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Friday, March 31, 2006

Print from your laptop to your wall using a can of spraypaint and string

This is the coolest thing ever! Two electronics engineering students in Zurich made this simple but intriguing way of printing from their tiny laptop to a wall of just about any size using a can of spray paint, some string, and two tiny motors. It's hypnotic to watch!

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RIAA Victims Banding Together

Good news: the economics of RIAA spray-style lawsuits just got better for the little guys.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

DS Lite PORN

Since most reviews of the DS Lite are more text than pictures, here is a site the has pictures galore of the new system. Multiple angles and even several shots of a bunch of different games running on those two beautiful screens.

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How to convert an NES cartridge to a hard-drive

This how-to details a simple and lovely mod that converts a Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge into a bus-powered USB 2.0 2.5" hard-drive enclosure.

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"Easy Button" Hack

MAKE Flickr photo pool member TommyBear turned a $5 Staples Easy Button into a switch for his garage door. Here's how you do it, easy!

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The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever

Keyboards come in many shapes - from the simplest computer grey $9.99 standard 102-key keyboard to variants that seem to come straight out of a Star Trek episode. Here's a top 10 list of some really cool keyboards.

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Sony's Universal Media Disc facing last rites

poor sony, when it rains it pours!!

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Awesome Digg Web 2.0 Effect

This is a really really cool web 2.0 javascript effect. Awesome!

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How to get songs off of your iPod

Hard drives can melt down. Computers can be stolen. Music folders can be deleted by mistake. Whenever the only copy of your music exists on your iPod, you need a way to get that music off of the unit and onto another computer.

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Cassini's View of Jupiter's South Pole!

Cassini took many photographs of Jupiter on the way to Saturn, including this unusual montage of its southern pole. This photograph was made up of 36 separate images, stitched together on computer.

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Solving Sudoku with SQL

A very informative tutorial on solving sudoku puzzles and a bit of SQL too.

Probably not your typical use for SQL.

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Xbox 360 goes liquid

The aims of the project were to:
a) Reduce the noise level
b) See if I could do it
I was not looking to lower the temperature to improve the stability. Ive heard reports in forums of the 360 overheating but I have not noticed this myself.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Graphical User Interface Timeline - 1973-2006

This timeline lists all of the graphical user interface environments that I have been able to find information about through my own research and on the Internet. I want to be as historically accurate as I can,

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Your Xbox Birth Certificate

Built entirely in flash, this application gives you information about your xbox based on your serial number. Where it was made, when it was made, and most importantly for people looking for mod chips, what version your xbox is.

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iPod vending machine - cool photos from Las Vegas

20 Pictures of a vending machine that sells iPods and iPod accessories. What happens if your $399 iPod gets stuck? Can you shake the machine?

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Official digg t-shirt released!

What do you digg? Fill in the blank with whatever you want. Mine is going to say "I digg dupes".. come on, you know that's kinda funny..

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Monday, March 27, 2006

DIGG.com story on CNN

Wow, opened up CNN.com this morning and there they were!

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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Cold War "Time Capsule" Found in Brooklyn Bridge

In a dank and dingy vault underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, a routine structural inspection last week unearthed a veritable Cold War time capsule, city officials announced this week.

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Saturday, March 25, 2006

HOW TO - Make a cell phone cradle with open source software and a waterjet

HOW TO - Make a Motorola RAZR phone with open source software and a waterjet! This one says MAKE on it.

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Altavista Founder Dies

Flaherty died March 16 of a heart attack at his home in Belmont, Calif., about 20 miles south of San Francisco, family members said Friday.

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Friday, March 24, 2006

Forbes Magazine on Google Ads & Digg.com

"The new breed of entrepreneurs aren't so foolish as to think they are the next Google. Digg CEO Jay Adelson knows that frugal operations and Google ads can take him only so far. "If you get enough customers, you need to invest in server farms and expertise. Lots of these companies will simply get lost in the noise."

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What happens to Apple when Steve Jobs quits or dies?

Steve Job's control over Apple is legendary. Jobs is part of every major product design, and everything Apple does publicly. But what happens post-Steve...

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New data transmission record - 60 DVDs per second

By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40 Gbit/s

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London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the sea

DOZENS of the world's cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought.

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Doom On a Lottery Machine

It Plays Doom! This guy got his hands on an ancient lottery machine and installed doom on it. NICE!

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Insanely Small Micro Hard Drive (pic)

About the size of a postage stamp - "Mounting dimensions are 0.94×1.26-inches, with a thickness of 0.197-inches. The drive uses 0.12-Watts in standby and 0.60-Watts during write operations. Running on 3.0-Volts over the 0° to 70°C temperature range, it has one platter, two heads, and a 3600rpm rotational speed."

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How To: Re-Surfacing CDs So They Work Again

With a few things that might be in your house, here is a simple way to remove scratches from a cd so you can get your data back off the disc again.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Cool Handheld Movie Player

Similar in size to Apple's iPod, the M-Bird Pocket Movie Player features a 2.2-inch LCD display, 4GB hard drive, and support for a variety of video/audio formats. An integrated d-pad makes navigating the interface a breeze.

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New Glass to make LCD's even cheaper

Corning has a new type of glass in prodiction that will help drive declining LCD prices down even further. Carefull shopping can already get you 17" LCD's for under $200.00 so this means they will go down even more!

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Yahoo Messenger with Voice launches in US!

Skype, get ready. Yahoo just released their lower-cost, SIP-based VoIP service today dubbed Yahoo Messenger with Voice. The version 7.5 Beta launch follows on the successes Yahoo has seen in five other countries since December

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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

1/3 in HD on 24's set

Cool in-depth article about shooting 24 in HD, trying out new 1/3in chip cameras

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LEARN 3D Modeling in 30minutes! Excellent wiki primer for any program

If you want to learn 3D and don't know what you're doing, spend 30min. reading this wiki primer and you will have a great grasp on how modeling in 3d works. Universal tutorial that will help you out in almost any 3D application (blender/maya/lightwave etc..).

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IE 7, Firefox 2.0 Prepare to Do Battle—Someday

"A beta version of Internet Explorer 7 and the first alpha of Firefox 2.0 look promising, but aren't yet ready to rumble."

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Microsoft Admits Internet Explorer Mistakes

Bill Gates admits that he made a mistake in waiting to build new innovations in its own browser technology, Internet Explorer. Now Microsoft is answering that challenge and is already looking ahead to the next two releases of IE...

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How TV audio produces surround sound

"HD transition tends to work against sound quality because of physical design constraints imposed by the new form factor. With limited room for speaker drivers and limited enclosure volume in flat panel sets, manufacturers have turned to signal processing to ensure that audio quality matches or exceeds video quality in their products."

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Monday, March 20, 2006

Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by step

Nice walkthrough/tutorial on making a good CSS page.

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How to Nail a Sexy Layout

Step-by-step guide on how to code a sexy, CSS and XHTML compliant, and tableless layout.

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SanDisk: We WILL Take Away Market Share from Apple with New MP3 Player

Sandisk is introducing their sexy new MP3 player. They will be and pushing the "more for your money" angle and add more features and undercut the iPod in price.

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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Mythbusters build robot with Radio Shack kit

The mythbusters have built a stair climbing robot using the Vex system from Radio Shack. Its pretty in depth article written for Robot Magazine.

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PIMP MY MSN SPACE!

PIMP YOUR MSN SPACE! LEARN HOW TO ADD WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER AND MANY OTHER POWERTOYS AND OTHER COOL AND USEFUL STUFF ON YOUR MSN SPACE !

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Digg overtakes SlashDot

It finally happened.

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'South Park'-Scientology Battle Rages On

NEW YORK - "South Park" has declared war on Scientology. Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist tom cruise

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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Macbreak: Leo Laporte demonstrates WinXP running on a Mac Mini

Windows XP on an Intel Core Solo Mac Mini.

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An inside look at the Mythbusters workshop

Very cool.

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THREE THOUSAND iBooks installed in less than 3 days (w/ Pictures)

Miramar High School had the largest number of iBooks in this 1 to 1 installation. We configured, installed and delivered close to 3,000 systems in less than 3 days. Not sure if it is a new record, but we're pretty confident it is.

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Friday, March 17, 2006

The Worst Decisions in Videogame History

Videogame industry is certainly not perfect. As alive as it is with quality software and great system hardware, there are mistakes that are made that leave the competition reeling and gamers fleeing for better pastures. The article lists some of the most significant mistakes to come down the pike in the industry...

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Beer Can Padlock Shim aka "Masterlock Master Key"

How to build a better padlock shim using a very special hacker tool... A beer can.

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Google Earth live flight tracking

Google Earth plugin thatlet's you track a current flight live.

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Thailand Tsunami: Then and Now Photos

Photos of Thailand right after the tsunami, and from the same angle now. Rather inspiring.

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65 ScreenShots of Windows VISTA - Great Quality

Virtually Everything you could be curious about is Illustrated in the LARGE Quality Screenshots

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A (gigantic !!!) Lego aircraft carrier

Ho wow, very amazing, i never seen something like that built with Lego. Include all the staff !! (With screenshots)

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Google Wins!

Google will not have to hand over any user's search queries to the government. That's what a federal judge ruled today when he decided to drastically limit a subpoena issued to Google by the Department of Justice. (You can read the entire ruling here and the government's original subpoena here.)

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

HOW TO: Make Designs Using The Brush Metal iPod Look!

Customize your iPod with a specific design, like flames, added to your "Brushed Metal Look" for your iPod!

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Submit to Digg Toolbar Buttons

Add toolbar buttons to Firefox, IE, Opera that submit the page you're viewing right to the digg.com "Submit a New Story" page.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Amazing Literal Periodic Table Of The Elements, with samples & pics!

This dude built a huge periodic table of the elements from wood. Under each tile is a compartment to hold an actual sample of the element in question. Plus he has cool pics and info about each one. Time sink!

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ALL NEWS FROM PS3 CONFERENCE

this is the PS3 press conference, with many updates.
DIGG THIS ONE STORY to get this news to the front page and not spread over 100 stories

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Massive collection of LEGO instructions scans

This site has all the scans of LEGO booklets you ever dreamt of.

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Javascript Library: Drag&Drop, Fade, Animations...

Ever want to add drag and drop to your website? How about a cool animation or fade? Rico is an free, open javascript library that makes adding these features easy. Check out the demo, it's pretty slick.

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Digg Adds Friends Tracking!

Logged in users will now have the ability to track their friend's activities directly on the homepage. You're now able to track stories dugg, commented on, submitted, and stories in the queue (unpromoted)!

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

McAfee update exterminates Excel

An error in McAfee's virus definition file released Friday morning caused the company's consumer and enterprise antivirus products to flag Microsoft's Excel, as well as other applications on users' PCs, as a virus called W95/CTX, Joe Telafici, director of operations at McAfee's Avert labs, told CNET News.com.

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It's 'Official': Windows Vista to Launch in November!

From the "Official Microsoft Connections" event blog we now have an official month for the Vista launch.... November come on down!

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Microsoft Confirms it Originated iPod Box Parody Video

Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video.

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Wired Magazine: Digg.com - Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War

The quest to build a better news filter boils down to the age-old conflict between computer intelligence and human judgment. Here's why the machine will win.Standing up for the human intellect, upstart Digg is betting that its formidable legion of users can find better and more interesting news faster than any algorithm Google can code.

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PlayStation 3 in Tokyo tomorrow, Sony confirms

ony poked its head out from behind the curtain long enough to confirm rumors that new PlayStation 3 details will be announced tomorrow at a conference in Tokyo.

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Is Vista Microsoft's last OS?

Bill Gates discusses Microsoft's new plan... and it isn't operating systems as we know them...

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University of Wisconsin deploys nearly 200TB of Xserve RAID storage

University of Wisconsin is at it again. We have seen them in the past few weeks with the OS X Hack challenge. Here they are with 200TB of storage using Xserve. Pics too!

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Google News gets foiled by 15-year old

Tom Vandetta found an article that explained how to fool Google's news system by writing fake press releases. He then decided to see what would happen if he submitted a fake Google press release claiming the 15-year old New Jersey student was Google's youngest employee.

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Hilarious Clip of a Guy telling QVC what he uses his computer for.

I wish I saw this for real. I can't believe it but its funny as hell.

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Monday, March 13, 2006

Google Launches "Google Mars"

Google has just launched a new service called "Google Mars" that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.

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Classic NES Modified To Look Like Upright PS2

This beautiful Nintendo mod, known as the NEStation is complete with Blue LEDS in order to bring the sleek and modern look of Sony's PS2. This is probably the most original NES mod I've seen.

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Sunday, March 12, 2006

The Piratebay wins 6000$ thanks to TV-Show contestant

Thanks to Petter Nilsson, a candidate of the Swedish TV show Toppkandidaterna (Top candidates), the Piratebay just won over 6000$. Petter Nilsson said earlier that he would donate over 6000$ to ThePiratebay if he won. ThePiratebay is planning to invest the money in a new search and an new database server.

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How To Improve Your Study Habits and Remember Better

If you're a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it was hard to make yourself settle down and study, even when an important exam was coming up.If you're like most students, you put off studying until the very last minute

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Google - A Rare Look At How They Do It

Ever wonder how Google stays so reliable and quick? Did you know that they use a stripped down version of Red Hat? Did you know they built their own file system? This article explains it all.

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Can't download that video? Now you can.

Thanks to this simple web tool which allows you to save video files from 40 sites to your computer.

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Ever wonder how movies are played at the theatre?

If you are into tech, like me, you are cursed [or blessed, depending on how you look at it] with wondering how everything works... Well today I plan on answering one of your questions [if you didn't already know] how movies are played in the movie theatre.

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New Super Mario Bros DS Screenshots

Nintendo has published some new screens and tons of art work for New Super Mario Bros. and it instills so much old school confidence.

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Saturday, March 11, 2006

Next Gen Contact Lenses During Night Only

OrthoKeratology (Ortho-K) is a non-surgical process which reshapes (flattens) the cornea of the eye using custom made contact lenses during the night to reduce refractive errors (nearsightedness and astigmatism). The patient would take the lenses out in the morning and they are able to see the rest of the day without any glasses or contact lenses.

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Friday, March 10, 2006

eEye Flags More iTunes, QuickTime Flaws

"Researchers at eEye Digital Security have pinpointed two high-risk vulnerabilities in iTunes and QuickTime that could put millions of Windows and Mac users at risk of code execution attacks."

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Geotool - Google Maps IP address locator

Nice IP address/hostname look-up utility using a Google maps mash-up.

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XBOX 360 Overheating Caused by Protective Foil on Heatsink?

A German modding site posted that 2 independantly bought Xbox 360 consoles had been found with the protective layer on the GPU heatsink's heat transfer pad left on. Could this be the cause of the overheating issue? linked to a english review of the German post.

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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Steve Jobs Soundboard

A Steve Jobs Soundboard including more than 50 sounds. Make your own Steve Jobs keynote!

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High-Res Images of the Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights

The National Archives provides access to high-res images of the Charters of Freedom documents. These files are in JPEG format with the maximum quality setting possible. For graphic designers, each file also contains "clipping paths" for easy mask creation with most professional graphics software.

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New Office 2007 UI screenshots

These are amazing new screenshots from the new Office 2007 UI. Finally Microsoft is making a beautiful product.

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A 10 megapixel camera phone! Insane!

You have to check this baby out. Samsung's 10 mega pixel phone, and it's only twice the thickness (if that) of the Motorola V3 razr!

INSANE!

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And You Thought You Wanted Internet Access Badly

Cuba blocks internet access

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Rotting Watermelon - Time Lapse Photography

Watermelon going from ripe to rotten in 15 seconds

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Screenshot of Microsoft.com's First Web Page

This is a flash back to the early days, when this sort of design would have been THE SITE.

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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Build Your Own PVR, Then Trash It

It's never been easier to assemble a versatile personal video recorder, but the entertainment industry is scheming to make DYI boxes less useful. One reporter tries building a homebrew TiVo clone.

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Man Drives 17 Miles On Wrong Side Of Interstate

Police said a man drove 17 miles in the wrong direction on a Pennsylvania interstate before being pulled over.State police said the Florida man appeared confused when he was stopped early Tuesday while driving west in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80.

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A $2500 game demo

A man pays $2500 for the only playable version of the Sonic X-treme known to exist. This is hard core.

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Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab

Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

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Check out this LED Clock

TIX LED Clock describe as a Designer time machine. I think its great for any tech fans. Im sure many of you will think its ugly

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The Internet's Largest Image Online - 86400 x 43200 pixels!

IIPimage is a client-server system for the remote viewing of ultra-high resolution images over the internet. Their demo of NASA's incredible ultra high resolution Marble Earth image at 86400 x 43200 pixels is probably the biggest single image ever made available online!

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Burn Gamecube ISO's to Mini-DVD...And actually play them

No modchip required. With this little workaround you'll be playing your "backup" Gamecube games in no time.

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Real Google Calendar (aka CL2) Screenshots + Info.

TechCrunch scored a bunch of exclusive screenshots of Google's upcoming calendar application. It's apparently a long way away from launch.

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Ipod vending machine

This weekend, in Atlanta's airport, I happened across an Ipod vending machine. If you have a credit card, this vending machine will spit out a video ipod, a nano, a shuffle, or any number of accessories to go along with it. There was a crowd of geeks surrounding the machine just gawking in the clever marketing of our dear friends at apple.

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Photo-Realistic Images

Make your digital images more convincing and lifelike with just a handful of gradients and custom shadows. Once you're done, your pictures will look like real photo prints, you'd swear they popped out of the screen.

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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Finally! REAL Origami photos from CNET!!

title says it all!

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George Lucas predicts the end of big budget movies

Leave it to "Star Wars" creator George Lucas to pronounce the death of the Hollywood blockbuster.

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Boys' MySpace prank results in sex crime arrest

A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an Internet prank ended up helping police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, authorities said.

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Monday, March 06, 2006

Oscar Winners popular on Bittorrent

The day after the Academy award show is "Oscar winner download day". People are desperately trying to find that Oscar winning movie they haven't seen yet. Mininova's search cloud is a nice illustration. The screenshot shown here is taken 14 hours after the winners were announced.

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52,007-year Orbiting Time Capsule

KEO is an orbiting time-capsule designed to orbit the earth for more than 52,000 years. Among other things, it contains a drop of human blood encased in an artificial diamond and a set of "contemporary 'Library of Alexandria'" glass-DVDs. You can submit your *own message* to be included, launch is in a year or so. What would you write?

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Mozilla made $72 million from Firefox

Last year Mozilla made $72 million from Firefox, The money comes from the Google Search box on the top right, when you search using that box and you click on Google ads on the results page Firefox gets about 80%.

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Make Windows 3.11 Look Like XP

Calmira XP 4.0 beta gives the Windows 3.x desktop the WinXP look-and-feel. In this new version an XP taskbar has been added, and even experimental support for long file names. Other things Calmira includes is the XP login screen, and more.

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Sunday, March 05, 2006

The First Web Browser

Screenshot of the first web browser ever made!

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55 Reasons to Design in XHTML/CSS

"In no particular order 55 reasons for me to do "tableless" websites using valid XHTML for markup, CSS for layout and Flash sparingly, only as an ingredient." - I think it's a nice list to begin a discussion with (as if it was needed, heh!).

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3 Classic video games (nice ad-free site)

A pleasantly non commercial site with fast loading flash versions of Pacman, Tetris, and Space Invaders. For retro gamers everywhere.

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Remote PC Access with Nintendo DS

Just saw this cool trick demonstrated on Flickr. I'll post a link to the software that accomplishes this in the comments section

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Saturday, March 04, 2006

How did Flickr start?....you'll be surprised

Caterina Fake knew she was onto something when one of the engineers at her Vancouver, British Columbia-based online game start-up created a cool tool to share photos and save them to a Web page while playing

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Google GDrive isn't a rumor

Google themselves have acknowledged that a GDrive is in development. Soon we will be able to use our G: to save and access files remotely.

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Isohunt, TorrentBox, and other P2P sites to form coalition to fight MPAA

As you've probably heard, the MPAA has dished a new set of lawsuits against the filesharing sites Isohunt.com and TorrentBox.com, but these powerhouse P2P communities aren't taking it lying down. "Have they ever learned from the VCR or Napster? When will corporations stop fighting technology and learn to embrace it to benefit all of us?"

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Man recites over 22,000 digits of pi, from his memory.

After a severe seizure, Daniel Temmet was able to recall mathematical and sequential facts with easy, including the ability to recite, over several hours, number Pi to it's 22,514's digit.

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Old Apple Brochure created by Simpsons creator Matt Groening

This was created well before the simpsons. It features characters from Groening's Life is Hell comic strip.

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Free USB Drive - Microsoft

Get a free USB Drive from Microsoft. Click on the image of the USB drive "Valuable Information - Get Yours".

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Laughing Too Hard Can Kill You?!

Apparently you can actually die by laughing too hard. The common phrase "I nearly died laughing" may have merit after all!

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Friday, March 03, 2006

If Video-game characters made a living in the real world

Funny: Video-game characters make a living in the real world,
one of the coolest parts of Fark.com is the photoshop theme submitted links

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60 Feet to High Speed: Man builds own reception tower

With a church blocking his reception, one man would stop at nothing to get access to the only high-speed ISP in town. He built a 60-foot tower in his yard to get the signal, and did it on a budget.

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VIDEO of Fedex Kinko's Smart Cards getting hacked!

This video shows a couple guys hacking the FedEx Kinko Smart Cards. It actually works. They paid a buck and hacked the card to give them $50 bucks. They could have easily cashed out that 50 bucks at the cashier.

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Firefox Extension Contest Winners Announced

Mozilla's Firefox development contest has come to a close and the winners have been announced. Three grand prize winners will get a pimped-out Alienware box. The original announcement and finalists were also covered here on digg.

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$3,500 USB Key

What do you buy for the geek that has everything? Well, certainly not a $3,500 gold-plated, diamond-encrusted USB memory stick.

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Thursday, March 02, 2006

51 Year Old Hobbyist, from Mexico, Builds His Own Jetpack, from Scratch

Lozano is not a rocket scientist. He is not a stuntman. He is an animated, often goofy granddad who is afraid of the sight of blood. He says, "The difference between me and everyone else is that these guys didn't create their own rocket belts from scratch."

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Google says goal to build $100 billion company

Web search leader Google Inc aims to become a $100 billion company and said on Thursday that it plans to put systems in place to help reach that scale during 2006.

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EA's Exclusive Contract With The NFL May Be Voided!

If the dispute between the NFLPA and the NFL continues then anti-trust rules will apply. If this happens then EA's contract is null and void!

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Middle School Suspends 20 for looking at offensive MySpace AT HOME

Some parents questioned whether the school overstepped its bounds by disciplining students for actions that occurred on personal computers, at home and after school hours.

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Wikipedia Reaches 1,000,000 Articles

WIkipedia, the widely successful on-line encyclopedia, has crossed the 1,000,000 article mark.

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Windows Genuine Advantage can't be disabled

A new patch via the http://update.microsoft.com site now prevents users from disabling Windows Genuine Advantage in the Manage Add-ons tab of IE 6.

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DS Lite Launch Official: Full Report

The DS Lite has officially made its debut in Japan. Full report inside.

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Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050

Interesting reading

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More People Realizing That Copy Protection Is Just Bad

It seems that a growing number of people are recognizing that, despite everything the entertainment industry says, copy protection simply doesn't make any sense. Not from a consumer standpoint and not from a business standpoint.

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The History of Splash Screens with Pics

Check out some old-school Splashes to your favorite applications,

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AOL owns AOLSUCKS.com

lol

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Javascript in Ten Minutes

If want to learn Javascript in 10 minutes, then here you go.

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It's Official: "File sharing is not theft. It has never been theft." - BBC

The BBC has clarified one of its scaremongering 'filsharing = paedophilia' industry shill pieces with a complete 180 reversal and the declaration that filesharing is not theft.

The snowflakes are settling in Hell right now.

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Photos -- Digg's New Offices and Digg Employees.

Kevin's Flickr account shows the new empty offices as well as other Digg employees.

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Apple Release iTunes 6.0.4 Update

Apple released the iTunes 6.0.4 update today. This update includes Front Row updates on the Mac. Also released was an iPod updater which adds speaker functionality for the new iPod Hi-Fi.

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Wisconsin Mother of 2 Sued by RIAA - Doesn't know how to download music

A woman from De Pere, WI, near Green Bay, is being sued for downloading music. She claims she doesn't know how to download music, and her children "are 7 and 3, too young to be downloading Bob Marley's 'Pimper's Paradise,' Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' and William Hung's 'She Bangs' "

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