Learn Beatles tunes via Web video

 

Help! Any Beatles fans who have struggled to learn to play guitar on "Revolution," "A Hard Day's Night" or other Fab Four megahits can now find assistance on the Web, while saving big bucks on private lessons.

Here comes IE 8 Beta 1

 

These links aren't live *yet* but will be soon...

Install Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista^® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP^® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server^® 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Downloads are available from the following locations:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista x64 Edition and Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Window XP SP2

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Edition and Windows XP SP2 Pro x64 Edition

Related: Welcome to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers Now Available

 

This morning at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IE team made eight announcements about IE8. The most interesting for many people is that a developer beta is now available. Download it here.

Therest of our talks and demos focused on seven other areas that appeal to developers:

1. Our goal is to deliver complete, full CSS 2.1 support in the final IE8 product. IE8 Beta 1 for developers delivers better interoperability with other major browsers, addressing major pain points (e.g. floats and margins) from previous IE releases. We’re not finished – there’s much more to come in Beta 2.
2. We’vecontributed over 700 test cases to the W3C CSS working group because we think a comprehensive certification test suite for CSS is important for true interoperability and we support the W3C’s effort to deliver such a suite. The CSS spec is good, but contains many ambiguities, and a test suite will help resolve them and benefit web developers and designers. We’re making these available under the BSD License, which is the license that the W3C CSS working group has proposed using for the rest of its test cases. Of course, we will contribute more tests en route to a full test suite, and welcome your feedback on the tests using the W3C's CSS test suite mailing list.
3. We’vedelivered better scripting performance because we heard from developers that they needed it given how heavily the latest rich web experiences rely on script.
4. We’vestarted delivering support for HTML5 because we understand that developers want to start delivering richer web experiences, with great interoperability, as soon as possible.
5. We’vedelivered the first installment of great, built-in developer tools. We understand that script, CSS, and layout debugging are crucial today. Again, we’re not finished here – there’s more to come.
6. We’vedelivered a better way for web services to integrate into the user’s workflow with “Activities.” For example, a user can select text on a web page and map it, blog it, look for it, or just act on it without having to copy it, open a new tab, navigate to another site, and paste. We made the OpenService Format specification available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
7. We’vedelivered a better way for web services to enable their users to keep an eye on interesting parts of a webpage within the browser with “WebSlices.” Developers can make parts of their pages “subscribable” with just a little mark-up, and users can easily subscribe and keep an eye on information (like their social network, an auction, or a sports score) within the browser, even when users are not at the developer’s site. We’ve made the WebSlice Format specification available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and is dedicating copyright in the specification to the public domain using the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication.

Thelist above is the very short version of what’s in IE8 and does not represent everything that’s in the final product. There’s a lot more. This list details specific investments for developers. As with previous releases, members of the IE team will post to this blog in detail over the coming days, weeks and months. In the meantime, you can find a lot more information at the revamped IE Development Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie.

Whileanyone can download it, this is a developer beta. We released it at MIX for a good reason: great web experiences start with web developers, and we want to engage developers first. We believe that to build a better browser for the people who use the web, we need to build a better browser for the people who make the web. Non-developers are welcome to try it, but they’ll be more interested in Beta 2.

Onetheme I hope developers notice here is interoperability. The team understands how big an impact differences between browsers (and previous versions of IE in particular) have had on developers in terms of wasted time, frustration, and (in some cases) limiting the experience that they deliver to users. We want to deliver a big step forward in real-world interoperability for developers with IE8, and standards are at the core of our approach. This topic deserves a lot more than just this paragraph; expect more soon.

Thebeta is available today for Windows Vista (“Gold” and SP1), Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP2 and SP3, both in 32- and 64-bit versions. We will release the developer beta in German, and Simplified Chinese shortly. We’re interested in reading your feedback in the beta newsgroup and developer forums.

Pleasetry it out – the browser itself, the developer tools, writing an Activity, marking part of your page as a WebSlice – and let us know what you think.

Thankyou,

Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager
Internet Explorer

Daylight saving time ends March 9: Is your computer updated?

 

Daylight saving time begins earlier than it did prior to 2007 in most of the U.S. and Canada. Visit our support page to make sure your computer is ready.

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View more of thescatteredimage’s beautiful composite images in this set.

decision-making for dummies

 

“FETCH, nano!”

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Funny Photo: Trailer Park Taj Mahal [Uncover The Internet]

 

Here’sa funny photo a recently received via e-mail. Thought it might bring a smile to someone’s face. You’ve got to appreciate the architectural and structural ingenuity of this little community.

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RUSH - FLY BY NIGHT Lyrics

 

Rush - Fly By Night Lyrics

Why try? I know why
The feeling inside me says it's time I was gone
Clear head, new life ahead
I want to be king now not just one more pawn

[Chorus:]
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye my dear
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend

Moon rise, thoughtful eyes
Staring back at me from the window beside
No fright or hindsight
Leaving behind that empty feeling inside

[Chorus]

Start a new chapter
Find what I'm after
It's changing every day
The change of a season
Is enough of a reason
To want to get away
Quiet and pensive
My thoughts apprehensive
The hours drift away
Leaving my homeland
Playing a lone hand
My life begins today

[Chorus]

RUSH - FLY BY NIGHT Lyrics

Fear of snakes evolved in humans - LiveScience- msnbc.com

 

Fear of snakes evolved in humans

New study suggests phobia provided advantage in survival, reproduction

Readying for attack, a rattlesnake bears its fangs. New research suggests humans have evolved an innate tendency to sense snakes and to learn to fear them.

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Fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias, yet many people have never seen a snake in person. So how is this fear generated?

New research suggests humans have evolved an innate tendency to sense snakes — and spiders, too — and to learn to fear them.

Psychologists found that both adults and children could detect images of snakes among a variety of non-threatening objects more quickly than they could pinpoint frogs, flowers or caterpillars. The researchers think this ability helped humans survive in the wild.

Fear of snakes evolved in humans - LiveScience- msnbc.com

'Jules Verne' set for maiden voyage - Space.com- msnbc.com

 

'Jules Verne' set for maiden voyage

European cargo ship will deliver fresh supplies to space station

D. Ducros / ESA

Jules Verne, a massive unmanned cargo ship built for the European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch Sunday, March 9 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

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A European cargo ship the size of a double-decker bus is primed for its maiden flight to haul fresh supplies toward the international space station.

Jules Verne, a massive unmanned cargo ship built for the European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch Sunday, March 9 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. A modified European Ariane 5 rocket will loft the nearly 21-ton Jules Verne into orbit from its equatorial launch site on the northern coast of South America.

"It's the biggest spacecraft we've built in Europe and by far the most complicated," said John Ellwood, ATV mission manager for the ESA.

'Jules Verne' set for maiden voyage - Space.com- msnbc.com