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Open-Source-of-the-day : HovText

2006-08-05T18:20:00.000-07:00

Here is the recipe for typing less and storing more in the clipboard:

Use Firefox + Autocopy + Copy URL+ + HovText

When you want to copy text, highlight it and Autocopy goes into action.

When you want to clip Title / Selection / URL, you right-click and use Copy URL+

When you want HTML free text ( and last 10 used texts) , use HovText.

The Hovgaard Klan .:: HovText

HovText is a small freeware and open source Windows application that removes any formatting from the clipboard and it also works as a simple clipboard manager. Any text in the clipboard will be pasted as raw text without any HTML code, font size, color or layout etc. HovText remembers also the last 10 copied texts (both formatted and unformatted) and you can filter out whatever text you need with regular expressions.

More open source programs and utilities at : Open Source Freeware : 400+ free applications and utilities : eConsultant

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Freeware-of-the-day : iColorFolder

2006-08-05T18:19:00.001-07:00

Color the folders in Windows Explorer to organize your data, programs, music, images, etc.

iColorFolder

With iColorFolder, customize the color of each WindowsXP folder

More freeware utilities at : I want a Freeware Utility to ... 450+ common problems solved : eConsultant

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List-of-the-day : Top 33 Online Calendars

2006-08-05T18:19:00.000-07:00

Top 33 Online Calendars : Technical Lists : eConsultant

Top 33 Online Calendars

More Lists at : Technical Lists : eConsultant

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Web 2.0 Site-of-the-day : BusyTonight

2006-08-05T18:18:00.000-07:00

BusyTonight is a searchable database of events. Search by Cities / Tags / Categories; mashup with GoogleMaps.

BusyTonight.com Event Search

Comprehensive USA Event Search

1200+ Web 2.0 Sites in 50+ categories : Web 2.0 Directory : eConsultant

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AOL Xdrive = 5GB Free Storage

2006-08-03T10:21:00.000-07:00

Xdrive which charges $10/month will be come free starting in September.

Xdrive : Secure Online Storage

2006-08-03T09:51:00.000-07:00

Development Blog › WordPress 2.0.4

WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board.

2006-08-03T09:50:00.000-07:00

Social Annotation: Seamless Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & Clipping

Highlight, Clip and Sticky-Note for any webpage
- just as you would on paper --> write on any webpage!
- make them private or public --> interact on any webpage!
Share your online findings with your friends and colleagues
- complete with highlights and sticky notes
- as lists, as blogs, as albums, as feeds, or via email

RealNetworks to distribute Google and Mozilla software

2006-08-02T20:34:00.000-07:00

Don't use the annoying real player. Instead, use Real Alternative which plays all real media.

Macworld UK - RealNetworks to distribute Google and Mozilla software

Developers of three popular software applications - RealPlayer, Firefox, and Google's Toolbar - have reached a multi-year agreement to distribute certain applications to users.

When users download RealNetworks' RealPlayer media software, they will be given the option to also install Firefox and the Google Toolbar, the companies said today.

Working together will help the firms compete with Microsoft. The deal should also help expand their audience of users, because RealNetworks distributes more than 2 million pieces of software a day globally, according to the company.

Google's Toolbar and Mozilla's Firefox will soon be available for users of RealPlayer, Rhapsody music service and RealArcade games, the companies said.

Google and RealNetworks have distributed software for each other for the past two years, so the deal expands their work together, they said.

Fast, one wire network (IP over FireWire)

2006-05-17T13:39:00.000-07:00

Nice tutorial on how to network two PCs with a Firewire cable.

Geek to Live: Fast, one wire network (IP over FireWire) - Lifehacker

Fast, one wire network (IP over FireWire)

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Deep Quote

2006-05-12T13:52:00.000-07:00

Cool service that makes short url (like tinyurl) but also highlights a quote on the page.

Deep Quote - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages

Create links to specific quotes on the Web.

Traffic Estimator

2006-05-12T13:31:00.000-07:00

New Google tool to estimate how much a keyword in adwords will cost you.

Google AdWords: Traffic Estimator

Educational podcasts? | Ask MetaFilter

2006-02-25T09:17:00.000-08:00

See the list at Educational podcasts? | Ask MetaFilter

JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.

2006-02-17T20:55:00.000-08:00

JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.: "JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away."

PBwiki

2006-02-14T15:30:00.000-08:00

PBwiki makes creating a wiki as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich : Get a free wiki at PBwiki.com

Gmail for your domain

2006-02-10T19:29:00.000-08:00

Google is conducting a beta ... Gmail for your domain. See Gmail for your domain

Songbird

2006-02-08T10:14:00.000-08:00

Songbird : open source alternative to Apple's iTunes and the Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

SongBird

Apple launches new 1 GB nano

2006-02-07T09:04:00.000-08:00

$69 for 512 MB Shuffle
$99 for 1 GB Shuffle
$149 for 1 GB Nano
$199 for 2 GB Nano
$249 for 4 GB Nano
$299 for 30 GB iPod
$399 for 60 GB iPod

Coming soon ...

$100,000 for a new iPod every six month for the rest of your life.

$1,000,000 for a special Apple iPod Pass. You can walk into any Apple store and walk off with as many iPods as you can carry.

Apple launches new 1 GB nano : Apple launches new 1 GB nano

How to Protect Your Privacy

2006-02-03T07:57:00.000-08:00

How to Protect Your Privacy

Computer

Use a firewall : keep it running at all times. See Technical Tips : Firewall Software
Use anti-spyware software : keep it updated. See Technical Tips : Anti-Spyware Software List
Use anti-virus software : keep it updated. See Technical Tips : Anti-Virus Software List
Use anti-tojan software : keep it running at all times. See Technical Tips : Anti-Trojan Software List
Use Windows Password : use windows (2000/XP) password to login your account. Do not set the computer to auto-login.
Create a browsing account : use a non-Administrative rights account when you are browsing the web.
Use Windows XP Restore feature : create a browsing account and on a monthly basis, restore it to the first of the month.
Any viruses/spyware installed while browsing will be backed out.
Use a proxy server/site : to access a site without revealing your IP address. See Technical Tips : Browse Using a Proxy

Online Browsing

Use Firefox : Firefox is a much safer browser than Internet Explorer.
Use Mozilla Thunderbird : Thunderbird is much safer than Microsoft Outlook.
Use Bugmenot.comt : find an existing user and password. please add to the database too.
Passwords : Pick a strong password (a�combination�of�upper�and�lower�case�letters,�and�should preferably�contain�some�digits�and�special�characters�e.g.�punctuation)
use it everywhere. e.g. AnWyCcD4U1961. See How to Create a Strong Password : eConsultant
Make up a fictional identity : pick and consistently use a fictional identity : date of birth, place of birth, mother's name for the security questions.
Use Disposable email addresses : use disposable addresses at sites which require registration. See Technical Tips : Find a Disposable Email Address
Get news via Google News / Yahoo! News : most local newspaper require registration. You can get the same AP news via Google/Yahoo without registering at various sites.
Do not reply to spammers, for any reason. : replying tells them that they have reached a valid address.

Online Shopping

Passwords : pick a strong password (a�combination�of�upper�and�lower�case�letters,�and�should preferably�contain�some�digits�and�special�characters�e.g.�punctuation)
use it everywhere. e.g. AnWyCcD4U1961
Temporary card numbers : most credit card companies let you generate one-time temporary credit card numbers. Use them.
Use Disposable email addresses : use one-time/disposable addresses at one-time/what-a-deal shopping sites. See Technical Tips : Find a Disposable Email Address
Use Gmail address extensions : use myname+amazon@gmail.com at Amazon; myname+safeway@gmail.com at Safeway etc

Online Banking

Sign Up : sign up for online banking and online e-statements. Print them yourself. One less item in your physical mailbox.
Bookmark your financial sites : bookmark the account sites and only use those bookmarks to sign-in.
Don't fall for phishing emails : Do not ever use any banking links that come via email.
If your banks really needs your information/some options checked, it'll ask you when you login to your account.
Banking records : your big bank has a credit card division, an insurance division, a small business division, a loans division.
Opt-out of your bank sharing information with them.

Credit Report

Get your free credit report. : Use AnnualCreditReport.com Or Call 1-877-322-8228.
There are three big credit review companies : Equifax, Experian, TransUnion.
You can keep a yearly watch on your credit by ordering a report from a different one every four months.
Freeze your credit : All three credit reporting bureaus allow you to "security freeze" your credit.
A security freeze means that your file cannot be shared with potential creditors.

Credit Cards

Say No to Credit Card offers. : use OptOutPrescreen.com to stop those pre-approved envelopes in your mailbox.

Social Security Numbers

Protect that SSN : do NOT keep the card in your wallet.
Give out only when mandatory : your employer, bank, credit card, health insurance company and some government agencies needs it.
Be wary of other companies or organizations asking for it.

Phone Company

Do Not Call : Use National Do Not Call Registry Or Call 1-888-382-1222
Phone records. : opt-out of your phone company sharing your records with anyone.

Supermarket Shopping

Supermarket loyalty cards : make up a fake name and address, get a new one every other month,
tell the checker that you forgot your card and ask him/her to use the one they keep below the checkout register.
Creative phone number / zip code : create a phone number or even use the store's own number when asked.

Telemarketers

Ignore telemarketers : let the answering machine pick up all calls. Call back people you want to talk to.
Annoy telemarketers : keep them on the line; ask questions; but don't buy anything.

At Home

Lock your mail box : make sure no one is stealing your postal mail.
Shredder : use it to shred any documents with confidential information.
Bank Checks : do NOT have your driver's license or phone number printed on your checks.

Customer Service Agents

Quiz customer service reps : ask what will they do with your phone;
ask how do they know your address and what will it take to remove it from their records.
But, please do not personally blame them for their company policies.

Complain

Complain : in writing, to companies with crazy policies.
Only when enough people complain and take their business elsewhere that companies change their ways.

Some useful links

AnnualCreditReport.com : Official annual credit report site.
Your Access to Free Credit Reports : Federal Trade Commision site.
Equifax : Big-3 credit reporting bureaus.
Experian : Big-3 credit reporting bureaus.
TransUnion : Big-3 credit reporting bureaus.
National Do Not Call Registry : Official Do Not Call site.
OptOutPrescreen.com : Official pre-approval opt-out site.

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How to Create a Strong Password

2006-02-02T23:07:00.000-08:00

How to Create a Strong Password

A strong password should meet all three of these criteria:

Over eight characters
Combines letters, numbers and symbols
Easy for you to remember, but difficult for others to guess

Choose a Long Phrase

Ask not what your country can do for you ...
To be or not to be, that is the question
We have nothing to fear but fear itself

Make all (or some) of the following substitutions

For the word "are", use "r"
For the word "be", use "b"
For the word "for", use 4
For the word "nothing", use 0 (zero)
For the word "to", use 2
For the word "you" use "u"
For the word "we", use "v"
For any numbers, type the number
If permitted, use "&" for and, or "@" for at.

Make changes and pick the first letter of every word

"Ask not what your country can do for you" becomes : AnWyCcd4U
"To be or not to be, that is the question" becomes : 2bOn2BtItQ
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself" : Vh02FbFi

Tips and Tricks

Choose one long password for all sites : The best security would be to use a different long password at each site;
but that's nearly impossible to do. This is the second best solution.
Use Hotkeys Software : Keyboard software can enter a good long strong password with one key entry or click.
See Technical Tips : Hotkey Software
Reprogram a keyboard key : New keyboards allow you to reprogram some keys like MyHome/Back/Email/Cal key.
Change one to the password you want to use.
Check your password on Google : If it is a complicated strong password, it should not be found.

Traps

Do NOT use your username as the password.
Do NOT use "password" as your password.
Do NOT use your first name or last name as your password.
Do NOT use repeating or sequential numbers as password e.g. 1234567890, 22222222
Do NOT use dictionary words as passwords.
Do NOT use single "hacker phrases" as passwords e.g. "M1cr0$0ft" or "P@ssw0rd"
Do NOT write down the password on a post-it and stick it on the monitor.

Some useful links

Strong passwords: How to create and use them : Tips from Microsoft
Creating Strong Passwords : Tips from Princeton University
The Strong Password Dilemma : Research paper on strong passwords.

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How to Give Up Coffee

2006-02-01T11:48:00.000-08:00

How to Give Up Coffee

Learn About Coffee

Know that coffee is a drug. Coffee has caffeine. Its chemical formula is C8H10N4O2. Its chemical name is 3,7-Dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione or 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine or 1,3,7-trimethyl-2,6-dioxopurine. Caffeine Chemistry shows a molecular diagram.
Know that caffeine is addictive. Regular use of upwards of 350 mg of caffeine a day causes physical dependence on the drug.
Caffeine effects the brain and the central nervous system, raises adrenaline levels, raises the production of the hormones cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine, is a diuretic (a substance or drug that tends to increase the discharge of urine). Coffee is acidic. and effects sleep (usually delays sleep onset, shortens overall sleep time, and reduces the "depth" of sleep).
Caffeine ingestion contributes to insulin resistance and impairs glucose and insulin homeostasis as part of the stress response.
Know caffeine content of various drinks : Coffee, Teas, Colas/Pop/Sodas, Hot Chocolate Drinks, Chocolate all have caffiene. See : Caffeine Content of Beverages, Foods, & Medications

Find Your Primary Reason

To live a healthier life : you don't have to join the majority of the population in regularly ingesting a socially acceptable addictive physiology-altering legal drug.
To save money : if you belong to the crowd of people who loudly and proudly proclaim their Starbucks habit, I suggest you calculate the cost of the habit. A couple of lattes every work day is 2 x $6 x 200 = $1200. You could buy a brand new iPod every quarter or a brand new laptop every year or visit Europe on a vacation. Visualize your reward. Print out a photograph of your chosen toy or vacation spot and keep it visible at all times to remind yourself of what you are working towards.
To become a millionaire : if you invest a Starbucks coffee a day for the next 40 years, you'll be a millionaire! Suze Orman does the math for you. See : Are You Flushing One Million Dollars Down the Toilet?

Strategies

Gradually reduce the amount : Every week, reduce the number of coffee cups by one. 4 cups a day in the first week, 3 in the second, 2 in the third, 1 ine the fourth. Caffeine-free in one month!
Gradually halve the amount : Every week, halve the number of coffee cups. e.g. 4 cups a day in the first week, 2 in the second, 1 in the third, Caffeine-free in three weeks!
At home gradually reduce the coffee : When making your coffee in a drip machine every morning, gradually use less than what you normally use until it's so weak you can stop altogether.
Switch to tea: Tea has lower amounts of caffeine. Every week, switch over one of your coffee breaks to tea. Upon successful transition to tea, repeat the process to transition to caffeine-free tea.

What to Expect

Withdrawal Symptoms : Some of the common withdrawal symptoms include headache, fatigue or drowsiness, depression or irritability, difficulty in concentrating, flulike symptoms including nausea, muscle pain, and stiffness. You will experience some or all of these symptoms depending on your addiction level.

Tips and Tricks

Sleep : get ample quality regular sleep while you are transitioning to your caffeine-free state.
Morning Exercise : aerobic exercise, like cycling, produces endorphins and starts your day on a natural high.
Step Outside : make it a ritual to go outside and deep breathe fresh air in the morning.
Orange Juice : coffee is a habit. Replace the habit with a small glass of orange juice.
Eat Breakfast : a grain or oats based (low glycemic index) breakfast will keep your brain nourished for the morning.
Avoid Sugary Breakfast: avoid donuts or high sugar muffins; they cause a rapid buildup and slump in your blood sugar levels.
Afternoon Snack: keep an apple or banana or a handful of cashew nuts ready for the mid-afternoon snack time instead of coffee.
Drink More Water: carry a water bottle around and take sips regularly.

Healthy Coffee Alternatives

Rocamojo : soy-based coffee.
Soyfee : another soy-based coffee.
Teeccino : herbal non-caffienated coffee.
Chicory root (Cichorium intybus) : has long been used in the southern US as a coffee substitute.
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale): is second only to chicory as a coffee substitute.
Warm Soy-Milk or Rice-Milk : part of the addiction is the need for a warm liquid; try milk or milk substitutes.

Some useful links

Book recommendations

Amazon.com: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World: Books: Mark Pendergrast

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WordPress 2.0.1 Released

2006-02-01T11:14:00.000-08:00

Fixes 114 bugs; download it to run a stable blog.

WordPress Development Blog � 2.0.1 Release

* You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
* Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
* Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
* XML-RPC uploading works.
* Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
* Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
* Imports now use much less memory.
* Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.

Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview

2006-02-01T09:56:00.000-08:00

Download and test Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview

Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview

BoingBoing : StarForce threatens to sue me for criticizing its products

2006-02-01T09:34:00.000-08:00

How clueless one has to be to threaten BoingBoing postings ?!!
It's like taking out (negative) publicity ads all over the web !

StarForce threatens to sue me for criticizing its products

Google Video Player Download

2006-02-01T08:01:00.000-08:00

Google has a beta Google Video Player for Download.

Google Video Player Download

Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye

2006-01-17T08:03:00.000-08:00

news @ nature.com - Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye - Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.

"Lindgaard and her team presented volunteers with the briefest glimpses of web pages previously rated as being either easy on the eye or particularly jarring, and asked them to rate the websites on a sliding scale of visual appeal. Even though the images flashed up for just 50 milliseconds, roughly the duration of a single frame of standard television footage, their verdicts tallied well with judgements made after a longer period of scrutiny. "

Hack your socks

2006-01-16T10:37:00.000-08:00

Salon.com editor Scott Rosenberg shares a tip on how he avoids the
pointless waste of time that is sorting socks:

(1) Throw out all your old socks (or donate them, if they're presentable).

(2) Decide what color socks you need. The fewer colors the better.
I've gone minimalist-retro: there's the black socks, and there's the
white socks, and that's it.

(3) Purchase large quantities of socks in those colors. You can get
different brands/makes for each color, as long as all socks of the
same color are exactly the same.

(4) Just dump the socks in your dresser drawer as is from the clean
wash -- don't sort or pair them. When you need a pair, grab any two of
the same color -- they're guaranteed to match!

This approach also conveniently guarantees that The Missing Sock that
got eaten by the laundry machine won't unbalance a pair, too.

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NetGear : 54Mbps Wireless Travel Router for $10 after MIR

2006-01-16T07:09:00.000-08:00

NetGear : 54Mbps Wireless Travel Router : $60

Rebate : $50

Happy Birthday Wikipedia : Wikipedia Day

2006-01-16T06:48:00.000-08:00

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, turned 5 years old January 15, 2006.

The English Wikipedia alone now has more than 920,000 articles, with over 340,000,000 words. The millionth article is expected to appear in late February or early March. The combined Wikipedias for all languages have an estimated total of over 3,100,000 articles in some two hundred languages. Eighty-four of the non-English Wikipedias have over 1,000 articles, thirty-six have over 10,000 and seven have over 100,000.

ToDoList 4.5.12

2006-01-11T05:59:00.000-08:00

Free software for GTDing ...

ToDoList 4.5.12 - A simple and effective way to keep on top of your tasks - The Code Project - Free Tools

AbstractSpoon Software - The home of ToDoList and other free software!

Why magazine websites still don't get it = Bussiness 2.0 My golden rule

2006-01-09T14:14:00.000-08:00

Here's Business 2.0, which is supposed to be a "hi-tech magazine" - one would think they would know how to use the web.

Want to read 49 Golden Rules by 49 business leaders? You get 4 on the link page and 45 others on a pop-up which have one each.

The magazine wants you to click 49 times to read one paragraph each !!! Don't cry, it gets worse.

Where is the golden rule you might ask - it is Photoshopped on the photo !!!

You can't even select it as text !!!

Want to link to a specific one? You are out of luck - it's hidden in some javascript - the people at AOL-Time-Warner think that's too much; they want you to go to the link page and use the pop up every time.

A company with the market-cap of $80+ Billion should be able to do much better than that.

BUSINESS 2.0: My golden rule - Nov. 28, 2005: "49 leaders, from Buffett to Spitzer, share their secrets to success."

Alexa (Make that Amazon) Looks to Change the Game

2005-12-13T20:25:00.000-08:00

Alexa will let developers use their index ... the fees? One dollar per CPU hour consumed. $1 per gig of storage used. $1 per 50 gigs of data processed. $1 per gig of data uploaded (if you are putting your new service up on their platform). This will surely cause lots of new services.

John Battelle's Searchblog: Alexa (Make that Amazon) Looks to Change the Game

Gmail File Space Extension (gspace)

2005-12-07T10:50:00.000-08:00

Similar to Gmail Drive for Windows Explorer; this is a firefox extension ...

Gmail File Space Extension (gspace)

Why Ajax Sucks (Most of the Time)

2005-12-06T17:24:00.000-08:00

As Jokob Neilsen rightly points out - millions of people know the fundamentals of web browsing : 1. the back buton takes you back 2. the underlined link takes you to the next page or site 3. bookmark a page and you can get back the same information ... Ajax breaks all that ... read more ...

Added to : Why Ajax Sucks (Most of the Time)

Installing WindowsXP and Service Pack 2 with 1 CD

2005-12-05T23:06:00.000-08:00

Detailed instructions on slipstreaming SP2 and Win XP install ...

Installing WindowsXP and Service Pack 2 with 1 CD

10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows

2005-12-04T23:15:00.000-08:00

10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows

Piet-Mondrian-New-York-City

2005-12-02T21:22:00.000-08:00

Winslow Homer Gallery

2005-12-02T18:16:00.000-08:00

Art by the Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910) - one of the greatest American landscape painters : Winslow Homer Gallery

LookLater

2005-12-02T13:00:00.000-08:00

A new service that looks promising.

LookLater: Home

Added to : Access Bookmarks from Anywhere : Technical Tips : eConsultant

MP3Test

2005-12-02T12:41:00.000-08:00

MP3Test: "One of the best tools to check MP3 songs for errors."

Added to : Tag My MP3 Files : Technical Tips : eConsultant

Digg Firefox Extension: Block Users, Ignore Stories by Keyword, Auto Sig

2005-11-29T09:14:00.000-08:00

Ash has turned his Greasemonkey script for Digg into a bonafide Firefox Extension. Adds awesome functionality to digg and makes the digg experience more enjoyable. Get it now!

read more | digg story

Exploring a Hormone for Caring

2005-11-23T10:32:00.000-08:00

One of the things that amazing about harmones is that levels get determined at such an early age and the body adapsts to these lower/different levels.

Exploring a Hormone for Caring

By NICHOLAS WADE

The lack of emotional care given to infants in some Romanian and Russian orphanages has provided researchers an opportunity to study the hormonal basis of the mother-child bond.

Researchers led by Seth D. Pollak of the University of Wisconsin have found that these children, even three and a half years after adoption into Wisconsin families, produce two critical hormones in a different pattern from children with traditional upbringings.

The hormones, oxytocin and vasopressin, are small proteins produced by the pituitary gland in the center of the brain. Although they influence bodily functions like giving milk and the water balance, they also have a range of effects on social behavior, at least in laboratory rodents and monkeys."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems

2005-11-23T09:58:00.000-08:00

Lots of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems

Top 100 Modern Books

2005-10-17T22:40:00.000-07:00

Achebe, Chinua : Things Fall Apart
Agee, James : A Death in the Family
Amis, Kingsley : Lucky Jim
Amis, Martin : Money
Atwood, Margaret : The Blind Assassin
Baldwin, James : Go Tell it on the Mountain
Barth, John : The Sot-Weed Factor
Bellow, Saul : The Adventures of Augie March
Bellow, Saul : Herzog
Blume, Judy : Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Bowen, Elizabeth : The Death of the Heart
Bowles, Paul : The Sheltering Sky
Burgess, Anthony : A Clockwork Orange
Burroughs, William : Naked Lunch
Byatt, A.S. : Posession
Cather, Willa : Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chandler, Raymond : The Big Sleep
Cheever, John : Falconer
DeLillo, Don : White Noise
Dickey, James : Deliverance
Didion, Joan : Play It As It Lays
Doctorow, E.L. : Ragtime
Dreiser, Theodore : An American Tragedy
Ellison, Ralph : Invisible Man
Faulkner, William : Light in August
Faulkner, William : The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott : The Great Gatsby
Ford, Richard : The Sportswriter
Forster, E.M. : A Passage to India
Fowles, John : The French Lieutenant's Woman
Franzen, Jonathan : The Corrections
Gaddis, William : The Recognitions
Gibson, William : Neuromancer
Golding, William : Lord of the Flies
Graves, Robert : I, Claudius
Green, Henry : Loving
Greene, Graham : The Heart of the Matter
Greene, Graham : The Power and the Glory
Hammett, Dashiell : Red Harvest
Heller, Joseph : Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest : The Sun Also Rises
Isherwood, Christopher : The Berlin Stories
Ishiguro, Kazuo : Never Let Me Go
K. Dick, Philip : Ubik
Kerouac, Jack : On the Road
Kesey, Ken : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kosinski, Jerzy : The Painted Bird
LeCarre, John : The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Lee, Harper : To Kill a Mockingbird
Lessig, Doris : The Golden Notebook
Lewis, C.S. : The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Lowrey, Malcolm : Under the Volcano
Malamud, Bernard : The Assistant
McCarthy, Cormac : Blood Meridian
McCullers, Carson : The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
McEwan, Ian : Atonement
Miller, Henry : Tropic of Cancer
Mitchell, Margaret : Gone With the Wind
Moore, Alan : Watchmen
Morrison, Toni : Beloved
Murdoch, Iris : Under the Net
Nabokov, Vladimir : Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir : Pale Fire
Naipaul, V.S. : A House for Mr. Biswas
Neale Hurston, Zora : Their Eyes Were Watching God
O'Brien, Flann : At Swim-Two-Birds
O'Hara, John : Appointment in Samarra
Orwell, George : Animal Farm
Orwell, George : 1984
Penn Warren, Robert : All the King's Men
Percy, Walker : The Moviegoer
Powell, Anthony : A Dance to the Music of Time
Pynchon, Thomas : The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon, Thomas : Gravity's Rainbow
Rhys, Jean : Wide Sargasso Sea
Robinson, Marilynne : Housekeeping
Roth, Henry : Call It Sleep
Roth, Philip : American Pastoral
Roth, Philip : Portnoy's Complaint
Rushdie, Salman : Midnight's Children
Salinger, J.D. : The Catcher in the Rye
Smith, Zadie : White Teeth
Spark, Muriel : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Stead, Christina : The Man Who Loved Children
Steinbeck, John : The Grapes of Wrath
Stephenson, Neal : Snow Crash
Stone, Robert : Dog Soldiers
Styron, William : The Confessions of Nat Turner
Tolkein, J.R.R. : The Lord of the Rings
Updike, John : Rabbit, Run
Vonnegut, Kurt : Slaughterhouse-Five
Wallace, David Foster : Infinite Jest
Waugh, Evelyn : Brideshead Revisited
Waugh, Evelyn : A Handful of Dust
West, Nathanael : The Day of the Locust
Wilder, Thornton : The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Woolf, Virginia : Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia : To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard : Native Son
Yates, Richard : Revolutionary Road

Gallery of the Day : Josef Albers Gallery

2005-09-10T23:15:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : Josef Albers Gallery:

"Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), was a German artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century."

FlckrFinds : Howard Pyle Illustrations - a photoset on Flickr

2005-09-08T09:18:00.000-07:00

FlckrFinds : Howard Pyle Illustrations - a photoset on Flickr: "Howard Pyle Illustrations"

Top Ten Digital Photography Tips

2005-09-08T09:16:00.000-07:00

MacDevCenter.com: Top Ten Digital Photography Tips: "Top Ten Digital Photography Tips"

1. Warm Up Those Tones
2: Sunglasses Polarizer
3. Outdoor Portraits That Shine
4. Macro Mode Madness
5. Horizon Line Mayhem
6: Massive Media Card
7: High Rez All the Way
8: Tolerable Tripod
9: Self Timer Fun
10. Slow Motion Water

Windows In Your Pocket - Introduction

2005-09-08T09:04:00.000-07:00

All hard drives will fail ... either today or tomorrow ... be prepared with a USB Drive bootup system.

Tom's Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: Windows In Your Pocket - Introduction: "with at least 256 MB of storage capacity and a Windows Setup CD. Using the program Bart PE Builder (Freeware), you can install Windows XP on the flash drive, along with other software as needed (and as available space permits)."

Gallery of the Day : Andrew Wyeth Gallery

2005-09-07T21:11:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : Andrew Wyeth Gallery

Andrew Newell Wyeth (born July 12, 1917) is an American realist painter, one of the best-known of the 20th century. He is often referred as "painter of the people."

RSS Writer

2005-09-07T20:51:00.000-07:00

RSS feed generator without a server.

RSS Writer: "RSS Writer
If you don't have a server that is able to generate RSS feeds, then you can manually create them with RSS Writer. All you need to do is upload the XML file once you have entered your content."

famfamfam.com: Icons

2005-09-07T20:24:00.000-07:00

If you like to put icons / chicklets on your website/blog, this is good place for you.

famfamfam.com: Icons:

Need icons for your new website or web application, at the best price there is (free!)? Try one of the following sets:

collision detection: The snobbery of iPods, pt. 3 -- or Why MP3 Players Only Have 375 Songs On Them

2005-09-07T20:19:00.000-07:00

A very fine essay on a strage behavior : 60 Gigs of space and listening to just a handful of songs.

collision detection: The snobbery of iPods, pt. 3 -- or Why MP3 Players Only Have 375 Songs On Them:

For a few years now, I've been arguing that iPods are a weird sort of snob technology. By which I mean: People use them mostly not to fulfil a utilitarian function -- i.e. to play music -- but rather to broadcast a message that they are true music aficionados. To walk around with the aery white earbuds jammed in your skull is to insist that you are the sort of person who not only needs to have music around you -- but needs to have 10,000 songs at your beck and call every second of the day, because nothing less would satisfy the subtle nuances of your all-encompassing taste: Cutting-edge German techno? Early Lomax folk blues recordings? Mozart? Your soul is on permanent shuffle. Mere labels cannot define you.

Beat Any Website into Shape with Greasemonkey [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]

2005-09-07T20:16:00.000-07:00

Use Firefox and Greasemonkey and you can change any website to your own liking.

Beat Any Website into Shape with Greasemonkey [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]:

Ever used a site that doesn't work in Firefox, even though it could with just a few minor tweaks? Ever frustrated by a site you really like apart from one annoying thing it does, or felt the desire to customise sites you visit often? Just as user CSS allows you to change the way Websites appear, so user JS allows you change the way Websites behave.

Gallery of the Day : Paul Gauguin Gallery

2005-09-04T07:14:00.000-07:00

Paul Gauguin Gallery:

Paul Gauguin
Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 - May 9, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art.

Real-time HTML Editor

2005-09-04T07:11:00.000-07:00

Real-time HTML Editor

Real-time HTML Editor

Mis-spell Sellers

2005-09-04T06:57:00.000-07:00

There are eBay sellers and then there are mis-spell eBay sellers ...

Fat Fingers:

Thousands of items on eBay are listed with descriptions containing spelling mistakes.
These items often expire with no bids on them as no-one can find them.
Type in a keyword below and click the Find button.
Then click the link and uncover those hidden gems...

Listal - A social DVD, book, music and games collection manager

2005-09-04T06:48:00.000-07:00

Listal - is a splendid idea ... it's the organizing all the information needed to start the collection that's the hassle. collect all book names/isbn; make a list of your DVDs; make a list of your CDs ...

Listal - A social DVD, book, music and games collection manager:

Listal is a web based collection manager application which supports DVDs (region 1 and 2), books, games and music.
The main features of listal are :
* Completely free to use
* Fast and simple user interface
* Organise your collection by tagging items with keywords which will also contribute to the overall classification of items for all users.
* Share your collection on the internet with an easy to remember url (yourname.listal.com)
* Create custom lists of items which can give recommendations and advice to other visitors. e.g. 'My favorite movies of 2004'
* Read and write reviews of your items.

Leonardo da Vinci: Qualities of a Genius

2005-09-04T06:40:00.000-07:00

If you have read Michael Gelb's "How to Think Like Leonardo" ... you'll be happy to see so many similar recommendations.

Leonardo da Vinci: Qualities of a Genius and How to Think Productively:

Learning from Leonardo da Vinci
Think Like a Genius and Its Qualities
By Runel Soria
According to Thomas Alva Edison 'Genius is ninety nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration' this mean that you must be more on hard work than wishing to be someone. Even if you're not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future.

Tiny Apps

2005-09-04T06:33:00.000-07:00

Sick of bloated software - with features you don't use - get some Tiny apps ...

TinyApps.Org : Home:

Welcome to TinyApps.Org, a guide to very small software for your PC. Virtually all of the programs listed here are free of charge and for use under Windows (Palm and OS X pages also exist)

Gallery of the Day : Paul Klee Gallery

2005-09-02T23:48:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : Paul Klee Gallery:

Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 � June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter. Klee was born in M�nchenbuchsee (near Bern) of Switzerland into a musical family - his father, Hans Klee, taught music at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar near Berne. In his early years, Paul wanted to be a musician, but decided on the visual arts in his teen years. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck. After travelling to Italy and then back to Bern, he settled in Munich, where he met Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and other avant-garde figures, and became associated with the Blaue Reiter. Here he met Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf, whom he married; they had one son.

Guardian Unlimited | Life | One side can be wrong

2005-09-02T23:40:00.000-07:00

It's sad that the British newspapers have to tell Americans as to how foolish we are. The fraud of Intelligent Design continues.

Guardian Unlimited | Life | One side can be wrong:

One side can be wrong
Accepting 'intelligent design' in science classrooms would have disastrous consequences, warn Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne
Thursday September 1, 2005
The Guardian
It sounds so reasonable, doesn't it? Such a modest proposal. Why not teach 'both sides' and let the children decide for themselves? As President Bush said, 'You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.' At first hearing, everything about the phrase 'both side

Backlink Checker - backlink, inbound, link checker, backlink checker, who is linking to you, linking to me, linking my website, linking website, back

2005-09-02T23:27:00.000-07:00

Find out who is linking to your site and their Pagerank from Google.

Backlink Checker - backlink, inbound, link checker, backlink checker, who is linking to you, linking to me, linking my website, linking website, back link checker:

Find out who's linking to you and their Pagerank, description, language and size. The Pagerank is recieved from the Google server and may be different from the Google Toolbar.

Deep into Sleep

2005-09-02T23:25:00.000-07:00

An analysis of sleep ... and the lack of it in modern life.

Deep into Sleep:

Deep into Sleep
While researchers probe sleep's functions, sleep itself is becoming a lost art.
by Craig Lambert

Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in sleep research. He asked whether Stickgold knew of any reason not to prescribe modafinil, a new wakefulness-promoting drug, to a Harvard undergraduate facing a lot of academic work in exam period.

YouSendIt | Email large files quickly, securely, and easily!

2005-09-02T23:12:00.000-07:00

another way to send large files (CDs / backups) around the world.

YouSendIt | Email large files quickly, securely, and easily!

Web Badges / Buttons | ZwahlenDesign

2005-09-02T23:09:00.000-07:00

If you want to fill your blog page with buttons and chicklets, this is the page for you.

Web Badges / Buttons | ZwahlenDesign:

Web Badges / Buttons

Getting Things Done, OmniOutliner, and syncing to paper at Litwack.org

2005-09-02T23:07:00.000-07:00

Using various technologies simultaneously for GTD.

Getting Things Done, OmniOutliner, and syncing to paper at Litwack.org:

Getting Things Done, OmniOutliner, and syncing to paper
Update 9/1: Whoa - Merlin linked to me and my traffic has been going crazy. Thanks to everyone who�s reading and leaving comments!
Getting Things Done
I�ve been using GTD for about a year. (Here�s Merlin Mann�s gentle introduction to GTD, if you haven�t heard of it.) I�m like 12% more efficient. But I�m 80% less worried about what I have to do, and that�s magic.

Gallery of the Day : Jacques Louis David Gallery

2005-09-02T00:24:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : Jacques Louis David Gallery:

Jacques Louis David Gallery

Eight tools for streamlined decision-making

2005-09-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

43 Folders: Eight tools for streamlined decision-making:

Eight tools for streamlined decision-making
Effective Decision Making [Mind Tools]
Like so many things, smart decision-making can benefit from the addition of structure, focus, and a bit of metaphor. While imperfect in their own ways, the kinds of tools that support this mental corralling can help tremendously in quieting the chaos, surveying the available options, and then collecting and evaluating the information you need to choose the best course of action.

Using Thunderbird to Get Things Done

2005-09-01T23:59:00.000-07:00

entropic principal: Using Thunderbird to Get Things Done:

Using Thunderbird to Get Things Done
In the past few months, I've been trying to apply some of the principles of David Allen's Getting Things Done to my own work habits. This article describes how I've been using a combination of Thunderbird's labels and saved searches to facilitate handling my email inbox in a GTD fashion.

Foxie

2005-09-01T23:58:00.000-07:00

Make your Internet Explorer work like Firefox ... OR use Firefox.

Foxie - Complete Privacy, Security and Productivity Suite:

What is Foxie?
Now you can surf the web with ease and comfort. Foxie (fox + ie; pronounced /Foxy/) is a collection of free security, privacy and productivity tools developed by the Foxie Team. It was originally designed to bridge the gap between Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox (an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation) but soon grew in scope and size to offer additional unique features not found on any stand alone browser.
Foxie empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser by blending tabbed browsing, ads & pop-up blocking, Malware cleansing and privacy & security protection with our smart search capabilities to enhance your browsing experience. Foxie is not a web browser and fits seamlessly into your IE browser.

Blogma

2005-09-01T23:56:00.000-07:00

With millions of blogs, one needs human selection ....

What is Blogma? | CNET News.com:

What is Blogma?
July 12, 2005
Blogma is a special portal designed to highlight the most popular technology topics discussed throughout the expanding universe of Web logs.

ShrinkTo5

2005-09-01T23:43:00.000-07:00

The movie industry MPAA sued 3-2-1-Studios out of business ... let's see how long this lasts ... download it ASAP.

ShrinkTo5.com: The Official Site of ShrinkTo5:

ShrinkTo5 is the new, powerful and fast DVD copying engine. ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source.
ShrinkTo5 can copy movies with an undeniably superior picture quality. No matter if you wish to copy just the main movie or the whole movie DVD, ShrinkTo5 always produces a superb picture quality, since the ShrinkTo5 engine always concentrates on the main movie. No tedious configuration is needed like with other copying tools, ShrinkTo5 will always find the perfect balance automatically.

Flckr to Magazine Cover

2005-09-01T23:35:00.000-07:00

Create a Magazine Cover from a Flckr photo ...

Magazine Cover:

Magazine Cover
Magazine Cover Make your own magazine cover! Be a superstar! Prove to your friends how famous you really are!

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet

2005-09-01T23:22:00.000-07:00

From Apricots to Crabs ... a fantastic list of good foods.

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet:

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet
The following is a 'healthy food hot list' consisting of the 29 food that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Along with each description is a suggestion as to how to incorporate these power-foods into your diet.

Dropload

2005-09-01T23:17:00.000-07:00

Want to send a file of about 100 Meg to someone - just upload it to Dropload and email the recipient to download it from there.

dropload:

What is Dropload?
Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 7 days, regardless if they have been picked up or not. You can upload any type of file, mp3, movies, docs, pdfs, up to 100MB each! Recipients can be anyone with an email address

RssFwd : Reading RSS the way you are already reading your emails

2005-09-01T23:15:00.000-07:00

A simple solution to the whole RSS-jargon-filled concept; read it in your email.

RssFwd : Reading RSS the way you are already reading your emails:

Reading RSS the way you are already reading your emails

Writely - Home

2005-09-01T23:04:00.000-07:00

A totaly web-based document create-and-share service.

Writely - Home:

Simple & SECURE web
document sharing.

QOOP flickr Photo Printer

2005-09-01T22:55:00.000-07:00

Load your images to Flckr; print a book.

QOOP flickr Photo Printer:

Starting at $15.95 for a perfect-bound book or $9.99
for a poster, turn your images into great gifts.

The definitive collection of idea generation methods

2005-09-01T22:48:00.000-07:00

A wonderful site for brain-storming methods.

The definitive collection of idea generation methods:

About my Idea Generation Methods website
By Martin Leith Skip to Index
This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years. It is the result of extensive research; my many sources include books, management journals, websites, academics, consultants and colleagues.
The methods have been drawn not just from the worlds of creative problem solving and innovation, but also from other worlds such as organisational change, strategic planning, psychotherapy, the new sciences and the creative arts.
The methods are listed below. Each is linked to a description, and in some cases you will find full instructions for using the method to generate ideas.

WSJ.com - Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers

2005-09-01T22:31:00.000-07:00

A ridiculous lawsuit of a blogger because of comments ... it's like suing a building owner because of what the graffiti says on the wall.

WSJ.com - Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers:

Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over
Comments Posted by Readers
BY DAVID KESMODEL
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
August 31, 2005
In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers.
Traffic-Power.com sued Aaron Wall, who maintains a blog on search engine optimization � tactics companies use to get themselves to appear higher in searches at Google, Yahoo and elsewhere � alleging defamation and publication of trade secrets. The suit, filed in a Nevada state court earlier this month, also listed as defendants several unnamed users of the blog.
At issue are statements posted in the comments section of Mr. Wall's blog, SEOBook.com. Many blogs allow readers to post comments, often anonymously, and Mr. Wall's blog included several reader submissions that blasted tools sold by Traffic-Power.com.
Traffic-Power.com said in the suit that confidential information about the company has been published on the blog, and it accused Mr. Wall of publishing 'false and defamatory information,' but it didn't identify any of the material in question.
Legal analysts said the case falls into somewhat murky legal territory, but that Mr. Wall may have some protection from liability under federal law. Courts generally have held that the operators of computer message boards and mailing lists cannot be held liable for statements posted by other people. Blogs might be viewed in a similar light, they said.

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2005-09-01T22:25:00.000-07:00

A very funny piece - with a not so subtle jab at Google's increasing hold on everyone.

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index

Gallery of the Day : Paul Klee Gallery

2005-08-18T16:11:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : Paul Klee Gallery:

Paul Klee Gallery

Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 � June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter. Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee (near Bern) of Switzerland into a musical family - his father, Hans Klee, taught music at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar near Berne. In his early years, Paul wanted to be a musician, but decided on the visual arts in his teen years. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck. After travelling to Italy and then back to Bern, he settled in Munich, where he met Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and other avant-garde figures, and became associated with the Blaue Reiter. Here he met Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf, whom he married; they had one son.

Gallery of the Day : Raoul Dufy Gallery

2005-08-17T22:37:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : Raoul Dufy Gallery:

Raoul Dufy Gallery

Gallery of the Day : M C Escher Gallery

2005-08-15T23:29:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : M C Escher Gallery:

M C Escher Gallery

A Comparision of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices

2005-08-15T16:15:00.000-07:00

The study's fundamental thesis, that the number of search results is an indication of the universe of the search, is very flawed.

A Comparision of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices:

Conclusions
Based on the data created from our sample searches, this study concludes that a user can expect, on average, to receive 166.9% more results using the Google search engine than the Yahoo! search engine. In fact, in the 10,012 test cases we ran, only in 3% of the cases (307) did Yahoo! return more results. In 96.6% of the cases (9676) Google returned more results. In less than 1% of the cases (29) both search engines returned the same number of results.
It is the opinion of this study that Yahoo!'s claim to have a web index of over twice as many documents as Google's index is suspicious. Unless a large number of the documents Yahoo! has indexed are not yet available to its search engine, we find it puzzling that Yahoo!'s search engine consistently returned fewer results than Google.

Gallery of the Day : Caravaggio Gallery

2005-08-14T18:25:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : Caravaggio Gallery:

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 28, 1573 � July 18, 1610), named after his hometown Caravaggio near Milan, was an Italian Baroque painter, whose large religious works portrayed saints and other biblical figures as ordinary people. Though his paintings were controversial in the church, the weathly people purchased them for their drama, their spectacular technical accomplishment, their startling originality, and even their brazen homoeroticism.

Gallery of the Day : Pieter Bruegel Gallery

2005-08-13T08:41:00.000-07:00

Gallery of the Day : Pieter Bruegel Gallery

Highspeed Photography site

2005-08-08T15:18:00.000-07:00

Fascinating high speed photography techniques explained.

Welcome to my Highspeed Photography site

Sanjeev.NET : Top 1000 Bookmarked and Blogged Links (Updated continuously throughout the day)

2005-08-08T11:56:00.000-07:00

A time-saver ... RSS feeds from 60+ top blogs ... all a click away.

Sanjeev.NET : Top 1000 Bookmarked and Blogged Links (Updated continuously throughout the day):

Sanjeev.NET : Top 1000 Bookmarked and Blogged Links (Updated continuously throughout the day).

ASAP Utilities

2005-08-08T11:52:00.000-07:00

A very useful set of Excel utilities.

Excel add in ASAP Utilities free MS Excel tools. Add ins for Microsoft Excel 97, XP, 2000, 2003. Numbering, decompiler, add time in excel, statistics, data analysis, statistical, hours excell add in. Excel addin erstellen. XP freeware 2000, 97. VBA addins spreadsheet macros macro. 79

FlckrFinds : Guide to Springfield - The Simpsons on Flickr

2005-08-08T11:50:00.000-07:00

Guide to Springfield - The Simpsons on Flickr - Photo Sharing!:

Guide to Springfield - The Simpsons

Symphony in PC

2005-08-08T11:46:00.000-07:00

Test review of Griffin iMic, M-Audio Transit, Headroom Total BitHead ...

Symphony in PC - How to get your computer and stereo to make beautiful music together. By Paul Boutin:

Symphony in PC
How to get your computer and stereo to make beautiful music together.

Men do have trouble hearing women

2005-08-08T11:34:00.000-07:00

Print Story: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find on Yahoo! News:

Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Sat Aug 6, 7:29 PM ET
Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.
The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine
NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.
Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.
The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, 'The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices.
'This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice.'
The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.

Complete scan of Mickey Mouse Meets the Air Pirates

2005-08-08T10:58:00.000-07:00

Complete scan of Mickey Mouse Meets the Air Pirates

ImageShack� - lesangfroid's PhotoBlog

The Propaganda Remix Project

2005-08-08T10:55:00.000-07:00

The Propaganda Remix Project:

If You�re Not a Terrorist... Then Stop Asking Questions! is the hilarious follow-up to Micah Wright�s hit debut. This new book combines 42 different posters with critical political commentary to deliver a scabrous take on the State of the Union. Available in larger size format than the previous book, If You're Not a Terrorist is available in paperback AND in a deluxe hardcover edition. With a foreword by noted graphic designer and art historian Steven Heller, the book is a must for art collectors and rabble-rousers both!

Move to commercialise breast milk

2005-08-08T10:05:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Health | Move to commercialise breast milk:

Move to commercialise breast milk
A US firm is looking to commercialise breast milk by selling it to hospitals for the treatment of sick babies.
Prolacta Bioscience, a small company just outside Los Angeles, also wants to carry out research to develop breast milk-based therapies.
Breast milk, with its minerals, digestive enzymes and antibodies, has long been credited with keeping babies healthy and boosting intelligence.
But experts said it would put pressure on mothers to sell their milk.
Until now breast milk donation in the US and UK has largely been confined to a handful of non-profit milk banks that collect milk on a local basis to provide it to premature and sick infants whose mothers struggle to breast feed.

Backup Del.icio.us with Excel

2005-08-07T20:29:00.000-07:00

Backup Del.icio.us with Excel:

If you have Excel 2003 and use the social bookmarking tool Del.icio.us, you can backup your bookmarks in Excel.
1. Download the Del.icio.us Excel Spreadsheet
2. Press the 'Backup Del.icio.us' Button
3. Enter your Del.icio.us Username and Password then click GO!

del.icio.us/search/all

2005-08-07T20:23:00.000-07:00

del.icio.us has a search all feature ...

del.icio.us/search/all:

del.icio.us / search / all

A Programmer's Guide to the Mind

2005-08-07T19:54:00.000-07:00

The entire book text is available ...

A Programmer's Guide to the Mind

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant

2005-08-07T19:46:00.000-07:00

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant - Weekend Review - Times Online:

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
As the Religious Right tries to ban the teaching of evolution in Kansas, Richard Dawkins speaks up for scientific logic

The creationists' fondness for "gaps" in the fossil record is a metaphor for their love of gaps in knowledge generally. Gaps, by default, are filled by God. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. Dear scientist, don't work on your mysteries. Bring us your mysteries for we can use them. Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away. Ignorance is God's gift to Kansas.

Deep into Sleep

2005-08-07T19:44:00.000-07:00

Deep into Sleep:

Deep into Sleep
While researchers probe sleep's functions, sleep itself is becoming a lost art.