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The Worlds of Wonder boxed set included Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing System booklet and three game settings designed for use with it: Magic World, a fairly generic fantasy world resembling a stripped-down version of RuneQuest, Future World, with military

The place to find motorcycle group rides and people to ride with

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Here are the 16 chapters and 91 essays that make up the book.

Semantically speaking, should we be using tables to lay out forms, or should we be using some other mark-up combined with CSS?

How do they write the right stuff? The answer is, it's the process. The group's most important creation is not the perfect software they write -- it's the process they invented that writes the perfect software.

CleanUp! is a powerful and easy-to-use application that removes temporary files created while surfing the web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from your temporary folders and more.

This is a quick'n'dirty Ruby tutorial, designed to get you up to speed with Ruby as quickly as possible.

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MediaCoder is an open source universal audio/video batch transcoder (converter), which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/vi

The Filter is a plug-in for iTunes,so if you haven't already got it you can download it from from here. The Filter is also compatible with iTunes v6. To create you fantastic playlists we recommend that you have at least 200 songs. You also need a broadban

Backup is a collection of scripts that is complete enough to save you time, but flexible enough to work with any situation. This is an early version of Backup. Please feel free to ask questions on how to use Backup or post suggestions for this manual in t

Wassup with fifty grand for a fukkin chopper??? Sure -some- of the work that goes into those bikes is very cool. But c'mon. Choppers were once ridden by broke dirtbags. Guys with a grinder a welder and a case of beer. Some time ago a few guys wer

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BBColors is a command-line tool for saving and loading text color preference schemes for BBEdit and TextWrangler.

Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

In most online systems, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

A while back, the Speedfreak staff was cruising the internet, when we came upon a photograph. A pretty blonde girl in a topless photo. But wait…what’s more? The pretty girl is covered in road rash. Speedfreak went on the search to find out the story o

Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance of choice in modern society is actually making us miserable. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford,

Ruby on Rails app for managing your files online. Create folders, up/download files, create user groups and give them rights on certain folders.