The purpose of a resume is to tout your talents to a prospective employer; however, not all talents deserve a listing. Yahoo’s HotJobs sets out criteria for which achievements you should include and which you should leave off entirely. Photo by jon tunn. According to their post, any accomplishment you highlight should meet three criteria. [...]

International musician and man-about-town Richie Hawtin has a track record of collaborating with Native Instruments on its DJ products, frequently putting stuff through its paces well before it’s made available to the public at large — and once again, the dude’s been caught using some unknown gear at a show in Berlin. Seems like pretty [...]

Wired.com’s Terminal Man has flown on 50 different flights in a bit more than 20 days, and he’s still got more than a week before he’s done.

It’s the 20th anniversary of a major research breakthrough from IBM, in which physicist Don Eigler moved and positioned individual atoms to spell out the letters I-B-M. We present a gallery of nifty single-atom compositions and Eigler’s thoughts on the significance of his work.

Chumby may now finally be branching out with a few less cuddly products of its own, but it looks like you can now also expand your Chumby options yourself with a few basic DIY skills — or you could if you were lucky enough to get in on the first batch of Chumby Guts kits. [...]

Google just started handing out Wave invites, and they’re planning to dish out more all day. The door is open to 100,000 new users; if you’re one of the lucky ones, you can share the love (and your invites) here. It’s 11am in Sydney, Australia, where the Wave team is based, so “all day” means [...]

One of last year’s TechCrunch50 startups, Bojam, is launching in public beta today and we have 500 invites. Bojam is a Web-based sound studio that lets musicians practice playing music, find other musicians around the world to jam with, and lay down tracks together on the same song. Click here to try out the service. [...]

What if the desktop on your computer was just like your actual desktop? That’s the core idea behind BumpTop, a really nice looking graphical overlay for Windows-based operating systems. But as cool as BumpTop looked, you still had to use your mouse and keyboard to manipulate it. As I made clear yesterday, I want those [...]

Ah, the Windows install process. Long associated with repeated clicking of the “Next” button, it’s also home to one of the more shady practices to exist in modern software: the bundled application. Hapless users looking to get through the process as quickly as possible inevitably wind up installing some junk software that they don’t really [...]

In the fast-changing landscape of digital book publishing there is now something called a vook, a product and company which is a hybrid of text and video, delivered on the Web and as an iPhone download . Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint, is working with Vook, a San Francisco-area start-up, to publish four “vooks,” of [...]