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Ten Simple Things; Finding Personal Peace In Spite Of Today's Market May Depend On Making The Right Nonfinancial Moves.Loading...

Ten Simple Things; Finding Personal Peace In Spite Of Today's Market May Depend On Making The Right Nonfinancial Moves.

10 Things Linux Does Better Than OS X

TechRepublic: "It may sound strange, seeing as how OS X is based on a Linux variant and is widely considered to be the most user-friendly operating system available, but Linux does a number of things better than everyone's favorite iOperatingSystem. Before you shun the thought, read on. You might be surprised at your resulting opinion." Full Story...

NEWS: Five things to know about the BlackBerry Curve 8900

You’ll be seeing it on trains all around the country as commuters get their hands on the latest BlackBerry on the block. Here are the five things you really need to know about it.

Belief in small things...

Bess writes: Here’s an odd story from the BBC about belief in small things. A new report has come out on attitudes to nanotechnology – research in the field of ultra small matter, we’re talking less than 1 micrometer (to be precise, one nanometre is one-millionth of a millimetre). Religious people view nanotechnology negatively says the study, which compared attitudes to nanotechnology in 12 European countries and in the US. They measured each country in terms of religiosity and found that countries where religious belief tended to be strongest – for example Ireland and Italy – were on the whole less open to nanotechnology, whereas less religious countries, eg The Netherlands – were more accepting. In case you are wondering where the conflict might be – I mean how exactly do you question someone about their belief in the use

What 2009 May Bring for All Things Google

As 2008 comes to a close, the bloggers of Google Subnet put aside the champagne (for just a minute) to look ahead to 2009 and what it may bring for all things Google. Here are our top five predictions for Google in the coming year.

Exhibition of photographs by care leavers, The Things You Don?t See

A new exhibition showcases the work of care leavers who were given free rein to show life behind the scenes of Manchester's Library Theatre. The project was established by Barnardo's Manchester Leaving Care Service and the theatre to boost care leavers' horizons. The resulting work is shown in The Things You Don't See at the theatre until January 17, 2009

Explore the Server Room - Intel's Blog Community for Connecting and Discussing All Things Server-side.

Explore the Server Room - Intel's Blog Community for Connecting and Discussing All Things Server-side.

Graeme Swann can now go on to bigger and better things for England.

The only other player to have taken two wickets in his first over on Test debut believes a relaxed Graeme Swann can now go on to bigger and better things for England.

Fiji has thrived on recognition in sports especially in rugby. But as the year comes to an end, highlights of various sports achievements in the country can mean two things. more...

Fiji has thrived on recognition in sports especially in rugby. But as the year comes to an end, highlights of various sports achievements in the country can mean two things.

Latest pointless Apple rumor: iPhone nano

Yes, I get it: people like things that are small. Heck, I like things that are small, generally speaking, though I've never gone in for the give-up-power-and-features-for-smallness mindset that underlies, say, the Macbook Air. Anyway, I think that my iPhone is pretty small -- it's certainly slimmer than the first-generation 5G iPod I had back in the day, and infinitely more functional -- so I haven't exactly been dreaming of an even smaller version that could fit into my pocket, I dunno, twice or something.

A trio of iPhone GTD apps

All of us need to get things done. Few of us have the genius or the vision to come up with a system for, you know, getting things done.

Review: A trio of iPhone GTD apps

All of us need to get things done. Few of us have the genius or the vision to come up with a system for, you know, getting things done.

Free Copies of Democracy 2 For Politicians

You don't need to be a politics junkie to realize that on average, politicians seem to get things wrong at least as often as they get things right. Boom & Bust, Recessions, Crime Rates, Exchange Rates, Financial scandals, environmental disaster... politicians aren't getting the job done. Why?

Mirror's Edge for Xbox 360 & PS3

Innovation in all forms is an attempt to ditch the norms and make things different. It is that lauded quality that separates the old from the new, and often pushes the envelope far enough for it to give birth to a brand new concept. And just as life, the concept slowly unwinds and unfold with time, until the day it finds its place in history, along side its preachers and adopters. Mirror's Edge has the words ' A WHOLE NEW DIMENSION ' written all over it. It gives the player a wild experience of things to come in the future. It also represents a great leap forward for the interactive entertainment industry as a whole, and has the potential to change the first-person perspective for good. But like any other newly born idea, it needs time to mature and grow.

Meet an Artist: Kat Lamp

WHY SHE'S AN ARTIST: I have to. It's an awesome release. It's exploring different facets of myself. Sometimes I get really silly and I make things to make me laugh and hopefully it will make other people laugh. There are so many things that happen with paint. It's like walking into a different world.

Katy Guest: If that Obama phones again, get rid of him

Why is being Barack Obama much like finding the best strategy for a successful shopping trip at the pre-Christmas, credit-crunch sales? Because the following things are important: get there early; move fast; bring change. In other ways, however, Obama's methods are just not chiming with the culture of the coming recession. These are suspicious times, you see. Nobody trusts anyone. There are moles in our governments. Banks won't do as they're told. Coppers are knocking down our doors. You'd be crazy to take things at face value in these nervy, dog-eat-dog times. So full marks to the Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen last week for her enthusiastic embracing of the culture of distrust.

iTunes Podcasts: To the Moon and Beyond

Whatever happened to the pioneering spirit that first put humans on the moon? The Constellation program keeps the dream of opening the final frontier alive, and you can keep up with its progress and other spacebound ventures with free podcasts on iTunes. Those who want a heavy dose of fiction with their science can sample "Stranger Things" for some stranger things.

iTunes Podcasts: To the Moon and Beyond

Whatever happened to the pioneering spirit that first put humans on the moon? The Constellation program keeps the dream of opening the final frontier alive, and you can keep up with its progress and other spacebound ventures with free podcasts on iTunes. Those who want a heavy dose of fiction with their science can sample "Stranger Things" for some stranger things.

Time For Journalists To Take A Lesson From (Smart) Musicians

These days there are a few types of stories we see and write about consistently: (1) the legacy recording industry's troubles in adapting to a changing market, (2) the ability of a bunch of motivated, smart musicians, bucking the old way of doing things and finding tremendous success and (3) the legacy newspaper industry's troubles in adapting to a changing market. Given (1) and (2), you would think that (3) might lead to the obvious (4) of a bunch of motivated, smart journalists, bucking the old way of doing things and finding tremendous success. And, in fact, that is happening, particularly with upstart blogs, but it's not getting as much attention. Romenesko points us to what should be a must-read essay over at the Columbia Journalism Review, highlighting the fact that worried journalists should be studying up on the success stories of

How the City Hurts Your Brain

Hugh Pickens writes "The city has always been an engine of intellectual life and the 'concentration of social interactions' is largely responsible for urban creativity and innovation. But now scientists are finding that being in an urban environment impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory and suffers from reduced self-control. 'The mind is a limited machine,' says psychologist Marc Berman. 'And we're beginning to understand the different ways that a city can exceed those limitations.' Consider everything your brain has to keep track of as you walk down a busy city street. A city is so overstuffed with stimuli that we need to redirect our attention constantly so that we aren't distracted by irrelevant things.

PHP Tutorial: Cookies

You are probably familiar with cookies from your time with our HTML tutorials (or from your experience with HTML), but just to recap, cookies are pieces of data that are stored as simple little text files in the site visitor's computer, and allow the site server to keep track of what a visitor is doing during their visit (or even across multiple visits.) Some people think of cookies as bad or evil things, because they are sometimes used by advertisers to track an individual's browsing habits. Any decent anti-spyware program can prevent that kind of thing, however, and cookies are a useful and necessary mechanism for such things as personalized sites (where you first log in, and are then presented your personalized version of the site), shopping carts and the like.

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