This particular table from Hidakagu which features a 360 watt infrared heater underneath that’s specifically designed to warm a diner’s legs and lower torso, not the food on the table. According to InventorSpot, the table was inspired by traditional Japanese ‘kotatsu’ which is a low table/blanket/heater combination that isn’t designed for dining. So this table takes that concept and makes it usable for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Either I’m not replacing my alarm clock often enough, or designers Joon&Jung are being a little over-paranoid about just how many of them are ending up in landfills. Their Paper Alarm Clock was created with the idea that the user could easily replace it by ditching or recycling the outer housing which itself is made of molded, recycled paper. There’s still the inside electronic bits that make the alarm do its thing, but they encourage users to mail those back to them where they’ll be placed inside a fresh housing and sent off to the next user. Perfect for the eco-warrior still stuck in a 9 to 5 job but potentially catastrophic for those who have a tendency of spilling the glass of water they keep on their night stand.

You dropped your expensive graphing calculator on the floor? Howard C. from University of Iowa industrial engineering has the solution, which will cost you $50. And even though the calculator’s new housing might be a bit bulkier and heavier than the original, rest assured the next time it’s knocked to the floor the only think breaking will be your toe.

I can see msg from http://drupal.org/node/463454 as below:
TWAMP is one of AMP software (Apache, MySQL, PHP) bundles for Windows computer platforms; these solution stacks are used to run dynamic Web sites or servers, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP (such like Drupal, Joomla, Magento...) and Perl programming languages.
Need No Installation, Zero Configuration
but can not download TWAMP from the "Download TWAMP" link.
Please help.

I was pleased to learn that North Central College in Naperville, Illinois is offering Drupal training courses. To be fair, these are "Community Education" classes (i.e., not part of a degree program), but I think it's great to see Drupal taught at the collegiate level.

-NP

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Just finished watching Advanced Theming video. It was exactly what I needed to move ahead with my current project. Completely demystified template.php, and Forms API is now malleable. You guys are the pros, you rock!
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As our community grows, it is imperative that we preserve the things that got us here; namely, keeping Drupal a fun, welcoming, challenging, and fair place to play. The new Drupal Code of Conduct (DCOC) states our shared ideals with respect to conduct. Think of this as coding standards for people. It is an expression of our ideals, not a rulebook. It is a way to communicate our existing values to the entire community.

Our friends at Ubuntu have blazed a brilliant trail in this area. They use Drupal as their CMS, and in turn we have embraced their Code of Conduct. This code of conduct is essentially identical to that used by Ubuntu, except that the name of the project has been changed, and the conflict resolution process has been removed since we don't have one.

The DCOC has been under discussion for several months on groups.drupal.org and discussed further at Drupalcon Conpenhagen. Folks who are interested in talking more about the DCOC should do so in the Drupal.org Policies group.

The short version:

1. Be considerate
2. Be respectful
3. When we disagree, we consult others.
4. When we are unsure, we ask for help.
5. Step down considerately.

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InfoWorld has put Solr up as one of the Top Ten open source applications, awarding it a BOSSIE award for the Best of Open Source Software.http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/08/27/solr-gets-bossie-open-source-search-takes-center-stage/
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Rapportive is an awesome tool, and it’s free. If you’re working on a business startup, and you need to save some cash, it’s definitely worth checking out.

Now as a Rapportive user, you can add and save notes about contacts and install Raplets, which are thrid-party applications that add additional context or information to your contacts.

Rapportive is an add-on for your Gmail inbox that instantly adds context to the people you e-mail, as you e-mail them. The Y Combinator startup demoed its social intelligence utility for Gmail.

Would you like to start using this tool?

Nmap Security Scanner, a very powerful network scanning tool. An interesting visualization over at Nmap.org shows the favicons of the 300,000 biggest websites on the Internet(Internet) (according to Alexa), with the size of the favicons corresponding to sites with the most traffic. Please comment about what do you know about favicons?

Drupal 6 Panels CookBook, by Bhavin(Vin) Patel , is a newly-published title from Packt Publishing is a collection of simple useful recipes that gives a very clear understanding from the basics of Panels to complex implementations to generate Web 2.0 layouts. It begins with the basics and gradually delves deeper into the complexities of Panels. You will learn how to set up CTools and Panels, upgrade from Panels 2 to Panels 3, about page layout, theming, and lots more. The layout of the book is a series of interconnected but distinct recipes that gives a basic understanding of usage of Panels in Drupal and also the advanced settings that makes Panels one of the most powerful modules .You will learn to master the Panels user interface and theme each panel quickly with a series of practical recipes. You will be able to integrate powerful Drupal modules like Organic Views, Advanced Profile Kit, Views, CCK, and many more to create socially connected Web 2.0 websites,and as a reader of drupal.org, you can receive a 20% discount (see below) and benefit the Drupal Foundation!

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