Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo. read more | digg story

Whats Reality?

Someone while on holiday in Japan took these photographs. When they got back, they found the identical place in the Project Gotham 3 race tracks. They are shockingly similar and just highlights the large amount of work that went into making the game. Impressive eh? read more | digg story

Got a Digital Camera? Know where you can take pictures.

This is a great article on the legal issues surrounding snapping pictures. The good news is that most of the times I was told I couldn't take photos, they were wrong (like at the emerging technologies section of Siggraph). ;) read more | digg story

PriceRitePhoto and Digg Hit the New York Times

What started out as a rant on my blog and was amplified by Digg to the most Dugg story ever today hit the New York Times. The Times offers a strong overview story on the PriceRitePhoto case and says that they would now appear to be out of business. This may be the last PriceRitePhoto update. Thanks to all who helped with this.

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JavaScript + CSS = Nice Picture Display

Nice piece of JavaScript and CSS to display a picture in response to a click on a thumbnail. More attractive than just popping up a window or loading the picture raw in the browser. Instead the whole page is shaded down and the image is loaded in the center of the page. (click one of the photos below to see it in action)

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Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil

Ever wondered what it would be like to remove your PC case fans and use cooking oil to cool your PC components? Apparently, somebody did... read more | digg story

Optimus Keyboard February 1st!

Yes, The Optimus Keyboard, has been announced to be released February 1st 2006! Take a look, this is a awesome keyboard with great use of LED technology! read more | digg story

How to use HTML tables properly

You should avoid using tables for layout, but that does not mean you should avoid using tables for their intended purpose. When marking up tabular data in HTML, tables are what should be used. This article explains how to make HTML data tables accessible.

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PHP Easter Egg (Works On Digg!)

Well, it just so happens that if you add ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 to the end of any URL that is a PHP page you will see a funny little picture of a dog. Try it right now with any URL on digg!

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Beautiful high-res video in your browser

Is this what broadcast IPTV will look like? We can only hope..

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KnoppMyth R5A30 Is Now Out

You all know KnoppMyth is the easiest way to get a MythTV box up and running. The newest version is now out (1/4/2006). read more | digg story

Men Are From Google, Women Are From Yahoo

Men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities. Men tend to see it as an office, a library, or a playground--screw the community, this is about function not family. read more | digg story

2D Mario Sunshine Flash Game

Very interesting 2D take on Super Mario Sunshine.

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Tom's Hardware Guide for Bios: A-Z

Make Windows XP run faster through BIOS settings. Great for beginners and pros alike.

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Classic Apogee Games now Freeware

Remember Blake Stone, Hocus Pocus, Commander Keen, and Duke Nukem? Well 3D Realms has released numerous classic Apogee games as Freeware for you to download and enjoy. read more | digg story

Free CSS Tab menus

You don't need to be a Guru to be able to code is CSS...with the large number of free online resources available, life as a designer is quite easy!

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Very low-tech pixels

Random Screen is a mechanical thermo dynamic display which does not rely on any electricity. Each of the 12 by 12 cm pixels is built as a seperate module. A tee candle lights and controls each pixel. read more | digg story

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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