"Usenet" or Newsgroup access has been around since the beginning of the internet. Usenet was created to facilitate a central point of contact for discussion on a wide range of topics.

Tabloids, teeny boppers and tweeters have been going bananas over Adam Lambert’s interesting performance on the American Music Awards this past Sunday. The controversy is swirling around the American Idol runner-up’s pelvic-thrusting, dancer-on-a-leash, fellatio-simulating, male keyboard-snogging shocker of a performance, that was much ...

Google this week expanded its coupon service to mobile just in time for Black Friday, enabling U.S. consumers to access and redeem the discounts via their phones. It’s an effort that could give the space a much-needed shove into the mainstream.

Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.115 or higher is required to watch video inline on this webpage, and JavaScript must be enabled. You can choose another option on the listen/watch page if you prefer. Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and ...

A university is to hold a "virtual graduation ceremony" for students on a distance learning course. Edinburgh University will broadcast the ceremony at its McEwan Hall on to the Second Life web community.

Most statistics packages focus on which pages or content are drawing people to your site. While that's certainly important, sometimes you want to know what's happening right now in terms of traffic on your site.

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Peter Brantley on the Google Books Settlement | Knowledge Ecology International: [...] Google Book Search Settlement: Public Access Service – a…

Michael Kohl (Twitter / blog) in his day job, works as an IT systems engineer in Vienna, Austria. He fell in love with Ruby in 2003 or so, maintained various Ruby-related packages for Gentoo Linux from 2004-2006 and started being an assistant teacher for RubyLearning.org in early 2009. Besides all things Ruby his interests include mathematics, ...

37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers : Speckyboy - Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources says:

Over at U.S. News and World Report, Robert Schlesinger attaches some more numbers to the rise of the filibuster: The fact of the matter is that the frequency of filibusters has increased by a factor of 50 since the days of (then-Democrat) Strom Thurmond jaw-jacking for 24 hours to stop a civil rights bill. So too has the general use of delaying ...

This is going to be my summary of the freely available* Linear Algebra course from MIT. I watched the lectures of this course in the summer of 2008. This was not the first time I learned linear algebra. I had already had two terms of linear algebra when I studied physics back in 2004. But it was not enough for a curious mind like mine. I wanted ...

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So you are looking to sell some products on the Internet and you don’t know where to start? Then this article is for you, but also for designers looking for the best solution to offer their clients. Let me know in the comments if I forgot something.

We recently switched our default builds of Rails Boxcar to leverage the benefits of using Passenger (mod_rails) for deployment of your Ruby on Rails applications and it’s been working out great for our customers. Several of our customers and colleagues mentioned that they also began using Passenger in development, which was intriguing.

Google has, according to some Gizmodo readers, begun offering up a bolder but more condensed view of its home and search results pages to certain users. Take a full-size look, and try it out for yourself with some JavaScript magic.

A spectre is haunting the classroom, the spectre of change. Nearly a century of institutional forms, initiated at the height of the Industrial Era, will change irrevocably over the next decade. The change is already well underway, but this change is not being led by teachers, administrators, parents or politicians. Coming from the ground up, the ...

I recently came across a presentation on Slideshare that —even if very simplistic— formalized something I have been thinking about for a few weeks: could Twitter be a kind of unintentional, original and refined Ponzi scheme in the domain of marketing? A giant pyramid that will topple if more bricks aren’t added every day?

Given the attention it received and the number of bugs I know it contained, I wanted to revisit an old post of mine: Streaming and playing an MP3 stream. In this post, I'll talk about the problems the original contained, how I fixed those problems and I'll present the updated result.

Después de casi tres años de lenta deliberación y de continuos escarceos tácticos que han dañado su cohesión y han erosionado su prestigio, el Tribunal Constitucional puede estar a punto de emitir sentencia sobre el Estatut de Catalunya, promulgado el 20 de julio del 2006 por el jefe del Estado, rey Juan Carlos, con el siguiente ...

Closures: are useful for implementing abstractions that involve behavior. Smalltalk provides ample proof that functions and object-orientation go together well. Instead of giving Java functions as objects, its creators decided to support the encapsulation of behavior via inner classes. At long last, it looks like Java 7 will have closures. They ...

Last week Seesmic finally flexed its muscles and opened up a commanding lead on rival Tweetdeck. I know, Tweetdeck still accounts for substantially more tweet volume than Seesmic (at least that is according to the last report I read) but don’t let that fool you. Remember it was just over a year ago that the twitterverse was gaga over Twhirl ...

THE last time Mexico suffered an economic slump, in 1995, it turned to its northern neighbour for help. The United States organised a $50 billion bail-out. Together with the boost provided by the enactment of the North American Free-Trade Agreement shortly before, that helped Mexico to rebound smartly from devaluation and recession.

If tourist-brochure Spain struggles to cast off its image as the land of siestas, bull-fighting, spotted dresses and paella, a short ride away from the resorts will soon divest the traveller of much of their baggage of Iberian stereotypes.

Recently I’ve been experimenting with wrapping block-level elements in <a> (so-called block-level links), as you can see in this page’s header. This has several benefits:

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Mistakes by the companies we use every day are all too common. And, when things go wrong, it can be frustrating getting the call centres of giant financial institutions, energy companies and telecoms firms to put them right.

I was in City Airport (London) the other day and checked Flook, and found that someone had posted shots of the other side of customs – so I knew that if I went through there would be shops etc. So good. To be honest there is not a lot of content at the moment, but it has only just launched and I guess that will change with time.

The other morning, I made a speech at an awards function for the National Council for the Training of Journalists. In front of me were 83 of the brightest young journalism students in Britain. There were twice as many women as men.

If you work on a series of projects that all share a common set-up (properties, build-script, base classes, resources, etc) you will probably do a lot of copying and pasting and refactoring to clone the base project. Did you know you can create your own custom project template for that purpose? I just found that out recently (from the help menu).

When you are are newbie in programming objective-C then you might find somethings confusing when you start using strings. Coming from C you where used to using zero terminated C-Strings. Coming from other languages you might be challenged by the fact that there is no implicit type conversion like, for example, in BASIC.

MAGUINDANAO — The sound of sirens precedes the passing of a long convoy of 4×4 sport utility vehicles. As if on cue, jeepneys and private vehicles begin moving to the right side of the street, where they all then ground to halt.

The new Visual C++ project system in Visual Studio 2010 leverages the .NET System.Diagnostics trace logging feature to help users investigate why certain operations have failed or just to better understand what is happening behind the scenes.

Several weeks ago, the family of information studies professor Phil Agre reported him missing, saying that they had not heard from him in over a year. At first glance, it may seem like a fairly typical missing persons case - families lose touch with relatives and begin to worry about their safety. For Agre, though, the situation is somewhat more ...

Takeaway: This document lists the majority of services available for any distribution of Linux. The list includes a description of each service's purpose, and a comment regarding whether it is a required service.

Last week, I posted about how I built a working, real-money online poker bot. This week, we'll discuss how to get started building your own bot, address some specific bot-building techniques, talk about the woeful state of online poker user privacy, respond to a few reader questions and comments, and close out with some recommended reading.

Founded five years ago by Alun Shooter and Matt Bagnall, Cambridge-based agency The District now employs six other staff - including recent arrival Tom Lovell who, regular CR readers may recall, is one of the graduates we profiled in our September issue this year. We ran a piece on the agency’s rather lovely gallery space, The Frontroom, in ...

Boilerplate code: creating Mediators and Proxies can be quite tedious – I find my spirits drop a notch whenever I need to create one of them.. “Ok, let’s do this thing! Woo! Create New Class.. Must extend some class and implement some interface.. and define my static NAME constant.. and.. ah.. create a getter to cast my view.. ...

Since Twix is my husband’s favorite candy bar, I immediately knew I wanted to make him these cookies when I saw the recipe on Joy of Baking.  In her recipe, Stephanie uses sweetened condensed milk to make the caramel filling; she says to turn the sweetened condensed milk into caramel, you can either use a stovetop double boiler or the microwave.

Jennifer - Any idea of how Facebook is reaping "the rewards of the marriage between social media and holiday shopping?" Would love to see that follow up story.

This Advent calendar is a work in progress (I still have about 20 more birds to make YIKES). There is something about those branches in my entry, I hate to see them go. I thought the branches could stay for another holiday if they had some  birds swinging from them.

有限会社 WINGSプロジェクトが運営する、テクニカル執筆プロジェクト（代表 山田祥寛）。海外記事の翻訳から、主にWeb開発分野の書籍・

Germany's top soldier has resigned over a Nato air strike in Afghanistan in which civilians were killed, the defence minister said. Wolfgang Schneiderhan stood down over the 4 September attack in Kunduz on fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban.

Ever since I experienced the “Where Are Your Keys” language fluency game with Willem Larsen, I’ve been thinking about how to apply the concepts to learning other than languages.  One of the fascinating concepts I gleaned from this game is the separate dimensions of proficiency and fluency.  The proficiency scale that Willem ...

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Kamal Meattle used three just three indoor plant species to increase oxygen, filter air, and boost general health at a a New Delhi business park. You too can use them to freshen your indoor space.

「Second Life Enterprise」は企業のファイアウォール内で展開でき、イントラネット並のセキュリティが確保できるという。

Unit Testing of Dates is oft talked about problem – consider that you can’t depend on an absolute date in the test case. If the test it does then the test will only succeed on that date. Instead the standard advice is to use dependency injection (Adam Sroka, BigVisible) :

As promised, Wikileaks is releasing on to the 'net more than half a million confidential pager messages sent around September 11, 2001. The data includes pager messages sent by officials from the NYPD and the Pentagon, as well as citizens who witnessed the collapse of the twin towers. As I scroll through the archives, though, what strikes me as ...

When I first started the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, it was a hard sell. But the loyal support of our fans has helped us defy the cynics and become a live music institution

In my previous article, Vertical-Align Misuse, I went over the proper way to use the CSS vertical-align property. Since then, I've noticed a lot of situations were the vertical-align property still does not seem to work as expected, having a series of images with varying dimensions centered inside of fixed size containers being the most frequent ...

This wireless temperature sensor project uses an XBee, breakout board, and simple power supply to transmit temperature data to an Arduino base station. This looks like it could be easily expanded into a whole house monitoring system. [via Arduino.cc

Today I decided to research how much my favorite blog’s are earning every month and I wasn’t surprised to see some of them in the 6 figures! I hope from this list you will see just how powerful blogging can be and inspire you to create a blog, if you haven’t already! It is also worth noting that the top blogging network, Weblogs,

Se você só utiliza o seu pendrive para carregar seus arquivos de um lado para o outro, como fazia na época dos disquetes flexíveis, saiba que está deixando de aproveitar uma poderosa ferramenta.

I didn’t find a good step-by-step guide on how to create a .NET Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) provider with a manifest. And there are some caveats I would like to share with the community so here I go.

Consumer expectations that favourite brands are actively tackling climate change will be challenged tomorrow by a report showing that some of Britain's top corporate names, including Barclays, Amazon and Sky, are lagging behind their competitors and failing to respond to the lead set by the government.

Amazonの「PayPhrase」サービスでは、パスワードの代わりに自分で決めた合い言葉と暗証番号を入力することで、オンラインショッピングの支払い手続きができる。

Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.

【ニュースクリップについて】　テクノロジビジネスと一言で言っても、世界ではいろいろなニュースが日々起きています。CNET Japanに掲載されなかったニュースの中にも、明日のビジネスにつながるヒントは隠されているはずです。ここでは、そうしたニュー�

There’s nothing particularly original about the observation that the Dutch have a peculiar national relationship to their landscape (and, in particular, its hydrology), but that peculiarity produces endlessly fascinating oddities and, apparently, endless mammoth posts on Dutch hydrology.  As lewism noted on one such post, Bulwarks and Flux:

I recently wrote-up some Clojure-based Wide Finder work, in Parallel I/O and References. Driven mostly by ideas from commenters, I did some refactoring and knob-spinning. The results are interim at best, and on US-Thanksgiving eve almost nobody’s looking, but it’s good to get this stuff on the record.

Most executives are pretty smart, capable people, but many (if not most) get a failing grade for social media, particularly blogs. While there are always exceptions to the rule, there are in fact very few good executive blogs. I’ve read many “leading” or “top 10” executive blogs (based on traffic and word-of-mouth, more than anything) ...

　ロサンゼルス発--検索の分野で既に他社を大きく引き離しているGoogleは、音楽ディスカバリの世界でも重要な存在になりたいと考えている。

In preparing for a workshop next week, I have been putting together a short presentation to explain the full breadth of e-learning, and to direct attention away from the fixation, in workplace learning at least, on self-paced interactive content. My model breaks down e-learning into three main forms:

Exclusive The first person jailed under draconian UK police powers that Ministers said were vital to battle terrorism and serious crime has been identified by The Register as a schizophrenic science hobbyist with no previous criminal record.

Many here in America want to see justice done with both GW Bush and Blair. Both have spilled innocent blood based on lies of WMD. Remember when they were talking about Sadam Hussein and all of his "chemical weapons" only to find out that if indeed he was loaded to the hilt with them, the USA is the country that sold them to him in the 1st place. ...

In October, Mac US retail desktop computer revenue share was 47.71, percent up from 33.44 percent a year earlier, according to NPD. It's a stunning number, given just how many Windows PC companies combined command so much more market share, while competing for the same revenue share.

NOTE: If the installation froze after you loaded the saved game and talked to the man, chances are you need to use the other saved game.

Ever wanted to learn Vim, but weren't sure how to start? No problem. We have you covered! This will be the first of a four-part (possibly longer) series covering how to use Vim and where to start using the world's best text editor.

The scientist at the heart of the climate change scandal was under growing pressure to quit last night. George Monbiot, a leading environmentalist, said Phil Jones should resign from the Climatic Research Unit over leaked emails that appear to show researchers suppressed scientific data.

　ヤフーは26日、「Yahoo! JAPAN」のトップページをオフィス向けに最適化した「オフィス版Yahoo!トップページβ版」を公開した。Yahoo! JAPANのトップページで、左上にある「オフィス版」のボタンを押すことで、表示が切り替えられる。

Acabei de saber que a Garmin lançou mais uma atualização do Garmin Mobile XT. Entre as novidades esta nova versão funciona no Nokia 5800 e N97. Isso quer dizer que agora aceita touch screen.

This article is the second in a series and part of ongoing research on web app performance. Get updates on the latest YDN articles via Twitter, follow @ydn.

In a few weeks, one of the most anticipated and expensive movies ever made will debut on movie screens across the world: Avatar. The sci-fi epic is making huge buzz for its unparalleled filmmaking technology, its award-winning director (James Cameron), and its record-breaking $230+ million budget.

In CSS, there are certain selectors you can use that act like you've injected new HTML into the page and have the flexibility to style those new imaginary elements. These are known as pseudo-elements.