The Thoughts of Craig Nicol

Moral Overdraft

2011-10-24T21:38:00.001+01:00

Spending money is easy. So is making money, if you're prepared to burn through your moral overdraft and let someone else pay the interest.

Maybe you lock down your business model by convincing the government that copyright should be grounds to restrict the Internet access of consumers without a free trial.

Maybe you convince a court that a photoshopped image of a competitors product looks like your own.

Maybe you sell newspapers attacking people on benefits when you are a non-dom paying no tax?

Maybe you threaten to abandon your factory because the workers dare to talk about having a union?

Maybe you're a university who charges thousands in tuition fees and then puts all your staff on short term contracts so you don't have to pay them permanent benefits.

Maybe you sell mortgages to people who can't afford them so you can package them up and sell them on to investors who don't understand them.

Maybe you charge your highest prices and largest fees to those least able to afford them.

Maybe you get the taxpayer to insure you to sell arms to dictators.

Behind every great fortune is a great crime. Whose moral overdraft are you paying the interest on?

A national identity

2011-05-15T23:04:00.001+01:00

I've been having a few debates recently about independence, triggered
by the recent SNP victory in Scotland, and I'm still trying to
crystallise my views on the subject, so I'm going to take a few posts
to talk about how I feel, to get away from the political and economic
arguments, and think about the more personal arguments, so please chip
in with your thoughts.

Today's post is inspired by David Mitchell mourning Britain and
discussing British Identity in the context of independence winning out
in a referendum (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/15/david-mitchell-scotland-s...
). I know a lot of people I know on Facebook and Twitter feel the same
way, but I don't. I have Scottish parents, and 3 of my 4 grandparents
were born in Scotland. The other, having been born in Berwick Upon
Tweed, would give me entitlement to an English passport after
secession, but was unlikely to admit it.

I was, however, born and raised in England, and my accent makes this
clear, but I always spent time visiting my extended family in
Scotland, read The Beano and The Sunday Post (Oor Wullie meant that,
years later, I found nothing difficult in the language of
Trainspotting), and I always supported the Scottish Rugby team, but
also supported Nigel Mansell and Richard Noble. My heroes include
James Watt, but also Alan Turing and Albert Einstein. I did feel that
when I moved to Edinburgh for university however, it did feel like a
homecoming, but then I must admit that I never quite felt like I
fitted in, in England, or in Scotlad. I never felt excluded, more like
a welcome traveller passing through. Partly because of these
allegiances and partly from a conscious decision that I always wanted
to keep my options open, looking out rather than in.

So, my identity has always included Scottishness, but it also includes
Britishness, bound in the concepts of fair play, tolerance and
inclusiveness, and a European identity forged from Human Rights and
freedom that extends across borders. I am, too, a geek, a musician, an
athiest, a husband, a son, a brother, and in many other ways, part of
a family. I have many identities, and the legal status of this land at
one end of this group of islands will not change that. An independent
Scotland will not destroy Britain, or a British identity, but it will
further define it as a unique identity apart from an English identity.
The English identity, like the Scottish, Irish, and many other
national identities, is a tribal one, where different regions maintain
a separate identity but also share a common one. The conflict of the
English identity is that it is bound so tightly to the British
identity (and formally the Imperial identity), that it can be hard to
separate them.

This is not a problem for Scotland, and this is not a problem for
Britain, it is not even a problem for England, despite fears to the
contrary. England will still be the home for the commonwealth head of
state, who will also remain Scotland's head of state according to the
SNP's proposal. England will still unite behind one football team, one
rugby team and one cricket team, but will also be a nation whose
people support other teams, permanently or temporarily. It is a
multi-cultural, globalised nation, at its best when it looks out to
the world with eyes that care about tolerance and fairness, those
British eyes that have readily embraced Indian cuisine, Japanese car
makers, American culture, and the best things from around the world.

So where does this leave Scottish identity? Scottish identity cannot
be separated from a British identity, or a Celtic identity
(particularly in the West), a Viking identity (particularly in the
North East), or a European identity. It is also impossible to define
the modern Scottish identity without talking about the neighbours, a
Scottish identity will always be linked to the English and Irish
identities, and independence cannot change that. The Home Nations (in
the inclusive Rugby sense, that includes the Republic of Ireland) will
always be a very powerful force, and will always constitute the major
part of the Scottish identity, either viewed as equal partners, as
trading nations, as an area of free migration, as nations united in
sporting passion or in our shared history. The political make-up
should never define your identity. When politics and nationalism get
mixed up, you get extremes that defend "Britain" at all costs and
those who defend their own patch at all costs. It won't take much for
Scottish nationalism to be dragged into the same, drawn out, bloody
resolution that has haunted Irish independence, but the sectarianism
that drives that does not have to be part of the Scottish identity,
any more than poor diets, low life expectancy or mass emigration.
Whether you support independence or not, have a think about what being
Scottish or being British means to you. What is your identity, and is
it the identity that you have chosen or is it an identity that has
been chosen for you?

And if you're not sure what you think of the British identity, have a
read of the foreigners' view of Britain (
http://uk.travel.yahoo.com/p-promo-3312457 )

Be fair, and be tolerant. And above all else, be yourself.

Justice in Pakistan?

2011-05-03T00:44:00.001+01:00

I've had an idea in my head for a while that I wanted to start
blogging about things a bit more political than my technical blog. Not
party political, because frankly, that bores me, but political in the
grander sense. Today I was having a discussion on Facebook about Osama
bin Laden, and whether killing can ever be a good thing. And I would
say that the question isn't what is right, a question of if it is OK
in this circumstance, but not in that circumstance.

It is a question of justice and forgiveness. If justice and
forgiveness are to mean anything, then they, like the human rights
they are based on, must be universal. We cannot say "this person is
not worthy of justice" because then justice is hollow and becomes a
tool to control others by imposing values on others that you would not
follow yourself.

To demonise one man for his actions dehumanises both him and those who
oppose him. Simply calling him "evil" absolves you of responsibility
to hear his grievances. Not listening to the victim does not justify
the crime of murder. And for those who would say that he would not
give his victims compassion, I would ask why you choose his actions as
a guiding principle when you condemn those same actions in his hands?

Will this death undo all those who have died before? No. Will it stop
future terrorist attacks? Unfortunately not. Is celebrating death,
anyone's death distasteful? Of course.

Do you want justice, revenge or compassion? What sort of person do you
really want to be?

MonoTouch Error - Missing UIKit.h

2009-08-16T17:00:00.000+01:00

From Ben Hall (via Google Reader) - Using Mono to write an iPhone app. Hopefully the first of many posts.

MonoTouch Error - Missing UIKit.h: "If you haven't heard about MonoTouch, then you need to be on twitter. MonoTouch allows you to write iPhone applications using C#! It's in early, private, beta at the moment but it is very cool with huge amounts of potential.

However, on my first attempt to compile an application I received the following error:

'uikit.h no such file or directory'

UIKit.h is one of the iPhone SDK files. I knew I had the iPhone SDK installed, however it turns out I didn't have the 3.0 SDK! After installing the latest version, the application compiled without a problem. A note of the future in-case you hit the same error.

UPDATE: Sorry about edits, I was playing around with MarsEdit and the formatting.

Genetic Algorithms

2009-06-05T14:44:00.003+01:00

I wanted to post a new blog here via Flock, but Flock and Blogger won't play together :-( this post is also available here.

I had a great time at the Tech MeetUp (@techmeetup) in Glasgow this week. If you want to meet up with other tech minded folk in Scotland, it's definitely worth checking out. See the details at the end of this post.

At the meeting this week, I got talking to a few folk (including John Gallagher who gave a great talk) about AI and Genetic Algorithms. This inspired me to dig out my old experimental code for doing GAs using C++ Templates. The code's very rough and ready, and it was written long before I discovered TDD or subversion, but it should be standards-compliant, and it compiles in the latest GCC (I can't vouch for other compilers, if you try it, let me know). As it's a source-code library, you'll have to compile it yourself, but if you don't know how to use a compiler, you're probably reading the wrong blog anyway. I will be tidying up the code and creating a wish list as I get the chance, but I'm throwing it out there in case it's useful to anyone.

If you're interested, check it out at the link below and let me know what you think.

Genetic Algorithm Templates

If you're interested in Tech MeetUp, you can see videos from previous talks at their website

The Tech MeetUp is the informal opportunity to meet other developers and tech companies, to showcase your hacks or projects, and to find out what's happening around us. Help build the tech community - set up a profile and come along to a Tech MeetUp.

Home - Techmeetup

You can find out about upcoming meetings on their mailing list

Description: An easily accessible and friendly community of tech minds, skills and startups around Scotland and Northern UK.

Tech Meetup | Google Groups

Genetic Algorithm Templates

2009-06-05T14:41:00.001+01:00

I had a great time at the Tech MeetUp (@techmeetup) in Glasgow this week. If you want to meet up with other tech minded folk in Scotland, it's definitely worth checking out. See the details at the end of this post.

At the meeting this week, I got talking to a few folk (including John Gallagher who gave a great talk) about AI and Genetic Algorithms. This inspired me to dig out my old experimental code for doing GAs using C++ Templates. The code's very rough and ready, and it was written long before I discovered TDD or subversion, but it should be standards-compliant, and it compiles in the latest GCC (I can't vouch for other compilers, if you try it, let me know). As it's a source-code library, you'll have to compile it yourself, but if you don't know how to use a compiler, you're probably reading the wrong blog anyway. I will be tidying up the code and creating a wish list as I get the chance, but I'm throwing it out there in case it's useful to anyone.

If you're interested, check it out at the link below and let me know what you think.

Genetic Algorithm Templates

If you're interested in Tech MeetUp, you can see videos from previous talks at their website

The Tech MeetUp is the informal opportunity to meet other developers and tech companies, to showcase your hacks or projects, and to find out what's happening around us. Help build the tech community - set up a profile and come along to a Tech MeetUp.

Home - Techmeetup

You can find out about upcoming meetings on their mailing list

Description: An easily accessible and friendly community of tech minds, skills and startups around Scotland and Northern UK.

Tech Meetup | Google Groups

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Testing BlogIt

2008-04-21T16:40:00.001+01:00

BlogIt allows me to update all my blogs from my Facebook page. Interesting idea.

2008-03-12T12:23:00.000Z

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Mount your widows Partitions and make it read/writable in ubuntu -- Debian Admin
Hippyshopper: CeeLite LEC Panel: wallpaper of light
GoinGreen - Driving Down Pollution
Welcome to ebulbshop.com - The brightest way to buy light bulbs online !
Official government source for Scottish genealogy, census and family research - ScotlandsPeople
Locksport International
The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking
Like Visual Search - Find things by Appearance with our new Likeness technology
Fivelimes :: Reviews on Green Products and Services
Zamzar - Free online file conversion
Schneier on Security: Perceived Risk vs. Actual Risk
BBC NEWS | Business | The birth of a quieter, greener plane
Hippyshopper: Fiat Panda puts Osama out of work?
TETRIS! Go one relive the good old days.: After scouring the internet for a good version of Tetris I found this one. Now go on and play what is probably the most addicting game.
Amnesty calls for action on internet freedom | The Register (-)
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QotD: Better than the original?
QotD: The Best Way To Reach Me
QotD: Speak To Me In...
QotD: My Favorite Sense
National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month
Vox Hunt: Are You Ready To Rock?
Stereomovers - Ozean
The T-rex of Love
Glenelg Inn
History - Clash of Civilisations
Lemonheads Gig
Soapadoo Reviews on Vox
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How To:Recover Data From a dead hard drive using ddrescue: this is simple tutorial how to Recover Data From a dead hard drive using ddrescue
Hippyshopper: Evesham Carbon Free PC
Why your next cell phone must be Dual-Mode: A dual-mode phone is able to use both cellular Wi-Fi radio signal for communication. This technology is not quite ready yet, but it has huge implications for the future of mobile communication.
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Most car brands 'failing on CO2'
Hippyshopper: Swap that hot halogen for a cool GU10 Hi Power LED
Download, upload, backup, host, share files like music mp3 videos data or image for Free. GigaSize makes file sharing and free web hosting easy.
Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire
It's Time to Turn Off WiFi and Bluetooth When Not In Use (Mac or PC): "Based on this advancement I no longer feel confident in leaving my wireless devices running when they aren’t in use. I’m not about to shut them off completely, but my recommendation to the world at large is it’s time to turn them off when you aren
Weird Al: White, nerdy, and here to stay: It's time to congratulate the man who once rewrote Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" as "Chicken Pot Pie." Weird Al Yankovic, satirical pop-goblin and parody merchant, has not simply endured but triumphed: His new album, "Straight Outta Lynwood", shot i
Penn and Teller: Bullshit! - Conspiracy Theories: I'm posting this video in response to some of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists that have been so common on digg these days. ( I remember when most digg members had more sense then that..) They do some awesome analysis on common conspiracy theories like 9
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http://www.kancept.com/: See some cool technology ideas, vote on whether you'd buy them, maybe encourage them to get made.
Host files in a flash with Localhostr - Lifehacker
How to Do Cube Roots of 9 Digit Numbers IN YOUR HEAD: With a couple of day's practice, you can learn to perform this technique in under 30 seconds.
Ubuntu 7.04 - the "Feisty Fawn" - Mark Shuttleworth: In the next cycle we'll expand on the brand new infrastructure that has landed in Edgy as well as branching out in some exciting new directions. This combination of courage and restlessness is also found in a young deer that sets out to explore a world th
Top 5 Mythbusters Segments: With season 4 of Mythbusters, the popular debunking show on Discovery, NerdEBlog has compiled a list of the top 5 Mythbuster's segments including Kari's famous silver bikini clip!
Screenshot Thumbnails with WebSnapr - Generate a thumbnail: WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.
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The World's First Time Machine: "A 2003 BBC Documentary chronicling the work of Dr Ronald Mallett, a physicist on the brink of making time travel a reality. Answers many interesting questions such as why we can never go back and see the Dinosaurs, also covers the Grandfather paradox and
Independent film about Scientology that scientologists are fighting to eras: Here's an independent film by Brett Hanover about the Scientology featuring ex-scientologists . Scientologists have bullied the film maker to take down this video. It has already been taken off of YouTube and Google Video a couple times. So make copies a
Nooface | Visually Searching For Music Based On Its Sound
youneed2see.com - Political: TV series on the political background to the rise of Al Qaeda and the Neo-cons and every war needs a bogeyman and propaganda. Well worth seeing to educate yourself on what's really behind the War On Terror. You know it started before 9/11, so here's a his
Must have Nintendo DS Programs
The Blah! Party
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New Scientist Technology Blog: Strange fiction
9/11 Debate: Loose Change vs. Popular Mechanics: Watch a debate between the creators of Loose change and Popular Mechanics. The 911 myths are debunked in person...
As The Arabs See The Jews: This fascinating essay, written by King Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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The seven secrets of successful programmers: It is one of the most pervasive misunderstandings in computing that the source code is for the computer's consumption. Computers work with low-level binary code, a series of impenetrable 1's and 0's or hexadecimal numbers, not the structured high level la
Totems: Insane Japanese game.
Southpark Episode on 9/11 Conspiracy: Tonight Southpark focused on 9/11 conspiracy [..] the episode covered some of the more common 'conspiracy theories', it didn't go into much detail on anything substantial in relation to the growing movement of those that question 9/11. [..] this is probab
Red Steel for Wii: New 'Killer' Mode Revealed Utilizing Wiimote Speaker: When playing a Killer match, apparently the Wii-mote will act as a telephone. It will ring and when you place it against your ear, you will be given your mission objectives without other players being able to hear what it is.
Whose Line Is It Anyways: Best Of Show (5 Parts): Title says it all. Enjoy.
Learn to Play Go: a very simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the basics and get some practice of this ancient board game of strategy
Vista Gadgets vs. Yahoo! Widgets: Mini desktop apps like Konfabulator, DesktopX, and OS X Dashboard widgets have been around for years. Vista's Sidebar will introduce them to millions of users. We tour Vista's Gadgets and the Yahoo Widget Engine.
Would you add buttons to add to all the Social Networking sites?: They seem to have all the buttons to help you add your blog articles to all the Social networking sites available. Many of which I am hearing for the first time.
Quest for the Rest: Samorost style point and click game.
Nintendo Creates AI Trainer For Wii Remote: Nintendo and tools company AiLive have teamed up to produce LiveMove, a "groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence product" available to Nintendo Wii developers that enables the Wii remote to learn, and making game design much simpler and more innovative for
My Soapbox reviews
One Earth
Bigger Footprint
Good Indie Music
PyPy – the 'Babelfish' of Programming: Using the popular programming language Python, a group is attempting to create a programming system that translates code between different environments and platforms, allowing implementation of various languages.
I-recycle : A compelling alternative to Recycling
vrypan|net|log » using Google Reader to mix feeds
What do you miss?
One Ton(ne)
Dad
Linkfarm
Holi-holi-holiday
Glasgow rail chaos
vNES: Play nintendo games online
ScummVM DS
Register using a fake email address - then grab the emails from dodgeit.com: To avoid spam, send your registration forms to *(anything)*@dodgeit.com, then go to dodgeit.com and type in *(anything)*. Your email will be available with complete anonymity. No prior setup or login required.
Using Krugle Query Qualifiers: A list of operators for powerful code searches in Krugle
Full South Park WoW Episode...you bastards!: If you guys missed out on Wednesday's South Park, you should be ashamed! It was one of the funniest episodes I have seen in a long time. Get it before it goes down!
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Send An Email To Yourself in 2036! (Send it now, recieve later!): http://futureme.org/ automatically sends you an email of what you said on whatever date you specify.
Google Book Search: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: A list of books that are or were banned. And links so you can read them.
BSD Vs. Linux - What you did not Know: While there's overwhelming similarity between the operating systems in most cases, there are also a lot of differences. As you probe more into the differences, you find that they emerge from deep-seated disagreements.
Soapbox: Person: Mad Goldfish: See my reviews
How To Set Up A Powerful Version Control System (SVN): This howto will illustrate a way to install and configure Subversion and websvn on a Debian server. With Subversion you have a powerful version control system for your software development, and websvn is an easy-to-use webinterface to your SVN repositorie
Drag the dot: Don't touch anything
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The Politics Test
Flickr: The Speak Up For Peace Pool
Local Architecture
Adverts and reminders
Your Reviews
Breaks co-op
Soapbox: Blog and share reviews, using your existing blog
Software Design Patterns: why they are good and how to write them.
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New phones run Skype without PC: Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype Ltd.'s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs.
Magnolia Pictures :: Film Details.: Jesus Camp : Documentary about a camp in Devil's Lake where children as young as 6 learn to fear God and crave power.
Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times Roman alternative: Philipp H. Poll started the Linux Libertine Open Fonts project in September 2003 because of his dissatisfaction with the fonts shipped with GNU/Linux distributions. "In SUSE 9.x," he recalls, "you had to use a script to download the Microsoft core fonts i
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Welcome Message - Dev-Scene: Nintendo DS Homebrew Resources Page
The Guild of Master Craftsmen: A trade association representing many different trades and professions.: Find a craftsman for your area
Audioclouds
E.W. Dijkstra Archive: Why numbering should start at zero (EWD 831)
PR 2.0 Essentials Guide
HOWTO - Live Coding with Python: "Live coding is the act of writing software while it is executing, often as part of a performance." This tutorial shows you how to experiment with live coding python and apply the concept to creating a drum machine and jamming with dynamic code.
Newsnight followup
www.myspace.com/paulatoledo: Great mellow folk music. Heard Stay A While on the Tartan Pocast Mellow Moday show. Beautiful tune.
www.lorenamire.com: Love this, heard Music in my Head on the Tartan Podcast Mellow Monday show. Very mellow. Very nice.
If I were stuck on a TV show for 24 hours...
Yahoo 360 wish list
PriceYourMeal.com - Bid for meals at top restaurants: Neat idea, cheap meals using eBay style auctions.
How the DS beat the PSP (and how the Wii will do the same against the PS3): An in-depth look on how the underdog Nintendo DS has outsold Sony's PSP, despite the latter's superior capabilities.
YouTube - Newsnight goes to Scotland
10 nasty money habits to kick: Stop making the same mistakes every year and wondering why you canâ‽‽t save. Break the cycle and change your life.
Please stop. Spam, spam, green eggs and ham
YouTube, Digg, MySpace: How much is a non-paying 'user' worth?
Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?
(name).Screwed.Us!: A brand new fraud and complaint system where you create the sub-domain (person/company).Screwed.Us and give your side of the issue. Lots of features being added check it out http://screwed.us.
Edinburgh Festival Previews: See video clips of some of the Edinburgh Fringe performers to help you decide who to see.
The Internet Is Your Next Hard Drive: New Web-based services don't just store your data online -- they keep it synchronized across your laptop, desktop, and mobile phone.
Monty Python's Holy Grail meets Star Trek (TOS) -- Hilarious!: Someone with too much time on their hands, the Holy Grail soundtrack, and obviously the entire Star Trek original series on DVD/tape. Amazing job, works perfectly!
Looking For Another Desktop Environment? Enlightenment 17 QuickStart Guide: Enlightenment 17 or E17 as it is generally called, is a cool Window Manager for X. The latest stable version of Enlightenment is E16 (0.16.8.1). In this article we will talk about the latest CVS build available (0.16.999.023).
Re-install/Repair Windows XP non-destructively: Keep user accounts, installed software etc. fine
Human Pong
25 Cinematic Cliches I Never Wanna See Again: 25. That in period pieces, vintage cars are always freshly polished, painted, and clean. They never have scratches, dents or any signs of use.24. Every time we’re introduced to a police precinct house, one or more colourfully dressed prostitutes are bei
Hi, Mad_goldfish - shortText.com
Things you might not know about the ds
Delicious Hack: How to send messages via Delicious: A nice little hack to send public messages to people in your del.icio.us network.
A short message for ozguralaz
Who to believe on power consumption? AMD or Intel? - ZDNet
Google to Tackle Global Warming (through the Google Foundation): Larry Brilliant, head of Google.org, said: "I’m going to approach this the way a venture capitalist would – map out the industry to see what the gaps are. You fund an initiative, learn what works, and ask, 'Will it scale?'"
Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News - Is recycling utter rubbish? By Richard Tomkins: Interesting read about the economics and environmental cost of recycling. Not all recycling is good. M'kay.
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Firefox 2.0 beta - the highlights
IM interoperability: not just a dream anymore
Using Internet Explorer at work can be a shock if you use Firefox at home
Car Hop
Mr. T sheds gold after Katrina destruction (AP)
RIAA loses in file sharing case
Donny Deutsch Shatters the Ann Coulter Myth
Ninjapass allows flash cart-less homebrew on Nintendo DS - Engadget
CSS tips & tricks
Google Checkout is better than Paypal: Google decided to launch its Google Checkout armed with 4 weapons that is likely to kill Paypal, hence eBay banned Google Checkout. You know you should start using Google Checkout when it is so much better x4.
A challenge for Linux developers: As I wrote last month, Ubuntu is one of the most user-friendlydistributions of Linux I've used to date, installing painlessly from justone CD... Make networking and printing on Ubuntu easy and simpleand more people will use it.
Learn Unix in 10 Minutes: Quick Unix tutorial on one page, nice place to start learning Unix.
Gamasutra - Feature - "The Designer's Notebook: 'Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!' VII"
Penn and Teller’s Bullshit: Bottled Water (FULL VIDEO): Stop wasting your money on bottled water.
50 Year Study: Conservatives are "Followers": In an interview with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, former Nixon counsel John Dean explained a largely unknown 50 year academic study. The data shows that conservatives are much more likely to follow authoritarian leaders.
DIY camera for the Nintendo DS - Engadget
Chart Of Every Religion With Info On Each: This is a chart i found of every religion with info on each, i thought iw was really interseting. Laughed at the fact that there is from 3-100 million falun gong, pretty big range.Enjoy
South Park: A Tribute to Monty Python: What would South Park be like if Terry Gilliam directed an episode? One could only hope, hence why Matt Stone and Trey Parker made a South Park short based off the Monty Python classic sketch, "Dead Parrot."
Zelda on a TI-83: Amazing video of Zelda- on a graphing calculator. Incredible, with the constraints applied.
Lemmings!!!!: its the Lemmings, nough said!
Mario Kart DS Hacked - Unfinished Course - bizarre video: Hackers uncover an unfinished course in Mario Kart DS. It appears to be the Mario Circuit course from Mario Kart Double Dash...The video is bizarre, everything is white and blocky.
Statistical Fallacy of Terrorist-Hunting Surveillance: Here's a neat statistical explanation of why NSA-style indiscriminate surveillance is useless for catching terrorists.
The Cure for "I'm terrible with names...": "I'm terrible with names..." Well get un-terrible with Merlin Mann's collection of helpful hints!
List of the Most Controversial Books Ever Written: A must-have website for any student (especially in high school or college). This is a thought-provoking list of banned books, the places in which they were banned, and the reason for their banishment. Make sure to check it out...
Penn and Teller Bullshit Patriot Act: a quick little clip on the patriot act on youtube
Magic Eye Image Creator: This flash tool lets you created your own Magic Eye image. You draw the image you want to be seen once the magic eye is seen from the correct view, and it generates an image like that.
5 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With PHP!: This is an extremely surprising list of things for PHP programmers, you better check it out!
GIMP Tutorials: Learn how to do aqua/crystal/glassy orbs, layered masks, Script-fu, water, fire, lightning, blending, rust, metal, fog and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're a very new GIMP user, there's even a tutorial on how to draw a box using paths or how about
Murphy Quacks
Some Unconscious Mutterings
YouTube - al gore president: What if Al Gore had been president instead of bush?
An Openoffice.org thesaurus for Ubuntu 6.06 and Debian Sarge: Actually, this is a Debian Package that works well on my 6.06 desktop. I downloaded it and it installed in a few second. Just another development in moving Openoffice.org further into the mainstream for all users and especially those seeking industrial st
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Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing
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Boost C++ Libraries
Micro Persuasion: Fifteen Things I Learned on del.icio.us
Crash Course in Subversion: If you're already familiar with version control, Subversion is reasonably simple to use. If not, this article/tutorial will definitely help you out.
Top 50 Blogs Written by Scientists: Weblogs written by scientists are relatively rare, but some of them are proving popular. Out of 46.7 million blogs indexed by the Technorati blog search engine, five scientists' sites make it into the top 3,500.
Reasons why (and why not) Nintendo's Wii will rock: Sure, everyone’s excited about Nintendo’s Wii — unless you’re a bitter fanboy. But why exactly is everyone excited about it? Here’s ten reasons why (and why not) the Wii will rock.
Climate change evaporates from G8 agenda: At the last G8 summit, political leaders vowed to "act with resolve and urgency" on climate change. Now, a year later, global warming has been sidelined by concerns on how the world can satisfy its growing appetite for energy.
Microsoft to Support OpenDocument!: In a surprise move, Microsoft is bending to pressure from governments and will sponsor an open source project to build tools that enable conversion between its Open XML formats in Office 2007 and OpenDocument. The forthcoming Office suite will also suppor
Flock Start Page: Flock - Social browsing
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Wii Editorial: How Super Smash Bros. Brawl Could Be The Greatest: This obsessive guy is REALLY looking forward to Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and has more than a few words to say about what the upcoming Nintendo Wii game needs to do in order to top Super Smash Bros. Melee.
WEP Cracking, the FBI Way: WEP cracking usually takes hours. Lots of hours, depending on the amount of traffic on the access point. A few months ago, two FBI agents demonstrated how they were able to crack a WEP enabled access point within a couple of minutes. 3 minutes to be exact
The Scientology South Park Episode Still Lives...: In case you are on of the FEW digg users who have not actually seen this episode, I was able to find a resource for the episode that is still alive and kickin'. Watch the video. Download it. Share it. Make this craziness known, and help to fight it in the
Think You're Fat? Scientists Offer 'Top 10' Alibis You Can Use: Why are so many people fat? Scientists looked at more than 100 studies on potential contributors to obesity besides diet and exercise, and concluded there was at least some support for 10:
Reverse Colorblindness Test: Impressive. I had no idea that my sense of color is making me so blind to the subtler details.. Don't click on the link to the answers right away. First copy and paste the images into an image editor and convert them to black-and-white.
Gliffy, the Online Visio Killer: Two guys with some time on their hands have created a tool that might just become a Visio-killer. Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser. Like other online apps, it has inherent advantages over traditional software. Collabo
PWM - The first tabbed window manager: PWM was the first window manager to implement "tabbed frames" or the back then unique feature allowing multiple client windows to be attached to the same frame.
Gimmie: A Revolutionary New Panel for Gnome 3.0: Gimmie is a new concept of the panel designed to shift the direction of the desktop beyond the standard WIMP model (Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer) towards one directly representing the concepts that modern desktop users use every day. It is being conside
Installing Ubuntu: A comparison of Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP: Since I had to install both Windows and Ubuntu from scratch, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to compare the two operating systems' basic installation procedures. Thus, I tracked the time it took to carry out all installation tasks for both operatin
Pure adds PVR-style tricks to Bug digital radio | Reg Hardware
Opera for Nintendo DS: First Look and Hands on Review: It was announced back in February that Opera would be coming out for the Nintendo DS and just recently Nintendo announced a release date of July 24th. But just how good is this pint sized web browser on Nintendo's hot new handheld? Here is the first hands
Nintendo Ds hand crank: Want to play your Ds really badly? No outlet? No worries! You can still play
An Incredible Guide To Learning Ruby: Hilarious and easy to follow. Really, really hilarious. You'll be writing an RPG by the fifth chapter!
Ubuntu / Kubuntu Dapper Drake COMPLETE sources.list (repository list file): A really complete sources.list file for *Ubuntu users with many extra software repositories included like Opera browser, Penguin Liberation Front packages, the latest KDE, KOffice and amaroK, up-to-date packages for VLC, Compiz, Skype, Freevo, MythTV and
10 tips on writing reusable code: Really good tips how to write reusable code.
10 Things a new Linux user needs to unlearn: A funny but interesting article comparing Linux and Windows.
Functional Programming For The Rest of Us: So what is FP? How did it come about? Is it edible? If it's as useful as its advocates claim, why isn't it being used more often in the industry? Why is it that only people with PhDs tend to use it? Most importantly, why is it so damn hard to learn?
Can you see the motion magic eye????: everyone where i work has spent the last 30mins seeing if they can or can't see the image in this picture. i can't.
Friends of the Earth: Campaigns: Climate: Case Studies
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CONFIRMED: Video showing Wii Virtual Console Remote has attachments: Watch it and you will see what the man with the video camera calls "...the secret". Watch it closely and you will see the gamer pushing a button on the top center of the remote
New 3D Way to Desktop: This video shows you a new way to display and organize your desktop. It's 3D, physics-ruled environment looks more like your actual desktop, which may force users to clean and organize it more often.
Opera Browser for the DS gets a release date and price in Japan: The DS will now have internet browsing on July 24th. I wonder how easy this will be to import?
Honda Engineers in Secret Engine Lab Trying to Out-Green Toyota: One fact is fairly straightforward: Honda is working on a new diesel engine for the U.S. market in 2009 that will meet stringent U.S. and California emissions standards while using 30 percent less gasoline, according to this article from Bloomberg.
Printable Robots: Advances in inkjet technology forecast robotic origami.
Ultimate Game Programming Guide: This is one of the best resources for game programmers out there.
Dekra D-Drive bike trades the chain for direct-drive - Engadget (-)
ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives: Benefits of the new ZFS 128-bit filesystem for Solaris and eventually Linux and OSX. Links to detailed configuration information and download. "So easy your mom could administer it."
Learning Ruby in 15 minutes? This actually works.: Using some friendly copy even Google would adore, this web application integrates a live Ruby compiler and holds your hand through ever step of the way.
All the programming algorithms you might ever need: This is a pure gold link for CS pros, techs and hobbyists.
AJAX Remote Desktop: A quick proof-of-concept Java application that lets you view the desktop of a remote computer using a just a web browser!
Diod.se | Downloads: JG Forms cheatsheet
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Howto: Google 'Did you mean' to any website: I had never really thought about suggestions for search on a retail website, but the thought of traffic flow and analysis really piqued my interest level. The first thing I thought of to accomplish this was the Google-API.
Sonic, Nintendo style!: IGN is has just uploaded some amazing looking screenshots of the Nintendo Wii game "Sonic Wild Fire". The graphics look awesome for this next-generation exclusive.
The 11 Most Ground-Breaking Controllers of All Time: GamePro.com recently compiled a list of the most influential, revolutionary, and just downright ground-breaking video game controllers ever released. Did your favorite controller make the list?
How the Wii Controller Works: Analysis of the Nintendo Wii's motion-sensitive controller has raised some interesting questions about the nature of the device and how necessary the control strip is for game play.
10 ways to protect yourself with 'pragmatic network security: Perimeter security alone won't protect a company's secrets
Yahoo! 360° - The Mad Goldfish 360 Blog - Corporate Responsibility
Great Ideas That Changed Videogames Forever: An awesome list of the 20 most important gameplay ideas that changed videogames - everything from the life bar, to power-ups, to grappling hooks, to end bosses.
DSRobot Project - A Nintendo DS Robot!: According to the creator of 'DSRobot', you can soon turn your Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite to a powerfull programable Robot. Here is a video of prototype for a DSRobot.
10 Stupid engineering mistakes.: Wired does a breakdown of what they view as they ten biggest engineering mistakes in recent history. From the Citygroup center to a mollasses brewing tank. Very interesting.
In 2011 You'll Never Have to Clean Your House Again: Nanotechnology could soon allow you to sanitize your bathroom with a flip of a light switch
Dozens of full length videos: random people try using Linux desktops: What do random people do when given specific tasks on a Linux desktop? Watch dozens of full-length clips here, showcasing the person, their actions and reactions to what they experience. It's rather entertaining (and pretty educational, too).
GNU grep's new features: If you haven't been paying attention to GNU grep recently, you should be happily surprised by some of the new features and options that have come about with the 2.5 series. They bring it functionality you can't get anywhere else -- including the ability t
Get your wireless card working in Ubuntu: Simple guide for getting your wireless card working in linux without Ndis or Madwifi
Why Linux Is Better: Here are a few reasons why Linux rocks!
Four alternative operating systems: Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, SUSE, and Linspire are making headway in the desktop market, but if you want to try something really different, you can find other, less-well-known alternative operating systems.
Rube Goldberg Machine Made Out of Sticks and Stones: An awesome Rube Goldberg machine made out of only sticks and stones!
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US 'biggest global peace threat'
Amazing Interactive SVG Diagrams: Learn how to use Inkscape to create incredible animated and scripted SVG diagrams. Complete with step-by-step instructions... who needs Flash anyway?
Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies: Ideas that could help us achieve sustainable living on this planet.
How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!: Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? "Where's the EXE?", "Where do I need to extract this to?", "How do I run it?", "Where did it go?" - have you been thinking questions like these? Don't worry, installing software, th
Energy Efficiency and House Prices
Unbelievable golf hole in one: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a ball into the rough, but yet it is a hole in one. One of the most amazing golf shots you will ever see.
Build your Memory.: A site with tons of ways to help build your memory. How to remember names, how to remember dreams, how to master a foreign language and more.
A video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop (Amen Break).: A YouTube video (18:08) that narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and
Why Web 2.0 Will End Your Privacy: We all know the plushy, rounded, pastel-coloured faces of Web 2.0. MySpace. Digg. The achingly trendy Silicon Valley startups that are selling for millions to big media conglomerates and making their founders into stars. Tom Anderson. Kevin Rose. These ar
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10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid: How many of these errors have you seen on digg?
Quake for the Nintendo DS: A site with a video with of a playable work in progress of Quake 1 ported to the nintendo DS.
UbuntuOS » Blog Archive » Read/Write NTFS partitions (-)
UBUNTU How To: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.: My fonts never looked so good in linux! Just drop this file in your home directory rename it to ".fonts.conf" and log out and in again. It turns on auto hinting and makes your fonts sexy smooth. Try it and see the difference!
Google Office: It's About File Formats, Not MS Office: Google planning to kill Microsoft Office sales? Nah. In the battle over office suites, it's not the application but the file format that matters most.
HAL'S LEGACY: Online
Gummi Bears Can Also Fool Fingerprint Scanners: A Japanese cryptographer named Tsutomu Matsumoto has found that Gummi Bears make an even better fake fingerprint, and are the cornerstone of a do it yourself fake fingerprint lab that require bears, a digital camera, and a PC.
Zoho - Affordable software for individuals, small & medium business
Num Sum - web spreadsheet
Online spreadsheet - iRows
Inside the Linux Boot Process: This article explores the Linux boot process from the initial bootstrap to the start of the first user-space application. Along the way, you'll learn about various other boot-related topics such as the boot loaders, kernel decompression, the initial RAM d
A REAL picture of a Wii, in black!: All I have to say is it simply looks amazing, I can't wait to get one!
Windows? Linux? Huh?: Nice article making a comparison of Windows and Ubuntu linux in terms of ease of use for the average non-techie computer user. The arguments make a lot of sense, in fact, I'm about to install Ubuntu myself after reading this article!
Improve performance in Ubuntu: This is an index on how to get the best performance out of your Ubuntu machine.
Jesus and Mo
Mailinator:Home: Disposable e-mail address that anyone can read. Perfect for your friendly local spam trap who needs an e-mail address.
radiohead lyrics and song information
Stalkerati.com: A site to "keep track" of your friends!: This site is hilarious! You type in the name of a friend and it will run searches on MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and more. Create profiles on your friends and save them to your "buddy list", then you can just click their name and see all their profiles
fo.rtuito.us: a new way of making friends
Who's Sorry Now?: Pip Coburn was a star research analyst during the Internet boom. Today, he thinks the entire industry has to change.
Guitar Hero thinking about Wii - "Guitar Hero is not limited to Sony": Wiire staff members Aaron Canaday and James King had the opportunity during E3 last week to speak with Harmonix Senior Designer and Guitar Hero Lead Designer Rob Kay about his thoughts regarding Nintendo's Wii, the console's E3 showing, the potential of m
7 Reasons Why Questionable Facts Go Unchallenged: Creative wording, mistruths, massaged facts and optimistic estimates fuel the engine of corporate communications. The big question is, why do these questionable facts so often slip past the enthusiast press?
Type a function - get a graph. An online user-friendly graphic calculator.: Of course, you have to know what the functions are and how to use them if you want it to work. Charting 1 1 isn't that much fun.
The Broken Laptop I Sold on Ebay: After selling a broken laptop on Ebay..the buyer was pleasantly surprised to find Amir didn’t wipe the hard drive. The purchaser then created a blog and posted several unflattering photos and details of Amir’s life...
Making procrastination work - a great life mod!: A Stanford Philosophy professor has developed a method for turning procrastination into productivity. "Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing
Photo retouching guide and examples
Hippyshopper: Handy Bike Maintenance Chart
BackupYourSystem - Ubuntu Wiki
GPUFFTW: Fast FFT implemented on an NVidea GPU, faster than x86.
Google Releases Picasa For Linux: Goggle is further embracing the open-source community by developing one of their most popular applications, the Picasa picture organizer, for the Linux platform. Way to go Google!
An Inconvenient Truth
How To Crack WEP and WPA Wireless Networks: How to crack wireless networks protected by WEP or WPA keys.
Object-Oriented Javascript: "Although Javascript shouldn’t be classed as an object-oriented language, pretty much everything within it is object based
Mathematical Proofs turned into Music: "While looking at some proofs, it occurred to me that their structure resembled musical scores, so as an experiment I decided to see what they sounded like. Essentially, the musical notes correspond to the depth of the proof tree as the proof is construct
A stapler that will NEVER run out of staples!!! (with VIDEO): I hate digging in my desk for staples when I run out. This little beauty from Japan would really fix that problem. The way it works is just amazing.
lm_creep_(FLASH).swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
chordbook.com
New Linux Debugger Runs Programs in Reverse: Bidirectional debuggers are much more powerful than their traditional counterparts, which only allow programmers to step their programs forwards in time. This is particularly true for bugs whose root cause occurs long before the ill effects manifest thems
GameDev.net -- The C++ Standard Library Part 1
Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again
Signs You're a Crappy Programmer (and don't know it): You know those crappy programmers who don’t know they are crappy? You know, they think they're pretty good, they spout off the same catch phrase rhetoric they've heard some guru say and they know lots of rules about the "correct" way to do things?
Touch Screens Will Soon 'Touch Back': Immersion's new TouchSense Technology for Touch Screens combines vibro feedback with finger-position recognition and interpolation to deliver tactile feedback on standard touch screens. This feedback can register as bumps, low vibrations, ticks, clicks, s
Nintendo DS Lite Mania!: To be able to run homebrews, emulators, backups and the like, you'll need two things. First you need a passkey to boot into DS mode.
Music By: piR8 at ArtistServer.com
Script your life in .txt: Using plain old .txt and scripts to run your real life more effectively. For Unix/Cygwin
Using Gmail as GNOME’s default mailer: I started using Gmail as my primary mail application a little over a year ago. For the most part, it has been a pleasurable experience. However, to my knowledge thereis no simple way to make Gmail the default mailer in GNOME. Until now! There's been conc
t h e f r a m l e y e x a m i n e r w e l c o m e !
Nautilus File Manager Scripts: Welcome to G-Scripts
How to achieve native NTFS write support under Linux: This site details ways to achieve native NTFS write support on your Linux box using the ntfsmount tool and the ntfs-fuse user-space filesystem driver. These tools have yielded very promising success rates in writing to NTFS volumes with 0% corruption. Pac
MAME - getting started: A comprehensive guide to getting starting with MAME, the amazing open-source arcade emulation program. It covers: downloading software, getting ROMs (buying, ripping your own, etc) and links to controller and cabinet options. Contains a nice discussion
Online Flickr SUDOKU!
Classic Zelda in 3D: Zelda cubed takes the classic Legend of Zelda from the NES days and puts it into an isometric 3D world. All in online shockwave.
What Is Good PowerPoint Design (w/pics): A great explanation of how to design better PowerPoint presentations that get the point across.
Play Nintendo DS against a Sony PSP! (Screenshots Included): Someone on the DSWifi forums has created a homebrew app that will allow a person to play a game using a Nintendo DS against a person with a Sony PSP (or other way around).This allows 2 people to play against each other using the Wi-fi capabilities for bot
New German Car 157mpg - Only $11,000 Euros: Loremo LS is powered by a... ...turbo diesel engine that will reach a speed of 100 mph and the GT model will reach up to 135 mph with a 0 to 60 mph acceleration of 9 seconds.
The Power of Unit Tests: Just recently, a developer I respect very much was caught uttering the this surprising statement: “Unit tests just really aren’t my thing.” I think the developer is dead wrong on this point and this is my attempt to change the mind of everyone that
Yahoo! 360° Product Blog - Celebrate Earth Day Every Day!
Scanr: Turn your camera phone into a scanner: Take a picture, send it here and get a searchable pdf via email
Magnatune: MP3 music and music licensing (royalty free music and license music).
Democracy 2.0: Main Page - Wikilaw
LXer: Customizing Ubuntu
Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card
Linux wireless LAN support http://linux-wless.passys.nl
Google Related Links
www.myspace.com/nin
PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips
New Civilization Network
Digg
History of the GUI: This page shows screenshots, icons and sounds of dozens of GUIs past and present. A GREAT resource.
vi/vim Graphical Cheat Sheet: A visually accessible guide to vi/vim editing, using graphical keyboard maps. It should help a lot in understanding those powerful but cryptic commands.
Welcome to ajaxSketch - an ajaxLaunch family application
Spiffy Corners - Making anti-aliased rounded corners with CSS
ajaxLaunch.com Home :: AJAX for Everyone
Real Life Roomba Frogger!! (w/ pic): This is hilarious! These guys play Frogger with a Roomba and successfully get across 40 lanes before getting crushed!
http://mozdev.oregonstate.edu/greasemonkey/popup-fixer.user.js
www.ajaxwrite.com
scratchProjects.com :: Programming the world from scratch
OneFinger - Home
Hack Attack: Become a Gmail master - Lifehacker
OS X Sudo vs. Root: The Real Story | Linux Box Admin
theArtofEnnui , WadgetOS
Rock-Industries - We will rock your copyleft world!
Welcome to EasyUbuntu
Automatix kicks Ubuntu into gear
apt-get.org: Unofficial APT repositories
Down For Maintenance!
ID card conundrums - IT Week
refcards.com
Nintendo DS Lite: Second Look
The Perfect Linux Firewall Part I -- IPCop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
PC INSPECTOR File Recovery
Java Visualization of the Mind Map: Visualisation of these bookmarks
Technorati Profile
BADSTRING
Ethical Banking & Investment
Similicious bookmarklet
KIYUT - Sketsa SVG Editor
Road Safety Bill [HL]
Murphy Quacks: A study of murphy's law
Linux & Wireless LANs
Index of /Wireless/Install-HOWTO: Linux Wireless HOWTO
Can't have wireless at boot [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums: hints on getting a belkin wireless USB stick working under ubuntu
THEY RULE: Find out who runs what and who owns what
Black hole flight simulator
CHEATSHEETS & REFERENCE
The Arcade Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Turns out The Arcade Fire's song "Wake Up" is the one that's been annopying me ever since I heard it on the BBC advert. And the lyrics aren't "Every time I close my eyes" Misheard lyrics anyone? Very glad I was watching the brit awards now. Best Internati
Hippyshopper: A streetcar made for Gaia
The Scottish Parliament e-Petitions: About e-Petitions
Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound: Research into audio and perception
Phya - Physical Audio for Games
Yahoo! Open Shortcuts - Learn More
CIA rendition flights in Scotland confirmed - The Herald
hippyshopper: Plant some trees, get climate book cheaper
Retrospec - Retrogaming at its best
Google Groups : comp.lang.python
Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax
hippyshopper: Invest ethically, make a killing: A few tips on where to invest ethically, after a repotr came out saying ethical investments are the best place for your money long term.
xmloperator : an XML editor
Slashdot | Study Finds Regulation Good For Telecom Customers
jake2 - Bytonic Software: Quake2 re-written in Java
Canvascape - 3D walker: Cool javascript game showing off the new <canvas>. Needs Firefox1.5 or equivalent
freesound :: home page
Xerces-C++: DOMXPathEvaluator Class Reference
Experimental Gameplay Project, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University
W3C XML Schema
XML Schema Tutorial
idiotabroad.com >> CD’s affected by the Sony-BMG spyware
Brendan's Roadmap Updates: Python for XUL scripting
Luxor XML UI Language (XUL) Toolkit: Java/Python based XUL toolkit with webserver
Yen Rotuna Restaurant, Glasgow - Japanese, Teppanyaki, Thai and Cantonese
hippyshopper: Asus U5: 1st eco warrior laptop: Eco laptop
Firefoxit, Firefox Widgets
Army of Me--a band from DC: Very cool Washington DC band
Linux.com | Introducing GoboLinux 012
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Smart directions for green ideas
DoorstepCrime.com - Doorstoppers.info: Stop cold callers in your neighbourhood
energywatch: Home Page: UK watchdog for energy companies that overstep the mark, and the cold-callers who work for them
Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference:Global Objects:Array:filter - Devmo: Filters in Javascript
ActiveWidgets Grid • cross-browser javascript grid control.: Very neat JavaSCript/HTML table widget
Toward Saner Version Control || kuro5hin.org: Why to use SubVersion
www.pandora.com: Music Genome radio station. A.I. inspired music recommendation system.
BBC NEWS | Politics | Death driving offences announced: Government plans to change death by driving laws in England, Wales and Scotland
QD2 - the Queen's Dock Project
Javascript Closures
JavaScript Reference
WDVL: JavaScript Tutorial for Programmers
JavaScript Core Guide 1.5
JavaScript - Devmo
AJAX - Devmo
Google Base: All your base are, in fact, belong to us: Google database thing. Access to the service itself is sporadic at best.
Development resources - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Gecko DOM Reference - Devmo
IXMLHTTPRequest
Using XML Data Islands in Mozilla
Make XML data islands work in Mozilla
Build cross-browser XML paging code: XML islands that work in Mozilla and IE
XML.com: XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications
Flock: Community / collaboration focussed browser based on Mozilla Firefox
How ATM fraud nearly brought down British banking | The Register: Widespread ATM fraud as told by the lawyer who set out to sue the banks. Only reported 10 years after the event.
WDVL: XML via the Document Object Model: A Preliminary Course
Document Object Model Core
Make the most of Xerces-C++, Part 2
C++ Language Binding for DOM Level 2
Xerces C++ Parser
BBC - Languages - Learn German
WebORB Examples | AJAX Client | Flash Remoting Client | Rich Client System: A list of examples on how to build an AJAX or a flash front-end to the same db for full-featured web apps.
Flosspick (beta) : finding the right open source software
iLoveLanguages - Your Guide to Languages on the Web
ISI Web of Knowledge [v3.0]
Glasgow 2020 - a project for mass imagination
YAXL: Yet Another (Pythonic) XML Library
National Technology Officer - UK (Jerry Fishenden): Microsoft's UK National Technology Officer explains why the UK ID cards are bad
Yahoo! Groups : glasgow-freecycle: Give your old stuff away to a good home
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women: What a cool geeky game this is :-)
Bytetest.com ★ Free gmail inviter
XML Syntax Quick Reference: 2 page PDF with the essential XML/DTD information
dtd reference - Google Search
Editing audio in Linux : Page 1: How-to article highlighting the best Linux audio editing tools
Slashdot | An Intro To Editing Audio On Linux
ANN: PyFromC: Include Python in C programs
SQLObject: View SQL data and write queries using Python objects.
TurboGears: 20 Minute Wiki Tutorial
Slashdot | TurboGears: Python on Rails?
Mandriva Club - Main - 2006launch: New Mandrive has Centrino support. Time to get that laptop :-)
Nintendo WiFi
Coroutines in C
Protothreads: lightweight, stackless threads in C: Ultra light threading library
Java's XML parser , IBM'S XML4J parser , Xerces parser (XML Tutorials) test: Simple Xerces XML tutorial
The Appleseed Project: Distributed social networking software for many websites
Rich's Project Warehouse: Nintendo DS Homebrew stuff including test reader
Nufox Examples: Python/Firefox XUL application framework
Ext2 IFS For Windows: Use ext2fs drives from windows
The Great Thing About Intelligent Design || kuro5hin.org: Interesting argument (and a great Short story in the comments)
E-Democracy.Org - Forum Rules - Interim
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience: The guide to civil disobedience
Slashdot | Early AJAX Office Applications
Home of the Underdogs: Downloads lots of old games
Writely - The Web Word Processor: On-line word processor
Slashdot | Zimbra Collaboration Suite Launched: Exchange replacement
megabus.com - low cost intercity bus travel: Cheap Bus Travel across the UK if you book in advance - can book many journeys at once.
Simple graphic calculator using JavaScript and the 'canvas' element
First release of Shed Skin, a Python-to-C++ compiler (comp.lang.python)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Petitioning parliament by mouse: A list of eDemocracy sites in the UK included in the links.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Magic brush' paints visual world
Mandriva Store - HP Laptops
Mandrive Linux on Dell Laptops: But it's for students only. Better get in there quick
Stackless.com - News
Thoughts Serializer » Multithreaded Game Scripting with Stackless Python
Linux on Laptops: HOWTOs for running Linux on a number of laptops.
RoundCube Webmail Project: Funky web-based mail interface
systrace(1) - NetBSD Manual Pages: NetBSD security program
Developing Firefox Extensions with GNU/Linux : Page 1
WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music
Anonymous Usability Designer: Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age
Slashdot | Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age
Slashdot | Open Source Alternative for Skype
An Examination and Interpretation of ITU-R BS.1387: Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality: PEAQ description and evaluation
TSP (audio) - PQevalAudio: McGill implementation of PEAQ comparison
Google Talk
Welcome to MyBookYourBook.co.uk: Online library, donate 8 books, share books with others.
CherryPy for CGI programmers
The GLOW Toolkit
/* Position Is Everything */ Modern browser bugs explained in detail!
SiteProNews: The 10 Best Resources for CSS
Slashdot | 10 Best Resources for CSS: see the comments for more good sites
silverchilli.com - Beautiful fair trade silver jewellery from Mexico. Hand-crafted especially for you.
Home - Traidcraft Fighting Poverty Through Trade
Ethical Wares
EthicalShopper E-Commerce Store: Main Page
wholesale, fair trade, organic, fashion, clothes, clothing, baby, woman, man, children
Go Fair - Fairly traded goods from Nepal, Thailand and India
Ganesha fair trade shop online - home page
About the People Tree fair trade company
Slashdot | Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving
Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
Funny Lisp tutorial
Successful Lisp
CLiki : index
ALU: Learning Lisp
INTERACTIVE LISP TUTORIAL
LISP Primer
Beating the Averages: Motivation for programming in LISP
playomatic script for last.fm: perl script to play last.fm on Linux
Heat & Glo - No one builds a better fire: Use water to make fire. Water splitter, hydrogen burner and cool-looking fireplace in one
hippyshopper: Get a TRV, slash your heating bill: Funky Thermostat for your Radiator, stops water when you don't need it. Save energy and money
rectifi search
Cheat Sheets - ILoveJackDaniels.com: Quick Reference for a lot of web tech stuff
Gamasutra - Features - "The Designer's Notebook: You Must Play Façade, Now!": Facade - A new type of interactive drama
Adventure Gamers : Classic LucasArts adventure now on Nintendo DS: ScummVM for Nintendo DS
FFTW Home Page: Fast Fourier Implementation and Reference
LOCKSS Program Home
adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications
Six JavaScript features we do not need any longer - Wait till I come!
Math Games:Vector vs. Raster
Matplotlib / pylab - matlab style python plotting (plots, graphs, charts)
Will You Join Us (Chevron)
Thirteen ways to loathe VB (Verity Stob, DDJ)
Widget Workshop | Konfabulator
grosvenor cinema | ashton lane | hillhead | 0141 339 8444
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
Recycle now - Recycling - RecycleNow
GPGPU
DSSI
Rosegarden: music software for Linux
..::...Vores ØL...::..
Easy Urpmi
scilab
Octave Home Page
SCons: A software construction tool: python based code builder
Caimans Technologies - Home of the Caimans Video Codec
How It Should Have Ended
Internet Archive: Details: Plan 9 From Outer Space
Eco kettle: kettle with two reservoirs so you can get that one cup to boil at the touch of a button without fiddling around at the tap.
BBC - OpenSource
Least Wanted's photosets on Flickr
Web Sudoku - Billions of Free Sudoku Puzzles to Play Online
Edgewall Software: Python Sidebar
I'm Not One to Blog, But...: Tuned V. 1. No. 5: "Freeze the Saints," Stephen Malkmus
Telegraph | Arts | Roll over London - here's Glasgow
Bookslut | Stripped Books: Neil Gaiman at the Nebula Awards
[listulike] CSS Generator
s1play
GROKLAW: The Stupidest Lawsuit Since the World Began
Styled Checkboxes
Game Programming Wiki
Main Page - DmWiki
everyclick - the search engine that helps charity
GPUSort
BBC - Action Network - - A2228159 - How you can influence new UK laws
hippyshopper: Your own award-winning power plant
Kernel Machines
kpca
CMT Documentation
LADSPA SDK Documentation
BLOP || Main
PortAudio - an Open-Source Cross-Platform Audio API
Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA)
The AGNULA project - Alsa, Jack and Ladspa
The AGNULA project - The AGNULA home page
Identity Cards Bill: 29 Jun 2005: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com): UK Government figures on the effectiveness of ID cards - up to 20% failure rate
Introduction to genetic algorithms with Java applets
Introduction to Genetic Algorithm
Genetic Algorithms
Introduction to knowledge processing: VC dimension
VC dimension
Statistical Data Mining Tutorials
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Gödel on the net
How to Convert VHS to DVD
How to make a solar power generator
Hack and Slash ‽ The laws of web design.
Yahoo! My Web 2.0 BETA
Bertrand Russell : Why I Am Not A Christian
RSSCalendar.com
Soberskin
Ethical Threads > Home
hippyshopper: Ultracool ultralight elec bike
NER0: Train your AI robot. Let it fight.
products
Tree Proof Generator
eeac - a stepping stone to practical action
The Matazone blog » Planning a game
Vampire Power - Wasted Standby Power (Electricity) in Home Electronics (Environmental Article)
Good Gifts Catalogue - Gifts that really count
Browse Top Level > Audio > Live Music Archive > Warren Zevon
mad_goldfish @ Last.FM - Your personal music network - Personalised online radio station: My last.fm station
DSLinux.org - Linux on Nintendo DS
freeloader.com : Games : Browser Games : Jaguar Urban Golf
TipMonkies
Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism
luxury hand made organic quality chocolate by montezuma's in sussex uk
The journalism and films of John Pilger
GoboLinux - the alternative Linux distribution
Audioscrobbler :: Home
Publications - Audioclouds
Brendan's Roadmap Updates: JavaScript 1, 2, and in between
Yahoo! Search
JS/UIX - Terminal
Robin
Peter@Norvig.com
Alan Turing - Home Page
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
The Game AI Page: Building Artificial Intelligence into Games
PhpWiki - ai-python
Artificial Intelligence Depot
Statistical Data Mining Tutorials
ai-junkie
Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life
The Genetic Algorithms Archive
GAlib: Matthew's Genetic Algorithms Library
genetic-programming.com-Home-Page
OpenCyc.org
Joel on Software
AI Newsletter
Hill Station Ice Cream
Extended Kohonen Maps
Welcome to All About Giving - everything you need to know about charitable giving
eco-tourism, eco-tours, sustainable tourism, responsible travel, green travel, eco-labels
WhichGreen
RMail
PledgeBank - Not Finished Yet
Energy Saving Trust My Home - Welcome
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Funding for deep carbon storage
Greenshop: A place to get eco-friendly candle bulbs
The Green Shop - environmental products for a sustainable future
Transport Energy ‽ Home ‽ Energy Saving Information for Motorists
Electric Vehicles UK : Home (Electric car / Electric vehicle campaign and information)
Join the drive for greener motoring in Britain. Breakdown cover from £39. Our average response time is 35 minutes. 80% of vehicles fixed at the roadside. Europe cover available. Join today.
2005 Underhanded C Contest
Slashdot | The First Annual Underhanded C Contest
BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads
AJAXFrameworks - AjaxPatterns
Functioning Form - Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design
Main Page - AjaxPatterns
DHTML Lemmings
Python Imaging Library (PIL)
I wonder why buttons look like that (phil ringnalda dot com)
unmatched <style> | CSS Gallery. Design News. Resources.
Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming - New York Times
Glasgow Film Office: About Glasgow
UGC Glasgow Listings
Symphony Operating System
Slashdot | Effective C++, Third Edition
hippyshopper: Send tips, win an organic tee!
Free trade
BBC NEWS | Business | The argument for free trade
Amazon.com
Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions
Python Gotchas
CSS ~ Image Pop UP
Corporate Watch : Homepage : home
G8 Alternatives
Welcome to Glasgow Employment - Jobs in Glasgow
s1play - no.1 site for gig news, reviews and previews with full listings and venue details for all of Scotland
Glasgow West End - Pat's guide to what's best in the West
M74 extension
LinuxDevCenter.com: Rendering Everything as Text
pop vs rock
Ann McKechin MP for Glasgow Maryhill
Ann McKechin MP, Glasgow, Maryhill (TheyWorkForYou.com)
5pm.co.uk - Restaurant Booking Glasgow Edinburgh London
Unofficial Cycle Routes in and around Glasgow
thefoodplace.co.uk - find local takeaway and delivery restaurants with contact details, menus, ratings and reviews online.
SPT - Strathclyde Passenger Transport
Welcome to the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
Contemporary Music Glasgow
Overview of Neural Networks
Grow Wild: Superb organic produce to your door!
The Herald, Glasgow, Scottish sport, football, politics and business news
The Scottish Association of Farmers Markets
ÒranMòr
Glasgow Development
University of Glasgow
Glasgow Film Theatre
Cathouse Promotions Limited - Live Concert Information
Priceless Computing Retail price list
Evening Times
Hydrogen - advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux
Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music
Music thing blog
Mxtabs - Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire Guitar Tabs
Mixtape Magazine
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
del.icio.us loader
mozdev.org - delicious: index
Google Groups : 43 Folders - GTDel.icio.us
Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks
tartanpodcast
BBC NEWS | Technology | Scot's podcast airs tartan talent
The Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions
A Regular Expression Primer
Avian flu : Web focus : Nature
del.icio.us blog
Bird flu: we're all going to die | The Register
The Second Acid Test
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Changing planet revealed in atlas
Mark Lyon's GMail Loader (GML) - Import Your Mail into GMail
Mark Lyon's GMail Loader (GML) - Import Your Mail into GMail
Google Answers: Moving old mail into Gmail
GmailForums -> Easiest way to transfer Yahoo mail to Gmail?
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
Text Tricks (Mandarin Design)
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Regular Expressions Reference Sheet
XML.com: What is XSLT?
XSLT Tutorial
XSL Transformations (XSLT)
WriteToThem.com Beta Test - Email or fax your Councillors, MP, MEP or MSP plus Welsh or London Assembly Member for free
Linux Chooser
Game Institute Releases New AI Course - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
Rainy's: Rainy's Calendar
OMC - Open Messaging and Collaboration
freshmeat.net: Project details for Open Sound World
hippyshopper: World's cutest composter?
hippyshopper: The wind-up remote
CSS position:fixed
css-discuss.org
Listamatic: one list, many options - Using CSS and a simple list to create radically different list options
Useful XUL Extensions
LaTeX Tips & Tricks
RETRO REMAKES :: Classic Gaming for the Next Generation
Google Labs
2.1 - Creating a Window
XSLT transform
mozdev.org - games: index
Vobidooblisk
SIMILE | Piggy Bank
XPCOM
Danyel's Blog : Excel Treemapper
greenKarat-Ecologically Responsible Certified Green Gold Jewelry-Search Output
How-to: Backup Del.icio.us to Gmail
bookmark this
The Python Challenge
del.icio.us
freeloader.com : Games : Browser Games : Download

Alternative blogs

2007-11-26T12:20:00.000Z

I'm trying out an alternative blog at http://craignicol.wordpress.com to see how the two platforms compare. Flock seems happy enough with either, but I'll see which one wins out in the long term. For now, I can cross-post anything important.

take a good, hard look at your first revision and just say to yourself, "gloves."

2007-01-25T20:33:00.001Z

I've lost count of the number of times I've stumbled upon the coffee-room solution to a big problem. I'm sure most people recognise the feeling. You're sitting at the computer with a big problem staring you in the face, and you've been battling it for a couple of hours trying to find a solution. Then you decide to pack it in and go get a coffee, and after 2 minutes away from the computer, before the coffee's even poured, you've figured out a one-line solution that means you can throw away all the baggage from the last two hours and get on with the next task.

This link is to a story for people who don't have their coffee-room solution.

So remember, next time you've been staring at a problem for a couple of hours, go grab yourself a coffee and see if there's any gloves.

C.

The Complicator's Gloves - The Daily WTF (-)

take a good, hard look at your first revision and just say to yourself, "gloves."

Technorati Tags: programming, wtf, thedailywtf, lifehacks, timeout

Amnesty

2006-12-13T22:15:00.000Z

As a scientist, freedom of speech is very important to me, which is why I've given the Amnesty International banner a prominent placing above. Once speech gets shut down, thought can quickly follow.

I'm still working on getting my own speech out there. I'll post details of papers and software soon.

Google Code Search vs Krugle

2006-10-06T16:05:00.000+01:00

I'm sure a lot of people have seen and tried Google Code Search by now, so I've had a look and compared it with my favorite code search at Krugle which has saved me hours of work on many occasions. The interface of Krugle is clearly modelled on Eclipse, but it handles plenty of languages alongside Java and covers a few extremely useful bases which Google doesn't. The two I find most useful are thye API/TechDocs searches which allow you to find easily how something works, and the function search which allows you to quickly find the definition of a particular function. They are incredibly useful for finding your way round a new project, especially where the documentation is still in flux.

My impression of the Google Code Search is that it works as a standard Google search over the domain of software, so it doesn't take advantage of the domain knowledge offered within the source code and related documentation. I have a feeling this may be a trend to come. Specialised searches within a domain can exploit knowledge and connections that are hard to generalise to other domains. Krugle is a great example of how this extra knowledge can really make searching easier and more powerful. The generic Google PageRank just can't cut it, at least not on the basis of what I've seen.

Official Google Blog: More developer love with Google Code Search

Test Post

2006-09-13T21:07:00.001+01:00

Using external posting tools to post to my Blogger blog.

New Beta

2006-09-13T20:57:00.000+01:00

I've just thrown this blog onto the new Blogger Beta to make my life a little easier, as I've already got a Google Account linked up.

I've used rich-text editors before, especially in Writely, but this seems quite nice. Not sure how new it is as I haven't posted here in a while.

Doesn't look that different so far, but at least it's easier to get into. Might see me posting more here, especially if Flock still works with the new beta.

C.

Who Am I?

2006-07-08T17:25:00.000+01:00

I thought I should write a bit more about myself and what I've been upto. I recently gradtuated in a Ph.D. in Computer Science, the details of which you can see in the links to the rights of this post. Outside the research, I've been doing some political work, integrating the spell checker from Speller Pages into the WriteToThem website, which provides an easy way to get in touch with your MP.

WriteToThem.com - Who are you, and why are you doing this?

technorati tags:politics, web, programming, Ph.D.

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Protect Free Speech

2006-06-01T21:22:00.000+01:00

Protect Free Speech Online

Metamath Music Page

2006-05-25T11:35:00.000+01:00

Very interesting project about the sonification of mathematical proofs, that's also used to analyse sound. The proofs are converted into MIDI for sonification.

Deepest Sender

2006-05-19T13:59:00.000+01:00

I'm using the Deepest Sender extension for Firefox, and just wanted to check it was working. I know no-one's reading this yet, but with the extension I might find the time to write more here.

Black hole flight simulator

2006-02-28T15:53:00.000Z

From the new "New Scientist" blog comes this very cool looking simulation.

Black hole flight simulator: "
Sci-fi writers have long imagined what being swallowed by a black hole might be like – now physics, supercomputers and computer gaming graphics have combined in an attempt to create a realistic simulation. And it’s a pretty wild ride.

The 'Black Hole Flight Simulator'was created by Andrew Hamilton, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The 23-minute show contains segments that required 90 hours of supercomputer calculation for each on-screen second. You can see the trailer here (and look out for the guy in the canoe).

Entering a black hole might sound like a certain death sentence, but not so if it has five dimensions. If you don’t fancy the gamble, astronomers can now detect the event horizon of black holes, as well as witness their brutal birth and messy feeding. (Image: Denver Museum of Nature and Science)"

Hi

2006-01-07T12:30:00.000Z

So it works then