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

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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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."

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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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.

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Online Budgeting Software

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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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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.

Media Center Links

10 Foot World

The Green Button

Media Center Community

Media Center Power Toys

Media Center Plug-ins

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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Windows Tip: Rename Multiple Files with One Click

From Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Online TV Channels

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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.