internet access in remote locations through UUCP = wowies

"The most addictive comic on the web"

DIY screen projection

Verizon and other cellphone companies mark up the cost of text messages by at least 7314% when compared to their rates for data transfer services.

from the set-fire-to-the-servers-and-run dept.

The engine, though designed for simplicity and elegance as opposed to feature & eyecandy checklists, still competes nicely thanks to its novel "6-directional heighfield deformable cube octree" world structure that is the basis for its in-game editing.

A programming game in which two or more battle programs (called warriors) compete for the control of the MARS virtual computer (Memory Array Redcode Simulator).

Trends have become something impossible — and maybe unwise — to ignore.

My favorite site for all things weird, innovative, and creative is Boing Boing and not just because the site is "a directory of wonderful things." It's also that it reminds me of how important innovation and creativity are for the future of the U.S. econo

online image editing

Operating system vendors are forced to constantly patch their software to keep consumers protected from the latest digital threats. But which operating systems are the most secure?

Newspapers are in trouble

Djurslands International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband

a command line for the web

Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, "modularize" it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.

Random number generators certainly have their uses, but at times their output can be too harsh to appear natural. This article will present a function which has a very wide range of uses, more than I can think of, but basically anywhere where you need som

Lua is a language engine that you can embed into your application. This means that, besides syntax and semantics, Lua has an API that allows the application to exchange data with Lua programs and also to extend Lua with C functions.

The Zope Book is available online and in PDF format.

OSX on x86!

All logos are available in Adobe Illustrator format and are compressed by ZIP.

Seven principles for writing about nature and science in ways that depart from the usual approaches.

The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it's a big spurting penis?

FreeFrame is the open-source cross-platform real-time video effects plugin system designed for use in VJing applications (with bindings for Max, PD, vvvv, AfterFX et al)

The Warper is a single lens projector that attaches to your computer monitor and allows you to enlarge and project images onto a wall, movie screen, white sheet, etc.

Nowhere is the process of design communication more critical than in teaching beginning designers, since the effectiveness of the communication is crucial to the success of the student.

Critical thoughts on Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) raw file format

The creator of cowsay :D

Comics are great because as they get older not only do they get more valuable (at least my future children hope so because they ain't going to no college unless a certain Mr. Spiderman can afford to send them) but they also get funnier.

Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product for monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across layers and across platforms.