POI Has Moved

With the advent of one critical feature at WordPress, poi2ray has moved. No further posting will happen here so visit me at the new location if you're interested in the weird things that catch my attention on the internets.

Modern Metrix

Measurement and analytics in marketing, media and political research in XXI century

http://mmx.typepad.com/mmx/

OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428#

Free Annual Credit Reports

There are three credit reporting companies and each is required by federal law to provide you with one free report per year. Get one from each company every four months and forget the "credit watch" services.

https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index

Historic Aerials

http://www.historicaerials.com/

Political Compass Printable Graph

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-8.00&soc=-5.49

SMS 411: How to send email to a phone

http://www.sms411.net/2006/07/how-to-send-email-to-phone.html

BBC NEWS | Technology | 40 years of Unix

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8205976.stm

Ed Wallace's Backside of American History

The first two volumes of Ed's fantastic history lessons. Things you didn't know about American history.

Backside Of American History Vol 1

Backside Of American History Vol 2

Alternative Choices for Seafood to Avoid - Seafood Watch | Monterey Bay Aquarium

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_alternatives.aspx

DB2 SQL Cookbook

http://mysite.verizon.net/Graeme_Birchall/id1.html

Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix + ASUS eeePC 900 | Tim Ashley.me

http://timashley.me/?q=node/7

Tim has a fix for the NBR launcher performance issues.

All About Floats

Great info for web design hackers.

http://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/

Sauron Software Projects Repository

http://www.sauronsoftware.it/projects/home/

Hosted projects

• cron4j - A scheduler for the Java 2 platform which is very similar to the UNIX cron daemon.
• feed4j - A Java library implementing a XML feeds parser.
• ftp4j - A Java library implementing a FTP client.
• grab4j - A web-grabbing Java library.
• Java Base64 - A Java library that can encode and decode base64 streams.
• JAVE - A Java library that can transcode audio and video files from a format to another.
• JUnique - A library that can be used to prevent a user to run at the same time more instances of the same Java application.
• Kickstart - A Windows starter for Java applications. It generates EXE files from runnable Java archives (JAR).

Awesome Open-Source Alternatives For Windows Apps

http://www.crn.com/it-channel/217400811

IBM - Upgrading to DB2 Version 9.5 roadmap (formerly known as DB2 Version 9.5 migration roadmap)

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=71&context=SSEPGG&dc=DB540&uid=swg21254493&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct71db2

Developing portlets for Liferay in Eclipse

http://www.jroller.com/holy/entry/developing_portlets_for_liferay_in

NoMachine NX - Desktop Virtualization and Remote Access Management Software

http://www.nomachine.com/index.php

IEs4Linux

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

Flowpaint

I'm all about paint programs. This one shows a lot of potential.

http://www.flowpaint.org/

FindBugs(tm) - Find Bugs in Java Programs

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

OneDayBuys

A "one day deal" (ala Woot) aggregator. Sweet.

http://www.onedaybuys.com/Computers-Electronics-deals-1

Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily

Love the price. Unfortunately it's 100% Windows AFAICT.

About

Welcome to Giveaway of the day project, the new initiative in the software distribution world! Every day we offer for FREE licensed software you’d have to buy otherwise!

Our new initiative, Giveaway of the day, is finally open to its visitors and ready to present hot software titles and best software authors from all over the world. For game giveaways check out Game Giveaway of the Day <http://game.giveawayoftheday.com>. We wish you a Happy Giveaway!

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

(Sort of like)The Devil's IT Dictionary (after Ambrose Bierce)

Not really S.K. Bootle's book but funny and informative none the less.

http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html

The Wheel Of Fortune Bonus Puzzle Compendium -- 2009

http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/malldirectories/wheel/2009/2009.html

Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/index2.html

DebianEeePC - Debian Wiki

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC

XBMC Media Center

A cross-platform media center

http://xbmc.org/

The Java Real-Time Multi-Threaded Fractal Platform

http://jame.sourceforge.net/

OpenLink Virtuoso Object/Relational Database

ObjectLink's description of Virtuoso

At core, Virtuoso is a high-performance object-relational SQL database. As a database, it provides transactions, a smart SQL compiler, powerful stored-procedure language with optional Java and .Net server-side hosting, hot backup, SQL-99 support and more. It has all major data-access interfaces, such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO .Net and OLE/DB.

Virtuoso has a built-in web server which can serve dynamic web pages written in Virtuoso's web language (VSP) as well as PHP, ASP .net and others. This same web server provides SOAP and REST access to Virtuoso stored procedures, supporting a broad set of WS protocols such as WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging and others. A BPEL4WS run time is also available as part of Virtuoso's SOA suite.

Virtuoso has a built-in WebDAV repository. This can host static and dynamic web content and optionally provides versioning. The WebDAV repository is tested to interoperate with WebDAV clients built into Windows XP, Mac OSX and others and makes Virtuoso a convenient and secure place for keeping one's files on the net. Further, Virtuoso provides automatic metadata extraction and full text searching for supported content types.

OpenLink Virtuoso supports SPARQL embedded into SQL for querying RDF data stored in Virtuoso's database. SPARQL benefits from low-level support in the engine itself, such as SPARQL-aware type-casting rules and a dedicated IRI data type. This is the newest and fastest developing area in Virtuoso.

Earth Hour

8:30PM Saturday 28 March 2009

http://www.earthhour.org/main.php

CookingWithPam ... Bosch Magic White Bread recipe from the kitchen of Pamela Rice Hahn

http://www.cookingwithpam.com/bread/bosch1.html

The real destination is the click through to the Bosch mixer info.

JigZone.com Jigsaw Puzzle Games

http://www.jigzone.com/

I'm big on crosswords and jigsaws of the online persuasion.

X# - XML oriented programming language

http://www.xsharp.org/

The sales pitch:

X# (pronounced X-sharp) is an XML-oriented programming language designed to quickly create Web applications and services. In X# everything is represented as an XML tree and instead of using functions to manipulate information or perform actions, all possible operations you can think of are done by adding, removing or changing nodes from this tree. Since there are no functions to learn and everything is done intuitively, even inexperienced developers can create complex Web applications and services in record time.

X# is:

• XML-oriented
• Powerful
• Portable
• Easy
• Fast
• Open Source and Free

ASUS Member Home

http://vip.asus.com/user/uhome.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Koders Code Search: SortedProperties.java - Java

http://www.koders.com/java/fid3447248E32FBF53FB04D9C5404DFEF372838870D.aspx?s=sort