From the fine article:
“I am totally sure that now, you will all agree with me - we live in a crazy world! Proof needed? Ok! Meet Flatmobile, a vehicle that was officially recognized by the Guiness World Records as the lowest street car. More than this, the Flatmobile is completely legal, so you won’t have any problems with the law when taking this beauty outside for a insane ride. Can you imagine that this car is only 19 inch / 48 cm tall?”
Flatmobile pic
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100205363&page=1
As title says. Unfortunately I have been on a few of these (Ketex, Celebrex, and Visine original). Good info.
http://hackmii.com/2008/08/libdi-and-the-dvdx-installer/
Hackmii has a great writeup on getting your Wii to do DVD’s via the libdi and mplayer. Interesting. Now I really need to get me hands on a Wii 
Albeit a bit old of an event, I finally got around to digging up the photos we got at the Polite In Public photo booth. Link to Photo Page We are a wee bit over to the right (yes it sidescrolls). For those not in the know it is Melkmandan on the right, myself on the left.
Online review of Photoshop Express, Picnik, Splashup, Fotoflexer, and Aviary. Reviews were done by Meowza utilizing a few basic criteria. Worth a look at, especially if you are uninterested in the offline variety of tools.
Details how to create a LiveCD from Fedora or Ubuntu (and derivatives) as well as note a few specific targetted LiveCDs such as Backtrack.
Good and brief article on why and what linux is and a quick primer on getting your feet wet. Interesting read, not too bad for being as narrow and brief as it is.
I have been getting alot of people asking for any tips for getting linux onto their machine. Here are a list of some good howto’s for the distros that I consider matter :D
Howto-Forge’s Fedora 8 installation guide
The following tips will assist a user in keeping themselves safe while online. This applies to Apple, Linux, Microsoft, and UNIX operating system users — nobody is really safe from the problems that arises when ignoring the following tips.
1) Activate your OS’s built in firewall.
For information regarding Apple OSX 10.4 Tiger
For information regarding Apple OSX 10.5 Leopard
For information regarding Linux check your flavor/distribution of choice but for Ubuntu Linux 7.10
For information regarding Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later
For information regarding Windows Vista
2) Install and use a Router. Even if you aren’t interested in sharing your web connection, the technology used to share the connection acts as a firewall. The routers built into a DSL converter or cable converter should suffice. If in question, email me – I should be able to find out one way or another.
3) Providing you are not on Windows XP (XP is the _ONLY_ exception), don’t run as an administrator. Any “bad” application that is run has the power and rights of the user running it. Administrators have full reign over the computer, so any badware run will then also have administrator priveledges. This is generally the fix for the children that tend to break the family computer.
4) Use and keep up to date a good Antivirus software. This will actually not be the first defense barrier, but rather the second one. But nonetheless run it regularly. Depending on usage of the web, at least run a manual scan weekly, bi-weekly would be best under moderate to heavy internet usage.
The first barrier to defense is being a smart computer user. The following tips will aid in keeping out of troubles and from problems cropping up.
5) Do not click links from unexpected emails. For example, if you sign up at a blog or a company’s web service, the confirmation email will need to be clicked thru to validate the account. That is fine. What is not fine, and quite bad, is the random EBay and PayPal emails stating to click the link to update and verify personal data. If you wish to do things like that, type www.ebay.com into your browser, don’t click on the link in the email. In the rare instances that you will need to click one, if you hover the cursor over the link, the actual location you are being sent to will generally display on the bottom of the screen. This can be used to validate if the email came from a legitimate source or not. If you see a link to http://64.123.234.10/paypal/home.htm or some variant, avoid clicking that page! Paypal doesn’t need the numbers (that would be the IP address) typed in — everyone knows them.
6) On Windows in particular, but other OS’s can benefit here too, regularly run your update utility and update at least the core OS if not any updateable application (yes, Linux users get away easier here). Windows Update for Windows users, Software Updater for many Linux distributions, and Apple Update for Mac OSX.
7) On Windows, dump Internet Explorer and Outlook Express (or Mail on Vista). These are cesspools that invite and are breeding grounds for bad things. A good idea would be to migrate over to Opera (Browser, EMail, and RSS), or Firefox (the Browser and RSS) and Thunderbird (the EMail). Mozilla, the company behind Firefox and Thunderbird, do a large array of software, I recommend visiting to take a look at other projects. For fans of the old Netscape Navigator, SeaMonkey is the all-in-one tool that closely resembles the old style. All of these tools are _VASTLY_ superior to the Microsoft offerings.
That is the core of keeping safe. For further reading, here are a few links that may be of some interest:
Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Keeping Safe
Found a nice website with the aforementioned skinning materials for all of the major OS’s:Interface Lift
Enjoy!