Impeach for Peace, a Minnesota-based impeachment group, has researched a method for impeaching the president using a little known and rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives (”
Jefferson
s Manual”). This document actually empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves.
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For those have not heard yet, Bill Gates will be on The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart tonight (January 29, 2007) to “promote” Microsoft Vista. There is also speculation that John Hodgman, resident expert, will come face to face with Big Bill.
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each of the 10 possible decimals of the number pi is displayed by a distinct colored pixel.
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Pieces of space junk from a Russian satellite coming out of orbit narrowly missed hitting a jetliner over the Pacific Ocean overnight. The pilot reported flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his Airbus A340.
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A cool little widget that you copy-paste onto your site. Your visitors rate your site, and you can see their location and rating on top of a map. Check out the demo.
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Basically the RIAA wants all of the colleges to do their dirty work, saving them money and giving them more time to just find the ‘general area’ where these music pirates may be. Nebraska realizes the follies in this attempt and tries to get the RIAA to at least reimburse them, as the search […]
YouTube will launch its mobile website in June 2007 for U.S. users.
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just as the title says!
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Losing a laptop to a spilt glass of wine can be a very frustrating experience, particularly when said wine is of the cheap Ros
variant, as was the embarrasing case with this writer’s late laptop. Well, one group of kindly DIY technology authors have assigned their noggins to the problem, and have created a post […]
“A comprehensive list of documentaries, to be viewed online for free”
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SuperGu stole CSS code from Pligg and copyrighted it as their own. They then sent a cease and desist letter to Pligg asking them to remove their code because of copyright infringement. Show your support for Pligg, the most popular digg-like open source CMS.
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Brands Glossary
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Simplicity is more complex than you probably think it is. Many designers don
t manage to find the right balance between details and their presentation. However, some designers do manage to find the right balance. Weve selected some of them. 49 designs, based upon the KISS principle.
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You’ve seen some creative billboards in the past, but this has got to be one of the best.
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It seems like there is always that guy in the bar that has a crazy story about the beer he’s drinking. The worst part, sometimes its believable, so you tell someone, then they tell someone, and thats a beer myth. Here are ten of the more outrageous myths about beer and what you need to […]
“I couldn’t help but submit this story to Digg. It was rising very quickly, and then it was suddenly buried. Then I noticed that all submissions linking to offending articles have also been buried. Is this a legitimate act of the community, or is it censorship?”
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CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. Thanks to all developers who contributed to accessible and usable css-based design over the last few years. We really appreciate it. Show some Love.
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Supreme Commander is one of the first games to feature out-of-the-box multi-core processor support. Will a quad-core CPU really show better gameplay? Real world gameplay results plus Vista versus XP performance findings with SupCom.
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All for free, this site has some excellent DHTML and AJAX code you can download. Under Drag and Drop it even has the basics of an AJAX homepage!
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With the launch of Windows Vista, many people are wondering if they should upgrade their computers to this new operating system. We at BBspot are dedicated to offering sound technical advice to businesses and home users, so we’ve created the Windows Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart. Use this chart to help you decide if an upgrade […]
Wed, 1:40 AM someone spoofed the caller id of the Justin.tv official cell phone number (listed on the website), called the San Francisco police department and reported a stabbing in the North Beach apartment. Police arrived, guns drawn, and entered only to find a bunch of (surprised and nervous) geeks with laptops and webcams. […]
A Non-Profit film anyone can produce for $1. Check out how much Kiefer Sutherland gave!
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IE6 51%
IE7 55%
Firefox 93%
Will this affect Web 2.0?
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Trey Ratcliff is an amazing photographer making a name for himself with a slew of amazing photographs that have populated Digg
s front page so much that he has been dubbed Diggs favorite HDR photographer. The man behind the camera just might be more fascinating than the photographs that he is famous for.
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“[They] have uploaded the first of [their] many new tutorials. [They] thought [they would] start off with the most talked about one - the Hitachi 078fk firmware update.
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A great step-by-step tutorial on how to create a sliding DIV like Digg uses for burying comments. Anyone from a novice to a pro can implement this easily. The last (similar) post had no animation, and per Digger’s requests in the comments, I spent all night typing up this tutorial. Hope it […]
Animal welfare advocates called the chain’s shift to more humane egg and meat production a “historic advance.”
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If you pissed in one of these bad boys, you would remember it for life.
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Most advertisements are dull and boring to look at. Here is a set of 50 advertisements that stand out from the rest. Each of these is unique and creative. Collected over a 5 month period.
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This post on [video host] Revver’s main blog is noteworthy. Former host of vlog Rocketboom, Congdon asks her audience not to “upload [her] videos to YouTube or any other video hosting site that reserves the right to make commercial works out of other people
s vids.” Blog post argues that it is landmark in […]
Awesome pictures and movie trailer concepts, based on Greg Bear’s “EON”!!
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Interesting article how a Celeron 466 handled a slashdot with little sweat. He did make some config changes for this to work though, but there is some good tips.
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While Google is aware of the problem and is fixing it they refuse to rollback the code and are content to charge advertisers more until they fix it. So if you went to the store and the cashier said I know this item only costs you $1 but the register is broken and I have […]
Huh, that’s weird. What’s that in the clouds?
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Something extremely weird is going on over on Digg.com. Today for the third time in a short period, a story got promoted to the front page where a blogger raises a baseless rumour about Google buying Sun. It appears that this is the result of a coordinated effort to fool Digg into promoting the story.
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Google’s answer to Apple’s iPhone: The Google Phone! Will it be possible to beat Apple with it in terms of market share? Here are the first pictures of the Google Phone - leaked from participants in a survey.
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Learn by example how to create a tableless css form
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Dell, oddly enough, is listening to the many thousands of direct requests its customers made during its big public brainstorm (aka IdeaStorm) not so far back. The result of nearly 70% of participants requesting Linux on Dell machines? Linux will soon be pre-installed on consumer desktops and laptops outside their server and Precision desktop lineup
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More hacks to come soon, just waiting for this on a mini myself…
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Come party with Digg in San Francisco! We’ll have live music and plenty of interesting distractions including demonstrations of some cool new visualizations of Digg data, and of course, a message from our founders — Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose.
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A bunch of us were discussing how many Canadians are in the Valley and more importantly how the world doesn’t know, what we all know, that Canada kicks ass in tech and innovation. One thing led to another and we launched the “Canadian Tech Mob”. The Canadian Tech Mob is a not for profit, grassroots […]
Toronto’s BarCamp community are stepping out of the geeky shadows to work with other creative types in Toronto in creating a fascinating event called Toronto Transit Camp. It takes the basic unconference principles of BarCamp and applies them to difficult design problems around Toronto’s transit system while celebrating transit’s role in the city.
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Joomla! won Best Linux/Open Source Project at UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, in London tonight. This is the second year in a row the Joomla! project has won the prestigious award. The buzz around Joomla! is driven by it’s huge user base which translates into what is fastly becoming the most popular open […]
Read free full text books online
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Trekkies in search of the final frontier should stop by Tony Alleyne’s Voyager-themed apartment.
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John Bolton gets schooled by Jon Stewart on history. Basically he is caught making stuff up and getting called on it.
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Every designer needs an arsenal of photoshop brushes whether its grunge or techno swirls - here we have dugg out the very best for you.
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Lead developer of the ThinWire Framework Joshua Gertzen has written an article going over existing approaches to implementing OO inheritance in Javascript (including the famous example by Douglas Crockford) and explains the final solution that they needed on the ThinWire framework for super class method calling.
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It’s no wonder recruiting good developers is difficult when (quoting the article) “199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can
t write code at all. I repeat: they cant write any code whatsoever.”
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As you all know we had a very sucessful year 2006. Plenty of events and presentation all over the world showed that Joomla! isn’t just a little idea anymore. We would like to take the oportunity to thank all the communities and individuals for their support and contributions to those events.
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This really works! It made a big difference on my machine - apparently Apple put a page loading delay into Safari that makes the browser wait one second before it starts to show a page. It sounds silly but you can really notice it! This cool little app disables the delay and has some […]
Google’s Cheat Sheet helps unlock tools not normally known about this revolutionary search engine.
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This is the true Mac Mini “case mod”. DVD goes in through the former floppy slot, and 99% authentic from the outside, and BLACK, no butchering here, only respect.
This is not the Japanese mod, I did this myself, and documented it for you.
33.3% nostalgia 33.3% hack 33.3% pointless; still 100% Macintosh.
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Ubuntu Ultimate Edition: the best Ultimate to this date!
Due to the popularity of Ubuntu Christmas Edition (~15,000 downloads in 2 weeks) 1.2 has seen over 50,000 in 3 days. I have decided to make another distro I’m calling “Ubuntu Ultimate Edition” it has everything listed in the Christmas Edition plus much more (& without […]
Anil Dash discusses at length great speakers on the future of web app (hint, most not present at recent conferences)
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“For what it
s worth, and to shift the blame off of the users listed here - quite a bit of this data was gathered inaccurately as the author states in the Digg comments. Please also note, due to the massive number of Diggs/submissions/buries and comments, Digg spy only shows a portion of the activity within […]
Found floating in a rockpool, looking for all the world like a little blue chinese dragon. I’d never seen anything like it and i had absolutely no idea what it was at first. Turns out it’s a pelagic sea slug which floats about the ocean on its back.
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“According to an independent study conducted by some scientists, many users of Linux are running non-Genuine versions of their operating system. This puts them at the disadvantage of having their computers work normally, without periodically phoning home unannounced to see if it’s OK for their computer to continue functioning.” Can’t have that!
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Want your grandma to start using Flickr but don’t feel like explaining it to her? This handy guide will have her tagging photos with ‘Lasertag Sake-bombs’ before you can shake a stick at your beer.
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Should Boston officials prosecute the men responsible for putting up the signs that disrupted the city by stirring fears of terrorism?
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