It’s getting a little hot in here

It’s getting a little hot in here: "

When I first heard on Twitter that I was named one of the 10 Hottest Women in Food by SlashFood, I seriously had to double-check the URL to make sure it wasn’t a spoof site, because you all know what happens when misspell a website name and end up in pornville.

Well, it was legit, and even after an hour, nobody on Twitter shouted “you’ve been punk’d!” Though if I really had really been punk’d, more than likely the person responsible would be missing a few teeth today.

The difficult part of all this is that now I really have to live up to the title…and it means that maybe being photographed in my neon hair rollers isn’t a good idea.

Hmmm…..

And I should stop slapping my head on Wonder Woman’s body.

I really am taking this honor very seriously, and have started off this week with a striptease class with 18 girlfriends at Rancho La Puerta.

Rancho La Puerta is known as one of the premier health and fitness spas in the world, and one of my biggest concerns about spending an entire week here was the fact that they serve a primarily vegetarian diet. No meat, almost no alcohol and no junk food.

Could I go a whole week without steak? bacon? wine? potato chips? Could I survive on just lettuce, sprouts and beans?

The first couple of days, the withdrawal symptoms became almost unbearable. I tweeted for help. I even texted Diane, who was to arrive the next evening to sneak in a stash of contraband chips and booze.

So, in our strip tease class, our instructor told us to imagine a guy sitting in the chair as she led us in sexylicious moves: sashaying our hips, flipping our hair, throwing an attitude, rubbing and teasing with our body parts. All for the imaginary friend sitting in the chair.

This is all I could think about:

and this:

Oh, and no I wasn’t joking about Diane smuggling in the goods. She came through. God, I love this woman. She arrived at 7pm last night with this:

I guess if this is what sexy is all about – I AM ALL FOR IT!!

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Quick Look: Smiley Drop for iPhone [iPhone App Reviews]

Quick Look: Smiley Drop for iPhone [iPhone App Reviews]: "

What’s In a Game?

In my experience, the simplest games are often the most fun. Give me smiley faces to shoot at with other smiley faces and you’ve got yourself a winner. That’s what you get with a new application “Smiley Drop” from M5 Systems LLC. Their new game is a strategy shooter that makes you think before you fire.

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Switched On: Sony's forward Dash

Switched On: Sony's forward Dash: "Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In its introductory press release, here's what Sony has to say about the Dash, a 'personal Internet viewer' that it announced at CES: 'Featuring a vivid 7-inch color touch screen... Dash utilizes an existing home wireless connection to continuously deliver Internet content to its viewers.' And according to its SonyStyle.com site, here's what that Dash has to say about itself: 'I use over 1,500 free apps and your Wi-Fi connection to deliver the information and entertainment you crave... right to your bedroom, kitchen or office.' But Dash also has something to say about Sony, and for the most part, it's an encouraging message.



Dash was one of the more distinct category-blurring products to emerge from Las Vegas in January. Its hardware is a hybrid between an alarm clock and digital picture frame and its content is a content mashup between Chumby widgets and Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link offering. Dash was introduced just a few months after HP introduced its DreamScreen, another product that provides 'glanceable' information from the cloud.

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ARKive's 'Most Wanted' 2010 Campaign - US Launch

ARKive's 'Most Wanted' 2010 Campaign - US Launch: "

	ARKive's 'Most Wanted' 2010 Campaign - US Launch Wildscreen Patron Dr. Sylvia Earle and John Hanke, Director of Google Earth and Maps, joined the Wildscreen USA staff at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC to celebrate the launch of Wildscreen in the United States and the 2010 ARKive Campaign Challenge.	From: arkive Views: 53 1 ratings
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Super Fast Rubix Cube-Solving Robot

Super Fast Rubix Cube-Solving Robot: "

We've covered Rubix Cube solvers before
(#1,
#2,
#3),
but CubeStormer is pure fixed-automation bliss.
It can solve any combination of 3^3 cube in less that 12 seconds flat.
CubeStormer is built using LEGO Mindstorms RCX along with some serious
engineering in both the hardware and software departments.

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Robot Builders Forming Hackerspace in Dallas

Robot Builders Forming Hackerspace in Dallas: "

The Dallas Personal Robotics Group
(DPRG), one of the oldest robot
hobbyist groups in the world, is forming a hackerspace in
Dallas, Texas.
For the last seven years, the DPRG was based in the Garland, Texas
warehouse pictured above but, in 2009, the building changed hands
and the DPRG found
itself out of a home. Based on the success of hackerspaces
in other
parts of the world, the DPRG decided the time is right to start one
Dallas. For those not familiar with the idea, a hackerspace is a shared
community workshop supported by a membership fee that helps cover rent,
tools,
and other expenses. The DPRG is a 501(c)(3) as well and will be soliciting
grants and donations to help cover startup costs. Membership is open to
all types of makers, hackers, and creators in the community and there is
already a wide range of interests that include robots (of course!), CNC,
welding,
photography, hydroponics, vacuforming, and ham radio, to name just a
few. The DPRG hopes to find someone willing to donate land and a suitable
building but will lease temporary space if needed to have things up and
running sometime in March. So,
if you're in Dallas, join up and
help out. Even if you're not local, they're
accepting donations from like-minded folks, so throw a few dollars
their way if you can.

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an italian summer house

an italian summer house: "

Today we make a trip to Italy, the location of this summer house. The beautiful house stands on Filicudi, one of eight islands that make up the Aeolian archipelago. This small island is situated 20-30 miles northeast of the island of Sicily.

The interior is simple and rustic with some furniture painted in bright pink.

What a view! Words are not needed here…

(images by Adriano Bachella)

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edward leida - design director of W magazine at his home - manhattan - february 2nd 2010

edward leida - design director of W magazine at his home - manhattan - february 2nd 2010: "

edward leida - design director of W magazine at his home - manhattan - february 2nd 2010

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Why testers?

Why testers?: "

My sister got her kids a little puppy, and they’ve been trying to train it. To live with a dog in the house, you need to teach it not to jump on people, not to poop in the house, to sit on command, and to never, ever, ever chew on the iPad. Never. Good girl.

With dogs the main trick to training is that feedback has to be immediate. If you come home to discover that, hours before, the dog tipped over the garbage can in the kitchen, it’s too late for training. You can yell at her but she just won’t get what you’re going on about. Dogs are just not that smart.

For programmers, getting better at what you do requires quick feedback, positive and negative, on what you’ve just done. The faster you get the feedback, the faster you’ll learn. With long-cycle shrinkwrap software, it can take a year or more to hear feedback from customers.

That’s one of the reasons we have testers. A great tester gives programmers immediate feedback on what they did right and what they did wrong. Believe it or not, one of the most valuable features of a tester is providing positive reinforcement. There is no better way to improve a programmer’s morale, happiness, and subjective sense of well-being than a La Marzocco Linea espresso machine to have dedicated testers who get frequent releases from the developers, try them out, and give negative and positive feedback. Otherwise it’s depressing to be a programmer. Here I am, typing away, writing all this awesome code, and nobody cares. Boo hoo.

Who should be a tester? That’s tricky! Software testing is one of those careers that isn’t that well known, so a lot of people who would be great at testing and would probably enjoy it a lot never consider applying for jobs as testers.

Signs of a good tester:

• Scientific


• Loves a good puzzle, even the kind that takes days to solve


• Likes to think about things methodically


• Generally likes working with software and computers

You don’t have to be a programmer to be a tester. A lot of companies want testers to be programmers who write automated test suites. It seems more efficient that way. This reflects a misunderstanding of what testers are supposed to do, which is evaluate new code, find the good things, find the bad things, and give positive and negative reinforcement to the developers. Sure, automated test suites are a time saver, but testing software covers so much more than that. If you put too much emphasis on those scripts, you won’t notice misaligned text, hostile user interfaces, bad color choices, and inconsistency. Worse, you’ll have a culture of testers frantically working to get their own code working, which crowds out what you need them to do: evaluate someone else’s code.

A particularly terrible idea is to offer testing jobs to the programmers who apply for jobs at your company and aren’t good enough to be programmers. Testers don’t have to be programmers, but if you spend long enough acting like a tester is just an incompetent programmer, eventually you’re building a team of incompetent programmers, not a team of competent testers. Since testing can be taught on the job, but general intelligence can’t, you really need very smart people as testers, even if they don’t have relevant experience. Many of the best testers I’ve worked with didn’t even realize they wanted to be testers until someone offered them the job.

If you:

• Love software and computers


• Want to work on a software team, and


• Don’t particularly like programming

you should consider being a tester. (We’re hiring! What a coincidence!)

Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.

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Facebook / LinkedIn importers

Facebook / LinkedIn importers: "New StackOverflow developer Kevin Montrose (6,878 reputation) added a neat feature to the career site that makes it a zillion times easier to file a CV if you’ve already put in your job and education history on LinkedIn or FaceBook. Try it out.

Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.

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Weddell seal calling

Weddell seal calling: ""

34 Outstanding Admin Panels for Your Web Applications

34 Outstanding Admin Panels for Your Web Applications: "

Nowadays,more and more web applications are trying to take their stake from the internet,coming in your help and trying to make your internet`s life easier.Many people are using today twitter and facebook,or other social networks to communicate,and as a reward,big networks are offering what is called “The API key” (application programming interface) to help programmers to create related web applications.

Now,is so simple to create a web app,there are many tutorials showing you how to use the key;all you have to do is to come with an out of the box idea.So,you have the application.What`s next?

I`m saying an “Administration Panel” and you must agree my point of view because is a must-have for a web app.So,I want to come in your help and presenting you 34 most appealing and fully featured back-end control panels from the internet.

Choose you favourite,create an web app and start taking your internet stake too!

An admin panel is a must have for web applications like e-commerce projects or content management systems,known as CMS,and these beautiful panels are full of features created to make your life easier.All are perfectly coded and using the power of jQuery to animate the panels.

Simpla Admin

Simpla Admin is a professional template with a beautiful and user friendly interface. With various smart and intuitive jQuery functions, navigating the interface is a breeze.

Complete Liquid Admin Panel

Complex Liquid Admin template that contains a login page as well as a modular content page that includes all the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you should be able to generate any required page.

Admintasia backend control panel

Admintasia is a complete backend administration user interface that has the flexibility to house any kind of application. It loads last, it’s intuitive and easy to use, it uses only three small images and it also looks good.

Profi Admin

Profi Admin is a clean and simple style template but it’s complexity and expandability goes beyond expectations. The big visual menu creates the intuitive navigation while the tabbed and the hidden submenu expands the structure to 3 menu levels. Inspired by the WordPress Administration layout.

Cleanity Complete Admin

This professional looking and highly flourished skin is suitable for almost any kind purpose. Cleanity is a compilation of all features you might need on an administration theme.

eManager

This is how a CMS skin should look.

UltraAdmin Full Control

Advanced yet easy to use administration panel template. It includes 4 color schemes (the very hot aurora graphic skin, white, blue and dark skins) and is divided in a login page and two content pages that includes all the the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you can generate any required page.

Smart Admin

This cutting edge theme is best suitable for almost any CMS interface, particularly for serious ones.
Enabled with jquery based tabbed boxes inside pages, this theme is highly user-friendly and stylish.

Boxie Admin Panel

Simple, stylish and modern template for your website’s administration.
7 color variants included.

Meta Admin

Advanced yet easy to use administration panel template. It includes 4 color schemes (blue, green, grey, red) and is divided in a login page and a content page that includes all the the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you can generate any required page.

Flexy Admin

Advanced and easy to use administration theme which comes in 7 different colour variations. The theme is liquid, which means the width of the content area adapts to your browsers window size.
The template is divided into a login page and a content page that uses 4 different tabs to display the commonly used interface elements, needed to create an admin panel.

Fresh CMS

Tired and bored by all of the basic admin skins here, well there is a solution and it’s called FreshCMS. Amaze your clients with this CMS skin!
FreshCMS is a fresh kind of skin/theme, there is no similar kind of skin/theme here on ThemeForest! This skin/theme is almost complete(about 80%). This means that you can save some time in designing and building of a CMS . FreshCMS is packed with jQuery stuff like toggle, styleswitcher, delete content, sortable and more.

Broom Cupboard Admin Skin

Broom Cupboard is a simple, sylish and novel back-end theme for any custom dynamic website. Built using valid XHTML and CSS with a few jQuery flourishes (form validation, datepicker), this admin skin is easy to customise and intuitive to use.

Ultimate Admin Panel Solution

You’re a great php programmer, but you find your web applications not really visualy appealing? Ultimate Admin Theme is perfect solution for you and your web applications!

Titanium

Titanium is an admin panel template with tons of features, including tabs, dialogs, tooltips, buttons, etc. It comes in three different themes, and it’s also very easy to add your own color scheme.

Contrary to most admin panel, which overwhelm the user with options, icons, and buttons, Titanium was made with one goal in mind: keep it simple. But simple doesn’t mean dumb: the template uses flexible markup that lets you change elements width, height, and placement, and all elements are provided in photoshop files as individual slices, which lets you easily change colors or styles.

Wide Admin

Wide admin is a powerful lightweight backend interface application, ready to use for any software / cms you want.

AP Admin Panel

The AP Administration Panel is a (html)admin skin that comes with lots of usable (jQuery)effects, almost every thing works, go and see it for you self!

Ninja Admin

Ninja Admin is a clean and efficient admin skin that is easy to modify and brand. Use this layout to impress your friends and clients with an intuitive admin panel… be a Ninja.

Sleek Admin Skin

Intended for Content Management Systems and custom built applications, but can also be customized for Blog Administration and Intranet Applications.

Pro Admin Template

This Admin Template is a web 2.0 skin for web based applications and CMSs.
This theme is easy to integrate into existing projects or
you can start new from scratch.

Flexi Liquid Admin

Advanced yet easy to use administration panel template. It includes 4 color schemes (blue, green, grey, red) and is divided in a login page and a content page that includes all the the elements you could possibly need in your admin. From these elements you can generate any required page.

Site Core Admin Panel

SiteCore is a simple, stylish admin theme that can be used with any custom dynamic website. SiteCore includes jQuery effects / date picker and 5 color scheme variations: Teal, Pink, Green, Blue and Black. In addition, making a new color scheme is extremely easy.

Magic Admin

Beautifully designed and crafted admin / web app template for variety of uses.

See Admin Interface

See Admin Interface is new theme with a beautiful and accessible interface based on Jquery framework to make user interaction more pleasant.

Acid App Admin Panel

Acid App is a clean, web2.0-like template perfect for on-line applications and scripts. Written using valid XHTML Transitional 1.0, it’s simple and elegant.

Black Admin

Black Admin v2 is a nice and beautiful BLACK admin skin to integrate to your CMS or whatever you feel like integrating it to.

Forest Control Panel

ForestCP is an great and easy to customize backend administration user interface.

Primo Admin Panel

This is a clean and elegant admin template, also highly user-friendly and professional.

Equinox cPanel

This is a cool admin template that can also be used for business or general purpose sites.
It contains all the possible elements you need. Combining these elements can turn out any page useful in an admin panel.
It has a cool login page with remember me, forgot password, ajax validation and example php login script.

Easy Admin

EasyAdmin is a clean and easy to integrate or code with, admin template. It is well commented, documented and designed with the developer in mind.
Its jquery powered sidebar with custom code, can help you have really quick and easy in front of you the functionality you want to use often in the admin panel, such as adding a user, a post or even updating status on Twitter.

Chocolate admin

Looking for a clean cut professional admin theme? Chocolate admin is definitely for you.

Dark Admin

Dark Admin is a lightweight, easy-to-use, dark HTML admin template. It does not include any CMS features or backend coding. The theme is based off the layout of collis’ Quik v1 Admin Skin, but, it really is a whole different theme because of the color scheme.

Projectic

This theme is an admin skin for simple project administration. Built with valid xhtml + css it contains styling of the elements like calendar, tables, forms, messages, etc. to help keep your tasks nicely organized.

Handsome Admin Skin

Ultimate admin skin. Can be used to suit any needs.

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