Seattle PI: Boeing 737 Factory Tour Photos – “Boeing workers can finish final assembly of the single-aisle 737 in 11 days. In 2000, the process took 22 days, and the goal is to reach eight days, officials said Tuesday on a tour of the Renton factory.“
Sacramento Bee: Unemployment in California – “This interactive map shows the month-to-month changes in California’s unemployment rate – now at its highest level in three decades – by county.“
The Spellout Seattle: The 10 Best Free Wi-Fi Hotspots in Seattle – “Count your blessings, nerds: This city has free Wi-Fi in places where other cities don’t even have paid Wi-Fi. Nearly every one of our cafes, many of our bars and even a few of our public spaces have free wireless internet service — and if ever there was a time to flaunt this mobile-office superiority to the rest of the world, that time is now.“
Portfolio: Confessions of a TARP Wife – “As you can see, being a TARP wife means, in short, making decisions according to a complex algorithm: balancing the need to look like your world hasn’t crumbled beneath you—let’s not alarm the investors!—with the need to appear duly repentant for your subprime sins.“
Ars Technica: Ubuntu Brings Advanced Screen Features to the Masses – “In an effort to make Screen more accessible to the masses, the Ubuntu developers have assembled a nice collection of embellishments that make the program easier to configure and use. These improvements are delivered in the screen-profiles package, which was introduced in Ubuntu 9.04.“
Second Life: Quickstart Guide – “Welcome to your Second Life! This guide will help you get started fast, by explaining how to complete some of the most common tasks you’ll need to get the most out of your new Second Life.“
The New Scientist: 13 Things That do Not Make Sense – “TAKE our best understanding of gravity, apply it to the way galaxies spin, and you’ll quickly see the problem: the galaxies should be falling apart. Galactic matter orbits around a central point because its mutual gravitational attraction creates centripetal forces. But there is not enough mass in the galaxies to produce the observed spin.“
Ask Monty: The Hacking Business Model – “Don’t try to change people. Focus on getting the best from their strengths. Develop ways to work around their weaknesses. “
Noupe: 10 Ways to Automatically & Manually Backup MySQL Database – “There are several ways to backup MySQL data. In this article we’ll look at how to backup your databases using different methods, we will also learn how to achieve an automatic backup solution to make the process easier. Starting with the mysqldump utility that comes with MySQL, we will review several examples using mysqldump, including the backup of your database to a file, another server, and even a compressed gzip file and send it to your email.“
Wired: American Stonehenge – “Built to survive the apocalypse, the Georgia Guidestones are not merely instructions for the future—the massive granite slabs also function as a clock, calendar, and compass.“
Wall Street Journal: Please, Pay Attention – “To preserve my own mind from electronic takeover, I spend an hour alone each afternoon, without a computer or phone, in a local coffee shop, and I ask my assistant to forward messages from my public email address only near the end of each day.“
Second Life Blog: The Second Life Economy – First Quarter 2009 in Detail – “A number of factors drove the growth in the Second Life economy in Q1 2009: an increase in active users and user hours, a steady influx of new Residents, and continued improvements in grid stability. Anecdotal conversations with large estate owners and merchants point to a renewed optimism about the Second Life economy, while our recent business owner survey, indicated that 68% of business owners are planning on maintaining* or increasing their investment in Second Life in the next six months.“
Flickr: WebOps Visualizations – “This group is for sharing visualizations of web operations metrics. For the most part, this means graphs of systems and application metrics, from software like ganglia, cacti, hyperic, etc.“
Ambysoft: How To Write a Technical Book – “The goal of this page is to share my hard-won experiences writing books. The bad news is that writing a book is hard work and frankly it can be very difficult to break into the publishing industry. The good news is that writing a book can be personally and professionally rewarding. Think long and hard about these observations.“
Replicator Blog: Crowdsourcing & Mass Customization Ecommerce – “Ecommerce is expanding rapidly and has been one of the few bright spots in the financial meltdown. However, the standard string search+algorithm based shopping experience may soon give way to new and more interesting shopping patterns. A couple developments, mass customization technology and crowd sourced designs, promise to change the way we shop in the future. New shopping behaviors are beginning to emerge“
Dylan Schiemann: QCon Tokyo – “After the talks, I was lucky enough to be able to attend a nomikai event, which was a lot of fun, featured syabu syabu, sushi, a raw egg as the condiment for the meat, and less conventional options such as french fries and thin pizza bread.“
The American Interest: Going Postal – “The Internet is still an inherently lawless medium. Emails are fraught with all sorts of malfeasance, from viruses to financial scams. The USPS could play a role in assigning legal online addresses for all citizens and businesses and providing a secure Internet-based channel for trusted communications. We only need to look across the pond for examples of now to do this.“
Thingiverse: Open Source Robotic Arm – “Perhaps one of the funnest projects we have attempted around the .:oomlout:. offices. A five degrees of freedom robotic arm. While we have spent many hours twisting knobs to move pop cans from one point on our desk to another sadly it has not progressed much further.“
Second Life Blog: 5 Fun Apps to Record Second Life Videos – “To help you on your journey, here are my personal picks, not a comprehensive list but what I’ve actually used and can recommend from hard-boiled, battle-tested trial by fire. Keep in mind that these weren’t made by Linden Lab so we can’t provide support — contact the companies responsible, but I’m happy to casually share tips on using them with Second Life, so ask away in the comments“
IBM Developerworks: Utilizing Web 2.0 in Business – “There’s no denying that most Web 2.0 services have, until now, been mostly useful for consumers and small businesses. But whether your organization has 10 or 100,000 employees, you can leverage these tools to bring true business value to your company. The likes of Twitter, Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, and Digg may not look like they are all that useful in a business context, but if they are used in the right way they can open new markets and sales avenues that may otherwise have forever remained closed.“
Second Life Blog: Intensifying Open Source Efforts – “We have created a new version of the Second Life client in a public repository where we will allow direct committing from community members alongside our own daily work. We have also created a new build system to keep this version continuously building when new submissions are received, with new builds available to everyone. We will also make this version available as a download alongside the official SL client, once we have it sufficiently stable.“
Digital Trends: Second Life Looks to Offer Enterprises Their Own Virtual Worlds – “Linden Labs, the makers and operators of the popular virtual world Second Life, have announced they’re working on a version of Second Life for enterprises that can be deployed as a server product behind corporate firewalls. The effort would create stand-alone, behind-the-firewall versions of Second Life that companies and organizations could completely control—without having to worry about interference from (or reliance on) Second Life’s main grid. “
IBM Developerworks: Realities of open source cloud computing, Part 1: Not All Clouds Are Equal – “Computing is certainly more than just storage, and that’s where cloud computing platforms come in. The platforms provide a way for you to take code and execute it on a cloud platform. This can certainly be combined with cloud storage and cloud Web services. There are many platforms available, with a wide variety of relative advantages and disadvantages. “
Seattle PI: A Seattle Geek Fest Spreads its Wings – “More than put Seattle on the geek map, Ignite has helped unite disparate communities of innovators in business, art and science with the lure of condensed creativity and the prospect of sharing their own burning ideas with a crowd who can’t wait to hear them.“
Seattle Post Globe – “Today, we — former P-I journalists — are embarking on a new stage in our careers, hoping to fulfill our life’s mission in a different way. We want to keep letting you know what’s really going on in this city.“
Nancy Duarte: The Power Presenter: 3 Tips That Transformed My Last Presentation – “As a presenter, I feed off the energy of the audience. I used to think that the audience determined the energy in the room, but after applying some of Jerry Weissman’s principles, I learned the presenter has more control over the room than I previously thought.“
Bill Shrink: 16 Depression Era Money Saving Tips – “People who lived through the Great Depression will tell you that your mindset and overall attitude was just as important (if not more so) than the specific money-saving strategies you used. It took a pervasive mentality of penny-pinching and getting as much from what you had as possible. The best way to cultivate this mentality? Just pretend that you’re broke.” – Via Financial Armageddon.
Mint: A Visual Guide to Deflation – “Deflation is inflation’s polar opposite. It’s what happens when prices go down and you get more bang for your buck. Sounds good right? But deflation, like inflation is complicated and much less understood than inflation. It can lead to what’s called the deflationary spiral and grind the whole economy to a halt.“
UW Astronomy Department: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Frank Drake, founder of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), as the keynote speaker of the Astronomy Department Open House. Dr. Drake is a leader in astrobiology and is famous for formulating an equation which estimates the number of civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy that would be in a position to communicate with the Earth.“
ACM Ubiquity: How to Rapidly Improve Speaking Skills – “If you pay attention, you will notice that the British, particularly the English, tend to form their words on their lips, while Americans form them in the throat. This phenomenon is particularly noticeable among males, whose deep, gravely voice is considered to be masculine, virile and seductive.“
Noupe: 20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project
– “The post below is made up of the best 20 PHP + jQuery Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.“
Blueprint: A CSS Framework – “Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.“
Tripwire Magazine: 100+ Massive CSS Toolbox – “Most would probably agree that CSS is one of the most important parts of modern standards based web design. CSS is really simple and extremely powerful if you know how to master it… if your new to CSS getting started can be quite hard. I hope this article will help you all to get more out of CSS in your web projects.“
Ask Apache: Elite Log File Scrolling with Color Syntax – “This article shows how I continuously scroll the logs for a server/site I am working on, thus saving me a lot of time by providing real-time debugging on a separate screen. Not only does this scroll the latest log entries as they are created, it displays them in color using syntax highlighting to make your logs incredibly easy to understand and parse.“
Leftnode: Amazon.com Door Desk With a Twist – “Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com, is famous for going to great lengths to save money, for both his company and his customers. When he first started Amazon, he was slightly baffled at the idea of an executive having a very expensive desk. He reasoned, correctly, that a desk is simply a flat surface for holding things, and a cheap one works just as effectively as an expensive one. He is famous for being the worlds first CEO with a desk made from simply a door and 4 legs” – I own but don’t currently use doordesk.com . If I had a blog there I would definitely link to this post!
CNN: Can Second Life Help Teach Doctors to Treat Patients? – “After the avatars enter the computer-generated hospital, they check in at a reception desk, put on an access badge, and then stop by professor Martyn Partridge’s office to get their assignment. Partridge’s online likeness bears an eerie resemblance to his real-life appearance.“
Facebook: XHProf Documentation – “XHProf reports can often be helpful in understanding the structure of the code being executed. The hierarchical nature of the reports can be used to determine, for example, what chain of calls led to a particular function getting called.“
