Friendster, MySpace, Facebook. Lucy Porter hates them all. She can’t get enough of you though!
Made exclusively for ComedyDemon.com
See more of Lucy at: www.comedydemon.com
May 042008
-
Complete HTML True Color Chart; Table of color codes for html documents – immigration-usa.com
The background color in each cell is produced by the color code shown.
-
Sean’s Portfolio – dwp.bigplanet.com
Some great art work by Sean Diediker
-
Geek Cakes: For Geeky Wedding or Geeky Birthday – Geek24.com
If you are geek, why would you have a regular cake for your wedding or birthday? if the only reason you don’t have one is because you are running out of ideas, here are some cakes that have geek written all over them.
-
FLARE-facade.com
“FLARE units, The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies supplemented by individually controllable pneumatic cylinders.” Check out the video at the bottom of the page
9 more Articles after the jump Continue reading »
-
Where does “Blue†end and “Red†begin? – Blog.DoloresLabs.Com
Each is printed in its color and positioned on a color wheel. Just looking around, there sure seem to be different regions for different names. We also made a color label explorer, so you can search for different terms and see different parts of the space
-
Facebook To Launch Preferred Application Program – TechCrunch.Com
Clearly Facebook is a little tired of beating questionable developer tactics away with a stick. So now they will reward developers who play by the rules and build useful, popular applications, with the ‘Preferred Application Program’
-
Google To Spend $10 Million on Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Project – Gas2.org
As usual, Google is at the forefront of, well, everything. But this one is a little surprising: their philanthropic branch, Google.org, is putting $10 million into plug-in electric hybrid research and real-world testing.
-
Facebook Security Lapse Leaves Private Photos Exposed, Even Paris and Zuck’s – ReadWriteWeb.Com
The Associated Press reported that its reporters were able to use an undisclosed method to access private photos on Facebook, Update: Some readers here and on Twitter are telling us that it was a simple URL edit, which no longer works.
21 more Articles after the jump
-
Employers expect more to work from home – off-grid.com
A survey of more than 1,000 senior executives found 74% expected “virtual teams of employeesâ€, working at a distance from each other, to become the norm by 2018. About 64% thought talented people would become “multi-employedâ€
-
Rate-My-Cop: New Website Has Police Furious – cbs13.com
Police agencies from coast to coast are furious with a new website on the internet. RateMyCop.com has the names of thousands of officers, and many believe it is putting them in danger, with ratings on more than 130,000 US officers.
-
In brief: French artist to fill Tate – TheFirst Post.Co.Uk
Leonard Cohen has announced his first world tour in 15, including eight dates in Britain… REM are to stream their new album Accelerate on Facebook, a first for the social networking site
-
Kaplinsky and co (Newsreader) plummet in ratings – TheFirst Post.Co.Uk
A new Ipsos MORI survey on trust in professionals showed that respect for UK television newsreaders has plummeted. Their net trustworthiness is now +34 after years in the 40s and 50s. Ten years ago their rating was +60
7 more articles after the Jump
-
‘Forbes’: Facebook CEO is youngest self-made billionaire – USATODAY.com
Forbes magazine released its list of the world’s mega-rich Wednesday and said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 23, became the youngest ever self-made billionaire. Zuckerberg, who turns 24 in May, is worth $1.5 billion.
-
Holiday draught? Guinness tries to make St Patrick’s Day a US national holiday – TaipeiTimes.Com
“If we have a million signatures by midnight March 16, we’re going to get it into the hands of someone in Congress and try to get the ball rolling,” said Shawn Clair of the public relations firm which handles the US account of Guinness, an Irish stout bee
-
GM, Daimler look to lithium ion for hybrids – TaipeiTimes.Com
General Motors Corp (GM) and Daimler AG unveiled plans on Tuesday for lithium-ion hybrids as automakers push to overcome difficulties with a technology that promises to push hybrid autos to the next level of performance.
-
Fuel cells providing homes with ‘clean’ electricity – Search.JapanTimes.Co.JP
Masanori Naruse jogs every day, collects miniature cars and feeds birds in his backyard, but what he’s most proud of is the way his home and 2,200 like it in Japan get electricity and heat water — with power generated by a hydrogen fuel cell.
-
Red Cross yet to spend $200M of tsunami cash – TheStar.com
More than three years after the Asian tsunami devastated several countries, $200 million of the $360 million donated to the Canadian Red Cross has still not been spent. After the tsunami killed more than 225,000.
-
Canada stuck in slow lane on ‘traffic shaping’ – TheStar.com
Last fall, the Associated Press and the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that Comcast, the largest cable provider in the United States, was actively interfering with network traffic by engaging in traffic shaping.
26 more articles after the Jump Continue reading »
-
Top four reasons Blu-ray Disc will tank – ComputerWorld.Com
four reasons why most of America probably won’t be heading down to Wal-Mart to buy a Blu-ray player anytime soon:
-
Fix dead pixel – Killdeadpixel.com
Simply drag the above graphic to your dead pixel and let it stay there for about 1 hour. The graphic will try to massage the dead pixel back alive again by getting it to change rapidly. But it doesn’t work for all dead pixels.. still its a good try.
-
IR LEDs used to defeat Security Cameras – HackedGadgets.Com
lasers used to “dazzle” security cameras before but they normally use visible light. I had never thought about using an array of IR LEDs (infrared light emitting diodes) to create a permanent result that would not be noticeable to anyone else around.
-
Comcast pays Americans to oppose net neutrality – TheRegister.Co.UK
These yellow taggers prevented many un-paid Americans from attending the hearings. Even before the meeting began, the room was full. People from the community who may have legitimate concerns about net neutrality could not find seats.
6 more articles after the Jump
-
Pioneer to stop making 42-inch plasma panels – TheGlobeAndMail.Com
Pioneer Corp. will stop making 42-inch plasma panels and instead buy panels in that size and smaller from Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial or Hitachi Ltd. to turn around its loss-making flat TV business, the Asahi newspaper said.
-
No One Bids for $4.5 Million Ferry on eBay – SeattleTimes.NWSource.Com
“The Washington state Transportation Department was asking at least $4.5 million for the vessel, but the auction ended Sunday night on eBay without any interest.” – You really can buy anything on eBay now days.
-
Treehouse Subdivision — ‘Honey, I’m home’ – BookOfJoe.Com
Living in the trees is a universal theme that many dream, but only few experience….
-
MetaRAM Quadruples DIMM Capacity – News.DigitalTrends.Com
Since large servers can require massive banks of RAM to function, MetaRAM hopes its technology will drastically cut the cost of providing that much RAM by allowing less-specialized hardware to handle it.
-
Getty Images Agrees to $2.1B Buyout – SeattleTimes.NWSource.Com
Getty, founded more than a decade ago, put itself up for sale in January. It is a major creator and distributor of photos and other digital media. Hellman & Friedman has offices in San Francisco, New York and London.
-
Japan Launches Internet Satellite – PC World.Com
It will be able to provide broadband Internet connections to homes with download speeds of up to 155M bps and upload speeds of 6M bps via 45-centimeter dish antennas. 1.2G bps will be offered to commercial users via 5 meter antennas.
22 more articles after the Jump
-
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives – WHDb.Com
The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here.
-
Moving Towards Sustainable Reading!: Canada’s oldest bookstore will be closed in 8 weeks – EcoLibris.Blogspot.Com
Cheryl Kaye Tardif reported earlier today in MyNews.in that The Book Room, a bookstore in Halifax, Nova Scotia that was founded in 1839, is expected to clear out inventory and close its doors for the final time at the end of March 2008.
-
Linux-Unix cheat sheets – The ultimate collection – ScottKlarr.Com
Linux-Unix cheat sheets – The ultimate collection
-
Get Firefox
“Neither this site nor Mozilla is connected with Microsoft.” Get piece of viral marketing by Firefox
-
Avoid those school blocks bypass, anonymously go to myspace, bebo, facebook, online-games, gaming, ebay – AvoidFilter.Net
This site is a web proxy that allows users to browse the web anonymously. This service will unblock websites, bypass school & work blocks and is Ultra FAST. Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, eBay – go anywhere!
10 more articles after the Jump
-
Chocolate bugs a fright and delight – JapanTimes.Co.JP
Komatsuya Honten, the Akita-based confectioner that makes them, can’t keep up with demand since a news report about the tasty bugs — made of dark and white chocolate and orange peel
-
Plane crash after safety conference kills 20 in Poland – TaipeiTimes.Com
A military plane carrying officers home from a flight-safety conference crashed in a forested area in northwestern Poland, killing all 20 people on board, the prime minister said early yesterday.
-
YouTube library open to mobiles – TaipeiTimes.Com
The mobile site now allows owners of any wireless device that can handle video to view or post clips, just as they would from personal computers, YouTube product manager Hunter Walk said.
-
Starbucks hopes to reel in costumers with cheaper brew – TaipeiTimes.Com
Faced with growing competition from cheaper rivals, Starbucks Corp is selling small cups of drip coffee for US$1 with free refills as part of a test in its hometown. That’s about US$0.50 less than the normal charges for a 2 deciliter cup of joe.
-
MySpace, BBC pair up to offer clips of selected programs – TaipeiTimes.Com
The online community MySpace is partnering with the BBC to bring some of the British broadcaster’s programs to a worldwide audience in the site’s first global content deal involving a major network.
-
Heath Ledger’s death triggers net meltdown – AsiaMedia.UCLA.Edu
Heath Ledger’s shock death caused one of the biggest internet meltdowns since the death of Steve Irwin in 2006. Unique browsers on smh.com.au rose almost 250%, total page impressions jumped 60%, according to Nielsen NetRatings.
12 more articles after the Jump
-
Flickr Hits Two Billion Photo Uploads – Mashable.com
Two billion photo uploads on Flickr. That’s a lot of f****n’ photos. You’ll be glad to know that Flickr staffers have spent the past weeks placing bets on the exact date and time for passing the milestone, which went down sometime on Sunday.
-
FCC Rules Could Limit Comcast’s Growth – FreePress.Net
Under the Federal Cable Communications Act of 1984, the FCC may enact “any additional rules necessary to provide diversity of information sources†if cable is available to 70% of households and 70% of those households subscribe.
-
Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo – AppleInsider.Com
The system will represent the first Mac to utilize the solid-state memory in order to improve power efficiency and facilitate near instantaneous boot times, plus the adoption of a new breed of 13-inch LCD display panels.
-
Intel to Unveil Chips for Improving Video Quality on the Web – FreePress.Net
Intel plans to announce a family of microprocessor chips on Monday that it says will speed the availability of high-definition video via the Internet, which would first be used in servers and high-end desktops that compress the video.
-
Orange Announce World’s First Solar Powered Bluetooth headset on Product Reviews Net
Orange has just announced that it is selling the world’s first ever solar-powered Bluetooth headset. If the headset is fully charged, it will work in darkness for up to nine hours at a time, or be on standby for up to 200 hours.
-
BBC to launch music podcasts: with material from previous programs – ProductReviews.Net
The BBC is to launch yet another new podcast service, this time they are setting up a music podcast and is to feature 30 sec clips of a range of compilations from Asian, dance, folk, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, punk and rhythm and blues music.
21 more articles after the Jump Continue reading »
Week 08-12 del.icio.us links March 17, 2008
Archive of del.icio.us links
Dusting Off the Archive for the Web – New York Times – NYTimes.com
On Thursday, the magazine will introduce the Vault, a free site within SI.com that contains all the words Sports Illustrated has ever published and many of the images, along with video and other material, in a searchable database.
Advertisers Shun User-Generated Video – News.Wired.com
Although more money is going to online video advertising, relatively little of that is subsidizing user-generated video. Many advertisers are staying away for fear their ads could appear with clips that have nudity, foul language
LimeWire Music Store, Free and Legal – Mashable.com
The company’s new online music store has about 500,000 tracks for you to choose from, for legal purchase, separate from the P2P service. $20 per month for 75 songs, $15 for 50 songs, $10 for 25 songs, and a pay-as-you-go option.
World’s Largest 38500-meal Solar Kitchen in India – Inhabitat.com
India has the world’s largest solar kitchen. The system has been installed as a collaboration between the Academy for a Better World and Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, with technology from Solare-Brücke, Germany.
21 more articles after the Jump
Continue reading »