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Got a Microsoft sticker on your PC? It must be really awkward if you are not a Windows user and your PC or laptop “wears” Microsoft Windows sticker. If you are a Linux user or at least a free software user what about to get a free software sticker too?

Great resource for such stuff is a Free Software Sticker Book which is a PDF e-book holding all the great free software stickers like Firefox, Gimp, Blender, amaroK, Audacity and also stickers of many of popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Fedora etc. There are a plenty of icons which are ready to print and use because almost every page of the book contains 8×8 stickers which is 64 stickers per page.

Book is licensed under MIT License which gives you the following permissions:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
book and associated files, to deal in the book without restriction, including without
limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the book, and to permit persons to whom the book is furnished
to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or different versions of the book and inside images.

Also if you are a graphic designer and would like to add more free stickers you could participate in that project and send your stickers to stickers@pikao.org.

I think this book is a great project and also very easy way to print out your own stickers of your favourite software.

• Download Free Software Sticker Book

Yeah, what would happen if he really was a programmer? Maybe he had programmed the world and compiled it under Windows. Then after a while it broke down, because of some unexpected error He could also be a Linux admin (= root) and seen all our steps and ban us if we did some offence.

Anyway, today I found a great website which looks like a Linux console. The God is sitting before it and typing commands. He is creating the world. Interested? Click at “If God was programmer“.

JavaScript is recently very popular scripting language. It powers the most popular Web 2.0 applications with a combination of web development technique called AJAX.

However, if you thought that JavaScript can be used only by web developers I must defeat you. Below this paragraph you will find 2 snippets of JavaScript code that you can just copy and paste to your browser address bar and you will see the power of Math and JavaScript.

But before I show you the snippets do the following:

1. Open some web page with images e.g. http://images.google.com
2. Search for whatever you like e.g. hacks
3. Copy and paste one of the following snippets:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.mkssddddddddddd=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

or

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

As you can see there can be much of fun with this 1 line of code. You can also freely modify the it and discover some other cool image motions. Please share them with us!

A new IE6 bug was discovered by a Japanese blogger called Hamachiya2. He found out a combination of CSS and HTML code that can totally crash IE6:

<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table>

Here you can find a live preview. (it works without problems in Mozilla Firefox and other good browsers)

For me it is just another one confirmation how buggy Internet Explorer really is. Not mention a tens if not hundreds of other well known CSS bugs.

If you are still using Internet Explorer 6 I highly recommend you to use a better browser like Mozilla Firefox, Opera or at least Internet Explorer 7.