Gizmo Project taking people’s money and not crediting their accounts

DISCLAIMER: I am writing this post after numerous attempts at contacting Gizmo for information regarding charges made to my PayPal account that were not credited into my Gizmo account.  I have not received a single response from their support department and they do not give a phone number on their website to reach them.
I recently [...]

Write in Real Arabic using English Letters

One of the many frustrations Arabic speaking Internet users like myself have is that when we want to write in Arabic we either don’t have access to an Arabic keyboard or we do have the keyboard but are so used typing in English that it is very cumbersome and slow to actually write in Arabic. [...]

2015: A Machine as Fast as the Human Brain

IBM’s new RoadRunner supercomputer is set to break the world’s supercomputing record by performing more than a quadrillion operations per second. That’s right, a quadrillion. For those of you like me who hadn’t heard that word before, it means 1000 trillion, or more explicitly: 1,000,000,000,000,000.
That number resonates with me because I’ve read [...]

3D Printers – Make Anything at Home

OK, so it’s been a while. Things have been a bit busy I saw this post today and wanted to share it because I think it is a sign of things to come. I look forward to the day when I can print my new laptop at home!
Check out [...]

NYChildren: 194 Countries, 1 City

This is a brilliant project being done in one of the few places on Earth where it is actually possible. Photographer Danny Goldfield has set out to photograph a child from every country on Earth, all of whom must be living in New York City.  He’s taken some beautiful pictures.

Little People – an amazingly cool art project

Little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves. Brilliant!
Click here for more.
[via boing-boing]

Artist Banksy Commemorates September 11th

Banksy, the renowned artist known for his humorous and political artistic creations, added a hooded figure that looks like a Guantanamo inmate inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in California. Clearly a very symbolic message on this day, September 11th 2006, that marks 5 years since the 9/11 attacks on the [...]

The 9/11 Report – A Graphical Adaptation

Click here to read The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, which sets text from The 9/11 Commission Report to images. Slate is excerpting a chapter a day through Sept. 7. Click on the chapter sections in the navigation on the right to start from the beginning.

Proprietary Software is a Car with its Hood Locked by the Manufacturer

Proprietary (closed source) software is like a brand spankin new car with a lock on the hood. And that lock can only be unlocked by the manufacturer of the car. This is a concept that is utterly ridiculous in any other industry. Say you bought a car a few years ago and [...]

Windows Vista Pre-RC1 free download

Not that I try to support the company that has locked us all in to their proprietary software for nearly 2 decades now, but this one’s free so might as well just try it out. Paul Thurott has written up a very positive review over here and posted tons of screenshots here. He [...]