These photos are made by netwinds.ru activists in the place where are a lot of Soviet cars ending their days. Most of this cars are very rare nowadays on Russian streets and were a subject to a great desire to a few generations of Soviet people, almost deprived of the right to have a car.

Charlotte Bobcats forward Gerald Wallace was chosen today by the NBA as the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the week ending November 29. Wallace averaged 25.3 points, 13.7 rebounds, 1.7 steals, 1.3 assists and 1.0 block and shot .543 from the field, .385 from beyond the arc, and .808 from the free-throw line, helping the Bobcats defeat ...

Next to the image of three WPMI anchors is a “right now on Twitter” screen. Giving drivers updates on Twitter in real time as they pass by the billboard is pretty cool, right? Well, it is, unless the update says “3 Accused of Gang Rape in Monroeville.”

On Friday 4th June 1976, in a small upstairs room away from the main concert auditorium, the Sex Pistols kicked off their first gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall. There's some confusion as to who exactly was there in the audience that night, partly because there was another concert just six weeks later, but mostly because it's considered ...

The iPhone is a cultural icon of the digital age. Apple's "There's an app for that" slogan in commercials is even repeated both as a punch line and a nod to the ubiquity of new applications on the so-called "Jesus phone" platform.

The Obama administration is ready to reveal its new strategy for Afghanistan. And speculation is running high that this new approach can and should use local, often tribal, militias to help combat the Taliban. But the U.S. Army’s own specialists in Afghanistan’s culture and society are warning that relying on the tribes there may be a ...

Artykuł ten jest kontynuacją pierwszej części, w której dowiedzieliście się najwazniejszych rzeczy odnośnie Wordpressa i pierwszego etapu tworzenia własnego theme. Teraz czas zapoznać się z dalszymi krokami. Na poczatek z jakich plików składa się standardowa skóra do wordpressa i jak wyedytować ich zawartość.

The enterprising folks at WPMI TV in Mobile, Ala., decided that they should reach out on a real-time basis to their viewers. They erected a billboard, adorned it with an image of three of its most photogenic anchors, and added a live Twitter feed.

Talk about burying the lede. The NYTimes has run a story which purports to be about the plans by the Treasury Department to pressure banks to do more to renegotiate delinquent mortgages. It has all sorts of blather from Treasury about using “embarrassment” as tool to get banks to do what they were given $75 Billion dollars to do under the ...

iPhone/iPod touch only: Mocha VNC Lite, the latest free utility added to the iTunes App Store, is one of those great programs that jailbreak enthusiasts probably thought would never appear in official form. Having arrived, however, it's a simple, easy to use tool for remote-controlling a Windows, Mac, or Linux system from your palm, with full ...

Mark and I have rounded up some of our favorite items from our 2009 Boing Boing reviews for the second-annual Boing Boing gift guide. We'll do one a day for the next six days, covering media (music/games/DVDs), gadgets and stuff, kids' books, novels, nonfiction, and comics/graphic novels/art books. Today, it's nonfiction!

Do you know your bull steepeners from your bear flatteners? These terms are part of the lexicon of gobbledygook that fixed-income investors use to explain government bond markets. While confusing, they are not a bad way of trying to work out what is going on these days. Why, for example, is the US yield curve so steep now, and what does this say ...

We get a lot (and I mean A LOT) of queries about CSS layouts -- what are they, how do they work, where do I go to start? Here are just a few of some of the best resources out there if you are trying to tackle this formidable but popular beast:

Pupils ages 3 ½ to 6 at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in a flooded woodland behind their schoolhouse. Three hours each day are spent outdoors. More Photos >

Pay attention: The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" — better known as the Senate health care overhaul bill – is chock full of interesting but little publicized provisions affecting consumers. Sure, the bill is mainly a blueprint for overhauling the insurance system. But look closely and you'll see a variety of items that would ...

This idea came to me as a tweet, but was way too long for a tweet. As it turns out, it’s also something I’ve been saying a lot lately, since it’s the answer to one of the very common arguments against dynamic languages.

“The instant the performer sees the spectator take a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, he takes the packet of matches from his pocket, tears off one match, and holds packet and match ready to ignite the match,” the magician John Mulholland wrote in a manual in the 1950s. “He does these things openly because what he does can only be ...

I’ve struggled a bit to find out how to access a textarea (and select box) that was presented in a Flex AIR HTML component. Wasn’t much work in the end, but here’s an example (by using babelfish’s translation page) of how to access multiple elements from Flex:

US forces had Osama Bin Laden "within their grasp" in Afghanistan in late 2001, a US Senate report says. It says calls for US reinforcements were rejected, allowing the al-Qaeda leader to "walk unmolested" into Pakistan's unregulated tribal areas.

In the first article of this three part series, Lewis Gass introduces Gracelets, a relatively new technology that combines Java Server Faces (JSF)/Facelets with the power of Groovy. Gracelets harnesses powerful features in Groovy and provides a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for JSF, complementing Facelets and providing many new features and an ...

Italian law enforcement officials are seeking jail terms for four Google executives charged with violating the country's privacy laws by allegedly allowing the hosting of an offensive video. The case stems from a 2006 incident in which a high school student posted a clip of himself and three others bullying a 17-year-old with Down syndrome. The ...

Our Virtual Switch got smarter in Windows Server 2008 R2. In Windows Server 2008, VMs are susceptible to MAC spoofing. MAC spoofing is where a (generally) malicious machine pretends to be another machine on a network (there are legitimate applications which do spoof MAC addresses though – Network Load Balancing being one such example).

Mobile, ortsbezogene Dienste haben es mir in letzter Zeit angetan. Je mehr Smartphones leisten können und je mehr Menschen sie nutzen, desto größer ist der Mehrwert von Social-Web-Angeboten mit mobiler, auf den aktuellen Ort bezogener Ausrichtung.

Manuel Castells, el sociólogo Español a quien muchos de los actuales habitantes de la web hemos conocido en algún momento de nuestros itinerarios formativos es, comparado con Marx, Adam Smith, Weber como pensador de la sociedad industrial.

You might not have heard of Roger Johansson, but you should have. When it comes to web accessibility and standards, 456 Berea St. is the blog to go to. Always well-written and informational without putting you to sleep. If you get a chance today, toss a shout out to the people who are helping to make the web a better place for all on your blog, ...

Unfortunately, you can advertise in all the right places, have a fantastic internship program, and interview all you want, but if the great programmers don’t want to work for you, they ain’t gonna come work for you. So this section will serve as a kind of field guide to developers: what they’re looking for, what they like and dislike in a ...

More contributors: Mark Frauenfelder (Editor-in-Chief, MAKE magazine), Kipp Bradford (Technical Consultant/Writer), Chris Connors (Education), Diana Eng (Guest Author), Peter Horvath (Intern), Brian Jepson (O'Reilly Media), Robert Bruce Thompson (Science Room)

Most people start adult life in their first apartment populated with IKEA furniture and Salvation Army offerings. They end up with a retirement home filled with heirloom quality furniture. Use a 20-year plan to end up with quality furniture.

Item-collecting has been a staple of video games for many years. What is it inside gamers' heads that makes us want to accumulate items and chase after Achievements? Gamasutra's Kris Graft speaks with the experts...

It's been over a year since Blu-ray defeated HD-DVD in the battle of high-definition discs. Despite the economic crunch, Blu-ray is continuing to gain momentum in the consumer and library markets.

Registering will give you a user profile and the ability to add other users as friends. To become a commenter, however, you need to audition.

I have to admit that this pear cranberry crisp was supposed to be one of our Thanksgiving desserts, but after baking two pies I recovered from my ambitious-first-time-hostess syndrome and decided the crisp could wait a few days. A fragrant, indulgent weekend lunch it was, then, and will be again if I have any say in the matter.

The old way to track clicks and outbound links in Google Analytics was to call the _trackPageview function on the click event, passing it a label that could then be searched for in Analytics. One of the problems with this method was that the clicks were counted as pageviews, affecting your total pageview number.

Of all the great DIY projects at this year's Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router. The router has an interesting history, but all you really need to know is that the special sauce lies in embedding Linux in your router. I found this ...

Googleが、招待枠の拡大から約2カ月たったリアルタイムコラボレーションツール「Google Wave」に関するユーザーアンケートの結果を発表した。

With the price of upgrading system RAM extremely low these days, people are always asking me whether it's really worth it to upgrade beyond 4GB; today we'll answer that question for everybody.

A new analysis by a leading MIT economist provides new ammunition for Democrats as the Senate begins formally debating the historic health-reform bill being pushed by President Barack Obama.

This is a set of posts documenting my experiences with utilising functionality within the Flex SDK that provides the automatic mapping of custom ActionScript classes to element definitions within an XML Schema (XSD).

こいつは便利なんでメモメモ。いまどきのウェブ制作に使えるパーツがぎっしり詰まったPSDが配布されていますよ。ボタンやメニュー、ログインメニューなんかもありますね。

SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes to selection of right ...

Researchers have discovered a genetic variation that may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress. In the first study of its kind, ... > full story

This highly usable e-book reader for the PC shows off the Kindle platform well, even though it lacks some niceties found in its iPhone cousin and in Kindle hardware.

A Victorian DVD drive and a sonic 'thunderbus' to scare birds are among the inventions that Ellie Gibson encounters when she visits the steam punks In Victorian times much chatter in drawing rooms and salons was directed towards defining the qualities of a gentleman.

Social networking giant Facebook is reportedly going to pull in approximately half a billion dollars this year in advertising revenue. It's a significant amount, but hundreds of millions of dollars more are being made on Facebook through virtual currency transactions that Facebook has no part of.

For my first article, I thought I’d share something I’ve been cooking up at my day job. My only hope is that someone, somewhere finds this useful.

Last week I sat down with Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) to learn about how he uses his blog. I'm fascinated by CEOs who blog and who are active on Twitter @PaulFlevy, especially those from large organizations like BIDMC (7,000 people work there).

ARMCHAIR explorers who soar over 3D cityscapes on their computer may be used to the idea of maps with an extra dimension. But they are now getting accurate enough to offer much more than a preview of your next holiday destination. Accurate, large-scale 3D maps could soon change the way we design, manage and relate to our urban environments.

Gathered here in one convenient place are my recent reviews that awarded films Two Stars or less. These are, generally speaking to be avoided. Sometimes I hear from readers who confess they are in the mood to watch a really bad movie. If you're sincere, be sure to know what you're getting: A really bad movie. Movies that are "so bad they're good" ...

As much as anything else, a user's impression of a web site has to do with how fast the site loads. But modern Web 2.0 websites aren't your father's Oldsmobile. Chocked full of rich Flash content and massive JavaScript libraries, they present a new set of challenges to engineers trying to maximized the performance of their sites. You need to ...

Today Passionate Homemaking is having a Nourishing Crockpot Carnival. Be sure to head over there to check out all the yummy, healthy recipes. Here's my twist on Teriyaki Chicken.

You would be completely justified in thinking that’s what this blog is about given the current climate. Thankfully, that’s not the case! By way of introduction, my name is Luke Stevens, and this blog is about taking a critical look at design on the web. I will be trying to cut through the hype and nonsense to see where design really ...

Discussion, advice, and reviews regarding online products, the people behind them and the trends they represent, from Modular Innovation to User Experience.

There was one complaint I heard over and over again from Indian entrepreneurs during my three weeks shuttling between Delhi, Jaipur, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune: There aren’t enough angel investors in India.

Facebook, Social networking, FP Careers Blog, leadership, productivity, Success IQ University, Ray B. Williams, stress, neuroscience, econmic recession, tribes, brain science

Microsoft likes for its people to be certified in as many technologies as possible. Personally, I find certifications useful since they help me focus my study, but I don't think that certification = expert. It's just one part of the puzzle.

The other day I posted that some code from the CRU Hack that people were shouting about was actually dead code. It was subsequently pointed out to me that there was another version in which the code was not dead.

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...There are small things that can make a meal memorable. Maple butter is one of them. Its most obvious use is on pancakes or waffles, but biscuits and cornbread, even dinner rolls, are taken to another level when spread with either of the butters we are featuring today. Both are easy to do, though one requires ...

I spent a day last week with a writer from Time Magazine showing him around Detroit. He was here to do a story about ways this city might reinvent itself, so a few days before he arrived I put together a tour of the city with that in mind. I was kind of nervous---this was Time Magazine, after all: the storied weekly of Henry Luce and James Agee ...

to keep up with tweets about UMCG: staff, students, patients, and news flashes published by third parties to explore how to get parts of our content and services in there, without having to invest a lot of extra staff time for maintenance and updating

We didn’t showcased ‘corporate’ blogs from same time, so we thought now it’s a good moment. Could you blame us for that? Well, here’s a roundup of creative approaches to blogging from a few web agencies and startups.

The July 2009 issue of the IEEE/Computer magazine in its “32 and 16 Years Ago” section remembers that 16 years ago: Software Engineering (p. 68) “The IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors has approved a motion to establish an ad hoc committee to serve as a steering group for evaluation, planning, coordination, and action ...

Facebook is a social media website and having largest no. of users. Paypal is online fund transfer company. Now Paypal brings a very easy and innovative way to earn money with you facebook account.

Whenever you want to take a reading of the current zeitgeist, popular search terms can tell you a lot about what’s on people’s minds. Right now, for instance, the hottest search terms on Google Trends include “lakewood police shooting,” “tiger woods mistress,” “surviving Christmas,” and “cyber ...

I try not to blog Sarah Palin, but this passage, reproduced on Andrew Sullivan's blog, caught my interest for non-Palin reasons: "Everybody in the family played Scrabble and took great pride in hoarding Ks and Qs and slapping them down in long, fancy words on triple-letter scores." -- Going Rogue, p. 12.

I must admit I have a bit of an aversion to drill-type activities, but I realize there are times that students need to practice and memorize certain concepts in order to succeed. Certainly we all know that studying makes for more successful learners. Abraham Lincoln clearly knew the value of studying when he said, “I will study and get ready, ...

Insect colonies offer insight into the mysterious conversations of neurons, illuminating how billions of individual brain cells work in concert to make a single decision.

The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. The 70,000+ nominees have been narrowed down to just 5 finalists per category, and you have from now until December 15th to pick the winners.

One common use of URL Rewrite is redirecting http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com. Many people are doing this for search engine optimization (SEO) so that search engines only see the one site, rather than two sites. The goal is to set a permanent 301 redirect.

In this age of instant Internet celebrity, anyone can become famous for 15 seconds (to rework Andy Warhol’s oft-quoted maxim). But what does famous mean exactly when anyone can have a Facebook fan page—those public pages on Facebook set up by brands, media outlets, celebs, and wanna-be celebs. As it turns out, being popular is not as easy ...

As world leaders prepare for climate talks in Copenhagen next month, developing nations have tabled a controversial proposal which would effectively end patent protection for clean technologies.

When you request a certificate using the Certificate MMC snap-in or the certificate auto-enrollment mechanism, the request fails. Of course we assume here that the CA is started and you have sufficient permissions to request a certificate. This issue occurs because DCOM is required to acquire a certificate. However, for access rules a default &# ...

For anyone who doubts the power of the Internet to shine light on darkness, the news of the month is how digital technology helped uncover a secretive group of scientists who suppressed data, froze others out of the debate, and flouted freedom-of-information laws. Their behavior was brought to light when more than 1,000 emails,and some 3,500 ...

As I noted yesterday, ACORN caught a break from the Department of Justice when DOJ decided, based on a strained reading of the applicable statute, that the Obama administration can lawfully pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. But ACORN arguably caught a ...

This competition was inspired by the recent publication of Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words, in which John Bemelmans Marciano shares the (true) stories of Étienne de Silhouette (the French finance minister after whom the portrait style is named); Jules Léotard (the acrobat who lent his name to the lycra garment); and ...

BlinkM is a smart LED. Imagine an LED with a tiny computer inside, one that can be any color and have a life of its own. You can buy them now from one of our global distributors.

A pretty nail polish goes a long way toward making feet look younger. But with each passing year, dryness, calluses, and discoloration seem to get a little worse. These simple solutions undo life's wear and tear to keep feet beautiful year-round.

This years' installment of the ICFP Programming Contest is coming up this weekend. For those who haven't had the chance to try out this programming contest before, I definitely recommend it. I've done the contest 3 of the last 5 years, and each time has been an amazing experience. This year, we've got a couple of teams here who'll be doing the ...

Last week, a team of computer scientists led by Dharmendra S. Modha announced what sounded like an impressive breakthrough for neuroscience-inspired computing:

More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application interface design is, at its core, Web design; however, its focus is mainly on function. To compete with desktop applications, Web apps must offer simple, ...

TORONTO — At a time when many companies are drastically cutting jobs, Google Canada says it's hiring in all of its offices and has good reason to grow: Canada is more into Google and its products than just about any other country.