As Seen by the Color Blind [PICS] July 24, 2008
The Color Blind Web Page Filter, which was used in this post to demonstrate the different types of colorblindness, allows you to view what you site looks like to people with each type of color blindness.

Telco won't install fiber network, sues to prevent city from July 24, 2008
A small town in Minnesota wants to build its own fiber to the home network. The local telco didn't want to do it, but it doesn't want the city competing with it, either. That means one thing: lawsuit.

2016: “You’re Watching The Linux Channel.” July 24, 2008
July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the day before.

DiggDays: An Awesome Digg Timeline App July 24, 2008
Interactive timeline of the best Digg story every day since Digg was born. Search is pretty tight too, try "Dark Knight".

Coding Creativity: 14 Ways to Learn From Creative Coders July 24, 2008
Working with code is one of the most creative jobs one can have.

Would a Prettier Linux Make You Switch? July 24, 2008
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth (who we interviewed last year) announced that he's out to make Linux a better-looking operating system than Mac OS X—within two years. An ambitious goal! At O'Reilly's OSCON conference this week, Shuttleworth said:

Google Unveils Reference Tool After 7-month Test July 24, 2008
Now anyone with a Google login will be able to submit an article and, if they choose, have ads displayed through the Internet search leader's marketing system.

ISPs To Send “Hundreds of Thousands” of File-Sharing Warning July 24, 2008
According to initial reports, an announcement due later today will state that major ISPs in the UK have reached an agreement to work with the music industry to start mass warning file-sharers. The deal, brokered by the government, will see hundreds of thousands warned but not disconnected.

Windows iPhone 3G jailbreak tool released July 24, 2008
Windows iPhone 3G jailbreak tool released

Shuttleworth: Make Desktop Linux Better than Apple July 24, 2008
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, calls on Linux developers to make the presentation layer of desktop Linux applications even more attractive to users than Apple’s Mac OS.

Wine 1.0-rc1 Released

9 May 2008 20:30