11 of the World's Most Extreme Sports

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Confessions of an Angry Waiter: The Waiter. Exposed.

Time: How do you cope with rude diners?

Dublanica: You really want to know? There was a customer who ordered a hamburger and was just being crazy about it. He sent it back three times because he said it didn't taste good. Finally two guys played hockey with it in the kitchen. They used brooms as hockey sticks and dustbins as goalposts, and they knocked it around. Then they washed it off and gave it to him. He said, "Now it's good."

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8 Types Of Annoying People You’ll Find Inside Starbucks

Another tall grande yummy rant

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The Smell of Space

So, what exactly does outer space smell like?

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BurnAware Free Edition for Windows

Good DVD / CD / Blu-Ray burning software for Windows

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OpenTable

“Make restaurant reservations online. Free. Instant. Confirmed”

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Ipod Ad Spoof

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True Romance…

Man meets woman. And what transpires

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McDonald’s Job Application

From an actual job application submitted at a McDonald’s in Florida. The boy was hired

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101 Simple Appetizers in 20 Minutes or Less – New York Times

Quick eats for everyone. (I found the finger foods section particularly useful)

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A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras

Introduction to digital SLR photography. (via daringfireball.net)

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A Whine a Day…

“I can’t get any sleep on these terrible 180 thread count sheets!”

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

– Stephen Hawking

How Should We Teach Computer Science?

“If you aren’t cursing your web hosting provider every week, fighting with your source control system every day, deciphering angry bug reports from your users every hour– you aren’t being taught computer science.”

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Spot The Fake Smile

See how you fare. I got 12 out of 20 correct

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Aguri: Coolest Data Structure You’ve Never Heard Of

Some of this is really interesting.

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Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

An intriguing read on how a programming language can mold a software engineer’s mind

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Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School

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Leopard DNS Issues (and work-around)

Why Safari gets sluggish on some networks.

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The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

The story of how the iPhone came to be.

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36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! – ReadWriteWeb

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Getting Started on Natural Language Processing with Python

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How to Live like a Child

Some interesting observations

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Adium Matte

iChat style bubbles for Adium

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Modern Bubbling

Very well designed iChat-style message theme for Adium.

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Naked Light

“Introducing Naked light. Non-destructive image editing. Node-based compositing. Live filters. High-end tools. And infinite resolution. It’s image editing, re-invented.”

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Freeware alternatives for that Mac shareware

Some really good software that you can get for free

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72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life

Interesting and useful

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Astronomers Naked Eye Observer’s Guide

Nebulae, star clusters, galaxies and other celestial objects you can see with the unaided eye

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Beyonce Unhurt After Stray Bullet Miraculously Hits Passerby Instead

Why the Onion still makes my day

The Hawking Paradox

This delectable and awe-inspiring documentary by the BBC spotlights Stephen Hawking’s rather interesting “Information Paradox” theory, delves into his battle with other physicists for 30 years, and recounts the struggles of one of the greatest minds of our time.

(For a fullscreen view, click on the button on the lower right of the video panel.)

The Enemies of Reason Part 1

Richard Dawkins, on how modern society is blighted by “irrational” belief systems from astrology to alternative health remedies. Interesting and funny

The Enemies of Reason Part 2

Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technology

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Harry Potter: The Complete Obituaries

“Harry Potter Fauxbits in Brief, a complete compendium of the last year’s death reports on the Wizarding News Wire. Who died in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Good or evil, human, animal, or elf: we’ve got ‘em all”

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Exclusive: Finished ‘Potter’? Rowling tells what happens next

What happens after the book ends.

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Is Google on Crack?

Robert Cringely, on the auction for the 700MHz band, with a delightfully intriguing and insightful story.

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15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Debunking creationism, one myth at a time

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10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

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The Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer

Go bananas on those faces

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Brain Death by Dull Surroundings

“To sing their complex melodies, male birds needed new brain cells. In fact, up to 1% of the neurons in the bird’s song center were created anew, every day.”

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Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

The official Mac shortcuts page

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The Secret of Apple Design

“Attractive things work better,” says Don Norman, who was vice president of advanced technology at Apple from 1993 to 1998. “When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does.”

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You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well

Before Abigail Garvey got married in 2000, anyone could easily Google her. Then she swapped her maiden name for her husband’s last name, Wilson, and dropped out of sight.

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The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School

No matter how cool your computer rendering is, no matter how brilliant your essay is, no matter how fabulous your whatever is, if you can’t output it, distribute it, and make it known, it basically doesn’t exist.

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Task List

A brilliant little app to manage your academics on your Mac

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15 Tips to Choose a Good Text Type

Typography fundamentals, and how to choose the right typefaces for your designs

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Coffee with a “Drop” of Milk

Interesting photograph

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I’m Blogging

Shoo! Can’t you see I’m blogging?

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Six Word Story

“For sale: baby shoes, never used.”

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On the Internet, Everybody Knows You’re a Dog

Does the web bring out the ego monster in everybody? Here is an eyeful of rather curious observations

There’s an element of amiable self-parody about a lot of this that makes it bearable. Or is there?

On the Internet, not only does everybody know that you’re a dog. Everybody knows what kind of dog, how old, your taste in collars, your favorite dog food recipe, and so on.

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Warts and All

… She doesn’t really look like this. Especially in the morning or after a long plane flight…..

The danger in celebrity worship is that it can persuade you not to bother trying. After all, the thinking goes, our organization is so thoroughly screwed up that we’ve never got a chance to be like them, so why bother? In fact, organizations like Apple struggled for years, and continue to struggle… it’s just that the facade matches our need to believe, so we ignore that part.

Go ahead, be like Kelly. But cut yourself some slack along the way.

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The Code: Linux

Passion: Some people climb mountains — others write Free software.

– (from Onkar’s email signature)

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Richard Feynman, on fun, god, physics and a lot more. An intriguing 50 minute video.

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I Need My Mind Blown Away

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The Urban Etiquette Handbook

Wicked lessons in urban culture From cellphone etiquette to how to react when someone introduces a colleague to you as “my lover” (Step one: Do not spit out your drink), this one has it all.

Rules of the road:

• No raking women with your eyes; glance quickly and respectfully.
• Offer to share a taxi rather than fight over it.
• Babies in strollers get right-of-way—until they abuse it.
• Still no ogling girls—c’mon!
• And skateboarding, are you kidding me?
• Not everybody loves your dog as much as you do.
• No bicycling on the sidewalk unless under the age of 6.
• Pedestrians can die of secondhand smoke, too.

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See how fast you can type!

How fast can you type? Test your typing speed here. I got an 88wpm … and on my second attempt managed 100.53wpm, and then fell back to the 89. The trick with most typing tests it seems is not to make any mistakes

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Files Are Not for Sharing

Why shouldn’t you share files? This comic slideshow does an interesting take on the issue.

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What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage

An interesting read on the art of coaxing and communication

I listened, rapt, as professional trainers explained how they taught dolphins to flip and elephants to paint. Eventually it hit me that the same techniques might work on that stubborn but lovable species, the American husband.

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Apple’s Easter Egg in Pixar’s Cars

A car sporting an Apple logo can be seen in Cars. Interestingly the number 84 adorns the car’s door. If you didn’t know already, Apple’s 1984 ad that launched the Macintosh sparked a revolution in computing history (Via TUAW)

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Fake deadlines don’t motivate people.

On why faking deadlines to employees is not just ethically wrong, but practically wrong as well.

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Bumptop: 3D Desktop Prototype

Bumptop is a user interface prototype using an unorganized desktop metaphor. Pretty revolutionary, but I personally don’t see how efficacious a desktop replacement this might be. The techniques nonetheless could make their way into next-gen UI’s.

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Advice to All You Graduates: Let’s Start With That Daily Latte . . .

Tips on living frugally and how to make money, while you’re a grad student.

An iPod that’s not an iPod

Rockbox is an open source firmware for your iPod that is skinnable and brings in a plethora of new features: a new graphic equalizer and smaller fonts and lots more.

On Obsessive Bloggers

“Showers take so long sometimes… and I really love blogging.” Check out this wonderful photoshoot of a… well… obsessive blogger. While you’re there, don’t forget to catch his innovative way of blogging in the dark.

“Robert, they can’t eat you!” My rules for survival

“Get and stay out of your comfort zone. I hear people say, ‘Oh, but I’m concerned about security.’ My response to that is simple: ‘Security is for cadavers.’”

Two Questions

The Newspaper Clipping Generator

Create your own fun newspaper, one that even looks just a regular newspaper. You can download the generated image, and use it wherever you want

How Opal Mehta Saved our Lives

“But like a demented magpie I couldn’t resist the lure of those shiny achievements. More, more, shinier, shinier. Then one year I almost flunked my math exam. It was the best thing that could have happened to me. Paradise Lost. Earth Regained.”

The Good Fight

On Mothers’ Day, a little story about mother and daughter.

Professional Wrestling Holds

An illustrated reference to wrestling moves, with a truckload of trivia thrown in. Did you know that Konnan (now in TNA) taught Bret Hart the Sharpshooter? (If you’re a wrestling fan, you might like to add some more images here)

Get Happy, and You’ll Get Ahead in Life

“Happiness, rather than working hard, is the key to success. The findings suggest that happiness is not a feelgood luxury, but is essential to people’s wellbeing.” Turns out, happiness isn’t really overrated after all. An interesting read.

The Scourge of Arial

The fascinating story of the creation of the Arial font… vis-a-vis Helvetica, Apple, Microsoft … and much more (Thanks Mr. Kawasaki!)

Jazz and the Art of Connecting

“If they act too hip, you know they can’t play shit!” … An interesting read, on the art of communication and connecting.

Just don’t be surprised when you get left behind

There May Be an End-run for Apple Around Windows After All

“What the heck is Apple really doing with Windows?” The speculated answer is shocking interesting to say the least.

The Virtues of a Second Screen

Less isn’t always more. An intriguing article on why two, three or even four screens are better than one, how you can go about setting up an extra screen on your computer, and ideas on what you can do with two screens.

A Slight Change in Habits Could Lull You to Sleep

Little things you can do to get a nightful of healthy shut-eye

How Evil Are You?

“Are you a cutthroat or a pussycat?” Take this Machiavelli personality test and find out. High Machs constitute a distinct type: charming, confident and glib, but also arrogant, calculating and cynical, prone to manipulate and exploit.

The Dream Movie

You’re never too late, too busy, too sick, too young… to live your dream. (Thanks Kary!)

Sexism

“I have a real problem with table eight,” she announces. “What sort of problem?” I ask. “They’re sexist pigs.” “Really?” I say, “What are they doing?” “They’re saying stuff like, ‘Oh you’re so pretty. Are you on the menu?’

WaiterRant.net

Everyday life. People. Laughter. Difficult People. A view from the table side.

CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

“I saw a lot of character, or the lack thereof,” says Holtzman, who says he can still carry three dishes in his right hand and two in his left. “But for some twist of fate in life, they’re the waiter and you’re the one being waited on,” Barnes says.

Google Calendar

Hallowed by thy Cal!

Fukitol, The Official Site.

The Wonder Pill, yep, the solution to all our problems!

WWF Mania Grips ‘Giant’ Punjab cop

On the Unknown Giant in WWE, Dalip Singh. “To maintain his present physique, Dalip consumes five kg of milk, five chickens, 24 eggs, chapatis, fruit and juice everyday”

Stop Manually Maximizing Your Windows

This is something any discerning GUI user would notice, and be happy about… Surprisingly, Windows and Linux have got this completely wrong.

Apple Switch Ads

A large archive of Apple Switch commercials

Sleep Tips

Letting children cry themselves to sleep is not recommended

Necromanthus

You can now play Quake 3, Deux Ex, Half Life, Warcraft and more … on your browser

Quake 3 in a Browser

I can’t believe it gets this good in a browser!

Things I’ve Learned From My Startup

“In a startup, everyone needs to be doing 150% of a normal job. And if Gideon is only doing 50% of his job, then you will end up doing 250% of a job”

A Quirky Look at Five of the Most Important Numbers in Mathematics.

Hear about the stark reality behind the imaginary number, try a slice of pi, find out about the natural beauty of the golden ratio, discover why some infinities are bigger than others, and see why nothing really matters.

Nerds Make Better Lovers

“Nerds not only have the brains, but they also have the most powerful possession of all, the love touch.”

Overloading and Overloading

If you still think that syntactic sugar doesn’t matter, imagine lemonade without sugar.

Port25

“Port 25 is open. The people, insights, and analysis from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab. Send us your feedback and ideas. We want to hear from you.”

Boot Camp: A Whole New Ball Game

Microsoft is working with Apple to ensure Vista runs on MacIntels…. Is Apple up to something else?

Windows: The New Classic

An in-depth look at what Boot Camp Means for you and me. “What’s the difference between OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about OS X…”

TypeNavigator

The world’s first visual font navigation and search system

Deep Thoughts: Jack Handey Quotes

The Wonderful Wonderful Wisdom of Jack Handey

Spelling Poems

Poems showcasing the absurdities of English spelling

RIAA to Students: Drop out to Pay Settlements

“In fact, the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements.”

How I Work: Bill Gates

“On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity”

Spider-Man 3: Plot Summary

IMDB’s little teaser. Watch out for this one. Releases in 2007

I Am Not My Habits

“… subject to endless pitches, encouraged to consume by people who seem to know us better than our friends…” An insightful read into the dynamics of advertising vis-a-vis you and me

Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future

Rule 1: If you can dream it, you can do it. Rule 2: There are no exceptions to Rule 1

Interesting Facts About Domain Names

The most common letter to start a domain is S, with relatively few domains starting with Q, X, Y or Z, while the most common digit to start a domain is, unsurprizingly, 1

Why i got fired from apple

Poetry killed the radio star

Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer

“Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found”

Brokeback to the Future

A little spoof on Brokeback Mountain

Prisoner of Redmond

Cringely comes up with some more incisive insights: “I confidently predict that Microsoft is going down. It should be interesting.”

MSN Search Spoof

MSN Search celebrates April Fool’s with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.

Brand New Look Google Talk

This new version comes with avatar images, themes and lots more

How I Write by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell, on writing and rhetoric

Take The AQ Test

Apparently a much higher than average percentage of computer workers are diagnosed with a mild form of autism called “Asperger’s Syndrome”. This test allow you to filter yourself out as just Geeky or maybe having something to actually worry about.

Graphical vi/vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial

Various formats available

Garfield – Daily Comic Strip Feed

Get your daily dose of Garfield here

Keyboard Shortcuts during Mac OS X startup

Shift = Safe Boot Mode, Hold mouse click = Force eject a DVD/CD

Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes Ever

Pure enlightenment

Coding Horror: A Pragmatic Quick Reference

Delightful little gems