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• Geo-Defense
  Something exciting and new in the Tower Defense genre! The geometric vector creeps are fast and intense. With 30 different maps, each its own puzzle, you'll have to work fast to keep up.
  Using exciting vectorized graphics, this highly kinetic games brings a whole new dimension to the Tower Defense. Devastate creeps with blasters, lasers and missiles and watch their energy debris swirl through the gravity wells of your vortex towers. Now it's time to figure out how to put that absorbed energy to good use….
  (tags: games iphone game)
• iWebKit – Make a quality iPhone Website or Webapp
  Iwebkit is the revolutionnairy kit used to create high quality iPhone and iPod touch websites in a few minutes and is based on an LGPL license. In the first 4 months of it's existance the pack has greatly evolved from a basic idea to a project that has reached worldwide fame!
  (tags: design ui framework gui iphone)
• Money for Nothing
  (tags: finance corruption rant banking)

• Credit Card Check Digit Validation
  This document outlines procedures and algorithms for Verifying the accuracy and validity of credit card numbers. Most credit card numbers are encoded with a "Check Digit". A check digit is a digit added to a number (either at the end or the beginning) that validates the authenticity of the number. A simple algorithm is applied to the other digits of the number which yields the check digit. By running the algorithm, and comparing the check digit you get from the algorithm with the check digit encoded with the credit card number, you can verify that you have correctly read all of the digits and that they make a valid combination.
  (tags: development Security ecommerce code authentication algorithm CreditCard)
• 43 Photography Hacks, Mods And DIY Projects
  (tags: photography list diy camera hacks lighting)
• 10 Tips to Design Usable Shopping Carts
  (tags: design web tips usability ecommerce)

• The Last DVD and Blu-Ray Ripping Guide You'll Ever Need
  (tags: windows tutorial guide backup dvd Rip advice video)
• 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques
  (tags: design tutorial list @toread)

A powerful moment in Babylon 5. Me thinks it is time to do another re-watching of Babylon 5.

Recieved my Battlefield of Heroes beta invite this morning. Fun quick play freebie. Less than Quake 3 franticness, cartoon style like Team Fortress 2, the maps are not as large as Battlefield 1942 and free unless you want to buy some custom skins, guns or gestures. Like all online multiplayers I wish for the ability to talk to my teammates instead of typing. Not sure how long I will be playing but definitely a fun lunch time game.

• Wheel of Time Re-Read Index
  Tor.com is pleased to present Leigh Butler’s Wheel of Time Re-Read posts. Here you will find all of her posts to date, for easy reference.
  (tags: scifi books Fantasy WheelOfTime)
• Helvetireader
  A minimal interface theme for Google Reader
  (tags: Style greasemonkey googlereader reader css firefox)
• Grid design basics: Grids for Web page layouts
  (tags: design web grids layouts)

• Eliss – for iPhone and iPod touch
  (tags: iphone game)
• Baen Free Library
  Baen Books is now making available — for free — a number of its titles in electronic format. We're calling it the Baen Free Library. Anyone who wishes can read these titles online — no conditions, no strings attached. (Later we may ask for an extremely simple, name & email only, registration. ) Or, if you prefer, you can download the books in one of several formats. Again, with no conditions or strings attached. (URLs to sites which offer the readers for these format are also listed. )
  (tags: @toread free scifi book ebooks SF ebook)
• "Lex Luthor Bailout" with Jon Hamm
  (tags: video humor comics government)
• The Principles of Beautiful HTML Email
  As web designers, we're used to designing for the particular constraints and capabilities of web browsers, and there's a ton of great advice out there to help. HTML emails are a different story, though — they've often been the black sheep of the web design world, and have either been ignored or actively repelled.
  (tags: email html design)
• Guide to Most Useful Bookmarklets for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.
  This guide will help you understand the advantages of bookmarklets over add-ons, how to install bookmarklets followed by a list of essential bookmarklets that should work across all popular browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE and Safari.
  (tags: javascript google browser safari bookmarklet internet explorer firefox chrome Opera IE)
• Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008
  Nearly everyone agrees that we need new methods that produce more higher-quality calories using fewer resources, such as water or energy, and accruing fewer "externals," such as pollution or unfair labor practices. Where the consensus fails is over what should replace the bad old industrial system. It's not that we lack enthusiasm—activist foodies represent one of the most potent market forces on the planet. Unfortunately, a lot of that conscientious buying power is directed toward conceptions of sustainable food that may be out of date.
  (tags: health politics food economics green environment sustainability agriculture nutrition organic)
• Write your own PHP MVC Framework (Part 1)
  (tags: php mvc framework tutorial)

• One Week (movie)
  "When a young man is confronted with his mortality, he takes a cross-country road trip on a vintage motorcycle. One Week tells the story of Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson), in his mid-twenties, who flees from the confines of his life—an impending marriage, a job he’s not entirely happy with and a recent diagnosis—in order to attempt to live more fully. What starts off as an ill-defined venture soon morphs into a quest for the West Coast."
  (tags: movie towatch motorcycle)
• Nerd Merit Badges
  1.5", fully-embroidered, Velcro-backed. Attach to your jacket, your backpack, or the lid of your overclocked, battle-scarred laptop. Start a nerd sash!
  (tags: design humor opensource geek art cool technology nerd Geeky Shop clothing)

• BookletCreator – create a booklet from any PDF document
  BookletCreator – is a free online tool that allows to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages you get a small book.
  (tags: design diy pdf books converter publishing printing)

I give it a solid thumbs up. Went to see it with 2 Watchmen virgins and fan from when they sold the original issues back in ’86. Everyone liked the movie. I was afraid the Watchmen virgins would end up getting lost without having read the book but it held up.

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