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We had a few days of true rest and relaxation at the beach.

via youtube.com Scary and amazing.

This time i’m going to talk about the basic components that make up a physics engine and how to put them together; this tutorial is aimed at programmers who have a basic grasp of maths and geometry but would like to step into the world of simulation.

via commodoreusa.net I SO want one.

via baboonsguide.blogspot.com

via boston.com Another beautiful set of pictures from TBP.

via theatlantic.com Amazing.

Please note: I am no longer using Windows nor Outlook, so unfortunately I cannot offer any help with problems you encounter using these scripts and techniques.

Open Penetration Testing Bookmarks Collection via code.google.com

via talkingscience.org What a cool robot.

As you may know, I'm a reluctant switcher from Mac to Windows.

This article explains how you can digitally sign a file or a macro project by using a certificate.

Apple released iOS 4.3 a few days ago, and if you follow this topic at all, you have probably already heard all about the Personal Hotspot feature, AirPlay enhancements, and whatnot.

Yes, those are buildings on fire as they are being swept along with the water.

via boston.com Amazing pictures of an incredibly dangerous expedition.

via youtube.com Very nicely done :)

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Simply incredible that someone can get a picture like this from the ground.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Just amazing.

"Watching you on Jeopardy!

Yet in a city where some of the most prominent buildings have sat vacant for decades and booting a scandal-plagued mayor out of office took eight months, raising $50,000 to produce and install a 7-foot-tall iron replica of the crime-fighting cyborg was ac…

via youtube.com Amazing feat, incredible technology.

via thereifixedit.failblog.org Very impressive.

Taken at John F.

It’s an impressive animation of what would happen if an asteroid — maybe 100 500 miles across or so — impacts the Earth.

via boston.com Beautiful, sometimes heart-breaking photos.

via reflectionof.me Great photo.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com "Crumbly"

via youtube.com Awesome video.

via reflectionof.me Very nice video.

There's a bug that causes problems when running latex2html on files which have spaces in the path.

I got latex2html to install on the latest cygwin, however to get the configure to pass I had to alter the configure to recognize cygwin as a UNIX. via mail-archive.com Using this patch I was able to properly configure and install latex2html under cygwin in

The only workaround to this is to convert the logfile to the new evtx format prior to parsing it.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com If you still somehow believe homeopathy works, please do yourself a favor and watch this program.

Nestlé pods, pal; it’s a lifetime relationship.

via executiveroadwarrior.com Somehow in all my time living in Switzerland I never heard of or watched this clip, but it is very funny.

via vimeo.com Impressive.

How do I use it?

One thing I missed since I moved from a Mac (using The Hit List for GTD) to Outlook (using Jello Dashboard for GTD) was the availability of a global hot key that I could use to bring up a text entry box which I could use to quickly add things into my elec…

If you are like me, you carry in your backpack, bag or briefcase all sorts of physical stuff, other than documents, papers or magazines.

When I arrived in Switzerland nine years ago I didn't speak a word of German (much less Swiss German!)

via youtube.com Incredible compilation, very nicely done.

Taken at Parque Bicentenario

No filtering or cleanup whatsoever.

via boston.com I am sooooo happy to be back in Mexico where I don't have to deal with snow :) OTOH, there are some beautiful pictures here.

Here's a cfengine bundle that I wrote for editing the sshd configuration file by passing an array with the parameters.