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Eleven reasons why you should date a web developer

Here are eleven great reasons why you should consider dating a web developer professional.

Algae-Powered bio fuel wins a teenager $100,000. What have you done with your life?

The Intel Science Talent Search, a high school science and math competition, announces its winners.

Like zombie charts? Watch The Walking Dead? Check out this report on the statistics of the zombie kill methods [spoilers]

Like Walking Dead? Check out this amazing statistical analysis featuring kill counts and weapon types!

The internet flowchart: or how most people use the internet

How most regular internet users browse

Eleven great web comics that you should read

Here are some great sites to check out - hopefully you will find some interesting and hilarious web comics!

What makes a good web design? And how did we start?

Ever wonder how web design came to be? We take a look back from the beginning, and also preach about standards and guidelines.

Friday Internet Bulletin: First Edition

Today's FIB features a hefty amount of tech industry news, a music video of Mr Rogers, and a strange Skyrim mod.

What's better than an RPG? An ARG.

ARG's are thought to have been inspired by the likes of those Choose Your Own Adventure novels that used to be so popular. The likes of which would keep a reader busy for hours going back and finding a different route for the hero to take. It's also said that Orson Welles had a big part in inspiring the Puppetmaster's with his War of the Worlds Broadcasts. ARG's are here to stay and are only getting smarter and more intense.

Sample Web Developer or Web Designer contract for freelancing

What you do you do when there is a failure in your contract? You are not protected by any kind of written, agreed upon list of rules for your work. When you don't set boundaries for people, they often try to walk all over you, or at the very least, put little add-ons that slowly add up. Well, here is a contract outline that you can use to make your next project easier.

The client relationship: How freelancers get screwed out of money

Designers and developers alike know how much of a hassle it is to have wishy-washy clients, confused bosses, or uninformed managers with weird aesthetic or user-experience vendettas ("let's make an exciting Flash animation intro!").

When Egypt got their internet turned off, Google noticed

There was no internet and no cell phone SMS text messaging for anybody in Egypt. They essentially went dark from the web for an extended amount of time! While they still had communication via land line telephones, most people in the country and the world were in a state of disbelief.

Call of Duty: Black Ops spawn points suck

But as some have probably already noticed, the spawn points in some MP maps aren't very good. Others are downright broken. Patch this please?

The four kinds of hackers in video games

Hackers are usually considered a bad thing. Or a strange fear left over from 90s hysteria. Hackers are bad, but let's not start a witch hunt every time we play video games online! Either way, there are tons of gamers out there that think every great player in an online multiplayer gaming session is a hacker. Well, we beg to differ.

Craigslist overuse of the word Guru

WTF Craigslist? Why is it that whenever you look for a job on Craigslist, or a short HTML or PHP gig you see these same stupid posts about hiring a guru!? Why do people still use this word? It is so overused and so lame to use that when…

Hackers: The 1995 movie about hacking: A Review

If you do one nerdy thing all year, go watch Hackers. It will make you a more well-rounded person. It's clearly outdated, misinformed, and very campy, but it still features a ton of joy and character. You can even Netflix instant queue it!

If real life were like the internet

What if our daily lives reflected what happened on the internet, or even within our range of technology? Here we take a look at how things would be if real life mirrored technology.

Good ideas come from collaboration

While this animated comic strip is playing you will start to unravel where good ideas come from. Author Steven Johnson unleashes a heavy dose of information about the impact of social networks, the internet, and connectedness on the modern…