I Can has Happy

"We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. - Thomas Jefferson"

http://icanhashappy.blogspot.com/2008/01/top-50-atheism-quotes.html

Memorable Quotes from The Two Ronnies

"Ronnie Corbett: Good evening! It's wonderful to be back with you again, isn't it, Ronnie?

Ronnie Barker: Indeed it is. And in a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066721/quotes

The "How Evil Are You?" Quiz

http://home.att.net/~slugbutter/evil/

Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries

"Legal deposit is the act of depositing published material in designated libraries or archives. Publishers and distributors in the United Kingdom and Ireland have legal obligation to deposit published material in the six legal deposit libraries which collectively maintain the national published archive of the British Isles."

http://www.llgc.org.uk/aldl/

Gantt Project

"GanttProject is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool."

http://www.ganttproject.biz/

100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick (both for Mac and Win)

"This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, i.e. USB thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod. You can use them at work, school, or any other place where you can plugin your device. Check them out, you can either scroll-down for relevant category, i.e office software, email tools, messengers, games, etc. or get a ‘all-in-one’ package (all essential tools) ."

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/

How to: Make Your USB Drive into a Digital Swiss Army Knife

"Here’s a list of 55 of the most useful USB programs around."

http://www.rewardprograms.org/thefreegeek/features/how_to_make_your_usb_drive_into_a_digital_swiss_army_knife.html

Zeitgeist - The Movie

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm

Howto spot a photoshop job

"Surrounding lights reflect in eyes to form small white dots called specular highlights. The shape, color and location of these highlights tell us quite a bit about the lighting."

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/02/howto-spot-a-photosh.html

21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs

"Do you want to sharpen your creative picture taking instincts? Do you want to combine new ideas with your current projects and techniques?"

http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/07/27/21-ways-to-shoot-better-photographs/

Mothballer

"For whatever reason, the photos on this site have ended up in gutters and second-hand stores—among other unsavory places. Far from the loving walls and mantles they formerly adorned, these fond and not-so-fond memories have travelled time and found this rare opportunity to be cherished once again."

http://www.mothballer.com/

Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights

"Say you’re out for a photographic stroll, taking pictures of that cool old power plant on the edge of town. Suddenly seventy security guards swarm you and demand you hand over your camera.

“What is this,” you ask yourself, “a Michael Moore movie?”

You’re sure you haven’t done anything wrong, but you don’t know whose side the law is on. Fret no more- we’ve got a list of things you can and can’t do, and it’s a lot more permissive than you might think.

http://photojojo.com/content/tips/legal-rights-of-photographers/

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Stunning Pictures and Photos

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/28/really-stunning-pictures-and-photos/

Beginner's Guide to Photography

"Taking better photos has more to do with attitude than technique, knowing a few tricks can only help... Photonhead offers a blend of photographic concepts and tips for the digital era. Shopping for digital cameras? Visit the buying guide for a look at new and popular models. Don't miss the SimCam, a great way to learn about exposure. Enjoy your visit and remember: take more pictures!"

http://www.photonhead.com/

One Sangha

"I would like to have the bloggers express the diversity of Buddhism. Ideally, I think the blog should have a practitioner of one of the major Mahayana meditative traditions, like Chinese Chan or Japanese Zen, a Pure Land tradition (which means probably a Japanese school), a Vajrayana or Esoteric Buddhist practitioner (probably of the Tibetan variety), and a Theravadan or Insight Meditation practitioner (since the latter schools are drawn from the Theravadan tradition). Obviously, there will probably be overlap and more people than that but that would express the kind of variety that I would like to see. People signing up would work with me (as I plan to blog as well), on codifying the thrust of things. The blog will not be a platform for sectarianism, which I will say from the outset. That would completely go against the “One Sangha” intent. I would expect that people would blog at least one post a week, which is a fairly low requirement. If we had five people, that would be a blog post on most days of the week, which would work out well."

http://www.arcanology.com/2008/06/26/onesangha/

Sunset meeting Lightning meeting Rainbows

http://www.wetter-foto.de/sunset-special/

The right way to read files with PHP

"Learn how to use the different file functions of PHP. Review basic file functions, such as fopen, fclose, and feof; learn reading functions, such as fgets, fgetss, and fscanf. And discover functions that process entire files in one or two lines of code."

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-readfiles/

PHP Tips

"There is more than one way to achieve the same result when programming in PHP. There are many shortcuts I wish someone had explained to me when I began learning the language."

http://www.evolt.org/these-things-i-know-php-tips

Practical PHP Programming

http://hudzilla.org/phpwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

PHP Documentation HOWTO

http://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/index.php

Check network status with this Perl script

"Vincent Danen provides a simple Perl script that monitors the state of your internal and external network connections and alerts the administrator when a problem arises."

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5032650.html

The Linux Magazine Perl columns

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/

Perl Tutorial

"Probably the most useful thing here is my perl tutorial, which covers just about enough to make you dangerous."

http://www.steve.gb.com/perl/

Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method

"Every so often, someone (generally not a practicing scientist) suggests that it's time to replace science with something better. The desire often seems to be a product of either an exaggerated sense of the potential of new approaches, or a lack of understanding of what's actually going on in the world of science. This week's version, which comes courtesy of Chris Anderson, the Editor-in-Chief of Wired, manages to combine both of these features in suggesting that the advent of a cloud of scientific data may free us from the need to use the standard scientific method. "

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080625-why-the-cloud-cannot-obscure-the-scientific-method.html