Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Computer System Recovery Tools

"Which one of these tools is right for you depends on your skill level, operating system and particular problem. Do yourself a favor and burn yourself a disc with a couple of these before the terrible day when you need 'em happens."

Ask MetaFilter discussion on sane solutions for book clutter | 43 Folders

"On kind of a meta note: To some extent, I think de-cluttering involves recognizing that regret is part of life, and being OK with that. Yes, I’ve given away books that I now often wish I still owned. But I’ve also screwed up relationships, made iffy career choices, etc. — you suck it up and move on. If you try to cling to every single thing (material, spiritual, or emotional) that you might need one day in the totally hypothetical future, you’re going to end up bogged down in a lot of stuff."

Incredible Wiimote Hack Creates Multitouch Display

"This has to be one of the most amazing hardware hacks ever. Using a Nintendo Wii remote and some software that he ginned up himself, Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Mellon University took a few ballpoint pens, replaced them with IR lights, and presto! Since the Wii tracks IR lights, Lee found that practically any surface -- a projector screen, a tabletop, an LCD screen could be turned into a multi-touch screen reminiscent of the iPod Touch or Microsoft Surface."

Gamecube: Life, Death And Animal Crossing

"There's little that can be added to this touching web comic, courtesy of del.icio.us [and kotaku, and YTMND], that tells the story of a mother and son's shared experiences in Animal Crossing"

How to Be a Mensch

Mensch: "Someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being “a real mensch” is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous."

Raising a Modern Day Knight

Fatherhood, A Noble Calling: "A compelling new video study that will give you the opportunity to explore how we can raise our sons into a noble, vibrant masculinity and a healthy manhood propelling your fatherhood to another level."

High Scalability

Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites: "This site tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence. "

SomaFM

Commercial-Free, Independent Internet Radio: "11 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco."

Why are you talking at me? | Ask MetaFilter

"People don't seem to get me. I'm an introvert, and unfortunately for a long time have been trying to live like I wasn't one, which seemed to work well enough. . . ."

Travel: Pack Like a Pro with the Bundled Wrapping Method

"As the name suggests, bundle wrapping involves the careful wrapping of clothes around a central core object, avoiding the folds that result in creases. Furthermore, the tension created in the fabric by the wrapping process significantly reduces the chances of wrinkling."

Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins

Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins

(Found it on 43 Folders

Recueillement

Sois sage, ô ma Douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille.
Tu réclamais le Soir; il descend; le voici:
Une atmosphère obscure enveloppe la ville,
Aux uns portant la paix, aux autres le souci.

Pendant que des mortels la multitude vile,
Sous le fouet du Plaisir, ce bourreau sans merci,
Va cueillir des remords dans la fête servile,
Ma Douleur, donne-moi la main; viens par ici,

Loin d'eux. Vois se pencher les défuntes Années,
Sur les balcons du ciel, en robes surannées;
Surgir du fond des eaux le Regret souriant;

Le soleil moribond s'endormir sous une arche,
Et, comme un long linceul traînant à l'Orient,
Entends, ma chère, entends la douce Nuit qui marche.

— Charles Baudelaire

Tiger Cub Resources

Here are some great Tiger Cub online resources:

U.S. Scouting Service Project
Gulf Coast Council
National Council
The Virtual Cub Leader's Handbook
Boy Scout Trail

Den10

I just agreed to be Assistant Den Leader for Kian's Tiger Cub Den. I'm so excited I decided to make a logo for our den:

Airline passenger had monkey under his hat

A man was questioned by US border authorities after he smuggled a monkey onto an aeroplane by hiding the animal under his hat.

(found it on BoingBoing)

Hanlon's Razor

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

Pokemon Resources

Official Web Site
PokeGym
PokeBeach
PokePedia
Pojo's
PokeCorner
Pokemon TCG Newbie Blog
The Parents' (and Grandparents') Guide to Pokemon

Champagne OK!

The Muldoons: Muldoon Beach Week 2007

The Muldoons: Muldoon Beach Week 2007

Florida Panhandle Vacation Rentals

GulfCoastRentals.com

VacationRentals.com
Specifically, this one

Einstein keeps an eye on agency networks

Those must be some pretty smart people.

Cool Tool: Urban camouflage

I so want to do this.

Found it on BoingBoing

The Ultimate Disney World Savings Guide

“See How Easily You Can Have A Disney World Vacation For A Fraction Of What Others Pay”

My Brother is a Supervillain

I saw Spider Man 3 yesterday, and I realized something. My brother is really Harry Osborn. The evidence:

Exhibit A









Exhibit B
They both ride snowboards

Exhibit C
While riding snowboards, they both hit their heads and got amnesia

Exhibit D
They both have ex-roommates who are extremely talented musicians (who knew Peter Parker could play piano and dance?)

Exhibit E
They are both haunted by recycled footage of Willem Dafoe

Exhibit F [new]



(note the pose and costume)

I'm sure we will find more evidence if we just keep digging.

How I Became an Early Riser | zen habits

"I’ve found that waking early has been one of the best things I’ve done in the last year"

All-Ett - World's thinnest wallet - billfold

Comic Books Archive

Welcome to AIBQ, a growing online archive of collectible comic books.

NPR : OK and Other Expressions

Morning Edition, March 23, 2007 · On this day in 1839, the expression OK appeared for the first time in a publication — the Boston Morning Post. One possible origin of the phrase is that it was an abbreviation for slang used by teenagers: "Oll Korrect." Other expressions kids made popular at the time: "GTT" stood for Going to Texas and "KY" for "know youse." OK is the only one that survived the centuries.

You Don't Know Jack is Back

"Full episodes of You Don't Know Jack, one of the best party games ever made, are up and running online"

How To Create Embed Image Mail In Gmail

1) Put the image online if it isn't already.

2) Open the image as a url (e.g., http://www.xkcd.com/pi.jpg)

3) "once its loaded in your browser, drag your mouse across the image so the whole image gets selected or highlighted (it would turn dark to indicate that it is successfully highlighted/selected). don't miss that part."

4) Right click->Copy.

5) Go to your Gmail message and Right Click->Paste.

Evidemment

Text* Snippets: TextDrive Snippets courtesy of Peter Coopers handy little app

"Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world (or not, you can keep them private!)"

Modify Hidden Preferences in Firefox

Found it on clipmarks

DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO

"If developers used the DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO package to instrument their code it would make mine that their life much easy. The package allows you to specify a Module and Action for the current position in the code. This can be monitored externally using V$SESSION and also appears in V$SQLAREA to allow you to match SQL to a module.You can also use the package to put your own progress information in V$SESSION_LONGOPS."

SOCO &Lime

From an ad in the March '07 issue of SPIN:

1. What you NEED: Southern Comfort, ice, & sweetened lime juice
2. Start with ICE. POUR 1/4 part of sweetened lime juice then 1 part of SoCo
3. SHAKE IT, SHAKE IT
4. STRAIN & ENJOY! (for x-tra POP, add soda or cola)
   

Local Weather Maps

"The Weather Channel . . . has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to offer detailed road maps combined with satellite imagery. The result is an interactive Web map that lets users zoom in to get a localized snapshot of current weather. That is, to see how it's affecting their neighborhood — not just the city as a whole."

from news.yahoo.com

MythTV and TiVo Series 3 Comparison: Battle of Open Source and Proprietary DVRs: DVR playground

"Does an open source solution like MythTV stand a chance against the marketing power and research behind the TiVo Series 3? We decided to pit these two completely different DVR solutions against each other and compare in a non-biased way."

18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work

PMD

PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like:

• Possible bugs - empty try/catch/finally/switch statements
• Dead code - unused local variables, parameters and private methods
• Suboptimal code - wasteful String/StringBuffer usage
• Overcomplicated expressions - unnecessary if statements, for loops that could be while loops
• Duplicate code - copied/pasted code means copied/pasted bugs

Mindfulness: The practice of being “here”

"Well, here you go: one rank Western novice’s collection of blurbs and excerpts on an ancient (yet oddly timely) method for easing yourself back into this moment — any day, at any time, and in anything you choose to do."

David Seah : Taking A Look at Getting Things Done

David Seah, of the Printable CEO, summarizes GTD.

NPR : Didion Brings 'Magical Thinking' to Broadway

The first chapter of Joan Didion's novel is available online here.

Personal Development for Smart People - Steve Pavlina

"This site contains enough free personal development material to fill several books. Don't let that overwhelm you though because no matter where you begin, it will only take a few clicks to find something of value to you."

Download of the Day: Create better passwords with Pwdhash - Lifehacker

Download of the Day: Create better passwords with Pwdhash - Lifehacker

Ailia Dancing

10 tips for time management in a multitasking world

10 tips for time management in a multitasking world � Brazen Careerist

ConsoleSource.com

ConsoleSource.com is the ultimate video game, computer and technology super store!

Budget Calendars

Tucows Downloads - Budget Calendar 1.0j Shareware Software

BudgetTracker.com

Necroctoporn

:-o

Two Songs

"Mad World"
--Tears for Fears

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

Covered by Gary Jules in Donnie Darko
Lyrics shamefully snagged from AZLyrics

"The Shining"
-- Badly Drawn Boy

Faith pours from your walls, drowning your calls
I've tried to hear, You're not near
Remembering when I saw your face, shining my way, pure timing
Now I've fallen in deep, slow silent sleep
It's killing me, I'm dying

To put a little bit of sunshine in your life
Soleil all over you
warm sun pours over me
Soleil all over you
Warm sun

Now this slick fallen rift, came like a gift
Your body moves ever nearer
And you will dry this tear
Now that we're here, and grieve for me, not history
But now I'm dry of thoughts, wait for the rain
Then it's replaced, sun setting

And suddenly we're in love with everything

Soleil all over you, warm sun pours over me
Soleil all over you
Warm sun

Lyrics shamefully snagged from AZLyrics

Control your BitTorrent downloads from Firefox

From Lifehacker: "BitTorrent enthusiast web site Torrentfreak has a tutorial for setting up a web interface and Firefox extension for remotely controlling the hugely popular, small-footprinted BitTorrent application, Torrent."

Is there a social networking site for writers?

Ask MetaFilter: "There are lots of general social networking sites, like myspace, linkedin, etc. I have also seen some more specialized sites like dogster. Is there something along these lines for writers?"