Develop for the Web with Python Django Web Framework

In this first article of a two-part series, we show off Django, an open-source model-view-controller (MVC)-style Web application framework powered by the Python programming language. With Django, you can create high-quality, database-driven Web applications that are easy to maintain in minutes.

read more | digg story

The two biggest storms in the solar system are about to go bump

Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around Jupiter for hundreds of years. Storm #2 is Oval BA, also known as "Red Jr.," a youngster of a storm only six years old.

read more | digg story

Oldest Human DNA Found in a Tooth

Scientists have recovered DNA from a Neanderthal that lived 100,000 years ago - the oldest human-type DNA so far.

read more | digg story

Don't Let Congress Ruin The Internet

Tomorrow Congress will attempt to pass a law that abandons the First Amendment of the Internet. Basically, the Internet will be split up into two tiers. This is mainstream medias way of declaring war on independent media. If we don't act now, there will be a difference between 'Free' and 'Open' Internet. The internet needs to be neutral.

read more | digg story

Develop for the Web with Python Django Web Framework

In this first article of a two-part series, we show off Django, an open-source model-view-controller (MVC)-style Web application framework powered by the Python programming language. With Django, you can create high-quality, database-driven Web applications that are easy to maintain in minutes.

read more | digg story

Cool pictures from Google Earth

A Norwegian newspaper asked users to send in their Google Earth findings. Look at what they got. Pretty cool.

read more | digg story

5D Rubik's Cube

Slashdot is reporting that there is now a working 5D Rubik's cube, following up the 4D version . It has already been solved by 3 people, so hurry!

read more | digg story

Build your own 1000 Watt Wind Turbine and Power your House!

We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It's a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge controller. The magnets spin with the wind, the coils are fixed, so no brushes or slip rings necessary

read more | digg story

Dapper Videos

Videos include, Install, Intro, and XGL.

read more | digg story

Photoshop, Flash, Programming, & Web Tutorials

Hundreds of tutorials on photoshop, flash, css, asp, php, javascript

read more | digg story

Ten Products Google Should Develop

Ten new tech products Google should develop. Based on existing technology. Screenshots included!

read more | digg story

Amazing Photoshop Replacement - It's not Gimp!

For the past nine years Pavel Kanzelsberger of Slovakia has been quietly working on a graphics application that may shake the very foundations that Photoshop have been built on. The application called 'Pixel' nears its 1.0 release and can still be purchased for a mere $32. It runs on about any OS one can imagine!

read more | digg story

Creating landing sites in WordPress

This guide helps you to create a list of related posts, when a visitor is referred to your blog from a search engine.
You are shown how to make a script, that will grab the search string from the referring search engine, and find matching posts in your blog.

read more | digg story

Great tornado photos

Scroll down just a bit for a collection of amazing tornado pics.

read more | digg story

27,000 year old portrait discovered

Scientists believe they have found what the believe to be the oldest portrait of a human face on record. With picture.

read more | digg story

Scientist Develop New Vaccine That Reverses Memory Loss

Imagine an Alzheimer's patient receiving a vaccine made of specialized blood cells and then showing a much- improved memory. Also, imagine that vaccine having no side effects and needing to be given only occasionally.

read more | digg story

How Intel wasted billions

As Intel focuses on its core microprocessor business to pull out of its slump, the chip giant has put several of its money-losing communications businesses up for sale. Intel paid more than $10 billion for its entire collection of communications businesses, which are now bleeding money.

read more | digg story

The Meaning of Ubuntu - Explained by Nelson Mandela

Ubuntu may seem like a strange term to those who don't know the meaning behind this word, here's Nelson Mandela explain just that, the meaning of "Ubuntu".

read more | digg story

VMWare aims higher with new software bundle

The company is expected to announce VMWare Infrastructure 3, a software suite combining VMWare's ESX Server product with VirtualCenter management tools, VMFS distributed file system software, the company's Distributed Resource Scheduler, and its High Availability and Consolidated Backup tools.

read more | digg story

GNU Radio Opens an Unseen World

An open-source software-configured transceiver can open garage doors, track cell phone users and locate itself on GPS. And that's just the beginning.

read more | digg story

Kick the car habit

Social experiment to see how a few people would fair without their cars. Read how this affected their everyday lifes.

read more | digg story

Pioneer dumping red-laser DVDs, moving to Blu-Ray!

In 1999, Pioneer became the world's first company to commercialize DVD recorders, and is currently the fourth-biggest supplier of the devices. However, since the segment is no longer profitable, they are getting out, and adopting Blu-Ray technolgy.

read more | digg story

Blockbusted! Movie Rentals of Today and Tomorrow

Ars goes deep inside the movie rental business to show you what you can have now and what you still can't get.

read more | digg story

How To Build A LAMP Server With Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (Apache web server, Postfix mail server (with SMTP-AUTH + TLS), DNS/FTP/MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). This guide comes with lots of screenshots and is therefore easy to follow even for Linux newbies.

read more | digg story

Guide to boosting your internet bandwith to the max

Using this guide you will be able to get some significant increase in your internet bandwith. Tweaks include QoS tweaking, Host Resolution Priority Tweaking and many more. Give it a try.

read more | digg story

A VC's View of Web 2.0

The day of giant corporate software packages is over, says Oracle vet Ray Lane. The future lies in bottom-up, user-driven services.

read more | digg story

Investors sue Vonage over IPO

A new class-action lawsuit brought against Vonage and its IPO underwriters alleges violation of a securities law that "requires that a company recommending the purchase/sale of its securities to a customer must have a reasonable basis for believing that the recommendation is suitable for the customer."

read more | digg story

PS3 to Ship With PS2 Chipset for Backwards Compatibility

GameDaily reports that Japanese magazine "Ultra One" has discovered PS3 will include the PS2 chipset hardware to provide hardware-based backwards compatibility until a software-based emulator is complete, upon which PS2 hardware will cease to ship PS2 hardware within the PS3, possibly allowing for a small price reduction.

read more | digg story

howto: Photograph Sunrises and Sunsets

While sometimes wonderful sunrise and sunset shots can be taken spontaneously without any forethought it's often the case that the best ones come out of planning. Scope out places that might be good for sunsets in the day or two before your shoot.

read more | digg story

Compilr - Compile C, C#, VB, and Fortran programs online

Away from home? No compiler? Type your source code in and have it compiled online. Just choose a language and enter your code in the box. Choose a language by clicking on the language below. You can either use C#, VB.NET, C or Fortran currently.

read more | digg story

Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning

"And though these Web 2.0 services have succeeded in luring millions of consumers to their shores, they haven't had much to offer the vast world of business. Until now. Slowly but surely they're scaling corporate walls."

read more | digg story

After years of increasing complexity in games, Nintendo makes it simple.

I think this article explains Nintendo's plan better than most attempts. They are simply trying to make a game system that anyone can use. Just wait till Granny shows her tennis skills.

read more | digg story

Have We Met? (2% of the Population May Be Incapable of Facial Recogniton)

We all know that sinking feeling that comes when we just can't remember someone who clearly recognizes us. So imagine how uncomfortable life might be for a person incapable of recognizing anyone

read more | digg story

Apple software logs out of India

Apple computers has decided to close its India software operations. The company had commenced operations in April and hired about 30 people for its subsidiary, Apple Services India Pvt Ltd. The employees will be given 2 months pay as a severence package. This could equal about 1000-5000$ based on salaries in bangalore.

read more | digg story

Build your Memory.

A site with tons of ways to help build your memory.
How to remember names, how to remember dreams, how to master a foreign language and more.

read more | digg story

Internet Browser Graveyard. (with downloads!)

Every web browser in history... right here.

read more | digg story

How Ritalin 'focuses' children's minds

Here's a paradox. Why does an amphetamine-like stimulant have a calming effect on children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? Experiments with rats may have provided the answer.

read more | digg story

How to eat healthy on a low budget

Change the way you eat.
If you're looking for healthy food on a small budget, then fruits and vegetables and other whole foods are the way to go. They're the basic building blocks of a nutritious diet, and they're much cheaper than processed foods.

read more | digg story

Now nobody can can say that Linux isn't printer-friendly

For a long time, setting up a printer in Linux has been somewhat challenging. But, it's been getting easier and easier. And today, setting up a printer in Ubuntu as simple as it gets - this article is firm evidence!

read more | digg story

Al Gore's Documentary Convinces Leading Skeptic

Chief editor and founder of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, says that the time has come to switch from environmental skepticism to activism.

read more | digg story

University of Washington's Crypto Course

Who wants to pay for Stanford's Crypto Course, when University of Washington has made the whole Cryptography Course available on-line for free. Yes, all the presentations, videos (mp3, WMV), homework, quizzes etc. are available on-line. The material seems pretty decent, and is intended for advance audience.

read more | digg story

Index of 300 Full Length TV Shows on YouTube

(A follow up to my Cartoon Index.) There's no garbage clips to weed through, just 300 full length episodes organized alphabetically: Doctor Who, Get Smart, Lost, Quantum Leap, Seinfeld, The Screen Savers, The Wonder Years, and more.

read more | digg story

Milky Way Is Tentacled Beast

Our galaxy is a much wilder looking tentacled beast than suspected, say astronomers who have used a new technique to map the Milky Way.

read more | digg story

Government says all new PCs must be Linux-friendly

This is a very Linux friendly move. The government-run Central Trust of China has mandated for the first time that all desktop computers purchased from now on must be Linux-compatible, demonstrating the government's desire to widen the nation's usage of open source software.

read more | digg story

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment

What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane.

read more | digg story

Ball Lightning: A Shocking Scientific Mystery

People have reported seeing ball lightning a rare phenomenon that resembles a glowing sphere of electricit for hundreds of years.But scientists still can't explain what causes it, or even exactly what it is.

read more | digg story

The future's looking mighty good for Linux

This is an editorial from the good folks over at Linux Today. It makes sense to me, here's hoping their right :)

read more | digg story

USA: Russia Can't Join WTO Unless it Shuts Down Allofmp3.com

American trade negotiators have threatened to scuttle Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization unless the country shuts down the AllOfMP3.com website

read more | digg story

$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'

The head of the One Laptop per Child project says he must be doing something right if he's upsetting Microsoft and Intel.

read more | digg story

E-book project to give free access to third of a million books next month

"Electronic book devotees may want to set aside some extra screen time this summer, as two nonprofits are preparing to provide free access to 300,000 texts online."

read more | digg story

Zogby offers a sweeping view of the political landscape

The war in Iraq has become so unpopular that it could cost Republicans control of Congress, statehouses and governor races around the country, national pollster John Zogby said Friday. He said 70% of voters believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, adding, “I have never seen a number like that since I’ve been polling.”

read more | digg story

In 2011 You'll Never Have to Clean Your House Again

Nanotechnology could soon allow you to sanitize your bathroom with a flip of a light switch

read more | digg story

Dozens of full length videos: random people try using Linux desktops

What do random people do when given specific tasks on a Linux desktop? Watch dozens of full-length clips here, showcasing the person, their actions and reactions to what they experience. It's rather entertaining (and pretty educational, too).

read more | digg story

Ubuntu 6.06 DVD Torrents

The Ubuntu site has yet to link to the DVD torrents for 6.06. This is the directory where you can find the DVD .torrent file for your particular system.

read more | digg story

Big Bang In Antarctica: Killer Crater Found Under Ice

Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs -- an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.

read more | digg story

Sony Releases 'Portable TV' PSP Firmware

This new version (2.71) makes available a new icon to the PSP interface: Portable TV or P-TV.

read more | digg story

We are not entirely human, germ gene experts argue

We may not be entirely human, gene experts said on Thursday after studying the DNA of hundreds of different kinds of bacteria in the human gut.

read more | digg story

AMD's Dual-Socket, Dual-Core "4x4" Platform To Be Announced

AMD plans to announce its 4x4 platform (a two-socket board, each containing a dual-core X2 processor) at its AMD Technology Day later this afternoon. AMD executives also talk about a possible partnership with ATI!

read more | digg story

AMD tips process roadmap, slams Intel

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has updated its aggressive process technology roadmap, although the company remains slightly behind microprocessor rival Intel Corp.

read more | digg story

Getting Out From Under: Procrastination

There's considerable misunderstanding about procrastination. For one thing, it's not laziness. Settling into the fertile psychological ground between our intentions and our actions, procrastination is an active mental process of diverting yourself from doing high-priority things in the delusion that tomorrow will be better.

read more | digg story

No More Mosquitos!

The Mosquito Mega-Catch is able to kill up to 1,200 mosquitos in one night, reducing mosquito populations over an entire acre. Summer's here, and what better way to enjoy it than without these suckers?

read more | digg story

Google Insider Trading Goes Off the Charts (Literally)

Google insider selling has become so fast and furious over the past month that it's completely off the charts. That's not just a figure of speech. It has LITERALLY gone off the charts- take a look for yourself.

read more | digg story

HOT - AMD HTX Co-Processor Tech

While AMD's 4x4 platform seems to be no more than more of the same in that two FX processors can be coupled with multiple GPUs, it started to get interesting when AMD started to talk about opening up their coherent HyperTransport technologies to companies that wish to plug in to the scalable, high bandwidth technology.

read more | digg story

Automatix 6.1 available for Dapper and Breezy

"Automatix 6.1 is now stable (works on both Breezy and Dapper x86)". This will install a plethora of software, codecs, and plugins that many users manually download and setup themselves after installing Ubuntu.

read more | digg story

Top 10 Reasons to Relaunch IGN Dreamcast

The Dreamcast may have died years ago, but it lives on over at IGN. The has relaunched its Dreamcast site with a very specific goal: re-review every title that appeared on the ill-fated console.

read more | digg story

Chinese Built an Experimental Fusion Reactor

Chinese scientists have completed construction of an experimental superconducting fusion reactor that will replicate the same energy generation process that fuels the sun, with tests to begin as early as July, state media reported Friday.

read more | digg story

Google Ajax Search API

"Search results are sorted into 4 different categories local, web, video, and blogs and can be displayed in a list or with tabs. As a bonus, users can use the copy button on results to add them to other content (such as blog post comments)."

read more | digg story

Skype Accused of Patent Infringement

Net2Phone Inc., which enables cable companies to provide residential phone service, has charged that Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies SA has infringed on its patent on point-to-point Internet calling.

read more | digg story

*Windows Vista will not outpace Apple Mac OS X Tiger*

Scot Finnie, Computerworld: "I have no problem with Microsoft copying Apple's or any other company's best interface designs. We all win when that happens. What's really strange is when a company lifts good ideas and makes them worse, not better."

read more | digg story

Alternatives to LAMP

The LAMP configuration (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) is familiar to the open source universe. But just because this combination of products is comfortable, that doesn't mean that it provides the best solution for your systems.

read more | digg story

First video of working "One Laptop Per Child" laptop

The one Laptop Per Child Project last week produced a first working prototype. This site has a movie where Red Hat's Christopher Blizzard shows off the device's features and then boots it up, showing it running Fedora.

read more | digg story

MySQL: Workers in 25 countries with no HQ

"This open-source software maker has figured out how to manage a world-wide workforce that rarely meets. Is MySQL the model 21st-century company?"

read more | digg story

JetBlue To Offer Wi-Fi In The Sky!

JetBlue Airways Corp. won a wireless license to offer high-speed Internet and other communications services on commercial aircraft in a U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction that ended on Friday. The company's subsidiary LiveTV LLC bid $7 million for a 1 megahertz wireless license.

read more | digg story

University moves toward open source despite some resistance

The University of Southern Florida's health sciences department has been a roller coaster ride of Linux and Windows, but system administrator John Scott has managed to convert the health services center into a beacon of openness in an otherwise pro-Windows world.

read more | digg story

Instlux: Install Linux while still in Windows!

Instlux allows you to install Linux by running an installer progam in Windows. It currently supports the Ubuntu and OpenSuSE distributions, and work is being done to support others.

read more | digg story

30 min Video of Q&A with Google

Got 30 min? Watch an interesting Q&A session with google execs.

read more | digg story

VIDEO: Google VIPs Meet with Analysts to Reveal Directions

http://battellemedia.com/archives/002612.php

read more | digg story

An Inconvenient Truth -Al Gore's Movie (A MUST SEE)(Trailer)

This is the movie produced by Al Gore, it has very good reviews. The movie
is about global warming. The trailer is breath taking, just imagine the movie.
Everyone just see it.

read more | digg story

How Flushing The Toilet Could Power Your Home One Day

The Ghent University researchers have designed a way to boost the output of microbial fuel cells, an emerging technology that captures the energy produced when bacteria break down waste and turn it into electrical current.

read more | digg story

No porn site accepts AMEX.

I had no idea American Express said no to porn in 2000.

read more | digg story

Nokia Releases S60 Apache Web Server Port under Open Source

Running an Apache web server on your Nokia phone is a cool thought. There could be many applications for this. Besides the http server, Nokia also released a gateway solution that actually makes it possible to address a mobile phone via a URL.

read more | digg story

The Internet isn't free!

Awesome Interview with Tim Berners-Lee.

read more | digg story

25+ tips to get started with Dapper

Ubuntu 6.06 is here! Get started with over 25 tips to tweak, personalize and otherwise polish the diamond that is Dapper Drake. Tips include installing multimedia codecs, adding extra repositories, adding a Windows-like "Start" button, and much more!

read more | digg story

Best Buy sells couples hard drive - turns up in Chicago flea market

Henry Gerbus said Best Buy assured him the computer's old hard drive -- loaded with personal information -- would be destroyed.
"They said rest assured. They drill holes in it so it's useless," said Gerbus. That wasn't the case.

read more | digg story

Nice gallery of real castles for sale around the world

For the same price as a 2 bedroom apartment in San Francisco you can get something that would house an army and possibly did.

read more | digg story

$100 PC Increases to $130, Due In April 2007

It's not longer a $100 PC. The ruggedized, two pound Linux desktop system, with mesh networking will sell for about $130 to $140 (san shipping) to governments starting in April 2007.

read more | digg story

Teenage boy blows up the house with deodorant

...And that caused a can of Sure deodorant to explode with such force that it not only blew out windows but cracked a wall and even, briefly, lifted the roof off the bungalow.

read more | digg story

Sun Microsystems to Cut Up to 5,000 Jobs

Computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc., whose revenue has declined four years in a row, said Wednesday it planned to cut 4,000 to 5,000 jobs in an effort to return to consistent profitability.

read more | digg story

Apple Named Hardware Company of the Year by PC World Magazine

PC World magazine on Wednesday issued its 2006 Hardware Company of the Year award to Apple, which had five products land on its list of the 100 Best Products of 2006: the iPod nano (#4), Boot Camp (#10), the Mac mini (#35), the iPod (#36), and iTunes (#43).

read more | digg story

Ubuntu Dapper Review

"To sum up my experience with Ubuntu's Dapper I will say that it is easily the most impressive Linux distribution I have used to date. The combination of speed, stability, ease of use and the excellant apt-get package manager, makes it the Linux distro to beat."

read more | digg story

The American War on Science

Why the country's reliance on imported brainpower is on a collision course with its home-grown distaste for science.

read more | digg story

Apple expands Best Buy foothold

Best Buy, North America's largest consumer electronics retailer, and Apple are flogging the new MacBook units, as well as the MacBook Pro, Mac Mini and iMac systems, according to Samir Bhavnani, an analyst with Current Analysis.

read more | digg story

Nintendo Wii Wins Top Video Game Critics' Award

Video game critics Wednesday honored Nintendo's Wii console and Electronic Arts' upcoming "Spore" video game for bringing fresh ideas to the $28.5 billion industry that has been criticized for relying on films for inspiration and on game sequels for sales.

read more | digg story

Multi Distro is Linux times 9 on a single CD-R

Multi Distro includes nine live CD Linux distributions in one ISO file that you can burn to a single disc. It uses the GRUB boot loader to present the user with a main menu from which they can choose which distro they want to run.

read more | digg story

Chemists forge a new form of iron

An international team of chemists has discovered a new and unexpected form of iron, a finding that adds to the fundamental understanding of an element that is among the most abundant on Earth and that, in nature, is an essential catalyst for life.

read more | digg story

Why We Could All Do With A Little Nap

Scientists at The University of Manchester have for the first time uncovered how brain cells or 'neurons' that keep us alert become turned off after we eat. The findings published in the scientific journal Neuron this week's have implications for treating obesity and eating disorders as well as understanding levels of consciousness.

read more | digg story

Mugshot: open source MySpace on steroids?

A dev team from Redhat has created an open-source project called Mugshot that some are touting as MySpace on steroids. It isn't. But here's what it really is...

read more | digg story

"The Playstation 3 Is a Computer"

Good interview with Sony's head game designer Phil Harrison.

read more | digg story

Google introduces Reply by Chat

Reply by chat lets you and your contacts discuss an email you've sent or received. If you've enabled the Save chat history option in your account, it also groups your chat history in the same conversation as the message you're chatting about. This way, you can keep all of your communications in context.

read more | digg story