10 things to learn on June 13th

10 things to learn from the almighty WWW today:

Do you know these Double-click Tricks in Excel? | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips – Chandoo.org

Most of us think of mastering formulas, learning macros and being supergood with charts when we think of being productive with spreadsheets. But often learning simple stuff like keyboard shortcuts, using mouse and working with menus and ribbons can be a huge productivity booster for us. So as part of this installment of spreadcheats we will learn 7 very cool and effective double click tricks in excel. (as an aside, try saying double click tricks several times faster… )

16 great .htaccess Tricks and Hacks « PHP Twitter

The .htaccess files (Hypertext Access file) is a very powerful configuration tool on Apache web server. The Apache web server has a number of configuration options that are available to the server administrator. The .htaccess is a simple ASCII text file placed in your website root directory. You can create and edit an .htaccess file using a text editor like notepad.

Here in this post I have come up with useful 16 tips and hacks to configure your web server. As a configuration file .htaccess if a very powerful and a slight syntax error can result in a severe malfunction of your server. So to avoid that always try to keep a backup copies of all your files from the server before working with the .htaccess file.

How Cloud Computing Will Change Business – BusinessWeek

Neuroskeptic: Your Inner Robot

Have you ever stepped onto a stopped escalator? If so, you'll probably have experienced a strange sensation – a rather unique kind of giddy, whole-body jolt – and you may well have stumbled clumsily for a second or so.

But why? And why is it that the phenomenon happens even if you've seen and understood that the escalator is stopped?

refspoof :: Add-ons for Firefox

Easy spoofing of the URL referer (referrer) featuring a toolbar – means it allows to pretend to origin from a site by overriding the url referrer (in a http request). — it incorporates this feature by using the pseudo-protocol spoof:// .. thus it's possible to store the information in a "hyperlink" – which can be used in any context .. like html pages or bookmarks

Seven things that don't make sense about gravity – New Scientist

It's the force we all know about and think we understand. It keeps our feet firmly on the ground and our world circling the sun.

Yet look a little closer, and the certainties start to float away, revealing gravity as the most puzzling and least understood of the four fundamental forces of nature.

Michael Brooks investigates its mysterious ways

10 superb social media presentations | Blog | Econsultancy

Slideshare is a fantastic resource for sharing presentations, so you can enjoy and learn from smart people even if you cannot attend the conferences and events they often speak at.

Some slideshows lose a lot of meaning if you dont have the author walking and talking you through them, but others are excellent, and there's a kind of brevity associated with the best presentations / slides, which helps to drill home the message.

I have recently been browsing a number of quality social media presentations on Slideshare and thought I'd collate some of the best ones for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

14 Things to Avoid Saying in an Interview

Well, I just completed my interview with the IRS last week. I know what your are thinking, what loser would want to work for the IRS and take all of that heat? Well, I do! Times are rough in the job market and this is a viable option for me. First, I love taxes and talking with individuals about them. Second, it is well within my expertise and I know I will be great at it.

mental_floss Blog » Why Does Everything Taste Bad After You Brush Your Teeth?

You can thank sodium laureth sulfate, also known as sodium lauryl ether sulfate (SLES), or sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) for ruining your drink, depending on which toothpaste you use. Both of these chemicals are surfactants – wetting agents that lower the surface tension of a liquid – that are added to toothpastes to create foam and make the paste easier to spread around your mouth (they’re also important ingredients in detergents, fabric softeners, paints, laxatives, surfboard waxes and insecticides).

mental_floss Blog » Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 11: What’s the Difference?

Here is a hard and difficult truth that many MBA programs are unlikely to share: Many of you, perhaps most of you, will at some point be involved with a business that runs out of money and can’t pay its debts. (This is probably a good time to mention that your $14.95 tuition is non-refundable.) But fear not, young capitalist. If you can’t pay your bills on time, you may feel bankrupt but you’re merely insolvent. You’re not actually bankrupt until you legally declare you can’t pay your creditors, or until your creditors file a bankruptcy petition against you. At this point, a court’s going to start helping you figure out how to pay your debts.

There are six types of bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, but the kinds most often associated with businesses are Chapter 7 and Chapter 11. (They are lengthy chapters in a very sad book.) Pick which sentence best describes your situation:

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