Social Media Dorks Get an Anthem [VIDEO] - Mashable

How the Inbred Lab Mouse Helps Reprogram the Human Genome - Wired

New Gran Turismo 5 screens emerge - CVG

Humunga Stache Dog Toy - Dog Milk

Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting - TechCrunch

Iron Man 2 Trailer Hits YouTube [VIDEO] - Mashable

How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into The Harvard Crimson - Business Insider

Pentagon-Backed Venture Aims for 'Google Underground' - Wired

Switched On: Sony's forward Dash - Engadget

ZipList Creates Sharable Grocery Lists from Thousands of Recipes - Mashable

YouTube to Drop Support For IE6 Starting Next Month - Mashable

NASA Releases Lunar Rover iPhone Game - Wired Science

Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day - TechCrunch

Chinese Hacker Behind Google Attack Found - ReadWriteWeb

Here is a tip on bypassing the long taxi cab lines in Vegas so you can lose your money a lot faster at the tables:

Find a Skycap. Let them know they can help you with your luggage. Give the guy a nice tip and tell him you want to go to Yellow #1. Here cab drivers will get pulled out of the long cab line servicing the regular folks in order to pick you up at Yellow #1. No waiting.

Now during super crowded times even this Yellow #1 tip can have a line behind it. What do you do then, or for that matter if you want to take no chances on waiting in line? When your plane lands and the pilot allows you to turn on your cell phone, Twitter Vegas Cabbie (he is the one who gave us the above tip in the first place) and tell him your flight just landed and you will gather your luggage and meet him at Yellow #1.

He, or someone will @ reply you and by the time you get your luggage and head out to Yellow #1 your chariot will await you.

Link (via lekahe)

Have you ever tried to make the perfect pizza with fresh ingredients without the chewy crust?  Skip eating out and delivery and try this pizza hack over at Serious Eats.  You'll only need a cast-iron skillet and your oven's broiler.  Link.

Today is Earth Day!  Over at Hackszine.com, Jason has opened the comments up to any and all Earth Day hacks, links and activities.  He has also listed a number of Earth-friendly things that we can do on a daily basis to be kind to our Mother Earth.  Link.

Go out and enjoy the outdoors today! 

Built on the Arduino platform, this Etch A Sketch clock draws out the time and then erases itself every minute.  Link to video. Angela Yuan's website.

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Hackers of the world unite!

Check out the projects that hackers are working on around the world. This is a collaborative, full-access, wiki-style map, so you can add yourself or any programming clubs and robotics groups by signing into Google maps and clicking the edit button.

Link.

I posted a fun little howto to hackszine today that you fellow geeks might enjoy. Using the Q virtual machine for OS X (it's a Cocoa port of QEMU), I was able to get Puppy Linux to run nicely on my Mac. If you haven't heard of it before, Puppy is a tiny desktop Linux distribution that's meant to run off of a bootable CD. It normally stores all of your files and save data to a file on a flash drive.

What's cool, though, is that you can virtualize the boot CD as well as a small virtual disk image. This lets you put the emulator application, the boot CD image, the virtual machine config, and the entire save state all on a single flash drive.

You can toss the QEMU Linux and Windows binaries on there as well, and have a private Linux box that fits in your pocket and will run on just about any desktop machine. Slick, no?

Running Puppy Linux inside OS X - Link

Jason wrote up a great follow-up article, Investment Spreadhsheet 2.0, to his original post, The FU Money Spreadsheet, over at Hackszine.  Some added features to the FU Money Calculator 2.0 are fields for accounting for your 401k contributions and a home loan. 
Jason describes 3 scenarios in which normal people like you and I can become "wealthy be being excessive in our frugality."

Previously:
The FU Money Spreadsheet (post on Blogcadre)

Update: Jason has made improvements to the spreadsheet, Investment Spreadsheet 2.0.  It now includes fields for home loans and 401(k) contributions.


Jason over @ Hackszine writes:

If you're a Cryptonomicon fan, you might recall uber-hacker Randy Waterouse's business partner, Avi, who had a spreadsheet which tracked a particularly interesting value.

The subject heading of Avi's first message is: ``Guideline 1.''
We look for places where the math is right. Meaning what? Meaning that pop. is about to explode---we can predict that just by looking at age histogram---and per capita income is about to take off the way it did in Nippon, Taiwan, Singapore. Multiply those two things together and you get the kind of exponential growth that should get us all into fuck-you money before we turn forty.