Archive for August 24th, 2006
The 9/11 Report: As A Graphic Novel
Click here to read The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, which sets text from The 9/11 Commission Report to images—with striking results. Slate is excerpting a chapter a day through Sept. 7. Don’t worry if you’ve joined in late; click on the launch module, and you’ll see that the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )London MonoMetro 2012
London will introduce in 2012 the world’s most advanced urban transport system: MonoMetro. Designed to relieve the chaos of the ground and the underground, whisking sportsmen, spectators, visitors and businessmen across the urban landscape.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How to Get Six Pack Abs
The simple 2 step process to gaining six pack abs is as follows: strengthen your abdominal muscles and lose body fat. The concept is simple, but putting it into action is not. It will take dedication, willpower, patience and time to get a six pack but in the end, the effort is well worth it. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mozilla delays Firefox 2.0 release
The Mozilla Foundation has pushed back the release of Firefox 2.0 until 24 October (see developer calender here), a month later than its scheduled arrival.Release of the second beta of the keenly awaited browser software has also been delayed by a week until 23 August. Developers need the extra time to iron out bugs in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Don Vito of Viva La Bam faces charges of sexual assault
Reality television’s Vincent “Don Vito” Margera, uncle of “Viva La Bam” star Bam Margera, was held without bond Saturday on a charge of sexual assault on a child. Margera, 50, was arrested Friday night after a skateboarding event at a Lakewood, Colorado mall. He is accused of two incidents of sexual assault on a child, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )How to deal with a boss that steals your thunder?
ComputerWorld has an interesting Q and A on how to deal with a boss who takes credit for your work:
“My boss is inappropriately praised for a lot of work she has nothing to do with. The problem is that she seems to feel a need to imply — and sometimes outright state — that she [...]
The top 50 common interview questions
Job Interview. A phrase that strikes fear and dread into the hearts of men and women all over the globe. Well, at least some sweaty palms.
Software engineer Bhuvana Sundaramoorthy has a great list of 50 common interview questions, and how to answer them. Interviews are nerve-wracking, but they don’t have to be – and if [...]
Permanently delete data from your hard drive
Formatting your hard drive before you sell it on Ebay is not enough to permanently erase the data on disk. The Geeks are Sexy blog (aren’t they, though?) rounds up a few disk “white-out” applications which will wipe your hard drive of any trace of the data that once lived there.
Personally I’m partial to Eraser [...]
Teach yourself speed-reading with Spreeder
Very similar to Zap Reader, the Spreeder webapp trains you to increase your reading speed by displaying single words in succession at a high rate.
“Several factors affect our reading speed, like subvocalization (the little voice inside our heads that reads along with us and slows us down), backtracing (rereading parts over and over again), etc. [...]
Arctic Monkeys: When The Sun Goes Down Video
Ive got their latest album in the car at the moment and love it, its a classic, their vidoes are prett good too, take a look..
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
THE VIEW FROM THE AFTERNOON
I BET YOU LOOK GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR [...]
RockstarGames: Bully Video Game
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Most Isolated Country in the World
No, it´s not Chile, trapped between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. Nor is it Tahiti, Papa New Guinea, or even Fiji. I´ve been in the US now for 3 weeks on an extended visit, and one of the things that has most caught my attention is how isolated the US is from the rest [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )10 tips for keeping your desk clean and tidy
A messy desk is a sign of creativity and imagination. This is the excuse I gave myself for the mountain of papers, knickknacks, and San Pellegrino bottles normally piled on my desk at work. Truth is, I’m just lazy. When I started wasting more and more time looking for lost items instead of being a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )30 USB port-powered “BBQ”
Ok, so it’s really more of a hotplate than a Barbeque, but for sheer excessiveness and USB-ness this DIY project from Kaizo Aho Ichidai cannot be denied. After not surprisingly failing to get enough juice from a single 500mw USB port to fry an egg, Kaizo went all out and dropped six USB expansion cards [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How-To: Run your own network wiring
Wherever you call home, it probably didn’t come wired up for that most precious of home utilities: internet access. Sometimes wireless networking can only take you so far. Guerrilla network wiring might sound a little strong, but sometimes it ends up feeling like an episode of MacGyver, without the bombs. (Unless you count flaming laptops.) [...]
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