Star Wars: How the Death Star Computer Graphics Sequence Was Made
Way back in 1977, the original Star Wars movie was released, and so began our battle against the Empire. Among many other amazing things, the film featured a computer-animated graphics sequence — in which a 3D model of the Death Star is shown to...

Locally Produced Web Tools
37signals is far from the only developer putting together useful web-based tools in Chicago. ThinkLink produces Thinklinkr, a collaborative outliner, and Mocklinkr for clickable design mockups.

Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal, now at Google) Talks About Programming
Brad Fitzpatrick, born in 1980, started to learn programming at the age of 5. In high school he went on to create a voting booth script called FreeVote, which he says earned him as much as 27 cent per click on banner ads back then (making for 25, 27...

Mozilla looks ahead as Firefox celebrates fifth anniversary
We were first on the scene with fast JavaScript, CORS, mixing HTML and SVG, WebGL is based on Canvas3D work we pioneered, we're scripting hardware with geolocation and orientation." Mozilla looks ahead as Firefox celebrates fifth ... (via...

New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher
Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original.Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more.All of these are simple conventions for adding...

Google Buys AdMod, Gizmo5 to enhance Mobile Ads and VoIP
Google takes one step further

Residence Deejays – Sexy Love | Videoclip
<br />Uitati ca a sosit si momentul celor din trupa Residence DeeJays sa apara

Nelly Furtado - Mas | Videoclip
<br />Nelly Furtado, o cantareata foarte cunoscuta in lumea muzicii internatio

Craig David - Cool With You | New Song
<br />Craig David revine din nou cu o noua piesa pe piata muzicala si anume cu

Australian students create "pro-rape" Facebook group
This is the kind of story that makes you wonder about the basic goodness of people.A group of past and present University of Sydney students set up a ''pro-rape'' page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as...

Snoop Dogg - Snoop State Of Mind | Videoclip
<br />Uitati ca zilele astea Snoop Dogg tocmai si-a facut aparitia pe internet

No Natives Here: A Focus Group Study of Student Perceptions of Web 2.0 and the Academic Library - published in ScienceDirect - The Journal of Academic Librarianship
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Top 10 Clever Fixes for Your Broken Stuff - Repair - Lifehacker
From fixing scratches on glossy devices to fixing loose lenses on spectacles

LearnCentral
"LearnCentral is a new social learning network for education, sponsored by Elluminate. More than a social network or a learning community, this free, open environment represents the next logical step of combining asynchronous social networking and...

Notschool.net practice
"Notschool.net is an online community which aims to engage teenagers who are out of school in the long term into learning. Between 500 and 700 young people are involved each year. " -- from source

D'oe!
The new Google/Verizon mobile device, the Droid, went on sale over the weekend, supported by a $100 million ad campaign. Here's what the wrap on my Sunday San Francisco Chronicle looked like: A bucket of does?My first reaction: Is KFC deep-frying...

تلویزیون HDTV برتر از رویا تا واقعیت

این روزها بسیاری از خانواده های ایرانی به خرید تلویزیون های پهن Plasma و LCD روی آورده اند و بدون آگاهی از برخی جزییات فنی اقدام به خرید این...