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SQL Nuts and Bolts (Part 2)
In this second tutorial of the SQL Nuts and Bolts Series, we’ll delve further into SQL basics and demonstrate more clauses for the select statement: group by, having, in, and between. In part one of our SQL Nuts & Bolts
Strange Creature Immune to Pain of Hot Peppers
From Yahoo News: “As vulnerable as naked mole rats seem, researchers now find the hairless, bucktoothed rodents are invulnerable to the pain of acid and the sting of chili peppers. A better understanding of pain resistance in these sausage-like creatures
Block Posters – Create Any Size Wall Posters From Any Size Images
Got digital images that you wish you could blow up and create giant posters out of? Block Posters will give you the ability to do just that using their simple web interface and your computer’s printer. Just upload an image
The MegaPenny Project
People may throw around numerical terms such as “million”, “billion”, or “trillion” when referring to dollars or computer bytes, but can you accurately visualize just how much a “billion” really is? The MegaPenny Project has helped by taking one small
Non-Drip Bottle
The Non-Drip Bottle is a very simple, elegantly engineered design for a bottle that doesn’t drip. This concept by no means original; for years liquid laundry deterrgent bottles have had similar “catcher rings” around their spouts. But this “Two Lip
Red Hot Riplets – The Best Hot Potato Chips in the World?
Without a doubt the best spicy potato chips I’ve ever eaten are Red Hot Riplets, made by the Old Vienna company of St. Louis. They’re certainly the hottest chip I’ve tasted, far surpassing even Blair’s Death Rain Habanero Chips. On
Making Pre-Determined Browser Window Sizes in JavaScript
Here’s a nifty little JavaScript trick snatched fresh from the “I wish I would have known about this years ago!” files. Did you know that you can create a perfectly-sized browser window, great for testing out web pages on alternate
A Tenfold Improvement In Battery Life?
CNET.com is reporting that Stanford University researchers have made a discovery that could signal the arrival of laptop batteries that last more than a day on a single charge. You can read the entire article here.
How People Are Tracked Using Bittorrent
Here’s a nice 5 minute video done by Dan Morrill that shows how BitTorrent users are tracked using a file sharing program. Dan also touches on anonymity and the use of blocklists.
How 3 Graphic Designers Recreated Omaha Beach
Three graphic designers have recreated the Normandy D-Day Invasion or the Timewatch program “Bloody Omaha”. This short video shows how they did on a shoestring budget in only four days.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Alumni Give You Triple the Laughs
I consider Mystery Science Theater 3000 to be the funniest TV show of all time. Sure, there were some lackluster episodes; but when it was “in the zone”, MST3K contained more laughs per minute than anything The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Saturday
Funny Bill Gates Retirement Video
With all the Microsoft bashing that’s been done throughout the years (sometimes justifiably so, sometimes not), and the slant that competitor Apple is the hipper, cooler company, it’s easy to forget that Microsoft and Bill Gates have a good sense
Seven Ways to Gain IT Experience
Whether you’re an IT novice fresh out of college or someone who is “changing gears” by learning a different skill set mid-career, you’re likely to run into a Catch-22: how can you gain experience without a having a job, and
Network Solutions Basically Admits to Domain Name Frontrunning – As a Security Measure to Stop Frontrunning
Those of us in the tech industry have heard the horror stories. It went something like this: some innocent soul had searched for a previously-unregistered domain name for a website, found it was available, came back a few days later