You dont often see this amount of concentration where I work!

I love how they made it look just like a normal desktop printer, just really really big. Imagine trying to buy new ink cartridges for this thing. Note the flashing lights to warn folks that this is a MASSIVE printer. Yes, thats a PC monitor on the right hand side. Best-Quality mode: 600 dpi (apparent)High [...]

Cool Eclipse Plugins to make development with Eclipse even better 300+ Tools for your WordPress Blog Brazilian Waxing O_o Google Gears lets users use your web application offline Member Management System with Scriptaculous is a comprehensive user management system pQuery lets use use the power of jQuery with pure PHP Asp.Net is a useful resource [...]

The StatTraq plugin for WordPress has a bug where the Year and Month time periods are not displayed correctly. Here is a fix for the problem. Download this StatTraq Calendar Patch. Extract calendar.php from the file and copy it into your \wp-stattraq folder, replacing the file that already exists there. Now when you check your [...]

Zero-installation applications can be run from USB sticks and are extremely useful for troubleshooting. Spread32 is shareware and can do almost everything Excel does. It does not support Visual Basic, but it can run Excel 4 macros. 912KB Atlantis Nova can edit Word documents and save them as .RTF. 1MB With an installation size of [...]

Solomani did a great summary of this Martial Arts documentary I watched last year. Basically it goes through a bunch of martial arts myths and abilities and uses science to figure out if it’s true and how they do it. Essentially they used a modified $150,000 crash-test dummy for the testing. Here are some of [...]

In a project I was working on recently, I moved the backend database from Microsoft Access to MySQL. It worked for the most part, but every so often I would get Write Conflict errors on certain rows of a table. write conflict This record has been changed by another user since you started editing it. [...]

Move over Heroes, here come Zeroes

Sufudu is a very cool drumline, from Sioux Falls South Dakota.

This is a fantastic photo of the space shuttle and the International Space Station silhouetted against the Sun. Ciclops.org also has beautiful photos of Saturn and its rings. What is amazing about this photo is that just to the left of the main ring you can see Earth. The photo was taken by the Cassini [...]

Stephen Wiltshire draws an incredibly accurate picture of Rome after a 45 minute helicopter ride. He says that St. Peters, the Forum and the Colleseum were easier than the detail of the cities neighbourhoods and villages. Amazing.

If, like me, you spend more time reading emails than reading books, how about reading books by email? Daily Lit has a growing collection of classics that you can have sent to your email in daily chunks. It’s very simple, just select a book you want to read then enter your email address. Make sure [...]

Alcohol, the bane of the drinking classes. Here are 11 useful tips on how to avoid hangovers.

An excellent video showing the Universe to scale. Makes you feel very very insignificant! An astronaut loses his camera in space while working on the International Space Station. The most powerful automatic weapon in the world Building instructions for every Lego set EVER Dragonfly: The World’s First Winged Robot Video Demonstration

Full 3D video projection. A prototype of a 3D projector using 256 bits of string, very cool. Asimov, the Honda robot, trips going up some steps, the poor guy How to get out of quicksand, for your hiking trips around home I guess. Final Fortress is a great flash game. defend your city from the [...]

How to triple boot XP, Vista and Ubuntu on one PC. Pearsonified Blog The 25 Funniest Analogies Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby, an entertaining, if a litle long-winded, manual to the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails Howtos Rolling with Ruby on Rails, a guide to installing and building a web application with Ruby on [...]

Tactical Assassin is a fun game. The soundtrack and little tricks required to complete missions really make it cool. Unfortunately it finishes too soon and you wish there was more missions. Can you beat 76% accuracy on your first attempt?

Man, this looks very cool. They fly more than they ski. Theres some stomach churning cliffs on the way down.

uTorrent Weighing in at a tiny 171K, uTorrent packs an incredible amount of functionality compared to Azureus which comes to 14.8Mb, and thats not even including the plugins and Java runtime. There is an add-on for Firefox that integrates uTorrent’s Web Interface (which needs to be downloaded separately) into the Firefox sidebar to display upload [...]

Jack Slocum has just created an incredible comment system for WordPress. The demo lets you add comments to any block in the post just by clicking in the left margin. Yellow tags show the number of comments for that block of text, just click the tag to view the comments. What is really nice is [...]

Pacman for MS-Excel is an amazing feat of VBA programming. As far as I can tell (I was never very good at Pacman), its a faithful rendition of the original arcade classic, written in Excel VBA, complete with sound and a demo mode. Excel Space Invaders, also available at the same page, is another excellent [...]

How to Overclock your toothbrush! Just don’t shred your gums A fantastic Honda Civic commercial with a choir doing the sounds effects. Sling snotty slime around devious mazes. A tutorial on how to make steel and glass icons in Photoshop. The results look very impressive. Using ScummVM and DOSBox to play your favorite old classic [...]

The Washington Post describes one technique that e-gold is using to reduce the likelihood of phishing. It involves displaying images reading “THIS IS A FRAUDULENT WEB SITE” when the image is linked to by any site not included in a whitelist of sites permitted to use those images. While this method is not infallible, anything [...]

Some actually useful and quite surprising household tips from some program on Japanese TV the other night. Make tangerines or oranges extra sweet by putting them in 40C water for 10mins before eating Old jeans are great for cleaning scum from baths and stainless steel basins If you’re trying to push a stalled car, don’t [...]

The International Salary Calculator is a good site for those interested in comparing incomes between cities. Basically you punch in your income in the city you currently live in and then pick where you want to live and it will tell you how much you need to earn in the new country/city to have the [...]