links for 2007-05-31

• How to Be Charming - wikiHow
  Praise others instead of gossiping. If you are talking with someone or you are talking in a group of people, and up pops the subject of another person in a positive or negative way, be the one to mention something you like about that person. Hearsay is th
  (tags: lifehacks)
• And Still I Persist » The Art of 'Ware [version 2.0]
  Back in the early 1990s, I wrote and published The Art of ‘Ware (M&T Books, 1995), a reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, a 6th century BC treatise on conflict and warfare. My reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s maxims applied to developing and m
  (tags: books)
• Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Colors | David’s kitchen
  Dynamic CSS Buttons using PNG, transparency and background colors that degrades nicely and supports full scalability. With full scalability I mean it should resize in all directions according to the font size and content.
  (tags: css)
• Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering Explained: Anisotropic Filtering, for Sharper Textures
  Anisotropic filtering is a method of improving the way the insides of objects look—all the parts between the edges.
  (tags: gaming)
• Beginners Guide to Sports Betting | productdose.com
  No one should seek self-affirmation of any sort through gambling. You should only seek to win money. Everything else is incidental. The thrill of risk is a secondary reward to winning cash. That should be your greatest reward, the fact that you won money
  (tags: betting)
• The Traveler's Dilemma — [ GAME THEORY ]: Scientific American
  "He asks each of them to write down…any dollar integer between 2 and 100 without conferring together. If both write the same number…he will pay each of them that amount. But if they write different numbers, he will … pay both of them the lower numbe
  (tags: interesting gametheory)
• The Middle Show | Girls and Sound Effects | Black20
  girls can't do laser gun sound effects…lol
  (tags: funny)
• Data Grids with AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript | Smashing Magazine
  wow…gotta try this.
  (tags: webdesign)
• desire to inspire: Stairs and storage
  why didn't i think of that!
  (tags: home storage)
• Congress searches for phony villains in gas price hike - May. 30, 2007
  Gasoline prices hit an all time high of $3.227 a gallon just before the Memorial Day holiday, and once again, Congress has taken the easy way out. Instead of doing anything substantive about the United States' unquenchable thirst for gasoline, it has gone
  (tags: oil)