Archive for February, 2010
RSS Roundup for 02/16/10
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16th, 2010 by Scott Weaver – Be the first to commentHere are my favorite feeds from today!
The Only Thing I Know (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
This is Mt. Roraima, nine thousand feet high, two billion years old, with a rocky, flat top five miles long completely isolated from the surrounding jungle. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
British Columnist : “We not only have a right to use torture, we have a duty.” The arrogant bastard goes on to suggest and justify torturing the “wife and children”. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Boxee Integration App Plugs Boxee Into Windows 7 Media Center [Downloads] (Lifehacker)
Cal researchers create ‘energy-scavenging nanofibers,’ look to energize your next A&F sweater (Engadget)
Today’s Menu: Quark Soup Cooked at Highest Temperature in a Lab Ever [Science] (Gizmodo)
Add-On Compatibility Reporter Enables Incompatible Firefox Extensions, Reports If Still Not Working [Downloads] (Lifehacker)
OpenPeak introduces Moorestown-powered OpenTablet 7, sticks with Open naming scheme (Engadget)
Snapm Helps You Find and Book Photographers [Photography] (Lifehacker)
BeBionic teases advanced bionic hand, Terminator 5 now has a prop supplier (video) (Engadget)
Have any of you Redditors successfully transitioned from night owls to early risers? (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Celebrate Pancake Day with Creative Flapjack Ideas [Food] (Lifehacker)
Coming Soon: A Radiant Cooker That Can Deep-Fry Foods Without Oil (Popular Science)
Digicam hack simultaneously captures stills and high speed video on the cheap (Engadget)
?You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you.? -The last words of Alex the African Grey Parrot. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
The Science of a Dude Taking a 1,100-Pound ‘World Record’ Kick to the Balls [Ouch] (Gizmodo)
What Wired Will Look Like on the iPad [Tablets] (Gizmodo)
Steganography with a Deck of Cards! Hide a message by ordering 52 cards… (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Obama approves $8.3 billion loan for two new nuclear reactors. They’ll be the first nuclear plants built in the United States since the 1970s. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Oxelon Batch Converts Your Music and Movies with Explorer Integration [Downloads] (Lifehacker)
Aimbot (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Take a Modified Local Vacation and Still Get Away While Saving Cash [Vacation] (Lifehacker)
Thanks,
Scott
RSS Roundup for 02/15/10
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15th, 2010 by Scott Weaver – Be the first to commentHere are my favorite feeds from today!
Joe the Plumber goes off on McCain, says he ‘screwed up my life’ (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Lego Cubestormer robot solves Rubik’s Cube in sub-12 second whirlwind (video) (Engadget)
Two Dozen Telecoms Unite to Form Apple App Store Rival [Apps] (Gizmodo)
Adjust Your Car Mirrors to Fully Cover Your Blind Spots [Driving] (Lifehacker)
Video of Airborne Laser Destroying a Ballistic Missile [Weapons] (Gizmodo)
Make the Slimmer Facebook Lite Your Default Facebook View [Facebook Tip] (Lifehacker)
Police sergeant not charged in off-duty hit-and-run collision, although he admitted he fled because his “judgment was impaired by alcohol.”… wtf?! (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Link found between golden ratio and atomic symmetry (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
What’s the Easiest Way to Share Large Files and Media with Friends? [How To] (Lifehacker)
Wash Your Hands With Plasma Gas [Plasma] (Gizmodo)
Black metal blowdryer [gif] (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
IRS Free File Helps You Prepare and File Your Taxes for Free [Tax Time] (Lifehacker)
People Work Better Together in Rooms that Smell Good [Mind Hacks] (Lifehacker)
Structure Your Next Meeting Like a Dinner Party [Meetings] (Lifehacker)
Oh Reddit, how you amuse me. [Classic] (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
A victim of draconian drug laws is serving 27 years for a non-violent, first time offense. I want everyone here to hear her story. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Thanks,
Scott
RSS Roundup for 02/14/10
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14th, 2010 by Scott Weaver – Be the first to commentHere are my favorite feeds from today!
Tonight was the last straw, I’ll never watch a movie in a theater again. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Tina Fey: People hated me after Palin impression on SNL (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
“Two multinational corporations controlling the beer choices of 300 million Americans. And it’s not just beer. One single multinational corporation dominates the world supply of eyeglass stores. One dominates the milk supply.” (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Utah passes bill disputing scientific basis of climate change – ‘Carbon dioxide is “essentially harmless” to human beings and good for plants’ (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
MIT Wireless Power Discovery Proves Two Is Better Than One [Wireless Power] (Gizmodo)
Use a Fertilizer Spreader to Spread Salt Evenly [Clever Uses] (Lifehacker)
New Samsung chips bring HD image sensors to slimmer, smarter mobiles (Engadget)
Thanks,
Scott
RSS Roundup for 02/12/10
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12th, 2010 by Scott Weaver – Be the first to commentHere are my favorite feeds from today!
Google Updates, Explains Buzz Privacy Setup [Privacy] (Lifehacker)
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Scott
RSS Roundup for 02/11/10
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11th, 2010 by Scott Weaver – Be the first to commentHere are my favorite feeds from today!
Female Israeli soldiers break their silence about the IDF’s endemic abuse of Palestinians (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
why is it patriotic to pay for the killing of people half way around the world but socialist to want me and my country to be taken care of with social programs by my tax dollars? (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
In The Future, 1TB SSDs Will Be The Size Of A Postage Stamp [Storage] (Gizmodo)
Bill Nye demolishes Fox, Hannity, Inhofe (R), and Beck on the snow storm and climate change. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
A First Look at Robot Land (Disneyland for Terminators) [Robots] (Gizmodo)
Initial and Photocopy Receipts Before They Fade [Paperwork] (Lifehacker)
Dear reddit, this is how you troll a highschool principal (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Office For Mac 2011 First Look: Ribbons, Sharing, and… Outlook? [Office] (Gizmodo)
Craft a Temporary Light Tent Out of Paper and Binder Clips [DIY] (Lifehacker)
Genetically Engineered Pig Lung Successfully Oxygenates Human Blood, Paving the Way For Transplants (Popular Science)
Toy Story 3 Gets the Beautiful HD Trailer It Deserves [Pixar] (Gizmodo)
How to Add Facebook Chat to Your IM Client [Facebook] (Lifehacker)
Radio Shack Explodes on Sixth Avenue [Explosions] (Gizmodo)
Scientists: “We’re not on a pedestal: peer review keeps scientists firmly grounded. We deal in theories and uncertainty – not egocentric preaching – as some claim.” (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
IBM Develops Higher-Efficiency Solar Cells Using Non-Rare Materials (Popular Science)
Microsoft: Office For the iPad Is Something That We’re Looking At [Unconfirmed] (Gizmodo)
One Sec [Image Cache] (Gizmodo)
How To: Access Sites Blocked By Your Work’s IT Overlords (Popular Science)
An article about Facebook’s login gets to the top of Google search results for “Facebook login”. Confusion ensues for the dumbest Facebook users. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Volunteered PCs are crunching over 1.1 petaflops, faster than the worlds 2nd fastest supercomputer, to help discover the origin and structure of the Milky Way galaxy. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Square opens public trial for iPhone payment system (Engadget)
Thanks,
Scott
RSS Roundup for 02/10/10
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10th, 2010 by Scott Weaver – Be the first to commentHere are my favorite feeds from today!
Grill a Perfect Grilled-Cheese Sandwich [Food Hacks] (Lifehacker)
Marine Corps’ Unmanned Programmable Copter Passes First Major Test (Popular Science)
Add Universal Keyword Control to All of Your Browsers with Quix [Saving Time] (Lifehacker)
Move the Users Directory in Windows 7 [How To] (Lifehacker)
The Scale of the Universe, from a Quantum foam to the entire Universe [Awesome Flash] (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Your Future Morning View Will Make You Vomit [Augmented Reality] (Gizmodo)
Virginia Professor: We Have a ‘Moral Obligation’ to Spread Life Throughout the Universe (Popular Science)
World’s Smallest Solar Sensor Could Run Indefinitely [Sensors] (Gizmodo)
Think we don’t need health care reform? Insurance company denies treatment to a 5 year old with cancer. A 5 year old! (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
F-22 Raptor: The “Holy Shit” Video (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Obama admin. demands justification for health insurer’s 39 percent rate hike (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Adobe got 7 million iPhone and iPod touch download requests for Flash in December (Engadget)
My douchebaggery of the day: Could HAVE, not Could OF; Might HAVE, not might OF; Should HAVE, not should OF. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs openly mocks Sarah Palin by addressing the media with a grocery list conspicuously written on his left palm. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Arab ambassador discovers bride is bearded and cross-eyed behind veil…FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Easy Poster Printer Slices and Dices Your Posters for Standard Printers [Downloads] (Lifehacker)
Make Thunderbird Deliver Top-Right Notifications in Ubuntu [Thunderbird Tip] (Lifehacker)
First Early Human Genome Sequenced (Popular Science)
I got an email forward from my grandma today, and unlike most of them I was actually amused this time and felt the urge to pass it on. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Thanks,
Scott
RSS Roundup for 02/09/10
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9th, 2010 by Scott Weaver – Be the first to commentHere are my favorite feeds from today!
What came before the Big Bang? Leading physicists present a radical theory. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Why Paint Your Room When You Can Get a Color-Changing Wall Instead [Concept] (Gizmodo)
The Scale That Thinks It’s a Rug [Concepts] (Gizmodo)
Myst Online is back. And it’s free. If you haven’t tried it, now’s the time to before the open-source fun begins. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Apple Job Posting Suggests Cameras in Future iPads [Rumors] (Gizmodo)
An HD Video Tour of the International Space Station [Space] (Gizmodo)
How FarmVille scales to 75 million players a month (more than the population of France) (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Guy snowboards through DC on a towline while being chased by the fire department, who just want video of it (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Hey Reddit, did you know that Lindsey Van (a woman) set the ski jump record ? for both men and women ? at the Vancouver Olympic facility, but she can?t compete in the games because Olympic ski jumping is a men’s-only sport. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
How FarmVille scales to 75 million players a month (more than the population of France) (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Modern Web Design Pie Chart. (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Blair acknowledged that Israel was part of the equation on invading Iraq, and that the Israeli government was being actively consulted in the planning for the war (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Lesson #569 – Classy (Surviving The World)
Metric vs. other systems [pic] (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Students interrupted Israel ambassador’s lecture at Irving University in LA over 10 times, shouting “killers” and “how many Palestinians did you kill?” 12 arrested (reddit.com: what’s new online!)
Sketchpad Is a No-Flash-Required HTML5 Painting App [Webapps] (Lifehacker)
Dropbox Extension Puts One-Click Access to Your Dropbox Files in Chrome [Downloads] (Lifehacker)
Thanks,
Scott

