Wisdom from the net as collected by Charlie (aka Cyberchuck)
May 30th 2008cyberchucktxCollaboration & Sysadmin & Technical
Effective methods to protect email addresses from spammers 
ublishing an email address on a web page invites more spam. Protect your address by masking it from the email harvesters (spambots) used by spammers. This article tests 50 masking methods against 23 harvesters to see which methods work to stop spammers, and which do not.
May 23rd 2008cyberchucktxMarketplace & Technical
Employee Engagement Zingers: David Zinger on Results That Matter – 325 Free Articles. Interesting collection of articles on employee engagement and leadership. My favorite article so far: “Employees as Hamsters: A “Wheely” Big Deal?
May 23rd 2008cyberchucktxMathematical
Slacker Manager: Tongue-in-cheek blog about management philosophies and styles. Good collection of reference sites for management engagement methodologies and practices. Part of the b5media blogsphere, a global new media network featuring more than 327 blogs on a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports.
May 20th 2008cyberchucktxGraphics & Photography & Technical
HDR: High Dynamic Range photography. “There are some photography techniques that really give me the goose bumps, but the good ones. HDR is one of those techniques… and you’ll probably love these as much as I do.
“In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.” – From Wikipedia. Continue Reading »
May 20th 2008cyberchucktxArt & Media & SciFi
The Psychotronic (Video) Guide to Archive.org. “I’ve been spending a lot of time digging around in the Internet Archive. In the course of my excavations, I uncovered a metric buttload of old cult filmage in the public domain, and in a fit of obsessive-compulsive mania, decided to make a list that included every film in the archive that also makes an appearance in Michael Weldon’s essential guide to midnight movies, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film.” Continue Reading »
May 20th 2008cyberchucktxArt & Graphics & Media & Science & Tech & Technical
Welcome to InterfaceLIFT, your source for graphical user interface enhancements for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. We specialize in desktop wallpaper, icons, themes, and news with a focus on community. New content is posted virtually every day so make sure to bookmark us and come back often. Continue Reading »
May 8th 2008cyberchucktxMacintosh & Mobile Communications & Technical
Blacktree.com: useful utilities for Apple products. A particularly useful tool is Quicksilver, a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data (hard to describe in words). VERY useful. Continue Reading »
May 7th 2008cyberchucktxBizarre & Humor
The Pyramid of Screaming : “You can only scream beneath you”
You see, we all learn as children that screaming leads to results, and it’s no different in the workplace. America was built on the backs of men and women who were yelled at to work harder, and the tradition has been screamed from generation to generation. But you can’t just scream at anybody… that would be counter-productive. That’s why it’s imperative you understand where you stand on the Pyramid of Screaming™. Continue Reading »