter of Brits think Churchill a myth: poll

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2153628.htm

-Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll which shows nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth, while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

 

7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: Deserted Cities, Buildings, Bases and More

http://weburbanist.com/2008/01/27/7-abandoned-wonders-of-the-former-soviet-union-from-submarine-stations-to-unfinished-structures/

+ links to other similar collections

 

Opening the Windows Vista box

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/2e680b8d-211e-41c5-a0bf-9ccc6d7e62a21033.mspx

 

Languages evolve in sudden leaps, not creeps

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13267-languages-evolve-in-sudden-leaps-not-creeps.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-Language evolves in sudden leaps, according to a statistical study of three major language groups. The finding challenges the slow-and-steady model held by many linguists and matches evidence that genetic evolution follows a similar path.

 

Is the Tipping Point Toast?

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html

 

BBC planning 'Politics Idol': report

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/01/2152055.htm

-The BBC has acquired the option to develop a Pop Idol-like show aimed at finding Britain's next Tony Blair or Margaret Thatcher, The Times reports.

 

300 yo Chinese shopping list found in vase

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/01/2152014.htm

-A shopping list written around 300 years ago has been discovered in an 18th century Chinese vase in Britain, the cleaner who found it said.

 

Britney's life made into ballet

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/01/2151983.htm

-The very public problems of Britney Spears are rarely out of the headlines, but now her troubles are being put on the stage by one of Britain's leading modern dance companies.

 

Matryoshkus

http://store.artlebedev.com/toys/matryoshkus/

-Bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte take shape of Matryoshkas to make the right sequence.

 

Microsoft Boy announces his School Homework

http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/philfactor/archive/2008/01/27/43174.aspx

-Scene: The History lesson in school. The teacher wearily calls Microsoft Boy to his desk to try to discover where his homework is.

+cf: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap Clarification

http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2008/01/25/microsoft-sql-server-2008-roadmap-clarification.aspx

 

Robbie Williams CDs will be used to pave roads in China

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/robbie-williams-cds-will-be-used-to.html

-More than a million copies of the CD "will be crushed and sent to the country to be recycled," we read, where they "will be used in street lighting and road surfacing projects."

 

The Incompatible Food Triad

http://www.georgehart.com/triad.html

-Can you find three foods such that all three do not go together (by any reasonable definition of foods "going together") but every pair of them does go together?

 

Belgian judges told 'bring your own toilet paper'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/31/2151004.htm

-A supplier's anger over unpaid bills forced judges and lawyers at a courthouse in the Belgian city of Bruges to bring their own toilet paper to work.

 

UniSA Library Catalogue

http://catalogue.library.unisa.edu.au/

 

Fliders Uni Library Catalogue

http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/

 

Libraries Australia

http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

 

Other Council Library Catalogues:

• SWAP Library Network: http://203.39.81.4/
• Port Adelaide Enfield: http://elibrary.portenf.sa.gov.au/
• West Torrens: http://webcat.wtcc.sa.gov.au/
• Unley: http://hip.unley.sa.gov.au/
• Burnside: http://150.101.249.145/amlibweb/
• Marion: http://www.marion.sa.gov.au/libero/
• Mitcham: http://library.mitchamcouncil.sa.gov.au/
• Holdfast: http://203.39.81.1/
• Tea Tree Gully: http://webpac.teatreegully.sa.gov.au/
• Playford: http://www.playfordlibrary.sa.gov.au/
• Salisbury: http://dhip.salisbury.sa.gov.au/
• Gawler: http://www.gawlerlibrary.sa.gov.au/
• Onkaparinga: http://catalogue.onkaparinga.sa.gov.au/

 

SA Public Library Network :: Locate a Library

http://www.libraries.sa.gov.au/public/content/show_content.asp?xcid=3

 

Herd Mentality? The Freakonomics of Boarding a Bus

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/herd-mentality-the-freakonomics-of-boarding-a-bus/

 

Goat mows my lawn, man argues in court

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/30/2150357.htm

-A man is arguing in court that an Adelaide council cannot force him to get rid of his pet goats.

 

Polish man struggles to return from the dead

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/30/2149421.htm

-Red tape is preventing a Polish man from returning from the dead.

 

As We May Think

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

 

The Machine-Animals of Nantes

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/01/machine-animals-of-nantes.html

 

Pet goth girl on leash thrown off bus

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/pet-goth-girl-on-leash-thrown-off-bus/2008/01/24/1201025055401.html

-A UK bus company apologises to a girl who is led around on a leash by her boyfriend and describes herself as a human pet after one of its drivers threw her off a bus.

 

Earth-bound satellite 'nothing to worry about'

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13236-earthbound-satellite-nothing-to-worry-about.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-Most experts, including Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, US, see little to be concerned about. "Junk has been falling out of the sky for 40 years and at worst there have been a few cases of minor property damage," he told New Scientist.

 

Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726404.600-lazy-option-is-best-when-waiting-for-the-bus.html ?feedId=online-news_rss20

-Scott Kominers, a mathematician at Harvard University, and his colleagues derived a formula for the optimal time that you should wait for a tardy bus at each stop en route before giving up and walking on. "Many mathematicians probably ponder this on their way to work, but never get round to working it out," he says.

-The team found that the solution was surprisingly simple. When both options seem reasonably attractive, the formula advises you to choose the "lazy" option: wait at the first stop, no matter how frustrating.

 

Understanding art for geeks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulthewineguy/sets/72157603619920398/

 

Wanted: Web ad hitman to kill lover's wife

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/28/2147930.htm

-A US woman has been arrested after she allegedly tried to hire a hitman to murder her married lover's wife by posting an ad on the popular website craigslist.org, law enforcement officials said.

 

Finland hospital serves up mouse head

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/27/2147364.htm

-A hospital patient in Finland found a mouse head among the steamed vegetables on his plate.

 

Grow Island

http://www.gamegecko.com/growisland.php

 

Numbrosia Puzzle (has links to other games)

http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=solve_puzzle

 

DHTML Lemmings

http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

 

Interface design and the iPhone

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00036T&topic_id=1&topic=Ask+E%2eT%2e

 

Reported Stimulus Package Would Provide Little Immediate Boost Due to Removal of Most Effective Provisions

http://www.cbpp.org/1-24-08bud-stmt.htm

 

Letter returned after 15 years - by fish

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/25/2146881.htm

-A letter that a young girl in Japan sent into the sky in a balloon some 15 years ago has been found on a fish hauled from 1,000 metres below the Pacific Ocean.

 

US school pays students to study

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/24/2145343.htm

-A high school in the southern US state of Georgia is offering students who are weak in maths and science $US8 ($9) per hour to go to study hall and review their pet peeve subjects.

 

Stowaway kitten takes US plane ride in a suitcase

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/23/2144301.htm

-A kitten has survived a plane trip halfway across the United States after accidentally ending up in a suitcase, a newspaper says.

 

Fract static gallery

http://gazdemo.ygingras.net/wiki/Fract+gallery+1

 

Holding up the sky

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heiwa4126/2111160390

 

The Future of Marriage

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/01/14/stephanie-coontz/the-future-of-marriage

 

In a word : Was that yes, no, or maybe?What the dictionary forgot to tell you

http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/02/16/rthanks_ed3_.php

-To live in a language, to understand and be understood, you have to line up what the dictionary says with the way the culture thinks. And often enough, what the dictionary says does not begin to cover the territory of even a simple word.

 

China police at the double for mass wedding

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/18/2142067.htm

-China has held a mass wedding of police couples who met in the line of duty in a bid to boost morale in the year of the Beijing Olympics.

 

http://librofili.googlepages.com/programma_2008

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/nu-template.htm

 

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=bruno+andrighetto&language=english&t=1000&d=&include=&exclude=&n=&m=&source=adv&l=y

 

Crystal Methodology

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2008/01/crystal_methodo.html

 

A Game in plain HTML (no JavaScript, no Flash, no PHP)

http://blog.beef.de/2008/01/16/html-game/

 

U.S. SIT (Special Information Tones) signal: Vacant Circuit (out of service or nonexistent phone number)

http://artofhacking.com/files/sounds/live/aoh_sit-vc.htm

 

ACM Classic Books Series

http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES11430&type=series&coll=ACM&dl=ACM

 

Heart of Darkness Conrad

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Books/Heart_Darkness.html

 

Alessandro Manzoni: Un percorso multimediale nei Promessi Sposi

http://www.liceoberchet.it/matdidattici/manzoni/

I Promessi Sposi (The Bethrothed)

http://www.bartleby.com/21/

 

Recensioni libri, riassunti, sintesi e commenti

http://www.my-libraryblog.com/

 

That to This

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/01/13/that_to_this.html

-These radical, personal, creative transformations rarely happen. We want them to happen, but there are mostly a lot of false starts because changing a creative habit is a long grind-it-out process.

 

So We Thought. But Then Again . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/business/13view.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

-Harry S Truman once said he wanted to talk to a one-armed economist, “so that the guy could never make a statement and then say: ‘on the other hand.’ ” Yet economic knowledge continues to progress in unexpected ways. Here are a few of the things we learned in the last 12 months

 

Amy Editor

http://www.april-child.com/amy/amy.php

 

gnod - books

http://www.gnooks.com/

Gnod's Suggestions

http://www.gnooks.com/trip.php

-typed in three authors and got back the name of the author I'd decided to read next!

+maps

+also gnoosic (music) and gnovies (movies)

 

Couple divorces after running into each other at brothel

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/10/2136113.htm

-A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees.

 

Commuters' body heat to warm Swedish office

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/11/2136993.htm

-A Swedish state-owned firm has found a cheap, eco-friendly source of energy to warm one of its offices: body heat from 250,000 commuters steaming through Stockholm's central train station.

 

Second Life Closes Banks

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20037/

 

http://doodle.ch/main.html

 

http://tiddlywiki.com/

 

From The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello:

"Why, oh why," I would ask myself frantically, "why do men strive to

make the mechanism of life so more and more complicated? Why all these

banging, crashing machines? What will become of people when machines

do everything for them? Will they then see that this so-called

progress has nothing to do with happiness? From all these inventions

with which science sincerely believes it is enriching humanity (really

making us poorer because they cost so much) what satisfaction do we

really get--even if we do admire them?"

 

Blind Men and an Elephant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Men_and_an_Elephant

 

Economics: best of 2007

http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2008/01/economics-best.html

 

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/

 

Building a .com in 24 hours

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/01/08/building-a-com-in-24-hours/

 

Satellites build a picture of the past

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1764

 

The 4 Laws of Simplicity, and How to Apply Them to Life

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/01/07/the-4-laws-of-simplicity-and-how-to-apply-them-to-life/

http://zenhabits.net/2008/01/the-four-laws-of-simplicity-and-how-to-apply-them-to-life/

 

Boy glues himself to bed to wag school

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/08/2133945.htm

 

'Subprime' named US word of the year

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/06/2132594.htm

 

Dieting for Dollars

http://opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110011081

 

Can You Count on Voting Machines?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06Vote-t.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all

 

Read in past but not logged:

Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence / George Dyson

? Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher / Richard Phillips Feynman

The Shift / George Foy

 

Things: Free Preview

http://culturedcode.com/things/

 

Lake Superior State University 2008 List of Banished Words

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

 

Top 17 Most Bizarre Sights on Google Earth

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/01/03/top-17-most-bizarre-sights-on-google-earth/

http://www.geekabout.com/2008-01-03-440/top-17-most-bizarre-sights-on-google-earth.html

 

A brief history of boredom

http://www.conceptualdevice.com/2007/08/a-brief-history-of-boredom.html

 

Online Computer Science Books

http://e7l3.org/books.html

Classical Computer Science Texts

http://e7l3.org/classics.html

 

Read in past but not logged:

The Edge of Human (Blade Runner, Book 2) / K.W. Jeter

Chaos: Making a new science / James Gleick

Faster: The acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick [2000/1]

 

This guy read 104 books in 2007!

http://interconnected.org/home/2007/12/26/i_completed_reading

 

Why Giving Makes You Happy

http://www.nysun.com/article/68700

 

Dunning-Kruger effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

 

Code's Worst Enemy

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html

 

Java is becoming the new Cobol

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/28/52FE-underreported-java_1.html

 

Best picture quality with 6 megapixels!

http://6mpixel.org/en/

 

Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed

http://www.amazon.com/Balancing-Agility-Discipline-Guide-Perplexed/dp/0321186125

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0321186125/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-5108428-8829213#reader-link

 

Giant shredder helps purge bad memories of 2007

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/29/2128762.htm

-New Yorkers who suffered a tough 2007 took their anger out on photographs of ex-husbands, old letters and annoying mobile phones, consigning their bad memories to a giant shredder.

 

What’s In A Name?

http://www.designobserver.com/archives/030925.html

 

2007 TRENDS - Logos

http://www.logolounge.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=540

 

Researchers unveil seven great 'medical myths'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/26/2127376.htm

-Despite frequent mentions in the popular press of the need to drink eight glasses of water, researchers found no scientific basis for the claim.

 

Brothers hand out Christmas cash at mall

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/27/2127752.htm

-Shoppers in the US got a Christmas Eve surprise when a pair of brothers handed out $US100 notes at a mall on Long Island in New York.

 

Malaysian referee pulls out red card, then a gun

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/25/2127264.htm

-A Malaysian referee took out his gun and fired warning shots in the air after a local soccer match turned unruly following the suspension of a player, a newspaper said.

 

'Silent' Xmas song climbs the NZ music charts

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/25/2127127.htm

-The song was recorded at very high frequencies so only a dog can hear it, and it struck such a chord with animal lovers that they have pushed it to number three on the singles charts.

 

http://www.goodreads.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/api

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/155517

 

The Definitive Top 25 Movies of 2007

http://www.bspcn.com/2007/12/24/the-definitive-top-25-movies-of-2007/

MCN Top Ten: The Big Ass Chart

http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2008/top_ten/00index.html

 

Email in the 18th century

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/email-in-the-18.html

-Coded long distance communication also formed the basis of a remarkable but largely forgotten communications network that prepared the arrival of the internet: the optical telegraph.

 

Rube Goldberg machine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

http://www.rube-goldberg.com/

http://www.rube-goldberg.com/gallery.php

Japanese Rube Goldberg Contest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvdq8cRNBM

MythBusters Rube Goldberg Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCYg_gz4fDo&NR=1

Rube Goldberg Machines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVkzgKObv0&feature=related

Rube Goldberg Officeplace Contraption

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J16dyV4Du8&feature=related

 

The Doh! of technology

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19626359.900-the-doh-of-technology.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

How Addicted to Apple Are You?

http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/apple_addiction

-56%

 

Design

http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Design

-Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet

 

The secret to winning at rock, paper, scissors

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/19/sciscissors119.xml

 

Collision course

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10342303 &fsrc=RSS

-New European Union emission rules are bad news for Germany's carmakers

 

Pedestrian charged for walking over car

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/19/2123429.htm

-A pedestrian has been charged with damaging property after walking over a car that was parked illegally on the sidewalk in Greece's congested capital.

 

10 Habits of Highly Effective Brains

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alvaro-fernandez/10-habits-of-highly-effec_b_77369.html

 

The Year's 10 Craziest Ways to Hack the Earth

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/multimedia/2007/12/YE_10_geoengineering

 

Vaporware 2007: Long Live the King

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/multimedia/2007/12/YE_Vaporware

 

FlyPath – innovative file browser and file manager for Mac OS X

http://www.flypath.info/features.html

 

TWILIGHT OF THE BOOKS: What will life be like if people stop reading?

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/12/24/071224crat_atlarge_crain?currentPage=all

 

Year in Review - Offbeat

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/19/2118580.htm

-Here's a taste of a few of those quirky yarns that caught the attention of many online users.

 

Friday becomes 'Greg' after court order

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/19/2122450.htm

-An Italian court has ruled a couple could not name their son "Friday" and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on.

 

8 Fairy Tales And Their Not-So-Happy Endings

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10457/

 

http://www.b-list.org/

 

1530 Main - a pool with a view

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninjatune/2109854947

 

Steve Jobs at Home In 1982

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html

 

Yes! It's the the wireless USB Missile Launcher

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/14/wireless_usb_missile_launcher/

 

Behind the Lines 2007: The Year's Best Cartoons

http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2007_the_years_best_cartoons/introduction/

 

Google 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2007/

 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007

http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/07words.htm

 

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/12/pretend-to-be-a.html

 

Human History (in 10 bullet points)

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/news/trans_Kors.html

 

Sci-Fi Baby Names

http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/9d7b/

 

Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/03.html

 

Datejs is an open-source JavaScript Date Library

http://www.datejs.com/

 

Don't jump! Advice for goalkeepers from economic psychology

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2007/11/is-this-why-goalkeepers-are-so-bad-at.html

 

Looking for a wiki

http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/11/looking-for-a-w.html

 

The Vast and Endless Sea

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/11/vast-and-endless-sea.html

 

Programmer DNA

http://www.commonsense4commonpeople.net/2007/10/programmer-dna.html

 

Wufoo Form Gallery

http://wufoo.com/gallery/

 

Dashboard Programming Topics: Using Scroll Areas

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Dashboard_ProgTopics/Articles/AppleScrollArea.html

 

1001 Books You Must Read

http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books

1001 Movies You Must See

http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.30169/Movies

1001 Albums You Must Hear

http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.30827/Music

 

Are the family clichés true?

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3172307.ece

-The middle one's always difficult, the eldest is a bossy boots and the youngest is a tearaway. But are the family clichés true? Finally, scientists have the answer.

 

Yellow peril

http://www.spiekermann.com/mten/2007/11/yellow_peril.html

-While doing one of his research projects, he came across a rumour, saying that various manufacturers printed an invisible code onto each page that comes out of one of their laser-printers. The US government had supposedly requested that. The secret code was said to contain the date, down to a second, and the equipment’s serial number. The EEF.org (Electronic Frontier Foundation) was reported to have cracked that code.

 

What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-20-n35.html

 

Harvard Physicist Plays Magician With the Speed of Light

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-11/st_alphageek

 

BR's crystallographic computing tutorials(Fortran CGI example)

http://www.ruppweb.org/Xray/comp/cgi_prog.htm

 

http://meta-meta.blogspot.com/

 

Managing your iTunes Library on an External Hard Drive

http://ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/

 

The Vista Death Watch

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2209837,00.asp

 

Cartoon physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_physics

Cartoon Laws of Physics

http://funnies.paco.to/cartoon.html

 

http://scripteka.com/

 

http://www.mochikit.com/examples/rounded_corners/index.html

 

Example: HTML to SVG communication

http://svg-whiz.com/svg/interdoc/html-svg.html

 

Drawing with GFX [dojox.gfx]

http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-3-programmatic-dijit-and-dojo/drawing-gfx

 

What is the Spreadsheets Data API?

http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/overview.html

 

Sinking Currency, Sinking Country

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20071102/cm_uc_crpbux/op_334275;_ylt=AlNlZx1bSi_vM9_SUTKYy72s0NUE

-The dollar is plunging because America has been living beyond her means, borrowing $2 billion a day from foreign nations to maintain her standard of living and to sustain the American Imperium.

 

Fooling yourself is an ancient and useful trait

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19626284.400-fooling-yourself-is-an-ancient-and-useful-trait.html

-When things go wrong for us, we have a choice - give up on a cherished self-image ("I'm irresistible to women," say), or keep it and play down the situation ("I didn't really like her anyway..."). Over the past 50 years, hundreds of studies have revealed the many tools at our disposal which cope with this "cognitive dissonance" - from selective memory to the biased framing and retelling of events. These allow us to live with our choices and, ultimately, ourselves, yet their origins are poorly understood.

 

http://www.gracenote.com/map/

 

Managing Rails Plugins with Piston

http://www.rubyinside.com/advent2006/12-piston.html

 

ActiveScaffold demo - users (habtm roles)

http://demo.activescaffold.com/users

 

Inmate escapes German prison in suitcase

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/31/2077910.htm

-A 19-year-old German woman has escaped from prison by hiding in a friend's suitcase.

 

Student finds art treasure in old couch

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/31/2076602.htm

-A Berlin student who bought a second-hand sofa bed at a flea market learned she had been sitting on a small fortune when she found a 17th century baroque painting hidden inside the couch.

 

Go-kart teenager outruns 5km police chase

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/28/2072495.htm

-A teenager speeding through a German town in a go-kart with seven squad cars in hot pursuit managed to give the frustrated officers the slip, police said.

 

Toronto's burglars-in-a-box busted

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/27/2072333.htm

-Canadian police have caught two men and a woman who used an ordinary cardboard box to break into more than 200 fast-food outlets in the Toronto area.

 

One-step method for adding third-party apps to iPhone 1.1.1, iPod Touch debuts

http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2007/10/28/one-step-method-for-adding-third-party-apps-to-iphone-111-ipod-touch-debuts/

 

In Pictures: The Most Notable Notebooks of 2007

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html

 

Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants

http://divinecaroline.com/article/22167/37205

 

17 Ways to Find Your Passion For Any and Everything

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/find-your-passion/

 

Trolling with Java Web Frameworks

http://www.jroller.com/javelotinfo/entry/trolling_with_java_web_frameworks

 

PenPoint Demonstration 1991

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9140399149118885327

PenPoint OS - Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenPoint_OS

Introduction to PenPoint

http://www.mactech.com/articles/frameworks/6_2/PenPoint_Brugge.html

PenPoint tablet pen computer by GO Corporation

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/go/index.html

 

Back-seat toilet to end mishaps in traffic jams

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/24/2069280.htm

-A Japanese manufacturer has developed a new portable toilet for cars, equipped with a curtain for privacy and a plastic bag to collect waste.

 

Binned painting could fetch $1.1m

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/24/2068341.htm

-A painting found in a New York bin is expected to fetch $1.1 million at auction.

 

Bob Truby's Brand Name Pencils

http://www.brandnamepencils.com/

 

Modern life is making us fat

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19626263.600&feedId=online-news_rss20

-First the good news: it's modern life that makes us fat, not innate greed. Now the bad news: there's no "silver bullet" to make us thin again, nor any master plan for turning back the tide of obesity.

 

http://dharmatech.onigirihouse.com/atari-forth.jpg

 

The Calculus of Saying “I Love You”

http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/the-calculus-of-saying-i-love-you/

 

Pogue’s Imponderables

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/pogues-imponderables/

 

'Italiese' joins other European hybrids : Italy struggles to keep the mother tongue pure

http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/11/10/lingua_ed3_.php

 

VanityRing

http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/projects/summer07/haupt/bodytech/googlering.html

The VanityRing doesn't have a jewel, instead it shows the number of hits one gets, when he searches Google for the name of the person who wears it, a more adequate value in our time. It is personalized using a custom software, and after the name is typed the ring will change its display to show the personal "attention carats", while every night, when it is inserted into its docking station the ring is reloaded and updated.

 

The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Ever Need To Read (Hopefully)

http://davidrupp.blogspot.com/2007/10/last-language-war-language-trolling.html

 

Read:

Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative / Edward R. Tufte

Don't make me think! : a common sense approach to web usability / Steve Krug

 

http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/ColorTool_appletMac.html

 

http://tinyurl.com/2wvdv9

http://subversion.open.collab.net/servlets/ProjectForumMessageView?messageID=2158&forumID=43

 

 

Most Useful Mac Software

http://techmagazine.ws/mac-software/

 

Seeing Metaclasses Clearly

http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/seeingMetaclassesClearly.html

Ruby Matters: A Place to Put Your Stuff

http://memeagora.blogspot.com/2007/09/ruby-matters-place-to-put-your-stuff.html

 

19 Things I Learned From Movies

http://www.bspcn.com/2007/08/27/19-things-i-learned-from-movies/

 

Police State

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2007/09/05/police_state

 

Blows Against the Empire - The return of Philip K. Dick

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/08/20/070820crbo_books_gopnik?currentPage=all

 

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/index.html

 

Nine Javascript Gotchas

http://www.fitzblog.com/tabid/17782/bid/2127/Nine-Javascript-Gotchas.aspx

 

How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It)

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_javascript_is_slowing_down_the_web.php

 

Beatiful Code in the Real World - Part II: Scorn Globally, Act Locally

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=212350

 

Storing Data "In A Cloud"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/15/scitech/pcanswer/main3169392.shtml

 

On borrowed time

http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/on-borrowed-time/2007/08/06/1186252633071.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conformist

 

gattopardo

 

The hypothesis that the observed dagginess of the Monday clientele of the Myer Centre food court staff is directly correlated to the relative fortunes of the two Adelaide AFL teams appears to be incorrect. At lunchtime today there was no discernible improvement, despite the Crows winning and Port losing on the weekend. A caveat is that this observation was made during lunchtime today rather than before lunch.

 

MusicMap - Visual Music Search Application

http://www.dimvision.com/musicmap/

 

Musicovery

http://www.musicovery.com/

-displays music taste connections and lets you listen to the song and browse through similar songs

 

Ink trails

http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=86

 

Elastic Lists

http://well-formed-data.net/experiments/elastic_lists/

 

A FORTRAN Coloring Book

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/ColoringBkCover.html

-"A lively approach to seduce,/In manner quite sim'lar to Seuss./Handwritten, with drawings and lots of guffawings/Disposed to make Fortran transluce."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/believekevin/390132231/

|

+-> Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

 

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=Summary_Chapter_1

 

M.C. Escher's Waterfall Now in a 3D Sculpture and LEGO, Too

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/impossible/mc-eschers-waterfall-now-in-a-3d-sculpture-and-lego-too-285336.php

 

Champion Piquet going back to basics

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/01/1993730.htm

-Three-time Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet has been sent back to driving school after being charged for repeated traffic offences

 

Man chops off own hand in offering to Hindu goddess

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/01/1993506.htm

-"He offered special worship at the temple this morning. After the worship, he chopped off his right hand and offered to the temple of Goddess Kali"

 

Ten Reasons To Throw Away Your Cellphone

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/ten-reasons-to-.html

 

Microsoft FUD Watch, 6-27-07

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/microsoft_fud_watch_62707.html

 

Paris Hilton loses inheritance

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22157708-2,00.html

 

Italian Grammar Home Page

http://www.gwc.org.uk/ModernLang/hotpot/Italian2/GrammarIndex.html

CyberItalian Grammar

http://www.cyberitalian.com/html/grammar.htm

Basic Italian Grammar

http://www.mmdtkw.org/ItalGram.html

 

The Myths of Innovation

http://www.amazon.com/Myths-Innovation-Scott-Berkun/dp/0596527055

 

Write Articles, Not Blog Postings

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/articles-not-blogs.html

 

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/StarWarsNameGen/swng.xml

 

FlyGesture

http://flyingmeat.com/flygesture/

 

Ruby Project Spotlight, June '07 : Sequel

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/07/ruby_project_spotlight_june_07.html

 

When You Absolutely, Positively Should NOT Use Email: A Civilized List

http://changethis.com/36.03.Civilized

 

Money flows free in men's toilets in Japan

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/12/1976536.htm

-Envelopes containing $100 have been discovered in men's toilets across Japan

 

If music doesn't move you, it's daggy

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/11/1976100.htm

-An Aussie researcher has discovered why you might think Barbara Streisand is uncool

 

Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide

http://ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-computer/

 

The Great Xbox Shortage of 2005

http://www.slate.com/id/2132071/

-Why you can't buy the one present you really need

Xbox Economics, Part 2

http://www.slate.com/id/2132988/

-More reasons Microsoft isn't charging enough for the season's hot game console

Everyday economics: How the dismal science applies to your life

http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&cp=2025

Articles by Tim Harford

http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&qp=44027

 

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4363

 

Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1571456988

 

--

 

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Edward R. Tufte

http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information-2nd/dp/0961392142

 

Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070630/sc_livescience/brainscansrevealwhymeditationworks;_ylt=AlhKuUjwdc98QYjTJuztJCoDW7oF

-Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center

 

Flip

http://www.revfad.com/flip.html

 

Backing Up Your Mac

http://maczealots.com/articles/backup/

 

http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/

http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/general/copystamp/index.html

http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/objects/index.html

http://itext.ugent.be/library/com/lowagie/examples/objects/Paragraphs.java

http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/com/lowagie/text/Paragraph.html

http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/com/lowagie/text/xml/simpleparser/EntitiesToUnicode.html

http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfTemplate.html

http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfContentByte.html showTextAligned

http://itext.ugent.be/library/com/lowagie/examples/objects/chunk/SubSupScript.java

http://itext.ugent.be/library/com/lowagie/examples/objects/SymbolSubstitution.java

 

Python

>>> co2 = "CO" + u"\u2082"

>>> print co2.encode('utf8')

CO₂ (i.e. CO₂)

>>> co2 = "CO" + u'\N{SUBSCRIPT TWO}'

>>> print co2.encode('utf8')

CO₂ (i.e. CO₂)

 

unicode subscript two

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2082/index.htm

unicode trademark

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2122/index.htm

 

http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/

 

Sitemap.xml

 

Taxpayers on the hook for $59 trillion

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-28-federal-budget_N.htm

A script to create multi-DVD-spanning backups http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070519051857216 The Nine Biggest Myths of the Workplace by Penelope Trunk http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/guykawasaki/Gypm/~3/117643688/the_nine_bigges.html In the Hour of Our Pride http://www.nysun.com/article/54613 -review: "Are We Rome?" by Cullen Murphy macfuse http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ -A FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism for Mac OS X JavaScript Libraries: The Big Picture

http://simonwillison.net/2007/May/16/libraries/

 

Mashups: The next major new application development model?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techtarget/tsscom/home/~3/117508656/thread.tss

 

Hackers and Fighters

http://www.lambdassociates.org/Blog/hackers.htm

 

Mouse movement

http://www.bobcongdon.net/blog/2007/05/mouse-movement.html

http://www.1-click.jp/

 

http://bruno-andrighetto.tumblr.com/

http://www.tumblr.com/

 

Rediscovering the Button Element

http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/

 

The Immaturity of CMM

http://www.satisfice.com/articles/cmm.shtml

 

Bill Gates and DONKEY.BAS

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000862.html

 

JSON vs. XML: Browser Security Model

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=060ca7c3-b03f-41aa-937b-c8cba5b7f986

 

Ajax.Request.evalJSON doesn't parse valid JSON

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3293

 

DubyaSpeak.com: What's in a Name?

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/whatsinaname.phtml?year=2001

 

French workers biggest whingers: study

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1922880.htm

-French workers are the world's biggest whingers, according to a study which also says the Irish complain least about their lot

 

Italian prefers prison over mother's arguing

-http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1921542.htm

A 24-year-old Italian man under house arrest called for police to take him to jail because he could no longer put up with arguments with his mother and stepfather

 

Carbon trading - Green market forces

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9172532

-Carbon-trading schemes would provide many benefits, if only their failings were tackled

 

Ruby The Smalltalk Way #1 - Fundamentals

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-The-Smalltalk-Way-1

 

First Steps to Scala

http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html

 

Butler

http://www.manytricks.com/butler/

 

Programming *is* much more than "just writing code".

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=614216

 

Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_17_search_innovations.php

 

The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need

http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/the-freelancers-toolset-100-web-apps-for-everything-you-will-possibly-need/

 

Using Python and AppleScript Together

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/05/08/using-python-and-applescript-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-mac.html

 

AJAX: Selecting the Framework that Fits

http://www.ddj.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203087&dept_url=/dept/webservices/

 

How to paginate, sort and search a table with Ajax and Rails

http://dev.nozav.org/rails_ajax_table.html

 

A Rails HOWTO: Query By Example

http://blog.codahale.com/2006/02/04/a-rails-howto-query-by-example/

 

Scaffolding Extensions Plugin

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Scaffolding+Extensions+Plugin

 

The Complete NIN Discography

http://www.burningsouls.com/discog/updates.cfm

nine inch nails discography (focusses on older stuff)

http://nothing.nin.net/discog.html

 

Nine Inch Nails - CRC Session

http://gregage.multiply.com/music/item/85

 

R S P A A : the Reborn Smashing Pumpkins Audio Archive

http://rspaa.niluje.net/data/

http://www.billy-corgan.com/index.php?page=mp3s

 

http://curve-online.co.uk/mp3.php

 

http://www.vox.com/explore/audio/

 

http://multiply.com/

 

Corripio

http://nclasssoftware.com/corripio/

-open source album artwork gathering application

http://www.coveralia.com/

 

Flash Video Downloader

http://tesseractsoftware.googlepages.com/flashvideodownloader.htm

SWF & FLV Player

http://mac.eltima.com/downloadplayer.html

 

iGTD

http://bargiel.home.pl/iGTD/

-Powerful GTD-like organizer for Mac

 

Ten of the best April Fool's Day hoaxes: US museum

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070329054603.f2i8t0mu&show_article=1&catnum=9

 

http://www.elizabethfraser.com/music.html

 

http://www.radioblogclub.com/

 

HP Exits Media Center Business, Drops DEC Line

http://www.cepro.com/news/editorial/18066.html

-That was Microsoft's original plan -- to "own" the living room by way of CE-looking Media Center PCs. But besides HP, no one back then was really making MCEs in an A/V form factor.

 

Powerpoint paralysis

http://valleywag.com/tech/aol/powerpoint-paralysis-247173.php

 

 

Il Castello di Endrighetto del Bongaio

http://www.alpagone.it/Il%20Castello%20del%20Bongaio.htm

Dopo la cessazione del dominio longobaro Berengario I dona l'Alpago e il Cansiglio al Vescovo di Belluno, nel 923 d.C.; ci spieghiamo quindi come mai troviamo per esempio il toponimo "Montagna del Vescovo" che identifica il costone che collega il monte Dolada con il Col Nudo.

Intorno all'anno 1300, a seguito della decadenza vescovile e la crescita del Consiglio dei Nobili, entra in scena un personaggio che ha un importanza ragguardevole nella storia di quel periodo, non solo dell'Alpago, ma dell'intera Belluno: Endrighetto da Bongaio.

Divenuto Podesta' di Belluno sotto la dominazione scaligera, venne nominato nel 1323 Conte e Signore d'Alpago e ricevette le insegne di Cavaliere da Can Grande della Scala in persona nel 1327.

Si presume che la sua dimora fosse appunto il Castello del Bongaio, di cui sopra. Endrighetto vive comunque a Belluno, e per diversi anni acquista sempre piu' potere, passando con disinvoltura da un regnante all'altro: Carlo di Lussemburgo, che divenetera' Carlo IV di Boemia e poi imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero, conquista Belluno e riceve gli onori di casa dal nostro.

Del resto quel periodo era decisamente movimentato: guerre, complotti, tradimenti; anche per Endrighetto ci sono alti e bassi; venne anche imprigionato per sospetto tradimento (fu poi rilasciato) e fini' miseramente assassinato nel 1359.

Il dominio della Contea dell'Alpago nel frattempo era stato affidato a Giacoma, moglie di Endrighetto. Questa figura di donna lascia intravedere un personaggio forte e al tempo stesso benevolo verso i propri "sudditi", tanto da creare una sorta di mito.

Ancora oggi i vecchi "Pagoti" la ricordano come la "Regina Mongai" a signifacare, con quel titolo superstite di regina, una nostalgia di nobiltà che distinse l'Alpago per breve tempo. La sua morte probabilmente avvenne prima di quella del consorte. Infatti subito dopo l'assassinio di Endrighetto la Contea ripassa ai Vescovi di Belluno.

 

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/R/Rock/Garage/Bands_and_Artists/White_Stripes,_The/

 

"white stripes" "shelter of your arms"

 

Q Magazine's 500 great lost tracks - Sound Opinions Message Board

http://www.soundopinions.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8845

 

http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2006/06/mazzy-star-b-sides-rarities-and-live.html

 

http://www.u2wanderer.org/isthatall/004.html

U2 - Unreleased & Rare

http://nits05.multiply.com/music/item/75

http://www.sideload.com/

Nick Cave and Enya

http://www.sideload.com/cb/track/?id=93899

 

http://www.isound.com/josh_haden_ca

 

http://goldfrapp.free.fr/php/home.php

 

Goldfrapp - Player

http://feltmountainplayer.free.fr/mp3s/index.html

http://videossophie2.free.fr/index.html

http://videossophie3.free.fr/supernature/index.html

 

BARRI / Barra

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0002are.htm

 

lpr command and escape codes

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sgi.admin/browse_thread/thread/3282826ef540f676/2a61553b9cc0b0a9?lnk=st&q=%2Blpr+%2Bescape+%7Eproblem&rnum=6#2a61553b9cc0b0a9

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

 

----

 

Goldfrapp: B-side of Train, "Big Black Cloud, Little White Lie"

 

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognome

 

Gardening Australia

http://abc.net.au/gardening/

 

http://members.lycos.nl/inxs/newpage11.html

 

http://perldoc.perl.org/encoding.html

use encoding 'big5', STDIN => 'utf8', STDOUT => 'big5';

 

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_piconv.htm

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/piconv.1.html

 

My flickr photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7251793@N03/

 

Elbow - One Thing That Was Bothering Me (Newborn CD1)

 

http://audio.search.yahoo.com/

 

http://inxs.ru/media.htm

http://www.prtshd.narod.ru/sound/Remix/remix.htm

 

Neil Kothari's blog

http://thecowmonkey.blogspot.com/

http://www.geocities.com/nkoth/disclist.html

 

http://www.tuxick.net/pics/piracy2.jpg

 

http://webjay.org/

http://room509.net/sr/music/media/text.html

 

http://search.cpan.org/src/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-1.4/Iconv.pm

http://search.cpan.org/src/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-1.4/Iconv.xs

 

Ballmer jumping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4MzqBFxZE

Ballmer - developers x n

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE

 

Che cosa vuol dire "berluscone"?

http://www.attivissimo.net/antibufala/berluscone/berluscone.htm

http://www.etimo.it/?term=berlusco

Silvius Berlusco

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvius_Berlusconi

 

ALIBRANDI / ALOISI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0001ld.htm

BELLUCCI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0002elle.htm

Benigni

p75 of the Felice book

BRANDO

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0002ra.htm

CANNAVARO

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0003can.htm

CICCONE

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0003ci.htm

FELLINI / FENECH

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0006av.htm

FERRARI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0006eo.htm

GARIBALDI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0007ar.htm

MACHIAVELLI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0011.htm

MARCONI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0011ap.htm

MASTROIANNI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0011as.htm

PRADA / PRESTAGIACOMO

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0014r.htm

ROSSI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0016os.htm

TOTTI

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi0018on.htm

 

Epson Esc/P 2 Printer Command Codes

http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/links/esc_p2.htm

 

http://b-list.blogspot.com/2005/02/viceversa-alessi.html

http://www.viceversa.com/Dynamic/Products,intCategoryID,34,intItemID,1447.html

 

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

 

GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter

http://qbnz.com/highlighter/

[installed in ~/Sites/Experiments/php/ ]

http://emac.local/~brunoand/Experiments/php/geshi/contrib/example.php

 

eMac:~ brunoand$ sudo gem install pimki

eMac:~ brunoand$ sudo /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Pimki-1.8.200/pimki.rb

http://localhost:2500/

 

"the road ahead" by billg 4sale@lib

 

Origine dei cognomi italiani

http://www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/cognomi00.htm

 

La mappa dei cognomi

http://gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/

 

Ancestry.com - Italian Database Search

http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=41352903=italy_text

 

Italian Names & the History of Names

http://www.anzwers.org/free/italiangen/italynames.html

 

San Procopio - map

http://www.comuni-italiani.it/080/076/mappa.html

 

Cultured Perl: Reading and writing Excel files with Perl

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pexcel/

Spreadsheet-ParseExcel - Problem in parsing non-english characters.

http://www.cpanforum.com/posts/3373

 

http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/Instiki+MoinMoin+Pimki+SnipSnap+XWiki+JSPWiki

 

http://w3.epson.com.tw/imaging/Product/F0/LQ-680C.asp

 

libiconv

http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroir

http://www.terroir-france.com/theclub/meaning.htm

http://www.wineanorak.com/terroir2.htm

 

President George W. Bush proclaimed, "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.htm

 

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/wahoo/index/php/20030922.phtml

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20020630211835/http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index20010902.htm

 

The Complete Bushisms

http://www.slate.com/id/76886/

Bushisms: Adventures in George W. Bushspeak - Updated Frequently

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm

Great Moments in Presidential Speeches compilation

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GoNVOH9ygNM

Best of Great Moments in Presidential Speeches II:Extended

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGJaeFMKuBw

George W Bush - American Idiot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moutUEfqUQ4

 

Psychologist Produces The First-ever 'World Map Of Happiness'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113093726.htm

 

Learn Cocoa II

http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_cocoa_two/

 

Tressants - Invisible Cities

http://www.tressants.com/

-The interior design of the entire hotel is based on the book, "Invisible Cities", by Italo Calvino. Each bedroom is representative of a different city

+Hotel Tressants in Menorca

http://www.architectureweek.com/2004/0121/design_1-1.html

 

"Hello, tech support? My book isn't working"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU

 

All Things iPhone

http://ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/all-things-iphone/

 

http://www.gooogIe.co.uk/

http://www.gooogie.co.uk/?gid=71097&hl=en&meta=o&q=george%20w%20bush

http://www.gooogie.co.uk/?gid=71095&hl=en&meta=o&q=john%20howard

http://www.gooogie.co.uk/?gid=71096&hl=en&meta=o&q=rugby%20league

 

Is It Worth Being Wise?

http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html

 

Atractors (Flash)

http://www.thecleverest.com/content/attractors.html

 

RapidoWrite

http://www.app4mac.com/rapidowrite.html

-You just define your list of abbreviations, and RapidoWrite will automatically show you related texts as you type

 

The Trouble with Vista

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9009961

-It isn't the features you can see in Vista, or the lack thereof -- it's the priority shift at Microsoft's core

+Operating Systems ranked by overall usability and quality

http://www.computerworld.com/html/collateral/msvistatour/02introchart.html

http://www.computerworld.com/html/collateral/msvistatour/images/02_introchart.jpg

 

Intel co-founder: now a Mac user

http://www.macuser.com/people/intel_cofounder_now_a_mac_user.php?lsrc=murss

 

Java - State of Denial

http://pab-data.blogspot.com/2007/02/java-state-of-denial.html

 

Zorro

http://www.margaretmazzantini.com/mazzantini/04libri.htm

 

Spain - News

http://www.saghaug.no/spain/news.htm

-new solo album: Josh Haden "Devoted" Feb 13 2007

http://www.myspace.com/joshhaden

 

Italian Verbs

http://www.italian-verbs.com/

 

Design by code

http://codecraft.info/index.php/archives/74/

 

Think 1.0

http://www.freeverse.com/think/

 

Innovation Happens Elsewhere

http://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html

+other books as pdf

http://www.dreamsongs.com/Books.html

 

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

 

Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates

http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/lies_damned_lies_and_bill_gates

-< he must be scared :) >

 

Vista and Mac OS X Leopard Upgrade Chart

http://macintosh.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/vista-and-mac-os-x-leopard-upgrade-chart/

 

Microsoft Confirms it Originated iPod Box Parody Video

http://www.ipodobserver.com/story/25957

 

How long is a split-second? It's all relative

http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=34e3fae76b508037d0a68e8f037b9a6a

 

Groundhog Day brings prediction of early US spring

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1839453.htm

+The enlightened 'Groundhog'

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/16592742.htm

 

Creating a Pleasant User Experience

http://blogs.newsgator.com/inbox/2007/01/creating_a_plea.html

 

Make your own iPhone, out of cake or LEGO

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/02/make-your-own-iphone-out-of-cake-or-lego/

 

The World Is Flat?: A Critical Analysis of New York Times Bestseller

http://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-Critical-Analysis-Bestseller/dp/0929652045/

 

The Evolution of the Apple Mouse

http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/mouse.html

+my Mighty Mouse criticism

http://bruno-rants.blogspot.com/2007/02/apples-mighty-mouse-not-so-mighty-in.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

 

http://www.rba.gov.au/Statistics/exchange_rates.html

 

Serverskine - Web Development Info Manager

http://www.serverskine.com/

-Designed to allow web developers, who deal with many projects at once, quick access to FTP, hosting accounts, domain name accounts and more. Especially when dealing with off-site shared hosting, keeping track of usernames and passwords can be daunting. Serverskine eliminates the terror by allowing you to quickly organize, search, edit, and backup all of your important account information

-< freeware >

 

ABC to get Second Life

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1836755.htm

-The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Telstra and Tourism Australia are building islands in the virtual online world of Second Life. Companies are recognising the huge marketing potential of the three-dimensional world, where people escape their own existences to live a different virtual life, and are racing to set up shop there and in other virtual worlds.

 

CodeSOD: Paid by the Line

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Paid_by_the_Line.aspx

 

iPhone presents test case for media buyers

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20070129&ID=6403527

 

Hybridizing Java

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=193593

-The Java backlash has been building up steam, and we’re starting to see some fundamental shifts because of it

Are you scared of Java language change? Why?

http://jroller.com/page/scolebourne?entry=are_you_scared_of_java

 

Hipster Shuffle

http://www.restlessdreaming.com/hipster-shuffle/

-the hPDA ... The Hipster PDA is a paper-based personal organizer popularized, if not invented, by San Francisco writer Merlin Mann

 

iTunes Scripts for Mac OS X

http://www.apple.com/applescript/itunes/

-download includes 21 free fonts

 

Few rush out to buy new Windows Vista

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista_launch

-Consumers can finally get their hands on Microsoft Corp.'s long-delayed Windows Vista, but unlike the mad midnight rushes retailers saw with the recently released video game consoles, stores saw only a trickle of early adopters Tuesday

--perhaps a case of too much choice? - 7 versions of Vista

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions.asp

-In the Home category, Microsoft will create four product editions: Windows Starter 2007, Windows Vista Home Basic (and Home Basic N for the European market), Windows Vista Home Premium, and Windows Vista Ultimate (previously known as "Uber" Edition). In the Business category, there will are three editions: Windows Vista Small Business, Windows Vista Business (previously known as Professional Standard Edition; along with Business N for the European market), and Windows Vista Enterprise (previously known as Professional Premium Edition)

Why The Skepticism On Microsoft Vista?

http://software.seekingalpha.com/article/25517

win 3 (1990) ~ mac 1-4 (1984-1987)

win 3.1 (1992) ~ macos 6 (1988)

win 95 (1995) ~ macos 7 (1991)

win 98 (1998) ~ macos 7.5-8 (1995-1997)

win 2k/ME (2000) ~ macos 9 (1999)

win XP (2001) ~ macos x 10.1 (2001)

vista (2007) ~ macos x 10.2 (2002)

 

How To Become a Better Programmer by Not Programming

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000543.html

 

In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment

http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2007/01/in-which-i-think-about-java-again-but-only-for-a-moment/

 

F-Script Anywhere

http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/

-F-Script Anywhere lets you embed a F-Script interpreter in any Cocoa application. You can use F-Script like a debugger, so you can examine your application's objects in a richer environment than GDB or Xcode permits. F-Script Anywhere can also be useful for examining applications you didn't write, to isolate bugs or add new features.

 

Pike's SVG Tutorial

http://apike.ca/prog_svg.html

 

What's Your Personal Backup Strategy?

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/30/170253

 

Don't make the Demo look Done

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/12/dont_make_the_d.html

 

Software Wars

http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/current/

-A graphic map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of Microsoft

 

Influence, by Robert B. Cialdini

http://www.rickross.com/reference/brainwashing/brainwashing20.html

-a summary of the book

 

Clik Clak

http://clik.clak.free.fr/film_small.htm

http://clik.clak.free.fr/film_high.htm

-reminds of Honda "Cog" ad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(television_commercial)

http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/2110.asp

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/honda-ad.html

http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp

 

Zabaglione recipes

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000746zabaglione.php

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/dessert/zabaglione.html

 

Pop-up Potpourri: The -693926 Days of Christmas

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/105922.aspx

 

Assertiveness for Software Developers

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000752.html

 

Getting started with your new Mac

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/12/25/getting-started-with-your-new-mac/

 

Apple - Batteries - Notebooks

http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html

 

Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html

 

What If There Are No Gods?

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-if-there-are-no-gods.html

 

Behind the Scenes of Objective-C 2.0

http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=665128&rl=1

 

AppleScript Shell

http://hayne.net/MacDev/Ash/

 

Functional Programming For The Rest of Us

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html

 

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2004/12/15/essential-skills-for-agile-development/

http://sketchup.google.com/product_suf.html

 

http://communica.dotat.org/contact.html

 

http://www.httrack.com/

 

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/06/vista-pdf-and-microsoft-code-links.html

 

(Not) Managing Software Developers

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/05/not-managing-software-developers.html

The Manager FAQ

http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/manager.html

The Hacker FAQ

http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/hacker.html

 

Create user-friendly Web forms

http://builder.com.com/5100-31-5073250.html

How to Create User-Friendly Forms - Programming

http://webdesign.about.com/od/forms/a/aa111802_2.htm

Steps for designing usable forms

http://www.webforum.org.uk/web_usability/forms.asp

 

The Paradox of Choice

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/july-dec03/paradox_12-26.html

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000977.html

http://livlab.com/?p=18

http://www.hopkinsandcompany.com/Books/The%20Paradox%20of%20Choice.htm

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jimothy/archive/2004/05/the_paradox_of.html

 

 

 

Lost in translation

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1781004,00.html

 

-The Brits often assume that Germans have no sense of humour. In truth, writes comedian Stewart Lee, it's a language problem. The peculiarities of German sentence construction simply rule out the lazy set-ups that British comics rely on ...

 

 

 

Artima.com interviews, including pragmatic series

 

http://www.artima.com/intv/

 

 

 

iRows - Ajax spreadsheet app

 

http://irows.com/Edit?id=1713

 

 

 

British dogs eat better than their owners

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1647649.htm

 

 

 

http://www.flyingbeds.com/14.Euro_BunkBed/Euro-ComputerBed.htm

 

http://www.hgpshinjuku.jp/cap/images/shisetsu/pic04.jpg

 

 

 

Mac Hut, the web's best source for legal Macintosh abandonware

 

http://twilightice.net/~joshuacoventry/machut/

 

 

 

homepage.mac.com/bruno_andrighetto/Experiments/LibMST.html

 

 

 

http://bruno.andrighetto.googlepages.com/home

 

http://pages.google.com/

 

 

 

State Library of South Australia Library catalogue http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/search/

 

Uni of Adelaide Library Catalogue updated http://voyager.library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

 

 

 

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?bsw

 

 

 

http://abc.net.au/tv/familyfootsteps/

 

 

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp

 

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

 

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3320911915

 

 

 

design, design review, code, code review

 

 

 

http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=30091&seqNum=4&rl=1

 

How can you possibly estimate solution time and cost if you don't yet know what problem you are going to be solving?

 

Common sense would suggest that the people who estimate software projects ought to be folks who know something about building software

 

Given how bad software estimates apparently are, wouldn't you think that, as a project proceeds and everyone learns more about what its likely outcome will be, those early and usually erroneous estimates would be adjusted to meet reality?

 

 

 

http://www.stylusinc.com/Common/Concerns/software_development.php

 

Frustrated Programmers: The primary reason why programmers get frustrated with the project is that they are given an impossible schedule. The schedule can be fixed by the marketing people in consultation with the client and the programmers. The programmer must be allowed to say what he can do in a given interval, and how long will a feature take to implement. The client must be given these details and allowed to choose what he wants to be implemented first. Considering the fact that it is the programmer who has to develop the software and not the marketing guys, his estimate must be respected if schedule slips and poor quality software is to be avoided.

 

 

 

http://www.processimpact.com/pubs.shtml

 

• Writing Quality Requirements

   

http://www.processimpact.com/articles/qualreqs.html

 

• Requirements When the Field Isn’t Green

   

http://www.processimpact.com/articles/reqs_not_green.html

 

 

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