Autistic Spends 16 Years Designing an Amazing World

Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville. He has created detailed historical, geographical, cultural, and economic descriptions of the city, as well as an absolutely extraordinary set of drawings. Check out the pics!

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The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics

This Gallery of Data Visualization displays some examples of the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics, with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to both historical and current work. They go from what is arguably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, to the current record-holder for the worst. See The Gallery of Data Visualization

Four indicted in Nigerian e-mail scam

"Global fraudsters need to know that we are determined to find and prosecute them," U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf of the Eastern District of New York said in a statement. "Potential victims need to know that any e-mail offering millions of dollars that requires that they send money to receive this windfall is a scheme. Delete it." Three of the defendants were arrested in Amsterdam by Dutch authorities on Feb. 21, based on a U.S. criminal complaint. They are being held by the Dutch authorities pending extradition to the U.S., the DOJ said. The fourth defendant, a Nigerian citizen, is a fugitive. Read More

Rejuvenating the creative mind

Every now and then, its good to get away from the daily grind and head up to Truckee, stay in a house with great views and relax in a hot tub. Maybe even watch that movie you got from Netflix but never had the time to. Don't worry. If the DVD player doesn't work, Blue Sky will bring you one that does. These guys are great. They certainly go out of their way to make your mountain getaway a relaxing experience. After you've relaxed and unwound, get up and hit the slopes. Its great for rejuvenating the creative mind. When you find that you just can't leave Truckee because you love it so much, Blue Sky can find you a house to buy or even build one for you. So check out a Truckee vacation rental or a ski lease soon. Before you completely loose your mind from the grind. The folks at Blue Sky really know what they are doing. See for yourself.

Rails for Designers

This is for designers who are going to be working with Rails and is intended to give them a good starting point to jump into work with a Rails developer. This is all introductory material. Basics are covered (MVC, locations of files) as well as a code example and more advanced topics (partials, ActionView helpers).

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Analog Audio Tape Cassette Nostalgia from Tapedeck.org

The compact audio cassette medium for audio storage was introduced by Philips in 1963. Its use in the West has declined as a result of more advanced technologies. However, it remains widespread, and is still the dominant medium for listening to music in many third world countries. Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. There's an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60's functional cassette designs, moving through the colourful playfulness of the 70's audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the 80's and 90's. I hope you enjoy these tapes as much as I do.

Han Solo Switch Parody

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Check out this Han Solo switch parody I tracked down on Google today. Now I have to admit I am a Star Wars fan but this guy is kind of a dork. Although if you make it to the end of the video you will get a little chuckle.

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Apple's Mighty Mouse shines cool red mouse!

Is it just me or did Apple intentionally make their Mighty Mouse shine out a mighty red mouse!

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Macbreak: Leo Laporte demonstrates WinXP running on a Mac Mini

Windows XP on an Intel Core Solo Mac Mini.

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Intel iMac XP Boot-loader NOW AVAILABLE (download here)

The winner of the big $13,000 prize for getting WindowsXP and MacOSX to co-exist on Intel Macs has posted his solution. Come and get it!

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8 simple tricks for iTunes to keep your music collection interesting

You'll want to hear newer songs more often than older ones, yet at the same time you'll want to make sure that the old music doesn't get lost. You want to hear your favourite songs slightly more often than everything else, but you don't want to keep listening to the same old tracks over and over again.

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A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod

I had never bothered with these little players or compressed digital audio since I presumed the sound quality was awful. WRONG! The little things sound great for serious music listening, presuming you click a couple of the right buttons in iTunes' preferences. I'll explain these in this article.

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Wild accidents captured in Russia's new Lefortovo Tunnel

Security cameras in Russia's recently-completed Lefortovo Tunnel captured some pretty wild high-speed car accidents. The 3.2 km tunnel appears rather cramped, but that doesn't stop any of these drivers from traveling at ridiculous speeds, nor has it prevented from being generally careless.

Embrio: The Answer to the Segway

Like the Segway, Bombardier's Embrio concept--a prototype that may or may not make production--uses gyroscope technology to balance riders but adds a dash of flair absent in the Segway, which we as car nuts find slightly nerdy. Read More.

Cassini Discovers Potential Liquid Water on Enceladus

On March 9th, NASA announced that the Cassini spacecraft had spotted geysers of ice and water vapor shooting from the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. This discovery may be evidence that resevoirs of liquid water can be found slightly below the moon's surface. If true, Enceladus would be the environment most conducive to life found in our solar system. NASA's news release can be found here.

Using sprites with CSS

CSS sprites allow you to create a single file that contains all the images laid out in a grid, requiring only a single image and only a single server call. Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to tame your Web site graphics using CSS sprites to consolidate images into a single file.

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Escapa! Addictive game of the month

I CANT STOP!!!!
waste time now.

Real life intro of the Simpsons

The Name Game

There's a great article called "How they named companies" at the Day2Day Activities blog.
read more Guy Kawasaki provides some guidelines about naming a company or product. Generally, the primary concern of most people seems to be whether a domain name is available. However, there are other considerations to keep in mind.
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Apple to buy Disney Now?

Okay were on a back and forth relationship here, first Pixar is bought by Disney, and Now Disney is bought by Apple? I dunno, but I know I am not watching mickey mouse silhouette style!

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Key to success: A whole lot of hard work

When asked what keeps Dublin's economy strong, print shop owner Les Jacob doesn't hesitate to answer. "You have to work hard," he said. "You don't want to put all your eggs in one basket, and you've got to keep your eye on the numbers. (Some printers) were going out and buying million dollar presses for their client. When that client went away, they still had to make payments on the press." Read More | Select Imaging website