The web's most interesting stories on Thu 13th Mar 2008

• Christophe Huet, professionnel de la retouche photo - professional retouching. Creations et montages d'images - 1er site de retouche d'image avec zoom et making of.
• Ive been clicking around Christophe Huets mesmerizing and inspirational webpages full of Photoshop creations and ads, including a great Making of? section that goes through the many layers and process of each creation. Check out his webpage, turn up the sound for the soothing piano music and click through his making of? section!
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  i feel bad for my Kosher and Halal friends

  Jeez, this is first class work. I’d love to see some prints or this stuff in situ.

  The music was the best part.
  Thumbs up for not having a pause button

  Now that’s quality photoshop work. I only wish he had more ‘Making of’ segments.

  It’s nice to see a commercial artist creating such interesting things.

  Really phenomenal stuff.

  Professional photo retouching.

  como usar o photoshop

  good stuff.

  retocador power master

  Retoque de fotografias, adorei o making of ;D

  professional retouching
• KnickerPicker - online dressing room
• Now this is shopping! Take control of one of three lingerie models and “drag and drop” some sexy knickers for them to try on. Then control their movements to get a better look. Enjoy. . .
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  venda de calcinhas e sutiens 2.0

  Very good site!

  cute dressing room with real vids of models that you can “manipulate” to turn and move closer etc

  Poprzymierzaj bielizn?.

  przymierzanie bielizny

  ???????? ??????????. ????????? ???????????.
• dtoy_vs_byokal
• Very interesting flash based toy that lets you create your own kaleidescope with near infinite possibilities.
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  Wonderfully done. Another ZeFrank work of wonder.

  my day is blown

  dtoy_vs_byokal

  zefrank Drawtoy - why do I love thee so?

  Kaliedascope toy

  incredible pattern generator…an online kaleidoscope

  More like 30 seconds

  The Show was brilliant, I miss it.

  Dance videos?

  Power moves ought to fix this shit.

  Holy koleidacock!

  Three seconds . . .
• Microsoft says no Blu-ray for Xbox 360| Special Coverage| Reuters
• Microsoft Corp is not in talks to include Sony Corp’s Blu-ray high-definition DVD technology in its Xbox 360 video game console, an executive said on Wednesday.
  

  The comments by Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360, poured cold water on recent speculation that Microsoft could support Blu-ray after Toshiba Corp (6502.T: Quote, Profile, Research), backer of the rival HD DVD format, gave up when key movie studios …

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  Dammit, now I’m going to have to buy a blu ray player… but not for a good long while. Dvds will work just fine for me right now.

  no soup for you!

  Microsoft says no Blu-ray for Xbox 360….
  Consumers say no to HD-DVD…

  Go figure.

  Now Jimi Hendrix… He was an experience.

  BLU RAY IS FUTURE PROOF!!!!!!!! No new HD technology will evarrrr come out again!!!!!!!!!
  /sarcasm

  Personally, I just find a nice torrent site, get one or two movies a week (to avoid MPAA/ISP complications) hook my laptop up to my TV and surround system and enjoy new High Definition movies at absolutely no cost. I think everyone should really consider flash memory to be a viable distribution source sometime within the next 5-10 years as well.

  I for one welcome our new [flash memory] masters.

  My guess is that they’ll wait to bring Blu-ray over to their next gen console. By the time they go through the deals and the production the player would probably only be around for a year or two before a new system is announced.

  Did anyone actually think Sony and Micro$oft were gonna play nice?
• Prostitution in a wired world - Security- msnbc.com
• How technology has changed the worlds oldest profession
  

  “It’s often convenient to have an account established with a balance, so if you have the last-minute urge, you don’t have to worry about getting money into the account,” says Norma Jean Almodovar, executive director of the sex workers’ rights organization COYOTE (”Ca…

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  His wife looks like quite the ballbuster.
  Not sure If I blame him.

  Is it prostitution day or something here? This is at least the second article thats hit the front page today, and I know theres been a few upcomings…

  Ummm….I thought the world’s oldest profession was hunting/gathering

  Prostitution is fount page news allot lately

  When they arrest someone in Memphis, they put their picture (along side the picture of the whore) on the morning news. The man usually looks hung over and the woman looks like something that escaped the dog pound. It’s amazing what alcohol can do to a man’s eyes. I bet they have fun explaining to their wives too.

  ad - Norton 360 - surround yourself with protection
  in an ad for prostituion.

  I like it.
• Is China's Great Wall Visible from Space?: Scientific American
• Though it stretches for some 4,500 miles, the ancient Chinese fortification is not as visible from orbit as modern desert roads.
  

  “To dbiello:
  First I have to apologize for so blunt a response. in my first comment above.

  Unfortunately your reply does't make things…[More]”

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  What does ‘from space’ mean? I’m sure you can see it if you’re just leaving the planet.

  duh the chinese have keen eye sight,take jackie chan for instane!!

  Yes.

  Anyone got a Google Earth co-ordinate?

  The lack of pics sorta tell the story

  Thats no Wall…

  Though it stretches for some 4,500 miles, the ancient Chinese fortification is not as visible from orbit as modern desert roads
• The Page - by Mark Halperin - TIME
• Why are so many voters turning away from Barack Obama in state after state?

  [You mean besides the fact that were ahead in votes, states won and delegates?]
  

  For example, just a few weeks ago, Barack Obama won 68% of men in Virginia, 67% in Wisconsin and 62% in Maryland. He won 60% of Virginia women and 55% of Maryland women. He won 62% of independents in Maryland, 64% in Wisconsin and 69% in Virginia. Obama won 59% of De…

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  To summarize: “Politics as usual”… is anyone else ready for change, fresh air, and finally seeing the tail end of Hillary waddle away into the cold, dark night?

  Obama’s done. He should gracefully bow out before they embarrass him in Denver.

  look at Obama’s spiritual leader http://avideditor.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/obamas- …

  Hmm. They responded to some serious arguments with flippant and smug answers. Genius? Not so much. Hubris? Getting there.

  Regardless of what Hillary’s camp says, a handful of respectable polls have shown that if the general election came down to Hillary vs McCain, that McCain would win with a very favorable margin. Obama seems to have the only chance to win, especially amongst swing voters and those seeking change in government.

  Spin it however you want, Hillary, but if you get elected nominated, we will all suffer 4 more years of the same bullshit that Bush put us through.

  Digg has such a bias for Obama.

  Posted by haseman on #slothpad (irc.freenode.net)
• Gun stops bullets in mid-air (ABC Science Online)
• Scientists have figured out how to stop a bullet, albeit a very tiny one, in mid-air.
  

  Health & Medical • Environment & Nature • Space &amp Astronomy • Being Human • Ancient Worlds • Innovation &amp Technology • Science News Archives

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  “Whoa”
  /Mr.Anderson

  Magnets can be used to move metal? It’s good to see research money being well used.

  Only in Texas…

  I don’t need this, there is no spoon.

  Until they invent a gun that stops guns that stops bullets.

  “It’s not often that weapons technology leads to basic research.”

  Haha oh wow. But seriously, this is pretty cool. For those of you who wonder why you should care, just think what someone from 1900 think if you told them that science you could split an atom. He probably wouldn’t care either.
• svenprim.com
• Funky photography who has “remade” some scenes from movies on the cheap.. V good.
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  Funky photography who has “remade” some scenes from movies on the cheap.. V good.

  Interesting photographs with great photo retouching + some original and creative compositions

  Super fedt photosite

  Excellent photo retouch

  photography | nice

  Cool collection of photos with some really excellent retouching.

  Voted down for being one of those assholes who think its clever to have a horizontal scrolling webpage.
• The Best Tools for Visualization - ReadWriteWeb
• here are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best:
  

  I’d just like to make a quick correction to the bit about the Echo Nest (under the Visualize Music section), since the links you have here (to videos and “more”) are to a program that I wrote as part of my Master’s thesis work. The Echo Nest has a wonderful webservi…

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  Another tool I found useful: http://www.thebrain.com

  It’s g GREAT to have positive information as we are constantly overloaded with negative.

  I prefer cocaine.

  You should just go directly to visualcomplexity.com if you’re looking for a motherload of visualizations.

  MindManager FTW…

  We’re running glTail / glTrail (http://www.fudgie.org) on big screens here at work to easily see how our servers and websites are performing and being used.

  list of visualization websites and tools

  Une liste tr?s compl?te d’outils de visualisation de donnes

  Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. Amazing list of tools and projects

  nice list

  A write up of the current visualization tools available on the web.

  Overview over social web visualisation tools.
• The Magical Power of Focus | Zen Habits
• Your focus determines your reality.

  Its something we dont think about much of the time, but give it some consideration now. Lets look at some of the ways you can use focus to improve different aspects of your life.
  

  todas estas cosas son increibles. tu estado de animo no depende de como afrontes las cosas. El mundo no va a cambiar por que lo imagines de color de rosa. Hace falta cambiar el mundo realmente, y no especulativamente.la ideologia de esta pagina web es realmente conse…

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  Am I the only one that thinks all this zen habits crap sounds the same?

  Wow, I wasn’t expecting that. I was hoping for it to be on something relating to photography. I was let down. :/ I didn’t bother reading, it sounded like “The Secret” all over again.

  Dugg for the Star Wars quote…..and that’s about it.

  I wanted to read the article, but I got distracted.

  Focus on a Goal
  Focus on Now
  Focus on the Task at Hand
  Focus on the Positive

  There, now you don’t have to read it.

  I can focus… just can’t get the exposure time right.

  o poder da concentrao na nossa produtividade e saude

  The Magical Power of Focus | Zen Habits

  Your focus determines your reality. Focus on your goals, the task at hand, on the positive.

  Are your goals positive or negative?

  More great stuff

  All that we are is the result of what we have thought.? - Buddha
• phatfusion : googleDrive
• Somebody should take this little application and make a game out of it. Grand Theft Auto Google!
  

  enter a location or postcode in the field above, please note you might need to append the country code eg. Liverpool, uk

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  First person to drive across USA or Europe wins!

  I am in love with this! it makes such a good game! a few improvements needed in my opinion: full screen option, speedometer, other cars of other users. also, a bug: the ability to drive on railway tracks and grass areas such as gold courses!

  Put some people in it that I can run over, and this will keep my busy for days.

  it’d be even more awesome if you could see other people driving around your locale

  to enjoy fully … you must make car engine noises while screeching around corners … i’ve found it also helps to hum the knight rider tune

  Welcome to the future of videogames

  drive around london with this neat tool

  ? conseiller ? tous les fans de Micro-machine! Baladez-vous sur Google Maps au volant d’une petite voiture…

  Googlemap game

  Drive around google maps

  Um joguinho que usa os mapas do Google Maps e permite que vc “dirija” neles. Parece um pouco com o primeiro GTA que saiu.

  drive around the map in a little yellow car

  It’s a shame it doesn’t work for me.

  wow i just wasted the past ten minutes doing this.

  yeah it doesn’t work in firefox. i was like wtf!!!! then i opened it in IE and it was no problem
• Public Is Less Aware of Iraq Casualties, Study Finds - washingtonpost.com
• Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while nearly half thinks the death tally is 3,000 or fewer and 23 percent think it is higher, according to an opinion survey released yesterday.
  

  Full coverage of U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  remember when that study came out that mathematically determined who covered Iraq the most out of the major news networks and what kind of content was being covered? I’d like to see what those numbers are now, given the past year of apparent absenteeism on the part of “embedded” journalists across the board…

  I heard Britney is pregnant, can anyone confirm? =]

  it doesn’t help that the media only reports what the bush administration clears, but i don’t think most americans are actually that interested. sad, but true

  Whenever people start complaining that the public really wants to be informed but those bastards in the MSM are keeping us stupid, I always point to today’s top 10 dugg stories. In a completely democratic way of voting what is most important news story of the day, and what we want others to see, we have chosen “Photos of Eliot Spitzer’s Hooker.”

  The media gives us exactly what we want. And we want pointless shit.

  Logical… most Americans are kept in the dark by the gatekeepers (Fox lies, CNN etc)

  Only 28% of Americans are aware that over 4000 soldiers have died in Iraq in the past 5 years. Hey, bill O’Reiley’s on…

  Uh frankly I’m more corncerned for the hundreds of thousands of dead brown people, thanks

  http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

  Old news: the majority of Americans are idiots.

  Whenever I hear these numbers I can’t help but think about how the amount of people killed in Iraq is small compared to the 50,000,000 allied forces killed in World War 2.

  you mean 72% right? Which country are you from again?

  The main reason for that is this is not our war.
• The least kosher lollipop in the history of candy.
• We feel pretty safe in saying that we’re the first people to ever make a bacon-based lollipop..
  

  While we admit that it’s pretty far from the norm (it’s definitely not kosher!), once you make that initial leap of faith and try it out, we’re positive that you’ll love it. The salty chunks of bacon make a delicious and unique counterpoint to the subtle sweetness of…

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  We feel pretty safe in saying that we’re the first people to ever make a bacon-based lollipop..

  bacon lollipop?

  We feel pretty safe in saying that we’re the first people to ever make a bacon-based lollipop.

  want!

  Maple-Bacon Lollipops

  Maple-bacon lollipops at lollyphile.com
• Navy to focus only on open systems
• Apparently the navy gets it. By using an open network architecture, the Navy could rapidly upgrade its capabilities and handle increases for demand, Edwards said.
  Above all, we must break the stovepipes of data so that we can share information acros
  

  You might also be interested in these FCW newsletters:

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  Apparently the navy gets it. By using an open network architecture, the Navy could rapidly upgrade its capabilities and handle increases for demand, Edwards said.
  Above all, we must break the stovepipes of data so that we can share information acros

  I’ve never seen someone couple three things.

  I wasn’t aware that Microsoft made a proprietary hardware/software combo in this market segment.

  Your solution is OpenSparc, OpenSolaris, & OpenJava with PostgreSQL/MySQL. And it comes from a provider(Sun) that will actually provide real support if needed(for example fix reported bugs).

  The “C” is for connectivity.

  True as it may be, I’m sure that’s called tripling or similar.

  Anyone know if you can uninstall IE in Vista without affecting the OS?
• Enturbulation.org – Information

• The requested topic does not exist.

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  Glad to see not everyone representing the law down there is in CoS’ pockets. I mean some of the allegations are simply ridiculous. Assassination attempt? Terrorist acts? Give me a friggen break. It’s a bunch of nerds and geeks and what-have-you wearing masks and bandannas.

  Well, exactly, “I don’t know” is not something you put in a court document.

  It was OVER NINE THOUSAND?!?!?!?

  STOP SCIENTOLOGY NOW!

  How many fucking times, dude? You want a bunch of high-pagerank blogs for a googlebomb, not a tiny smattering of 0-pagerank reddit comments pages.

  Right, because it costs me so much effort to past a bunch of links from a textfile into a comment.
• 3 Ways to access ‘Must Sign Up to View’ Sites | MakeUseOf.com
• 3 Ways to access Must Sign Up to View Sites. No More Signing Up To View
  

  […] Theres nothing I hate more than being told to sign up for something.? I dont mind being asked, like if I want to comment on the worlds first and foremost forum for discussion of stamp collecting, but being told I have to register for something (or anything,…

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  Be The Bot fools the site to thinking that Google Crawler Bot is accessing it. And hence, youll get a view of the

  This happens many times to me: I search on Google for a problem I’m having with my computer, click on a search result, reach the site (most of the time, it’s a forum), and boom! I have to register in order to view the solution on the page. Or worse, on so

  bypass sign up for sites

  3 Ways to access Must Sign Up to View Sites | MakeUseOf.com

  What other ways can you think of to bypass compulsory reg

  BE THE BOT
• The tech world rejoices: A Congressman who can code | Surveillance State - CNET Blogs
• Illinois’ newest member of its congressional delegation, Bill Foster, is a straight-up nerd who can program. He’s coded in assembly language (!), developed GOTV software, and designed ICs used in a particle accelerator. Love.
  

  What this actually means to tech policy remains unclear. Computer programming skills do not automatically lead to sound logic or wise positions on important issues. A quick read through Slashdot user comments easily demonstrates this. However, it’s likely that someon…

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  Illinois’ newest member of its congressional delegation, Bill Foster, is a straight-up nerd who can program. He’s coded in assembly language (!), developed GOTV software, and designed ICs used in a particle accelerator. Love.

  We need less lawyers, more scientists in public office, and definitely more nerds. Charisma and social skills are great on the campaign trail, but I want my representative to be a no-life loser who spends his time in his basement writing policy and slogging through reports instead of glad-handing lobbyists at black-tie dinners. Only then will our government leave this dungeon and level up.

  Let’s not go there, that is divisive politics.

  Of course not, he won because he’s an emacs user and was able to write door-knocking-mode (soon to be found on emacswiki) that did the door-knocking for him automatically.

  Vim and GNU Emacs run just fine on Windows. I’ve personally used both in environments where I was forced to use that platform.

  oh oh..elect me! I can code too

  Actually, I’m confident he’s had sex at least twice.
• Clinton's Experience: Time Magazine Fact Check
• “Now the former First Lady claims at least a share of the credit for a wide range of the Clinton Administration’s signature accomplishments, both domestic and overseas. Does she deserve it?” Time Magazine reports on Sen. Clinton’s work in children’s health care, Northern Ireland, and Macedonia refugees.
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  “After her disastrous 1994 foray into health-care reform, Bill Clinton’s aides went out of their way to downplay her role in Administration decision making. She rarely appeared at meetings in which officials hashed out important policy trade-offs, but when the discussion centered on issues that were among her priorities, she sent her aides”

  fact checking Clinton’s experience claim. One of her three claims holds water. Two don’t.

  I first read the headline as “Hillary’s Claimed Experience Debunked by Time Machine”.

  Everyone knows that Hillary has almost no real experience.

  Stop beating a dead horse. K? Thanks.

  The Historical rankings of United States Presidents polls of historians. Arthur normally comes in the bottom middle.

  You need some political experience, or you won’t be able to do very much besides find your office.

  until people realize the horse is dead, we are going to keep beating it
• Strategy Game Programming
• A tutorial for developing a program that can play tic-tac-toe, and other games.
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  A tutorial for developing a program that can play tic-tac-toe, and other games.

  A bunch of insight

  e

  These pages intend to give a comprehensive overview of the elements of a computer program which can play two-player strategy games like tic-tac-toe, connect four, checkers and chess. Code fragments are written in C.

  These pages intend to give a comprehensive overview of the elements of a computer program which can play two-player strategy games like tic-tac-toe, connect four, checkers and chess.

  How to program a strategy game.

  Has a pretty limited definition of strategy games, but it’s still good for what it is.

  “Strategy” here is the game theory definition of strategy: the total calculation of a game’s decision tree. It’s definitely a lot different from the video game idea of strategy.

  You can only apply this to turn-based games that involve no luck at all (Advance Wars depends on luck) because otherwise the game tree is useless.
• Brilliant reply to Sally Kern's homophobia
• Found this at Pam’s House Blend. It’s a letter from a high school senior whose mother died in the Oklahoma City bombing. He’s not happy about Kern claiming that gays are worse than terrorists and he tells her so with great eloquence.
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  It’s a shame that Bush has been giving millions of $$$ in “Faith Based” funds to the evangelical organizations that spew the same kind of ignorant hate-speech as Sally Kern. That money could have been used for a good purpose, instead of rewarding these idiots who spread fear and intolerance.

  Well written reply to an ignorant remark.

  Just imagine how much good all these so called “Christians” could be doing if they stopped spreading their hate and started trying to do some good in the community.
  I just can’t understand why “Christians” get so wrapped up in fundamentalist rhetoric while there are people who have no homes, don’t have enough to feed themselves and otherwise could use the help of the church instead of being condemned by it.

  18-year old tears bigot a new one: “Your harsh words and misguided beliefs brought me to tears, because you told me that my mother’s killer was a better person than a group of people that are seeking safety and tolerance for themselves.”

  Reply to a stupid politician who claimed gays were worse than terrorists

  well written, yet depressing.

  The only real christian I have ever encountered was Fred Rogers. When he was lambasted by fundamentalist groups for not denouncing gays, he said the same thing over and over again:

  I probably shouldn’t have even sent the email. I don’t live in Oklahoma. I used to spend most of my summers there though. I don’t know if they still do, but The Unites States Parachute Association used to hold the US national skydiving competition at Tahlequah. I spent many a pleasant day at the airport there.

  Wow. You a cranky sumbitch aren’t you.

  Excuse me… why are you here?

  Iranians no doubt prefer we keep our toxic waste to ourselves.

  Is it true that TM called the FBI field office and told them to evacuate the building, that there was a bomb, after he parked the van containing the explosives?
• *THE* classic Unix horror story | WSU Linux Users Group
• Have you ever left your terminal logged in, only to find when you came back to it that a (supposed) friend had typed “rm -rf ~/*” and was hovering over the keyboard with threats along the lines of “lend me a fiver ’til Thursday, or I hit return”?
  

  Meanwhile James had made for our tape cupboard and had retrieved what claimed to be a dump tape of the root filesystem, taken four weeks earlier. The pressing question was, “How do we recover the contents of the tape?”. Not only had we lost /etc/restore, but all of…

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  Story is 12 years old people. Surely must be a dupe. Definitely duped from reddit though.

  It was okay, they had an instance of Emacs running. Problem solved!

  You know what’s just as bad?
  # chmod 777 -r
  …And you’re one directory too high. Ouch.

  i would reply, if you press enter on that keyboard i will pound you with my fists until you bleed out your ears…

  Posted by haseman on #slothpad (irc.freenode.net)

  Nowadays, you could boot off a CD-ROM.

  to do? The next idea was to write a program to make a device descriptor for the tape deck, but we all know where cc, as and ld live. Or maybe make skeletal entries for /etc/passwd, /etc/hosts and so on, so that /usr/bin/ftp would work. By sheer luck, I ha

  Or just use zsh. It’s awesome in every possible way.

  and if I want to delete that file?!?

  rm /-i ~/-i

  He became governor.

  Go Cougs!

  Should have used Haskell.
• 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
• I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization Ive seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like Id seen a lot,?
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  In other news: World productivity has gone down 1700%.

  Visualisation is coolness

  Various views into what’s going on at Twitter

  grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract.

  Courtesy of a tweet from @prblog, a great collection of ways to get yet another handle on Twitter

  17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe

  Algumas maneiras interessantes de se visualizar o Twitter.
• 12 Future Apps For Your iPhone - ReadWriteWeb
• The major theme of this new wave of apps will be blending of the physical and digital worlds, using iPhone as the bridge. In this post we take a look at what’s coming.
  

  I must say, we couldnt have come to more completely different conclusions. My view is that the most important aspect of mobile devices is communications, and that apple’s “no background task” policy will prevent this most important category of applications from being…

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  Well, technically this is for just about any computing device. A future iPhone app would take advantage of the multi-touch and tilt sensor…..This article just seems to throw iPhone into his quasi-cool fantasies.

  “12 Future Apps For Your iPhone”

  Hmm that’s a heck of a prediction. My iphone? What do you know that I don’t?

  This looks really cool. I hope image recognition goes further in the future.

  Really interesting article and mostly quite believable

  Confirmations you had a wasted youth #2475
  -number 3 makes you think of a Pokdex

  Physical Social Networking!?

  The title is a little misleading. These things are just beginning to find their way into consumer products, let alone mobile products.
  It will be at least iPhone3 before we get the majority of these…

  With the new iPhone SDK, it’s just a matter of time before we see a wave of new applications. We expect a lot of popular web 2.0 apps to offer an iPhone version. Native Twitter, Facebook and Flickr clients for iPhone will run faster

  Great list of the type of things we can expect now that the iPhone SDK is out.

  - ReadWriteWeb

  Alex Iskold specualates on 12 new types of applications that we will see soon on iPhone

  iPhone-aren etorkizuneko aplikazioak

  With the new iPhone SDK, it’s just a matter of time before we see a wave of new applications.
• Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web
• Yahoos embrace of all things open continues today.What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.
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  3.0 is very important

  Yahoo is very developer friendly.

  i don’t get it.

  Yawn.

  Damn, for a sec I thought it was going to be something about Yahoo and Jews.

  This mean?? interesting! http://www.spymac.com/details/?2351307

  Yahoos support for semantic web standards like RDF and microformats is exactly the incentive websites need to adopt them. Instead of semantic silos scattered across the Web (think Twine), Yahoo will be pulling all the semantic information together when

  It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.

  Coverage of Yahoo’s Open Search details for developer program and semantic microformats

  We are doing something right it seems!

  The future of search is open. More info from Yahoo! on their Search Monkey platform expected today.

  Interesting news regarding Yahoo’s Open Search Platform
• 1/300 people are terrorists. U.S. over 900,000 declared.
• The terrorist counter is now over 9,000 (actually, over 900,000).
  Notice, somehow, the terrorist counter counts to the hundredth digit.
  How can you have a hundredth of a terrorist?
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  No fly list and other watchlists now cover FAR too many people.

  So between the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of the Federal Government, there are about 600 people, meaning two of them are terrorists.

  That dude is awesome. He got into debt at a casino and claimed the person who lost all his money was in fact an identity thief, said he could prove it, and started lifelock.

  uh, madness? THIS! IS! STILL! MADNESS!!!

  On top of that, the real reason the list is so bloated is that it contains many aliases and alternate spellings for Arabic names.

  Well, if they really are terrorists, why don’t they stop scaring us with talk and do something about it.

  So, one in 3000 Americans are considered terrorists.
• degreedirectory.org
• Free mp3s and PDFs for learning foreign languages. Mandarin, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Thai, etc.
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  Free mp3s and PDFs for learning foreign languages. Mandarin, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Thai, etc.

  Way way way way tooooooo cool!!!

  Sources

  chinese offered at a couple of places

  There are many free foreign language courses online, but not all of them are equal in content and quality. Here is a ranking of the best foreign…

  Hebrew
• War against Web tops music biz "screw-ups" list
• I still think the talent scout who turned down the Beatles made the biggest screw-up in music history, but it seems that others disagree, and claim that Dick Rowe’s billion-dollar boo-boo has been beaten to the top spot on Blender magazine’s by the failure of record companies to capitalize on the Internet.
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  The Beatles? Are they not all DEAD? Who the Hell cares?
  We all live in yellow Sub? What a bunch of crap!
  To listen to some real music, listen to any American music.
  Blues, Jazz, Country, Rock & Roll, Soul, Motown, bluegrass, and the list goes on. (ALL AMERICAN) where all the music WAS INVENTED! Like it or not.

  we’re so sorry, uncle albert. …oops I am still just sooo frigging happy that itunes has that new band called the beatles. finally, the wait is over.

  > I still think the talent scout who turned down the Beatles made the biggest
  > screw-up in music history

  What about the guy who booked the flight for Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper?

  The thing that makes the killing of Napster really stupid is that the RIAA was warned at the time that killing Napster would only result in more decentralized P2P methods. They were TOLD it was coming nine years ago and they still act like it’s some big surprise.

  Let’s not start with “The number 1 mistake should be signing [x artist/band]!” comments…

  *Digg comment about the article commenting about the article that was on Digg*
• Create RSS Job Feeds from Job Searches
• Looking for a new or better job? If so, take a look at how RSS feeds can help your job search. A RSS job feed can compliment your other job hunting methods by regularly bringing you targeted employment listings
  

  The area that I felt was weak among most sites was location search. Too often, I would enter my zip code and radius only to see results which were well outside the area. One exception was Craigslist where the location search by town did not have overflow from neighbo…

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  Tech trick to notify you of when jobs become available on major job search sites.

  Looking for a new or better job? If so, take a look at how RSS feeds can help your job search. A RSS job feed can compliment your other job hunting methods by regularly bringing you targeted employment listings. (Includes screencast showing how to create

  p your job search. A RSS job feed can compliment your other job hunting methods by regularly bringing you targeted employment listings. (Includes screencast showing how to create a RSS feed with Indeed.com)

  To implement

  Article on creating RSS job feeds from job searches on popular job listing sites. Includes screencast showing Indeed.com search

  have your job hunts sent to your feed reader!
• Speed Up Windows XP - Wired How-To Wiki
• A good, simple, list of small things that can make a huge difference in how Windows XP runs.
  

  Turn Off Unnecessary Services

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  Very solid & timely article. Too many people are sticking with XP to ignore it

  Despite Microsoft’s best marketing efforts, you haven’t yet upgraded to Vista. You still prefer your trusty old copy of Windows XP.

  There are a number of things you can do to get your XP system running faster.

  Speed Up Windows XP

  I’m still in the process of tweaking my Eee PC for Windows XP, so if like me you’re after a bit more speed from Windows you should give some of these tips from Wired a go.

  P.S. Anyone after a second hand Eee PC?

  Check out the CC Cleaner near the end of the guide.

  Turd polishing.
• www.popgive.com: Google Office in Zurich
• Seeing such offices makes you wish you were working for Google. They have everything a person needs in there and even more. They have massage chairs, slides, pool tables and other games, private cabins and much more. These photos are from Google office in Zurich.
  

  Whatever happened to just acting like adults, giving everyone a private office with a door and 4 walls, perhaps a window if it can work out, working 7 hours, and going home to have fun with the wife and children instead of living at work?I say 7, because I don’t see …

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  This looks nice but we all know that the reason they have all this stuff is because they expect their employees to spend a very very long time at work. Personally, I would take a 25% pay cut (maybe even more) if my employer could guarantee that I didn’t have to work more than 40 hours in a week. It would be well worth it.

  Slides in the office are not only a nice perk, they’re a good time saver. Don’t you just hate having to go down flights of stairs? Slides should seriously be more common; they’re just faster.

  uhm, what’s the easiest way to start working for google?

  You’d have to make sure your kids never set foot in the place or they’d never stop bugging you to take them to work.

  Google owns.

  everyone knows you do your best work while lying in a foam bath, staring at a large fish tank.

  Seeing such offices makes you wish you were working for Google.

  Google’s Swiss office. A bit infantilized, but it’s kinda neat.

  cool.

  Really? Really Google? I hate you (in a good way).

  Oh what nice toys they have - what an amazing office!

  hay que trabajar aqui!
• Showcase Of Creative Flash Preloaders
• In this post youll find some creative Flash-preloaders which may serve as an inspiration for your Flash-projects. Please notice that sometimes you need to look closely and precisely in order to find the preloader. Depending on the server load and your connection preloaders may quickly disappear. In most cases its not a disadvantage.
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  this would be good if it also listed preloaders that are actual mini games.

  Creative …

  When it comes to Flash, images, animation, videos and sound effects are often used on large scale. Consequence: in most cases Flash takes quite much time load requires a good dose of patience from users.

  ???????????????????????

  Flash??preloader????????????????????????????????????????

  Or, how to make people feel good about the bandwidth youre wasting

  Showcase Of Creative Flash Preloaders
• E. Deggans: Ferraro's Race Argument Isn't Insulting to Obama
• . . . it is insulting to Democrats.
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  Olberman said it best

  At the beginning of primary season, the reoccurring themes all over the political channels were “Is America ready for a black president?” and “Obama isn’t ‘black enough’ to win the black vote”

  All of that just to replace “black man” with “nigger”? Wow, that’s hilarious…

  All what? I copied and pasted a sentence so that the write could be both racist and misogynist. But misogyny is approved of and appreciated here, but pointing it out is not. It was not supposed to be funny at all, it was supposed to show you that it is wrong to attack people for being a member of a group. Sorry that you did not get it.

  You speak english ungood.

  A-fucking-men.

  I’m sure this will be downmodded since I’m posting about Hillary without criticizing her character, campaign, and platform.
• I'm a human being, young Guantanamo prisoner says| Politics| Reuters

• U.S. military guards carried Jawad to the hearing after he refused to leave his cell to attend. The bearded young man, who said he was 16 when captured in Afghanistan in December 2002, ultimately walked into the red-carpeted courtroom on his own, his hands cuffed, le…

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  “The Western concepts of justice and court I think are just completely foreign to him,” Sawyers said.

  Those things you ask of may happen if, say, the economy goes south. I know they aren’t that well connected, but people get pissed when enough of them can’t find work. At least this time around we will have some decent bad guys to blame and parade around as the ones who done it.

  Don’t say that! pleaaaaaase let me live in denial a bit longer.

  what he meant to say is that he was “liberated” at age 15 and since then has been “pro-actively interrogated” because he hates our freedom.

  No one who throws a grenade can be a bad person right?

  That's not, strictly speaking, true…
• 9 of the best Rich Text editors for Developers reviewed
• Everytime I start a new web application, I keep wondering what rich text editor Im going to use, and hunting around the web wondering which one meets my needs only wastes time, so here preserved for eternity is a list of the best of the best.
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  9 of the best Rich Text editors reviewed

  HTML editors

  Wrap these in GWT for extra goodness!

  Everytime I start a new web application, I keep wondering what rich text editor Im going to use, and hunting around the web wondering which one meets my needs only wastes time, so here preserved for eternity is a list of the best of the best, if not for a

  RICH TEXT EDITORS WEB

  editores html online estilo fckeditor
• Con Man Part II - Critical Issues for The Bravehearts
• In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20.
  

  Now we could see the incontrovertible logic in what appeared to be quixotic ravings by the President about free trade with Colombia, Pell Grant for Kids and the surge in Iraq. In Iraq, General Petraeus tells us we must continue to feed in troops for another ten years…

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  $20 per child for 15 million poor kids, and $287,000 per millionaire for 15 million millionaires. I’m not saying they should be swapped (it’s the millionaires’ money to start with (i think?)), but somewhere in between, there’s a good number.

  Tax cuts cost $4.3 trillion like not mugging a guy on the street costs me $50.

  Let me let you in on a little secret:

  People on the other side of this argument care very little about rights.

  The bush tax cuts lowered tax rates for the poor by a greater percentage than those for the rich.

  Leapin’ lizards! Good thinking, Daddy Warbucks!

  yeah, well, it’s kind of like that Economic Stimulus Act…how can we afford to just hand out refund checks to people when we’re are up to our eyeballs in debt as it is?
• blogs.msdn.com
• Guidelines and information on how to work with and extend the abilities of LINQ
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  Guidelines and information on how to work with and extend the abilities of LINQ

  What is LINQ, what language features were added to support it and best practice guidelines on how to use them to write your own code. Excellent read!

  LINQ Framework Design Guidelines
  Published 13 March 08 03:11 AM | mirceat
  Writing applications that interact with data sources, such as databases, XML documents, or Web Services such as Flickr or Amazon, is made easier in the .NET Framework 3.5 with t

  Guidelines for designing APIs in relation to LINQ

  public static bool IsPalindrome(this string s){

  Sensible advice on LINQ practice
• music.guardian.co.uk
• Like I don’t have enough to do already.
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  Like I don’t have enough to do already.

  They shall not be forgotten…
  We asked you to tell us what we’d missed from our five-part series 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die. And you let us know - in volume. Here’s the pick of your picks, from Arab Strap (left) to Tool

  Guardian’s 1000 albums to listen to before you die.

  Guardian albums to listen to before you die, maybe

  Los 100 discos que hay que escuchar antes de morir

  A 1000 albums to listen to before you die. Really?
• Tubbypaws
• “Love LOLCats and papercraft? Now you can have them both in the same file, with this papercraft ceiling-cat cut-and-stick model!” –http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/13/papercraft-ceilingca.html
  

  Haha! Awesome.I considered making an lolcats one just recently, but this is really cool! Great work as always Tubbypaws, Thank you for making this model! :]

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  Papercraft lolcats ceiling cat

  Meow, you can has lolcats. presenting tubbypaws new happy papercraft
  of the deity of lolcats, ceiling cat.

  you should print this out and put in the in office ceiling right in front of the door

  Ceiling Cat papercraft

  This is why I love the internets and the people that use them. People are awesome.

  meow, you can has lolcats. presenting tubbypaws new happy papercraft
  of the deity of lolcats, ceiling cat.

  I have too much free time on my hands.

  AWSUM!

  spider pig, spider pig…

  Another reason to go on living … =)
• HOWTO undelete removed files and directories on an ext3 file system
• It happens to everyone sooner or later: a split second after you hit Enter you realize your mistake, but it’s too late; you just deleted a valuable file or directory for which no backup exists.
  

  In order for this to work you will first have to pass stage1 and stage2 of the disk analysis that ext3grep will perform (see below).

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  I gotta admit I didn’t make it through the entire article but it looks legitimate enough for me to digg and hold onto.

  What say ye of a reiserfs undelete? Bet that woulda helped you when you lost your entire Linux, huh? LOL

  zomgah this just saved my walrus bucket

  er (undelete) deleted files from my ext3 partition?

  recovery

  Recovering from the accidental “rm -rf ~” on ext3.

  It happens to everyone sooner or later: a split second after you hit Enter you realize your mistake, but it’s too late; you just deleted a valuable file or directory for which no backup exists. Or maybe you have a backup, but it’s a month old… and in sh

  3 GB of data, deleted with rm -rf. The only backup that I had was from June 2007. Not being able to undelete was unacceptable. So, I ignored what everyone tried to tell me a

  On February 7th, 2008, I accidently deleted my whole home directory: over 3 GB of data, deleted with rm -rf. The only backup that I had was from June 2007. Not being able to undelete was unacceptable. So, I ignored what everyone tried to tell me and start

  Maybe the times are GMT/UTC instead of the local timezone?

  ctrl+z

  because most people don’t want that. If you did all you would need to do is put an alias to change rm to mv in your bashrc. Only 1 line of code.

  thank god for previous versions … and by God I mean … fsck it…

  So….. How much cash you think this guy could make with his program?

  What is not obvious is what’s freedom got to do with serving people with a valuable service.
• businessweek.com
• 10 to 3 to 1 & Pixel Perfect Mockups
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  10 to 3 to 1 & Pixel Perfect Mockups

  not a ton of unique information, but simply confirms that up-front design and planning pays off for the best UX design team around

  . And that helps to ensure that there are no nasty mistakes down the line.

  Always interesting to know.

  “I want a pony”

  Really a description of a decision (vs. design) process!

  Short, but great article about Apple’s process.
• Inside Google's new Zurich Base
• If your ideal workspace includes a slide, a games room, a ‘chill-out’ aquarium and plenty of free food then you had better get your CV into Google.
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  ‘…fireman poles offer quick access between floors…’ an ingenious adoptation to say the least. Though 99% of the time it’d be used only one way, but the 1% what a show

  i think i want to live there…. if you’re listening - please hire me or adopt me, i don’t care which *puppy dog eyes*

  just testing

  genius. and they called the restaurant “milliways”

  We need a fireman’s pole…

  If your ideal workspace includes a slide, a games room, a ‘chill-out’ aquarium and plenty of free food then you had better get your CV into Google.

  yet another reason why i’d like a job at google
• BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China hits back at US on rights
• China bites back at US for calling Beijing an ‘authoritarian regime’.
  

  What are these?

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  No longer a believable watchdog of the world in matters of human rights, the US is rebuffed by China for its own apalling record. Both countries have apalling human rights records, indeed.

  When we lose the moral authority to China on these issues we’re completely