A martial artist's point of view

Ruby on Rails 3.0 Beta release

Seeded on Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:41 PM EST (Ruby on Rails blog)

Finally, the beta release of Rails 3.0 is here. A new chapter is about to open.

technology, ruby, programming, rails

VA Tech Graduate student invents Gravia gravity (LED) lamp and wins Greener Gadget award

Seeded on Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:38 PM EST (digitaljournal.com)

Seeded by Marilyn L (Clipped by Trevoke)

A Virginia Tech University graduate student has created a special lamp powered by gravity of a falling object. The LED lamp stays lit for up to four hours per cycle.

technology, virginia-tech, led-lamps, gravia-lamp, greener-gadgets-conference

Is The Internet Ushering In A New Dark Age?

Seeded on Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:06 AM EST (American Thinker)

Seeded by Cutty (Clipped by Trevoke)

The Internet has brought a sudden and tremendous change in the history of man's search for information.

google, technology, internet, email, dark-ages, information-revolution, herbert-e-myers

So, you want to spar?

Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:15 AM EST

Sparring can be one of the many reasons one wants to join a martial arts school, sometimes even their only interest. Unless you join a school based on street defense, you may not do as much as you'd like.

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sports, martial-arts

Which martial arts school is right for you? How to enter the world of martial arts.

Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:40 PM EDT

So, you've decided to start taking a martial arts class. Good for you! Why do you want to join? Is it to fight, to learn to defend yourself, to develop self-discipline, to learn kata ('forms'), for health reasons? All of the above?

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fitness, sports, martial-arts, martialarts

CastleCops An Open Source Blue Frog: We are not giving up the fight.

Seeded on Fri May 19, 2006 10:02 AM EDT (castlecops.com)

The company Blue Frog dies, yet its idea is alive and well : people want to make a P2P network based on the same concept in order to avoid possible DDoS and to make it impossible to kill, decentralized. This has the potential to solve the spam problem..

technology, internet, spam, open-source, blue-frog

Cryzip Trojan encrypts data, requests ransom

Seeded on Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:45 AM EST (securityfocus.com)

I hope this isn't a dupe.

technology, internet, virus, trojan

A Muslim's point of view on the cartoons featuring the prophet

Thu Feb 9, 2006 8:31 AM EST

Under is, unmodified, something a friend of mine wrote on their blog ( ) which I believe many of us non-muslims do not know or forget all too easily.

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muslim, world-news, prophet, cartoon, moslem

Blackmal virus set to delete files

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2006 9:32 AM EST (securityfocus.com)

I joined newsvine a day too late for effective prevention, sorry about that! Still, it's a good thing to keep in mind that some viruses are still destructive. I hope your computers have protection!

technology, internet, virus