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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