By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Lake Superior State University has issued its 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. Nominations for the list come from the general public, through the university’s website. The targets are generally “pet peeves from everyday speech, as well […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] While there are a lot of “link shrinkers” and “URL shorteners” out there, this one caught my eye. Adjix is a link shortening service that has the added benefits of tracking and monetization. Back in the early days of TinyURL and its ilk, shortening a link was a fairly click-heavy, but necessary process […]
(Actually, that could be one equal sign, or maybe three, depending on how this works out). Yesterday, key developers of both Merb and Rails announced that the two popular web frameworks for Ruby will be merging. This decision comes as a shock to must Ruby web developers, given the history and philosophy of the two […]
As the #1 search engine of the Internet, Google is probably one of the most well known companies in the world. Since most of us see their logo almost every day, it stands to reason that when they change it slightly, it literally jumps in our face. In a tradition that’s been going on since […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] The Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to get people into the holiday donation spirit with this ad, listing the things they fought for in 2008. You can also find out more about each of these issues, many of which are obviously ongoing. Well, except for that happy dancing baby, […]
Matt Cutts of Google posted yesterday about the ten things he doesn’t like about Chrome. Coming from a Google employee, this seems like brave transparency — but Matt’s list is pretty much a collection of nits. I use Google Chrome as my default browser, and in general I love it — especially its performance. But I […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to a new study, one particular overactive gene could explain that dude you know who goes from Jekyll to Hyde when he gets a few drinks in him. The MAOA gene produces an enzyme that breaks down mood-related chemicals, and high levels of this enzyme mixed with alcohol […]
By Miss Cellania Contributing Writer, [GAS] This is obviously a case of preaching to the choir, but you might want to send this to your friends people you know family members. You can help! Check out Befriend A Geek. This Christmas over 1 million geeks around the globe will sit lonely in their bedrooms, misunderstood […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] Of all the liquids out there, tequila is one that has some interesting properties. Not the least of these properties is the power to get you mightily drunk. What you might not have known is that it can make some mighty fine jewelry as well. This according to scientists […]
Throughout the brief history of the web, we’ve seen various attempts to make the browsing experience more interactive: Java applets, JavaScript (and AJAX techniques), ActiveX, Flash, and Silverlight to name a few. All of the above except for ActiveX achieve a certain level of security from malicious code through the use of runtime-interpreted languages. The interpreter […]