Info on Greasemonkey for Firefox

clipped from addons.mozilla.org Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Check out http://wiki.greasespot.net/ to get started.

Photosynth - Great Picture App

A wonderful application that lets you view picture in a whole new way.

clipped from labs.live.com The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor.

Hands

Adults ONLY

clipped from www.villagevoice.com An Expert's Guide to Hand Jobs for Men and Women Examining the myths, merits, and sparse vocabulary of hand sex Think about it: There are a ton of well-known phrases for man-ipulating the male member (wack off, beat off, jack off), but little slang or even sexy shorthand that connotes using your digits on a woman to make her squirm In addition to the lack of an inclusive, descriptive terminology out there, I just feel like handjobs in general get a bad rap. People think of them as something immature and unskilled—what teenagers do instead of having sex. Or they're dismissed as "foreplay," a brief warmup to bigger and better things like oral sex and intercourse. Some associate hand sex only with solo masturbation and too quickly abandon it as a form of partner pleasure unto itself. Hands are sexual tools. The next time you meet someone for the first time, and she (or he) extends a hand to you, think of the possibilities.

! Awesome Gmail tip you don´t know about it

clipped from www.makeuseof.com Let’s say that your email address is ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email. GeorgeBush@gmail.com G.eorgeBush@gmail.com Ge.orgeBush@gmail.com … … GeorgeBus.h@gmail.com Additionally, I just also found out that you can embed random text to your email ID using ‘+’ sign. That is to say ‘GeorgeBush+anythingyouwant@gmail.com’ can be used as your email address, as well. Ok I got it. Now what ? 1. One email for every purpose Instead of using different email addresses for various purposes (work, school, friends, etc.) you can use different variations of your Gmail and filter incoming mails by ’sent to’ address. For instance, all incoming mail sent to ‘Name.Surname@gmail.com’ can be put to folder ‘work’, messages sent to ‘NameSurname@gmail.com’ can be put to ‘friends’, ‘N.ameSurname@gmail.com’ can be used for newsletters, and so on. 2. Track/Block spammers

Beyond Wikipedia: 19 References You Can't Do Without

ePodunk is pretty cool for cities researching.

clipped from articles.mercola.com Beyond Wikipedia: 19 References You Can't Do Without Bartleby -- Famous quotes and full poetry texts Citizendium -- More “professional” Wikipedia, although usually not as detailed Answers.com -- Makes use of the information on Wikipedia and many other reference sites to become a one stop shop ePodunk -- Information about cities and places Encyclopedia Britannica -- An excellent source of information, and much more authoritative than Wikipedia. Scholarpedia -- A step up from both Wikipedia and Citizendium in terms of scholarly respectability; the articles are all written by experts with peer review Bartleby -- Famous quotes and full poetry texts ePodunk -- Information about cities and places Online Education Database -- Over 100 specific search and research tools, often relevant to specific subjects MathWorld -- Everything mathematics from Geometry to Calculus is covered in great detail Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Foldop -- Excellent sources on just about anything philosophy related

RUBY

Ruby is "an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming"

Ruby is "an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming" -- what does this mean?

interpreted scripting language:

• ability to make operating system calls directly


• powerful string operations and regular expressions


• immediate feedback during development

quick and easy:

• variable declarations are unnecessary


• variables are not typed


• syntax is simple and consistent


• memory management is automatic

object oriented programming:

• everything is an object


• classes, methods, inheritance, etc.


• singleton methods


• "mixin" functionality by module


• iterators and closures

multiple precision integers

convenient exception processing

dynamic loading

threading support

clipped from www.rubyist.net

Ruby User's Guide

What is ruby?

Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind

The findings "fairly clearly show that monkey tool use involves the incorporation of tools into the body schema, literally as extensions of the body,"

clipped from sciencenow.sciencemag.org Don't take that hammer for granted. Using tools may seem like second nature, but only a few animals can master the coordination and mental sophistication required. So how did primates learn to use tools in the first place? A new study in monkeys suggests that the brain's trick is to treat tools as just another body part. Primates, with their four flexible fingers and opposable thumbs, have a highly evolved ability to grasp and manipulate objects. Previous research has shown that many of these actions are controlled by an area of the brain called F5. As the hand opens and closes to grasp an object, neurons in area F5 fire in a predictable sequence. In the parlance of neuroscientists, the neurons are "coded" to control the hand movements. When a primate learns to use a tool, its brain must code neurons not only to move the hand but also to make the tool manipulate an object, a much more cognitively complex task.

Physicists praise waste paper to oil process

Looks the goods.

clipped from news.sbs.com.au Australian scientists say they have developed a greenhouse-friendly way of turning green waste into fuel. The Furafuel bio-crude oil process, developed by CSIRO and Monash University, can be used to produce petrol and diesel from forest thinnings, crop residues and waste paper, most of which are normally dumped in landfill or burned. "By making changes to the chemical process, we've been able to create a concentrated bio-crude which is much more stable than that achieved elsewhere in the world, CSIRO Forest Biosciences scientist Dr Steven Loffler says. Easier transportation "This makes it practical and economical to produce bio-crude in local areas for transport to a central refinery, overcoming the high costs and greenhouse gas emissions otherwise involved in transporting bulky green wastes over long distances."

Ten Tricks to Using Google You Probably Dont Know

clipped from articles.mercola.com 10. Get Local Time: Type in What time is it followed by any city to get the current time. 9. Track Flight Status: 8. Convert Currency, Metrics, Bytes and More: 7. Search for Pages That are “Better Than,” “Similar to,” or “Reminds me of”: Enter “better than keyword” or “similar to keyword” to find Web pages you never knew existed. 6. Use Google as a Free Proxy: Enter cache:website.com to view a Web page that’s been blocked from the computer you’re using. 5. Remove Affiliate Links From Product Searches: 4. Find Related Items: Enter ~ before any search term to find related items as well. 3. Find Music and Comic Books: 2. See Images of People, Objects, Etc.: Type in a search term, and click on images to see photos of the results. 1. Search for Faces: If you’re looking for a photo of a person named Rose, and don’t want to see photos of the flower, add &imgtype=face to the end of your image search. It will show you only images of faces.