Year: 2009

Today, we’re thrilled to launch our newest feature: galleries.
For whatever you find interesting, fascinating, or mind-blowing on Flickr, galleries are a way to curate up to 18 public photos or videos of your fellow members into one place around a theme, an idea or just because.

Tips on adjusting eyeglasses.

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook allows you to use Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007 effectively with Google Apps. You get the cost savings, security and reliability of Google Apps, while employees can use the interface they prefer for email, contacts and calendar.

Fajitas are a popular dish at local Mexican restaurants as well as chain restaurants. They are easy to make at home, and this method works just as well with chicken, pork, or vegetables if you do not want beef.

Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.
The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services. We built the web server specifically to handle FriendFeed's real-time features — every active user of FriendFeed maintains an open connection to the FriendFeed servers. (For more information on scaling servers to support thousands of clients, see The C10K problem.)

ere we have tried to compile the best online learning Git resource available. There are a number of articles and screencasts, written and arranged to try to make learning Git as quick and easy as possible.

To most metropolitan Americans, the Falun Gong are the yellow-shirt-wearing adherents of a Chinese religious sect who hand out flyers on street corners. Those flyers describe the group’s struggle against the Chinese government, which has banned the Falun Gong and subjected its members to organ-harvesting, electroshock therapy, and gulags. But, as the Chinese have escalated their efforts to stamp out the Falun Gong, the group has grown ever savvier in outwitting its oppressors. And it was the protestors in Iran who benefited from this savvy.

Today, we are open sourcing the non-blocking web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server. We are really excited to open source this project as a part of Facebook's open source initiative, and we hope it will be useful to others building real-time web services. Check out the announcement on the Facebook Developer Blog. You can download Tornado at tornadoweb.org.

The Theory of Interstellar Trade is a paper written in 1978 by economist Paul Krugman. He described the paper as something he wrote to cheer himself up when he was an oppressed assistant professor, caught up in the academic rat race.

By the time kids are 18, they will have seen 100,000 beer ads
Alcohol advertising increases alcohol consumption
Alcohol advertising is aimed at underaged children
Alcohol producers advertise to get people to drink more

Seam Carving is a new image resizing method introduced in 2007 by Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan. On the right you can watch Shamir & Avidan's famous presentation video Advanced Image Resizing which gives you a comprehensive impression about the principe and application of the Seam Carving method. This video and the author's original paper can be found at http://www.seamcarving.com.

The Digital Image Resizer Toy (codename: DIRT) is an implementation of Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir's "Seam Carving for Content Aware Image Resizing" algorithms. Their algorithms have been made famous via a video labelled "Advanced Image Resizing". In case you haven't seen it, I recommend you watch it before reading any further.

Scientific publishing is broken. Most published research findings are false (spare the ironic citation joke, please). What to do? Stimulus money is needed, that much is sure. We must form committees! Establish a National Council for the Validity of Published Research. Let’s get some NASA-level bureaucracy up in this piece. We need protocols and fact checking and procedures and theorem checking widgets! I’ll spearhead this beast. Pay me $420,000 a year of public tax money, please.
I have a better idea.
Publish. Less.

The popular Windows XP PowerToy, ImageResizer, has recently been updated to support Windows 7. Like it sounds, this tool lets you quickly resize a selection of multiple images at once. It’s was typically used in the past to compress photos to more manageable sizes for sharing via email (although that’s not necessary anymore since Windows Live Mail does this for you). Now, it’s more likely to be used to compress photos down for use on your web page or blog.

"They'll stop going to the company picnic if it becomes an occasion for everyone to list all the computer problems they never bothered to mention before."

"They'll stop going to the company picnic if it becomes an occasion for everyone to list all the computer problems they never bothered to mention before."

The slide rule, also known colloquially as a slipstick,[1] is a mechanical analog computer. The slide rule is used primarily for multiplication and division, and also for "scientific" functions such as roots, logarithms and trigonometry, but is not normally used for addition or subtraction.