January 2009
63 posts
Exxon Mobil Sets Record with $45.2 Billion Profit.... →
HOUSTON – Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago. The…
Scientists discover ground-breaking material:... →
(PhysOrg.com) — Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced a ground-breaking new material, graphane, which has been derived from graphene.
One Cake To Fill Them All: LOTR Desserts [PICS] →
That’s right folks, that’s a freaking cake right there — the city of Minas Tirith in all it’s fondant-y glory. Wow. Now I’m confident I speak for all of us when I say ‘my God would I lay siege to…
Dawn of War II beta now available to all...Free →
Just a quick reminder that the Dawn of War II beta is now available to all people for the low, low price of nothing. With just a click, a little free time and 5.5 gigglebytes of hard drive space you…
Bush was a dress code stickler; Obama is more laid... →
Pictures of a jacket-less Obama in the White House seemed to signal a more informal culture. Thus did an ironclad rule of the Bush administration — coat and tie in the Oval Office at all times — fall…
Modern Genetic (And Other) Algorithms Explained:... →
(This is part 6 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.) Tabu…
“Nature Materials has a fascinating paper on a kind of polymer implant that can...”
– Using a Polymer Implant to Program Your Immune System « Michael Graham Richard
5 Mind-Bending Buildings...Seriously →
With buildings that are able to heat, light and power themselves, or blend in with their surroundings using organic processes, we are now in an era where buildings are beginning to refashion the…
13 Plugins to Make Gedit a More Useful Text Editor →
Gedit is the default text editor for most of the Linux distributions using Gnome as the desktop environment. As it turns out and as we shall see shortly Gedit supports plugins and there are some very…
WatchEnhancing and Experiencing Spacetime Resolution with Videos and Stills on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
This would be a great addon to MPEG. Imagine having HD video by just injecting a few HD stills into a lowres stream. More quality in not much more megabytes.
Escaping Cape Fear: 9 Ways To Not Let Fear Stop... →
On the other side of these fears is everything we desire; from our dream job to immense success to happiness. So how do we get to the other side? We need to escape! Here are 9 ways to go about it and…
Palm to Apple: Bring It →
Palm, whose new Pre handset, though built around a different paradigm than the iPhone, boasts some remarkably iPhone-like features. Palm, a company who’s reinvention is being stewarded by Jon…
Man kills 2 babies, adult in Belgium day-care... →
A calm, knife-wielding man stabbed two babies and a female worker to death at a day-care centre in Belgium on Friday before riding away on his bicycle.The man, armed with several knives, was…
Now this is amazing: a (Megaupload-)captcha solver in Javascript using a neural network - wow! http://tinyurl.com/cwmaa2
Modern Genetic (And Other) Algorithms Explained:... →
(This is part 5 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.)
First,…
CNN: Roberts 'screwed up' oath of office →
The oath of office of the President of the United States is perhaps the most hallowed tradition in American politics. It marks the end of an intense election process, the peaceful transition of…
BTW: Damn, Facebook integrates nicely with CNN. They really are a social success. (I bet Google fears FB more then Microsoft.)
Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive... →
Google Drive, or Gdrive as it is better known, has to be the most anticipated Google product so far. When it arrives, Gdrive will likely cause a major paradigm shift in how we use computers and bring…
Testing CSS For Code Tag →
Just ignore this… I’m testing the CSS for my code. .code{ width: 464px; overflow: auto; background: #f8f8f8; border-right: 1px dashed #e6e6e6; border-top: 1px dashed #e6e6e6; border-bottom: 1px...
Modern Genetic (And Other) Algorithms Explained:... →
(This is part 4 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.) First of…
1 day 3 hours 7 minutes left, I’m excited!
Little girl gives a flower to soldier on tank →
Nokia N95, 3G, Bluetooth, And Ubuntu Intrepid - 3G... →
The following steps are instructions to surf the web using a Nokia N95 with 3G, connected to your Intrepid laptop via Bluetooth. 1. Make sure you have the required packages installed: sudo…
Just tethered my N95 via Bluetooth to my Ubuntu laptop to surf with 3G. I know terminal-fu :)!
Top 10 Most Widely Believed Myths →
Napoleon wasn’t that short (for his time), The Salem Witches weren’t burned?
Corporate Connection: Who Owns What in Global... →
What is the connection between 3 celebrities, 35 corporations, 40 subsidiaries and more than 300 brands?
Open source trading platform could be a win for... →
Linux and open source software are a key component in the underlying infrastructure of the finance industry, but the higher layers of the stack are still dominated by a multitude of proprietary,…
Massive Underground Ant Colony →
A research that finds out how one of the subterranian ants structures looks like underground.
Proposal for a new HTTP header: X-Torrent →
The thinking behind the X-Torrent header is that whenever a web server returns any headers over HTTP, it includes an X-Torrent header pointing to a torrent tracker for that document. When a website…
Google Announces Layoffs (Now You Know It's Really... →
Google has announced layoffs. Not contractors. Not hourly workers. Googlers. Not many, thankfully—only 100—and some may be able to find jobs elsewhere in the company. But they’re all in HR, which…
Worm infects 1.1M Windows PCs in 24 hours →
The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours.
Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple →
Steve Jobs’ medical leave from Apple is likely to be permanent, analysts say.In a letter to Apple staff on Wednesday, Jobs said he was taking a five-month medical leave because his health issues are…
Now might be a good time to buy AAPL or YHOO, yes? No?
Mike asks the CSS Guy about a scrolling trick with... →
Super fast Ext4 filesystem arrives in Ubuntu 9.04 →
The Ext4 filesystem, which was officially declared stable in Linux kernel 2.6.28, is now available in the latest Ubuntu 9.04 daily CD builds. Preliminary benchmarks show that it delivers…
YouTube - Evolution of Dance 2 →
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'30 Rock' wins best comedy TV series →
30 Rock’ is having a big night, taking home Golden Globes in three major categories. Alec Baldwin snagged the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Tina Fey delivered an…
Grr… Pidgin just stopped working with MSN. Fix: sudo apt-get install msn-pecan and use that.
“To put it mildly, the numbers scared the living hell out of the hedge funds: if...”
– ivan krstić · code culture » How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing
Chrome gets Mac deadline, extensions foundation |... →
Ah, finally a Windows 7 key :D.
…and working again.
Windows 7 webpage: ‘The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.’ hmm…
Pfft, Palm. Why “Web OS” instead of Android? Why those over-rounded corners?
Hmm… MS CES keynote: ‘we know that users have 5 to 15 windows open’. There must be something wrong with me, I have 10-30 windows open :).
TV 101: Why Leo Laporte represents the future of... →
Leo Laporte gets the recognition that he deserves as the future of Television.