The sight of a dragonfly on the wing is one of the more remarkable that nature has to offer. Here, with the help of some astounding macrophotography, we take a look at the life cycle of the dragonfly as well as its remarkable and unusual physiology.
The path to modern-day computing is longer than many suspect, and strewn with interesting nuggets of information. These include:
The inventor of e-mail can’t remember when he got it working.
Pac-Man was modelled on a pizza and called Puck-Man until vandals forced a name change.
The first hard drive had a 5MB capacity and could only be moved by a fork-lift truck.
Deep Blue’s chess victory over Garry Kasparov was described as a ‘psychological triumph’.
Full details of these milestones, and other gems of computing history.
When the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents. Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world, but not in all of them.
Some countries are trying hard to keep an iron hand over the flow of information that takes place on the Web. Here are 10 countries who are censoring the web.
Search!o is a tabbed search engine which aims to simplify your searching needs by bringing a lot of sites in a single page.
Search!o allows you to search in particular categories, including music, images, books, blogs, news, fonts, recipes, jobs, torrents, tutorials people and many more.
Just 24 hours after 22-year-old Matti Saari was questioned by police after he posted a disturbing YouTube video and released because he had the proper gun license, he went to a school and opened fire on students:
Saari uploaded disturbing footage onto YouTube of himself practising at a firing range and turning to the camera to proclaim: ‘You will die next.’
Worried police interviewed the second-year domestic science student about the clips - but, because he had an appropriate gun license, did not take him into custody.
Just one day later he stormed into an exam hall and opened fire with an automatic weapon before killing himself.
For all you pervs out there (you know who you are), Microsoft has added a new, uh, tool called InPrivate Browsing, to the second Beta version of Internet Explorer 8, which is handy if you don’t want your wife, girlfriend or daughter to see where you’ve been when you said you were paying the bills. This feature will not save your browsing or search history, cookies, form data, or passwords, and will clear its cache when you’re, uh, finished. No wonder it’s nicknamed “Porn Mode.”
Via ComputerWorld.
Think your Twitter profile is popular enough that it should start making you money?
If so, then TwittAd is here to help.
The service is designed to match users who don’t mind a little product placement and website promotion on their Twitter profile with advertisers looking for a new way to reach eyeballs, and offers Twitter background images that include the sponsor’s logo and information.
Twitter backgrounds don’t include clickable links, so it’s a little bit of a disconnect between the ad and a typical ad measurement statistic like click through rates and page views, but with a lot of companies eager to start using the service to reach a new audience, I don’t think it’s going to be tough to sell the spaces.
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A social network community for beautiful people only? Yes, BeautifulPeople.net is an elite and exclusively community, founded for the purpose of creating personal and professional relationships between people who stand out from the majority because of their attractive appearance and personal qualities.
To become a member of BeautifulPeople applicants have to be voted in by existing members of the opposite sex. Over a three day period members will rate all new applicants based on whether or not the members of BeautifulPeople find each profile ‘attractive enough’. Just one out of ten applicants is accepted.
placeSpotting is a Google Map quiz. In the upper part of the page you see a satellite picture. Drag and zoom the map in the lower part of the page until it shows the same location as the upper map. The zoom level must match exactly, the latitude and longitude only approximately. When you solved the map quiz, the field on the left of the map will turn green.
Some spots will be very hard to find, others are obvious. Sometimes, at the right of the maps, there are up to 4 hints to help you.
When you do a search on Google or Yahoo, the search engine churns out a list of websites accompanied by abstracts that are used to decide whether a site is worth checking out. Sometimes this process involves much back-and-forth as you look for the answers you need. Well, wouldn’t it be nice to get a preview of the websites retrieved before clicking through?
Searchme is a visual search engine that displays search results as an image gallery of screenshots that you can scroll, giving you a better idea of a site’s relevance. With its clean, elegant, intuitive design, Searchme is both easy on the eyes and easy to use.
Sitemeter Crashing Web Sites Using Internet Explorer on August 1, 2008!
I apologize if you’ve been trying to visit this site yesterday evening and it’s been down.
I just discovered that the SiteMeter tracking code that counts visitors to my site was causing visits from Internet Explorer to crash. I first realized the issue this morning.
After further investigation, I discovered that SiteMeter is bringing down every site where its counter code is loaded when the visiting browser is Internet Explorer versions 6.0 and 7.0. The error may also affect Internet Explorer 5.5.
Tens of thousands of publishers use sitemeter to track their content, including thousands of bloggers. It has been a great tool for analyzing my website’s traffic data.
The text of the error is “Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site.”
How to fix the IE error on Wordpress, Blogger, and other sites?
I removed the Sitemeter tracking code from my sites and now all is loading fine.
For further status, visit http://www.sitemeter.com in Internet Explorer.
If it works, they’ve probably got it fixed.
Anna Patterson, an Xoogler(ex-Googler) who was once in charge of Google’s large search index project TeraGoogle, launched a new search engine www.cuil.com in a bid to shake the dominance of her former employer on Monday. As a fervent Google user, I will not use Cuil (pronouced cool) as my major search engine any time soon (after all as a launch version, cuil has too much to improve), but its magazine-like format search results supplemented with relevant pictures in a 2~3-columned layout sure will may let me make it as an alternative of Google when I search for celebrities’ pictures.
PeopleFinders.com, the premier online service that helps consumers quickly find and connect with anyone, announced the launch of Criminal Searches. It’s a free website that provides consumers with detailed information on people with criminal histories, including sex-related offenses, violent crimes and theft.
Babysitter, nanny, cleaning service, janitor, neighbor, construction workers, school teachers, electrician, plumber, gardener, locksmith, acquaintances, your children’s friends. Do you really know who these people are? We associate with them and even invite them in our homes. Do they have a criminal background? Are your children safe with them?
Pete Cashmore of Mashable made this short and sweet description of the evolution of the web, from Blogger to Twitter, as told with … cats: Link
The mystery blonde who has lost her digital camera turns out to be porn site model Wendy. She became famous on Facebook when images from her camera being posted on the internet in order to find the owner of the camera.
