In its boldest move to date, Apple is displaying several banners for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” at the Moscone Center in San Francisco that make it quite clear the company’s feelings toward Microsoft and the software giant’s upcoming operating system.

I love it! Nothing wrong with getting a rivalry heated up again. I also love […]

In modern-day Japan, magic use has become almost commonplace. A technique called CRAFT is used by those with supernatural ability. Those who use CRAFT for evil purposes are branded as witches and are hunted down by the STNJ, an elite organization of hunters designed to end the threat to Japan’s populace. The STNJ team is […]

Hilarious. That’s all I can really say about it. I have watched it about 10x straight now and I can’t stop laughing. Since it is done within a Flash app it resizes with the window size so people with higher resolutions may wish to shrink it down so you get a better picture.
You have to […]

Brandon Heat is the undead hero of the series. He was betrayed by his best friend (not a plot spoiler) and has come back from the dead for a little bit of revenge. Most of the time is spent running around and protecting Mika, who is a helpless young girl seemingly caught in these chain […]

Mindball is played on a 4-foot-long table by two people with electrodes taped to their foreheads. These biosensors detect alpha and theta brain waves–generated during intense concentration and deep relaxation–and correspondingly instruct a computer inside the table to move a rubber-coated steel ball via a magnetic sleigh below the surface.

The online article doesn’t really do […]

First it was the article on how Microsoft lost the API war and now we have an article on how Microsoft has lost the Joel war. It’s an interesting and well thoughtout take on how developers shouldn’t necessarily fear Microsoft and should not put all of their attention into the browserspace.

The harshest conclusion is that […]

The Register has an article about a contest that would let you appear as an extra in the (finally) upcoming “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Movie. [IMDB Link]

If you fancy winning a spot as an extra on the film version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, then you’d better get your camera out and […]

The inventor of the Escape and Backslash keys, Bob Bemer, died this Tuesday at the age of 84 in his home in Possum Kingdom Lake, TX. He also helped contribute to other areas of the ASCII system and friends say he was still using his computer up until a month ago, after his long battle with cancer. This entry coded in ASCII in his honor.

Search engine giant Google is preparing to publicly release some of its underlying software code only months before it undertakes a multibillion-dollar stock-exchange float…
The time has come for Google to “give something back”, Wayne Rosing, the company’s vice-president of engineering, told students while on a recruiting drive in Melbourne last week.
I can’t wait to see […]

The more I thought about it the more I began to see some of the benefits of generating style sheets with PHP. It can help keep related styles together in one document as opposed to having separate files for various browsers and JavaScript can be used on the client side to pass values back to […]

Brazilian scientists have discovered a naturally decaffeinated coffee plant that won’t keep them awake at night.

I am not a drinker of coffee so I don’t understand how cool this is, but it seems to be pretty cool. Wonder how something like this even happens and what role does caffeine play in the livelihood of […]

If you are reading this right now you are probably bored off your ass. If so, then you gotta go play some yeti sports. Warning though, it’s addictive. The highest score is over 7,000 which at the rate I am going seems nearly impossible.

Continuing the step-by-step fashion from the previous series (Securing Apache, Securing PHP, and Securing MySQL), this article shows how to install and configure Apache 2.0 to minimize the risk of unauthorized access or successful break-in, even if new security vulnerabilities in Apache web server are found. Thus, it will be possible to enjoy the new […]

A short and interesting read of how a spammer, dubbed S. Pammer, got started in the wondeful business of spamming. Looks as though he sold cans of SPAM. The irony is definitely not lost here. Anyways, he details how he got start, what software he used, and how successful he was in his attempts.

His estimated […]

Somewhat recently, Google, Inc. (or rather the people behind Google) opened their own weblog. This was moderately exciting, since, like most of my kind, I take Google to be god’s gift to geekdom.
One of the posts that I just noticed, was by Dennis Hwang, the creator of many of the custom google logos, and […]

Everyone is aware of the fact that PHP is a scripting language, but tend to forget that this scripting language can be used for more than just web development. The genius guy Henry Fuecks goes into the basics of using PHP on the command line.