What Happens When You Don’t Change Your Oil For 60,000 Miles?

I was always wondering that! "Know the recommended service intervals in your car handbook? This pulled pork BBQ-like sludge is what happens when you don't follow them. More mistreated BMW 328Ci schadenfreude below."

FireFTP - The Free FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox

Many people wonder what to use to ftp files. Here's a free app that runs under firefox.

FireFTP - The Free FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox: "FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers."

Google LatLong: Santa, Santa, when will you be here?

Google LatLong: Santa, Santa, when will you be here?: "As I slowly emerge from my tryptophan-induced coma, I find my thoughts drifting merrily toward the next holiday on the calendar. And, like any kid trapped in an adult's body, I have to admit that I'm no more immune to the heady anticipation of Santa's arrival than I was as a wide-eyed eight-year-old lad.

I remember putting up the tree, stringing the lights, and wrapping the presents, the smell of freshly-baked pies tickling my nose and the sound of Christmas carols floating through cinnamon air. My dad would hang a wreath on the front door. My mom would tie a big red bow on the dog. And, in a small digression from this Rockwellian scene, we would call NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, to track Santa."

Twitter Support :: Introducing: Twitter Lists!

Twitter Support :: Introducing: Twitter Lists!: "By popular demand, Twitter users can now organize users they follow (or users that they don’t) into groups, or “lists”. This article will help you get started with some lists basics and hopefully get you ready to make your own!

Before we get started, it should be noted that following a user is not a requirement to add someone to a list; if you want to add a user but not necessarily regularly follow them, lists allow you to do that."

Google Wave to be released to 100,000 testers Wednesday - CNN.com

Google Wave to be released to 100,000 testers Wednesday - CNN.com: "'This should be something everybody uses and something everybody knows,' Jens Rasmussen said.

In Wave, e-mail-like communications can be edited by several users simultaneously. And users can chat about certain sections of Wave documents in real time, where all users see what a person is typing as it is typed. If a person comes to the conversation late, they can replay everything they've missed."

About - Platial.com

About - Platial.com: "In 2007, Platial and Frappr teamed up to create the largest social map service for both people and places!

Platial maps, The People's Guide to Who and What's Nearby, a free resource where hundreds of thousands of people around the world share and discover all kinds of Places. Anyone can map just about anything including their towns, lives, travels, feeds, files, photos, video and stories in one simple interface.

'Frappr! Maps are like a triple mash-up of an online guest book, a hit log and a map -- three services that, combined, create a fun and visually appealing environment that will keep Web site visitors coming back for more.'
-- Kun, Frappr! Co-Founder

Platial and Frappr! Maps are free and can be embedded on any Web page, blog or online community that supports flash or javascript embeds, including MySpace, Friendster, Xanga, Typepad, Wordpress, Google, Facebook and Hi5. We are the world's largest social map service. We help turn your ordinary Web pages into interactive, fun and engaging destinations. Frappr! Maps give Web site owners and visitors an easy and unique way to visualize and interact with each other. Visitors can add their name, photo and message directly on a Web page embedded with Frappr! Maps, and the Web site owner gets real-time stats on where visitors are coming from and how often they visit"

Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites

Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites: "Check to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites. Find the best username with namechk."

Map of the Internet

DoD is working to develop stance on social Web sites | font, span, windowtext

DoD is working to develop stance on social Web sites | font, span, windowtext - News - Jacksonville Daily News: "The Department of Defense has issued a study of social media Web sites and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is filling out waivers to keep theirs, Marine officials say.

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III directed a study of social media sites — including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube — in hopes of establishing a policy by October, according to Associated Press reports. The study is being done to address security challenges and the communication value the sites have to the DoD.

Until the study is complete, there is not a department-wide ban of social networking and Web 2.0 tools, though restrictions may occur due to bandwidth or security concerns, according to the AP."

Onehub • Virtual workspaces for online collaboration and file sharing

Onehub • Virtual workspaces for online collaboration and file sharing: "With Onehub you create virtual workspaces called Hubs to share information, documents, and files more easily. You can choose from the many Onehub Widgets to help you organize and manage your projects. Your team will benefit from having information in a central location so they can work smarter and be more productive than ever. Watch a 2 minute screencast to discover how to create your own Hub."

World Blind Sailing Championships Finish in New Zealand

"The 2009 International Association for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) World Blind Sailing Championships finished after five days of racing on 21 March, bringing together some of the best athletes in Sailing from around the world to Lake Rotorua in New Zealand.

Host country New Zealand held the reigns on the water, winning first place in the B2 fleet with athlete Paulien Eitjes. New Zealand also took second in both the B1 and B3 fleets, with athletes Dick Lancaster and Dave Allerton pulling in their respective events to top positions."

Twittervision 3D

OK people...This is nothing short of you standard everyday modern miracle!

What is Twittervision?
A real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter. Samuel Morse, meet Carl Jung.
How do I get on Twittervision?
Join Twitter and post. You must have a location and an image defined to appear on the public feed (and to be located on the map).
How can I easily change my location?
You can change your location as often as you like. Simply submit a Twitter post with your location as L:New York, NY (or wherever), or L:work. Please see the Twittermap FAQ for acceptable location examples.
What's up with the like & dislike buttons?
We want your input about what posts you like and dislike. Twittervision Favorite and Least Favorite lists are now available!

"What Hath God Wrought?" — Samuel F.B. Morse, 1844

Sit back and enjoy the show!

How do you block a friend from posting on your wall on facebook?

"How do you block a friend from posting on your wall on facebook?

I still want to keep this person as a friend but don't want them posting on my wall. How do you block them from doing this, would they know about it?"

ANSWER:

When you log into Facebook, you're presented with the page that shows all the feeds.

On the top right corner you should see "your name", "Settings" and "Logout"

Click settings, choose Privacy Settings, you will see the page for Basic Profile settings.

Look at wall posts, keep the box checked but then click on the "My Network and my friends" menu and choose "Customize".

A small window will appear where on the bottom you can type the friend's name you want to block from posting on your wall

RSS Feeds, Community, Social Media Platform - KickApps

RSS Feeds, Community, Social Media Platform - KickApps: "KickApps is a hosted, social media platform that makes it easy to add robust community-building functionality to your website. Create, manage, and monetize your own custom Social Network and/or User-Generated Content (UGC) site, complete with full RSS 2.0 integration and viral widgets so you can syndicate your content all over the web"

Folksonomy

Folksonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging.[1] In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is generated not only by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary.[2] Folksonomy (from folk taxonomy) is a user-generated taxonomy.

Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004 as part of social software applications including social bookmarking and annotating photographs. Tagging, which is characteristic of Web 2.0 services, allows non-expert users to collectively classify and find information. Some websites include tag clouds as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy."

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine."

Joomla Community Magazine

Joomla Community Magazine: "Dion Hinchcliffe declared Joomla! the number 1 platform for creating online communities in his ZDNet article Ten leading platforms for creating online communities.

Thanks for noticing, Dion! With Joomla! 1.5, developers have an object-oriented, pattern based API that follows best practices. The new MVC based component objects gives developers a platform for rapid application development and prototyping. Dion is absolutely right - Joomla! 1.5 is more than capable of empowering online communities.

Following Joomla! in this top 10 list is Drupal, PHP-Nuke, Zikula (formerly PostNuke), and Microsoft's Sharepoint. The next five include Dot Net Nuke, Community Server, KickApps, and ClearSpace Community."

ClickTale | Web Analytics by ClickTale | Visitor Movies, Heatmaps & Form Analytics

ClickTale | Web Analytics by ClickTale | Visitor Movies, Heatmaps & Form Analytics: "Discover how visitors interact with your online forms: what they type, how long they take, which fields they skip, where they get stuck, and why they leave."