Such a sweet cool idea.. A website that helps stuff animals travel around the world through the help of strangers, and all the while building photo blogs of their journeys.

ToyVoyagers is a free-to-join website dedicated to travelling toys and their adventures around the globe.. Anyone who comes into contact with a ToyVoyager is encouraged to update its Travelog and post photographs of its adventures on the website.. We have members from all over the world. Membership is free: all you need is access to the internet, a camera, your own (or someone else's!) ToyVoyager, a good sense of humour and a willingness to be stared at whilst randomly photographing a soft toy in front of a famous monument..

http://www.toyvoyagers.com

One of Wired magazine's blogs has a brief write-up today on the unexpectedly unpleasant experience of trying to run Apple's OSX operating system on non-Apple hardware.

Found via a nice long write-up on OS News:

Over at Wired Gadget Lab, they're taking a look back at several people who've gone to a bunch of trouble to hack up and deal with the pitfalls of netbooks running OSX. As the story's title states, it ain't pretty. In a nutshell, they found that even if you load a nice OS onto a cheap, tiny computer, you still have to deal with the inherent downsides of a cheap, tiny computer, and when you run an Apple OS on a non-Apple machine, you'll have some software problems.

http://www.wired.com...book-it-aint-pretty/

Gothi[c] (DonationCoder.com server admin) and I were having a little chat in the IRC chat about old data on servers and how to remove it.

So I decided to see if I could find any data from the dedicated server my friend just got, sure enough I found a lot of interesting and weird data....

Bottom line is if your going to cancel a server from a company make sure you wipe the hard drive(s) before you do as most companies just repartition and format the drive they don't wipe any data off it.

That means your passwords, your emails, pictures and what ever else that was on the server still could be accessible, on the flip side that means if someone before you had illegal data on the server and your server gets seized for what ever reason.

You COULD be held accountable for the data that THEY had on it.

So when you getting a new rented server make sure you wipe the drive before you lose access. And when getting a new rented server make sure you/your host wipes the drive before you start putting your data on it.

Accompanied by cute illustrations, and wonderfully written, a man describes his true life experience with a tape worm in his belly.  It's disgusting and utterly compelling.  What kind of person has the guts (pun intended) to write about something like this?  Not for the faint of heart but i couldn't stop reading.

The doctor, no longer chuckling, asked me to please sit down so he could tell me how to get rid of it. I came crashing down to sit on the chair, blathering, "How do I kill it? What's it take, doc? Where's the bullet? Give me a pill, do tricks! Make it go away!"

http://www.fray.com/drugs/worm/

A DC forum member asks:

...The two IDE hard drives get EXTREMELY hot ("burning" hot) during intense file movements, defrags, things of that nature. I used to have a small hard drive cooler that sat on the bottom of the drive (via screws, or in my case, jury-rigged in) sporting 2x 80mm fans - it met its demise when the power plug ... melted. Both drives work great (both from 2002 now, aftermarket drives), so there isn't anything wrong except for the heat output (no grinding, data loss, etc).

So now I am looking for a new hard drive cooling system - air or water, but it has to be reasonably cheap (anything over $50 is pushing it unless it is water-cooling). If anyone had a recommendation for a good freeware HD Temperature (F/C compatible) monitor, that would be great as well?

I've wanted to post this for a long time...

Whether you care or not, every day you use the computer you are probably interacting with an element of the Windows user interface called "listview". It's the interface to Windows Explorer, for one thing. It's also what drives your desktop. It's the My Computer window, it's the Control Panel, and it's part of interminable other staples of the operating system.

Microsoft made it a fancy and powerful gadget. Starting with XP, it draws a stylish semi-transparent selection rectangle when you sweep the mouse over items. It does incremental search: start typing a filename, and the selection will jump to the first matching item. It lets you edit the text of an item. It has a virtual mode that lets programmers display many thousands of items really fast. It shows icons of different sizes. When you switch from the Icons view to Details or Thumbnails in Windows Explorer, it's still the same listview control, working in one of its many display modes. The latest versions can also display headings to group items into related sections.

The Details mode is particularly handy - the one that shows information such as size and last-modified date for files, neatly arranged in columns. When you click on the column headers in the Details view, the listview sorts items; another click reverses the sort. You can drag columns to rearrange them. This is perhaps the best part of the listview - and the worst, which is what this post is about.

The listview is a standard Windows control - that means programmers have always been able to use it to build their own applications. And because it's so fancy and so powerful, they indeed have. Programmers use listview because it's readily available with its many features, while creating a like element from scratch means a months of tedious work, if not years, if you're a lone developer.

And that's the problem. The Details mode has one shortcoming: it can only accommodate a single line of text. Lines do not wrap. That becomes a problem whenever any of the columns needs to display more text than fits in the width of the window. It's a tiny step from this neat display: