はてなやサイバーエージェントなど、5社の担当者が自作サーバーに関するメリットやデメリット、ノウハウなどを紹介する「自作サーバカンファレンス」が11月25日に開催された。

Time to whip CreativityDen back into shape! Starting off with some amazing logos. I don’t know what it is about identity and branding but I just can’t get enough of these logos. Everyone I see makes me want to boot up illustrator and start drawing. Unfortunately when staring at the screen for 10 minutes I realize the difficulty in ...

A common problem programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet. I offer a solution, in the form of the following regex pattern:

We wouldn’t be moving to Sharepoint unless we got some improvements on the fileshare situation, so what are they? We suddenly get the following available to us in our Document Management environment;

How many sociologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Five. One to change the lightbulb and four to examine The Wire. Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson believes that The Wire has done more "to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life, and the problems of urban inequality, than any other media event or scholarly ...

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Like many of you, I went to elementary school, high school and college. I took such and such classes, earned such and such grades, and amassed such and such degrees.

The grid is a commonly used component in both web and graphic design, promoting organization and alignment in the final output. Better alignment and order can, of course, lead to a more effective design, whether it is for print or the web.

Firefox 3 Hacks好評発売中。本書の1/3を占めてしまっている第3章でFUELやらPlacesデータベースのテーブル定義やらJavaScriptコードモジュールやらを解説しています。Software Design 2007年4月号第2特集の再録の拡張機能開発チュートリアルと併せてどうぞ。

These are the results of what started as a fun internet challenge. When asked by the website www.worth1000.com to merge pictures of plants and animals, computer whizzkids morphed fish with bananas, and spiders with onions. And here are the fruits (and veg) of their labour...

Virgin Media will trial deep packet inspection technology to measure the level of illegal filesharing on its network, but plans not to tell the customers whose traffic will be examined.

Son olarak Oracle Magazine tarafından bu yılın Oracle DBA’i (DBA of the year) seçilince, kariyerimde bir basamak daha arkamda kaldı. Bu yazıda benim dünya klasmanında bir Oracle veritabanı uzmanı olmamda işime yarayan ipuçlarını bulacaksınız. Bu yazıyı her ne kadar Oracle Veritabanı ekseninde yazsam da ipuçları bütün ...

The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a Likert scale-based questionnaire to grade the usability of systems. It got created back in the 80s by John Brooke. SUS questionnaire results are used to calculate a score between 0 and 100, with 100 indicating “best” usability. Since websites can be considered “systems,” SUS can also be used to grade ...

It's one of the most "expected" BIG-BANG of Google this year and for year 2010 when its fully released. One of the reason why the Yahoo-Microsoft Tandem was once again stupefied and now scratching their heads.. "WOW GOOGLE BEAT US AGAIN?"

I wrote this meditation on Web 2.0 on Facebook this morning, but after posting it there, decided it deserved a broader audience. This morning there was a BBC article entitled,"Network sites 'need help buttons'." It begins,

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

Se acaba el año y hay que ir pensando qué nos deparará el próximo. Este fantástico vídeo de Trendhunter con su previsión de tendencias para 2010 será sin duda una gran ayuda.

Erstmalig in der Geschichte der Menschheit wird das klassische Muster der Wissensvermittlung auf den Kopf gestellt: Während Eltern, Lehrer und bisherige Meinungsführer in ihrer Rolle als Vermittler von Web-Wissen und digitaler Erfahrung versagen, übernehmen junge Menschen die Lehrerrolle.

I thought it would be a good idea to write an article on ways to promote your new web-based startup. I tend to get a lot of ideas for web-based businesses so it’s something I’m quite used to doing.

While Iceland's transformation from fishing nation to financial powerhouse – and back – became a potent symbol of the banking boom and bust of the past few years, the Middle Eastern emirate of Dubai was where the global property bubble was taken to its glitziest extreme.

NEW DELHI — When 7-year-old Shiva Ayyadurai left Mumbai with his family nearly 40 years ago, he promised himself he would return to India someday to help his country.

Design portfolios come in various forms. Traditionally, they have been print-based and something you would carry to a client pitch or meeting to showcase what you’ve done and how you did it. Today, many designers take advantage of the Internet to publish and showcase their work via their online portfolios. Having your work displayed online ...

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

Great teachers know that learning doesn’t stop as soon as you graduate from college. Teachers learn from their experience, from their colleagues, from their students, and any number of other resources. If you are a teacher looking for ways to expand your knowledge base, here are 100 free lectures you can watch to help facilitate some of ...

Just LOVE this! We have the ’schoolyard kitchen to home kitchen’ philosophy in Australia, promoted by, among many others, Stephanie Alexander , restauranteur, chef, author, etc. and these basic things like food, shelter, social gatherings with family and friends, are what make our lives meaningful…NOT the latest car, toy, ...

After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.

Il y a, en informatique, de nombreuses manipulations jugées on ne peut plus simples par l'utilisateur averti. Pour autant, il a bien fallu un jour apprendre à les effectuer ! Sous la forme de fiches pratiques, nous offrons à ceux qui font leurs débuts aujourd'hui un document synthétique pour réaliser l'une ou l'autre de ces tâches élé ...

Ever since launching my Information Portfolio, BrianHoff.net, I’ve received many emails with similar variations to the question “How do I become better with typography on the web?” or “Why does your type look nice on your site?”

In case you couldn’t tell, Complex loves music videos. Earlier this week, we dropped our comprehensive countdown of the 100 Best Music Videos of the 2000s (click here if you missed it), but something was still missing. What would music videos be without the so-called “video vixen,” the model/dancer/actresses who provide us with ...

If you attend a tech event or conference you will probably run into Brian Solis. He’s one of those rare PR birds: everywhere all the time. He’s always on Twitter and Facebook too. Plus he guest posts over on Techcrunch, which shows he’s gotten the respect of Arrington, which for a PR person is very hard to do.

With New Moon likely to make yet another metric fuckload of money this weekend we need to find the bright side to the entire Twilight mania. There must be something good that comes from this awful Mormon fantasy that seems to have invaded our culture on every front. That something is the eventual movie version of Breaking Dawn.

We live in a web centric world right now, and if you haven't already, you'll most likely be facing website related dilemma(s). For example, maybe you need an email template to send out your company newsletter(s) but you don't have the first clue as to how to create one let alone create one that works with all major clients, looks outstanding and ...

Open source content management software sucks. It sucks really badly. The only things worse is every commercial CMS I've used. But it really doesn't have to be that way.

In mid-October, one of SL's most successful skin designers released a set of skins that stirred up tremendous controversy. Gala Phoenix of Curio launched her Battle Royale skins, which feature her usual fabulous shading and high quality textures, adorned with some equally high quality dirt, bruises, blood, scratches, scars and gouges. ...

Writing this week about eating accessibility humble pie and using CSS attribute substring selectors, a comment by clever Craig Cook sent my imagination reeling.

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Not quite as eerie, but equally strange is the Northwestern extents of Rio Rancho, a suburb of Albuquerque, New Mexico; miles of gridded roads stamped into the desert, predicting development that never occurred.

コードの長さは20cmで足りるのに2mもあるコードを使わなきゃいけないとか、引き出しの中でグチャグチャに絡まるコードをどうにかしたいという時には、このまとめ方をマスターすれば全て問題解決です。

Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard. Growing use of tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, offered an opportunity to reinvent services, delegates heard.

There are many books and articles on typography, but considerably few explore typeface selection and pairing. With the floodgates poised to open and the promise of many typefaces being freed up for use on websites, choosing the right face to complement a website’s design will need to become another notch in the designer’s belt. But ...

We already featured Guy months ago but these days we’ve been pleased of having an interview with him about his works and his most recent solo show “Tiny diamonds”.

There are a number of options available to publish articles to your blog outside of your WordPress Write panel such as through XML-RPC via a third party blogging client or through an application such as the one available for the iPhone. However, did you know that you can also publish posts through email? It’s true! The feature has been ...

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を実行してください。なくても動きますが、vmware関連の設定の一部修正がこれでなされます。 デフォルトでは、味も素っ気もないコンソール画面のままですが、startxとすると、こうなります。

I’ve stated previously that reading software development books is a good way of investing in your skills and your career. But which ones should you read? And in what order should they be read? I’ve compiled a list of books that i think can truly increase your skills substantially. I’ve put them in the order in which i believe ...

I have finished the first version of Taskboardy, a wave gadget that allows to maintain a taskboard inside a wave. The gadget could be useful for agile distributed teams using Scrum or XP.

I think it's hilarious that in the midst of so many companies rebranding with all lowercase letters, a company whose name is an acronym would choose to adopt title casing. What does AOL (sorry, Aol) even do these days?

たまご野郎の記事はほんと読めば大体80％の確率でキレてしまって、精神衛生上とてもよろしくないから、出来るだけ真面目に読まないようにして、読んでも極力スルーするようにしてるんだけど……ちょっとこれはあまりにも酷いので釣られてキレる。

　働きアリを「よく働くアリ」「ほとんど働かないアリ」に分けて、それぞれの集団（コロニー）を作り直しても、一定の割合で「働き者」「怠け者」に分かれることが北海道大学の長谷川英祐(えいすけ)准教授（進化生物学）らの研究でわかった。

President Barack Obama recently announced that he was determined to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, and aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional American troops there. Obama will formally announce his decision in a national address at 8 p.m. Tuesday from the Military Academy at West Point. As casualties ...

In 1997, Domenico Pratico, a third year University of Pennsylvania postdoc, was seeking funding for his molecular research on brain aging and neurodegeneration. For nearly three years, his lab had worked on developing a specific, sensitive new assay to measure oxidative stress in a patient's brain. The results were promising, but he knew he didn' ...

Everyone knows that writing a good 500 word article can literly be gold if done correctly.  There are even people who do nothing but write articles all day as part of their SEO Marketing tactic.  But what about all of us other people who don’t have the time (or patience) to sit around all day writing articles?  How can we turn one ...

Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren -- according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident.

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Dress up your iPhone 3G with some of the most unique and stylish cases around, including one that has a rechargeable external battery and another that looks like a chocolate bar.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical connection, damaging 53 of the smasher's 9,300 superconducting magnets. ...

National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has passed, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose a ...

Today, November 27th, marks the beginning of 2009's Eid al-Adha, the Muslim "Festival of Sacrifice", commemorating the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to God. Muslims around the world will celebrate by slaughtering animals to commemorate God's gift of a ram to substitute for Abraham's son, distributing the meat amongst family,

Six Revisionsで、フリーのストックフォトが見つかるサイトがまとまっています。

Undoubtedly by now you’ve heard about Tiger Woods’ car crash. Early reports had him in serious condition (which remember, is better than critical condition) after he apparently hit a fire hydrant and a tree while leaving his home in his SUV. The latest reports say he has been released from the hospital and is “fine.” But I&#

We got the XKCD book “volume 0″ here at work yesterday, and I have of coursed skimmed through it many times already. I quickly found the solution to the page numbering scheme, but wanted to see if I could find a simple conversion formula from real number to XKCD page number and vice versa.

We're thankful that so many people have been willing to try out Google Wave in a host of different areas: personal, business, government, education and even not-for-profit. We've been glad to see positive responses, especially since we're still in a limited preview and not quite ready to give accounts to everyone who has requested one.

How would you like to design a beautiful, colorful, stimulating website that is captivating, memorable, and allows you to let your creative juices flow without the need to worry too much about usability and best practices? In today’s web design market, it’s rare that such a project would present itself — unless you were asked to ...

US scientists are testing a radical new theory that multiple sclerosis (MS) is caused by blockages in the veins that drain the brain. The University of Buffalo team were intrigued by the work of Italian researcher Dr Paolo Zamboni who claims 90% of MS is caused by narrowed veins.

Blender 2.49b est sorti il y a deux jours. Pas de réelles nouveautés en perspective, mais simplement une grande liste de bugs corrigés puisque la version précédente Blender 2.49a n'était manifestement pas assez satisfaisante de ce côté. C'est agréable de voir le sérieux du suivi de la Fondation Blender, alors même qu'une énorme ...

Operating a computer is quite easy nowadays. We all click our way through our desktops, we all know how to open our e-mail or how to save files in folders. Working with computers has become such a common practice that we barely realize how these actions are framed by metaphors.

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The year is 1963. It’s November. At 1:40 PM ET, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite comes on the air. “In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.” Rapidly, everyone in America descends ...

Unless you’re enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge ...

Photoshop provides photographers and designers with almost unlimited potential to edit photographs to achieve the desired results. In this post we’ll feature 35 excellent tutorials that teach various tricks and techniques. If you like these tutorials you may also be interested in an older collection, 45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop.

I have successfully installed Virtualbox in my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. Installation was pretty simple. Configuration and installing Windows took some time. I’m listing the steps I followed to get it installed and configured.

Since childhood, Ana Rodarte's life has been defined by neurofibromatis. > > > Audio Slideshow (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

いじめ動画投稿でグーグル幹部の責任追求、禁固1年求刑 イタリア[オーナインシステムリズム（アニメ漫画の２次イラスト

There is more to being green than driving a Prius and buying local produce. Duncan Clark sheds further light on the eco-friendly messages we've come to take for granted

Have you ever wondered how many of Twitter’s users are women? Or men? What about Facebook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn, and other sites in the social media sphere?

These days, website content is often generated dynamically. On a lot of websites, a single page (or script) is used to generate multiple pages of content on the website. For example, on a blog, you might have a single page named article.php that generates every article on your blog. Or perhaps you have a shop on which you have a single page named ...

We are going to give the users other options, allowing them choose if they want the link to open in a new window or, if they have the popups module activated, that it opens in a jQuery modal window.

「しゃべったー」は、文字通りiPhoneにむかってしゃべってことがそのままつぶやき=tweetになるというiPhoneアプリ。

这61个最好的免费软件是大家投票产生的~因为免费软件太多了~所以我们不得不采取这种形式得出结论~ 感恩节提醒我们做人要感恩，所以呢，我们也应该感谢这些免费软件的开发商。虽然感恩节已经过去，在这里还是要对你们说声谢谢！是你们让我们的电脑得到了�

The act of hearing is a group effort for the human body's organs, involving the ears, the eyes and also, according to the results of a new study, the skin.

I sense it's about time to share some of my thoughts about television and movie critics, myself, and the past, present and future of my corner of the critics-on-TV adventure. My friends A .O. Scott and Michael Phillips are well into their first season as the new co-hosts of "At the Movies." Richard Roeper just announced he will be streaming ...

Will the online encyclopaedia that has become the first destination for millions of web users searching information end up withering away, as its worker bees lose interest in keeping it nourished? That's the question raised by a study of Wikipedia editors carried out by a Spanish academic for the Wall Street Journal. It shows that editors are ...

アカウントを持っていないとテキストしか表示されないので、まあ雰囲気を楽しむか僕と面識のある方は頼んでもらえばアカウントを作ったりするかも分りません。サインアップは外部からはできないようには一応してあります。

I don’t know the origin of this debate, seems like it has sort of a past.. otherwise I would never take it seriously and publish it on my page. I don’t know who that our ‘friend’ Fred Blasdel was, and what side of this “mayhem” he was currently taking.. But from what I see, Fred Blasdel is a pretty young man, ...

This is terrific! I was just led to this blog via the Craft website/blog. I'm a new follower -- can't wait to see what's in store! Thanks for the calendar printable!

Freenet means controversial information does not need to be stored in physical data havens such as this one, Sealand. Photograph: Kim Gilmour/Alamy Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis project, Ian Clarke created "

You might be familiar with the plugin jQuery Dock which allows developers to create a menu like Apple Dock. Today, you will create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn’t have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it’s helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS. This ...

Time to whip CreativityDen back into shape! Starting off with some amazing logos. I don’t know what it is about identity and branding but I just can’t get enough of these logos. Everyone I see makes me want to boot up illustrator and start drawing. Unfortunately when staring at the screen for 10 minutes I realize the difficulty in ...

My father was, in many ways, a man of discipline, organisation and charisma - a regimental sergeant major no less. One of the very last men to be evacuated from Dunkirk, his third stripe was chalked on to his uniform by an officer when no more senior NCOs were left alive. Parachuted into Crete and Italy, both times under fire, he fought at Monte ...

미국의 IT전문가 팀 오라일리가 웹2.0을 정의한 까닭은 90년대말 닷컴붕괴 이후 생존한 기업들의 특징을 분석하고 정리해 당시 팽배한 IT산업에 대한 대중의 불신을 완화시키고 해당 산업에 성장의 비전과 원칙을 제공하기 위해서였다. 그리고 현재 그 웹2.0는 IT산업�

ECサイトで働いてるWebデザイナー。アクセス解析（Google Analytics）とかハイパフォーマンスWebとか興味ありまっす。

Serious information used to be relayed in words, graphs and charts - pictures were just pretty window dressing. That's all changing, says David McCandless.

Many bloggers and analysts argue that search engine ranking and SEO are starting to become less and less relevant in gaining traffic as social media rises. Sites such as Digg, Twitter and Stumbleupon are sworn by in the blogosphere for getting huge spikes in traffic when a post goes viral.

　一つ前の富豪プログラミングのエントリーともつながる話だが、Google App Engineは「ちゃんとスケーラビリティを考慮してアプリケーションを作るには何に気をつけなければならないか」を勉強するには絶好の環境だ。そこで今回は、その「ケチな大富豪的なプ

本誌が今日（米国時間11/27）報じたように、Twitterの日本のパートナーであるDigital Garageが、日本だけの新しい課金方式をスタートさせる。そのやり方はきわめて単純で、日本のTwitterユーザはもうすぐ、フォロワーたちが自分のつぶやきを見ることを有料にでき�

HootSuiteは、とても高機能なTwitter用Webアプリなんですが、バリバリに投稿する人にとっては、不便な点が2つあります。1つは「投稿時にSend Nowボタンを押すのが面倒なこと」、もう1つは「ユーザーアカウントの選択を投稿のたびにしなければならないことです」

“Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.”

Hi folks.  A little known feature of the “load oar” command for loading OpenSim region archives is the ability to load an OAR directly from the web.

The idea that the adult brain changes with experience was once a radical idea, but it is now well accepted that certain areas—say, the motor cortex, when learning a new physical skill—can grow new neurons or create stronger connections.

As with any project you start, gathering essential information upfront is not only beneficial to a successful deliverable but will also save you and your client plenty of headaches throughout the process and pave the way to a lasting and trusting relationship.

I’ve recently gotten into playing around with GeekTool, an add-on System Preference Pane that allows you to add a wide range of both useful and useless things to your desktop, not only to make your life easier, but to make other geeks feel inferior. Sure, you can display the current date and time in the menu bar like a noob, but why not ...

　株式会社レベルファイブは、11月26日発売予定のニンテンドーDS用ナゾトキ・ファンタジーアドベンチャー「レイトン教授と魔神の笛」の完成披露会を、発売前日の11月25日に東京国際フォーラム ホールCにて開催し、ユーザー1,000人を招待すると発表した。

The artist Maira Kalman begins a new illustrated column about American democracy with a chronicle of her visit to Washington for President Obama's inauguration.

Senior Associate Editor Whether you're out and about listening to your MP3 player or rocking out at home to your high-end stereo, your choice of headphones is critical. But don't fret--CNET is here to help you make that decision. We've picked our five favorites across every style and category, if you already know which type of headphones you want,

The ABC's digital-only, free-to-air TV channel – a complementary service offering new and time-shifted ABC programs...

Welcome back to the saddle! By reading this, it means you already taking that first step towards getting back on a bike for fun or transportation. That's awesome, and REI is here to help you go for it.

With the recession in full swing, US retail shoppers are looking for ways to save, and are finding deals through online coupons. Not surprisingly, retailers are finding online coupons effective for bringing customers to their stores.

今年のTechCrunch50でデビューしたClixtrは（本誌記事）は、やや制約のあるスタートをきった。つまり最初の提供物は有料のiPhoneアプリケーションだったのだが、本日（米国時間11/26）から敷居をぐーんと下げて、その「位置対応型写真共有サービス」をWebサイトと

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У Пирогова был урок по освещению здания. Из дневного в ночное. Но его закрыли неделю назад, видимо Пирог хостинг не оплатил.

This is a précis of an argument that naturalism forces upon us a very disillusioned “take” on reality. It is one that most naturalists have sought to avoid, or at least qualify, reinterpret, or recast to avoid its harshest conclusions about the meaning of life, the nature of morality, the significance of our consciousness self-awareness, and ...

You need only four ingredients to make these moisturizing exfoliants. The base can be made from either Epsom salts or sugar, depending on whether you want a large or fine grain. Color the scrubs with shades that are in keeping with some of the scents you use -- pink with grapefruit, for example, or green with eucalyptus. Makes about 2 1/3 cups.

Drop your bags, grab a drink, and grab the XP CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware.

If you're creating a rich content website, read this post. I have gathered 12 multimedia supported lightboxes and plugins that help you to embed all sort of videos, audios and images.

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

今(2009年11月)のネット上のトレンドといえば、Twitterかと思われます。近いうちにGoogle Waveがどうなるか、といったところですが、mixiなどのSNSに疲れた人たちや、新しいモノ好きがこぞってTwitter に流れているようです。実際僕もmixiの日記をあまり書かなくなっ�

Once upon a time, people mailed their holiday wishes to the North Pole and hoped for a reply on Christmas Day. Nowadays they are sending their wishes into cyberspace and are apt to get a reply in minutes.

Drop your bags, grab a drink, and grab the XP CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware.

Between 1939 and 1945, shortwave radio transmitters near Berlin broadcast Nazi propaganda in many languages around the world, including Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and Persian programs in Iran. English-language transcripts of the Arabic broadcasts shed light on a particularly dark chapter in the globalization of pernicious ...

個人向けソフトの設計・プロデュースがお仕事。エンジニアリング×マーケティング両方の視点からデザインします。

After the sickening murder of a 9-year-old boy in Washington, our friend Spencer Ackerman made an impassioned plea: U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus for D.C. metro police chief. The idea of America’s leading counterinsurgent taking on one of its most crime-ridden towns definitely has a certain visceral appeal. But ...

コンピュータの前に座ったっきりで、一歩も外出しない世界というものを考えてみて欲しい。GoogleやFacebookにとっては、そういう世界こそ理想の世界となる。

Admittedly, one of the most boring subjects in photography is the inverse square law. But before you begin scratching your head and yelling out "the inverse-what?" Just hold on a sec. First off, one does not need to memorize the laws of light to go and start taking pictures, or even to become a professional. But anyone with an SLR that truly ...

2008年あたりから、その存在を知らしめてきた3Dテレビが、2010年、一気に開花しそうだ。ソニー、パナソニックの2社が正式参入を表明したほか、展示会では各社の試作機が続々と登場している。3Dはテレビの新たな新機能となるか？　その現状と展望をレポート�

ソーシャルメディアのお国の今朝一番（米国時間11/27）のニュースだ: Twitterの日本版が、実験的に有料アカウント*を開始するらしい。日本版は前からもTwitter本体とはやや異質で、同社がいろんなことを試行する場所になっていた（Groups、Twicco、Twitvideo.jpなど）�

Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment. The ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000 invitations two months ago. Many people still want invitations. Among those who’ve tried it, some criticize it, some praise it. For now it has a lot of usability problems that ...

UPDATED below, 11:30 p.m., with insights from Mike Hulme at the University of East Anglia, which was the source of the disclosed files.] I’ve been in touch all week with Judith Curry, a seasoned climate scientist at Georgia Tech with a particular focus on hurricanes and warming. She has no skepticism about a growing human influence on ...

They’ll probably give more than a glance at “Googled.” I read the book in three huge gulps and learned a lot — about Google’s “cold war” with Facebook, about Google’s tussles with Viacom, about Google’s role in the “Yahoo-Microsoft melee” and about Google’s gradual ...

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.