Happy New Year VR Panoramas

"The count down for New Year 2006 has started. Like last year VR Photographers around the world will show you how the New Year is celebrated through 360 degree interactive fullscreen panoramas. While you wait for the New Years panoramas a new fullscreen is posted every day. Also see the panoramas from last year below"

Cool!

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NASA Lights The Skies on Jan 15th

The Stardust sample return capsule nose dives back to Earth on Jan 15th. Scientists and engineers are at the ready to observe the spectacular sky show�and savvy skywatchers can join in on the aerial action too.

Dated material, valid only Jan 15th!

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Einstein's Riddle - Who owns the fish?

Albert Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 19th century. He said that 98% of the world's population would not be able to solve it. Are you in the 2%?
There are no tricks, just pure logic.

Abby, have you done this one, has Paul?

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Alternate Covers for Romance Novels

Photoshop is AWESOME. And so is this guy.

Oh yeah, these covers are a hoot!

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Google Translator Lies!

Copy and paste this sentence without quotes: "Maria's mom is nice and cool". Select to translate from English to Spanish. Translate.
Copy the result you got in spanish, and translate it back from Spanish to English. Cool?

I blog this digg for Joe, enjoy.

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Desktop wallpaper from macro computer photography

25 closeup shots of older computer hardware (Gravis, Sparc, DEC Alpha, etc) styled as desktop wallpaper. 3 sizes each and freely available under CC.

Love new desktops!

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The Couchbike - just wow!

Two guys toured Eastern Canada sitting on their couch and even the mounted police thought they had a "nice rig". "The Couchbike pokes fun at our sedentary culture but also exemplifies the broad scope of possibilities for human power."

Ahh, human ingenuity, isn't it grand!

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Equation proving that girls are evil!

Wow.

Hey, don't shoot the messenger, I'm just passing on the link here!

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Frontline Cyberwar (video)

How vulnerable is the United States to attack from cyberspace? How imminent is the threat? Many experts believe the clock is already ticking and that America is already fighting a... Watch Entire Episode 52 min.

Great for us who do not have TV access!

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Maglight switching to LEDs!

Finally everyone's favorite Flashlight will update their technology and release LED based MAG-Lights!

Now THIS is great news! As long as they don't start out overpriced, LED flashlights direct from Mag are a winning idea!

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New York goes after the RIAA

Elliot Spitzer has slapped subpoenas on 'the four largest record labels'. Looks like he too doesn't like the idea of iTunes changing to a variable pricing model as suggested by the RIAA et al...

One man's view, I hope he's right! Stupidest thing the music industry could do would be to raise prices on the iTunes Music Store.


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Project Honey Pot: Distributed Spam Harvester Tracking Network...

"Project Honey Pot is a distributed system of decoy email addresses website administrators can include on their sites in order to gather information about the robots and spiders spammers use. We collate data on how addresses are harvested, distributed, and eventually spammed in order to understand the entire spam cycle."

Great idea, the word 'honeypot' is used in tech lingo to describe a phony server or location on the web (pot), set up in such a way as to attract (honey) a specific type of internet traffic.

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Dad Replaces Bad Kids 360 with Coal

The guy says he's sick of his ratbag son and needs to teach him a lesson.

In case you're having problems with that title as I did, the Dad sold a new X-Box 360 game he bought for the kid for $100 and a bag of coal, the bag was going to be put IN the X-Box 360's box! And so the kid would open the X-Box and 'get a message from Santa' inside.

Ouch!

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How Fiber Optics are Made

Excellent video on how fiber optics are made(via make)

This will be something to visit later, their server is bogged down right now due to too many diggers visiting.

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Google has put a price on your head for e-mails ending in @aol.com

"You are worth US$769.23. Unfortunately, you will not be able to use it to pay your credit card bill."

Interesting way to crunch the numbers, and interesting article overall...

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"Little Red Book prompts DHS visit" was Big Fat Lie

"Suspicions confirmed: The U. Mass student who said he was visited by DHS agents after requesting a copy of Mao's "Little Red Book" made the whole thing up." -via boing boing

Hmm, will need to verify. In today's info age where, more and more, journalists don't bother to verify, this is very possible.

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DIY Laser Engraved Toast

Best use of lasers and toast so far.(Via Make)

Oh yeah, add this to the "when I win the lottery" shopping list!

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50 all time best gadgets

How many of the gadets do you own or have owned? Pretty good read.

My kinda article! Oh Yeah!

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Small Space Rock Spotted Hitting the Moon

Add one more crater to the already beat-up Moon. Astronomers have recorded a tiny blip northwest of Mare Imbrium, a flash caused by a meteoroid hit within the Sea of Showers.

Well, if you keep watching long enough, you're bound to see one eventually! Cool!

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The Top Physics Stories for 2005

From new ideas about what the universe looked like after the Big Bang to the first direct observation of an exosolar planet, these are the stories the American Institute of Physics are calling the top stories of 2005. Also features the bizarre discovery of hydrophobic water and the creation of molecules that are able to walk.

Well, I don't know about you, but I'll be coming back to this link to read it all!
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Experiment to see if your e-mail is being tapped by the government

Richard M. Smith of ComputerBytesMan has come up with a "quick and easy method to see if one's email messages are being read by someone else."

OK, would work, but as they note: Do it but don't expect to fly unhasseled on a US airline ever again...

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Die hard Apple fanatics

Did you ever notice those apple stickers on cars? Can you imagine how the car of a real die hard apple fan looks like? See..

And you think I love 'em? I am humbled.

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Easter egg in Mel Gibsons Apocalypto trailer.

Apparently there is an one frame easter egg included in the trailer.
Fast forward to 1:46 and then go frame by frame. Just for kicks or a viral marketing trick?

Get the trailer (teaser) from www.apple.com/trailers. There is one frame that obviously was inserted intentionally. It's a kick! (If it was an attempt at viral marketing, it worked, I'm blogging this aren't I?)

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"Lazy Sunday" Skit available Free on iTunes

The "Lazy Sunday" skit from SNL is now free from iTunes. I guess they didn't want people to steal the only thing funny from SNL in a long time.

Interesting, I could not find this video via the Browse menu. makes me wonder how long their going to have it available for free? Maybe an experiment in virual marketing via iTMS links?

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2000FPS Videos High-Res

Watch a Bullet Blow through Seven Soda Cans at 2000 Frames Per Second. Oranges, Melons, and Balloons explode in slow motion and High Detail right before your eyes.

Some fun stuff here, (Quicktime needed) enjoy!

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Ebook: The Doctors Book of Home Remedies (Prevention Magazine Health Books)

If you were stranded on a desert island and needed one self-help book- one medical companion that would let you effectively and safely treat almost any health problem- this would be the book. It is the print equivalent of a wonder drug: a remarkably powerful, all-purpose product with enough strength to heal millions of people, including yourself.

Could come in handy...

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The most beautiful pics

This flash site will amaze you!

A great collection of photography.

Hey, looks like his first camera was the same as mine! (Minolta 7S rangefinder)

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Floating Magnet (This looks soooo cool!) :)

All objects have electrons that repulse when there meet other electrons, so when there is no resistance there electrons are easily flowing from on medium to another, however in the middle (air) the electrons meet each other and cause repulsion, which in turn pushes the magnet up.

Nice little video of the effect. Especially the re-positioning of the magnet.

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Best Blonde Joke Ever.

Nuff said.

Interesting idea, let me save you endless (I assume) clicking (unless you are insatiably curous, and just have to see for yourself) by revealing that this is an impressive wild goose chase. There is no "Best Blond Joke", just an endless bunch ocf links from one blog to another, each suggesting the blond joke is just at the end of the next click! But what is interesting is that all these bloggers got together and planned this, and managed to carry it out without breaking the chain (I assume, since I gave up on the 4th 'layer' when I caught on to the ploy).

Interesting way to see a whole lot of different blogs without much effort, just find the next link and click.

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USB Flash Drive with Operating System Plus Office Suite

The Computer-On-a-Stick is a bootable USB 2.0 Flash Drive that is the first flash device to feature a complete onboard Operating System.

OK, and here's the web site of the manufacturer:
http://www.fingergear.com/

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Learn about all the Japanese Emoticons

See how they differ from English smileys, and the explanations on the most popular ones.

Why do I HAVE to blog this?

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SR-71 Blackbird Diagrams including Cockpit Instrumentation

Welcome to the Blackbird Diagrams Gallery, an archive of USAF and NASA Diagrams. This gallery is to provide a better understanding of the aircraft's construction.

Just in case you think you might ever need this info, like if you unexpectedly find yourself in the cockpit of a SR-71...

But cool nontheless

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Teen's blog confession forces him to plead guilty plea in fatal crash

Teen who caused fatal car wreck surprised that admitting to guilt on his blog may be bad for his defense

Wow, a little real world lesson here about blogging.

-.-

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A photo tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden

A photo log of the factory where VW builds the Phaeton in Germany. You would think that this factory is cleaner than a hospital.

Wow, looking at it, you would NEVER think of this as a CAR FACTORY!

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Space photos - landmarks

Amazing space photos of landmarks and buildings.

Most simply using Google Maps!

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New eBook reader using E-Ink display

It's display will product 16 levels of grey at 160DPI! With connectivity options including Wi-Fi, SD card, Compact Flash it should not be hard getting content into it. Due in April, we'll see what they do as far as DRM is concerned.

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Tons of free online Ebooks

Lots of free ebooks, from classics, pulp (best Doc Savage collection that I know about), and horror to Non-fiction. All availibale In PDF, PALM READER, HTML, Zipped text etc.

And collected titles for sale on DVD.

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Crazy Urban Rebounding in Russia (Video)

Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Spiderman all rolled into one!

Can you see the special effects, I couldn't!

Wow!

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Learn Calulus from bikini clad models

How-to-Do Girls is the comedy how-to show named after the smart, funny, and sexy hostesses. When you want to learn how to do it, come to How-to-Do Girls.

Well, they say "sex sells", another site attempting to creatively prove the theorem. Silly, but funny. Serious viewing requires BitTorrent.

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Micro Dwellings

"Low cost movable housing modules that can form different configurations on land, on water and under water. The Micro Dwellings can expand and grow together with other systems into small communities. They can be built onto rooftops of existing buildings or be suspended from a bridge or a wall."

Interesting site, after reading about the Micro Dwellings, check the rest of the site.

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Lace your shoes faster with this invention

SPEED LACES®, is a revolutionary new lacing system which replaces ordinary laces in minutes and provides runners with amazing advantages.

Hmm... could work.

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Rowdies buzz off as the Mosquito bites

.au news story about inventor Howard Stapleton's new gadget that looks like a large electronic mosquito repelling device, but instead of bugs, it drives away humans under 20 years old!
There IS another digg of this item, from a British news site:
http://digg.com/technology/Mosquito_that_scares_teens_...
but the .au site of this digg has a photo!

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Up to 25 free iTunes songs when you use PayPal - Gift Yourself

I saw this on the PayPal sight the other day. "Buy an iTunes Gift Certificate Using PayPal Get up to 25 Free Songs!" Spend fifty dollars on songs and you'll get 25 for free. Buy a $20 certificate and get 10 free songs.

Small procedural hassle, but if you have Paypal and iTunes, get free tunes! (and, yes Virginia, you can send the Gift Certificate to yourself!) Offer ends December 31, 2005. Hurry!

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Feds visit student over communist book

UMass senior visited by feds after requesting a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's book.

This is SO wrong! And an incredible waste of my tax dollars!

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FOUND: Digital camera, picts uploaded to Flickr, help find rightful owner

Lady finds digital camera, doesn't know who it belongs to so her husband uploads the photos to Flickr in hopes someone knows one of the subjects of the photos. Take a look at let them know if you recognize anyone.

Interesting idea, did anybody lose a camera in a major metro area (looking at the backgrounds...)?

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Band Makes Its Own Recall Of Sony

Artists are beginning to stand up to Sony

You go boys!

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A novelist turned gaming innovator

Mainly about a 'new' type of online gaming used to promote a more conventional game.
"Part puzzle-infused scavenger hunt, part interactive fiction, ARGs are among the first entertainment forms genuinely native to the Net, culture watchers say."

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9-month-old on "no fly" list of suspected terrorists

"We pointed down to the stroller, and he sat there and gurgled,"

I feel SO much more secure! Thank you DHS! (love your stationary!)

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Forbes Magazine Interviews Digg Chief Executive Jay Adelson

"...Every large content organization has already contacted the company, says Digg.com Chief Executive Jay Adelson, after those media companies noticed significant amounts of traffic coming from his site. Some of the companies are interested in placing a "Digg this story" button..."

Well DIGG this, in case you had not caught on yet, digg.com is how I build most of these blog entries, so here's one about the 'source' of my blog entries.

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Free Gigantic TCP/IP book

A free book on TCP/IP. The print version costs money.

Did they say FREE!?!

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Company Names - Do you Know this ?

Explains how some of the biggest computer related companies got their names.

Interesting...

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Sam's Club security breach exposes credit card data

Here they (the companies that are supposed to keep our data safe) go again!

Sam's Club is investigating a security breach that has exposed credit card data belonging to an unspecified number of customers who purchased gas at the wholesaler's stations between Sept. 21 and Oct. 2. Another example of a large company mishandling consumer information... something needs to be done!

See another version of this story here.

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Popular Science: Best of What's New - 100 most impressive technologies

The 100 most impressive technologies of the year 2005, from the A380 to Zubbles. A good compilation. Check it out, then vote for your favorite.

Yeah, what he said!

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HOW TO: Control iTunes Remotely from Any Web Browser

This article shows you how to set up a simple web server in XP so that you can control iTunes remotely. Great for your home media center!

Hmm, do I have yhe interest? Do you?

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Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?

A secret database obtained by NBC News tracks �suspicious� domestic groups. A 400-page DoD document based on the database and obtained by NBC News lists more than 1,500 "suspicious incidents" across the country over a recent 10-month period.

Hmm, 'scuse me while I pull the curtains shut...

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Anatomy Of A Hack�The Rise And Fall Of Your Network--FREE

This chapter will not to show how to attack something, but show how attackers take advantage of your mistakes. This will enable you to protect your network by avoiding the pitfalls attackers use.

I like free chapters that can actually teach me something...
(NOTE: the free chapter links are at the bottom of the page after the books description)

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Woman rescued from earthquake... 2 Months AFTER the Earthquake!

She amazes doctors after spending 63 days trapped, even her family were not looking for her!

Oh, I can hear the cries of Miracle! now. Well, it is amazing.

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White House accidentally exposes data in PDF file

If they can't keep data safe, then I guess we're toast.

Three examples of the admin. goofing up and letting the cat-out-of-the-bag! Can you say "Oops!"?

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Up to 25 free iTunes songs when you use PayPal - Gift Yourself

I saw this on the PayPal sight the other day. "Buy an iTunes Gift Certificate Using PayPal, Get up to 25 Free Songs!"
Spend fifty dollars on songs and you'll get 25 for free.

Got Paypal? Got iTunes? Get free songs for yourself (and yeah, you can send the gift certificate to yourself, I just did!! Woot!)!

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14-Day Plan Improves Memory

It sounds like an infomercial from late-night TV: Follow this four-step plan and improve your memory in just 14 days!

But researchers have indeed found a way to improve memory function in older people. After a two-week study that involved brainteasers, exercise and diet changes, study participants' memories worked more efficiently.

Hmm... what were we talking about again?

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How Much RAM Do You Really Need?

"Is 512 MB enough? What about 1 GB? Our gaming and other application tests show that 2 GB of RAM is often not overkill."

Good question, and looks like well thought out answer.

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The Greatest CRAY Supercomputer Collection in the World

Private collector, Jim Curry, vast collection of Cray Supercomputers is considered the biggest in the world. Here are 6 pages with 48 photos.

Wow, a Cray collector! A true geeks dream hobby!

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iPod mini 8GB Upgrade

title says it all

Well, in other words, this gent has done the deed so we can be assured it WILL work.

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Macro photography rig

This macro photography rig is really incredible. The system uses two lasers to trigger the camera when photographing flying insects. The site has an extensive writeup of the trials and tribulations involved in this build.

Wow, some project, but I link not because I would expect to build the thing, but for the great shots he got with it!

Worth a view (they start on page 2)

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Macro photography with your digital camera

Here's a great howto on taking upclose photos with everyday equipment. Even if you aren't interested in the how to, it's worth checking out the fabulous closeup photos this guy took of a dragonfly.

I think I know some friends who might find this informative...

You know who you are!

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Get Free Acces to Lynda.com Video Tutorials

Lynda.com is giving away free access to it's paid library of video tutorials .Don't miss this oppertunity.Tutorials cover products from Adobe,Apple,Discreet,Macromedia,Microsoft etc.Also included are easy to follow video tutorials on HTML,Php,CSS,Perl,Java,Photography etc. And yes it is *LEGAL*

Hmm, old story, but looks like it still works, a 24 hour 'free pass' to the media on Lynda.com.

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Make a Macro Lens from a Pringles Can

So, you like the idea of doing macro photography, but you think you can't afford it? Think again - with less than $3 worth of equipment, and a little bit of sweat and tears, you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens.

Kewl! Now all I need to get is the Canon 20D, damn!

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Is She Cheating?

Know for sure by using the best eight gadgets available to monitor every move she makes even the horizontal ones.

Hmm, this list can be used to burn 'both ways'...

Love the phone gadget, little pricey, but cool!

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What Is A Kilowatt-Hour Anyway?

A list of everyday activities that you can do with one kilowatt-hour. Helps you put our energy use in perspective (ie. 1kWh = dry your hair 15 times, 4 TV evenings, listen to 15 CDs, 4 evenings of light with 60 W incandescent lamps or 20 evening of light with 11 W compact fluorescent light, etc).

Site's a bit obvious (see URL), but information is timely.

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2006 Fast 50 Nominees

Vote on the bottom of this page and it helps Digg.

I did, you can too!

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Shot Glasses made out of ICE

Here is a cool tutorial on how to make your own shot glasses out of ice.

Hmm, I know some people that WILL be interested in this one!

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Time Magazine's List of 50 Coolest Web Sites

The title describes it all. Check it out!

Yeah, this is got alot to inform you.

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Beef up your laser pointer

Ever wonder what those little laser pointers were capable of? Why not make your own personal mini light sabre?

Not that I'll ever do this to my pointer, but interesting info and photos of insides of laser pointer.

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Pencil Carving

Something about this is just amazing.. Wheres my pencil and knife.

Inspiring me to take up a new hobby!

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Dating an Apple Developer

I date a geek and I thought I was the only one that had to face these sort of situations. If you're a geek and you have a girlfriend let her in on the read. That's what my bf did and after reading this, I was a lot more understandable about my bf and his need to be with the computer almost all waking hours that he isn't with me.

She does a good job writing this, hmm, there's hope? Heck, I'm not a developer, just a tech geek, oh well, probably no hope.

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39 pound man is a 3D animator

Ami, who weighs only 39 pounds, works in Israel as a 3D animator and creates his art despite the fact that his bodily motion is limited to a single finger on his left hand and in doing so, continues to redefine notions of a "limited" life.

Uh, wow!

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Over 17,000 free ebooks at Project Gutenberg

There are NOW 17,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. That 1,000 more than last time!

Are you an eBook reader, so am I, if you have questions, let me know, I'm always happy to get a new convert started!

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Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy dies

Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89.

Wow, read the article, there are some awesome quotes.

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Air Force Will Guard Cyberspace

The Air Force has released a new mission statement this week.
"The mission of the United States Air Force is to deliver sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests--to fly and fight in Air, Space, and Cyberspace."

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PHOTO: Slide Show of Laptops with "Transparent" Screens.

Pretty cool. I tried this, but it didn't work too well. These guys must have LOTS of time. I mean, getting the contrast, and color just right. Tough.

But way cool!

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The Formation of a New Ocean?

A fissure in a desert in the remote northeast (621 miles north east of the capital, Addis Ababa) could be the birth of a new ocean basin according to scientists.

Hmm, I'm going to have to search this spot out on Google Earth! Wonder when the satellite shots of that area will catch up with the new development?

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Supercooled Water: watch as bottled water turns into ice in seconds

This article details a practical experience with liquid water cooled below its freezing point. When disturbed, the water turns into ice within a matter of seconds. It's called supercooling, and occurs when molecules in the pure water cannot fuse together.

He's converted the videos (as per last visit, I'm going to write him so maybe...) to a format that won't play on my Mac (and probably on yours, if it does let me know in a comment!) but the information is interesting all the same!

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"Stolen From Apple" (Man in Jail) Icon coded into Mac ROM

Steve decided that if a company copied the Mac ROM into their computer, he would like to be able to do a demo during the trial, where he could type a few keystrokes into an unmodified infringing machine, and have a large "Stolen From Apple" icon (featuring a guy in prison bars!) appear on its screen"

There's planning ahead for you! Gotta love this guys creative thought.

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New transistor material could help extend Moore's Law

"Intel claims it has discovered yet another material- to let chips run cooler and consume less energy.- The company today said that it has demonstrated- a low power transistor prototype that uses indium antimonide (InSb) to conduct electrical current."

I hope to add some more informative links re: this advance.

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An Interesting Interview with WOZ - his thoughts on OSX and DRM

John Stafford talked with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who many consider the father of the personal computer, for The Cardinal Inquirer. Stafford's interview with Woz resulted in some very interesting exchanges.

'nuff said.

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Way beyond the MSConfig utility.

This utility has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor. You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically. It shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them, and it's by Sysinternals!

OK, it's a techie morning? Another deep piece, skip at your leasure.

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WPA Cracking Proof of Concept Available

Better beef up Mom and Pop's WPA passphrase this Xmas before the kids down the street catch wind of these tools.

A bit of a techie piece, don't let yourself get lost in this one, blogging it for my own reference...

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Apple II ROM signed by Steve Jobs (Photo of Actual Letter & Signed ROM)

A guy sends a Fan Letter to Steve Jobs in 1983 and requests a "autographed ROM Chip"; and Steve actually does! The background story also has a photo of the Acutal Letter from Steve with the Signed Apple II ROM attached at the bottom.

There's a lucky fan/geek for you! I'm jealous!

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eBay Genius Starts With One Red Paperclip......

"My name is Kyle MacDonald and I am making a series of up-trades for bigger or better things up to my goal of a house.
I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005.
You can read stories about each trade."

Love these creative uses of the internet, wish I was this creative.

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Alibis and excuses for all occassions !

From their site : "We invent, create and provide alibis and excuses for attached adults involved in discreet relationships." And much more : virtual employment, rescue calls, and all sorts of subterfuge. Slick or slime ?

Paid for lies! Hmm, is this place based in DC?

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Printable 20% Borders Coupon (Single DVD)

Good through 12/11/05

More Christmas shopping...!

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20% of Single Book at Borders coupon

Good through 12/11/05

Christmas shopping anyone?

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MillionDollarHomepage hits mainstream press: Wall Street Journal article

21-year-old Alex Tew of Great Britain filled a notebook with ideas, jotting down this simple query to himself: How Can I Become a Millionaire?...what followed is an instructional tale of how a brainstorm, coupled with the Internet's powerful word-of-mouth culture, can set a trend in motion with lightning speed.

And if the WSJ article is no longer available, the site it's about is here.
Or copy http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ into your URL line and hit return.

^.^

PS: (1/3/06) Well I just got done rejecting the second attempt to post a comment who's sole purpose is to attempt to virual market another site like milliondollarhomepage.com, I find it very insulting of these losers that they would think I would put up with such, I DO moderate all comments to this blog and no self marketing will be posted, clear, this means you! Some people really know how to waste others time!

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OK, OK, Maybe Piracy Is Bad

In case you were wondering the effects of piracy on international markets, here's an interesting article.

It's a collection of short articles in a general news report, the others are interesting too. Read, be informed, what a concept!

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Ubiquitous Porn: Alive on the Net

John Dvorak proposed the creation of an .xxx top-level domain to make it easier to prevent what he then described as a porn storm. These were self-spawning pornography page attacks that took place on the desktops of unsuspecting users.

I have not always seen eye to eye with John, but I'll say this is a good piece (mind you, I'm not sure I'm buying the 'this was my idea all along' bit, but I'm sure he probably did mention it long ago).

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Search for the most prolific inventors is a patent struggle

Reporter Kevin Maney got the idea to write a story about the most prolific patent holders, but in researching it with the US Patent Office he came to find that the story was not going to be as easy he thought. But instead of dropping the idea, he stuck to it and came up with this collection of USPO trivia and facts.

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Sun Microsystems unveils eco-friendly server chip

Looking to leapfrog its rivals, computer maker Sun Microsystems announced a server chip that it claims will deliver more performance while requiring less electricity than competing microprocessors.

8 'computing engines' on each chip, and each 'core' can handle 4 tasks at once!

Wow!

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Giant Jellyfish seen off the coast of Japan

Interesting stuff. Jellyfish 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have increased in numbers to affect the people of Japan.

Yes Virginia, there is a picture with the article...

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Earth from space

This is a beautiful enhanced photo of the night / day moment over Europe from space. Could make a good desktop picture...
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Microsoft Korean Trouble

Microsoft runs into trouble in Korea.

Microsoft? Legal problems? Say it ain't so!

Bad karma can hurt (we can hope).

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Your Name On A NASA Microchip

Send your name to the asteroid belt on the Dawn spacecraft. Your name will be recorded onto a microchip that will be placed aboard the spacecraft accompanying it on its mission to the asteroid belt.

Be prepared to print a color certificate, or capture the screen, you'll get only one chance after entering your name.

What'd I put?

Dave Mac ^.^ (of course!)

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How to Tie Useful Knots

Only know how to tie a knot in a shoelace? Check out these useful knots and follow the simple instructions. Now all I need is a decent rafter and a chair.

Nicely set up site, simple, clean.

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Hilarious story on stopping a filesharer from hogging hotel bandwidth

I'm stuck at a hotel, luckily it has internet access. Unfortunately, someone was hogging all the bandwidth. See how I scared the hell out of him and made him stop.

I like this guys technique! Smack 'em down, AND get a laugh out of it!

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Laser board game: A geekier chess

In this game, you may move one of your pieces one square or rotate one 90 degrees before firing your laser to see if one of your opponent's (or one of your) pieces will be removed. A high-tech re-imagining of chess.

OK, just to let you readers know, this would make an acceptable Christmas gift!

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Sony releases new version of rootkit remover

The latest version of Sony's rootkit uninstaller is now available for download.

This links to the OTHER flawed Sony DRM page, where they offer lists of affected titles AND removal tools AS WELL as offer for CD replacement.

Interesting that they did not bother to offer same for the other flawed DRM, not enough press to force the issue? People becoming blase about the whole thing?

>.<

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NEW Sony CD security risk found

Another security risk from a DIFFERENT batch of CDs!

DRM at it's worst!

Here's the Sony site making with the apology and linking to the list of affected CDs and the software patch AND removal tool!

http://sonybmg.com/mediamax/

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How the unusual symbol for the Apple "Command Key" came to be

Ever wonder where that weird flower-ish symbol on Apple Computer keyboards came from? Pretty interesting story in here about how Steve Jobs and his designers came to this Swedish symbol.

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Steve Wozniak's famous ZALTAIR Prank

"My best computer prank involved counterfeiting 20.000 brochures for a phony computer (the Zaltaire)...It wasn't until 4 or 5 years later that I told anyone I was responsible for the Zaltair prank. I went out to dinner with Steve Jobs and told him the whole thing. He was beside himself. He had never once suspected me"

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Coloring Black and White Photos

This is horrendously cool. You draw a bit of color on objects, and it colors them for you.

After the first example photo, you will find the download link for the WinTel program. He's still in beta, but looks sharp!

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Getting scammed, via remote control, while at work...

The story starts:
Nov. 10, 2005 — Louise Ogborn was always willing to take on extra shifts at McDonald's in Mount Washington, Ky. Ogborn's mother had health problems and had recently lost her job, so the 18-year-old did whatever she could to help ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1297922

Check out the video, and the 'related' headline story - at least last I visited the page, here's the link incase it's changed:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/LegalCenter/story?id=1364110

How the unusual symbol for the Apple "Command Key" came to be

Ever wonder where that weird flower-ish symbol on Apple Computer keyboards came from? Pretty interesting story in here about how Steve Jobs and his designers came to this Swedish symbol.

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Steve Wozniak's famous ZALTAIR Prank

"My best computer prank involved counterfeiting 20.000 brochures for a phony computer (the Zaltaire)...It wasn't until 4 or 5 years later that I told anyone I was responsible for the Zaltair prank. I went out to dinner with Steve Jobs and told him the whole thing. He was beside himself. He had never once suspected me"

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NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox

According to Dan Turner "NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts. The official line is that the newest IE vulnerability was the proverbial straw, and now NASA's standard browser is Firefox."

Well, since Microsoft was not the original creator of Internet Explorer (they just bought an early browser company that was hurting and slapped their name on it), they get what they deserve.


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Angry BellSouth Withdrew City Donation because of free Wifi

From Boing Boing: "Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police headquarters, city officials said yesterday."

This story (if not being sensationalised) is a SAD SAD statement on todays corporate additude!


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Pimp My IP! Bypass blocked websites & browse privately

This site offer anonymous surfing, free proxy at work, school anywhere! Surf the Internet safe and secure without revealing your identity. Avoid cookies, spyware and malicious scripts.

Note: can slow connection down a bit, don't know if I would make a secure purchase using this...

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RC Heli mows the lawn

My brother shot this of Jon Jennings flying his 50 size heli in a new subdivision development near Braselton. It's his first heli video so it's kind of crude as far as following the action.

If you look closely you'll see maneuvers that you never knew could be done. The best trick is flying inverted, hovering and chopping weeds.

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Hacks for google some really cool things for free

A list of some great hacks and tools for google.

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Photoshop Performance Tests with 512MB to 8GB RAM in PowerMac G5

Old article (2003) but still valid display of why (and how much) more memory will be valuable to performance of Photoshop on a G5 Mac. There is a clear point where major gain is seen, and then additional RAM has little effect thus reducing it's value.

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Meteor lights up night sky in Australia

A Perth astronomer says a spectacular light show in the sky last night was a meteor.
Witnesses say the the sky lit up about 9:00pm AEDT, and the light was followed by a thundering sound that shook buildings.
Video can be found at: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200512/r66292_183334.ram

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Meteor Impact Craters - Google Satellite Map

Some of these craters in the Earth are massive, and many people don't even realize they're there...... see if there's one near you.....

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Free Hubble DVD for Download

Just that, a free DVD from spacetelescope.org, enjoy.

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Blog entry from email

This is a new blog entry from email. It's my first time and I am trying
it out, how did it go?

Hmm, maybe next time I'll try with an included graphic.

'till then, your host.