Hace 13 años, un equipo de investigadores que estudiaba el meteorito hallado en Allan Hills (Antártico), encontró pruebas de que la roca podría contener fósiles de bacterias marcianas. El revuelo fue tremendo y polarizó a la comunidad científica; desde entonces la discusión sigue abierta. Hace 5 años en Astroseti nos hicimos eco del ...

Voici les sites qui parlent de Les bonnes questions à notre Secrétaire d'Etat chargée de la Prospective et du Développement de l'économie numérique :

算術式のトークンを読み取るトークンスキャナーをJavaScriptで実装すると、次のような感じでしょう。[追記]うへーー、なんでこんなに長いんだ？ と思った方は最後の追記を見てください。[/追記

Blender 2.49b est sorti il y a deux jours. Pas de réelles nouveautés en perspective, mais simplement une grande liste de bugs corrigés puisque la version précédente Blender 2.49a n'était manifestement pas assez satisfaisante de ce côté. C'est agréable de voir le sérieux du suivi de la Fondation Blender, alors même qu'une énorme ...

PHP es un lenguaje de script, multiplataforma, publicado bajo una licencia libre, que se suele utilizar del lado del servidor para crear páginas web dinámicas. A día de hoy es el tercer lenguaje más popular del mercado según el índice TIOBE, sólo por detrás de Java y C.

The Spring Framework supports and enhance the standard localization java mechanism with property files in order to provide an easy of use of resource bundles.

Tony Blair's view on regime change in Iraq "tightened" after a private meeting with President Bush in 2002, the UK's former US ambassador has said.

Climate change is likely to increase the number of civil wars raging in Africa, according to Stanford researchers. Historical records show that in warmer-than-average years, the number of conflicts rises. The researchers predict that by 2030, Africa could see a greater than 50 percent increase in civil wars, which could mean an additional 390,000 ...

In web application or software, very often we will need to present collected data to the users. Back in the olden days, data such as traffic statistics and clicking hits were presented through simple numbers or words, this method is plain and simple.

Alright, alright, so it's local news, but still, come on. I wonder if the newscaster even bats an eye as he's reading the numbers off the teleprompter:

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

WPF supports multitouch API’s in .NET 4. You can have touch and manipulation operations on all the UI elements.

You’ve got less than two days to prepare Thanksgiving dinner. Is the menu set? Do you have a cooking timetable ready? Uh oh. LESLIE HARPOLD offers sage advice for those whose stuffing isn’t quite ready for prime time.

In the course of the last three days I have spent at the 2009 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF), I have heard speeches from many politicians and policy-makers — from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma to Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning ...

A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Compete, ://URLFAN doesn't measure website traffic. It's similar to Technorati, only ://URLFAN ranks all websites and ...

You might be familiar with the plugin jQuery Dock which allows developers to create a menu like Apple Dock. Today, you will create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn’t have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it’s helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS. This ...

Wow I just booted MSDOS 1.0 from a USB drive and it took less than a second, beat that Chrome! Can't wait to be productive & getting things done with a browser!

Afgelopen woensdag vond in Eindhoven het Co-creation Event 09 plaats. Een middag georganiseerd door Redesignme en Syntens in samenwerking met een aantal andere bedrijven gespecialiseerd in co-creatie.

Last week I was trying to enable variations using a feature in SharePoint, but I soon realized that I had a problem because Microsoft decided to make all the variation-class internal. So that shouldn't be a problem, why not use reflection. That didn't work either, so back to the good old Lutz Roeder's Reflector to see what's going ...

Some early adopters of Apple's second-generation iPhone have witnessed thin cracks appear at the edges of the device that damage the phone's look and threaten to pose a larger threat down the road.

【目指せ「クイズマスター」！！】（QMA好き必見！今すぐに出来るやりこみ要素満載のオンラインクイズゲームです）

I'm back from Devoxx, where I had a very pleasant stay, nice discussions with many attendees and speakers, and it's always a great opportunity to meet friends you haven't seen in a while! And this time, I was there with my friend Patrick Chanezon from Google, to speak about Google App Engine, Groovy and Gaelyk. I've uploaded our slides on ...

Значит автозавершение вам не нужно и оно уже есть :). Я просто больше люблю rake из rubygems ставить, а там он без автозавершения.

28 Nov 2007: A Chinese warship today sailed into the Japanese capital, for the first time in more than 70 years, on a goodwill visit to reaffirm the friendship between the two countries

And well they should.  The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a free-speech activist group that fights political-correctness codes on college campuses, has found plenty of problems with the University of Minnesota’s new requisites for students in its education program.  And in fact, the problem is actually worse than first ...

Closures are reusable code blocks in Groovy. The code of the closure is executed against the delegate of the closure. By default the owner of the closure is the same as the delegate, but we can change this. We can define which object is the delegate for a closure, so we can change the object the closure is executed for.

Note: The excellent SuperDuper! isn't yet fully Leopard-compatible, or else we would've included it here—and its boot cloning capability is still very useful, even with Time Machine. We haven't yet tested Carbon Copy Cloner on Leopard.

James Sturm has quietly become one of the most reliably excellent comics artists in the country. His period pieces are crammed with historical detail and powerful dramatic scenes, though the best of them is the one with the oddest premise: The Golem’s Mighty Swing, about a barnstorming 1920s Jewish baseball team that tempts fate by engaging ...

Engineers probably won't understand the value of having you involved. After all, they can probably build your idea or some other equally good idea themselves. It takes direct experience spending whole nights awake writing blog posts, calling Japanese leads and obsessing over traffic numbers to understand that a good product is only part of the ...

ITV has taken full control of the breakfast TV broadcaster GMTV, buying the 25% share it did not already own from Disney for £22.25m. The deal is structured as a one-off cash payment of £18m to Disney for its 25% stake, plus a further sum of £4.25m, which represents its share of the forecast cash balance in the GMTV business as at the year end.

If you are just looking for a utility to test or troubleshoot your forms, try Form Post Tester/Viewer. An HTML form allows users to fill out a number of fields and submit the data to the Web site. Creating an html form on a Web page is a relatively simple task. Collecting the submitted data, however, has been more complex.

Oh, how I wish I could pull this out of the computer screen.  I made them last night, ate two and I’ve been craving more ever since.  I’d had a bag of frozen roll dough tucked in my freezer for a while now, waiting for the perfect inspiration.  It was worth the wait.

Okey doke. Thanks for the link to O'Reilly, I hadn't known he quit working for Fox network. Given Fox had a total of 3.04M viewers and O'Reilly had 5M, maybe Fox can get O'Reilly back. That would really make their viewership numbers jump, wouldn't it?

Another warm, comforting soup.  I found this recipe on a message board I frequent.  The soup was originally served in St. Cloud, MN.  I altered the recipe pretty heavily, though.  The idea and method are the same, but some of the details have been changed.

Tags: Business Operations, Employees, More... Business Operations, Employees, Facilities, Finance, Logistics, Marketing & Communication, Purchasing, Supply Chain, The Green Office

Most of you should be familiar with the term virus, trojan, spyware, adware and worm. What about rootkit? A rootkit allows someone, either legitimate or malicious, to maintain control over a computer system, without the computer system user knowing about it. Rootkits are the toughest malware to detect because they often fools the users to believe ...

livedoorブログがついったーをまとめるサービスを開始していたので、神戸一日目のつぶやきをまとめてみた (キツネハンターのブログ)

Tables are a very important part of HTML, but they can also be a pain to deal with. Using TableGear, we can create dynamic tables that you can edit “on the fly” and sort according to your needs. And all that, with almost no effort.

Answers to questions from the "EMAIL" link will be posted to the "Your Questions" RSS feed on a best-effort basis. I will NOT reply privately because public answers to most questions benefit everyone. Help Me Help You

Instead of incorporating all possible actions you can perform on microformats into one monolithic extension, Tails allows users to customize the functionality of the extension using Tails Scripts. A Tails Scripts is a piece of JavaScript that allows you to perform certain actions on the microformats found on a web page.

チュートリアルを元に、Photoshop用のパターンファイルを作成したので、よかったらどうぞ。

Google's Chrome OS operating system adds some attractive features to the PC versions of the Chrome browser Although it won't be available for another year, Google's Chrome OS is an attempt to take over the fast-growing netbook part of the PC market, which is currently dominated by Microsoft. It's aimed at people who live their lives online, and ...

A UK-based cyberlaw blog by Lilian Edwards. Specialising in online privacy and security law, cybercrime, online intermediary law (including eBay and Google law), e-commerce, digital property, filesharing and whatever captures my eye:-) Based at The Law Faculty of Sheffield University - personal profile here

Craigslist is a great website. So great, it so happens, that I've heard some people spend a considerable amount of time staring at its endless stream of postings.

The debate on environmentalism -- specifically as regards the environmental movement itself -- has been marked by confusion since the beginning. Criticism of environmentalist thinking tends to confuse means with goals. Environmentalist reforms, however they are presented and whatever they may involve, are simply means of pushing forward the Green ...

This Direct3D 10 renderer for Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex and Rune aims to provide a good, consistent looking and future proof renderer for these games. The focus is not on fancy effects; the idea is to have something that will allow these games to perform well and look good on modern systems, something which I can support and bugfix. ...

When you look at Enterprise 2.0, you can see the hype pretty clearly but what is not so evident is how social computing efforts are faring within corporations and large organizations.

At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in 1973. But recently, the manuals resurfaced,

Hi, a good news. Instead of being in a recession, our company has decided to increase the employee salaries by 15 %. That's amazing, in this market, to get 15%!!!!!. As a database developer, I need to apply this incremental for the employee table. In my company, we have the traditional emp table, from which for the shake of simplicity, I have ...

is one of the early innovators of this style of blogging and has been creating custom blog post designs since June 2008. With a background in print design, Jason had a vision to create a blog more in the style of a magazine, rather than obey the established rules of blog design.

The Shapeways 3D printed Stainless Steel BrandingIron Co-Creator is one of the more creative and insane things we've ever done.  You type in your text or send us a link to a logo and we model and 3D print a mini branding iron for you. The branding iron clicks onto standard disposable lighters. You simply turn the lighter on for 30 seconds until ...

When Google announced its proposed $750 million acquisition of AdMob earlier this month, there was little question that the deal would create a powerhouse in mobile display advertising. But exactly how strong a position the combined companies would have was more difficult to quantify.

A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation,

Security forces in the Philippines have made a series of arrests following the murder of 57 people in an election-related massacre. Troops and police swooped on towns on the southern island of Mindanao, run by the powerful Ampatuan family.

While there are several software and hardware hacks for boosting your Wi-Fi signal (see below), there are also a few simple adjustments you can make to an unmodded access point to get the best coverage. The NY Times says:

linkfluence, études marketing & opinion — Mots-clefs :cartographie, conference, eurosphere, pdfeu — Guilhem Fouetillou @ 16 h 02 min Pour tous ceux qui suivent le PDF Europe (IRL, sur twitter ou en live streaming), voici le support de présentation de linkfluence. Nous avons proposé une première tentative de cartographie du web ...

"3. All promotions must be hosted on a third-party site and through an opt-in application developed specifically for the promotion. Promotions using general Facebook features such as photo uploads, wall posts or discussion boards are not acceptable."

What it does is change the action for the Form that is already embedded into the DotNetNuke default.aspx page.

The iTunes store changed the way people buy music, while Hulu has changed the way TV shows are watched in the US. Now the three biggest US magazine publishers, Hearst, Time Inc and Condé Nast are planning an online storefront for the digital versions of their magazines.

Please consider filling out the form below.  The explanation is in the form.  I’ll send the data (or an analysis of the data) to Alec and/or his tenure committee.

Log in to an OpenID enabled websites has become more user friendly for Google users. They can use their Google profiles URL for login now. Google has been an OpenID provider since October 2008 already. However users had to remember a rather cryptic URL, www.google.com/accounts/o8/id, which was the same for all users. Alternatively, relying ...

A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Compete, ://URLFAN doesn't measure website traffic. It's similar to Technorati, only ://URLFAN ranks all websites and ...

夫婦間ではどのようなことを言ってはいけないのだろうか。NGキーワードについて聞いたところ、男性に対しては「安月給・出世しない」、女性には「ほか（昔）の女性と比べた発言」がそれぞれトップだった。オーネット調べ。

The ‘proper’ way to do user interface design is hotly contested in the OSS software development world, and the discussions usually boil down to three suggestions:

Realidade Aumentada é uma das mais novas inovações na indústria eletrônica. Através dela, podemos sobrepor gráficos, audio e qualquer outra melhoria nas telas de um computador após termos captado imagens de um ambiente externo e dispor esses novos periféricos em tempo-real. No entanto, a Realidade Aumentada vai muito além de gráficos ...

There is more to being green than driving a Prius and buying local produce. Duncan Clark sheds further light on the eco-friendly messages we've come to take for granted

Existem pessoas que jogam seus velhos discos no lixo, mas também existem pessoas que os recolhem e transformam em arte. Em especial, Christian Marclay, um artista visual de Nova York, DJ e compositor que usou as capas dos discos de Michael Jackson, Doors, Dona Summer, David Bowie entre outros artistas famosos para fazer sua obra de arte. A relaç�

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer

You got to love these wallpapers. They are colorful but color balanced, bright or dark, simple but efficient, curly, swirly and lovely, they are some fine pieces of art. Some of them might seem simplistic but others can be quite detailed, because the designers tend to show respect to detail. I have to tell you (or remind you) that there are some ...

BtoB magazine’s “2010 Outlook” indicates social media marketing will be of rising importance for business-to-business (B2B) marketers. Website, e-mail and search spending were at the top of the list for online tactics to increase, but social media was not far behind. Six in 10 B2B marketers planned to up spending on social in 2010.

Hace unos momentos terminó el Seminario virtual con Francis Pisani: ocho herramientas web para ejercer un periodismo más práctico y apasionante, organizado por la Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano.

Practice makes perfect, but how? Two groups of neuroscientists using MRI brain imaging announced last month that they were able to see changes inside the brains of people after mastering a new skill. The big surprise is that the part of the brain that changed has no neurons or synapses in it! The cerebral remodeling during learning was seen in ...

Everyone in your office jump when you hear that tired old Nokia ringtone? Most modern cell phones support custom ringtones that can embarrass alert you when it's your phone that's got an incoming call.

Prominent figures in George Bush’s administration were calling for regime change in Iraq before his Camp David meeting with Tony Blair in February 2001. Photograph: Luke Frazza/EPA

Today's fast-paced media could be making us indifferent to human suffering and should allow time for us to reflect, according to researchers. They found that emotions linked to moral sense are slow to respond to news and events and have failed to keep up with the modern world.

See that little login window on the top right of this Web page? Mozilla, through Firefox, wants to do away with it--for all the best reasons. Mozilla's plan will simplify how you log into sites because, lets face it, IDing yourself should be easier.

Four Archbishops, including Cardinal Desmond Connell, will be named over their mishandling of hundreds of allegations, including not reporting crimes to the police.

I have been inspired by a post by Soon Hui to write about my mistakes. I have evolved much on the programming side during these years, but my biggest mistakes have been social and economic: dealing with other people. Thus, I have collect a list of my errors committed as a php freelance developer.

Some feel it is wonderful because it is the spiritual home of a band that was once cool, the Cardigans. But now all committed social networkers will think Malmo is wonderful because of its IKEA. You see, the Swedish purveyor of fast-food furniture decided to open a new store in Malmo and didn't really have a lot of money to let people know about ...

Congressional Republicans have started investigating climate scientists whose hacked emails suggest they tried to squelch dissenting views about global warming.

(Photo: Phillip Toledano; styling by Marie Blomquist for I Group; prop styling by Anne Koch; hair by Kristan Serafino for L'Oreal Professionnel; makeup by Viktorija Bowers for City Artists; clothing by Petit Bateau [shirt and pants])

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has unveiled a Network of Men Leaders to act as male role models in a campaign opposing violence against women. He urged all men to join the campaign, saying about 70% of women experience some form of physical or sexual violence from men.

Der heutige Post enthält eine Präsentation von Hal Varian, Chef-Ökonom bei Google. Hal Varian und sein Team haben es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die Funktionalität der AdWords-Auktion weiterzuentwickeln und sie effizienter zu gestalten. Heute stellt er eine neue Anleitung zur optimalen Gestaltung von Geboten vor, die Anzeigenkunden dabei helfen ...

En la era de la superabundancia de información es difícil encontrar una definición estricta de un neologismo, mientras Wikipedia no haya dado su visto bueno. Lo que le ocurre a un concepto como el Open Government es que la definición que ofrece la enciclopedia online por excelencia es excesivamente amplia:

Comments | Posted by Adam Singer on Nov 23rd, 2009 in Online Marketing, Online PR, Public Relations, Social Media Previously, I explored the intersection of social media and PR and explained why it is so important communications professionals leverage digital channels. In that post I touched on the following key points:

One of the items Fernand and I mentioned in our Lone Star talk was Stickler. This was a project I had originally started on back in June and it lay dormant for a little while.

アップル上級副社長に聞く：「デジタルライフスタイルの未来はiPhoneにある」――フィル・シラー (1/4) スティーブ・ジョブズCEOに続くアップルの顔、最近ではMacworldやWWDCといったイベントで基調講演も行っているフィル・シラー氏が来日し、MacやiPod、iPhoneの最

I’ve seen many people asking how to implement Listeners in their applications. Implementing a Listener is quite easy. There are 3 ways to implement an Listener and the have their advantages and disadvantages.

A grid is a tech­nique that comes from print design but eas­ily be applied to web design as well. In its strictest form a grid is lit­er­ally a grid of X by Y pixels.

Sometimes there's a song so meaningful, so hauntingly beautiful - it compels Neil Young to come onto Late Night and cover it. Tonight, one such song inspired a legend:

# file: /config/initializers/rescue_responses.rb # Raised when user tries to access page he/she has no access to class PermissionDenied Basically define your own custom exceptions, and add them to the ActionController::Base.rescue_responses hash. The key must match the class name of the exception, the value should match any of the HTTP status ...

Here’s video of children’s responses to the question: “What is Evolution?” It’s sponsored by Charlie’s Playhouse. The music’s a bit loud, but the responses are entertaining. My favorite is: “Then the monkeys turned into people monkeys”

I’ve written before about how to use Google’s normal search index to find unpublished opinions in Texas. Google has now formally added legal opinions to another of its products — Google Scholar — promising new ways to research legal case law (and some legal journals, too).

A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.

En un diminuto pueblo del oeste de Escocia llamado Milton, abrazado por las verdes tierras del condado de Dumbarton, existe un misterioso puente de estilo victoriano que ha suscitado el interés de científicos, charlatanes y parapsicólogos oportunistas. Desde los años 60, decenas de perros han sido seducidos por una inexplicable y voluntariosa ...

Nowadays, using jQuery effects is getting  increasingly popular within web templates and if you check some of new designed themes on themeforest , you probably can’t find a popular theme without any kind of jQuery effects. One of those effects that designers use it widely is jQuery image slideshow or image gallery which can be implemented ...

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

Go down to Home Depot or your local hardware store. Pick out some plywood. I had the guys down there cut it to the lengths I wanted. And guess what? They did it for FREE!

It was once imparted to the father over the phone, yet now it's men themselves who often tell their exhausted partner the sex of the child she has just delivered. But could men be more of a hindrance than a help in the delivery room?

In web application or software, very often we will need to present collected data to the users. Back in the olden days, data such as traffic statistics and clicking hits were presented through simple numbers or words, this method is plain and simple.

The HIV pandemic which started 28 years ago is officially in decline, two of the world's leading health organisations said yesterday. The number of new HIV infections peaked in the mid-1990s and has since declined by almost a third, according to the annual update on the pandemic for 2009, published yesterday by the Joint United Nations programme ...

Tags: Solution, Enterprise Software, Lie, Enterprise Solution, Sales Person, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman Ever meet an enterprise software salesperson you could trust? While such paragons of virtue exist, they seem the exception rather than the rule. Here are 7 common lies used by some way too many enterprise ...