Excellent selection of good books.
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June 23, 2007
IRAN WAR WILL BE NUCLEAR- Gen Pace gave us a warning dont ignore it
US-Isreal attack against Iran has been finalized and Isreal is training their troops for an air attack right now. Bush Pentagon rewrote US war doctrine to PERMIT use of Nuclear weapons regardless of their illegality and immorality- why REWRITE unless serious about it?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17902.htm- Use this link
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Results from every single myth tested on MythBusters
Can you get better gas mileage by drafting a semi? Will your stomach explode if you drink diet coke and mentos? Can you open a pad lock by shooting at it? Can you trick a bloodhound by crossing a river? Plus hundreds more myth results from MythBusters.
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12 of the Best Music Social Networks
Internet radio may be facing uncertain times, but many musical social networks continue to thrive. If you’re in a band, these sites are essential for promoting your music: take note, and sign up for as many as possible to maximize your reach. For fans, meanwhile, we’ve included some great places to just listen to music.
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Jessica Biel Bikini Spread In GQ [PICTURES]
GQ is featuring an exclusive Jessica Biel photo shoot in what they deem to be "the Summer of Jessica Biel".
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Why Flight of the Conchords Will Fail Despite Being a Pretty Funny Show
HBO aired the first episode of its new comedy series on Sunday, although it had already released the episode on its website as well as on other sites, presumably to generate internet buzz. Unfortunately, the show is destined to fail. There are no fewer than four reasons why this Kiwi folk-comedy duo won’t be seeing a second season.
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First Image Of Harrison Ford As Indiana Jones Since 1989
Check out the first official image of "Indiana Jones 4" of Harrison Ford as the man himself! I have to say, he’s looking pretty good for a guy in his 60s. You can definitely tell that he has aged, but I think it’s a good look.
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'A' List Film Producer Dana Brunetti's Smackdown for "On the Lot"
"Compared to 'On The Lot,' Project Greenlight was Emmy material. On the other hand, the production of 'On The Lot' itself is like watching a train wreck..."
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Top 20 Movie Insults
“I seen your mother kicking a can down the street. I said ‘What you doin’?’ and she said ‘Moving’”
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Images That Changed The World ?
If the image has a link it will take you to a video/documentary about the history of the image.
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Girl's Feet Cut Off At Six Flags
Police confirmed that a girl's feet have been cut off at Six Flags' Kentucky Kingdom....
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Boulder High Student, Jesse Lange, Calmly Exposes Bill O'Reilly's Hypocrisy
Jesse Lange, did an admirable job confronting O'Reilly calmly and rationally. In fact, he riled Bill so much , he got branded a pinhead which he considers a badge of honor.
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███ to declassify cl█████ied do█████ts
THE CIA says it it has decided to declassify most of a voluminous 1973 file known as "the family jewels", which details some of the agency's most notorious operations.
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'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot
One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands. An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine. Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as a cigar-shaped brilliant white light
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The Weird Things People Eat Around the World
"Half the fun of traveling is getting out and enjoying all sorts of foods you're not used to eating. A simple trip to the corner market or grocery store in a foreign land can keep you amused for hours."
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Digital Da Vinci Codes: Thousands of Leonardo's Papers Go Online
The Leonardian Library in Vinci, Tuscany, is making the Madrid Codices and the Codex Atlanticus -- two collections of scientific and technical drawings -- available as a free digital archive called e-Leo.The EU-financed project will also digitize the Windsor folios and 12 notebooks from the Institut de France for a total of 12,000 pages.
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The Perfect Shave
If you’re going to ready the razor every morning, you ought to know the tools, products, and tricks you need to achieve the best shave imaginable.
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Government gags scientists, GAO finds
The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, surveyed 1,811 randomly-selected researchers at three agencies. It found that 102 at NASA and 76 at NOAA have been barred from publicizing their research results.
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Christians Cause Ban On Alcohol Inhalers Because They Prevent Hangover
Alcohol inhalers, which have been banned in 22 states since they were introduced to American consumers in 2004, will soon be illegal in North Carolina, home of Spirit Partners, the U.S. distributor of AWOL (Alcohol Without Liquid) machines.
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Absolutely identify plants before using them as food. A great guide.
At times you may find yourself in a situation for which you could not plan. In this instance you may not have had the chance to learn the plant life of the region in which you must survive. In this case you can use the Universal Edibility Test to determine which plants you can eat and those to avoid.
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LifeHacker's Top 10 DIY office projects
Anyone can drop cash on spendy office gear, but it takes a little ingenuity to rig up your workspace just right with stuff you've already got around the house. Today's top 10 looks at a few dead easy do-it-yourself office projects that reduce clutter and organize the cables, gadgets and office supplies in your workspace.
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June 22, 2007
How they steal your card AND pin at ATM's [PHOTOS]
Using black film which blends with the black plastic of an ATM theives can steal your card along and capture your pin number.
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DARPA Looking Into Invisible, Shoot-Through, Self-Healing Armor
Yeah, we're talking armor that soldiers can see and fire through on one side, but is invisible and impenetrable on the other.
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How To Make Money on Facebook
One developer's story of the challenges faced trying to generate revenue from a Facebook-only application
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126 Essential Freelancing Resources
The web is such a big and wonderful place, packed with tools and resources which you all too often don’t know about. So to help all you freelancers out there we have compiled a gigantic list of resources, categorized up for your benefit.
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June 20, 2007
73 Great Debt Elimination Tips
Based on user feedback, Zen Habits has compiled a pretty impressive list. It is not a step-by-step guide. It is a list of ideas and advice from different people. As he says: "Find the tips that will work best for you, and try them out."
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80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding
Long list of Ajax techniques & tutorials: Auto-completion, instant field editing, menus, calendars, interactive elements, visual effects, animation, basic javascripts, as well as an extensive developer’s suite should give you a useful and powerful toolbox you can use every day, without a need to go through hundreds of AJAX-related bookmarks.
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Why Didn't Americans Adopt the Metric System?
Feet, yards, inches, miles, gallons, ounces, these may mean something to some people around the world, while others struggle with online converters or, worse, software designed to convert these values, that are not reliable most of the times.
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0 To 12,000 RSS Subscribers In Seven Months: 10 Techniques
"...launched at the end of October 2006. ...by June 2007, I had 12,000 RSS readers and was generating enough traffic that I had to switch hosting plans twice."
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Farmers sue DEA to allow them to grow industrial hemp
Two farmers granted the first licenses in the nation to grow industrial hemp filed a federal lawsuit to get final permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration. "What they say is hemp, we say is marijuana," said Garrison Courtney, a spokesman for the DEA in Washington.
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Top 20 Magic Trick Tutorials Of All Time
Be the life of the part, or get the interest of that girl. These are the 20 most amazing magic tricks tutorial videos that you will find anywhere.
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June 19, 2007
Jon Stewart Approached by NBC
His contract with the Daily Show is up for renewal next year. With that in mind, NBC is putting out feelers to see what it would take to get Stewart to switch networks, potentially to replace either Conan on Late Night or Leno on the Tonight Show.
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Video Editing 2.0
There are a bunch of other online video editing tools, and we'll take a brief look at some of them below (though again, don't expect Avid).
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LifeHacker: 13 book hacks for the library crowd
Today, in the interest of lifehacking your bookshelf, I'm rounding up my favorite 13 "book hacks" for getting the most from your bound literature. The first three hacks provide ways to integrate your computer with your local library, from a web-based notification tool to a Firefox extension to a killer Mac-only menu bar app.
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Mininova.org TV Torrents organized for you!
Basically a frontend for mininova.org. It organizes all the TV show torrents into different series with links to that episode database listings, newest show and much more. Check it out!
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Keep Track of TV Torrents with TVTAD
"TVTAD is an RSS feed reader with support for unlimited feeds. It will automatically download newly released TV episodes that have been added to your favorites." It's free and It works with any BitTorrent client (like uTorrent).
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33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online
It's time to toss the old tube to the dumpster. Well, not if you have one of those 47'' plasma ones, but...you know what we mean. Instead of browsing through the channels with your remote, you could be browsing through the free online TV providers on your computer.
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The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes
Learn how to take better photos by reading about the 10 most common mistakes most people make. Some are obvious some aren't.
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DIGG: Site Downtime / New Features
"Hey everyone - quick post to let you know that in the midst of going live with some back-end upgrades as well as our new comments system, the site has had a longer than expected outage tonight..."
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Get Rid Of Spyware Using Sysinternals Tools (Definitive Guide)
As it turns out, you can delete all malware manually. But it requires good tools to delete files protected by malware running inside critical Windows processes and renewing its hooks. Anyway, sysinternals rock!
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Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk, 250 standby
In a press release today, Apple has revealed a number of significant upgrades to both the iPhone's battery life and touch screen.
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Tech capitals of the world
Want ultra-fast broadband, free internet 'hotspots' across town and all the latest gadgets? You won't get it in Sydney - but where would you go for the best there is to offer?
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Ten CSS tricks you may not know
Cascading Style Sheets are the foundation on which many of the best websites are built. Using CSS allows developers to describe the common style for the website, in terms of colours, fonts and layouts. In this tutorial, Trenton Moss of Webcredible shares some of his top tips to help you get the most from your CSS.
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Wait in the self-check line? That’s so last month
Stephanie Cerneck doesn’t go through the checkout line at her supermarket anymore. Or even the self-checkout line. She uses a personal scanner offered by the Bloom grocery store near her home, scanning each item as she takes it off the shelf and bagging as she shops. When she’s done, she pays at a terminal at the front of the store.
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8 Practical Tips to Cure Your Internet ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)
You know you have it - every nerd does - the tickling sensation in the left hand to press Alt+Tab or Cmd+Tab to switch apps, Internet browser tabs or windows, to go from your email to Firefox, Instant Messenger, Twitter, your current work and back to Firefox.
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New 20- and 24-inch iMacs on track for mid-to-late summer - AppleInsider
Apple Inc.'s hotly anticipated iPhone device will have a few weeks to bask in the limelight before the electronics maker returns focus to its Mac business with a pair of redesigned iMacs positioned to catch the tail end of the educational buying season. People familiar with plans for the next-generation consumer desktops say Apple hopes to unveil..
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Categorized Best Wordpress Themes
A superb source for wordpress themes, they seem all categorized from business to travel and sorted by downloads, tests, rates and votes.
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Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew
Ruby on Rails is an elegant, compact and fun way to build web applications. Unfortunately, many gotchas await the new programmer. Now that I have a few rails projects under my belt, here’s my shot at sparing you the suffering I experienced when first getting started.
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AT&T Quietly offers $10 DSL Plan
Without any sort of fanfare, AT&T Inc. has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month, half the price of its cheapest advertised plan
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Want something more substantive than YouTube? Here's how to find it...
While YouTube has captured a great deal of attention and traffic for its vast collection of mostly goofy videos, a growing number of sites are providing more-cerebral alternatives: documentaries, speeches, panel discussions, research reports and more.
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Jawbone Headset to be sold alongside iPhone
When Apple fans across the country flock to their neighborhood Apple Store to pick up their shiny new iPhone next Friday, they'll also have the opportunity to buy a Jawbone Bluetooth headset to go along with it.Designed by Yves Behar and decked out with military-grade noise-canceling technology, the Jawbone is certainly no slouch...
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Great Spy Shots Of Audi's 2008 V-10 Powered RS6. Will It Have 600 HP?
Winding Road Magazine has captured some shots of Audi's 2008 RS6 sport sedan without disguise! The V-10 powered bahnstormer is expected to have 550-600 horsepower from its supercharged powerplant. It will be interesting to see how the battle shapes up against BMW's M5 and Mercedes-Benz's E63 AMG.
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June 18, 2007
Lost: Real-time Airplane Crash edit
A Must SEE! Someone took all the footage of the plane crash from seasons 1,2 and 3. Put it together as it happened. it's really awesome stuff, brings back a nostalgic feel. Hope its hold you over till season 4!
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Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime
The FBI estimates that, 16,000 Americans are murdered every year. Compare this to the 56,000 Americans who die every year on the job or from occupational diseases such as black lung and asbestosis and the tens of thousands of other Americans who fall victim to the silent violence of pollution, contaminated foods, hazardous consumer products...
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How to Build the World's Best Paper Planes [W/PICTURES]
Slip the surly bonds of earth with a folded sheet of A4. Jonathan Glancey, who spent his childhood manufacturing squadrons of paper aviation, offers some tips.
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Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)
So, you don’t mind being followed and tracked? You don’t care if your friends can see what websites you’ve been to lately, what software you’ve been running, or even what music you’ve been listening to? Below, we round up 12 services that want to track your every move - voluntarily.
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6 Ways to Download Torrents with your Web-Browser
Wouldn’t it be easier if people can download .torrent files with their web-browser? This is a question BitTorrent novices often the ask. Last year Opera was the first browser to add BitTorrent support, soon followed by BitFox, FireStorm, FoxTorrent, AllPeers, and Wyzo/FireTorrent. Here’s a overview of these applications and extensions.
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