Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Building an Open Social with Google

With its swift installation and simple set-up, Elgg provides you with all the tools you need to become the next MySpace. Karl Hodge shows you how it’s done

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Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation

Posting a naked e-mail link anywhere on the web, in a newsgroup, chatroom, or weblog comments page is generally the kiss of death for your once-healthy address. Now you can protect your addresses in a fully automated way while at the same time being gracious to all users, so you can focus on what’s really important: getting your content out.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Illustration: The History of High-Level Programming Languages

For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF: 701K), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-c

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Monday, November 5, 2007

How dumb are FOX News viewers? This dumb.

Brian Williams ed-u-ma-cates Carolyn from Pennsylvania, FOX News viewer.

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Sunday, November 4, 2007

Apple Store Sales Guy Nearing Meltdown. [Overheard + Story Description]

Overheard Conversation--about the iPhone. Arrogant Apple Store sales guy vs. confused seemingly meek customer. Turns into mini-drama. (Overheard text, plus description of front & back stories.) Not for everybody. But amusing, different. Guy seems to go through a mini-story arc in a few minutes.

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NBC Has Hacked Their iPhone

If you looked closely at last night's episode of Saturday Night Live during the iPhone: The Affair sketch, you may or may not have noticed a certain extra "Installer" icon next to the iTunes button. So what's that icon signify? The iPhone being used was Jailbroken (or, hacked for programs and games, in layman terms).

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Linux.com :: When open source projects close the process, something's wrong

A very insightful piece of the openness in regards to two FOSS projects.

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