linux audio editors

An overview of linux audio editors.

food pairing

Food Pairing is an interesting site that lets you create recipes by pairing foods that might not usually be thought of going together.

polar bear attack

google

An article about the Google business model, and if it can be applied to other companies.

heart

Everyone would probably agree that feelings of appreciation and gratitude are positive states, but did you know that they also have a profound effect on your physical body? Both of these states, as well as those of compassion, forgiveness, happiness, non-judgment, patience, sincerity and caring are all heart-centered feelings, which immediately affect your heart rhythm. The heartbeat becomes more synchronized and coherent, which improves hormonal balance and immune system response.
The heart has its own independent nervous system, referred to as ?the brain in the heart,? say Doc Childre and Howard M artin in their book, The Heart Math Solution. There are at least forty thousand neurons in the heart-as many as are found in various sub-cortical centers of the brain. Childre and Martin go on to say that, the heart's electromagnetic field is by far the most powerful produced by the body; it's approximately five thousand times greater in strength that the field produced by the brain. The heart's field not only permeates every cell in the body, but also radiates outside of us; it can be measured up to eight to ten feet away with sensitive detectors called magnetometers.
(Scott Beebe) - www.energeticawakening.com

karma

There is no good and no evil. In every
concrete situation there is only the
necessary and the unnecessary. The
needful is right, the needless is wrong.
The situation decides.
Every situation is a challenge which
demands the right response. When the
response is right, the challenge is met
and the problem ceases. If the response
is wrong, the challenge is not met and
the problem remains unsolved. Your
unsolved problems - that is what
constitutes your karma. Solve them
rightly and be free.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973

cor

earthrise

orrey

I love orreys.

beautiful forms

Another great css-tricks article about how to create great web forms.

rails

Again Rails has proven the old adage:

"Those who do not know history are doomed to reimplement it, badly"

They thought they were being so tricky with gems, but now we see the problems, there is something totally hosed at gems.rubyonrails.org, and it refuses to install Rails 1.2.6 for me. No thank you, I don't want to use Rails 1.99 beta for my production code, thank you.

Thus concludes my rant for this evening.

css sprites

CSS Sprites - I had heard about them but never understood, and this article has a great description of them. They are one huge image that you load just once that contains a whole bunch of smaller images that you move to where you need it. Can provide big speedups for users.

money plugin

The Money Plugin for Ruby looks neat, but a bit big for what I need.

What is important though is to never use Floats for currency in Ruby, always use BigDecimals instead.

beautiful html

What beautiful HTML code looks like. Great article.

csstricks

css-tricks is a neat site that talks about CSS.

planetwaves

An excellent planetwaves horoscope for me for November 2007:

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
There is a dialog that needs to happen, and you seem to be holding back. You seem to have grievances, or grief, that is troubling you, and you would go a long way toward resolving it both inwardly and outwardly if you initiate the discussion that you want so badly. The problem is that it may seem nobody is listening -- but that will not be true for long. People are listening and you need to both notice that they are doing so, and take advantage of that fact. Then, basically, you need to take a chance on love. Not romance; actual love, and passion, and on the simple truth that the future is different than the past as long as we make it so.


It's true, someone did listen. Thank you.

frugality

Wikipedia definition of frugality: "The acquiring of and resourceful use of economic goods and services in order to achieve lasting and more fulfilling goals."

billionaires spend less

A very interesting article about how some billionaires are very frugal.

This last two years of working for myself I've made a fraction of what I was making working for other people, and I'm also the happiest I've ever been. I love living frugally now, and find it so freeing to not be in debt. The easiest way to have money is just not to spend it. It's hard to believe it took me so long to learn, it's so simple, but very hard to do in this society where we are under huge marketing and advertising pressure by people who want us to buy things. Resist this urge, my friends, you don't need all that stuff they're selling, you'll be happier living more simply.

Unconventional Dance Moves

linux desktop apps

Linux App Finder is a really neat site that tells you all the Linux applications out there that do things that you normally do in Windows. Very neat.