12.16.2006
12.11.2006
"Update" - By Cody Walker - Slate Magazine
My latent superpowers, well, they're back:
obliterate a marriage with my mind;
bewitch the president, that lying sack
of—Cody! Take it slow. In time I'll find
—please note, I'm speaking as my therapist—
the equilibrium that time affords.
I've also rerouted (I have a list)
(1) my neural pathways and (2) some fjords.
America's a country for the lonely,
the loony. Whitman said it years ago.
Remember, he could fly and he was only
an editor, a wingéd bearded schmo.
My powers have increased a hundredfold
since you left. Maybe a thousand-, all told.
obliterate a marriage with my mind;
bewitch the president, that lying sack
of—Cody! Take it slow. In time I'll find
—please note, I'm speaking as my therapist—
the equilibrium that time affords.
I've also rerouted (I have a list)
(1) my neural pathways and (2) some fjords.
America's a country for the lonely,
the loony. Whitman said it years ago.
Remember, he could fly and he was only
an editor, a wingéd bearded schmo.
My powers have increased a hundredfold
since you left. Maybe a thousand-, all told.
12.08.2006
CDFreaks.com
CD Freaks is the ultimate resource for anyone interested in digital storage and delivery technologies. The website is online for over 8 years and has become a trusted source for daily news, reviews and background information on digital storage products. With a network containing all important companies in the industry, CD Freaks is able to bring the latest trends and market information first.
12.05.2006
12.04.2006
Hack Attack: One-click DVD rips - Lifehacker
Hack Attack: One-click DVD rips - Lifehacker: "Since I've got no time to sit around clicking through dialogs to rip my DVDs, I've put together my very own one-click DVD ripping solution."
11.27.2006
11.21.2006
The Flexible Spending Account Calculator - Lifehacker
The FSA Calculator helps you estimate a year's worth of health care costs (unless you know all of your actual costs, in which case you can enter them in one-by-one), then suggests the amount you should dump into your FSA.
11.20.2006
instructables : Home-made Sun Jar
A solar-powered LED lighted cookie jar reminiscent of the Sun Jar disigned by Tobias Wong
11.17.2006
Vertigo Makes Complete First Issue Classics Available for Free
Now you can read the full first issues of the many Vertigo series that revolutionized comics!
11.14.2006
Gnome Dock With Physics Engine (Linux screencast)
Akamaru is a simple, but fun, physics engine prototype. It is amazing to use, and easy to install. One more reason to forget Windows Vista, embrace Open Source, and use Ubuntu or Fedora (among other non-Micro$u$e distros).
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11.13.2006
11.09.2006
11.03.2006
Control your BitTorrent downloads from Firefox - Lifehacker
The µTorrent WebUI can be used to access µTorrent from an external computer. This also opens the possibility to handle your torrents from your browser window. We've discovered a Firefox extension that makes using the WebUI a lot easier.
Boing Boing: GooTube's Porn Opportunists: Upload-It-Yourself Smut
As content delivery evolves, porn, as an extension of human sexual expression, follows.
10.27.2006
10.26.2006
Getting Real by 37signals -- now free online
So far we’ve sold over 23,000 copies of Getting Real in PDF format. We introduced it on March 1 of this year, so we’re pretty thrilled with the results. But 23,000 readers isn’t enough. We want millions of people to read the book. So today we introduce two new flavors that make the content even more accessible. And, in one case, completely free.
Get organized with GTDTiddlyWiki
Everyone has to find their own killer personal organizational app, and for me, it's a single, free HTML document called GTDTiddlyWiki. The self-contained standalone mini-wiki is packed with features but it doesn't dictate how you work - it provides a canvas on which you can design your own process improvements and workflows.
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10.24.2006
Boing Boing: Jack Black's "anti-piracy" PSA
Jack Black has produced an hilarious send-up of anti-piracy PSAs as part of the promotion for his upcoming Tenacious D movie.
10.17.2006
Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.
10.13.2006
Geek to Live: Roll your own timeline - Lifehacker
how to visualize a series of events using the open source dynamic widget called Timeline.
10.12.2006
Practice your personal Kaizen - Lifehacker
A Japanese management strategy called Kaizen roughly translates to "continuous slow improvement." In the corporate world, it's an efficiency and defect-proofing system often used on factory floors. But Kaizen emphasizes the well-being of the employee, working smarter, not harder and developing best practices so that workers don't have to think. As such, Kaizen is an ideal approach to improve one's personal workflow.
10.11.2006
10.10.2006
Wikipedia:Sound/list - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of full length copyleft/public domain songs available on Wikipedia or the Commons (alphabetically sorted by composer using a custom script).
Play your favorite NES games online - Lifehacker
Web site vNES lets you play any of over 200 NES games online, in your browser.
10.04.2006
2007 Calendar -- Wacky Desktop Calendar *No Tube*
Here's a unique desktop calendar for you: it features a fully functional calendar with separate sides on each page, the left to see the month at a glance and the right side to provide a handy space to write. You can also indicate your status with funny pictures of stick figures ("I am on a holiday" "I am at lunch" "See you tomorrow" and "I am out now").
Joe's Goals - Free Online Goal Tracker
Joe's Goals is a simple yet powerful tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of accomplishing them. Use our simple single page interface to setup daily and weekly goals and track your overall progress and score. Setup negative goals (or vices) to confront and overcome the bad habits that finally need to get the boot.
10.03.2006
Download of the Day: Ext2 Installable File System (Windows) - Lifehacker
Freeware program Ext2 Installable File System lets you read ext2/ext3 formatted partitions from a Windows computer.
“Ghost” Windows XP for free at habibbijan.com
DriveImage XML is an “easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.”
10.02.2006
Lyrics Plugin
Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically.
Lyrics Plugin
Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically.
9.29.2006
Compare the top ten torrent sites - Lifehacker
With the help of various informational graphs, you'll be able to see the indexed number of torrents, average daily torrent addition, site feature ratings; plus, Ebert's written up a short and sweet summary of the pros and cons for each torrent site.
9.26.2006
Coding Horror: Changing Your Organization (for Peons)
"James' story is an interesting one because he was attempting to effect organizational change with no formal power. He was, after all, merely a developer on the project. It's a bittersweet story of success and failure, but it does show that one developer can make a difference."
9.25.2006
Technophilia: Get a free college education online - Lifehacker
"Many colleges and universities offer free courses online in the form of podcasts, lectures, tutorials and full-blown online classes. Most of these courses, while extremely smart-making, will NOT award any college credits or degrees."
9.22.2006
flOw
As part of Jenova Chen's thesis research, flOw inherits an embedded design of active DDA (dynamic difficulty adjustment), players with differing skill levels can intuitively customize their experiences in the zone and enjoy the game at their own pace. “Addicting” is the most common word its fans use to describe it.
9.21.2006
MindPerformanceHacks - Mentat Wiki
the central support page for the book. You'll find links to separate pages for each of the book's 75 hacks
Spread good vibes with karma reminders - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Each week, you can tell someone you love them in an email or phone call. Or take the time to actually write a letter (now that everyone emails all the time I’ve noticed people are especially touched when they receive a note via snail mail). Praise someone you work with who’s done a really good job. Buy a treat for your pet who gives you affection unconditionally. Donate money to a good cause to show the universe you appreciate your good fortune. You get the gist.
9.20.2006
Linux hackers get first dibs on next-gen DVR
Neuros Technology is offering Linux hackers first dibs on beta units of its next-gen DVR (digital video recorder). The Linux-powered device can record MPEG-4 video from cable or broadcast TV, DVDs, etc., and transfer it to portable media players, or serve as a network music player.
9.18.2006
Technophilia: 15 ways to get more out of Pandora - Lifehacker
15 ways to get better music - and better performance - out of Pandora
9.15.2006
9.13.2006
Stream video to your TiVo - Lifehacker
The hardware gurus at Engadget have a cool tutorial on how to serve archived video from your computer to your TiVo.
Google Book Search: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read
It's hard to imagine a world without these extraordinary literary classics, but every year there are hundreds of attempts to remove great books from libraries and schools
Life Beyond Code :: Blogging Starter Checklist - Updated
"Many of my close friends are entering the blogging world. I am so happy for them. I started blogging in Feb 2005 and I have learnt that we need to do a few basic things (for starters) and I have put together a starter checklist for new bloggers. I have used this list to help my friends and now I thought I will make this public. This list is by no means complete and all the items may not be relevant to everyone."
9.11.2006
Forget the TV and watch the web
Here's just a few sites that can help you get your TV-watching all done and save you from the time-wasting ads.
9.07.2006
Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software
Our mission is to provide easy access to open source alternatives to well-known commercial products. Remember that open source software is also a freeware alternative.
9.06.2006
Geek to Live: Tech support with UltraVNC SingleClick - Lifehacker
"Here's how to set up a Single Click VNC server that will let you remote control Grandpa's computer over the internet with no configuration on his part."
8.31.2006
Download TVUPlayer 1.5.12 - TVUPlayer is a free program that enables viewers to watch high quality live Television programs around the world - Softped
TVUPlayer is a free program that enables viewers to watch high quality live Television programs around the world.
8.28.2006
Weekend Project: Design an original t-shirt - Lifehacker
Instructions are simple; all you need are a few supplies and a dream.
8.25.2006
Collect rainwater for toilet water - Lifehacker
A water-saving environmentalist publishes a detailed explanation on how he harvests rainwater to fill his toilet.
8.21.2006
Make "My Computer" more useful - Lifehacker
You can add Administrative Tools, Printers and Fax Devices, Scheduled Tasks, Network Connections, Recycle Bin, and My Network Places to the window by using this tweak.
8.11.2006
Make your own motivational poster - Lifehacker
"All you need is a good picture and a pithy saying and you're good to go."
8.02.2006
village voice > arts > Education Supplement Fall 2006 by Rachel Aviv
Although IQ tests fail to really define what intelligence is in the first place (often knowledge gets blurred with ability), most psychologists can agree that they measure something valuable— whatever that is. In the 1920s and '30s, Leta Hollingsworth, a professor at Columbia's Teachers College, followed a group of gifted students and found that they had trouble effectively communicating with those more than 30 IQ points below them. Since then, similar studies with adults have reaffirmed her conclusions. "It can be very lonely," says Linda Gottfredson, a professor at the University of Delaware who studies intelligence. "If you think about the fact that the average is 100, and mentally retarded is about 70, someone at 160 is as far away from the average as someone at 130 is from mentally retarded. You can't say the scale works like this, but it gives you a sense."
8.01.2006
LPI Linux Certification - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
These books cover Linux Professional Institute™ Certifications (LPIC). The goal of these books is to prepare the reader to pass the LPIC exams.
LPI Certification Self-Study Guide
A sort of community-based study guide for a community-based certification.
7.24.2006
How to Make Chopsticks
"I love a wide variety of Asian foods. Whether it's Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, the best restaurants serving Asian cuisine don't offer you the option of using a fork - it's chopsticks or nothing. This is a little more complicated when my four-year-old son comes along, because he still hasn't quite figured out how to use chopsticks. A great little noodle house around the corner from my house presented the solution the day they brought out a pair of chopsticks modified to be kid-friendly."
Free English Visual Novel Construction Tool "Blade Engine"
CuriousFactory and Buredo today announced the release of "Blade Engine", a free game engine and construction kit aimed at making Visual Novel easy to construct, fully localized into English.
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7.20.2006
Make a timeline of your life story at Dandelife - Lifehacker
"Web app Dandelife, a "social biography network," creates a timeline of your life linked to textual posts, YouTube videos and Flickr photos."
Geek to Live: Map yourself - Lifehacker
"Map your first kiss, your elementary school or the best place to buy local fresh mangos. Use your personalized map as a travelogue, restaurant recommender or simply as a reference . . ."
7.19.2006
Download of the Day: BabySplat - Lifehacker
"Let your toddler bang on the keyboard to her heart's content with BabySplat, software that displays random colors and shapes and plays fun sounds in response to random keypresses."
7.12.2006
Word Origins
But according to Charles Earle Funk (and other sources), hoodlum was the accidental coinage of a newspaper reporter. In a story about a gang of ruffians led by a fellow named Muldoon, the reporter spelled the name as Noodlum to avoid reprisals. The newspaper's compositor misinterpreted the name as Hoodlum.
From http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010327
One of the most notorious criminals of the Barbary Coast was Muldoon, who had so much muscle he was hard to arrest. The San Franciso newspaper led a campaign to help clean up the town. But rather than printing his name they put it in backwards = Noodlum. A bit obvious, the reported then changed the N to H = Hoodlum. So every time this criminal's activities were written up, it was as Hoodlum. Soon the name was synonymous with crime and illegal activities.
From http://www.factoidcentral.com/words/H.html#34
If you look really closely at the Family Name History, "dun" means fort. My uncle, also a Tom Muldoon, a Bishop (dec'd) maintained that the literal translation was "defender of the fort". His story, & he had kissed "the stone" was that our ancestors boat was swamped during a contest to prove who was the most loyal to the King of Ireland. The first to put his hand on the King's shoulder as a gesture of loyalty was to be chosen as the "top dog" in his army. Our ancestor apparently cut off his hand and threw it. It hit the King on the shoulder & he was named the "Maolduin" or defender of the fort. The coat of arms features a severed hand.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/muldoon/messages/260.html
From http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010327
One of the most notorious criminals of the Barbary Coast was Muldoon, who had so much muscle he was hard to arrest. The San Franciso newspaper led a campaign to help clean up the town. But rather than printing his name they put it in backwards = Noodlum. A bit obvious, the reported then changed the N to H = Hoodlum. So every time this criminal's activities were written up, it was as Hoodlum. Soon the name was synonymous with crime and illegal activities.
From http://www.factoidcentral.com/words/H.html#34
If you look really closely at the Family Name History, "dun" means fort. My uncle, also a Tom Muldoon, a Bishop (dec'd) maintained that the literal translation was "defender of the fort". His story, & he had kissed "the stone" was that our ancestors boat was swamped during a contest to prove who was the most loyal to the King of Ireland. The first to put his hand on the King's shoulder as a gesture of loyalty was to be chosen as the "top dog" in his army. Our ancestor apparently cut off his hand and threw it. It hit the King on the shoulder & he was named the "Maolduin" or defender of the fort. The coat of arms features a severed hand.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/muldoon/messages/260.html
7.07.2006
Google Video Secret Categories
Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.
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A Link to a HUGE list of 80s Music Videos!
Not sure how legal this is, but this site has linked a ton of working 80s videos...
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7.06.2006
The Health of It All : Eating Fast Food
"I have created this list of selected items from common fast food restaurants for you to use when you must eat out. I have kept it pretty straightforward and the only information included is calories and fat. The items listed fall generally under 400 calories or so and under 15 grams of fat. If you are going to be stuck eating at such restaurants this is a fairly good guideline to use for any meal."
Free PDF download of magazine for older gamers issue #4
2old2play.com just put up issue # 4 of their free print magazine, 2o2p Magazine, in PDF format. This months issue has several game reviews, great editorials about console vendors on the stock market, game rental services, Castlevania, Retro Gaming with Street Fighter, and much more. Totally free.
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6.29.2006
Crash Course in Subversion
If you're already familiar with version control, Subversion is reasonably simple to use. If not, this article/tutorial will definitely help you out.
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Doom as a tool for system administration
"What a great user interface!" Imagine running around with a shotgun blowing away your daemons and processes, never needing to type kill -9 again.
6.27.2006
Amazing Video of George Bush Singing "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Take clips from speeches, add audio and video editing, and you have an amazing music video. If the message of the sond wasn't entirely in opposition to Bush, this could almost make you like him.
(I know that "Amazing" is overused, but it's true!)
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(I know that "Amazing" is overused, but it's true!)
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6.09.2006
6.07.2006
Diet Tips or How To Lose Weight with a Spreadsheet and a Web Site (by Jeremy Zawodny)
"This is one of the easiest non-fad and non-gimmick plans you'll run across, mostly because the "plan" is very simple and tangible. It's not quite "the simplest thing that could possibly work" but it sure comes close."
6.06.2006
Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router
"After a relatively simple firmware upgrade, you can boost your wireless signal, prioritize what programs get your precious bandwidth, and do lots of other simple or potentially much more complicated things to improve your computing experience."
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50 Weight Loss Tips ~ Chris Pirillo
"I lost 30 pounds in three months. If you wanted to know how I did it, and how I intend on maintaining my current weight, then these 50 weight loss tips are for you. I’m not an expert, but I do speak from experience."
5.30.2006
52 Projects: Simple Things You Can Do Right Now To Jumpstart Your Writing Efforts
Stop talking about your novel or short story ideas and start writing
5.26.2006
Index of 500 Full Length Cartoons on YouTube
There's no garbage clips to weed through, just 500 full length cartoons organized alphabetically: Futurama, JLU, Thundercats, The Snorks, Super Mario, Transformers, X-Men, and more.
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New EASY Pandora Hack Converts tunes to DRM-Free MP3s
Using firefox and a small java program, your pandora tunes will be converted to unprotected mp3 files as you listen. Even better, they are tagged and titled correctly and placed into folders with the band name. Even I can do this.
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5.24.2006
No Uptime Hosting - Guaranteed server downtime!
"NoUptime offers something no other host does. We offer bad grammar and horrible performance. Who else can offer all that?"
yWriter - Word Processor for Authors
"I really struggled over my first novel because I wrote whole slabs of text into a great big word processor file and tried to make sense of the whole thing at once. I then tried saving each chapter to individual files with great long descriptive filenames, but moving scenes around was a nuisance and I couldn't get an overview of the whole thing (or easily search for one word amongst 32 files) In the end I realised a dedicated program was the way to go, and yWriter is the result. It may look simple, but as the author of three books written with this tool I can guarantee it has everything needed to get a first draft together."
Stealth DDR pad
"My brother has a DDR mat which interfaces with his PC. It's nice, and you can play games like StepMania really good on it, but I know if I got myself one, it would be all around the room irritating me when I wouldn't use it. So i thought about a less obvious DDR mat... and this is what I came up with: The stealth DDR mat. It even is cheaper than a store-bought DDR-mat."
NewsForge | A free education
" My sister Erika's second grade primary school class had a problem: it had four old computers running Microsoft Windows 98, and no educational software for the computers. The computers were used mainly for viewing children's educational Web sites, and playing simple Macromedia Flash games. I decided to introduce free software into her classroom. The results were heart-warming."
5.23.2006
Protecting yourself against the BitTorrent bandits!
Anti-P2P organizations are actively polluting P2P networks with fake peers, sending out fake or corrupt data in order to waste bandwidth and slow down file transfers. At its worst, when downloading copyrighted torrents as much as a fourth of the peers can be attributed to various Anti-P2P agencies. There is also a much more serious side to this...
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5.22.2006
Presentation on Climate Change by Al Gore
The basic science is brought into the picture but the case for action based on economics is also made. If you arent convinced about climate change then watch this video and be convinced
Healthy & Happy Indoor Cat
An outdoor cat lives a more stressful life than an indoor cat, and stress leads to a myriad of physical and psychological disorders. Outdoor cats on the street, or even in the country, are faced every day with territorial disputes, threats from other animals, people, cars, environmental noises which cause panic, and situations which generate pure fear. Indoor cats generally live longer and healthier lives than outdoor cats - a fact that cannot be disputed.
5.15.2006
A zero energy home in Oklahoma
The first zero energy home costing less than $200,000 has been built in Oklahoma. This house produces as much energy as it consumes in a year and combines "renewable energy technologies with advanced energy-efficient construction." This environmentally friendly house is just a prototype and not yet available for sale.
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5.11.2006
Relax with Pzizz - Lifehacker
Pzizz is a really neat little piece of software (and “real life” machine) that’ll help you relax and reduce stress. It does this by providing you over a billion custom naps on your computer that you can trigger when you need a refresher.
5.08.2006
Kids Programming Language (KPL) going open-source
Jon Schwartz, creator of Kids Programming Language (KPL), says that version 1.1 will be released as an open-source project this summer. KPL, "makes it easy for kids to learn computer programming... [and makes] it especially easy to program computer games, with cool graphics and sound."
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5.01.2006
Setting Up Your First Home Theater Surround System: Dos and Donts
Try this simple visual test to determine if you have your video image too bright or contrasty. Look at any white area on the screen during scenes from live TV or a movie. It could be the white shirt or blouse on an actor or TV host. Are you able to see detail within the white areas? If you can't, then you are likely running the brightness too high, which washes out fine detail in bright areas. So lower the brightness and/or contrast. There's a reason why control rooms for TV productions and telecasts are always dimly lit: it's because video images on the monitors look best in a dim or darker room and the greatest range of colors and tones can be displayed.
:: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog ::
So what's a nice Jewish boy like me writing such a seemingly sacreligious comic book for Vertigo? My last column in Arthur magazine may cast some light on this issue.
Testament
From the imagination of best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff, one of the most iconoclastic and acclaimed minds of our era, comes a series that exposes the "real" Bible as it was actually written, and reveals how its mythic tales are repeated today.
DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
DOA: Dead or Alive, the movie based on the Dead or Alive video game series is set to be released on August 25. The preview images and the trailer point to a more Charlies Angels 2 type fluff than a serious action movie. The girls are also seem friendlier with each other, in odds with the intense competition in the game.
4.15.2006
How to Drink More Water Everyday
There are a variety of reasons to drink plenty of water each day. Adequate water intake prevents dehydration, cleans out the body, and promotes healing processes. Substituting water for beverages high in calories can also help control weight.
from Lifehacker
from Lifehacker
I want a Freeware Utility to ...
Extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money.
From Lifehacker
From Lifehacker
4.14.2006
Choosing the Right Home Theater PC Case and Power Supply
In this feature from the ExtremeTech book Build the Ultimate Home Theater PC, we show you everything you need to know before purchasing an HTPC case and power supply, while also suggesting some of our favorites out of the bunch.
4.13.2006
Lots of old Sierra and Lucasart games online FREE
Games include Leisure Suit Larry, Kings Quest, Full Throttle, Sam & Max and more!
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4.12.2006
Death Came and Got Me
by Rosie Thomas
I can't,
I can't stop crying.
Every day I'm so afraid of dying.
Death already came and got me.
So I'm not living,
I'm not living anyway.
And who am I supposed to be?
Everybody seems to see except for me
Who cares anyway?
Cause when it's over, it's all over,
And what you gained you throw away.
When will love ever find me?
All my life all I have craved is to be seen.
Who cares anyway?
Cause when it's over, all that matters is the love you gave away.
I can't,
I can't stop crying.
Every day I'm so afraid of dying.
Death already came and got me.
So I'm not living,
I'm not living anyway.
And who am I supposed to be?
Everybody seems to see except for me
Who cares anyway?
Cause when it's over, it's all over,
And what you gained you throw away.
When will love ever find me?
All my life all I have craved is to be seen.
Who cares anyway?
Cause when it's over, all that matters is the love you gave away.
4.10.2006
How To Solder
Soldering is defined as "the joining of metals by a fusion of alloys which have relatively low melting points". In other words, you use a metal that has a low melting point to adhere the surfaces to be soldered together. Soldering is more like gluing with molten metal than anything else. Soldering is also a must have skill for all sorts of electrical and electronics work. It is also a skill that must be taught correctly and developed with practice.
From Lifehacker
From Lifehacker
This May Fix a Firefox Memory Leak
Now, this is by no means a REAL fix for the Firefox memory leak, but it certainly does appear to help it quite a bit. This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox it will obviously increase the memory usage. However, it does not seem to go back up to the insane amount that it was at before minimizing it.
4.07.2006
Build your own rotating digital photo frame
Popular Science posts a neat tutorial on how to build a rotating digital photo frame that cycles through pictures posted to your Flickr account.
From Lifehacker
From Lifehacker
3.28.2006
3.27.2006
3.10.2006
2.22.2006
2.14.2006
2.10.2006
2.09.2006
2.06.2006
2.02.2006
SQL for Oracle equivalent of MySQL's LIMIT clause
FROM: http://rifers.org/blogs/gbevin
select * from (
select query.*, rownum rnum from (
select table1.column1, table1.column2, … from table1, table2, … where … order by ...
) query where rownum <= 200 )
where rnum >= 100 order by rnum
1.24.2006
1.12.2006
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