8 Hour Sleep Myth

I’ve always heard, read, and been told that everyone needs eight hours of sleep a night. Well, according to this article, that’s a total myth. Neil Stanley says everyone has different needs:
But a new, contrarian school of thought is emerging. The eight-hours mantra has no more scientific basis than the tooth fairy, [...]

Packet Sniffers

Seems like these things are sometimes hard to come across…although the Google always knows where to find them.  Anyway, here is a link to Ettercap and SmartSniff.

Men’s Buyer Guide

Found a pretty cool website for guys that reminds me of Cargo Magazine.  Here’s Uncrate.

Glossy Displays: Dumb

Pretty entertaining article about the new Macbook from Apple and why it seems the entire industry is going “Glossy”:
Glossy displays have effectively taken over the entire laptop market. Why are they so popular? Here are three possible reasons.

They are better than matte-finish displays.
They are cheaper than matte-finish displays.
People are idiots.

We have some laptops at [...]

Redirecting away from “www”

Seeing websites that still use “www” as a prefix is annoying.  It’s unnecessary (most of the time).  It was useful during the early days of the ‘net but now with handy utilities like .htaccess files, it’s not necessary.  Open your .htaccess file and add these lines of code to redirect users away from “www.example.com” to [...]

Shuttle Project – New WordPress Backend

In trying to remember what in the hell this was called, I finally found it again on Matt’s site.  Shuttle is a total and complete redesign of the WordPress administration backend, which is probably the least liked piece of WordPress (IMO).  It looks amazing…as if it was written by a huge software design house.  Matt [...]

Earth Proportioned

An interesting view of how small Earth is when compared to other planets and the Sun.  There are pictures, yes.

Google Facts

10 things you didn’t know about Google…and probably don’t care about.  Link.

VW Trumps Toyota

Hey Reeves, your beloved VW has trumped Toyota as the most fuel efficient hybrid on the road…among other things.  Link.

Da Vinci Code stuff

Yeah, so the movie opens this weekend and everyone is talking about it.  I thought I’d post a couple of things on it.  First, here are 20 things you didn’t know about Leonardo Da Vinci.  Then, an article on how the Da Vinci Code doesn’t work.

Blog Against Cancer

Wednesday, May 17th.  Help the Lance Armstrong Foundation get the word out about cancer and how it’s affected your life and those around you.  Here’s more information.

Grid Wars 2

As found by Reeves, over here, Grid Wars is probably one of the most fun games I’ve ever played.  It’s a challenging and free game that everyone should download and play.  Here is a link to the site and here is a direct link to download the game.