Mon, Feb. 1, 2010 - Pickup News

news toread - Mon, Feb. 1, 2010

460pts
• BBC News - Why do people often vote against their own interests?
  
  The Republicans' shock victory in the election for the US Senate seat in Massachusetts meant the Democrats lost their supermajority in the Senate. This makes it even harder for the Obama administration ..
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm

406pts
• Supplements Every Guy Needs - Men's Fitness
  
  You try to eat healthy, but there are still those splurges on nachos, beer, and pizza. (And that's just the short list of your cheat foods). So you're likely nowhere close to getting all the nutrients ..
  http://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/vitamins/194

341pts
• Project SIKULI
  
  Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen ..
  http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/

322pts
• 5 Free Online Services to Send an Email to a Fax Machine
  
  I’m not really the type of person that sends faxes all that often. There may be an occasion or two when I have to forward information to my insurance company or the Human Resources department ..
  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/send-email-fax-machine/

283pts
• BBC News - Google phases out support for IE6
  
  Microsoft has already released versions 7 and 8 of Internet Explorer Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the ..
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8488751.stm

241pts
• HOW TO: Build a More Beautiful Blog
  
  Learn Some HTML We all wish the web was 100% drag and drop, but we’re not quite there yet. You can get away with pushing the knobs and levers on the back-end for a while, but you may never get ..
  http://mashable.com/2010/01/28/build-beautiful-blog/

148pts
• LackRack - Eth0Wiki
  
  When temporarily not in use, multiple LackRacks can be stacked in a space-efficient way without disassembly, unlike competing 19" server racks.The LackRack was first seen on eth0:2010 Winterlan ..
  http://wiki.eth-0.nl/index.php/LackRack