February 2008
93 posts
Easy Ways to Improve Your Vision →
Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in... →
ichol’s right eye socket was rebuilt, part of the tooth inserted and a lens inserted in a hole drilled in the tooth. The first operation lasted ten hours and the second five hours. “It is pretty heavy going,” McNichol
For Geek Gardners: Botanicalls Twitter DIY →
The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts... →
10 Tips to Change Yourself From a Dedicated... →
1. Always exercise on Monday (or Saturday if you live in Iran). 2. Never skip exercising for two days in a row. 3. Remember, exercise GIVES energy. 4. Any work-out “counts.” 5. You don’t have to shower. 6. Throw money at the problem. 7. Don’t set the bar too high. 8. Don’t kid yourself. (Belonging to a gym doesn’t mean that you go to the gym.) 9. You have time. (Just take a twenty-minute walk.)...
Anger Management
Husband to wife: When I get mad at you, you never fight back. How do you control your anger? Wife: I clean the toilet bowl. Husband: How does that help? Wife: I use your toothbrush .
Oscars 2008 Winners →
Best film: No Country For Old Men Best actor: Daniel Day-Lewis Best actress: Marion Cotillard Best supporting actor: Javier Bardem Best supporting actress: Tilda Swinton Best director: Joel and Ethan Coen
An Interview with Chris Date →
Chris Date is the author of the acclaimed database book, “An Introduction To Database Systems”, which is the primary reference in DB courses.
Windows XP SP3 RC2 →
Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan →
A Moroccan computer engineer has been sentenced to three years in jail for setting up a Facebook profile in the name of a member of the royal family.
George Clooney: The Last Movie Star →
Weaponized diamond engagement ring →
Tobias Wong’s “Killer Engagement Ring” is a sturdy diamond ring whose point faces out, turning it into a potentially lethal weapon. The diamond sharp edge will also cut skin down to the bone.
US missile hits 'toxic satellite' →
The Pentagon used a missile to shoot down the satellite The US has successfully struck a disabled spy satellite with a missile fired from a warship in waters west of Hawaii, military officials say.
Barack Obama to name a “Chief Technology Officer” →
Obama is going to have a CTO among his whitehouse staff.
Someone has stolen a bridge in Czech
Police in the Czech republic are trying to find out who stole a 4 tonne railway bridge from the border town of Cheb. The company which was responsible for looking after the bridge raised the alarm when they noticed that the bridge wasn’t there any more. …
BBC Radio Podcasts: How to… (Learn English) →
A very interesting and useful podcast to improve your general English skills. Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language...
Image Sciences Institute: ISI-publications →
Here you can search and download the publications of the Image Sciences Institute. [via Golnaz Farzad]
CUDA →
CUDA (“Compute Unified Device Architecture”), is a GPGPU technology that allows a programmer to use the C programming language to code algorithms for execution on the GPU. CUDA has been developed by Nvidia and to use this architecture requires an Nvidia GPU and special stream processing drivers. It only works with the new GeForce 8 Series, featuring G8X GPUs. [via Naeim Paeideh]
Password-cracking chip causes security concerns →
A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community. [via Naeim Paeideh]
Pivot Table Tutorial for Excel 2007 →
Toshiba Quits HD-DVD Business →
Firefox Add-ons (Preview of the new site) →
Vista Start Menu – Convenient alternative to Start... →
Social Wallpapering →
a community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high resolution images to be used as computer wallpapers.
Picanswers.com →
Sometimes you have a picture and don’t know what it shows. Post it to this site and users will tell you the answer.
Read it Later (Firefox Extension) →
PageOnce - Personal Internet Assistant →
HAve all the websites you like in one page.
F-Secure Health Check →
F-Secure Health Check is an online service which checks whether you have an Anti-Virus, Firewall and Anti-Spyware software installed on your computer checks whether you have known vulnerabilities in your applications checks whether you have applications that are no longer supported by the vendor helps you fix the vulnerabilities found.
Geni →
Build Your Family Tree
A better laptop stand for bed →
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement →
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted a policy that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online.
50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and... →
