October 2008Monthly Archives

Dear God lyrics by Xtc

7 Eye-popping interactive timelines (and 3 ways to create one)

this interactive timeline is beyond brilliant!

Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.

Designing For Every Browser: How To Make Your Site Fully Cross Browser Compatible

magic, interactive experience. want to see what stirs the spriitual side of atheists (without needing to go 'god(s) did it'?)

If you have a huge collection of music files already, sometimes you realize that you were too lazy to add tags and/or descriptive file names to them. It’s a mess! Especially when you are looking for particular artists or titles or you’re in the mood to create a ‘mix CD’/'mix tape’ But no need to worry! Ex Falso will help you organize your files.

The 2008 Great World Wide Star Count is here! Join us by making your obsevations between October 20 – November 3. Download the Activity Guide to participate.

Apart from making music that sounds good to a sizable audience, there are some essentials that can help bands become increasingly successful. One of them is consistency in live performance scheduling.

If you do things right, people will want you to play anywhere and everywhere humanly possible. But what if, as an independent act, you’re having a hard time filling your calendar and capitalizing on a burgeoning fan base as much and as often as possible? Skoggins is a site that works to fill in those openings for musicians on tour.

BBC News reports that postgraduate students from Cardiff University and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama have organised a three-day academic conference examining Doctor Who. The event will be held at Cardiff University from November 14th to 16th this year, and members of the public will be able to attend.

WANTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A person with money; a person who spends it; a person who is easily influenced: an Advertiser’s dream is to reach those individuals with targeted messages on the go. Mobile application advertising is extending the mobile advertising paradigm with new inventory, larger audiences, and more advertiser budgets to reach exactly those users

Making screencasts (also known as “video tutorials”) is already easy, and becomes easier with better tools and broadband proliferation. However, no tech is complete without a human who dives in, does experiments, and discerns best practices from the results.

For the last year we've been busy liaising with key decision makers, writing letters to every MP and Senator and visiting politicians face-to-face to urge them to grant same sex couples the same legal rights as de facto couples.

The laws that would do so are currently before Parliament, but some are trying to frustrate the process. Sign the petition below to ensure equality for all of us:

If only people would bother applying this to stuff….less crackpot stuff for a start. Fantasies, nutjob conspiracies, religious extremes and idiocies galore.

mars rover captures spirit picture. hi mars spirit!

Ta-dah! It’s no other than Tux the Linux mascot. I have asked a friend, Nissie (who runs a shop at Etsy called Deadcraft) to make a Tux keychain which I’d be giving away to one lucky winner of this month’s contest.

I want to share my list of Firefox3 extensions and why I use them. My current list contains thirty-four extensions, and I use them all almost everyday. I am going to break my list down to two or three post.

I’ve spent a few hours this evening putting together some articles on installing and configuring FreeBSD 7.0. So far the articles cover installation, configuring a minimalist desktop, sound, boot config, etc and will span over the next week. These posts are on blog.zelut.org.

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Last night I was out shopping for groceries at my local grocery store when I ran into none other than Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic XKCD (and, it might be noted, the guy in the grocery store who pushes his cart extra slow and then stops right in the middle of the aisle, so you can’t get over to the candy section!). Before I could muster the courage to challenge him to a cartoon-off, as I knew I must, he had already removed his glove—a long silky stocking of a thing—and lofted it against my cheek, mouthing the words “cartoon off”. The game was on.

For children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) tasks that require concentration such as doing homework or taking a test can be very difficult. A simple, inexpensive remedy may be a "dose of nature."

A study conducted at the University of Illinois shows that children with ADHD demonstrate greater attention after a 20-minute walk in a park than after a similar walk in a downtown area or a residential neighborhood.

Words on the streets are saying that Dell seems to be prepping up a new notebook/netbook called the Dell Inspiron Mini 1210. A service manual and setup guide pages sitting right on Dell’s official site revealed this Inspiron Mini 1210.

The beta rocks. SO to speak:)