May 2009
47 posts
23 months old billard pro →
Astonishing 3D murals painted on the sides of... →
Is Our Brain to Blame If We’re Not Sociable? →
“The brain structural disposition to social interaction.” Translation brain structure comes first and the result is that you are either a warm friendly people person who delights in the company of others or a detached independent antisocial loner.
Big Mess o’ Wires →
A home-built CPU, and other messy electronics adventures
The truth at Last →
Last.fm Denies Data-Sharing Accusations, Again →
Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities →
Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.
Server Fault →
Server Fault is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for system administrators and IT professionals – regardless of platform. It’s 100% free, no registration required.
National Ignition Facility, NIF & Photon Science →
Scientists have been working to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for more than half a century. When the National Ignition Facility (NIF) begins ignition experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2010, that long-sought goal will be much closer to realization.
A List Apart: Burnout →
Does every day feel like a bad day? Blurry boundaries between work and home, and the “always on” demands of the web can lead to depression and burnout. Learn the signs of burnout and how to maintain your bliss.
RunPee.com - can you hold it? →
If you move your mouse continuously... →
… the query may not fail! Interesting workaround from Microsoft. (Method 2)
Really Useful JavaScript Libraries →
Top 5 Things the RIAA Is Going to Do With Your...
topherchris:
Make fun of your horrible taste in music.
Pass around mixtapes of your favorite stuff in the office.
Contact you to let you know that John Denver is, in fact, not cool.
They, like, feel like they know you, like, because of the shit you, like, listen to.
Nothing.
Deny This, Last.fm →
I am a little bit scared after reading this… maybe i should switch over to libre.fm
How to grow fresh air
The Future of Sex →
4chan, eBaum's World carpet bombing YouTube with... →
A Coder's Guide to Coffee →
What can Software Designers Learn from Video... →
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Dragon Labs >> Codename Rainbows →
The Problem
Gradients are hard. At Dragon Interactive we don’t really know how to use Photoshop, and nobody could find a good tutorial on the damn tool.
Our Solution
We use some JavaScript and CSS magic to apply a two-color gradient to any text. Shadows and highlights can also be applied.
This works especially well on big sites or dynamic content where it’d be impractical to create...
Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers →
Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Null Is Not Empty →
Digital Camera Description Fail →
(via fakestef)
Hide The Fart at Kontraband →
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What Makes Us Happy? →
Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.
Prism - Bringing web applications to your Desktop →
Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop
I drink, therefore I can →
Most people use alcohol as a social rather than creative stimulant, banishing cares with a potation or two after work; lubricating discourse rather than inspiring the intellect. Yet a number of our greatest writers, painters and musicians also seem to have relied on it as fuel for their muse.
Javascript in Ten Minutes →
still in motion » das weltall ist erneut um eine... →
ISS-Werkzeugtasche fliegt um die Erde
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Quantum arguments for God veer into mumbo-jumbo →
Not only does God exist, but he intervenes in our lives – at least according to Francis Collins, the former head of the human genome project.
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Star Trek's Warp Drive: Not Impossible →
The warp drive, one of Star Trek’s hallmark inventions, could someday become science instead of science fiction.
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We are small →
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What I have learned from science fiction →
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XSLT Madness
This error was driving me NUTS for hours while trying to xls transform a complex xml document with the help of inline javascript:
“Exception: Extension function parameters or return values which have Clr type ‘ConcatString’ are not supported.”
Thank God someone else already had the same problem. The solution is rather weird, but the return value is now correctly...
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Project management, collaboration, and task... →
The Better Way To Get Projects Done. Trusted by millions, Basecamp is the leading web-based project collaboration tool. Share files, meet deadlines, assign tasks, centralize feedback, make clients smile.
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Pipes: Rewire the web →
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists - Joe Lazarus →