Illustrator Tutorials

Free Illustrator tutorials with original source .ai file. read more | digg story

Complete introduction to CSS

This article will take you through the beginning stages of picking up CSS. Covering; where to put your style sheet, creating a class, common CSS attributes, applying CSS to a HTML attribute, redefining a tag, shorthand CSS, pseudo elements and media-dependent style sheets.

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The most artistic puzzle yet.

This is a very cool web puzzle done entirely in flash. The hardest part of the puzzle for figuring out the piano using the sheet music which is ironic since I am a musician.

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CSS Menu Generator

"CSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons"

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Best Open Source Encoder (Xvid, Divx, H264, MPEG-2)

With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format. As a open source application StaxRip is completely free. read more | digg story

The Pleasure-o-Matic

What if there were a device that could bring you instant euphoria at the push of a button, with none of the chemical side effects of drugs? Such a device exists, but it's not something we're allowed to have. Should happiness be just a push-button away? read more | digg story

Invisible Objects (Photoshop Contest)

Damn, these guys and girls are good! These people must have way too much time on their hands. ;) read more | digg story

Paul Allen: Accidental Zillionaire

After he left Microsoft, Paul Allen had cash to burn but little to do... Great story of his life since microsoft. read more | digg story

Blender 2.40 Released!

Anyway, after about 7 months of development, Blender 3D is out. It's a free, open source, cross-platform 3d suite. Lots of neat new features (see the page for details). read more | digg story

Woman gets the only copy of a Masters thesis stolen

After some clever detective work by the grad student, she manages to find her stolen purse containing the thesis. Moral of the story: ALWAYS BACKUP IMPORTANT DATA!

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Mom Sued by RIAA Broke, Passing the Hat on Net

Patricia Santangelo, who if fighting an RIAA suit that she downloaded songs illegally, lost her lawyers due to lack of money. Supporters are now building a mechanism for donations to pay her legal expenses.

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A cool experiment - You Are Beautiful

"One early Sunday morning, we arrived at our predesignated fence. With a box of cups, and a thermos full of coffee, we set to work." These guys place a message on the fence using cups, I found it interesting how the original message "You Are Beautiful" changed over time. read more | digg story

Top 10 Photoshop Tutorials of 2005

A top 10 list with some of the best Photoshop tutorials of 2005. read more | digg story

Floating Magnet Video

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. read more | digg story

How much do the richest people in the world donate to charity?

Ever wonder how generous Bill Gates and Warren Buffett really are? Well it may surprise you to find out just exactly how much Bill Gates donates each year. More than you think... read more | digg story

New X-Ray Machine Developed

Full body images in 3D and cross-sections...A hi-tech scanner has been developed which takes images in less time than it takes the human heart to beat. The Somatom Definition machine contains two X-ray scanners so full body images can be taken twice as fast. read more | digg story

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 Update Released

The first update to OpenOffice.org has been released exactly two months after the launch of version 2.0. Version 2.0.1 brings a myriad of bug fixes and feature enhancements to the open source suite.

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StarTrek.com Going Offline? Could this be the end?

December 31st the site will be going offline. We cannot help but to feel that a part of our history is leaving us all especially after the cancellation of the latest series Star Trek: Enterprise.

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Best Flash Pool Game Ever!

I swear this is the most addictive and tense game I've played in months. Must play! Makes me wanna play some real pool.

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Oklahoma Full Auto Shootout Video

I guess this is what you do for fun in the middle of nowhere. And man, they get them started with fully automatic weapons at a young age! Includes IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices). This video is crazy! read more | digg story

Segway Inventor Drinks His Own Pee

Dean Kamen, famed inventor of the Segway vehicle, drank his own urine to the delight of a South Carolina audience. He was participating in a presentation of his latest gadget- a pee-purifying device that his company DEKA Research has developed. read more | digg story

Purple frogs discovered

Scientists say that this species probably existed 175 million years ago, but we're just getting around to discovering them now. read more | digg story

Military exoskeleton prototype

Legs only at this point. The Bleex 1 carries 100 lbs yet feels like 5 lbs. This would be great for those multi-day hikes when you need to carry a ton of gear. read more | digg story

Install MythTV on Ubuntu Breezy Badger

Awesome how-to for installing MythTV on the best linux distro out there. Had me up & running in about 45 minutes!

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Get an AJAX-based desktop

With all the AJAX related posts recently, I thought I'd submit EyeOS. With a PHP compatiable server, you can login to this virtual desktop system and upload files, write text documents, setup calendering and a load more stuff. Definitely one of the best uses of the technology I've seen. I have installed it on my server at eyeos.worthlessplanet.com and it seems to run very well. read more | digg story

The New Flavor of Ubuntu - Ubuntu For Servers

The Ubuntu foundation announced yesterday the first official release of the Ubuntu Server distribution. Available for AMD64, i386, and PowerPC architectures, Ubuntu Server 5.10 provides a complete Ubuntu-based server installation ready for production environments.

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How to install open Source Digg code (Meneame)

Recently a site called Meneame (which emulated digg.com) opened it's source code up. The code is written in Spanish and installation documentation is non-existant. Here's how you get it running.

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The Story of an Arcade Cabinet Built in 24 Hours

A cool arcade cabinet with very helpful tips for you to build your own. Also check Hak.5 vidcasts 4 and 5 as a multimedia aid to this story. I think this is going to be a project for the StarCraftSickos ;). read more | digg story

Plasma Engine Could Open Up Space Exploration

The European Space Agency is developing a new thruster based on the same physics that power the northern and southern auroras. This new plasma thruster could eventually deliver more power than the efficient ion engines which have been installed on several spacecraft. read more | digg story

PriceRitePhoto Changes Name on eBay to Barclay's Photo

It looks like PriceRitePhoto just changed their name on eBay to "Barclay's Photo" on Monday. Can't imagine why after they had such a strong reputation as PriceRite.

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Multiplayer Flash version of Commander and Conquer

The first multiplayer real time strategy ever made in flash and its based on Commander and Conquer. Very cool. read more | digg story

Car Buried in 1957 to Be Unearthed in '07

Ahh... the 50's... It should be interesting to see all the items buried in the time capsule. They even buried a supply of gasoline just in case internal combustion engines became obsolete! read more | digg story

The SMART Car!

This little vehicle is amazing, particularly when you see the Google video linked on this page of the car crashing head on into a 20-ton block of concrete at 70 MPH. Also if you want to see some pictures of some SMART cars that I drove for Target take a look. read more | digg story

Mouse1.0 - totally addictive Flash game

This will benefit your mouse dexterity! Check it out - better not at work, you'll never be able to stop ;)

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CSS for Bar Graphs

Great write up on how to create some attractive bar graphs using CSS.

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iPhoto-like image resizing using Javascript

Use script.aculo.us and some basic javascript/css to create an in-browser image resizer like that used in iPhoto (and now Aperture).

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8GB Stick of RAM!!!

Samsung presents a new memory module of 8GB... cool, I'll take 4 please... because even though my PC has a Dual Core (thank you AMD), it suffers quite a bit with only 1Gb of RAM (Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Sorenson Squeeze and some other applications that eat up a lot of resources).

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Great tutorial for customizing your blog

If you want to make your blog stand out from the rest, this is a great tutorial with alot of information on color pallettes, icon creation, css customization and tips and tricks with photoshop.

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2005 SCUBA Photo Contest Winners

Some very cool photos...Macros, Wide-angles, Wrecks, and a bunch more. I especially like the huge! stingray (2nd place wide-angle), the eel (or whatever it is) with a fish in its mouth, and the 3rd place wide-angle shot. There are some bizarre creatures underwater!

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Genny the miracle goat

My good friend Trevor called me last night around 10:00 to announce the newest kid in his family. He had bought a nigerian dwarf goat about two weeks ago from a farmer only to return home from work for a shock. Outside in the small stable he built was not just one goat, but two. Goats generally don't have babies in the winter! In fact Genny shouldn't have even been in her first heat yet, but somehow she had a baby! They have affectionately named him "Pearl" in honor of Pearl Harbor Day!

Hilarious Video

So you think you have the worst job in the world? Check out this video. Take notice the "Genius" on his phone... you'll die laughing. (WARNING: THE VIDEO IS R RATED FOR LANGUAGE.)

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Silent Hill movie poster contest

win 2.5K by making a poster for the upcoming Silent hill movie. They provide you with all kinds of images to work with... I think I may have to give it a try ;)

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Giant Jellyfish seen off the coast of Japan

Wild stuff. Jellyfish 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorize the people of Japan.

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stock.xchng releases new and improved version 6.0

The leading website for Free stock photography has just did a major upgrade to their site including a new server with more horsepower, better search filters, and a new bloging engine for users.

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Jarhead

I found this tutorial on how to make a really creepy looking "Head in a Jar" prop. This thing looks disturbingly real and is pretty easy to make. Would make a great christmas decoration... maybe Santa's head in a jar, or maybe even an elf. read more

More Sed Tutorials

Good tutorials for sed going from intro material to advanced scripts. good stuff to know.

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Full Panorama of the Human Head

An interesting look at a man's face. For some reason, it's kind of creepy. I was wondering what Yoshi was up to these days.. :)

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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.

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Want to buy the rights to a video game?

Alias, Bust a Move, Crazy Taxi, Double Dragon, and hundreds of others. All these games once belonged to Acclaim software, but since they had a little bankruptcy problem, they are deciding to auction off the publishing rights to all of their games. Want the right to publish and sell Smash T.V.? It can be yours for the small price of $5,000.

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Digg Plans Expansion

DIGG.COM, A COLLABORATIVELY EDITED TECHNOLOGY news site that some on the Web are touting as the next Slashdot, intends to branch out from tech stories and move into other news categories as well as media such as video and audio, said Digg.com CEO Jay Adelson.

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Fedora Directory Server 1.0 is released!

OSNews is reporting that the first official release of the Fedora Directory Server has been announced. This is huge news for the open source community which has been longing for an easy to use, enterprise class directory server.

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Apology Letter From Ed Lopez, Owner of PriceRitePhoto

I received a call this morning from Ed Lopez, the owner of PriceRitePhoto. We spoke at length and he told me that the activity that has resulted from my post on my experience with his business has most certainly impacted his business. Note: This is from Thomas Hawk's blog, not me!

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Abusive New York Camera Store Threatens Blogger

"I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again." "I'm an attorney, I will sue you." "I'm going to call your local police and have two officers come over and arrest you." Just a few of the fun things I got to hear today from someone who said his name was Steve Phillips over at PriceRitePhoto.

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Try Ruby - Interactive Tutorial/Demo

Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!

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HowTo: Linux-Vserver on Debian Sarge

Linux-VServer allows you to create virtual private servers and security contexts which operate like a normal Linux server, but allow many independent servers to be run simultaneously in one box at full speed. All services, such as ssh, mail, Web, and databases, can be started on such a VPS, without modification, just like on any real server.

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The End Of Copyright

"I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of a major era in world history. It may take fifty years, it may take a hundred, but the age of copyright is drawing to a close. I don�t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it�s inevitable."

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12 Useful CSS Templates

This girl named Monorom presents 12 useful XHTML1.0/CSS2 templates - very easy to use and carefully documented. Helped me on many XHTML/CSS issues.

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Linux Open Source Sequencer and Music Production Studio

LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, having more fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more...

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18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose... I particularly like the one about what to do when you need to pee and there is no bathroom nearby ;)

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500+ Colours

This page lists over 500 colours by colour name, Hex value, RGB value and Microsoft Access code number. Best webdesign tool ever. For me at least. I use this page the most. This site also contains alot of other great resources like country codes and character maps.

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Add Google Videos to Your Website, Blog or MySpace Page

Now you can easily, watch, download and instantly add Google Videos to your website, blog or profile. Each video includes the code that you need to display your favorite movie on your website. read more | digg story

1980 Games Online...

Games From the 80s and early 90s. Lots of ninentdo and arcade games run right on the site... Enjoy

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Ubuntu: Best Linux Desktop for Business?

ZDNet has been testing Linux for business, trying to work out what the best distro is for small businesses. After testing Mandriva, Novell Linux, Red Hat Desktop, SUSE Linux and Ubuntu Linux. After installing them all-- Ubuntu came out as the winner. read more | digg story

Pat Morita, Mr. Miyagi of 'The Karate Kid,' dies at 73

Actor Pat Morita, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid," has died. He was 73. Wax on, Wax off. read more | digg story

Creating Your Own Linux Mail Server

Covers how to get the actual mail system up and running, but most interesting because of the anti-spam techniques and actually using the mail system with the mutt and squirrelmail mail clients.

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Wordpress.com is available to all!

WordPress.com just opened its gates to everyone. You no longer require an invitation - Out of Beta and works great!

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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles

"Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars�it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color"

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Incredible vector artwork

Today I found another website full of incredible vector artwork and tutorials. I was so inspired that I bought a new book yesterday on Illustrator, "The Adobe Illustrator CS2 WOW! Book" by Sharon Steuer. It has some great techniques and tips. Anyways go check out this site. Vexels.net

MIT to launch $100 laptop in 2 days

The MIT Media Laboratory expects to launch a prototype of its US$100 laptop in November. read more | digg story

Google Base OFFICIALLY Launched [via GoogleBlog]

Google just OFFICIALLY launched a new service that crawls services such as Google SiteMaps, Google Print, and Google Video.

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So Five Minutes Ago

Well it's not often that I actually post a blog to my site manually, (I've been doing alot of diggin lately!) but while on the search for tutorials on illustrator I came across this incredible artist from Topeka, Kansas that just blew me away. Her vector artwork is top-notch, definetly worth checking out. view her site

320GB Hard Drive for $129.99

At Office Max thay are havin a deal where you can get Western Digital 320GB Hard Drive: # Store up to 320GB of data at 100MB per second # Rotational Speed of 7200 RPM # 8 MB Buffer # 1 Year Warranty The catch is you have to pay $159.99 then you get $30 mail in rebate.

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Ubuntu Linux gets IBM seal of approval

Canonical Ltd's Ubuntu Linux distribution has been given IBM Corp's seal of approval with the news that it has been certified as ready for IBM's DB2 database on management systems for Linux.

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Black T-Shirts Live Today on CafePress.com

The community has been waiting a long time for this day - check out the black t-shirts now on Cafepress.

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Huge star is discovered moving at 1.6 million miles an hour

Highly unusual, a huge star has been discovered in the Milky Way (our galaxy) that is moving at the incredible speed of 1.6 million miles per hour. Who knows, maybe it's really a Borg ship headed this way! read more | digg story

Swap a paperclip for a house

This bloke started out in july with a red paperclip that he swapped for a pen. He swapped the pen for a door handle. He plans to continue this chain of trades until he can acquire a house or an island. He�s documenting it on this blog. read more | digg story

Digg Crew to Start Online TV Network?

This is looking more and more likely after the announcement of ctrl+alt+Chicken and now "Outsourced" the worlds first weekly internet sitcom, the guys are even filming a commercial, looks like good things lie ahead for the Digg community.

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SimplytheBest Fonts library

Browse through the alphabetical font listings or the font categories to view the available free fonts. Each font has a full preview page with proprietary details. read more | digg story

Microsoft plans on-line version of Windows

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced on-line versions of its Windows operating system and other popular software programs, hoping to defuse a growing threat from Google Inc. and other fast-moving challengers.

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Tiny Brazilian cars about to invade U.S.

A Brazilian car designing firm called Obvio! has found a distributing partner in the U.S. finally. ZAP, known for distributing EVs to environmentally conscious folks in the U.S., has placed a 50,000 unit order for the company's two super tiny and whacky minicars.

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Creative X-Fi

To promote the release of the Sound Blaster X-Fi series soundcards, Creative commissioned those mad modders at bit-tech to make three extreme case mods. This is the first: a 'Music Creation' X-Fi PC built inside a guitar amp - wow!

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Audiophile Idiocy

'Serious' audiophiles are idiots. This list of products I *cough* found is testament to why. You've probably all seen the last one before...

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CSS Effects, Standard Compliant Browser Code, Hover Event with CSS ...

This website features a multitude of CSS effects and code for standard compliant website design. Some nifty stuff including: CSS horizontal/vertical navigation list, PNG degradability in IE, CSS element hover effects, Gradients...

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Buy the First Cell Phone Ever: the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

Hampshire, UK based website sells vintage cell phones, including the first ever commercial phone: the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The phone originally cost $3995 in 1983. My buddy Howard had one of these back in the day installed into his car with a special pedestal for hands free talking and an antenna booster that mounted to the outside of the car.

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In Search Of The One True Layout...

Excellent article on how to use CSS to get the best layout for your website. Specifically, any order columns, equal height columns, or vertical grids. A CSS MUST READ...

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A perfectly free way to create and use an XP Virtual Machine

All free. All Legal. Using VMware's new VM Player.

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Digg has Venture Capital - a few million bucks

Digg just received $2.8 Million dollars from venture capitalists

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My Jack-o-LED

See this guy doing a Jack-O-Lantern illuminated by LEDs.

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First Ever USB Guitar Ships

Brian Moore has taken their excellent iGuitar line of digitally-equipped guitars, and added class-compliant USB, via the new iGuitar.USB model. Plug it into a USB jack, and you have instant access to your sound in recording and effects software, no drivers required.

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Microsoft Office 13 will be a Web Application!

No more installed apps on your machine. Everything is going to the web for Microsoft (from an official Microsoft source).

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The Best Science Photographs of 2005

So, what is a Vision of Science? To the judges of the Awards, a Vision of Science is an attention-grabbing image that gives new insight into the world of science and the workings of nature.

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The New Yorker reveals fake word in Dictionary

Even dictionaries employ DRM now. The New Yorker reveals the fake word placed in the New Oxford American Dictionary to monitor the illegal copiying of their word base.

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HOW TO: Ubuntu Linux for Novices

"Ubuntu, a popular distribution of the Linux operating system, has acquired a wildly growing user base. Described as being Linux for Human Beings, Ubuntu is somewhere in between Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) and Fedora Core in terms of ease of use. Ubuntu is a powerful operating system..."

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The car that makes its own fuel

A unique system that can produce Hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum was developed by an Israeli company.

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Alarm clocks are bad. How to wake up and feel better.

Nature didn't intend for you to jump out of bed at the sound of a buzzer. This article gives a simple and free (as in beer) system to waking up more naturally that will have you feeling better.

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Cool Banner Maker For You Techies

A nifty little image generator that creates some pretty cool looking banners, I spent an hour messing with all the options :-p

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Video Game Consoles: 1972 to the Future

Here, you'll find information on nearly every video game console ever created and info on their accessories and games. A great buyer's guide, collector's guide or history lesson for anyone interested in gaming.

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Setting Firefox as your default brower for EVERYTHING

I have finally found out how to set firefox as my default browser for all applications. Don't you hate it when you click a link in a third-party program and it opens it in IE? Well this seemed to fix the problem: START > RUN then type: firefox.exe -silent -nosplash -setDefaultBrowser Yeah, no Internet Explorer!

Running an Automobile on Hydrogen Using Water

I found this amazing article today after a digg article got my interest peaked on what has been going on in the hydrogen power field. This article demonstrates how they where able to run a gas engine with no modification to the engine itself off of hydrogen gas produced by mixing water, salt and a metal compond.

190 Million Year Old Dinosaur Embryos Found In S. Africa

Finding dinosaur bones is one thing, but finding fossilized embryos is very rare. These are the oldest dinosaur embryos every discovered, says Dr. Robert Reisz, a professor at the University of Toronto.

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Picotux - The Smallest Linux Computer in The World

Say hello to the smallest Linux computer in the world. It's called the "Picotux 100", and it's only slightly larger (35mm�19mm�19mm) than an RJ45 connector.

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The $500 Gaming Machine

Tom's Hardware latest article about how to build a good gaming system below $500.

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Free replacements for Adobe and Macromedia programs...

Here is a nice compilation of applications that can almost replace most Adobe and Macromedia applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign and many more. Most of these are geared for linux but most of them are on all platforms. Hope this helps.

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1,750 inch HD LED TV!!!!!

Yep, the dolphins are going to have the biggest HDTV in NFL football history, make that the biggest HDTV EVER!

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Hacking the Rubix Cube

This site shows you techniques on how to solve the Rubix Cube in under 30 seconds.

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Inspirational CSS Designs

Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. They feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn't fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design.

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Record HiDef content from Comcast Receiver to WinXP

Great tutorial on how to record hidef content from the Motorola 62xx line of receivers distributed to Comcast subscribers. The utilities allow you to pull the content from the firewire port on the receiver and save locally on your PC. Also, this works on other boxes, SA3250HD & Samsung T165

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Google Office Live Webcast

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:30 a.m. PT/1:30 p.m. ET Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA Please join Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO and Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO as they discuss a new collaborative effort between the two companies.

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JPG Images of Einstein's Handwritten Manuscripts

"Digitized images of Einstein's manuscripts have been grouped here according to content into three sections: Scientific Writings, Non-Scientific Writings and Travel Diaries..." Look up your fav. theory and see it in his own handwriting.

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Run windows programs... Without using Windows!

The ReactOS® project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system.

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LG Light Scribe DVD Burner (with pics)

Light scribe is a technology that allows you to burn an image on the other side of the disc. LG has announced its light scribe burner supporting every format including RAM and DL.

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Probably the hardest puzzle on the internet..

Over 23,000 people have tried to solve it, no one has yet.

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LED bulbs: a bright idea?

Next time you screw in a cheap incandescent light bulb, ask yourself this: Do you ride a horse to work? Still churning your own butter?

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First DirectX 10 Game Footage.

This is footage is made by CryTek (the people who brought us FarCry) on the DX10 API, shown at the PDC Microsoft Conference. It looks simply amazing!

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Light transmitting concrete

A wall made of LitraCon has the strength of traditional concrete but thanks to an embedded array of optical glass fibers, view of the outside world, such as the silhouette of trees, houses and passersby, are transmitted inside the building.

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Ajax Powered Online Dictionary!

no need to go to dictionary.com. As you type a word in the textbox, a javascript event fires and a HTTP GET request to the ASPX page. The response from the ASPX page is simply displayed in a div tag under the textbox. The page is not refreshed/reloaded for every keystroke as everything is done by the javascript in the page.

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The 5 most outrageously overpaid CEOs

Here's the pantheon of execs whose paychecks soar while their companies suffer. Also: 5 who produce stellar results for a comparative pittance. #3 Sun Microsystems's Scott McNealy. $13.1 million a year over the past four years, even as Sun's shareholders lost 76% of their money.

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A DIY Cruise Missile

This guy decided to prove that you can easily build your own cruise missile with a budget of US$5,000. Check out what happened to this guy once he completed the project.....

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Photoshop - how to make people look Pretty

A great tutorial by Lunacore.com on "Beautify a Face".. very detailed with downloadable image so you can follow along... lots of other nice tuts over at www.lunacore.com.

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Classic Web Browser Emulator

See how today's web would look like on various classic browsers, such as Internet Explorer 2.0, Mosaic 1.0, and Netscape Navigator 1.0.

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Sun goes opensource. Official.

"What is the OpenSolaris Project? The OpenSolaris project is an open source operating system, a community development effort and a place for collaboration and conversation about OpenSolaris technology. "

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The Best Designer's Resource

1000's of links to FREE: Stock Photography, Vector Clip-Art, Fonts, Logos, Sounds, Photoshop Brushes, Poser DLs, Text Generator, Patterns, Color Tools and other Random Stuff.

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Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Add-On CD

For those who have no or slow internet connections, have problems connecting to ubuntu and backports repositories, are too lazy to do all the apt-get and commands, are new to linux and don't know much about it, and just want things to be configured right, multimedia and internet ready.

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Sketchup Google Earth importer/exporter

@Last Software (makers of Sketchup) just released a importer/exporter plugin for use with Google Earth. Now you can build your house and place it in it's location on earth... Very Cool.

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Free paper hack for personal organization.

This site has a web based application for creating your own personal note booklet. The pages are customizable to fit your needs and print easily out of most printers.

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Free DNS, Dynamic DNS, subdomain and domain hosting.

Why is it free? It's quite simple. We wanted a challenge... that's it.

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GNOME 2.12 Released

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.12, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment.

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Niceforms

another technique for presenting nice web forms, based on javascript, xhtml, and CSS.

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The US Army contemplates building an aircraft the size of a football field

Moving an elephant atom by atom costs a lot more than moving the elephant in one pre-assembled lump. And that is what the US Army�s Project Walrus is about � putting together an entire action unit of war machinery, with all the wiring and plumbing preinstalled, and placing it in the most strategic place.

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Smart car with Suzuki GSXR1000 motor

It's ironic that a car would become significantly more powerful by replacing its own engine with that of a motorcycle's, but that's what you get when you take a tiny car and combine it with a big little motor. The result is a 0-60 time of 4.2 sec.

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Free Linspire

There was some confusion between freespire and linspire so they are giving linspire away for free until September 6th.

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Awesome Linux Penguin Pic

Awesome linux penguin pic made out of linux code.

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What's up with Graphics on Linux?

Confused about what is going on with graphics on Linux? Read the history of the complete process and where it stands today. Especially check out the part about SUN Looking Glass 3D Desktop.

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ShrinkTo5 Nice Open Source DVDShrink replacement

ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source. Still in development and it's open.

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Starry Night 1.5 Gigapixel Image!

This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images.

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Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide

Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide

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MIT "Hacks"

I find these *incredibly* amusing, and I think you will too. I spent about 2 and a half hours this afternoon going through these and laughing my ass off. Take a peek...

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How To Look Like A UNIX/LINUX Guru

This is your survival guide to UNIX/LINUX, once you go bash you wont go back.

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A GOOD First Person Shooter at only 100kb!

Finally a firs person shooter with pretty good graphics that is so small it can be installed on a floppy! -1.5GHz -512MB RAM -GFX card supporting pixel shaders 1.3, 128MB or more of VRAM. - Some kind of sound hardware - DirectX 9.0b Now if only Unreal Tournament 2004 took tips from these guys instead of making a 6 cd installer :P

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Super $500 MythTV Project

Speaking of MythTV (You were, weren't you?) here's a guy documenting the building of his MythTV box, running Gentoo and costing under $500. Cool stuff!

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Star Wars Combine - Massive Online Multiplayer RPG

The Combine is a free massively multiplayer online role-playing simulation game based on the Star Wars Universe, developed by amateurs in their spare time.

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MediaPortal - Windows alternative to MythTV

Want to try MythTV but don't have an extra PC sitting around to install Linux on? Try MediaPortal instead. It runs on Windows and is open source freeware.

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Open Office 2.0 Kicks MS Office Around the Block

If you tried the previous 1.1.4 version, the 2.0 beta version currently available will be a pleasant surprise. Unlike the slow, ugly, and underpowered earlier version, 2.0 is swift, smooth, and highly compatible with Office documents. Even better, it has plenty of features that you can't find in MS Office itself.

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Automated custom machine shop with online ordering

eMachineShop is the remarkable new way to get the custom parts you need - the first true online machine shop. Download our free software, draw your part, and click to order - it's easy! Your part will be machined and delivered - at low cost. This Rocks! read more | digg story

Hacking a McDonalds Sign

This was too funny not to share!

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Beastie Boys release their acapellas to the world

The Beastie Boys have released some of their acapellas to the worlds remixers and musicians free of charge on their website. They'll continue to release a new one every Friday.

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Why women live longer than men

The following photos show conclusively why it is that women tend to live longer than men.

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Army mechanic builds 18 ft. Mech

Carlos Owens, an Army mechanic has been building something strange in his backyard... a huge anime-looking, $20,000, exoskeleton!

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4999 Company Logos From All Over The World

A free site with a collection of nearly 5000 company logos.

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"The" Solution to high gas prices

$3.00 a Gallon is a bit much, this incredible device will save you thousands. $$$

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Fossil and Atari Animated Watches: Wearable Classic Gaming Design!

Hey all you gamers out there, check out these cool new Atari game inspired watches from innovative watchmaker Fossil. Classic Atari games like Asteroids, Breakout and Centipede will animate in the background of the watch face. Pretty cool idea and they look great, but unfortunately the games are not playable.

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Blizzard not developing Diablo or Starcraft sequels

Fans of Blizzard will be disappointed to hear that a company PR coordinator has ruled out any chance that the "unannounced product" that the company has been working on will be a sequel to either Diablo II or Starcraft, long term franchises for which the company is famous and which still attract a strong following today.

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Wikipedia entry on Flying Spaghetti Monster

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a parody religion, known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, started on the Internet by Bobby Henderson as a parody of the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution. official website read more | digg story

Microsoft Renames Rss to Web Feeds

Microsoft has defended its decision to rebrand RSS feeds in the forthcoming release of Internet Explorer 7 after accusations that it is trying to 'reinvent the technology'.

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Ubuntu Breezy Badger Colony 3

You just can't get enough of Ubuntu? Curious what's coming next? Come get some Ubuntu Surprises with Breezy Badger Colony 3, a preview of what's to come later this fall in Ubuntu Linux 5.10. Why not download the LiveCD and try for yourself the Linux sensation that's sweeping the nation (and the world, but that doesn't rhyme)!

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Quake 3 Source Code Released

Yep, just as Mr Carmack said, the source code for Quake 3 is now available for download.

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Railguns, Gauss Guns, OH MY!

Excellent examples of a real world rail gun, gauss gun theory, working disc thrower, 40w lasers, microwave oven guns.. Makes unreal tournament look real!

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"Toy Story" Writer Dies

Pixar Animation Studios was in shock Wednesday after learning of the death of Joe Ranft, one of the founding members of its creative team. It's too bad, he was a brilliant guy who I was lucky enough to meet at Siggraph a few years back.

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Essential freeware for the PC user

Try out these must have free software. He lists a bunch of good stuff, like free photo editing, Anti-virus, web tools, etc.

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The first programming riddle on the net

Looking to learn that awesome programming language but lack the drive? Take the challange!

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Red Planet Turning Green?

There's a new mission to Mars. But we're not talking about cute little robot rovers anymore.... read more | digg story

Preserving a generation of Apple 2 disks

Play old Apple 2e games through your browser. The site has over 1100 disk images archived. Ahh, the memories... 'You died from dysentery!' Unfortunately you can only play it using Internet Explorer (ActiveX)... How ironic!

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Mac OS X 10.4.1 Tiger x86 on VMWare 5 and Native

This is the most simple guide to installing Mac OS x86, it looks longer because its very simple if you can browse the internet and check e-mail you can do this!

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Furniture made entirely of FedEx boxes

Shipping boxes make nifty desks, beds and tables, according to the creator of Fedexfurniture.com. But the delivery company is trying to shut him down. Reminds me of when I was a teenager and we built all our furniture out of cases of Coors beer. Wish I still had a photo.

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The coolest LINUX-based CarPC

This car mod shows off a LINUX-based CarPC that is just plain awesome. He can listen to music, watch videos, view slideshows, sniff wireless networks and plot them with GPS, browse the web with Firefox, connect to his cell phone via Bluetooth, stream DirecTV, remote-start the car, and connect to it via WI-FI. Lots of great pics.

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World's Smallest Linux Server

BlackDog is the world's smallest Linux server that is 100% USB-powered and fits in the palm of your hand. BlackDog represents a new breed in mobile computing devices that gives developers a whole new way to think about computing.

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World Facts in Real Time

A site that shows the population, births per day/year, and many other interesting facts with real time meters.

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Liquid that becomes solid when exposed to electricity

...what if there were a way to turn a liquid into a tough solid at ordinary temperatures with a mere zap of electricity -- and then have that solid become liquid again, instantaneously, simply by shutting off the current?

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Combining great graphics and CSS

To create mind boggling web design. Here is a well written tutorial outlining how you can combine CSS skills and Photoshop skills

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Gigapixel Resolution

Graham Flint and Catherine Aves are not your average photographers. The two are currently traveling across the country creating a photographic record of landscapes using a Gigapixel camera that Flint Invented. The Gigapixel project.

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Over 400 Complete, Legal, and Free DOS Games!

These are free liberated complete games and not the source codes. Each of the games runs in DOS or DosBox (download on website).Make sure you download the Essentials as they will allow you to run the games properly. Have fun!

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Streaming Video Game Walkthroughs!

Are you stuck on a game and don't know where to go and what to do? Have no fear, StuckGamer Is Here! It will show you exactly what you need to do in order to get to the next mission/level. And how to do it! Its also spoiler safe!

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300 gigabytes (GB) capacity on a single disk !!

InPhase has developed a holographic storage device that will store 300GB of data on a CD-sized disc and deliver access times of less than 200 milliseconds. InPhase is also looking to have a Holographic disc out by 2009 that can hold 1.6TB of information!!

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Some very impressive lighting design

James Clar makes some awesome lighting creations. His LED cubes are especially amazing. Very modern and highly technical, this guy can do some seriously sweet stuff with LEDs and they look good too. Check 'em out.

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Indoor, Man-made beach in Japan

This is very cool idea, but what's the point of building it so close to the actual beach?

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Speech For The Moon Mission If It Failed

These documents (4 pages) were written by Nixon's aides and were meant to be given if the astronauts became stranded on the moon.

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Discovery and Crew Safe on Earth

Discovery and the STS-114 crew have touched down safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California, successfully wrapping up NASA's historic Return to Flight mission.

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See 4,500 military planes in storage on GoogleMaps!

Above is a link to a GoogleMaps image of AMARC in Tucson, AZ. AMARC stores approximately 4,500 military aircraft in a large property belonging to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

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The Matrix in a Matrix

Check out this video of scenes from the Matrix done in letters. Its awesome watching the bullet time and the full 3D motions.

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Fuel Cell Motorbike to Hit U.S. Streets

The ENV, a "sleek, almost silent, nonpolluting fuel cell-powered motorcycle is set to begin gliding down U.S. streets by the end of 2006." Official Site read more | digg story

RIPSAW 2: The ultimate RC

Check out this entry into the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. This thing is a monster! The video labeled "New Look" shows how they mounted the computer system.. very cool.

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jDoom - Play classic Doom in full 3D

jDoom is a super customized version of the Doom engine that not only gives the player mouselook and jumping, but the ability to use higher res textures and 3D models for both the monsters and the player's weapons.

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A dead hard drive story.

This person uses a very unique way to save data off a dead hard drive.

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What Starcraft could have been

Here's a nice gallery showing Starcraft's early development. See the progression from when it was little more than Warcraft 2 with different graphics, to just before release. A must for any Starcraft fan.

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Damn Small Linux 1.4 Released!

DSL is a < 50MB debian based live distribution. The new version has a ton of minor updates, new install scripts for hard drive installs, and ui improvements.

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Useful Windows Software

Huge list of useful Windows applications. Even if you think you've got it all, there is going to be something here for everyone.

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xajax PHP Class Library

xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

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Apples guide to AJAX / XMLHttprequest

Apple has a sweet guide on using the XMLHttprequest in Javascript to make dynamic pages.

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Customize your Linksys WRT54G with OpenWrt

OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for the Linksys WRT54G that allows you to customize the packages that run on it and add-on other linux packages.

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Tim Burton's new animation with unique digital workflow

The movie "Corpse Bride" is edited in Final Cut Pro, which is not new, but was shot in digital with Canon EOS 1D _still_ cameras. Then the crew used AppleScript, JavaScript and QuickTime tools to fine-tune the project.

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Linux from Scratch

Instead of installing Ubuntu or Suse, try it from scratch and actually learn something!

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99 Rooms

Put on some headphones and immerse yourself into the interactive 99rooms. A must see website.

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ZORK

You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. (written in PHP)

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Free Paper Craft Patterns

Yamaha has some pretty amazing downloadable PDF patterns for making paper models of creatures and machines.You can download patterns to make realistic motorcycles, rare animals like the giant panda and more. Fun stuff.

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Optical-camouflage or INVSIBILITY is real and in development

Article about how the Invisibility Cloaks Work. Looks like something that is appearing at Siggraph this year. Pretty cool.

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Super Hi-Res Photos of that Martian Ice

Also some more info and a 3D IMAGE! (if you havethe red/blue glasses)

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I'm a Creep: the world's shortest autobiography

This is an interesting animation that was made over a three month period of time that reflects the feelings of a professional in emotional crisis on his job. It is a good example of some of the creative work that is being currently being done using flash.

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Rare Blue Lobster

A blue lobster at The Audubon Society has molted and is at its brightest blue ever. Blue lobsters are about a 1-in-5 million occurrence.(has pics)

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Einstein's Theory of Relativity Explained In Words of Four Letters or Less

Title says it all; finally idiots like us can get it. It's surprisingly well written even with the four letter constraint. enjoy :-)

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Smallest hard drive ever

Toshiba's incredibly small HD is currently a Guinness Record holder as the world's smallest hard disk drive.

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Is that color the color you think you are seeing?

This website shows some cool color visual perception things. I think i might loose my mind next time when I'm picking out paint colors.

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The ultimate Lorem Ipsum generator

This is a site I use frequently to generate Lorem Ipsum (dummy text) when I 'm designing. Very handy tool.

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New Ice lake found on Mars!

A giant patch of frozen water has been pictured nestled within an unnamed impact crater on Mars.

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X-Ray Vision with Sony nightshot camera

Check this out. The site speaks for itself. Make sure you check out the experiments section.

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Create A Multi-Boot DVD

This is an awesome guide on how-to create your own Multi-Boot DVD for installing windows and even linux live boot, all on the same DVD! Check it out its an awesome guide

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Hollywood Operating System

Ever wonder how they did it in the movies... The HOLLYWOOD OPERATING SYSTEM will allow you too to hack like your favorite movie stars..... (hillarious!)

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Aerogel: The World's Lightest Solid

Aerogel is 99.8% air and 1,000 times less dense than glass yet it can withstand high temperature, is robust enough to survive a space launch and delivers 39 times more insulation than the best fibreglass. read more | digg story

Linux Clues

A write up of a help linux source for new users that answers all your questions to the new world of linux. Take a peek it is good for both the new user and the olders ones that want to brush up on old problems read more | digg story

Phone Losers of America

PLA pranks unsuspecting businesses and customers. Plenty of video, sound and pictures to laugh at for hours on end.

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Mars colony plans unveiled

The Mars Foundation has completed its programming study of the first permanent settlement on Mars. Check out the architect's PDF - this is completely serious.

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The Present and the Past in Pictures: An hour at a time

Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements forming visual timeline of history.

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The most human robot ever created "comes to life" in Japan

Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1.

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You Don't Know Jack About Firefox

An in-depth, 6 page, look at firefox with explanations of the many features and neat tricks accompanied with pictures. I especially liked the about:config hidden feature.

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Walk the streets in your own 4 meter tall robot-suit

Whether you're attacking Ewoks or battling Gundams, this 4m tall walking robot suit fits the bill. Now it can be yours for the low price of $43,500.

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Is it Flash? No it's AJAX

Backbase has created an application for developing websites that look just like Flash but are really implementations of AJAX. Definitely check out the "Demos" section for shopping cart, portal, etc. with NO post backs necessary.

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What does 272 billion dollars look like?

President Bush announced on national television that he was asking the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. But $87 billion is an impossibly high number for anyone to visualize. Let's have a look....

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Boot Linux In 25 Seconds!

Walk-through on how this guy tweaked his Fedora system to boot in under 25 seconds. You may want to hit the google cache, the site is laggy. read more | digg story

A Terrabyte of Network Attached Storage for you home

Need more storage space and want it to be accessible over your network? check out this cool product from Buffalo Tech. It has four hard drives that can be setup for mirroring or raid. I just picked one up for under $900.

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Free stock photography site (really)

This Hungarian website is a great source for people looking for stock photography. It is all user contributed and in most cases free to use without even crediting the photographer. Users can submit their own photos which get judged by a group of panelist and eventually become part of the collection.

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Build your own Cantenna

This page describes how to create your own cantenna to boost your wireless b or g signal.

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Best connection speed tester

This is by far the best connection speed tester I've seen. It's fast, looks cool, and very accurate.

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Levanta: Working to Virtualize the Linux Software Stack

This is some pretty cool technology that allows you to virtualize storage on linux by virtualizing not only the OS but also the software.

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Build your own Peltier cooler

After reading the story about the teenagers who created a peltier powered AC unit, I did a little googling and found this. Looks like a weekend project for me.

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Win a custom American Chopper Bike and be on the Show

This is a dream come true, hang out with the guys from OCC and get a custom bike built. I'm sending in my application!

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Mathematical Works of Art

This site uses Processing(Beta 1.0) to create all kinds of interactive and non-interactive works of art. If you haven't played with Processing, this might motivate you.

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Free Portable USB Programs

Programs which require no installs just copy files to desired media and run.

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Here is something cool... just type in any text into the form at TTS Interactive Demo and it converts it into a natural sounding voice. You can even have someone with a french accent read it. My favorite is typing "Hello. My name is Indio Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.".

Today I came across some incredible photos taken with the hubble telescope. Too bad it is being decommisioned. These photos look so cool, they almost look fake.