October 2008
58 posts
Watch MTV Like You Remember with MTV Music [Online... →
Remember when MTV played music videos almost exclusively? Before the network figured out it was more profitable to run game shows hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and reality television? Those days are back…
Learn Advanced Pumpking Carving and More at... →
With a focus on culinary arts, instructional video site How2Heroes has a fantastic library of video howtos on everything from a guide to eating lobster by a marine bioligist to this great primer…
FTW: "What is 'FTW'? What Does It Mean?" →
Question: “What is ‘FTW’? What Does It Mean?” While participating in an online discussion forum about motorcycles, you see this weird expression “FTW”. People post phrases like “slipper clutches, ftw!” and “full face helmets, ftw!”. You see the same thing in an online gaming forum. The gamer participants are posting phrases like...
Move To Japan So You Can Drink Yogurt Pepsi [Ew] →
Japan is a unique country with an adventurous palate, the perfect place to try out new Pepsi Yogurt flavor, aka “Pepsi White.” Reader Danny who sent this in says, “The flavor was quite sweet,…
Guitar Chord Notation at Access Rock →
How To Use a Metronome, Musician Resource Review →
Korg MA-30 Digital Metronome
Comic for October 23, 2008 →
JournalLive Automatically Tracks Your Time... →
Windows only: See how much time you spend instant messaging friends and crafting PowerPoint presentations with time tracker app JournalLive. JournalLive logs everything you do on a…
Print2pdf Adds Advanced PDF Conversion to Windows... →
Windows only: Free PDF conversion tool Print2PDF isn’t as click-and-go friendly as a tool like doPDF, but it does offer a serious amount of control over the looks, permissions, and security…
GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know [GIMP] →
Now that the free image editing classic GIMP version 2.6 offers a better-than-ever alternative to Photoshop (especially with a couple of key plug-ins), it’s time to start getting…
METRONOME ONLINE - free! →
Today's LA Times cover: inspired juxtaposition? →
Richard Metzger sent this around today, saying: “Is this what the bailout really looks like???”
Foxmarks Updates, Adds Password Syncing [Featured... →
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Popular bookmark-syncing Firefox extension Foxmarks has expanded to support password syncing between your browsers. Many of you have been looking for a good…
Brain's reaction to hand transplant →
When he was 19, David Savage lost his hand in a machine accident. Thirty-five years later, he had a replacement hand installed. Amazingly, the same region that controlled his hand when he…
Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing... →
Scientist who did groundwork for Chemistry Nobel... →
David sez, “Three guys won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but there was a
fourth scientist who did critical work but now makes $10/hr in a
Toyota dealership! Despite the star system, science is a team…
How to Use Dropbox as the Ultimate Password Syncer... →
Cross-platform application Dropbox may be great at syncing regular old files and folders over the internet and to the web, but with a little ingenuity, you can use this free software to…
Still Not Sure Who To Vote For? Take the... →
By this point, most Americans have made up their minds about who they are going to vote for President come Election Day. But if you are still trying to decide, or just want to reassure yourself that…
Hello Fett tattoo →
I don’t know whose arm this is with the fawesome Hello Kitty/Boba Fett tatt (Hello Fett? Boba Kitty?), but they’ve got my vote. Hello Kitty Boba Fett Tattoo (Thanks, Davis!)
BrowserPlus™ →
Video: Credit Crisis As Antarctic Expedition... →
Antarctic explorers trudge across the icy wastelands, heavily laden with rucksacks, bound together with rope. This is a good metaphor for understanding the credit crisis, and Paddy Hirsch from…
Why Was Gas So Expensive? [] →
Did you know that gas price gouging almost never occurs as prices rise? Rather, it’s most often when dealers keep prices artificially high even as their costs fall. As gas costs were near $5 a…
Randall "XKCD" Munroe and me on our work habits --... →
Last August, I travelled to Springfield, Mass for 3PiCon, a science fiction convention where I was co-guest of honor with Randall “XKCD” Munroe. We did some fun programming items together, but the…
Hive Five: Five Best Sites to Stream TV →
Geek to Live: Take study-worthy lecture notes →
Ayende @ Rahien - Rhino Mocks →
Top 10 Web Tools for Election Season [Lifehacker... →
It’s hard these days to imagine how elections happened before the web grew to popularity. With all the instant-access news, video, data, and social networking available in a few seconds’…
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
WoW Whore Has 36 Accounts, Raids by Himself →
In what is perhaps the most shining example of obsession and geekiness I have ever seen, a fella by the name of Bradster has 36 World of WarCraft accounts that he plays on 11 computers…
GPass Boosts Browsing Privacy, Circumvents... →
Windows only: Free application GPass helps you bypass censorship and blocked web sites by tunneling network traffic through encrypted proxy servers. After you install GPass, launching an…
IKVM.NET Home Page →
Numerical Sex Positions →
PHOTO: Wall Street Bull Had Blue Balls Today... →
The balls of the famous Wall Street bull got painted blue today. Before they were cleaned, a Gothamist reader snapped this pic. In terms of the creative comic output it’s sparked, this may be…
Crosswinds Marsh bird species checklist Wayne... →
WixEdit →
Make No-Knead Bread Faster and Healthier [Food... →
Nearly two years ago, food author Mark Bittman launched an army of first-time bread makers with his no-knead, super-simple bread recipe (including a few of our helpful commenters). Now…
25 Fantastic Indie Gems Made for Less Than $1... →
The following movies all had budgets under $1 million, some of them reaching as low as $7,000. Let this act as a reminder: you don’t need to be backed by studio financing to make a great film.
paper cd case →
Stack Overflow →
Hive Five Winner for Best Media Converter:... →
HandBrake took home the top prize in this weekend’s Hive Five Best Media Converters despite its limitation to converting just DVDs. (It’s just that good!) If you want to convert media from…
Back Up Your Tumblr Blog [Tumblelogs] →
The Digital Inspiration blog points outs the nifty webapp Tumblelog Backup Tool, which can export all the posts, photos, and anything else from your Tumblr blog—or any other Tumblelog,…
Feeling out of control sparks magical thinking →
MIND HACKS : Psychology Today journalist Matthew Hutson covers some fascinating experiments just published in this week’s Science that found that reducing participants’ control increase the…
Appnr Makes Finding and Installing Ubuntu Apps a... →
Free Ubuntu app search site Appnr is a great way to find and install a huge range of applications and tools, especially for Linux newcomers. Faster and more explanatory than the default…
The Economist Sums Up Financial Crisis: "Oh Fuck!"... →
If you feel at a loss for words to describe the now global financial cover, this spoof cover floating around the internet for September’s Economist says it all: “Oh fuck!” Download the large…
Livestation Brings Streaming TV to All Platforms... →
Windows/Mac/Linux (all platforms): Livestation, the previously invite-only streaming television player, has released its free desktop client for all platforms. The app cites an available…
Paper Case Bookmarklet Makes Auto-Filled CD/DVD... →
The Liquid Mongoose site has a neat bookmarklet tool that creates fold-able cases for audio CDs or movie DVDs from AOL Music or Netflix DVD pages. Simply copy the bookmarklet to your…
Picasa 3 Beta's New Features [Screenshot Tour] →
Windows/Linux: Picasa, Google’s photo management tool, has quietly announced a new beta that adds basic movie editing, fuller syncing to Web Albums, and many other features and changes….
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