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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