høblog

ZeGermans over at GotFrag has put together yet another set of price guides to scale for any size budget! Head on over to check them out. They are the best you can get for your money.

read more | digg story

Remember how the intelligent design community got the signatures of 500 scientists that doubt Darwin’s theory of evolution? Well a coalition of scientists has struck back with a document signed by 10,000 clerics that defend evolution. Take that!

read more | digg story

Marketing experts pay heed: a video clip produced by a teenage girl has become a mini-blockbuster on a popular video upload site while also helping to introduce Logitech Web cameras to a legion of young people.

read more | digg story

You can see how much they pay for any book with ISBN. If interested, you can complete the transaction and they will send you a prepaid postal cover to send the book. After the book is received they will mail you the check. Though the rate offered is pretty less (it depends on the demand for a book), you can make some money out of the unused books.

read more | digg story

Will Wright explains how games cultivate the player’s mind through experimentation and trial and error. He argues that games are not always violent, addictive, and childish but they can inspire creativity, community, self-esteem, and problem-solving.

read more | digg story

The Wallace v. FSF case has been dismissed, with Mr. Wallace ordered to pay the Free Software Foundation’s costs.

Wallace sued the FSF claiming the GPL violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

read more | digg story

I got sick of googleing celebs so I wrote a script to get the first 100 large pics from a list of celebs. ( Yes I have too much time on my hands )

read more | digg story

An interesting article about how a journalist from SFWeekly found out thru a sale’s rep about New York Time’s David Pogue’s free $2700 repair service which he never mentioned in his highly possitive review of the Hard Drive data recovery company “DriveSavers” on NYTimes.com, CBS and NPR!

read more | digg story

Check out Wikipedia’s comprehensive comparison of web browsers, from their release history to their vulnerability!

read more | digg story

This is the test that insurance companies use to calculate your probable life expectancy! This test merely calculates the probability of your life expectancy based on your habits and environment!

read more | digg story

The cover story in Time magazine this week, entitled “Too Wired For Their Own Good?”, condemns the youth of the nation as gadget-obsessed, perennially multitasking, social failures who can’t really get into anything important or even relax. The article brings up example upon example of dysfunctional teenagers and their equally disjointed families.

read more | digg story

The Municator is a USD150 Linux computer from China running Linux that can do all the basic things most people need. Browsing (firefox), emailing (thunderbird), instant messaging (gaim), skype, word processing (Red Office), audio/video playback (mplayer), e-learning..

read more | digg story

Google and Nike pair to develop a social-networking website. Joga.com is a free network where members will be able to create Web sites and send e-mail, photos, and video clips, similar to MySpace.

read more | digg story

UK IT bosses are already taking measures to ban employees from downloading Google’s Desktop search software on PCs and laptops because of the security risk to corporate data.

read more | digg story

The eyes in humans and their closest relatives in the primate world are geared to detect subtle changes in skin tone caused by blood oxygen levels, according to a new study from Caltech.

read more | digg story

So it appears, someone has cracked the Mac. Sources indicate that a solution has been submitted for review to claim the now $12,000 prize. Furthermore, it appears the source is enlisting additional testers. Guess, its not impossible after all!

read more | digg story

It’s finally happened, people have gotten fed up enough that proper legal action is being taken. The suit covers price fixing…it also alleges that major labels were conspiring to first take down Napster and then build online music services that purposely stunted their service to drive people away from the idea of online music…

read more | digg story

An artical from Popular Mechanics published October 1948 about making ASCII art with a type writer.

read more | digg story