The Great Geek Manual

From Around the Web

30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media – It seems everything online has a price associated with it. Whether you’re subscribing to a pay site for full articles or clicking on ads in a blog, everything online seems to have money associated with it. Luckily there is still a large, and very healthy, movement online for media files listed under the Creative Commons licenses.

Definitive List of CSS Frameworks – A CSS Framework is meant to provide ready-made solutions for various tasks that we perform on regular basis. In simple terms, an ideal CSS framework will provide you with a default style sheet which you should be able to use as a starting point for most of your web design projects.

FeedMil – This is a new “long tail” feed search engine with some very interesting features. It allows users to search info from various sources, such as blogs or microblogs, then to specify which aspects of the term are of most interest.

The Happy Hacker – This tutorial directory offers tips and insights to become an uberhacker, including how to build a railgun.

OneSwarm – OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth.

The Pirate Google – A bittorrent search engine that makes use of Google Custom Search to restrict your searches to Torrent files.

Runes of Magic – This MMORPG is a World of Warcraft clone that has been receiving some very positive chatter across the internet. Not only does it fairly closely duplicate the WoW experience, it’s free to download and requires no subscription fees. Definitely worth a look if you’re flushing money away on Wow.

What Twitter Looks Like For Twitter Employees – Francophone geek site Nowhere Else says hackers sent them screenshots from the site Twitter employees use to manage the microblogging service, admin.twitter.com. The screenshots include some cool things, including nifty analytics like users created per day over the last three day.

Miscellaneous

How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names
Old-school programming techniques you probably don’t miss

Tech News

Experts Warn Internet Is Running Out of Bandwidth
Google becomes world’s first $100 billion brand
Google Could Have Caught Swine Flu Early
Hackers Target Pirate Bay Prosecution Law Firm
Microsoft preps Windows 7 release
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said he would introduce a bill to overturn the U.S. ban on Internet gambling