10 Daily Things

Freeware Computing: Debt Reduction Snowball Calculator

There's a story making the rounds regarding a supposedly ancient Chinese proverb that translates roughly 'May you live in interesting times.' While it may be questionable whether such a saying actually represents ancient wisdom, it does give one pau

Abandonware Game: SimTower - The Vertical Empire

The older readers can remember the game called SimTower, released in 1995 as a gift along with SimiCity2000. The aim of SimTower is to build a hundred story tower block filled with offices, condos, shops, restaurants,a hotel, a cinema and a party ha

Stupid Life: "Artist" Kills a Dog in the Name of Art

An 'artist' from Costa Rica - Guillermo Habacuc Vargas - as an installation piece took a dog from the street and caused it to suffer and starve to death in the name of Art. Last year, the Costa Rican 'artist' is alleged to have paid some children

Weird Photoshop Photo: Fingers Growing on Shoulders

Ubuntu powers the Sun’s Fire T1000 & T2000 servers

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Canonical Ltd. announced that the new release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), aka Dapper Drake, will be supporting the UltraSPARC T1 processor on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. For Canonical, this represents a le