Who gets what in a 99 cents download?

Record companies keep about 72.5 cents on average for a 99 cent song, the credit card company then gets a small slice. The rest goes to the people who sold the song.

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Pure CSS menus (Hacks needed for IE)

This uses just CSS 2 to turn nested lists into a working menu and does not use any JavaScript (except in IE 5+ on windows where I use the proprietary DHTML behaviours, because its CSS handling is not good enough to work this menu without script) This works in Mozilla 1+, Netscape 7+, Opera 7+, Safari build 60+, OmniWeb 4.5+, Konqueror 3.2+

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3 Ways to Immediately Increase Search Engine Traffic

Amongst the commercial blogosphere there is huge interest in the dark, and mysterious art of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. There shouldn't be. Not because paying attention to Search traffic is bad, or that wanting to rank higher in Google is evil, simply because it's not rocket science, and anyone can do it. Even you.

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Microsoft To Show Arrested Development For Free Online...

"Microsoft Corp. will run free episodes of the quirky TV comedy "Arrested Development" through its MSN Video service later this year, making the show available online for the first time"

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Sen. Stevens May Appear on "Daily Show" to Defend Internet Tube Comments

Mocked by comedian Jon Stewart for calling the Internet a bunch of tubes, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Thursday he is open to going on Stewart's popular "Daily Show" for a rebuttal.

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2 Female Hackers Face One Year Prison @ California State Univ.

New Grades were assigned to nearly 300 students.

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Intel Calls Core 2 'Best In World', Slashes Prices 60%

Intel officially announced its Core 2 Duo microprocessors on Thursday, dubbing the desktop "Conroe" and the mobile "Merom" chips "the best processors in the world". Intel also cut other selected processors by as much as 60 percent

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Trojan piggybacks on Firefox - CNET News.com

New Trojan installs itself as Firefox extension, according to a security advisory by McAfee.

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Digg API Reverse-Engineered

The Digg API has been extracted from the new Digg Labs flash files! Developers can now begin putting together applications that interface with Digg to retrieve information on what is being dugg and submitted!

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bootable copy of windows on a USB flash drive

ever have a problem with the windows registry, or a pesky virus? have no fear, fix it with a bootable copy of windows no further away than your pocket or key chain

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VoiceNotes for Backpack

If you use 37signals Backpack (and if you don't, you should check it out), now you can send voicemail messages directly to it, for free. You get a phone number to call; you leave a message after the beep and then it shows up on your Backpack page a few minutes later as an embedded flash player.

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How Apple may actually implement Windows support on in Leopard

There have been a lot of rumors concerning Apple's possible support for Windows apps (and, more importantly, games) in Leopard. Most attention is on Boot Camp and Parallels, but there's a third option.

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Neat Mac apps that help you concentrate

A roundup of apps that help you focus by removing your desktop clutter using various techniques.

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Toms Hardwares Beginner's Guide to Motherboard Selection

It's easy to forget that many newcomers lack the requisite knowledge to take advantage of the advice we give.

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Would You Volunteer To Be Implanted With A Microchip?

Yet another story about different people getting their RFID's implanted for different reasons; all the while paving the way for homeland security to start project citizen scan.

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Netscape.com HACKED!

haha, title says it all....

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Pop-up Politician dishes dirt on US congress members

There �s a number of little tools emerging that pop up information from off-site when users hover over a link, but here �s the coolest one I�ve seen yet: Pop-up Politicians.

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Firefox 1.5.0.5 Final

Firefox 1.5.0.5 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. Release Notes: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.5.html

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100 Years of Regime Change

The US seems to be addicted to overthrowing foreign governments -- 14 in the past century -- from Cuba to Chile to Iran.

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Bush's Plan for "Serial War" revealed by General Wesley Clark

"[The] Five-year campaign plan [includes]... a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan" (Pentagon official quoted by General Wesley Clark)

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The Warrior of the Future

Amid the rubble of a war-torn city in a distant land, a strange creature lurks in the dark. Encased in lightweight climate-controlled body armour, humming with electricity and bristling with sensors, this fighting man-machine is constantly updated with battlefield information via a glowing monocular display. Meet the soldier of the future.

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Intel Core 2 Duo chips launch Thursday; Eight-core Xeon systems this year

Intel will officially launch its Core 2 Duo processors jointly on Thursday. Conroe, for desktops, and Merom, for laptops are 64-bit processors that are both expected to find their way into future Mac systems.

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Leo Laporte posts his thoughts on the "Digg vs Netscape" controversy

From Leo's blog: "The question is, do the top 10 contributors on a social networking site determine its success or failure? Of course not... Digg is what it is because of the entire community that participates there... Losing any 10 contributors would make no difference at all"

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License Plate Tracking For All

Law enforcement technology that rapidly reads and logs license plates on the road is about to filter down to commercial and consumer applications -- so we can all track each other in real time.

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Apple to switch from ATI to NVIDIA by 2007?

"AMD yesterday announced that they plan to acquire ATI for US$5.4 billion. "The move leaves "The move leaves Apple in a bit of a quandary because ATI video subsystems currently power two of Apple's Intel-based Macs: the MacBook Pro and the iMac both ship with ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 GPUs. The Mac mini and MacBook use Intel GMA950 graphics,"

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Jeopardy Champion Shows All the Crap He Got After Competing (Hilarious)

What would you do with a bathtubful of Mrs. Butterworth's? This Modern World blogger and Prisoner of Trebekistan author Bob Harris found himself pondering that very question in 1998, soon after he competed in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. When his apartment filled up with unexciting free gifts seemingly sacked at random from a drugstore.

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Toothpick + Microwave = great balls of plasma

Brainiac put a toothpick in a microwave with surprising results. They actually don't know what happens, but they theorize that it's either balls of plasma, or ball lightning (aka, St. Elmo's fire)

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$6.7 Billion in US Quarterly Venture Capital

[.pdf file] US venture capital investing reached its highest quarterly total in 4 1/2 years. $6.73 billion was invested in 619 deals, according to Ernst & Young and VentureOne.

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Could You Afford to be Poor?

example: "poor people are less likely to have bank accounts, which can be expensive for those with low balances, and so they tend to cash their pay checks at check-cashing businesses, which in the cities surveyed, charged $5 to $50 for a $500 check." read on for more...

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CNN's Robertson Now Admits: Hezbollah Had Control of His Anti-Israel Piece

Better late than never? On CNN �s Reliable Sources on Sunday, CNN�s senior international correspondent Nic Robertson added all of the caveats and disclaimers that he should have included in his story last week that amounted to his giving an uncritical forum for the terrorist group Hezbollah to spout unverifiable anti-Israeli propaganda.

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Scientists turn fat cells into muscle

Stem cells taken from human fat can be transformed into smooth muscle cells, offering a way to treat diseases of the heart, gut and bladder, US researchers report.

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Einstein's Equations Conquered by Columbia Supercomputer & NASA

For 90 years, physicists have tried to solve the equations that constitute Albert Einstein �s theory of general relativity � the concept that matter, space and time are intertwined. But some of Einstein�s abstract equations have proven too complicated to reliably calculate using traditional computer software and hardware. Until now, that is.

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Next Space Shuttle Readied for August Launch

NASA moved space shuttle Atlantis from its hangar on Monday to the massive Kennedy Space Center assembly building where it will be attached to a fuel tank and twin booster rockets in preparation for launch next month.

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States step up for Stem Cells after Presidential Veto

California (headed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, a Republican) has chipped in $150 million for grants for stem cell scientists, Illinois has promised $5 million for the same in their state. Individual state support of stem cell research has become a huge political issue in many of the upcoming elections due to the President's veto.

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Deja vu 'recreated in laboratory' or have you read this before?

Scientists believe they have found a way to probe the mysterious phenomenon of feeling you have witnessed something before - deja vu.

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Bluetooth Mighty Mouse

Its a prototype, but it looks like they're finally ready to cut the tail. via Engadget

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Complete Digg Tools Collection

An attempt to combine all Digg tools in one place.

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Inside Vista�s New Image-Based Install

Vista�s installation process is dramatically different to any previous version of Windows: rather than being an �installer�, the install DVD is actually a preinstalled copy of Windows that simply gets decompressed onto your PC.

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PC recycler raises $50 million

Rather than just bury them in the ground, companies are looking for a more environmentally friendly way to dispose of PCs. Specialist recycler, Newmarket IT plans has just received $50 million in private equity funding.

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Apple has 12% of U.S. laptop market share

Sales of the MacBook and MacBook Pro are pushing Apple's take of the U.S. portable computer market up to 12 percent. During its second quarter earnings report, Apple noted that its laptop market share has doubled since January and Apple predicts that this figure will increase with the number of programs that are written in universal binary.

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Famous Logos redone in Web 2.0 Format

Graphic designers from yayhooray (design forum) redo famous logos to be Web 2.0 compatible. Some standouts include ABC, Nike, and of course Fedexr.

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Apple Release List of Software Compatible with .Mac

Apple has published a list of applications that offer support for .Mac in one way or another. The list is broken down into four categories, and offers a description of each app.

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Glass Fibers Instead of Copper Cables

Semiconductor technology is expensive. Novel optical microchips made of plastic are set to bring down the price of fiber-optic technology in future. Personal fiber-optic connections for private individuals and industrial enterprises may soon become a reality.

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How UPS went from low-tech to an IT power

Awaiting a flight among visibly weary travelers at this city's airport, David Barnes, the CIO of UPS, pranced on the balls of his feet as if he were about to bound through the gate and pilot the plane himself.

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First Dell store to open Tuesday in Dallas

"The first Dell Inc. store opens Tuesday in an upscale Dallas mall, but company officials insist they're not abandoning the computer maker's strategy of selling directly to customers over the phone and the Internet."

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Simple ways to make PHP objects lightning fast

A nice article that explains simple steps you can take to speed up your PHP objects.

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Bleeding-edge, luxury smartphone

This spring, an industrial designer named Jaren Goh unveiled a concept design for a truly bleeding-edge, luxury smartphone. Because this device would so expensive, no one really expected him to find any customers. Surprisingly, though, a European company has put in an order for five of them. Price: $300,000.00.

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Skype 1.5 Beta with Video for OS X Released

New version is out, and its cool :)

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25 of the best extensions for Firefox - Have It Your Way!

The following is a list of the best 25 extensions for Firefox. They have been classified into three board categories: those that add additional enhancements to the browser and improve a user's experience, those that add additional enhancements to certain web sites, and ...

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New Apple iPod Details Surface

"We previously believed that new nanos and the widescreen video iPod could ship in Q3 and Q4, respectively," he tells clients in a research note, "however, we now believe that both could be delayed by a quarter or two."

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OFFICIAL MacBook Pro CPU/Whine confession from Apple.

Short, sweet and to the point. You don't need to argue with Apple support any more.

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Collection of Interesting Google Links

A collection of some interesting and strange google links that most people probably have not seen. Some are fun and some interesting.

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Amd Prices Cuts Now Online!

When will newegg update their prices! Athlon 64 FX-62 (socket AM2 only) $827

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Device writes on water

Researchers at Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen), working in conjunction with professor Shigeru Naito of Osaka University, have developed a device that uses waves to draw text and pictures on the surface of water.

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Digg Labs Launches!

By providing broader and deeper views of activity on the site, the tools and projects in Labs aim to help manage the stream of stories passing through Digg, and to better understand the patterns and trends generated by our fast-growing membership.

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Adding more servers to digg labs... back online soon

"Wow, we digg effected ourselves...if that makes sense. Give us some time while we add more servers. Labs will hopefully be back online shortly."

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Motorola RIZR announced, slide style RAZR

Motorola kept with its 4-letter naming scheme and announced the RIZR. It's a slider (hence the name) and is packed with a 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth and a memory card slot.

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Google adds Traffic to Maps

Now you can see how heavy the traffic flow is when planning your route. It works with both the PC and mobile versions!

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The numbers are in for Google Talk, and they're not good

"Google (Talk) is a distant, distant 4th after MSN, Yahoo and AIM. They hold a pitiful 1% of total instant messaging market share, with 3.4 million unique users in May 2006." The numbers however do not factor in Google Talk's usage within Gmail.

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Wonderful Collection of North Korean Propaganda Films!

I've found a bunch of hilarious North Korean propaganda films at YouTube, and I've collected several of the best here for your amusement. Quake with horror at their WWII vintage military while watching "DPRK is Invincible!" and come to realize just how much better off they are than the US in "Capitalist �America�, Socialist Korea!"

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McDonald's Food will decompose your body, but not itself... sick...

The guy from Super Size Me has a short video that shows how McDonald's food doesn't naturally decompose very well. Kinda Scary....

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Why Female Teachers Have Sex With Students! Excellent info

MSNBC story on why female teachers have sex with students--excellent, smart, cool.

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Impressive: Flying First Class to United Arab Emirates

If you have to spend 14 hours on a plane, this is the way to do it. Luxury 'cubicles', an entire ... all » hollywood and music back catalogue with noise-cancelling headphones and an a la carte menu - not to mention a proper vintage wine selection.

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Programmer Blows Whistle on Voter Machine Fraud

A programmer who has worked for NASA admits he was asked by the Speaker of the Florida House to write a hidden program to "control the vote in south Florida." Video.

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The Terminally Ill and Their Right to Drugs

Some organizations are demanding a change in the process to permit terminally ill people to gain speedier access to possible cures. Their demands have so far been rebuffed by regulators. Here I argue the case for liberalizing the approval process. Terminally ill patients are still capable of rational assessment of their alternative choices.

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The Country Of Iraq Will Inevitably Be Broken Up

Iraqi political parties have moved to plan B. The Shia, Sunni and Kurdish parties are now looking at ways to divide Iraq between them and to decide the future of Baghdad.

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Light goes faster in reverse

A group of US physicists funded by the US Department of Energy have made a material capable of making light travel backwards, at speeds "that appear faster than the speed of light", at the smallest wavelength ever.

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ThreatViewer allows security personnel to see in all directions at once

ThreatViewer was used to enhance security surrounding the All-Star week events and monitor critical infrastructure in Pittsburgh. Typically in such circumstance, multiple cameras are utilized to monitor a location, each providing images within a narrow line of sight. ThreatViewer provides 360-degree, panoramic images from a single position.

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$30 CVS Camcorders unlocked without hardware modification

A while back CVS pharmacy came out with a digital one time use camcorder, this was unlocked with efforts from the camerahacking.com community. After a while the software hole exploited in unlocking these cameras was plugged and the camcorder users had to resort to much more difficult methods. Now there is a new tool to help unlock these camcorders.

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Help Bring Back TechTV

Chris Pirillo is asking for your help to make the TechTV reunion a reality.Â

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CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit

Feel free to steal all the code you find on this site, and consider linking back here on your site or in your source comments. You will also find below links to various online CSS resources and tutorials, appropriate for both the novice and the seasoned CSS veteran.

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YouTube Worth $1 BIllion? But Who Will Buy It?

John Battelle ponders who could buy YouTube, recently speculated to be worth $1 Billion, without getting burned.

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AMD + ATI = CPU/GPU integration

Now that the merger is official, AMD has a set of pages up with information on the combined company's future plans - enable the combined company to compete on the corporate desktop, and system-level CPU-GPU integration. They also mentioned die-level CPU-GPU integration.

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Intel gets behind "Wi-Fi on steroids" - Rosedale II chip

Intel was the powerhouse that drove Wi-Fi towards ubiquity. Now it wants to do the same with WiMax, the long-range, high bandwidth technology that has been popularly described as "Wi-Fi on steroids." Momentum around mobile WiMax will receive a much-needed boost from Intel's Rosedale II chip.

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Specs of almost 280 graphics cards summarized and compared!

This is a great guide for those who need to quickly find out the important specs of any graphics cards in the market and in the past. Even XGI and Intel are covered!

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Israel says it would accept NATO-led force

Israeli warplanes struck a minibus carrying people fleeing the fighting Sunday in southern Lebanon, killing three people, Lebanese security officials said, and Israel said it would accept a NATO-led international force to keep the peace along the border.

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Bush writing exceptions to laws he signs Violates the Constitution, ABA

This report raises serious concerns crucial to the survival of our democracy," said the ABA's president, Michael Greco. "If left unchecked, the president's practice does grave harm to the separation of powers doctrine, and the system of checks and balances that have sustained our democracy for more than two centuries.

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The Case for Breaking Up Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart's massive growth has begun to disrupt America's entire retail economy, forcing companies large and small to adapt to its ruthless practices if they want to do business. Is it time to bring in the government to break up the mega chain?

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MacBook Faster than a Desktop G5 at Some Tasks

This well-written review explains how the processor in the MacBook, a consumer laptop, is as robust as the processor in G5 desktop Macs -- and sometimes exceeds G5 performance on certain tasks.

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Simple Tweak to Speed Up Applications in Windows XP

"The tweak I am going to describe below does several things. First it increase system stability by instructing the operating system to seperate processes for each instanace of an application. In other words if you have three Word documents open and one of them crashes it will alow you to close out that crashed instance of Word..."

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AMD buys graphics maker ATI for $5.4 Billion

AMD has scheduled a telephone conference for 8 a.m. EDT Monday to make a "significant corporate announcement." Chief Executive Hector Ruiz and Chief Financial Officer Bob Rivet planned to staff the call.

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HOWTO - Live Coding with Python

"Live coding is the act of writing software while it is executing, often as part of a performance." This tutorial shows you how to experiment with live coding python and apply the concept to creating a drum machine and jamming with dynamic code.

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IRAN'S CHILLING VISION FOR THE MIDDLE EAST

Article from the U.K. Times that suggests Iran desires to rule the Middle East. They became more aggressive in their pursuit of this goal when the U.S. loosened its nuclear policy toward Iran.

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U.S. Gas Prices Hit All-Time High

Nationwide gas prices hit an all-time high in the last two weeks, rising nearly 2 cents to just over $3 per gallon.

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Saudi military spending rising to meet Islamists in Iran threat

'There is now an understanding that Iran has to be countered,' a Saudi adviser told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. 'There is going to be a huge strategic spending on defence, based on a new defence doctrine.'

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How to Create a CSS Website Fast

Description and review of a free, open-source solution to creating a CSS website fast.

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Photoshop How To: Make a Slick Header Badge in 45 Seconds

This guy shows how to make those nice header badges I keep seeing everywhere. If you scroll down there is a screencast where he does all the steps in about 45 seconds.

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It's not flattery, it's plagiarism - yet another stolen website design

Justin French responds to the theft of his design and code by a Web "design" company. So far, the perp has denied the theft but is changing the stolen code to make it look like original work.

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Understanding Tagging Folksonomy - How it Relates to Improving PageRank

Introductory article on tagging/folksonomy, how using the best tags can improve your position in search results and SEO tools to find the best tags.

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How Do You Use Your iPod ?

A question of iPod users out there.

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Walt Mossberg Gives Yet Another Glowing Review Of A Mac

Apple's in-house whore at the Wall Street Journal gives yet another glowing review of a Mac Computer. Here's a contest to see which happens first: Oprah puts someone on O Magazine who is not Oprah Winfrey or Mossberg gives a Mac product a bad review.

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How To Buy an Apple Computer

An article on how to save money when trying to purchase a computer from apple.

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ontheside.blog: Guide to Buying/Using a Mac!!!!!

Don't know which new intel-based Mac to buy? Got some questions not answered by Apple? All your answers here!

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First Image of Venom

So here's a glimpse of Venom!

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100 Greatest Rock Guitarists

Actually the list is 200 long, which obviously starts with Jimi and finishes with James Hetfield at the bottom.

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Oliver Stone and the importance of taking drugs

"I like ayahuasca," a hallucinogenic tea, said Stone, who's also spoken of his love of pot. "And I liked LSD, and I liked peyote." The director of Platoon and JFK thinks tripping is so beneficial that he once spiked his father's wine with acid.

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FEMA Camp footage

Covertly taken footage of a FEMA camp under construction. Also featuring Black Helicopters and trains.

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"America: From Freedom to Fascism" review

The long-anticipated release of Aaron Russo's film starts in major cities July 28. CBS reviewer, Todd Schwartz called it "The scariest damn film you will see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theater, slack-jawed and trembling.........." View trailers: http://www.freedomtofascism.com/ It's a perfect election year film.

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U.S. plans to peel Syria away from its alliance with Iran

"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Israel on Sunday, Bush administration officials say they recognize Syria is central to any plans to resolve the crisis in the Middle East, and they are seeking ways to peel Syria away from its alliance of convenience with Iran."

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War-Gaming the Price of Oil

After correctly discerning that there is a conflict in the Middle East, the Chicago Tribune plugged some numbers into the widely accepted formula x+y = price = next number that sounds like a milestone = 100 and reported that market movers were feeling jittery that oil could indeed hit the magic century mark.

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Hezbollah's Apocalypse Now

"By provoking its southern neighbor, Hezbollah knew it would present Israel with a ghastly choice. Hezbollah is a popular social movement, and it is well aware that it can be destroyed only if the Israeli army is prepared to commit mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing against the entire Shiite community"

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Russian President Vladimir Putin plan's to shut out US oil giants.

Russia's President is set to keep US oil companies out of a lucrative gas field in the latest sign of the deteriorating relationship between Moscow and Washington. The Russian leader is expected to favor Norwegian companies and reject bids by America's Chevron and ConocoPhillips after failing to receive Bush's support on Russia's WTO entry.

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Bush Administration to Cut the number of I.R.S.Tax Auditors by almost 50%

The Bush Admin is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the IRS who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans. six IRS estate tax lawyers said in interviews that the cuts were the latest moves behind the scenes at the IRS, to shield people with political connections And tax-avoidance devices from thorough audits

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Scientists Spot Star Set to Supernova Soon

One of the brightest phenomenon in the Universe is about to happen, and astronomers are going to watch. A type 1a Supernova like this has never been observed closely before, and scientist are watching this star in hopes to get to watch it happen.

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100º - Get Used To It

Britain experienced its hottest July day on record last week and forecasters say more is to come as climate change tightens its grip on the country. Global warming experts claim that by 2050 temperatures will regularly top 104 º and warn that our health and infrastructure will be unable to cope.

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Israel-Lebanon Conflict Illustrated in Google Earth

In an excellent use of Google Earth, someone living near the scene of action has begun documenting where military actions have occurred on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon conflict. This shows how GE's ability to tie information to location can be a powerful tool for visualization.

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Voice Phishers Work Harder To Get Your Number

Scammers have begun using the telephone to harvest data for use in identity theft and credit card fraud, and VoIP is making it easier for them to cover their tracks.

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Todos- It's an OS X Collage of Your Apps

New Mac program that finds all of your applications and displays them in a fun and attractive window. It can be used as a launcher, but it looks pretty sweet too.

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A plane you can print

An unmanned aircraft made from "printed" parts rather than traditional machine-tooled components has been unveiled at the Farnborough Air Show, UK.

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Rumor: MacBook Pro to ship with new faster Merom processors in August!

Intel is shipping Core 2 Duo Mobile chips (Merom) to manufacturers, according to recent Intel financial report. Merom is expected to replace Core Duo "Yonah" CPUs found in the MacBook Pro.Availablility at the time was still not expected until August.

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Hackers CLONE Human-implanted RFID chip in Minutes at Conference

This is the first time someone has cloned an human-implanted RFID chip The pair demonstrated the cloning process: Westhues held a standard RFID reader against an arm to register the chip �s unique identification number. It actually has no security devices what-so-ever - VeriChip�s claims that its RFID chips can not be counterfited

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Market Share Myth: Nailed!

Daniel Eran of RoughlyDrafted takes apart market share numbers to prove some interesting new ideas with Macs and the iPod

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What Steve Jobs is like in a Meeting

Steve Kemper was given complete behind-the-scenes access to Dean Kamen and the Segway design team during the machine �s development and wrote about it in Code Name Ginger. In this excerpt from the book, Kemper describes the meeting where Steve Jobs gave his first impressions.

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