darkonc writes “The CBC has notes and an interview with Dane Rasmus Nielsen who decided to reduce the confusion between ‘free as in speech’ and ‘free as in beer’ by making a beer free — in speech. The result is Vores Øl, an open source beer. The CBC site includes the recipe for the beer which is made with Guarana beans, and gives it a bit of a caffeine-like hit. The danish site downloads include the label for the beer (which is also Open Source).”
JohnnyNapalm writes “The Aggie Daily News is reporting today that the first mirrors have been cast for the world’s largest telescope. The result of cooperation from some of the foremost institutions in education and science in the nation, the Giant Magellan Telescope stands to operate at a resolution 10 times larger than the Hubble. The project, set to be constructed in Chile, is slated for completion in 2016.”
I found this truly great audiovisual guide to electronic music, it contains info about every genre / subgenre, and many samles of the music styles.
Take a trip down memory lane, with this Top 10 of Web Fads, All Your Base Belong To Us, Mahir and more… OK listen up, I once partied with Mahir himself!! 
he was a really nice guy, and also mighty famous because of his cult website.
Internet phenomena. Memes. Grist for the e-mail forwarding mill. Whatever you call them, Web fads are entertaining, unintended consequences of life on the World Wide Web. Once the masses could put anything online easily, they turned up weird fetishes, hilarious parody, jaw-dropping narcissism, and moments of brilliance. And over the past 10 years, some of these ideas broke through to the mainstream. Whether it was dancing hamsters, a kid enjoying his day as a Jedi Knight, or the sudden ability to publish your thoughts online with just a few simple clicks, the following 10 Web fads still make us laugh, make us wonder, or make us feel guilty enough to update our blogs.
The WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force is trying to redeem the reputation of JavaScript, by encouraging developers to write ‘Unobtrusive scripts’ that complement the existing solution, and not the old school way where the JavaScripts are required to use the full features of a website. My personal opinion on this is that it’s about time JavaScript got it’s good name cleansed — It’s a great language, too often mistreated by bad coding styles, and lack of conceptual understanding of JavaScript and it’s purpose.
Excerpt: At the moment JavaScript suffers from outdated, uninformed, and inaccessible development methods which preclude it, and therefore web development in general, from attaining its full potential.
The WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force proposes to solve this problem by the adoption of unobtrusive DOM scripting, a way of thinking based on modern, standards-compliant, accessible web development best practices.
While both front end and back end developers will profit from this change of perspective, the most important benefits will accrue to our end users, whether they use the latest and greatest desktop browser, assitive programs like screen readers, or other devices.
Read the full WaSP JavaScript Manifesto here:
* WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force » JavaScript Manifesto
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