‘Tis the season for gratitude and, as a business owner, you have a special group of people in your life who deserve your gratitude: your employees. There are many ways you can show your appreciation and say “thank you” for their hard work. This is the perfect time of year to step back and think about how your business gives back ...

Cuteness is usually characterized by some combination of infant-like physical traits, especially small body size with a disproportionately large head, large eyes, and round and softer body features. Infantile personality traits, such as playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity, innocence, affectionate behavior, and a need to be nurtured ...

Come January 1, fuel suppliers across California will have to abide by the state's Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The standard aims to reduce the "life-cycle carbon intensity" of fuels consumed by cars, trucks, and other vehicles by 10 percent over the coming decade and, in the process, even the playing field for low-carbon alternatives.

Good indexes are the key to good performance in SQL Server and the key to creating good indexes is to understand what indexes are and how SQL Server uses them to evaluate queries.

I am using an OL (Ordered List) as I believe it is the most appropriate HTML element to use since we are dealing with a list of code lines for which order matters. The reward we get from using this semantic element is that it naturally handles the numbering of the lines for us, so there is no need to worry about deleting or adding a whole LI ( ...

I scoff at Christmas decorations in stores before Thanksgiving is over, but in the spirit of, if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em & for those of us already thinking about spending our scant $$ for holiday gifts–it seemed like a good moment to list nonprofits that sell stuff — specifically, gifts for the holidays!

With so much attention being focused on the current state of health care, many people are now beginning to look deeper into how and why the system isn’t working so well. An important element of affecting positive change and ensuring that those in charge are being fair and equitable is to keep an eye on the ethics of the profession. From ...

I've been writing tutorials inspired by skateboard deck designs for a few weeks and today it's not going to be different. I'm very addicted to that, I love the ideas some of the designers have and for this tutorial I will recreate a really nice effect with lines forming a star. However I will go a little bit further and I will transform it in a ...

I started shooting film right around April of 2008, and here we are a year later! At first, I basically bought one of everything and just tried all the different films available to me. Over time, I started leaning toward certain brands and even specific films. Now, I’m fairly picky about what I shoot — though I’m always open to ...

The long tail of search demand has been around since the dawn of web search and, since that time, search marketers have been attempting to tap into the powerful stream that high quantities of unique content can provide. I recently came across some great data from Hitwise (about 1 year old, but still highly relevant) showing off just how ...

The shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early Wednesday, carried out a photo-documentation fly around and inspected the ship's critical nose cap and wing leading edge panels to make sure they haven't been damaged since a similar inspection the day after launch.

Music, like all art forms, is an art that is constantly evolving. In recent years, new technology has invoked the emergence of an entirely new genre of music - one that has decidedly substituted instruments and vocals for laptops and computer software. Take a stroll past any residence hall or fraternity, and it is more than likely that you'll ...

Yesterday I wanted to create a graph of 4 series of numbers along an x axis representing time. I know some GD related modules can do this so I wondered over to search.cpan.org and looked at some of the modules. The problem I encountered is lack of examples and lack of display of results.

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It's been almost 4 months since my Drupal 7: What's In It For You? presentation and in that time we've had: Drupalcon Paris, Code Slush, Code Freeze and numerous code, UX and doc sprints. I thought now might be a good time to check out the latest from CVS and see what's new.

A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and exchange links and resources about the adoption challenges, strategy, and ROI of nonprofits and social media.

It’s no secret that there’s a large difference in the ratio of males to females in the web design industry, but that’s not to say there isn’t any amazingly talented female designers out there. This post rounds up 40 of the most notable and prominent female designers, who can be seen as perfect role models for anyone ...

One of the most interesting epiphanies I've had over the last few years seems on the surface like a paradox: "help" in Office is mostly used by experts and enthusiasts.

It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging(1). I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.

We're suckers for any project that involves Legos, and the DIY gurus at weblog Make play to our weaknesses with this saucy Lego recharger and key holder.

I’ve been looking to get a tablet PC for some time now and I’ve just recently picked up a Dell Latitude XT2, which includes multi-touch support. It arrived the same day as the Windows 7 Release Candidate, so the default Windows Vista install, disappeared pretty quickly.

Given how much information can be found in people's smart phones—contact lists, emails littered with details about their personal lives and their work, company documents and data, personal financial information and passwords—it's startling how little most users feel the need to protect the devices.

CBS should be pleased with its choice to allow Microsoft to sync Xbox LIVE to Last.fm, as the partnership has already netted the streaming music service nearly a million new subscribers. Last.fm went live on Xbox last Tuesday, and both companies are already hyping the deal as a success in terms of the numbers. CBS (NYSE: CBS) says it broke a ...

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Storing hoses and cords can pose a challenge. They're long, prone to kinking and retaining the "memory" of how they were stored, and consistently storing them in an improper manner hastens their demise. Store them properly with these three techniques.

Before web music service Spotify launched, serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky called it “Joost for music,” drawing a comparison with the once-promising web video provider. Now that Joost has sold off its assets for a pittance in a deal that came to light this morning, the comparison is no longer flattering –- but there are still plenty of ...

Alain Pierrot et Jean Sarzana viennent de publier une très intéressante contribution sur la définition du Livre numérique (originellement publiée sur le site de Livres hebdo, mais inaccessible, l’article a été repris par Aldus et pdfisé par François Bon (.pdf)). Leur approche vise à cerner d’une manière conceptuelle le ...

Apart from the obvious candidates (visio, omnigraffle etc) there’s loads of new wireframing and prototyping tool available now. At Lbi I’m going to be running a mini evaluation session. I was wondering if any one has used one or more of the following:

BAGHDAD — Amira Edan, the director of Iraq’s National Museum, says that soon she will no longer have to worry so much that the famous institution remains closed to the public for fear of violence.

Go ahead and take that second helping of bacon-broasted mashed potatoes and high-fat gravy this Thursday, friends, because even if your tummy gets big and round like a steamed black bean bun, there’s an app for that.

For me, life is about adventure and charity. Live life, and do as many things that your time and money will allow. Help out friends, family and strangers with your hands, affection and money.

As another way to look at the 100 ways to measure social media, I've broken it out into how the metrics answer six key questions: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How.

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - There's a lot of information out there on how to do specific things with ASP.NET MVC, but not much in the way of architectural approaches that you can use to leverage the new MVC option. Indeed, there are many ways to set your application up using MVC, but one of them (in my mind) has some added benefits that you may ...

I’m not sure any lasting change will come from our series of Scamville posts. For now the most egregious of the social gaming offers are gone, which is a good thing. But none of the big players seem to have felt much pain. And, importantly, Facebook’s rules still allow most of the really bad stuff (as long as users are being told in ...

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One of the few things I actually like about winter approaching is that I get to pull out one of my favourite frosty weather cookbooks, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow by Diana Henry. This beautiful little collection of wintry recipes from the colder climates of the world - from Quebec and New England to Scandinavia and Russia - is filled with stunning ...

I wrote out the directions and specifications for making the bird skirt, and it’s now available to you free! of charge! and you should be excited because it took me about three hours to write it, take the pictures, and get everything ready for your viewing pleasure–that’s about as long as it takes to make it. You can click ...

… bepalen in samenspel het resultaat van het gebruik van Web 2.0-toepassingen zoals blogs, wiki’s en andere sociale netwerken binnen de grenzen van de organisatie. De waarde en het resultaat van het inzetten van dit soort sociale netwerken hangt af van de fase waarin de uitdaging (doelstelling of te bereiken resultaat) zich bevindt, de reden ...

Utilizar aplicaciones que están alojadas en Internet, almacenar información en servidores de esa red mundial. Eso es usar servicios "en la nube". La nube (por Internet) es la metáfora que se está imponiendo entre los cercanos a la tecnología digital para referir un fenómeno que no es nuevo, pero que está tomando un renovado impulso, y que ...

Do you have a job interview coming up soon? Have you made mistakes in interviews in the past? Whatever the scenario is, everyone needs tips on how to do well in a job interview - especially college graduates. Here you'll learn about researching the position and company, what to bring to the interview, correct communication, and more. Watch this ...

Belgium] Brussels-based Attentio, a startup that markets a robust software suite for brand monitoring and analysis of conversations that are happening in social media, has raised €525,000 (or $786,000) in financing from the city’s regional investment firm SRIB/GIMB.

Given my long-standing interest in the social and community aspects of coffeehouse culture, I was intrigued by a number of articles about Byant Simon's book, "Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks", that turned up during web searches and in some of the links in the tweetstream of @CoffeeShopChat. Over the ...

Upcoming has been a rather neglected web application since it was acquired by Yahoo, but this week they've announced a new feature that lets you know when bands you like are in town based on Pandora, Last.fm, or iTunes.

Socialist author Robert Kuttner once called Proposition 13, California's 1978 property-tax-cut initiative, the revolt of the haves. The latest opposition by UC students to a 32% increase in tuition is a revolt of the "will-haves."

Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That's sad, because it's an easy, free way to try or use a separate OS without messing with your hard drive.

Hace unos pocos días estuve examinando un formulario de contacto mejorado mediante scripts AJAX, inspirado por este trabajo, me he decidido a actualizar el formulario de contacto de este sitio construyendo mi propia versión.

As users, we make mistakes. As designers, we need to design with mistakes in mind, as I argued in my recent article, Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo. Undo is the ultimate safety net, lending an incredible sense of solidity to an interface. That’s why every desktop application from Word to Photoshop provides multiple-level Undo.

So you finished your amazing new iPhone app, it scrolls like butter, now you need to show the world. You could make a screencast by clicking around in the iPhone Simulator, but that has a tendency to look like you just clicked around in the iPhone Simulator.

I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time, and it looks like David Lean beat me to it earlier this year by posting an incredibly thorough four-part discussion of how to do conditional formatting in Reporting Services. I’ve played with his sample code a bit and put together a variation on his theme that meets some additional requirements, ...

We’re interviewing a bunch of brilliant word of mouth marketers as previews for the Word of Mouth Supergenius conference in Chicago on Dec. 16. In this interview, Mitch Joel shares some of the big ideas behind his new book, “Six Pixels of Separation”:

You can add alternative content to the container element (that you pass to the plugin). This will be replaced by your tweets when the plugin is executed by jQuery. If JavaScript is disabled or the plugin fails, your visitors will still see your alternative content - a good idea therefore would be to include a link to your twitter profile.

L'originalité de ces tartelettes réside dans la pâte, à base de Cantal ( entre deux ). Elles sont excessivement rapides et simples de réalisation, la garniture est plutôt légère, il n'y a ni crème ni oeuf.

There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart from the people who build it and use it.

President Obama today unveiled key details of the U.S. negotiation position headed into next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen, including a provisional greenhouse gas emissions target for 2020 "in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels" and a new itinerary that includes a personal appearance during the opening days of the U.N. ...

“Gestresste oder um eine Antwort verlegene Politiker neigen zu Schönsprech. Zu Euphemismen oder Formulierungen, die vage und unkonkret sind und so an den harten Wahrheiten vorbeigehen, dass man sie oft nicht ernst nehmen kann.” – M. Illner, 2007

British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has has warned the Canadian medical authorities that a batch of its anti-H1N1 vaccine can trigger potentially dangerous allergic reactions. The Canadians have withdrawn the batch from use and are testing it after it produced a range of serious reactions, notably in the heart and lungs. The recall affects 172, ...

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If a picture speaks a thousand words, then these incredible images speak volumes. The photographs below catalogue some of the most influential moments of the past 100 years, captured by professional photographers, opportunist photojournalists and intrepid explorers alike.

SharpHSQL – A port of the java HSQL database. The project on gotdotnet is very inactive. Has not been ported to .net 2.0. SQL 2005 Express – The free version of SQL server. It technically can be embedded. But the installer is fairly large (~36 MB) and to embed it you need to include an MSI merge module. XCopy deployment is out of the question.

Okay, after many iterations and changes, I've finally packaged up the Meld URL Interceptor for the Mura CMS into a functional plugin. This is mainly a development tool, to be sure, but I'm sure the creative out there will find many uses for it.  Perhaps best of all, it's free (GPL 2 licensed)!

Using Twitter as a marketing tool for business is something still in the nascent stage on the Internet marketing frontier. The following web tools may be helpful in organizing your marketing campaign on the internet and help use twitter as a marketing enhancement tool.

The first step to growing a good career in the face of Asperger's Syndrome is to recognize that this is a social skills deficit, by definition, and work, by definition, is a social skills decathlon.

One of the cool security features in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to parts of web.config. Web.config encryption uses XML encryption standards at its core.

Two top Democrats say they want to impose a new tax on the wealthy to finance any increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., chairman of the purse string-controlling House Appropriations Committee, is calling the idea a "war surtax." He said that just as the federal government is expected to pay for its proposed ...

@B3astofthe3ast In addition to the Dinovos (even the big one has a touchpad), the PS3 has a wierd version with a thumb-keyboard whose service is touch sensitive as if it were a mouse. Doesn't seem to work well from reviews though.

Some of you may have seen this already, in the e4 M2 new & noteworthy document: We are bringing Eclipse and the Web closer together. This work, a collaboration between Benjamin Cabé of Sierra Wireless and myself, is happening in the e4 project, which is the incubator area where we work on new technology, mostly for the Eclipse SDK 4.0 ...

I first posted this poem many years ago when I was an undergraduate and, since then, have received a great deal of feedback on its profound impact on people’s lives. It provides a succinct recipe for success and happiness. I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world.

The stark evidence of the growing imbalance between what the Government raises and what it spends is likely to intensify the political row over the public finances and may strengthen calls for cuts in spending.

We've been doing our Union Square Sessions events for almost as long as our firm has been around. We pick a topic, like Hacking Eduction, that interests us and we invite about forty people to sit around a big open table and talk about the issue for four to five hours. There are no presentations. We have amazing discussions at these events.

Au beau milieu des Etats-Unis, l'après-pétrole a commencé. Au pays de l'essence pas chère et de la négation du réchauffement, des groupes de citoyens se sont donné pour mission d'aider les communautés américaines à se préparer à la double échéance de la fin du pétrole et du changement climatique. Leur mouvement a un nom : la ...

A number of readers have asked me for an "elevator speech" that describes how I think our civilization will collapse by the end of this century. Being more of a "picture" person I decided to try to answer that question graphically. The result is shown above.

I’ve read on different forums questions of people asking how they can make the innerText property work in Firefox. Many have suggested to use the innerHTML property instead, but that would not be useful because, obviously, the HTML tags would be either rendered or displayed (an example of the latter would be if we want such text to be ...

Tools such as fork/join frameworks based on work-stealing algorithms make the task easier, but it still takes a fair bit of expertise and tuning. Bulk-data APIs such as parallel arrays allow computations to be expressed in terms of higher-level, SQL-like operations (e.g., filter, map, and reduce) which can be mapped automatically onto the ...

In all of the chatter surrounding the Demi Moore W cover controversy, many people have insisted that her vanished hip is part of a perfectly natural pose. They were correct. The photo shows the natural standing pose... of a runway model in her mid-twenties. It appears that Moore's head, legs, and arms were superimposed on the hips and torso of ...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development today released new data on tax burdens in its 30 member countries. Across the organization, overall tax revenue totaled an estimated 35.2 percent of gross domestic product in 2008, down half a percentage point from 2007. The organization expects that tax burdens will fall further in 2009.

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Windows/Mac: Postbox is an email client that helps you re-discover all the photos, attachments, and links buried in your email, as well as organize newer mail. Think of it as Thunderbird with a file-managing fixation.

Are your passwords written down on a piece of paper taped to the bottom of your keyboard? Zipped up in a passworded archive? Stowed away in a passwords.doc file?

You don't usually see people ( including me!) talk about their mistakes openly. But I think it is good to think about the mistakes we made in the past, so that we don't commit the same errors in the future.

David Armano is a senior partner at Dachis Group. This is my personal blog where I share thoughts + opinions that are solely my own. Logic+Emotion exists at the intersection of business, design + the social web.

Illegal immigrant wearing a wet-suit under his clothes jumps from Channel ferry during storm and washes up at Sandbanks Tessa Jowell's 'technicolour dreamcoat' fashion faux pas: Olympics minister reveals too much on stroll to Downing Street

Continuing on from the recent post; Graphic Design Inspiration. Here’s another selection of inspiring Graphic Artwork from a range of extremely talented artists. Selectively picked from Designflavr – a new art and design aggregator pulling together a variety of different art forms such as Illustration, Urban Art and Digital Art to ...

Last week I attended a Market Research workshop presented by Dr. Dean Chang, Director of Mtech Ventures and Education. Instead of the general advice given at many market research presentations, Dr. Chang put himself in the shoes of a founder and walked us through some motions. This article will cover his take on analyzing public SEC filings.

Professor Phil Jones Director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich says charges of conspiracy over climate change are 'rubbish'. Photograph: University of East Anglia