1 day ago

Engadget Think it's only gamers that require mice with more buttons than a scientific calculator? Then you've probably not met a die hard OpenOffice user, who now finally have a mouse to call their own in the form of the OpenOfficeMouse. Developed by WarMouse in partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, this corded point-and-cl (Read More)

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Delicious/tag/nptech I’m doing a regular weekly visualisation for the excellent Guardian Datablog, the front-end for an amazing library of statistics and data, lovingly hand-gathered by The Guardian. My first post is about Deadly Drugs. There’s been a furore over here in the UK about the dangers of illegal drugs. The Government has sacked its (Read More)

2 days ago

mashable XMPP might sound like a foreign language to you, but the extensible messaging and presence protocol was developed by Jabber and it’s the technology that powers many popular instant messenger clients.Today we’re learning from Process One that Facebook is readying an XMPP connection interface that would make it possible for y (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

digg / rdizzle / history Although a temporary truce between Libertarians and Republicans has been in effect for the Tea Parties, divisions over legalizing marijuana, domestic espionage, abortion, torture, gay marriage, the separation of church/state, immigration, and de-militarization are starting to take a toll.  The schism between Libertarian (Read More)

2 days ago

Google Code Blog Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, so we've built many tools to help us develop these (and many other) apps. We're happy to announce the open sourcing of these t (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Toluju from Google Reader: Silbo Gomero Language: Silbo Gomero (Spanish for ‘Gomeran Whistle’), also known as “El Silbo”, is a whistled language spoken by inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands to communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valleys (gullies) that radiate through the island. (via Eva). (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Toluju from Google Reader: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the Māori name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. The name is often shortened to Taumata by t (Read More)

2 days ago

All Facebook While Facebook announced in May of last year that they would be launching XMPP support for Facebook Chat, the launch hasn’t taken place yet. There have been a few services, including Meebo, that have been working with Facebook to test out external support of Facebook’s chat service however XMPP support is still not live. (Read More)

2 days ago

Ars Technica In recent years, malware authors have developed increasingly sophisticated rootkits that burrow into the operating system itself, modifying basic filesystem and process management code in a way that ensures they are essentially invisible to anyone using the machine: no files vi (Read More)

3 days ago

Mashable! Todd Jamison just happens to be the unfortunate owner of the crushed 2004 Hyundai Elantra that played a starring role in a recent viral YouTube video.The security footage that was posted to YouTube highlights one of the worst parking jobs ever caught on tape. While the video is actually quite hilarious, the reality is that (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Toluju from YouTube: исп.Александр Хрустевич. (Read More)

7 days ago

Boing Boing Lenore "Free Range Kids" Skenazy has a stirring editorial in defense of Hallowe'en and kids in today's Huffpo:It's not that I'm cavalier about safety. I'm just a sucker -- so to speak -- for the facts. And the fact is: No child has been poisoned by a stranger's goodies on Halloween, ever, as far as we can determine. Joel Be (Read More)

5 days ago

Boing Boing Four graphs created by the International Federation of Health Plans that compare how much US residents and people in other countries pay for health care. As Jay Livingston of the Montclair SocioBlog says, "Our Lipitor must be four to ten times a good as the Lipitor that Canadians take." . (Read More)

4 days ago

YouTube gabemac From Wikipedia: A reclaimed word is a word in a language that was at one time a pejorative but has been brought back into acceptable usage—usually starting within the communities that experienced oppression under that word, but often also among the general populace as well.Written & Directed by Mike Litzenberg &am (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Toluju from Google Reader: Isaac Schlueter on Web Development. (Read More)

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