01 February 2006 03:00
Don't be so negative! - KuraFire Network
(via)Yesterday, A List Apart published a new article, In Search of the Holy Grail. It's a new way of creating a fixed-liquid-fixed, three-column layout using very clean, almost entirely cruft-free XHTML markup and rather clean CSS to boot. However, Robert Nyman, who pointed the article out to me, commented on the use of negative margins in the CSS. This got me thinking.
Let the Good Times Roll--by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Recruiting
by 1 otherThe art of recruiting is the purest form of evangelism because you're not simply asking people to try your product, buy your product, or partner with you. Instead, you are asking them to bet their lives on your organization.
Gathering and Recruiting, Part 2
(via)The leadership skill of recruiting doesn't exist in a vacuum. The skill of gathering is a critical pre-requisite to effective recruiting. With that as a foundation, let's look at what seasoned leaders do to recruit.
31 January 2006 23:00
31 January 2006 22:00
Star Wars: Community | Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test
(via)Is it possible to drive a Podracer at 900 mph or more without a windshield or face mask? Could you survive a 50-foot fall into a snow bank like Luke Skywalker? Can you avoid freezing to death in a blizzard overnight by gutting a dead animal like a tauntaun and getting into its carcass?
Slashdot | The Mythbusters Answer Your Questions
Almost exactly a month ago we asked you for questions to put to the Mythbusters, hosts of the Discovery show that explores urban myth and legend. Today, we have answers back from Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage.
31 January 2006 21:00
Recreational drugs | Smoking out the truth | Economist.com
(via)Why some people smoke more than others do
Combine 3 Free Tools for a Complete Windows Registry Fix
by 4 others (via)Think the Windows operating system is expensive? Wait till you heap on the additional costs for the third party software required to secure it, including virus scanners, spyware checkers and firewall managers. If you still have something left in your budget, you may want to shell out for registry cleaners... or not, if you can get them for free.
31 January 2006 15:00
A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail
by 18 others (via)Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, another for, say, your Google Ads or your Flickr photos—and, as in a fancy truffle, a liquid center for the real substance. Its wide applicability in this golden age of blogging, along with its considerable difficulty, is what has earned the layout the title of Holy Grail.
31 January 2006 14:00
digitalfishphones.com - free audio effects plugins
This category serves you with audio plugins I developed. The programs you can download here are freeware.
31 January 2006 01:00
12 year old kid doing an amazing drumsolo - Google Video
Extremely skilled drummer 12 year old
30 January 2006 21:00
How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline. Forever! - February 06, 2006
(via)You probably don't know it, but the answer to America's gasoline addiction could be under the hood of your car. More than five million Tauruses, Explorers, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles are already equipped with engines that can run on an energy source that costs less than gasoline, produces almost none of the emissions that cause global warming, and comes from the Midwest, not the Middle East.
30 January 2006 20:00
Geek sitcom 'airs' online - Breaking - Technology - theage.com.au
(via)A new geeky British sitcom made its official debut online last week giving internet users worldwide a peek at a new comedy about a fictional IT department a week before it hits TV screens in the UK.
waste :: home
by 5 others (via)WASTE is an anonymous, secure, and encryped collaboration tool which allows users to both share ideas through the chat interface and share data through the download system. WASTE is RSA secured, and has been hearalded as the most secure P2P connection protocol currently in development.
Educational material -- Style Guide
(via)If there ever was a Frequently Asked Question for kids, it was "why?". Imagine a web in which, assiduously over the years, patient teachers had filled in the "why" buttons with pointers to explanations?
Quotations for CS1
by 2 others (via)Quotations are indexed alphabetically by their author. For authors with multiple quotations, the quotations are alphabetized by the first word in the quotations.
Tracker Trail - Fire - Can of Coke and a chocolate bar
by 3 others (via)Yes, you CAN make a fire from a can of coke and a chocolate bar! It really does work -- there are emails at the bottom of this page verifying this.
30 January 2006 18:00
Linux for Suits - The World Live Web | Linux Journal
Some interesting insight here. Less about Linux and more about concepts, hence generally non-technical.
Castpost: Broadcast Your Video & Audio Clips
by 15 othersThe easiest way to broadcast your personal video and audio clips
The Ungoliant Project Home Page
(via)Ungoliant, the public release project name for the system in place at the University of Indianapolis known as Shelob, is a system that utilizes open-sourced backends to isolate problematic (virus-infected or otherwise) hosts from a network. Ungoliant incorporates vmpsd, snort, and nmap for detection and containment.
Going Enterprise - setup your FC4 iSCSI target in 5 minutes - FedoraNEWS.ORG
This is a ultimate guide how to setup your iSCSI target on a Linux FC4 machine.
Pepping Up Windows | Tom's Hardware
There are many alternatives to default Windows apps - many of them open source and freeware - that can help you pep up your Windows installation and boost your productivity, making life with Windows more bearable.
NewsForge | SSL VPNs and OpenVPN: A lot of lies and a shred of truth
I wanted to write an article on the strengths of OpenVPN, but I just can't get the message out without first talking about the serious insecurities I see in the rest of the SSL Virtual Private Network (VPN) space.
