Sunday, June 10, 2007

Interesting Stuff

** Hack41's Blog **
6/11/2007 1:10:03 AM
There are a ton of free cheatsheets, quick references, and downloadable resources for programming languages and related technologies online -- in this post I've tried to organize and list some of the best for web development.
6/11/2007 12:58:07 AM
Lewis Hamilton wins the Canadian Grand Prix, taking his maiden victory in only his sixth race. Amazing race!
6/11/2007 12:30:03 AM
A complete list of the top 25 most popular blogs ranked by a combination of Inbound Links (Yahoo Site Explorer), RSS Subscribers (Feedburner), Alexa Rank and Compete and Quantcast traffic data. The data gives you a real insight into these blogs success which will allow you to judge the relative success of your own blog.
6/11/2007 12:00:03 AM
I placed a comment with a link to CSSeasy.com in another story and you're all digging it up so I thought it would be good to write a story about this simple site for people who want to start a css-driven website quick or for those people who want to start learning CSS by trial and error.
6/11/2007 12:00:02 AM
Tata motors, the Indian company which is bringing us the air car in partnership with the French MDI, spent three years conducting all sorts of tests on it before signing an agreement. The sales manager of MDI recounts how they ran out of money in 2003 until it was saved by the 5.5 billion Tata group who first came to check if the car real!
6/10/2007 11:50:02 PM
M-rated games coming to the Wii are expected to be criticized and contested. Manhunt 2, in particular, is receiving much word from anti-game lawyers. In an interview by Fox News, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum talked about the game's Wii version requiring players to slash and stab using the Wiimote.
6/10/2007 11:40:03 PM
As tuition has soared past the limits on federal aid, more students are relying on barely regulated private loans.
6/10/2007 11:30:03 PM
Why can't I stop smiling?
6/10/2007 11:20:11 PM
Mitt Romney 1042 (80.46%) | Ron Paul 70 (5.41%) | Rudy Giuliani 57 (4.40%) | John McCain 54 (4.17%) The only reason Romney is ahead, is because Utah is Mormon country.
6/10/2007 11:20:04 PM
Time Warner today implemented a network management tool to improve the operation of the network for all subscribers. As a result, a small minority of users may experience slower speeds during peak hours when using certain applications that consume lots of bandwidth. You can address this situation by reducing your use of bandwidth-intensive ...
6/10/2007 11:10:06 PM
Maybe you should cross the finish line before you start the celebration...
6/10/2007 11:00:05 PM
This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, Gen. Colin Powell strongly condemned the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, calling it “a major problem for America’s perception” and charging, “if it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo â€" not tomorrow, this afternoon.”
6/10/2007 11:00:02 PM
"I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently!Why oh why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!" -Poster in a 2001 MacRumors thread.
6/10/2007 10:50:02 PM
What we have here are the opening screens to every single Famicom game ever made in Japan. 1252 of them in chronological order from 1981 to 1994. It’s interesting to see how little the basic template changed over the years.
6/10/2007 10:20:03 PM
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6/10/2007 10:10:03 PM
Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies
6/10/2007 9:40:02 PM
Rumors of another sequel to “Re-Animator” and even an entire new trilogy have been buzzing around for quite some time now. First Stuart Gordon said he had cast William H. Macy as the dead president that Dr. Herbert West is brought in to resurrect.
6/10/2007 9:10:02 PM
This is completely hilarious. I have never listened to something so satisfying. Listen to this kid cry over World of Warcraft because his parents are telling him to get off but he doesn't want to. He CRIES and yells back at them yet his parents are still speaking so softly and kindly with him. I would never get away with this sort of backtalk.
6/10/2007 9:00:03 PM
The Full Page Test loads a given HTML page, including images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes. In this way, the Pingdom tool mimics the way a page is loaded in your browser.
6/10/2007 9:00:02 PM
Bill Gates wrote, “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” Mr. Gates worried that “some large company will patent some obvious thing” and use the patent to “take as much of our profits as they want.”
6/10/2007 8:50:04 PM
Scans of all the maps that were included in the original editions of Jules Verne’s novels.
6/10/2007 8:10:04 PM
Fatima had been a brilliant student and she thought her marriage to Shaikh Salary, her husband, would mean an end to her dreams of becoming an engineer. Her husband is illiterate, earning his money as a street food hawker. He makes about two dollars a day.
6/10/2007 7:50:03 PM
Simplistic, noseless and mouthless, these bunnies have been hot on Chinese internet, particularly with QQ and MSN users since the beginning of 2007. Wang Momo, a student in animation department of Beijing Broadcasting Institute created this popular lagomorph. å…"斯基.
6/10/2007 7:10:05 PM
Lobbyists for the popular fast food chain want to redefine a word in the dictionary. They want to change the definition of McJob from "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement," to "a job that is stimulating, rewarding, and offers skills that last a lifetime."
6/10/2007 7:10:05 PM
The history of Bill Gates in photos
6/10/2007 7:00:07 PM
Here are the patterns you can learn that when followed, absolutely defeat Pac-Man's AI. Included is video. Even includes "Hiding Spot" patterns you can use to place your Pac-Man in a spot where he can chill safely for hours on end while you take a break.Great if you wanna impress Cyndi Lauper with your Uber 80's nerdness!
6/10/2007 6:40:05 PM
My favorite: the Headbutt!
6/10/2007 6:10:04 PM
The Grey Man was removed from the book, due to the fact that it was thought to be too depressing.
6/10/2007 5:50:04 PM
Sacked for refusing to use the book in class as it contains "witchcraft" - a teacher is now sueing for about $100,000 in unfair dismissal claims.
6/10/2007 5:30:05 PM
This guy decided to show the words in a crop field so it would be visible in aerial photos. Only, he decided to do it in the form of a Semacode.
6/10/2007 5:30:04 PM
A list of free CSS HTML Web design download resources including brief descriptions and screenshots of the repective sites. Includes generic and special resources for content management, forum, and blogging systems like e107, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, PHP-Fusion, phpBB, PHPNuke, vBulletin, Wordpress, and Xoops.
6/10/2007 4:10:04 PM
A movie theatre chain in Canada says it's responding to customer demand and wants the provincial government to allow the consumption of alcohol at one of their downtown Toronto locations.
6/10/2007 3:50:07 PM
There’s no doubt about it: right now, God is on the side of the atheists.
6/10/2007 3:24:46 PM
The Star Wars camp is in Santa Monica interviewing writers for their upcoming live action Star Wars TV movies. Some of the writers already under consideration have written for "Lost" and "Heroes." The show will cover the 19-year span between "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" and "Star Wars: A New Hope."
6/10/2007 2:50:04 PM
A handful of CEOs in the AP executive pay list take home a salary of $1 a year or less. But all of them manage to make millions anyway, illustrating the point that if you're running the show, your salary doesn't mean much. "Salary has become such a minuscule component of CEO compensation that it is now largely irrelevant."
6/10/2007 2:40:04 PM
Another victim of the Google Street Team. This guy was caught innocently picking his nose on Street View.
6/10/2007 2:10:03 PM
Uh-oh!
6/10/2007 1:44:24 PM
For more than 7 years, Genshin Fujinami has covered the trails of Mount Hiei in one of the world's most grueling feats - a punishing quest that combined starvation, isolation and the equivalent of a lap around the equator. Since 1885, only 48 "marathon monks'' of Buddhism's Tendai sect have accomplished the ritual.
6/10/2007 1:40:08 PM
Wouldn't it be great to have a single website that profiles every US presidential candidate's take on Climate Change? Good news
6/10/2007 1:18:33 PM
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have demonstrated that neurons cultured outside the brain can be imprinted with multiple rudimentary memories that persist for days..

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