November 2008
55 posts
Lions Provide Laughs, but Still No Wins →
Making fun of the Lions is too easy, like an ice fisherman casting his line into a drink cooler. In a city that is home to auto executives who traveled in private jets to Washington to plead poverty,…
101 things we've learned from videogames →
The wisdom of our favorite pastime, applied to real life
10 Of The Best Linux Desktop Screenshots →
One of the best thing that I love about Linux desktop is its flexibility and the ability to tweak and customize every single part of it to your liking.
Forty Colorful Wallpapers [Wallpaper] →
What better day than the one before a long weekend to dress up your desktop with a new wallpaper image. The Web Designer Depot site rounds up 40 wallpapers loaded with color for your perusal…
Get Windows 7's Best Features Right Now [Windows... →
If you’re tired of hearing about Windows 7’s upcoming features while you sit and stare at your aging XP or Vista desktop, take solace in a few free apps and themes that can give you a…
Book Review -- A Hard-Water World →
The writer and photographer traveled to frozen locales as far flung as Minnesota’s Boundary Waters and the Volga River near Moscow to profile icefishermen and -women in their frozen…
Permission for Persimmons, please →
Please allow me to sing the praises of persimmons. Bright orange persimmons are about the last fruit to ripen in the fall. There are two main types of persimmons, and I have both in my yard: fuyu and…
Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes →
Forty Colorful Wallpapers [Wallpaper] →
What better day than the one before a long weekend to dress up your desktop with a new wallpaper image. The Web Designer Depot site rounds up 40 wallpapers loaded with color for your perusal…
Get Windows 7's Best Features Right Now [Windows... →
If you’re tired of hearing about Windows 7’s upcoming features while you sit and stare at your aging XP or Vista desktop, take solace in a few free apps and themes that can give you a…
HandBrake Media Converter Gets Even Better... →
All platforms: A new version of the most popular media converter for Lifehacker readers, Handbrake, adds several useful features like universal input (it’s not just for DVDs any more), better…
How To: How to Burn Any Video File to a Playable... →
Make a Better Sweet Potato Dish This Thanksgiving... →
Minimalist chef (and my man crush) Mark Bittman says this Thanksgiving’s the time try something better than “that canned sweet potato with marshmallows thing,” and offers a yummy can-free…
Make a Better Sweet Potato Dish This Thanksgiving... →
Minimalist chef (and my man crush) Mark Bittman says this Thanksgiving’s the time try something better than “that canned sweet potato with marshmallows thing,” and offers a yummy can-free…
Bush snubbed at G20 Summit →
Rick Sanchez on CNN showed this video of world leaders at the G20 Summit refusing to shake hands with President Bush. Sanchez says “It’s almost sad.” (Via The Fire Wire)
If you have an account with Mint, and you've ...... →
If you have an account with Mint, and you’ve enabled mobile alerts, you can now text “Bal” or “Balance” to 696-468 (MyMint) and receive a summary of all of your accounts. [Mint]
This Is Not A Good Method For Transporting... →
If you were thinking of loading a semi with tons of shopping carts, make sure you view the following video before you attempt it — just in case you’ve missed a small detail. …
And Now For Something Completely Different on... →
Claiming to be tired of seeing poor-quality “rip-offs” of their ridiculously acclaimed TV series and films, the Monty Python troupe has created an official YouTube channel to post free,…
Axence NetTools Is Advanced Network Monitoring... →
Windows only: Free application Axence NetTools is a comprehensive suite of networking tools for your PC, including a network scanner, inbound/outbound connection monitor (NetStat), port…
Google Hosts 10 Million Historic Time-Life Photos... →
Google announced today that they’re now hosting around 10 million photos from the LIFE photo archives on Google Image search. You can search the photos—which range from the 1750s to present…
Google Hosts 10 Million Historic Time-Life Photos... →
Google announced today that they’re now hosting around 10 million photos from the LIFE photo archives on Google Image search. You can search the photos—which range from the 1750s to present…
Axence NetTools Is Advanced Network Monitoring... →
Windows only: Free application Axence NetTools is a comprehensive suite of networking tools for your PC, including a network scanner, inbound/outbound connection monitor (NetStat), port…
MuseScore | Free music composition & notation... →
Peering into the micro world →
THE BOSTON GLOBE : A team of University of Michigan researchers has recently created a set of electron microscope images of carbon nanotube structures depicting images of U.S. President-elect…
*WCSX NEW HOME OF THE D&D SHOW* ** After being... →
WCSX NEW HOME OF THE D&D SHOW After being off air for nearly a year because of honoring the non-compete clause of our old contract, I’m happy to be able to tell you we will finally be back…
USB 3.0 to Transfer 25GB in 70 Seconds [Hardware] →
USB 3.0 will be unveiled next Monday, and so far the new specs for the protocol look incredible, promising 25GB transfers in a mere 70 seconds. To put that in perspective, the same transfer…
USB 3.0 to Transfer 25GB in 70 Seconds [Hardware] →
USB 3.0 will be unveiled next Monday, and so far the new specs for the protocol look incredible, promising 25GB transfers in a mere 70 seconds. To put that in perspective, the same transfer…
WinAudit Creates Seriously Extensive System... →
Windows only: Free system profiler WinAudit is similar in some ways to the previously mentioned System Information for Windows, being a no-install-needed executable and offering exhaustive…
Embed YouTube Clips in PowerPoint [How To] →
The Digital Inspiration blog tackles the many ways you can insert video clips into a PowerPoint presentation for nearly any kind of presentation—online or off, created in PowerPoint or…
WinAudit Creates Seriously Extensive System... →
Windows only: Free system profiler WinAudit is similar in some ways to the previously mentioned System Information for Windows, being a no-install-needed executable and offering exhaustive…
Embed YouTube Clips in PowerPoint [How To] →
The Digital Inspiration blog tackles the many ways you can insert video clips into a PowerPoint presentation for nearly any kind of presentation—online or off, created in PowerPoint or…
Amelie, Jr. →
Super cute French kid ad-libbing a fantastic story with crocodiles, monkeys, and Winnie the Pooh. I hope she got license clearance for those copyrighted characters. More about the video
Photo of Las Vegas "hooker hawkers" →
Golfer_X, of the darkly funny Riverside and San Bernardino Real Estate Blog, took this weird photo when he was in Las Vegas.
I spent the last weekend in Vegas. As you can see from the…
The Dancers’ Private Dressing Room →
The New York Times takes a peek backstage at the Hustler Club in Manhattan with an interactive panoramic shot of the unglamorous dressing room that lies beyond the stage lights.
In…
Terminology →
PowerShell Comes with Windows 7 [Windows 7] →
Microsoft stripped its calendar and photo gallery apps from Windows 7, but one extra it did bundle into the Windows 7 Preview is PowerShell, a souped-up command line and scripting GUI…
Video: Whiteboard PONG →
< Whiteboard PONG by eness. (via Laughing Squid)
Google Reader Now Translating Feeds Automatically... →
Google Reader and Google Translate have teamed up to bring a neat new feature — you can choose to have feeds in Google Reader machine-translated on the fly. For instance, if your Google…
MI College Shut Down After Outbreak of Mystery... →
Shut it down. Wash it down. That is the order from Ottawa County health officials after more than 120 Hope College students became ill from a noro-like virus. Officials are awaiting tests to…
uSend.io Makes Semi-Big File Sharing Ludicrously... →
Free online storage and sharing site Drop.io was already a pretty streamlined service—upload a file, copy the “drop” address, then share it with anyone you wanted to have access to your files…
mTAIL Tracks Log File Changes [Featured Windows... →
Windows only: Actively track changes in your log files with lightweight application mTAIL, a Windows-based emulation of the venerable tail command found in *nix based operating systems….
Five Tweaks for Your New Ubuntu Desktop [Linux] →
With the recent release of the popular Linux distro Ubuntu’s 8.10 version, code-named Intrepid Ibex, we’ve recently detailed some productive-minded Ubuntu Kung Fu, as well as a …
mTAIL Tracks Log File Changes [Featured Windows... →
Windows only: Actively track changes in your log files with lightweight application mTAIL, a Windows-based emulation of the venerable tail command found in *nix based operating systems….
uSend.io Makes Semi-Big File Sharing Ludicrously... →
Free online storage and sharing site Drop.io was already a pretty streamlined service—upload a file, copy the “drop” address, then share it with anyone you wanted to have access to your files…
Beck's Gamma Ray →
A new video from Beck for “Gamma Ray,” starring Chloë Sevigny and a lot of groovy visuals. Rex sez: “Pretend it’s 1995 again.” Not recommended for those of you who are on acid. (Via Some…
Five Tweaks for Your New Ubuntu Desktop [Linux] →
With the recent release of the popular Linux distro Ubuntu’s 8.10 version, code-named Intrepid Ibex, we’ve recently detailed some productive-minded Ubuntu Kung Fu, as well as a …
Saddest picture you'll see all day →
Love him or hate him, you’ve got to admit that he’s done a lot to get young people excited about politics again. Well fought Dr. Paul.
Remember the Milk Gadget Puts Tasks in Gmail's... →
When Google released a couple of gadgets for the Gmail sidebar and provided an open means of making more, long-time users of Remember the Milk might have guessed the task manager that tries…