Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude is pronounced as SHA-den-froid-uh and is actually a German word.  It means "malicious enjoyment of the misfortunes of others." according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
In Japanese, there is a perfect expression: "他人の不幸は蜜の味", or "ひとの不幸は蜜の味".
In Chinese it is translated as "因他人的不幸而感快乐;幸灾乐祸" (Baidu), the later idiom is less explicit than the Japanese one, but a better structured literal expression.

AF Microadjustment for DSLR Cameras

Frustrated by bad focusing when taking photographs? Better start thinking about AF microadjustment. The cameras that have this features are: Canon 1DIII, 1DIV, 1DsMkIII, 5DII, 50D, 7D, Nikon D3, D3x, D300, D700, Sony A900, Pentax K20.
In Nightlight Images, there is an article about microadjustment, which teaches one how to make use of the feature of microadjustment to fine tune a camera's automatic focusing function.
While being in Japanese, Watch Impress has an article particularly for microadjustment of Nikon D300.
Canon have a 1D /1Ds3 'Optimising Camera settings' document [PDF].

Email anonymity breached?

According to TECHWORLD, Canadian researchers came up with a method to identify the writers of e-mails. As high-tech as it sounds, the ideas behind it is nothing but "sniffing out patterns in their writing style from use of all lowercase letters to common typos". If it goes well, it means that the sender of an e-mail can be singled out even if sent anonymously, especially those of malicious spam e-mails.

Concordia researchers tested their system by putting it to use on over 200,000 emails from 158 employees of Enron, and were able to identify authors 80% to 90% of the time.

80% to 90%... um, sounds like a promising number. But wait, what would happen to the 10% to 20% that might be wrongfully judged as  criminals?

Free Portable Text Editors

 EditPadLite is really a light editor with tabs. It can convert case (upper to lower and lower to upper), convert as initial caps and invert case. It can also convert the carriage return codes for Windows, Unix and Mac. It can also manually or automatically indent the text.
PSPad has its own file explorer and is more sophisticated than Edit Pad Lite.
Notepad++ is a fully featured editor with many fantastic features. It supports almost all major programming languages/scripts. There is also an official tutorial for it. Features I like include search among all the opened files, block editing, highlighting all appearances when a word is selected etc.
Kudaz is an editor for programmers and supports highlighting/auto-indentation for most major languages/scripts.
Extreme Editor is also for programmer, with neat user interface.
Note Tab Lite is a replacement of notepad and capable of HTML editing.
Firstobject XML editor, as it's title suggests, is for XML or HTML editing.
vi, on the other hand, is an almost obsolete, but very handy editor, for those who are used to its compact interface. vim.org has resources for all platforms, including Unix, PC (MS-DOS and MS-Windows), Amiga, OS/2, Macintosh and some other operating systems. All necessary executable files or related documents can be downloaded from this site.
Freesoft 100 (in Japanese) gives a list of free text editors.
Wikipedia gives a list of text editors, both commercial and free ones, also covering operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS-X, BeOS. Java based on editors should run on any platforms with Java virtual machine support.

Lunar Perigees

Sounds like a difficult techy term, but it's just saying that the moon will pass just 221,567 miles away on March 19. Supposedly its closest for 18 years.
What's more interesting, or not interesting, is that previous lunar perigees (aka supermoons; 1955, 1974, 1922 and 2005) all were accompanied with extreme weather events.

Assembly Language

There are many reasons to use assembly language for programming, and there are as many reasons not to use. No matter what, if one does need to use assembly for whatever reasons, A86/A386 is something great to start with.
It is a share ware, and can be easily downloaded from this link, a single zip file with all the commands, documents included.

Collection of Digital Image Specialized Sites

pixiq is a site with news and technical reviews about digital images. Comparison resports between cameras of similar specification and by different manufactures are a good source for purchase reference.
dpreview.com has everything about digital cameras: digital photography review, news, reviews, forums and FAQ. Especially the reviews on almost all the famous models are fun and comprehensive to read. There are comprehensive comparisons between major camera models, with different parameters, such as ISO values, aperture and shutter speed. One will no doubt feel more comfortable in purchase of a camera after reading all related information.
Bob Atkins is a nice site with reviews, photo gallery of Canon products. Especially reviews on lens are very comprehensive and worth reading.
kurtmunger has plenty Sony alpha and NEX lens reviews
GANREF is a Japanese site with my interesting services. Review of lens (sharpness) are plotted with DxO Analyzer's「Blur」 format.
PhotoXP (the index page) has photos organized by Camera and lens. Although a site 100% Japanese and some of the photos without much "professional" composition, almost all of the photos have EXIF info., very good references for different parameters and their effects.
darwin wigget is a blog with amazingly beautiful pictures. One of it's post is a very interesting lens comparison with in-the-field test shots, between Sigma 120-400mm 4.5-5.6L APO HSM and Canon's 100-400 f4.5-5.6L, 70-200F4L and 300mm F4L.
popphoto.com also gives many reviews on lens, camera and accessories. Although the reviews are not very technical, they are compact and easy to understand. Its galleries is also a good place to look for beautiful pictures. Its blogs such as "state of the art" is a good place to look for creative photography.
digitalslrphoto.com specializes in SLR cameras and has many great reviews on DSLR/accessory reviews. No need to say, it also has a good collection of great photography works, nicely organized by categories. Its "Creative Eye" has many innovative photographies with lipstick, scissors, champagne, matchsticks, milk and balloons. The "Photo Challenge" offers a prize of over £10,000 for original digital SLR photography. It also has a free download for a free book "Making Money from Photography"
shashinlink has links to many photography specialized sites. It is well categorized and mostly are personal creations.
yuubi is another similar one. But this can submit one's own site information and ask to be registered to it.
photolink is another similar, but more focused on those by professionals. All of the 3 link sites are in Japanese.
The site of International Center of Photography has the information of current and past exhibitions, although not limited to digital ones at all. Even though only limited items displayed are present, it is still a rich gallery and text book (both history and technical) of master pieces of photography.