• 5 Best Freeware Games of 2005
  
  Lists the five best freeware games of the year that include a battlefield 2 like shooter, zak mckracken 2 the successor of zak mckracken and other great games.


• Engineer Proves Speed Camera Error In Court
  
  Engineer Bryn Carlyon was issued a ticket by a traffic speed camera in Cardiff, UK. But he used multiple timed snaps by the camera, plus a little basic math, to prove that he could not have been traveling at the speed on his citation.

• Star Wars Fan Flick (made with only one camera)
  
  These guys were able to make a movie with only a $400 digital camera and a greenscreen -- there are no sets being used!


• Japanese and US Blu-Ray discs will be Region 1
  
  Big news for Anime and PS3 (soon to be) fans! Look's like it's been confirmed. Japanese and North American releases on the Blu-ray disc will be Region 1! Easier to import anime DVDs, and play import PS3 games without modding your system!


• Read books on Google Print for free
  
  Publishers' worst nightmares have come true - this blog tells how to read a book on Google Print for free.


• Dvd to iPod - For Windows!
  
  New program that allows you to convert a DVD into iPod format in just 3 steps.


• China to get tough on cellphone fraud, spam
  
  China will require all mobile phone subscribers to register using their real names next year.


• 26,084 FREE Legal Public Domain Movies!
  
  This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.


• MSN Clone
  
  The Open Source MSN Clone has a number of features which are usually available with MSN...go ahead...give it a shot!


• How Mary Poppins was launched
  
  Fanfare launches are not an uncommon occurance. It was predominant even way back in 1964 when Disney launched Mary Poppins.


• 2005: Bloggers’ Top 7 Perspectives on the Days That Shook the Earth
  
  Human beings are never prepared for natural disasters. There is a kind of optimism built into our species that seems to prefer to live in the comfortable present rather than confront the possibility of destruction.


• Digg traffic briefly ahead of slashdot!
  
  Near the start of December, according to alexa stats, digg traffic was higher than slashdot's. Albeit very brief.


• Science discovers the "why?" in white skinned humans
  
  Scientists said Thursday that they had discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology’s most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity’s greatest sources of strife.


• New exploit blows by fully patched Windows XP systems
  
  A zero-day exploit affecting fully-patched Windows installations is afoot. Merely viewing a malicious WMF image in Internet Explorer will install various nasties to your PC. Time to upgrade to Firefox!


• Home Network Firewall Guide
  
  A good overall guide to home network security and PC firewalls.


• The most hated IP address of 2005
  
  Time for a little hall of shame. Is there any IP address range or individual IP address that was annoying the daylight out of you in 2005? An address where you tried and tried to contact the ISP to have a malware, botnet controller, exploit page removed, but to no avail? Where exploits kept coming back again and again ?


• Complete introduction to CSS
  
  This article will take you through the beginning stages of picking up CSS. Covering; where to put your style sheet, creating a class, common CSS attributes, applying CSS to a HTML attribute, redefining a tag, shorthand CSS, pseudo elements and media-dependent style sheets.


• Wozniak Practical Joke: Making sparks with FireWire.
  
  A teaser clip from the upcoming documentary "In Search of The Valley." Apple Co-Founder, Steve Wozniak, uses his teeth, a FireWire Cable, and some other object to make sparks shoot out of his teeth!


• DivX release browser plug-in for IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape
  
  DivX have released a new browser plug-in supporting all of the major browsers for Windows. The plug-in enables you to play high-quality DivX content live in your web browser and does not require a special streaming server or any files to be installed on the server to work. Sample content and an SDK for web developers are available.


• US Govt. uses bit torrent?
  
  the govt seems to use bt to distribute their own content via bt to cut bandwidth costs.


• The Good Drugs Guide
  
  heroin:
  not as addictive as you might think


• Great Zelda Pianist!
  
  "Selection of Zelda Themes played on piano. Played by the same guy that brought you the Mario Themes on piano. Simpley Awesome talent!"


• Customizing K2: Part 1
  
  k2 for wordpress 2.0 is out.
  tutorial for customizing your blog.


• Test Drive Linux For Free!...Over The Internet!
  
  Want to try the latest technologies over the Internet? This allows you to test drive some of the hottest hardware and operating systems available today. All this over the Internet, with no local installation or downloading required.


• What if TechTV came back?
  
  This is an old story, but I really miss TechTV! I watched EVERY show. I only have basic cable now, but I would spend whatever money to get TechTV programming. I'm glad that Leo and Call For Help has come back, but it's rebirth has only been like a band-aid to a gaping wound left by G4.


• Charts and Graphs with PHP
  
  Here are some free and commerical tools which allow you to create stunning graphs and charts with PHP


• How E. coli bacterium generates simplicity from complexity
  
  The usually harmless E. coli bacterium has more than 1,000 genes involved in metabolism. Activation of random combinations of these genes would theoretically be capable of generating a huge variety of internal states; however, researchers report that Escherichia coli doesn’t gamble with its metabolism.

• 'Intel Inside' Dumped
  
  INTEL IS to dump its tagline 'Intel Inside' and run a huge logo launch in early January.


• Bandwidth Monitoring With IPTables...
  
  "Most of the time we use iptables to set up a firewall on a machine, but iptables also provides packet and byte counters. Every time an iptables rule is matched by incoming or outgoing data streams, the software tracks the number of packets and the amount of data that passes through the rules."


• Songs don't remain the same for TV shows on DVD
  
  "Imagine watching "Married ... With Children" without Frank Sinatra crooning the recognizable theme song. Ponder a pivotal moment in "Quantum Leap" forever altered because its requisite Ray Charles tune has been replaced. Consider revisiting an episode of "The Muppet Show," only to find that one's favorite musical number has been excised."


• CSS Menu Generator
  
  "CSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons"


• NBC and ABC Shows Promoting Firefox
  
  Not long after "Surface" characters started using Firefox, "Invasion" proved once again how strong the Firefox community is.


• Team PI - Burn ISO on DVD-R and Run on Xbox 360
  
  As a precurser to a possible hack to on the "unhackable" xbox 360, it is possible to download and burn the Kiosk demo ISO that is UNSIGNED...allowing for its contents to possibly be changed to homebrew code... Unhackable...my a$$


• Why We're Going Back to the Moon
  
  A dtailed look at the reasons we plan to return to the moon...


• The Pleasure-o-Matic
  
  What if there were a device that could bring you instant euphoria at the push of a button, with none of the chemical side effects of drugs? Such a device exists, but it's not something we're allowed to have. Should happiness be just a push-button away?


• The Net is a boon for indie labels
  
  "Even as the recording industry staggers through another year of declining sales over all, there are new signs that a democratization of music made possible by the Internet is shifting the industry's balance of power."


• 25 most interesting webcams
  
  as selected by EarthCam.com


• New York goes after the RIAA
  
  Elliot Spitzer has slapped subpoenas on 'the four largest record labels'. Looks like he too doesn't like the idea of iTunes changing to a variable pricing model as suggested by the RIAA et al...


• How to rip a DVD: A Tutorial
  
  All of us have a cool movie we download from torrents, and we try to rip that DVD into our CDS. This small tutorial shows you just how to do this without messing up.


• K2 For Wordpress 2.0 Coming Tomorrow
  
  K2, the next dominating wordpress theme, is going to be released for Wordpress 2.0.


• Using Java Could Lead to Death
  
  "...the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage..."


• HandBreak Lite: DVD to iPod in 2 clicks...
  
  The title says it all, kids...(mac only btw)...


• 43 Windows XP Fixes from FixMyXP.com
  
  Including Faster Icons, Restart Button On Desktop, Remove Messenger, and Get Rid of the Delete Confirmation.


• Scientistists Discover a Gene That Regulates Lifespan
  
  Genes that control the timing of organ formation during development also control timing of aging and death, and provide evidence of a biological timing mechanism for aging, Yale researchers report in the journal Science.


• Top 50 Inventions - Scientific & Technological
  
  In the past half-century, scientific and technological advances have transformed our world. PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. Here, then, are the breakthroughs of our time.


• What googlers do for fun.
  
  What do you do when you work for google and you get bored? Order silly putty of course!


• If Britney Spears is our "Greatest Economic Asset", we're in trouble.
  
  The RIAA last week applauded the U.S. Senate's passage of legislation that would put more pressure on the Russian government to curb widespread piracy within the country. A similar measure passed the U.S. House in mid-November.


• Podcasts: A guy thing?
  
  A recent survey shows that 78 percent of those who have ever listened to a podcast are male. According to the article, this seems to be pattern following the adoption of other new technologies. There's female geeks out there, they just don't advertise it.


• Time to worry about another bug (the 'real' Y2K)
  
  Remember the Y2k bug and the hype surrounding it? It seems the hype is back. ( this ain't 'new news' but alot of people don't know about it )

Hey, saludos a quien llegue aqui de repente. Hace rato que no he escrito. Desde que me fui de vacaciones con la familia o algo asi… pero pues, creo que ya procrastiné lo suficiente…

Estoy algo enfermo ahorita (además de estar enfermo mentalmente, claro está). Hoy (ahora a las 4:00 am me doy cuenta que en realidad fue ayer), acompañé a mis dos hermanas y mi mamá al doctor. Mi hermana de 9 años, Gaby, se enfermó un día antes de irnos el 13 a Orlando (ver innecesaria referencia a mi nombre aquí). Lo bueno es que se mejoró para el final del segundo día de nuestra estancia.

Regresamos el día 19, y pues desde entonces he estado flojoneando, yendo a fiestas de la familia y de los amigos, surfeando por los linderos del internet, y preguntándome que lenguaje estudiar (aunque siempre está la opción de pelármela un poco pero hacerlo todo con JavaScript y con SVGs o con el ‘canvas element’) (si tienen tiempo, o si nomás quieren impresionarme y hacerme pensar que leeyeron algo interesante, visiten estas, ligas).

Lo bueno es que como me estoy enfermando puedo gastar un poco mi tiempo y descansar de descansar. Por cierto, tengo que actualizar este sitio y el de la SAIQ a usar Wordpress 2.0.

Bueno, es hora de guardar esto como un borrador… irme a dormir, y reanudar más al rato este ‘post’. Listo. Buenos días… o tardes más bien, a las 3:15 pm sigo con esto.

Bueno, volviendo a la gripa que tengo, mi mamá insistió en que me revisara el doctor Carlos Garza Ancira, quien fue mi pediatra de pequeño y que lo consideramos buen amigo de la familia. Me dijo que tenía la garganta irritada y las anginas algo inflamadas. Me recetó Klaricid O.D..

Ahora que veo la descripción de la medicina, el texto la describe como “Tabletas de Liberación Prolongada”. Muchas imágenes me atormentan. Pero pues ya después de tomar la medicina no siento ningun efecto secundario… ni aparente mejoría.

Están de suerte, mis estimados lectores… ando de buen humor, pues después de 3 o 4 días ya estoy terminando de bajar las primeras cuatro temporadas de Scrubs (originalmente en demonoid). Si aun no saben que es BitTorrent, ni que es un ‘cliente de BitTorrent’, les sugiero que lean este artículo (que define lo que es BitTorrent) el cual había yo redactado hace rato.

Jejeje, parecerá que me tardo años en escribir esto, pero pues me fui a comer y volví para las 6:00 pm aquí.

Resulta que hasta ahora empiezo a sentir tripas temblantes… pero no ha habido ‘liberaciones prolongadas’ hasta ahora.

Bueno, creo que publicaré esto y me dedicaré a hacer algo de provecho. Saludos a todos, por cierto. Espero que hayan pasado una feliz Navidad, y pues espero que reciban el año nuevo en compañía de sus amigos y sus seres queridos.

Hasta pronto.

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