September 2008
114 posts
Board: Lives lost 'needlessly' in medical... →
One technology that veteran EMS pilots say could improve their safety is the use of night-vision goggles (NVG). Developed for use in the military, the goggles can improve visibility for pilots flying…
GAMA-GO :: Bric-a-Brac :: Burning Bookmark →
Burning Bookmark Diving into a smoldering summer novel? Browsing through some incendiary literature? Give the book burning bunch something to get hot about with this flaming placeholder. Measuring 7”…
Lou Dobbs: Hooray for those who defeated bailout -... →
To watch our political leaders, they have no idea in the world, Kiran, what they’re doing. Literally. And the arrogance with which this administration asks for, not only money, almost $1 trillion,…
Commentary: Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right... →
Talk of Armageddon, however, is ridiculous scare-mongering. If financial institutions cannot make productive loans, a profit opportunity exists for someone else. This might not happen instantly, but…
'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are giving up new... →
NEARLY 3,000 YEARS after the death of the Greek poet Homer, his epic tales of the war for Troy and its aftermath remain deeply woven into the fabric of our culture. These stories of pride and rage,…
Fragments of a Hologram Rose →
Text copy of Wiliam Gibson’s first published story. The movie “Strange Days” was based on it. I remember reading this story and it blowing my mind, it’s still fantastic.
Why Is America So Religious? - By the Numbers Blog... →
The chart shows that the wealthier a country is, the less important religion is to that country. The one exception: The United States.
Charlie's Diary: Living through Interesting Times →
We are living in interesting times; in fact, they’re so interesting that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF.
MAKE: Blog: Metal plates send messages to airport... →
Evan Roth, is working on a project that will be released soon - the pictures say it all, it’s a “carry on” communication system. These metal places contain messages which will appear when they are…
Force Unleashed: Giving Us Something New To Talk,... →
Great review by IO9 - SPOILER WARNING. It was great for those of us who finished the game ;)
The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler... →
Just goes to show that you can still get surprises in this hobby after 25 years, even after being considered one of the top 20 âsubject expertsâ for PC oldwarez. I guess you truly can never see…
Bamboo Bike Maker Grows His Frames, Bonsai Style |... →
Bike maker Craig Calfee has found a way to grow bicycle frames in a field, with sunlight and water. He makes them out of bamboo.
Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the... →
Rant: Zombie Feminism →
Still, it wasn’t that long ago that raped women in movies just stayed dead.
The Geek Stuff » Turbocharge PuTTY with 12... →
Topp Engineering » pyinstall: A New Hope →
Have you ever been frustrated by easy_install? Yeah, me neither. But I have heard whispers of discontent.
Charlie's Diary: Modern day shibboleths →
I look at the demands for money emanating from the White House and what I see is the Mafia hoods running up the lines of credit on a business they’ve taken over before they complete the bustout….
Internet Evolution - Cory Doctorow - Don't Judge... →
Twitter has upset what we thought we knew about blogging, reducing the minimum length of a compelling message to a few characters and increasing the maximum frequency of a communique from a couple an…
Benefit Of Combination Therapy For Alzheimer's... →
P&F: The Programmer and the Elves: a Fairy Tale →
“Oh, nothing of the sort,” said the elf. “We elves just do this to keep up our skills for consultant jobs.”
pseudogreen: Creating iPhone-compatible movies... →
converting a movie (anything readable by QuickTime) into an iPhone-compatible format. It’s basically a Python version of an Objective-C example from Apple.
Mobile Ronin » Pretending to browse →
How telcos and ISPs are prepping for a pandemic -... →
Network operators and IT professionals already worried about how hurricanes and financial meltdowns will impact their work lives can add another potential catastrophe to their list of concerns: a…
FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox ! →
FireGPG is a Firefox extension under MPL which brings an interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any web page using GnuPG.
Odd Line: 9 Mental Math Tricks →
HowMagentWorks - memagent - Google Code →
magent is a proxy server sitting between memcache clients(such as php programs) and memcached servers. magent have several advantages over direct connections
Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow →
Secret weapons - The Boston Globe →
SLAP-HAPPY SEX - New York Post →
“When they had a party, the people who came were weirdos. They wore all leather. They would wear spikes around their necks, too.”
Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial... →
Bush Emerges After Days of Financial Crisis -... →
And so it went, until Thursday, when it became clear that Mr. Bush would have to show himself to the public, after the White House press corps had begun agitating to know just what, precisely, the…
Stanford School of Engineering →
For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE)…
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers - Bits Blog... →
5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should... →
So, without further adu [sic], here are the five regular expressions that I have found the most useful for day-to-day web programming tasks.
Darkest day for Scottish banking as the Bank of... →
Bank of Scotland, formed in 1695 and merged with the Halifax to form HBOS less than a decade ago, was a bank that loved its history. Its founding constitution and articles are kept like sacred relics…
Learning Some Twisted Lessons | TicketStumbler New... →
Scotsman.com News - Gaelic →
Many articles in the Gaelic section are printed in Scots Gaelic, although occasionally interspersed with English language articles about Gaelic things, such as launch of BBC Alba.
Torchwood's Tosh on Life, Death and Sci-Fi Success... →
Phwoar, look at that fit stud muffin, says OED -... →
Now, the word “phwoar” - meaning an “expression of enthusiastic or lubricious approval” - has gained official entry to the English language, appearing in the pages of the latest Oxford English…
Whale Songs Are Heard For First Time Around New... →
For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from the Bioacoustics…
Pentagon Researcher Conjures Warcraft Terror Plot... →
Learning the craft | Tux Deluxe →
Read code. Lots of code.
techspot.zzzeek.org » Blog Archive » Timing All... →
A few people have been asking about this one as of late, it’s quite easy to do with a ConnectionProxy. Here’s a quick recipe (yes, this is 0.5):
How-to: Thermite hard drive destruction - Hack a... →
With the amount of personal data stored on your computer, we all understand the importance of destroying the data that is stored on the platters of a hard drive before disposing of it. There are many…
Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC - Wired How-To Wiki →
Feel like stepping beyond the limits of Apple hardware? Want a Mac netbook for under $650? How about an EeePC running Mac OS X?
Why people overuse the E.R. - By Zachary F. Meisel... →
The real reasons why people go to the E.R. when they shouldn’t.
Can TV's evolution ignite a Gaelic revolution? -... →
FRIDAY will see a milestone in Scottish media history: at 9pm BBC ALBA, the UK’s first Gaelic-only channel will begin broadcasting. Epochal as it will be, this event may pass unnoticed by the casual…
Can TV's evolution ignite a Gaelic revolution? -... →
FRIDAY will see a milestone in Scottish media history: at 9pm BBC ALBA, the UK’s first Gaelic-only channel will begin broadcasting. Epochal as it will be, this event may pass unnoticed by the casual…
Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies. →
Sept. 15, 1916: All Disquiet on the Western Front →
1916: The tank makes its debut as a battlefield weapon, attacking the Germans as part of a British assault near Bois d’Elville, or Delville Wood, on the Western Front.