Amazing GUI Idea: Foldable Windows!

Digg: “‘Fold n’ Drop is an interaction technique being developed for seamlessly dragging and dropping between overlapping windows using gestures. You can fold back and sort through a stack of windows like they were paper. After you drop the object, your window layout is instantly restored to normal. Try the Java demo.”

Police Arrest Pretend Zombies For Possessing Pretend Weapons

Digg: “In Minneapolis, it is apparently against the law to pretend to look like an undead ghoul carrying a bag ‘with wires sticking out.’”

Jon Favreau’s IRON MAN poster

Ain’t it Cool News: “…here with the really damn cool IRON MAN teaser poster that was debuted at Comic-Con…”

Audio Short Story

BoingBoing: “Cory Doctorow: My friend Bill Shunn’s story ‘Observations From the City of Angels’ (originally published on Salon as Love in the Time of Spyware) has been adapted for spoken word by the excellent science fiction podcast Escape Pod. The story is about a guineapig in a program to track criminals with reality-TV-style spyware that transmits their sensoria to a home audience. He’s kept company by robots and an omnipresent voice of the panopticon computer, each guiding him through a life where his every word and deed and sensation are transmitted to the world.

Link “

Funny Math Answers

Neatorama:

For more funny (and creative!) student math solutions, see: Link “

Cool and Illegal Wireless Hotspot Hacks

Well worth the read for the information alone…

Digg: “It’s been 3 months since the last article / tutorial by wireless guru, Dan Hoffman of ‘Live Hacking Video’ fame, and boy was it worth the wait. As always, he takes you step-by-step through some awesome wireless hacks and then shows you how to protect yourself from them. This will make you think twice before firing up your laptop in Starbucks!”

Former Host and Writer of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Launches RiffTrax

What a great idea…gonna have to check this one out…

Slashdot: “dougman writes ‘Today James Lileks mentioned his ‘friend and all-around comic genius/good egg Michael J. Nelson’ called, to tell him about his brilliant new project, RiffTrax. Here’s the pitch: ‘…free-lance commentary tracks. Bottom line: Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary for big famous beloved movies like Titanic or The Matrix. The hitch: you have to provide the movie. It’s genius: no worries about copyright. You buy the commentary tracks for $1.99, rent the movie or get it out of your collection, load the commentary on your iPod or burn it to a disk, then watch them together in true you-got-peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate bliss. … The first movie is Roadhouse.’ Cool! I voted for The Matrix as the next one to be riffed.’ While I (and many others I know) preferred Joel, Mike was not without his share of funny moments too. Without Crow and Servo it just might not be the same, though.”

Amount of caffeine in popular drinks (from NatGeo)

BoingBoing: “Mark Frauenfelder: Yesterday I posted a link to a chart that showed caffeine in common beverages. The numbers looked off to me. But here’s a chart from National Geographic, January 2005 and the numbers are pretty close to the numbers I posted yesterday:

Hershey’s milk chocolate almond bar, 6 oz 25 mg
Espresso, 1-oz shot 40 mg
Brewed tea, 8-oz cup 50 mg
Coca-Cola, 20-oz bottle 57 mg
Red Bull energy drink, 8.3-oz can 80 mg
Excedrin pain reliever, 2 tablets 130 mg
Brewed coffee, 12-oz cup 200 mg
Mountain Dew, 64-oz Double Big Gulp 294 mg

Link to PDF of NatGeo article about caffeine”

Introduction to White Balance

Digital Photo School: “White Balance is an aspect of photography that many digital camera owners don’t understand or use – but it’s something well worth learning about as it can have a real impact upon the shots you take. So for those of you who have been avoiding White Balance – let me introduce you to it.”

Download of the Day: Verizon and TMobile Minutes Used Firefox extensions

Lifehacker: “Windows/Mac/Linux: The Verizon/TMobile Minutes Used Firefox extensions log into your wireless accounts to keep you updated on your latest usage data.

If you find yourself flirting with overage charges month after month because you never can seem to keep your eyes on your minutes, these extensions should come in very handy – if you’re a TMobile or Verizon customer, that is. The developer claims to have had a little trouble with Verizon because of this extension, but he seems to have worked it out, and the extension works like a charm. — Adam Pash
Verizon Minutes Used Firefox Extension Version 0.84 [verizon-minutes-used.blogspot.com]“