Off The Wall

WPPinner is a WordPress plugin to manage your Pinterest account.

Videos, recipes and articles to help you achieve the perfect pizza or calzone at home. (And, if you must, tips on where to find a good restaurant pie.)

This is where I live!  I am one of the lucky one ;-)

Authorities sprayed protesters with high pressure water hoses, and tried to corral them with police dogs. The images were frightening.

clientsfromhell:

Client: “[Indian outsourcer] says he can do this site for $200. Why should I go with you?”

Me: “Has he done any work for you in the past?”

Client: Yeah! He did [Other Site] for me.

[I load the other site]

Me: “The entire site’s done in Flash.”

Client: “Huh?”

Me:…

This beginner-level tutorial will show you how to put type on a path. This basic skill can lend a dynamic element to your work and is quite fun to use.

For almost a decade, search was the pre-eminent content discovery mechanism online. If you wanted to find something, you stuck a phrase in a search box, hit the button and hoped for the best. And for a long time, that worked just fine: Google refined their groundbreaking algorithm so it eventually seemed to know exactly what you were looking for.

E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.

For years, web designers have been using graceful degradation principles to make sure visitors in older browsers can at least see the content on their websites, even if they don’t see it exactly how the designer intended.

Earlier this week, major news outlets ran with headlines about how a new microbe has been found eating up BP’s oil, and how microbes have degraded the hydrocarbons so efficiently that the vast plumes of oil in the Gulf are now undetectable. No joke.

Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history.

Hiring your first employee is an important step. This is the first person you’re letting into your closely guarded domain and exposing to the inner workings of your startup, fueled by your passions – however organized, chaotic, or quixotic they may be.

From the helpful to the distracting, the big hitters to the unknowns, TIME offers a road map to the best of the Web

Before the early nineteenth century, books were hand-bound using heavy materials such as wood, leather, gold, silver and jewels. Over the centuries, book binding had always serve as a protection to expensively printed or hand-made pages, and as embellishments tribute to the cultural authorities.

Read more: Beautiful & Creative Book Cover Design http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/really-beautiful-creative-book-covers/#ixzz0xQX0zQl8

Scott Belsky knows a thing or two about bringing ideas to fruition. 

An elevator speech introduces you in the short span of an elevator ride. The theory behind this is that the introduction you make to a stranger, and potential client, needs to be short and concise, and an elevator ride is simply the best example of the time one should spend delivering this kind of speech.

Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible or were thought too unethical.

This is an unmitigated success for BP. Not so much because they have apparently managed to seal the well for good (though additional cement may also be poured in from the bottom, through the relief well that is nearing completion), but because they managed to do so without ever letting the flow of oil from the blown well be metered.

Delft University of Technology is the largest and most comprehensive university of engineering sciences in the Netherlands. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality.  

They don’t grant degrees, but they don’t require any registration either. Learning because you want to, not because you have to ;-)

MIT’s OpenCourseWare, possibly the best place to go if you want to study physics in your pajamas, has been awarded the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) by Science magazine. OpenCourseWare receives close to 1.5 million pageviews a month, with traffic from educators, students, and especially independent learners. 

The SPORE prize was created to honor innovations like OpenCourseWare, a site that makes much of MIT’s curriculum available to anyone with Internet access. It’s best known for the depth of many of its course resources, particularly in the sciences. Many classes, like introductory physics with professor Walter Lewin, include videos of all the lectures, as well as items like course syllabi and assigned readings.

The award gave OpenCourseWare’s contributors an essay spot in the magazine, which they used to note that 50 percent of the site’s visitors identify themselves as independent learners, unaffiliated with a university. This fall, OpenCourseWare will roll out a new section of the site geared toward independent learners, containing more problem-solving and self-assessment opportunities.