Also some more info and a 3D IMAGE! (if you havethe red/blue glasses)
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Saturday, July 30, 2005
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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Friday, July 29, 2005
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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Thursday, July 28, 2005
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.
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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
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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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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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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Monday, July 25, 2005
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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Friday, July 22, 2005
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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Thursday, July 21, 2005
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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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
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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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
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