Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Abusive New York Camera Store Threatens Blogger

"I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again." "I'm an attorney, I will sue you." "I'm going to call your local police and have two officers come over and arrest you." Just a few of the fun things I got to hear today from someone who said his name was Steve Phillips over at PriceRitePhoto.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Try Ruby - Interactive Tutorial/Demo

Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!

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HowTo: Linux-Vserver on Debian Sarge

Linux-VServer allows you to create virtual private servers and security contexts which operate like a normal Linux server, but allow many independent servers to be run simultaneously in one box at full speed. All services, such as ssh, mail, Web, and databases, can be started on such a VPS, without modification, just like on any real server.

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Monday, November 28, 2005

The End Of Copyright

"I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of a major era in world history. It may take fifty years, it may take a hundred, but the age of copyright is drawing to a close. I don�t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it�s inevitable."

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12 Useful CSS Templates

This girl named Monorom presents 12 useful XHTML1.0/CSS2 templates - very easy to use and carefully documented. Helped me on many XHTML/CSS issues.

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Sunday, November 27, 2005

Linux Open Source Sequencer and Music Production Studio

LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, having more fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more...

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Saturday, November 26, 2005

18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose... I particularly like the one about what to do when you need to pee and there is no bathroom nearby ;)

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500+ Colours

This page lists over 500 colours by colour name, Hex value, RGB value and Microsoft Access code number. Best webdesign tool ever. For me at least. I use this page the most. This site also contains alot of other great resources like country codes and character maps.

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Add Google Videos to Your Website, Blog or MySpace Page

Now you can easily, watch, download and instantly add Google Videos to your website, blog or profile. Each video includes the code that you need to display your favorite movie on your website. read more | digg story

Friday, November 25, 2005

1980 Games Online...

Games From the 80s and early 90s. Lots of ninentdo and arcade games run right on the site... Enjoy

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Ubuntu: Best Linux Desktop for Business?

ZDNet has been testing Linux for business, trying to work out what the best distro is for small businesses. After testing Mandriva, Novell Linux, Red Hat Desktop, SUSE Linux and Ubuntu Linux. After installing them all-- Ubuntu came out as the winner. read more | digg story

Pat Morita, Mr. Miyagi of 'The Karate Kid,' dies at 73

Actor Pat Morita, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid," has died. He was 73. Wax on, Wax off. read more | digg story

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Creating Your Own Linux Mail Server

Covers how to get the actual mail system up and running, but most interesting because of the anti-spam techniques and actually using the mail system with the mutt and squirrelmail mail clients.

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Monday, November 21, 2005

Wordpress.com is available to all!

WordPress.com just opened its gates to everyone. You no longer require an invitation - Out of Beta and works great!

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles

"Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars�it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color"

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Incredible vector artwork

Today I found another website full of incredible vector artwork and tutorials. I was so inspired that I bought a new book yesterday on Illustrator, "The Adobe Illustrator CS2 WOW! Book" by Sharon Steuer. It has some great techniques and tips. Anyways go check out this site. Vexels.net

MIT to launch $100 laptop in 2 days

The MIT Media Laboratory expects to launch a prototype of its US$100 laptop in November. read more | digg story

Google Base OFFICIALLY Launched [via GoogleBlog]

Google just OFFICIALLY launched a new service that crawls services such as Google SiteMaps, Google Print, and Google Video.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

So Five Minutes Ago

Well it's not often that I actually post a blog to my site manually, (I've been doing alot of diggin lately!) but while on the search for tutorials on illustrator I came across this incredible artist from Topeka, Kansas that just blew me away. Her vector artwork is top-notch, definetly worth checking out. view her site

320GB Hard Drive for $129.99

At Office Max thay are havin a deal where you can get Western Digital 320GB Hard Drive: # Store up to 320GB of data at 100MB per second # Rotational Speed of 7200 RPM # 8 MB Buffer # 1 Year Warranty The catch is you have to pay $159.99 then you get $30 mail in rebate.

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Monday, November 14, 2005

Ubuntu Linux gets IBM seal of approval

Canonical Ltd's Ubuntu Linux distribution has been given IBM Corp's seal of approval with the news that it has been certified as ready for IBM's DB2 database on management systems for Linux.

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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Black T-Shirts Live Today on CafePress.com

The community has been waiting a long time for this day - check out the black t-shirts now on Cafepress.

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Huge star is discovered moving at 1.6 million miles an hour

Highly unusual, a huge star has been discovered in the Milky Way (our galaxy) that is moving at the incredible speed of 1.6 million miles per hour. Who knows, maybe it's really a Borg ship headed this way! read more | digg story

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Swap a paperclip for a house

This bloke started out in july with a red paperclip that he swapped for a pen. He swapped the pen for a door handle. He plans to continue this chain of trades until he can acquire a house or an island. He�s documenting it on this blog. read more | digg story

Digg Crew to Start Online TV Network?

This is looking more and more likely after the announcement of ctrl+alt+Chicken and now "Outsourced" the worlds first weekly internet sitcom, the guys are even filming a commercial, looks like good things lie ahead for the Digg community.

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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

SimplytheBest Fonts library

Browse through the alphabetical font listings or the font categories to view the available free fonts. Each font has a full preview page with proprietary details. read more | digg story

Microsoft plans on-line version of Windows

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced on-line versions of its Windows operating system and other popular software programs, hoping to defuse a growing threat from Google Inc. and other fast-moving challengers.

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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Tiny Brazilian cars about to invade U.S.

A Brazilian car designing firm called Obvio! has found a distributing partner in the U.S. finally. ZAP, known for distributing EVs to environmentally conscious folks in the U.S., has placed a 50,000 unit order for the company's two super tiny and whacky minicars.

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Creative X-Fi

To promote the release of the Sound Blaster X-Fi series soundcards, Creative commissioned those mad modders at bit-tech to make three extreme case mods. This is the first: a 'Music Creation' X-Fi PC built inside a guitar amp - wow!

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Audiophile Idiocy

'Serious' audiophiles are idiots. This list of products I *cough* found is testament to why. You've probably all seen the last one before...

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CSS Effects, Standard Compliant Browser Code, Hover Event with CSS ...

This website features a multitude of CSS effects and code for standard compliant website design. Some nifty stuff including: CSS horizontal/vertical navigation list, PNG degradability in IE, CSS element hover effects, Gradients...

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