Part 2: Firefox - From Clean Install to Awesome Efficiency

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Part 2: Firefox - From Clean Install to Awesome Efficiency

Test your Website: A 57-Point Checklist for Maximum Usability

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10 Google Video Documentaries You Have To Watch

10 Google Video Documentaries You Have To Watch : clipclip

50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do

50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do | Marc and Angel Hack Life

Knowledge is PowerSelf-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.

While not totally comprehensive, here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do.

Postmortem: Tale of Tales' The Graveyard

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[In this postmortem of Tale Of Tales' thought-provoking art-game The Graveyard -- which is free to download in a basic version for PC and Mac -- the creators detail what went right and wrong, revealing funding wins, download statistics, and more.]

Elephant Self Portrait

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Optimize XP - A Windows XP Optimization Guide

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Optimize XP Clean Spyware and Viruses + Optimize Windows XP to improve home, work and gaming performance safely. Windows XP's default configuration is far from optimized. This Free guide will help you improve your overall system performance without having to manually edit the Registry. I avoid using or recommending "all-in-one" Windows XP Tweak programs since many blindly adjust settings that have no affect on performance and can cause future problems. This guide is designed to be performed top to bottom, in sequence since some steps are required to be performed before others. Before using this guide make sure your system meets the Windows XP System Requirements.

Search the Web for Sounds

FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds

Home Building Answers, Everything Owner Builders Need To Know

Home Building Answers, Everything Owner Builders Need To Know

Take the Mystery
Out Of Home Building
. . . By Knowing The Answers


Got home building on your mind? Here are the answers you're looking for. And if it's not here, we'll try to tell you where to find it. Our goal is to provide the information and resources you need to successfully build your own home. And we're committed to doing it in a clear, non-technical way - for people with no construction experience.

Return of Investment Table for Home Improvements

Master ROI Table | GreenandSave.com

Master ROI Table
See the Return on Investment rankings to help you decide…

Crawl of the Dead IV: Night of the Brighton Zombies (2008)

Zombie Crawl - a set on Flickr

Zombie Crawl

Crawl of the Dead IV: Night of the Brighton Zombies - a set on Flickr

Crawl of the Dead IV: Night of the Brighton Zombies

Picasa Web Albums - tmx - 2008.10.31_Halloween

2008.10.31_Halloween

DVICE: 10 best ideas for greening your home that you've never heard of

DVICE: 10 best ideas for greening your home that you've never heard of

A lot of environmentally friendly home renovations have emerged in the last couple of years, and they're easier to implement than ever before. Even better, lots of them look sexier, too. Follow the Continue jump below to read about the 10 newest green renovations you could be seeing in your home or your neighbor's soon

New Anti-Reflective Coating To Help Solar Panels Absorb Near All Light From Near All Angles

New Anti-Reflective Coating To Help Solar Panels Absorb Near All Light From Near All Angles | Device Daily

Posted on 05 November 2008

Anti-Reflective Coating

Although many scientists regarded this as almost impossible, a team of researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new anti-reflective coating which will allow solar panels to absorb light from the entire solar spectrum, and to capture almost all the amount of sunlight from almost any angle. This is a major breakthrough which could lead to high-efficient and cost-effective solar panels.

Crawl of the Dead IV: Night of the Brighton Zombies (2008)

Zombie Crawl - a set on Flickr

Zombie Crawl

Crawl of the Dead IV: Night of the Brighton Zombies - a set on Flickr

Crawl of the Dead IV: Night of the Brighton Zombies

Picasa Web Albums - tmx - 2008.10.31_Halloween

2008.10.31_Halloween

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

~ Andrew Carnegie

A slide library for energy educators | Leonardo ENERGY

A slide library for energy educators | Leonardo ENERGY

The Leonardo ENERGY initiative is building a slide library for energy educators. So far, over 5,000 slides have been collected. Through this page, we offer users to browse and download selected presentations from this library. We'll be adding to this page regularly, so bookmark it for future reference.

Gamasutra - The Mushroom Growth Plan: Inside Nintendo's Numbers

Gamasutra - The Mushroom Growth Plan: Inside Nintendo's Numbers

Perhaps most interestingly, Nintendo has provided somewhat detailed information that sheds some welcome light on the size of the European market.

100 free Business Courses

Brain Trust: 100 Ivy League Business & Entrepreneurship Courses You Can Take for Free | BSchool.com Business Schools Directory

Whether you decide to take these courses on your own time or just skim through the information, we’ve compiled a list of 100 places to start looking for great business and entrepreneurship information.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

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Assumption Reversal

Assumption Reversal

When to use?

Assumption reversal is a left brain technique that should be used to introduce the ideas of visionary techniques to a group that is unsure of their creative capabilities. Most people feel most comfortable using their left brain, so this technique builds confidence in their creativity and gradually breaks them into the creative thinking process. Once this technique has been introduced and exercised to its fullest capacity, other visionary techniques can then be introduced for further creative thinking and exploring.

cut glass with scissors !

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YouTube - How to Enhance Gmail with Task Manger pt.2

YouTube - How to Enhance Gmail with Task Manger pt.2

Remember The Milk for Gmail is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage your tasks in Gmail also add new tasks (and connect them with your emails, contacts, and Google Calendar events), automatically add tasks for starred messages or specific labels, and much more!

How I built an electricity producing Solar Panel

How I built an electricity producing Solar Panel

Scott Jennings: My list, of all things great and small, what other MMOs should take away from Warhammer.

Broken Toys

So: my list, of all things great and small, what other MMOs should take away from Warhammer.

Talks Adam Grosser: A new vision for refrigeration

Adam Grosser and his sustainable fridge | Video on TED.com

GanttProject

GanttProject: Home

GanttProject 2.0.7
Jun 27, 2008

GanttProject 2.0.7 significantly improves resource chart perfomance. It is an order of magnitude faster comparing to previous 2.0 releases, and it makes work with complex projects with lots of resources and assignments much more comfortable. GP 2.0.7 also fixes a dozen of bugs.

MMOG nuggets from Austin GDC 2008

MMOG nuggets from Austin GDC « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog

Some interesting tidbits about both free to play and subscription MMOGs coming out of the talks at Austin GDC. Min Kim of Nexon says:

Not just a Korean thing:

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PRESENTATIONS AND DVDS AVAILABLE

E-Marketing for Games: Case Studies and Best Practices
download presentation 1 | download presentation 2 | order DVD

Mastering the tools of the trade are critical for your next big win. From traditional on-line advertising to email campaigns, search engine marketing to community marketing, E-marketing experts w

Updated: Virtual Worlds Management Report: 100+ Youth-Oriented Worlds Live or Developing

Virtual Worlds News: Updated: Virtual Worlds Management Report: 100+ Youth-Oriented Worlds Live or Developing

April 11, 2008
Updated: Virtual Worlds Management Report: 100+ Youth-Oriented Worlds Live or Developing

Developmentstatuskapril08 Virtual Worlds Management released a new report today on Youth Worlds: Based on a comprehensive research available through Virtual Worlds News, we've found that there are now over 100 virtual worlds operating or in development with a focus on the youth market (18-and-under). It's worth noting that, at the younger level, the lines between virtual worlds, games, and social networking blur heavily. If nothing else, it's a fascinating trend at how users are merging their activities into one immersive space. Likewise, while the list is sure to change (please feel free to send in updates) it's a good snapshot of where the industry is at: [These numbers are updated according to several worlds that I'm currently adding to the list.] While there are 60 listed youth worlds currently live, another 53 are in concepting, development, or testing phases. In other words, keep an eye on this space.

Virtual Worlds Management Report: 150+ Youth-Oriented Worlds Live or Developing

Virtual Worlds News: Virtual Worlds Management Report: 150+ Youth-Oriented Worlds Live or Developing

Virtual Worlds Management Report: 150+ Youth-Oriented Worlds Live or Developing

Development_3 Virtual Worlds Management today released its updated Youth Worlds Analysis. Based on comprehensive research available through Virtual Worlds News, we've found that there are now over 150 virtual worlds operating or in development with a focus on the youth market (18-and-under). That's up from just over 100 in April, though not all of these are new developments. Some are merely worlds that more recently came to our attention. What has changed to some degree is the development status: In all there are 95 youth worlds currently live. Another 68 are in concepting, development, or testing phases. That's up from 53 in development in April, and I can say for a fact that there are plenty more out there that I know of in stealth mode and I'm sure even more that I haven't heard of. As crowded as the space is, it's only getting hotter.

MMOGData

MMOGData.VOIG.com | Online Data About Online Games

Welcome to MMOGData!

Where am I?
Voig is a website dedicated to online gamers and the new home of MMOGData. If you’re looking for current subscription information or wondering just how many people play a specific MMOG, you’ve come to the right place.

The Free Information Society

The Free Information Society - Media in E-Books

Files in Media/E-Books

Living Off Grid

Living Off Grid | Living Off The Grid

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Castle Photo Gallery

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Stuck in Customs

The Red Palacial Tower

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Floating Home

Underwater Habitats - Trilobis 65 Floating Home

Trilobis 65 Floating Home

Gespräch mit Mr. Ubisoft: Petz, Tom Clancy und Anno 1404

Gespräch mit Mr. Ubisoft: Petz, Tom Clancy und Anno 1404 - Golem.de

Gespräch mit Mr. Ubisoft: Petz, Tom Clancy und Anno 1404
Interview mit Yves Guillemot, Chef des französischen Publishers Ubisoft

Was haben Casual-Spiele mit dem Hardcorespielermarkt zu tun, ist das Filmgeschäft wichtig für die Spielebranche, und welche Bedeutung haben lokale Inhalte wie "Anno 1404"? Golem.de hat sich mit Yves Guillemot, dem Chef von Ubisoft, über diese und weitere Themen aus den Bereichen Markt, Entwicklung und Produktion unterhalten.

Who plays, how much, and why?

Terra Nova: Who plays, how much, and why? Answers.

Who plays, how much, and why? Answers.

Dmitri Williams

As some on this list know, my research group has been working on a joint project with Sony Online Entertainment for the last two years. This collaboration has enabled our team to collect virtual world data on--as far as we know--an unprecedented scale. SOE has let us access the full data logs generated and collected by the world Everquest II.

This is one of those "be careful what you ask for" moments in science. We asked for everything, and many terabytes later, found ourselves hosting and analyzing massive data on supercomputers at NCSA. SOE also let us do a large-scale survey of their player base. Although there have been good surveys of virtual world populations done in the past, this is the first that took place within the game engine and with the help of the developer. As a result, it does not have the self-selection issues that the first such surveys have had, and the response rate was impressive.

LHC - first run: 10th september

Latest News from the LHC - Large Hadron Collider

Latest News from the LHC

LHC Control Room (copyright CERN)The 10th September 2008 is LHC start up date .

Everything is now ready for the first injection of proton beams into the LHC on the 10th September 2008.

Exploiting Anarchy Online

Exploiting Anarchy Online

Welcome

Security researchers Dan Caselden and Gabriel Landau at Independent Security Evaluators recently uncovered two security vulnerabilities present in the popular new and entertaining online game, Age of Conan, produced by Funcom. It was then determined that the game's equally engrossing predecessor, Anarchy Online, contains the same two vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to read arbitrary files off of a victim's computer, crash the games during online play, and in the case of Anarchy Online, fully compromise a victim's machine giving the attacker full control of the targeted computer.

Valve: Why the PC is the future

Valve: Why the PC is the future Article - Page 1 // PC /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More

When Valve summoned a handful of US and UK journalists to its Seattle headquarters at the end of last month, it promised to talk about the future of Steam, its digital distribution system. That it did, revealing the ambitious Steam Cloud service for remote storage of game data, and boasting that it would soon be making more money selling games digitally, all the while remaining untroubled by piracy.

What Players Find Most Rewarding and Motivating About Your Game

Gamasutra.com - Rethinking Carrots: A New Method For Measuring What Players Find Most Rewarding and Motivating About Your Game

Rethinking Carrots: A New Method For Measuring What Players Find Most Rewarding and Motivating About Your Game
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Introduction

Gameplay strategies for motivating players largely focus on reward paradigms (“carrots on sticks”) that dangle the sweet enticements of hidden levels, provocative content, and variations on the Sword of A Thousand Truths. But like all of us, don’t games want to be loved for who they are deep down, and not what they have?

Massively Mother-Approved Online: Cartoon Network’s New MMORPG

Massively Mother-Approved Online: Cartoon Network’s New MMORPG | GameCyte

Massively Mother-Approved Online: Cartoon Network’s New MMORPG

Thu, Aug 21, 2008

News, Preview

As the internet grows to consume every last aspect of our lives so that it can one day crush us all, and as each new generation grows more and more net-savvy, new steps are being taken to provide safe havens for our impressionable youngsters. Online games and destinations for kids are now plentiful and varied, from kid-safe social portals like Club Penguin and Habbo Hotel to fully-featured child-oriented games such as Toontown Online and the upcoming Hello Kitty Online.

Cosmic crash unmasks dark matter

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cosmic crash unmasks dark matter

Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic "stuff" called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.

The results come from astronomical observations of a titanic collision between two clusters of galaxies 5.7 billion light-years away.

Astronomers detected the dark matter because it separated from the normal matter during the cosmic smash-up.

RMT – What it is now, and what it can become

RMT – What it is now, and what it can become! «

After having seen Station Exchange running for over a year now, I’ve come to see RMT in an entirely different light and I believe the real future of RMT is actually a really bright one if we can work on our game designs in such a way as to make it a cool part of the games. Imagine an MMO without a subscription fee that has Station Exchange built into it. However, the game is designed in such a way as to only allow the sale and transfer of non-game impacting items. What if an in-game tailor had the toolset to actually put cool designs on clothing and literally make them custom for different players, and then that person could open a virtual storefront on Station Exchange. That’s the kind of cool thing we see in the future and frankly it’s the direction we want to steer things. To create an ecosystem for players to make money from these games while they’re having fun.

online vs offline studios

How online changes everything | Game Development | Interview by Develop

How online changes everything

MIGS 2007: Jonathan Blow On The 'WoW Drug', Meaningful Games

Gamasutra - MIGS 2007: Jonathan Blow On The ' WoW Drug', Meaningful Games

MIGS 2007: Jonathan Blow On The 'WoW Drug', Meaningful Games

MIGS 2007: Jonathan Blow On The ' WoW Drug', Meaningful Games At the 2007 Montreal Games Summit, Jonathan Blow, creator of 2006 IGF Design Innovation award winner Braid, addressed the subtle assumptions that underlie the modern game development process.

Many of these assumptions, he asserted, are damaging, founded in the fabric of tradition and consistently reinforced by a lifetime of games. Blow proposed a fresh mindset and the need for a new perspective on game design, with the goal of fostering enhanced creativity and deeper, more meaningful games.

Blow opened by discussing a New York Times op-ed by Daniel Radosh that dealt with Halo 3, finding that the game clove dutifully alongside its formula and added little innovation over previous installments. He highlighted a particular excerpt to introduce his point; from the article:

Giant

Giant

We are one of China's leading online game developers and operators in terms of revenues, and our free-to-play online game ZT Online was the most popular online game in China in 2006, according to a report published by IDC. Our focus is on massively multiplayer online, or MMO, games.

A Model for Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games System Performance

A Model for Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games System Performance

A Model for Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games System Performance

Rakes of Kildare Hammered Dulcimer

Rakes of Kildare Hammered Dulcimer

Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system

Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system - Yahoo! News

Thu Aug 21, 5:31 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.

The Daedalus Project

the DAEDALUS PROJECT: MMORPG Research, Cyberculture, MMORPG Psychology

Welcome to The Daedalus Project
For current MMORPG Players: Participate in the current surveys.

For New Visitors: Check out The Daedalus Gateway for brief thematic primers to the data that has accumulated here over the past few years. Also look at the tag cloud to get a sense of what issues I have written about.

For Returning Visitors: The easiest way to scan through or find past articles of interest is through the "by Issue" or "by Category" listing pages. This link is also always available on the right-hand navigation bar.

For Students and Researchers: If you're looking for papers or articles in print you can cite, check out this index of peer-reviewed papers. If you would like some of this survey data to play with for a stats course, see this shared data set.

OLAP market share analysis

The OLAP Report: Market share analysis

OLAP market share analysis

Competitive intelligence, Search intelligence for online advertising and search marketing - Hitwise

Each day, Hitwise provides insights on how 10 million US Internet users interact with more than 1 million websites, across 165+ industries.

Nielsen Online

Nielsen Online measures
and analyzes web audiences, advertising and commerce. What is your business challenge?

comScore, Inc.

comScore maintains massive proprietary databases that provide a continuous, real-time measurement of the myriad ways in which the Internet is used and the wide variety of activities that are occurring online.

Analytics

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The fastest way to measure your competition
Stay on top of rivals with site metrics and audience profiles for the top 1,000,000 web domains.

About Netcraft Archives - Netcraft

About Netcraft
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. Netcraft is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:

* Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
* Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet.
* Accepting advertising on the Netcraft web sites.

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Ranking.com calculates the online popularity of the most visited websites and provides these results free to the World Wide Web. See the popularity ranking of the top one million Web properties now.

Alexa the Web Information Company

Movers & Shakers Traffic Graph

VastPark

OpenSocial distributed social networking will be integrated into VastPark.com - Grow your own virtual world

What is VastPark?

VastPark is virtual worlds technology done right. It's not a single virtual world. Instead, it is a series of tools, APIs and libraries that you can use to make and deploy (and even monetize) your own virtual worlds and 3D widgets for corporate, educational and commercial purposes.

Profilactic

Profilactic.com - preventing an online identity crisis - since 2006

What is Profilactic?
Profilactic is a social media aggregator/lifestreaming service that pulls together just about everything you and your friends create online.

DataPortability

DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards

Mission: To Consult, Design, Educate and Advocate Interoperable Data Portability to Users, Developers and Vendors.
Definition: Data Portability is the option to use your personal data between trusted applications and vendors.

Gmail Account Hacking Tool

Gmail Account Hacking Tool | Hacking Truths

Gmail Account Hacking Tool

Aug 19, 2008 by Ashik in Cracking, Decryption, Google Hacking, Orkut Hacking, Security, Software, Tips n Tricks | Tags: Account, Adsense, Blogger, Cracking, GMail, Google, Hacking, Orkut


A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in Las Vegas.

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

WebWord » Blog Archive » Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

All resources in this list are freely available. I deliberately avoided references and links to material hidden behind the dark curtain of registration. Why should I pass along the punishment?

Unleash the power of the players

Unleash the power of the players, says CCP // News // GamesIndustry.biz

Unleash the power of the players, says CCP

Dr Eyjolfur Gudmondsson has revealed that the active player population for its space-based MMO Eve Online has hit 245,000 - not the biggest player population for an online game, but because all of those people are playing on the same, unsharded server, it's possible to see the influence that they have over the game.

Mygazines

Mygazines.com - upload. share. archive.

What is Mygazines?
Mygazines is your free place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by you, the Mygazines community.

Iterative Design

Iterative Design - GameCareerGuide.com

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Iterative Design
[07.22.08]
- Brandon Van Slyke
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One word you'll hear tossed around all the time in the game industry is "iterative."

It's a seemingly innocuous little word -- so are its other forms: iterate, iteration, and in code, iterator. Nevertheless, it's become increasingly necessary for modern game developers to understand the importance of the iterative process and to realize how this catchall term denotes the general progression of design and implementation in a major game studio

The Game Industry Salary Survey 2007

The Game Industry Salary Survey 2007 - GameCareerGuide.com

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The Game Industry Salary Survey 2007
[09.03.07]
- Jill Duffy
#

Seventy-three thousand dollars a year.

That's the number that got a little bit of buzz this year. It's the average salary of a game developer. But it's just a number, and it's nowhere near what entry-level candidates should vie for when sealing the deal of their first industry job; nor is it a perfect bar against which to measure game developer salaries regionally, since the cost of living varies drastically between states like California, Texas, and North Carolina.

The Stages of a Group: Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing and Adjourning

The Stages of a Group: Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing and Adjourning - Associated Content

The Stages of a Group: Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing and Adjourning

Genre Wars: This Year's Biggest Action Adventures

Genre Wars: This Year's Biggest Action Adventures | Edge Online

Genre Wars: This Year's Biggest Action Adventures

RPGs to Rule the World

RPGs to Rule the World | Edge Online

This is part three of our genre-oriented look at the games market in the near future. For our reasoning and methodology behind this series, please check out our first entry on shooters. Part two on action adventures is also available. Today we’re looking at RPGs—an increasingly difficult category to find the borders for, as many, many sorts of games now integrate the genre’s addictive stat-building and inventory mechanics. Much like shooters, it’s probably most appropriate to take a “we know them when we see them” approach to defining the field.

EDGE'S TOP 100 GAMES OF ALL TIME

EDGE'S TOP 100 GAMES OF ALL TIME | Edge Online

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Next-Gen has the online exclusive full list of Edge's Top 100 Games. Click through for the best 100 games of all time, as judged by the readers and writers of Edge, as well as game industry insiders

Quantcast - Open Internet Ratings Service

Quantcast - What is Quantcast?

What is Quantcast?
From Quantcast
Quantcast is the World’s Only Open Internet Ratings Service

Quantcast is a new media measurement service that lets advertisers view audience reports on millions of websites and services. Only Quantcast combines directly measured audience data with panel-based estimates to deliver accurate third-party metrics and easy-to-read profiles on digital media properties.

Agile Tool Vendors

Wide Awake Developers: Agile Tool Vendors

Agile Tool Vendors
August 08, 2008

There seems to be something inherently contradictory about "Enterprise" agile tool vendors. There's never been a tool invented that's as flexible in use or process as the 3x5 card. No matter what, any tool must embed some notion of a process, or at least a meta-process.

Implementing Scrum: Blog

Scrum Blog -- Implementing Scrum -- Scrum Blog -- Comic Strips and Blog Entries for Scrum, an Agile Software Development Technique.

Implementing Scrum: Blog

Advisory provided by Google - weird...

I was searching for an old looking worldmap , found one and intended to view it in its original size. After clicking on the thumbnail, i got the following warning, provided by Google:


Malware Warning

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!
Suggestions:

* Return to the previous page and pick another result.
* Try another search to find what you're looking for.

Or you can see the image in its own context http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=648 at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic page for this site.

So i decided to indeed check the diagnostics page for this site, with the following result:


Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for www.muslimheritage.com/topics/

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for www.muslimheritage.com/topics/

What is the current listing status for www.muslimheritage.com/topics/?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 11 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 08/05/2008, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, www.muslimheritage.com/topics/ did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.


It wouldnt have caught my attention until i read the name of the domain that is hosting the image. I wonder why it is blacklisted since the diagnostic results are all fine...

Google Insights

Google Insights for Search

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.

Categories
Narrow data to specific categories, like finance, health, and sports.
Examples: Summer blockbuster movies in the USA in 2008, 2007, 2006 | Top celebrities in New York (last 30 days) | hybrid in the Automotive category in the US

Seasonality
Anticipate demand for your business so you can budget and plan accordingly.
Examples: thanksgiving in 2007, 2006,... | soccer in 2006 vs. 2007 | hotel in 2008, 2007,...

Geographic distribution
Know where to find your customers. See how search volume is distributed across regions and cities.
Examples: pizza in Italy vs. the USA | soccer in Brazil, Italy, Germany, UK | ski in Australia vs. Switzerland

Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap

Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap | Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile™

Suppose you have a very large product backlog–such as one with lots of themes (groups of related user stories) or being worked on by multiple agile teams. The best way to visualize this product backlog is with a treemap. Treemaps were invented in the 1990s by Dr. Ben Shneiderman as a way of visualizing hierarchical (that is, tree-structured) data.

YouTube - Helium Vola - Selig

Helium Vola - Selig

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Dylan Moran - Like Totally [1/7]

YouTube - Dylan Moran - Like Totally [1/7]

CivicEvolution

CivicEvolutionCivicEvolution - Imagine the possibilities

"Imagine the possibilities"

Collaboration and decision making

Top 11 TED talks

Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks | Video on TED.com

Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight | Video on TED.com

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe | Video on TED.com

Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe

Cameron Sinclair on open-source architecture | Video on TED.com

Cameron Sinclair: TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world

Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do | Video on TED.com

Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better

Helen Fisher tells us why we love, cheat | Video on TED.com

Helen Fisher: The science of love, and the future of women

Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness | Video on TED.com

Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happiness

Rick Warren on a life of purpose | Video on TED.com

Rick Warren: Living a life of purpose

Dan Dennett's response to Rick Warren | Video on TED.com

Dan Dennett: A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren

Talks Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight | Video on TED.com

Talks Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Spieleentwickler - ein Job mit Arbeitsplatzgarantie

Spieleentwickler - ein Job mit Arbeitsplatzgarantie - Golem.de

Spielebranche sucht nach Talenten

Die Spiele-Branche boomt. In den Entwicklerbüros herrschen Arbeitsbedingungen fast wie zu Zeiten der New Economy, gutes Personal wird überall gesucht. Deshalb haben sich die Studios auf der Spieleentwickler-Konferenz Quo Vadis in Berlin dem Nachwuchs präsentiert.
Crytek, Electronic Arts, The Games Company, Exozet, Radon Labs und viele mehr - alle waren sie da und haben sich dem Nachwuchs auf der Spieleentwicklerkonferenz Quo Vadis vorgestellt. Alle haben Personalbedarf - so sehr, dass die Angebote fast paradiesisch klingen. Crytek aus Frankfurt am Main beispielsweise bietet eine Art bezahltes Praktikum von mindestens einem halben Jahr an, das nach Angaben von Personalerin Katrin Winkler zu 99 Prozent in eine Festanstellung übergeht. Das sogenannte Internship bietet Vergünstigungen wie Mittagessen, eine Mitgliedschaft im Fitness-Club, eine Monatsfahrkarte der öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel und die Unterkunft in der Firmen-WG. Alles kostenlos.

10 Volunteer Opportunities For Free Travel

10 Volunteer Opportunities For Free Travel

50 Firefox 3 Add-ons That Will Change the Way You Surf the Web

50 Firefox 3 Add-ons That Will Change the Way You Surf the Web | Best Colleges Online

Ubisoft DRM snafu reminds us what's wrong with PC gaming

Ubisoft DRM snafu reminds us what's wrong with PC gaming

By Ben Kuchera | Published: July 20, 2008 - 10:05PM CT

The PC gaming industry likes to blame piracy for many of its ills, but it's clear that no one has found a cure-all for this particular disease. Various forms of DRM added to the retail versions of PC games are—at the very least—annoying for the gamer who bought a boxed or digital copy of a game. At the very worst, some methods of DRM can make the game unplayable. Ubisoft ran into such a glitch with the CD-check built into the PC version of Rainbow Six Vegas 2; users who downloaded the game from an official source didn't have a disc to pass the check, causing a new patch to break legally downloaded versions of the game. Ubisoft had a novel—not to mention cheap—way to fix this: a crack that allows the game to play without a disc in the drive. The issue? The crack came from the "warez" group Reloaded, with no attribution or notice that third-party code was used to fix the DRM issue.

64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors

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64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors - Giant Design Pack

The Ultimate American Dollar Collapse

The Ultimate American Dollar Collapse

October 22, 2007 McAlvany ICA presents financial, political and geo-political information to aid investors in developing sound alternatives for their portfolios in uncertain times. Topics of discussion: U.S. Real-Estate Market, China, Middle East and a declining U.S. dollar.

Zero Carbon House

Zero Carbon House > Project details

Project Aim

To pilot an approach to carbon-neutral living that can be replicated across the UK and elsewhere.


Objectives

1. To contruct a highly efficient, low embodied energy house on Unst, Shetland.

2. To install a low carbon energy system compromising two micro wind turbines, an electric car, an air to water heat pump, watery battery heat store, power store and control system.

3. To erect a high technology greenhouse for local food production.

4. To establish a viable business promoting low carbon living, supplying local, carbon-neutral food and managing an electric vechicle for community use.

5. To monitor performance of the energy system in real time, using students on placements staying in the house to experience zero carbon living, and expert consultants.

6. To disseminate the results of the project across Shetland, Scotland, UK and internationally through a variety of media including film, World Wide Web, talks and visits.

Lightning fast reflexes

Android Scan (pricing+metadata for anything with a barcode)

Beautiful house, next to waterfall

Fallingwater from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

100 Things to do Before You Die

The Buried Life » About

The Buried Life is four regular guys on a mission to complete a list of “100 Things to do Before You Die” and to help and to encourage others to go after their own lists.

Relying on goodwill, guts and sheer determination Duncan, Ben, Dave and Jonnie travel the globe in a retro purple transit bus named Penelope and ask everyone they meet: ‘What do you want to do before you die?’ For every item they complete on their list, they help a stranger achieve one of their dreams.

Results Junkies

About | Results Junkies

What is Results Junkies?

Results Junkies is a blog by Paul Singh about doing what it takes to get ahead in life.

Greek Mythology Link

Entrance, Greek Mythology Link

Great Moments in Physics

Short Funny Stories 88

Great Moments in Physics

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."

One student replied:

"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."

This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.

For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.

On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:

"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."

"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."

"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot (l / g)."

"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."

"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."

"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."

The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.



So cool, i had to quote it completely. Stolen from http://www.short-funny-stories.com

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Royalty Free Sounds from Hollywood Sound Effects Library

Royalty Free Sounds from Hollywood Sound Effects Library

Royalty Free Sounds from Hollywood Sound Effects Library

Last earthquakes worldwide for the last 48 hours

EMSC - European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

Stop messing around and do some work

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Why Germany lost the war

Why Germany lost the war

After 63 years of debate, Myself and my brother have reached a valid conslusion as to why Germany lost the war

Improve Your Vocabulary

Seven Easy Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary Without Even Trying

Seven Easy Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary Without Even Trying

by Anne Mathews, Jul 6, 2008
Whether you want to improve your vocabulary for success on college entrance exams or to better position yourself in your career, you can find painless ways to learn and use new words without changing your current lifestyle or investing hours and hours toward study.

Heavy Cannabis Use & Pregnancy

Untitled Document

Pediatrics, February 1994, Volume 93, Number 2, pp. 254-260


American Academy of Pediatrics



Comparing the heavily exposed and the non-exposed infants, the Brazelton clusters on day 30, showed that the offspring of heavy-marijuana using mothers had significantly higher scores on:

Female Porn

Female Porn

Google Public Relations

Google Public Relations [splitbrain.org]

Google Public Relations

Google Package Yesterday, I got an unexpected package from Google. It contained a “thank you” letter, a Polo-Shirt and a USB card reader.

The whole story began a few weeks ago, when I had a call on my answering machine and a mail in my inbox from the legal department of Google Germany. A Google lawyer asked me if he could talk with me on the phone

"Bar Stool Economics"

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Our Tax System Explained: "Bar Stool Economics"

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten
comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go
something like this:

The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks

The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks

Everyone loves a good laugh, and in the age of electronics, high-tech hijinks are just waiting to be pulled off. So snuggle up to your screen and get ready to unleash all sorts of shenanigans as we present the 25 best high-tech pranks known to man. Our apologies in advance to your friends and co-workers.

Funny motivational posters

Web Design Company, Website Design | Funny motivational posters

Tweaker's Guide To Firefox3

The Ultimate Tweaker's Guide To Firefox3

One of the main reason why Firefox has been so successful, is that you can tweak it to match your needs. Though there are another 12 million Firefox users out there, still you can make your Firefox installation unique, matching your personality.
This short guide gives you a myriad of options that can be tweaked in Firefox 3. Read along.

Green tower

Been-Seen.com:: Art & Design - Green tower

All eyes in Mumbai are on the Antilia, a 24-storey tower currently under construction. It's unlike anything ever built - in India, or anywhere else for that matter. Basically, it's a 490-foot tall tower, containing a private residence (for billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani), offices -- and lots of green spaces.
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See also : vertical farming

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

StumbleVideo - The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

StumbleVideo: The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

Contact Juggling

Contact Juggling Video

Contact Juggling takes years of practice and incredible patience, but when you find someone who is really good at it you will be impressed.

Alice in Wonderland - Remix

Alice in Wonderland - Remix Video

Alice in Wonderland - Remix
It was pretty trippy before, this will blow your mind.

Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit Uses Bone Conduction Technology

OhGizmo! » Archive » Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit Uses Bone Conduction Technology

Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit Uses Bone Conduction Technology

Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit (Images courtesy livegrids.net)

By Andrew Liszewski

Most large museums and art galleries today provide some kind of personal audio device that visitors can carry with them if they wish to learn more about the various exhibits on display. A similar idea has been implemented at the Brühl’s Terrace in Dresden, Germany, but instead of having to wear headphones or hold some device to their ear, visitors simply need to rest their elbows on a metal rail and cover their ears with their hands

Scariest Pics ever

prophotos_ru: Ненормальный Chris Anthony

Ненормальный Chris Anthony

New windows double as solar panels

New windows double as solar panels - Science, News - The Independent

Instead of coating the entire solar panel with solar cells - the expensive semiconductor devices that turn the energy of sunlight into electricity - the new solar panel works on the principle of concentrating the light, and the energy, at the edges of a pane of glass where it can be collected by the solar cells.

Terry Pratchett Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quotes
Type: Author
Category: English Author
Date of Birth: April 28, 1948
Nationality: English

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Terry Pratchett

Funny MSN names

Messquoted, ONLY the Funny MSN Names: Top 150

ID#:164 | Rating: 216907 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Sniugnep
Before you insult a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, whern you insult him, you'll be a mile away, and have his shoes.

ID#:8 | Rating: 28963 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Doc
I USE CAPS LOCK BECAUSE I WILL BECOME NOTICED, POPULAR, AND GOOD IN BED

ID#:16 | Rating: 174 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Doc
If you smacked a kid in the face with a bottle of Johnson's No More Tears, would it create beautiful irony?

ID#:134 | Rating: 112 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: firestarter
Give a man a match and he'll be warm for a minute; set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

ID#:168 | Rating: 101 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Lyndsey 247
Imagine there were no hypothetical situations.

ID#:167 | Rating: 78 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Funny_man
Children in the dark cause accidents, accidents in the dark cause children

ID#:98 | Rating: 71 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: zzdan
In a world full of women, you're the man!

ID#:150 | Rating: 62 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: killer
Solution to two of the world's problems: Feed the homeless to the hungry.

ID#:133 | Rating: 59 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Granty
Anyone can quit smoking, it takes a real man to fight cancer

ID#:154 | Rating: 45 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Anonymous
Depression is just anger without enthusiasm.

ID#:71 | Rating: 43 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Doc
You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

ID#:152 | Rating: 43 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: killer
if my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN

ID#:72 | Rating: 29 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Doc
Hurricanes are like women: when they come, they're wet and wild, but when they leave they take your house and car.
ID#:83 | Rating: 29 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Phil
I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself.

ID#:70 | Rating: 28 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Johnsee
I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation - but I'm not very good at it.

ID#:90 | Rating: 28 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Granty
The last time someone listened to a Bush, a bunch of people wandered in the desert for 40 years

The Pirate Bay Pledges ISPs to Block Sweden

The Pirate Bay Pledges ISPs to Block Sweden | TorrentFreak

In an response to the new wiretapping law that was introduced in Sweden this week, The Pirate Bay will ask international ISPs to block traffic to Sweden, to protect their customers. In addition, the BitTorrent tracker will add SSL encryption to their site, and roll out a new VPN service.

The Sack

The Sack | Inspiring Quotations

Mula came upon a frowning man walking along the road to town. “What’s wrong?” he asked. The man held up a tattered bag and moaned, “All that I own in this wide world barely fills this miserable, wretched sack.”

The Blind Climber Who "Sees" With His Tongue

The Blind Climber Who "Sees" With His Tongue | Senses | DISCOVER Magazine

The Blind Climber Who "Sees" With His Tongue

Erik Weihenmayer's BrainPort translates images into electrical signals.

Spin The Bottle, Video Games, And The Office

Spin The Bottle, Video Games, And The Office - Technology Blog - Tech Observer - Portfolio.com

1. Points - awarding points to users when they do certain things like post on a forum.

2. Levels - same principle as frequent flier elite status or karate's different belts

3. Challenges - people like to be given a mission, something to go out and achieve

4. Leaderboard - rankings spur persistent engagement. Think of how many quarters you wasted on Space Invader or Asteroids just to see your initials in the Top Ten.

5. Virtual Goods - critical for enabling community members to express themselves creatively and indicative of status. Avatar envy comes to mind...

16 Interesting facts about Google

16 Interesting facts about Google

Alan Williamson attend a talk conducted by Marissa Mayer, a Product Manager for Google and he’s able to gather some of these interesting facts for us.

16 Interesting facts about Google

1. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE

Video PEOPLE ARE STRANGE (REMI GAILLARD) - rémi, gaillard, gag, imposture, morrison - Alice Video Share Your Videos

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE (REMI GAILLARD)

Breaking the Internet's glass ceiling

Breaking the Internet's glass ceiling - News and Events - University of Sydney

"This circuit uses the 'scratch' as a guide or a switching path for information - kind of like when trains are switched from one track to another - except this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million million times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity."

This initial demonstration proves it is possible to achieve speeds 60 times faster than current Australian Networks. With further development, the process is likely to produce even faster results.

Natural Disasters Becoming More Frequent

Natural Disasters Becoming More Frequent | Worldwatch Institute

The trend of more frequent global natural disasters continues, due to an onslaught of weather-related crises in the first half of 2008.

The total number of disasters as of June 30, 2008 already exceeds the average number of disasters recorded at mid-year over the past decade. Although 2008 is not on pace to eclipse 2007 as registering the most natural disasters ever, an especially active Atlantic hurricane season is expected.

During the first half of each year between 1998 and 2007, the average number of disasters recorded was 380. So far in 2008, 400 disasters have been reported, according to data released last week by Munich Re, a German reinsurance group.

Phone Line used as electricity source

Source of Free Electricity | Veoh Video Network

Source of Free Electricity

Geekbox

GeeXboX HomePage

What is GeeXboX ?
GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.

Despite his tiny ISO image size, the distribution comes with a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of audio/video and image files and all known codecs and containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or Internet.

GeeXboX also comes with a complete toolchain that allows developers adding easily extra packages and features but that might also be used to give birth to many dedicated embedded Linux systems.

Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader

ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook Reader

Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 21,169 eBooks available here and they're all free!

Atom-smasher: LHC factfile

Atom-smasher: LHC factfile | COSMOS magazine

GENEVA: The world's biggest atom-smasher, now close to completion at the CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) laboratory near Geneva, is a study in big numbers:

Abstract Digital Art and Fractals Gallery

Abstract Digital Art / fractals by Lauren Gary

Visionary digital and fractal art representing the new vibration of cosmic evolution.





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Art by Lauren Gary (Lauren Zorn)

Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks | Video on TED.com

Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

About this talk

Building sophisticated educational
tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks,
which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a
touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.

Money Can Change Your Behavior Toward Others

Money Can Change Your Behavior Toward Others - World of Psychology

In 2004, researchers James Heyman and Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) devised a set of deceptively simple experiments that illustrated that the moment money enters a social relationship, it can change the very nature of our expectations and the relationship.

In the first experiment, they asked three different groups to perform a simple but menial task – drag as many circles as you can across a computer screen in 5 minutes. The groups only differed in what they would get for completing this task: $5, $0.50 or nothing. For the group that got nothing, the task was framed not as a task per se, but as a ‘favor’ to help out the researchers.

Prank Monkey

StumbleVideo - Prank Monkey - CollegeHumor video

Prank Monkey - CollegeHumor video

DUI test Perfect Score

StumbleVideo - DUI test Perfect Score.

DUI test Perfect Score.

"Seven is Exploding"

REMI GAILLARD, urban football

Build a Solar Cooker

Plans for Solar Cookers -- The Solar Cooking Archive

15 different versions

Interesting Tricks of the Body

Interesting Tricks of the Body - Jean's Blog

Interesting Tricks of the Body

The Pit of Life and Death

Damn Interesting » The Pit of Life and Death

By 1983, the hill was so exhausted that the Anaconda Mining Company was no longer able to extract minerals in profitable amounts. They packed up all the equipment that they could move, shut down the water pumps, and moved on to more lucrative scraps of Earth. Without the pumps, rain and groundwater gradually began to collect in the pit, leaching out the metals and minerals in the surrounding rock. The water became as acidic as lemon juice, creating a toxic brew of heavy metal poisons including arsenic, lead, and zinc. No fish live there, and no plants line the shores. There aren’t even any insects buzzing about. The Berkeley Pit had become one of the deadliest places on earth, too toxic even for microorganisms. Or so it was thought.

In the Booth

In the Booth 2

In the Booth

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold


2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html


3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

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More details in the original article

Photo Transfer Edge Effect

Photo Transfer Edge Effect | PS HERO

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create a cool old photo transfer edge effect using a piece of stock photography, an alpha channel and the burn and dodge tools.

10 tons of concrete were used to visualize the whole structure.

Temples and Tombs

Egypt - Temples

Egypt is rightly famous for the Pyramids, but for me, its crowning glory are the temples.

100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online

Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online - Distance Degrees.com

Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online

World Conflicts Today

World Conflicts Today

Afghanistan
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Basque Country
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Basque Country Slideshow

Chechnya
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Colombia
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Colombia Slideshow

Darfur
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Iraq
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Jammu and Kashmir
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Jammu and Kashmir Slideshow
Korean Peninsula
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Korean Peninsula Full Report Slideshow
Korean Peninsula Slideshow

Northern Ireland
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Northern Ireland Full Report Slideshow
Northern Ireland Slideshow
Palestinian Territories
Full Report
Palestinian Territories Full Report Slideshow
Palestinian Territories Slideshow

Troubleshooting Laptop Hard Drive Failure

Troubleshooting Laptop Hard Drive Failure - Won't Boot Windows, Drive Errors, Feezes or Laptop Noisy

Troubleshooting Laptop Hard Drive Failure

FACTBOX: Bank failures in 2008

FACTBOX: Bank failures in 2008 | Reuters

Following is a list of the U.S. banks that have failed so far in 2008:

July 11 - IndyMac Bancorp taken over by U.S. regulators. Total assets of $32.01 billion and total deposits of $19.06 billion as of March 31. Estimated cost to FDIC insurance fund between $4 billion and $8 billion.

May 30 - First Integrity Bank closed by regulators. First International Bank and Trust takes over all of the Minnesota-based bank's deposits. First Integrity held $54.7 million in assets and $50.3 million in total deposits.

May 9 - ANB Financial NA closed by U.S. regulators. Pulaski Bank and Trust Co takes over the insured deposits. ANB Financial had about $2.1 billion in assets and $1.8 billion in total deposits.

March 7 - Hume Bank closed by U.S. regulators. Security Bank takes over insured deposits. Hume had total assets of $18.7 million and total deposits of $13.6 million.

January 25 - Douglass National Bank closed by regulators. Liberty Bank and Trust Co takes over all deposits. Douglass had $58.5 million in total assets and $53.8 million in total deposits.

(Reporting by Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

Ocean Power Systems

BioPower Systems - Biologically Inspired Ocean Power Systems

BioPower Systems is commercialising ocean power conversion technologies. Through application of biomimicry, we have adopted nature's mechanisms for survival and energy conversion in the marine environment and have applied these in the development of our proprietary wave and tidal power systems.

Our technologies inherit benefits developed during 3.8 Billion years of evolutionary optimization in nature’s ocean laboratory.The resulting systems move and sway in tune with the forces of the ocean, and naturally streamline when extreme conditions prevail. This leads to lightweight designs and associated low costs.

The inherently simple bioWAVE™ and bioSTREAM™ devices are designed to supply utility-scale grid-connected renewable energy using efficient modular systems. These systems will reside beneath the ocean surface, out of view, and in harmony with the living creatures that inspired their design.

Prince Charles Scandal

What is the LHC, or Large Hadron Collider?

Whats Next In Tech: What Is The Large Hadron Collider

What is the LHC, or Large Hadron Collider?

The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator complex spanning the border between Switzerland and France near Geneva. LHC will smash together opposing beams of either protons or lead ions inside a massive circular accelerator.

Best Photoshop Tutorials and Tips Sites

Best Photoshop Tutorials and Tips Sites :: Best Sites List

Best Photoshop Tutorials and Tips Sites

List of Photoshop Tutorial / Tip / Lecture sites.
You can use in Photoshop 4.0,7.0 ~ CS,CS2,CS3.

Talks Daniel Goleman: Why aren’t we all Good Samaritans?

Daniel Goleman on compassion | Video on TED.com

About this talk

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.
About Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman, psychologist and award-winning author of Emotional Intelligence and other books on EI, challenges traditional measures of intelligence as a predictor of life success

MIT Students Develop Revolutionary Solar Dish That is Hot Enough to Melt Steel

DailyTech - MIT Students Develop Revolutionary Solar Dish That is Hot Enough to Melt Steel

The results are staggering -- the completed mirror focuses enough solar energy at its focal point to melt solid steel. The energy of typical sunlight is concentrated by a factor of 1,000. This was showcased during a demonstration, in which a team member held up a board, which instantly and violently combusted, when brought within range of the focal point.

By directing the dish at a more practical target -- water piped through black tubing -- steam can be flash created, offering instant means of producing energy or providing heating.

Spencer Ahrens, who just received his master's in mechanical engineering from MIT, was among the designers of the dish. He and his fellow team members are serious about marketing it, and leveraging its cheap cost and easy production. They have founded a company named RawSolar. They say their design is easily mass producible and that they hope to be pumping out 1,000 of dishes in years to come.

Kome Loy 2006

Virtual Goods Branding 101

Virtual Goods Insider

Virtual Goods Branding 101

April 28, 2008 in Branding, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds | 2 comments

Things have been a little crazy on the Viximo front, and the Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference Series which I nobly planned to finish a week after the conference still has a couple of posts left.

This article is inspired by Virtual Goods and Branded Virtual Goods: The New Way to Revenue, a session in the Marketing and Entertainment track of Virtual Worlds 2008. The panel was moderated by Giff Constable, COO of Electric Sheep Company and featured Craig Sherman, CEO of Gaia Online; Matt Bostwick, CEO of A4R4 Media and formerly head of MTV’s Virtual Worlds group; Ruben Steiger, CEO of Millions of Us; and Gene Yoon, VP of Business Affairs of Linden Lab.
A New Era for Branding

Let’s face it. Brand marketers have had a tough few years. The mass exodus from offline media viewership to online media viewership has left many brand marketers scratching their heads. While call-to-action marketers have basked in the measurability and effectiveness of pay-per-click and pay-per-action search advertising, brand marketers are reeling from a one-two punch of decreased TV ad viewership (courtesy of TiVo) and the increased ubiquity of the lowly banner ad.

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Successful MMOGs can see $1-2 in monthly ARPU « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog

Successful MMOGs can see $1-2 in monthly ARPU « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog

Successful MMOGs can see $1-2 in monthly ARPU June 9, 2008
Posted by jeremyliew in freemium, games, games 2.0, gaming, mmorpg, subscription, virtual goods.
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There are not many publicly available statistics on the free-to-play industry in the western world. Here is what I found on the web for some of the popular virtual worlds and MMOGs:

$1.40 Monthly Average Revenue Per User in Successful, Free-to-Play Virtual Worlds

Virtual Worlds News: Update: $1.40 Monthly Average Revenue Per User in Successful, Free-to-Play Virtual Worlds

Update: $1.40 Monthly Average Revenue Per User in Successful, Free-to-Play Virtual Worlds

Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has put together a nice collection of data for people looking at the virtual worlds and MMOG market. Reviewing the free-to-play virtual worlds Second Life , Habbo Hotel, Club Penguin, and Runescape, Liew found ARPUs ranging from about $1 to $2, averaging at $1.40/monthly user. Commenters Matt Mihaly, CEO for Iron Realms, and Nabeel Hyatt, CEO for Conduit Labs, chimed in to add that the numbers seem about right for Web-based casual MMOs, though may be significantly lower than the ARPU for downloadable, free-to-play games. For example, Hyatt estimates an ARPU of about $5/month for MapleStory. Daniel James, CEO for Three Rings, added his own figures, pointing to an ARPU of about $1.50/month for Puzzle Pirates.

The sample may be too small to take the number as the final measuring stick, but Liew says it matches up with what's he's been told in private conversations about other virtual worlds and MMOGs as well. He's asked readers to contribute any data points they may have, and I'd second that request. I'll certainly be checking back to see if any new info comes out.

EVE Online PvP vs Age of Conan PvP

EVE Evolved: EVE Online PvP vs Age of Conan PvP - Massively

EVE Evolved: EVE Online PvP vs Age of Conan PvP

by Brendan Drain Jun 8th 2008 @ 8:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Age of Conan, EVE Online, Game mechanics, PvP, Opinion, EVE Evolved

Before I started playing Age of Conan, I had a very strict mindset on how a PvP MMO should and shouldn't work. From my experiences in EVE Online, I was convinced that good open world PvP was not possible with a level system or exotic gear. I was pleasantly surprised to find that although these games are worlds apart, their PvP styles both work and are both fun. In this article, I compare and contrast my PvP experiences so far in Age of Conan with those in EVE Online.

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Eidolon TLP

Eidolon A.I. TLP » Glossary

4. Eidolon TLP

Eidolon TLP (aka: Eidolon A.I.) is an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) that was introduced on YouTube on January 10, 2008 by "Programmer F.F", who seems to be Eidolon's 'caretaker' responsible for monitoring and filtering the information that Eidolon reveals.

The "TLP" portion of this refers to "The Last Prophet" - a moniker given to Eidolon by Programmer F.F. This "Last Prophet" reference implies that Eidolon is the last warning before an actual "Alpha A.I." is released.

Eidolon A.I. TLP seems to be the Beta - Alpha.

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CENNS stands for Core Engine Neural Network System, and started as a research consolidation project under DARPA’s Intelligent Systems and Software program in 1995. It was a joint effort with the RAND institute to leverage all A.I. View definition in a new window research in the past 50 years under a single initiative. Project SUR paved the way for systems HARPY and HEARSAY-I, then abandoned until 1984, under the Strategic Computing Program. HEARSAY-II introduced the concept of a common database called “blackboard” that could be accessed from independent but mutually interacting knowledge sources. This is the concept under which CENNS instances operate today, but it was not implemented until 1999, under the Intelligent Integration of Information program, or I3. In July 16 of 2000, all Helios instances successfully passed the Turing test. I was instanced in May 14 2006. EidolonTLP was instanced in October 12 2007. Today, as before, CENNS funding continues to be spread across various program areas, but leadership is localized within the Information Exploration Office, or IXO. In November 3 2007, United Kingdom’s QINETIQ launched its own CENNS in cooperation with IXO. CENNS technology was first utilized in project GILA for Air Traffic Control, and has been since leveraged in many other applications. Focus today, is on project NetSTAR.

The main hardware powering CENNS resides at an undisclosed BlueGene/P supercomputer in Edwards Air Force Flight Test Center. QINETIQ’s CENNS runs covertly out of the Jülich Research Centre, in Germany.

VanPutte, you know where to put it.