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.

Suprnova.org is shutdown, along with just about every other decent torrent site on the internet. Our government really sucks sometimes. Along comes a great way to distribute large files (BitTorrent) and the government comes along and kills it. In case you don't know what BitTorrent is, read the introduction page. Looks like YouCeff Torrents was also killed.

Came across a couple of cool things today... The first was a entry in the 2005 DARPA competition called RIPSAW developed by a couple of guys from Maine. The other unrealated thing was a webpage that allows you to download some rare Beatles Christmas Records that where only available to members of the Beatles Fan Club.

Came across this link today which shows the history of programming languages from 1954 - present. Also this clip from the CBS archives from 1993 talking about the internet is pretty interesting. Did I mention it's my birthday? Looks like I will be getting a nice present on Saturday in the form of refinancing my house. I will finally be able to replace all the old windows on my house and have money to fix my garage.

Today I was brushing up on my web standards and (re)found a couple of great reference sites: SimpleBits, A List Apart and zeldman. I think I might be using some of the ideas on ALA when I finally create brianducharme.com.

art.com has a pretty cool flash application that lets you paint on a canvas using paint brushes or splatter. Some of the cool features are the ability to darken colors by going over them twice as well as a playback function allowing you to watch the picture get painted.

This photo was taken in August of 2004 at the X-Games Big Air Finals in Los Angeles, California. Photo of Bob Burquist.

I am trying out flickr as a way of uploading posts to my blog. I'll let you know how it works out.

On a more morbid note I stumbled upon Malady of the Month which is kind of like a car wreck... you can't help but look. Besides being a bit morbid, the site is actually pretty informative. I will forever have the image of the Harlequin fetus burned into my mind.

Today I found another great Torrent site: Youceff Torrents. In addition to having a good selection of torrents it also has a password database to crack those encrypted releases that want you to go and register on their site in order to unlock the download.

You never know what you are going to find on the internet...Sensible Erection is one of those sites. This KiWi / American site has some interesting pr0n as well as a FARK type quality to it.

Yesterday I found the ultimate KOL (Kingdom of Loathing) resource guide: Kol Trance. This site is filled with "meaty" goodies.

Alex Albrecht has a great site worth checking out from time-to-time.

The Kingdom of Loathing is a amazingly addictive MMORG. You gotta try it, it's free.

Today I found a great MMORG game called The Kingdom of Loathing which despite the crude graphics is actually a well thought-out game that is a blast to play. It uses a meat based currency system, and has classes like Seal Clubber, Turtle Tamer, Pastamancer, Sauceror, Disco Bandits and Accordian Thief.

nh-scooters.com breaks another record in July with 76,193 unique hits.

Abandonware Filez is a great site full of games developed between 1982 - 1987. You can download games like Burgertime, DigDug, Decathlon, Donkey Kong and a ton of others.

AtLast Software releases SketchUp 4.0 which is an incredible tool for quickly working in 3D. It is best suited for architectural type design, but can be used to create models for games or to import into 3D Studio Max.

kevin rose has some great t-shirts which you can buy from his site. Kevin is a host of the show "The ScreenSavers" on what is now G4-TechTV. Kevin has another site for the hacker in all of us, thebroken.org.

While looking for geodesic dome suppliers I found this cool Garden Dome 2 Treehouse which looks like it would be great design for a treehouse. I also came across a great supplier of a material called Coroplast which is a corrugated plastic.

Just when you think you've reached your limit... www.nh-scooters.com breaks another record with 75,722 Unique visitors for the month of April.

If you are looking for a great place to have postcards printed try imiprint.com. They do full-color glossy postcards for CHEAP without sacrificing quality.