How To Get Full Multimedia Support in Ubuntu

This gives Ubuntu desktop users the guidance to enable full multimedia support and playback of popular media codecs and technologies in just 3 steps. Covered: DVD (CSS) movie playback support, OGG / THEORA / AAC / MP3 / WMA / WMV/ DIVX / XVID / MPEG-1/2/4 / QuickTime support, Skype, Flash, RealPlayer, JAVA, and more.

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Animator vs Animation

It's a struggle between a stick figure and his creator, using items on the Flash toolbar!

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Amazing Photoshop Replacement - It's not Gimp!

For the past nine years Pavel Kanzelsberger of Slovakia has been quietly working on a graphics application that may shake the very foundations that Photoshop have been built on. The application called 'Pixel' nears its 1.0 release and can still be purchased for a mere $32. It runs on about any OS one can imagine!

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Ubuntu Dapper Review

"To sum up my experience with Ubuntu�s Dapper I will say that it is easily the most impressive Linux distribution I have used to date. The combination of speed, stability, ease of use and the excellant apt-get package manager, makes it the Linux distro to beat."

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Atlantik. The online Monopoly-like game for Linux

Last night while playing around with the new Dapper Drake version of Ubuntu, I found this piece of software created by Robert John Kaper. It is designed for KDE but seems to work just fine on GNOME. I had hours of fun playing last night. The cool thing is that you can create your own monopoly-like board games using this engine... one that I tried was a Lord of the Rings Monopoly game. Check it out.

Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS Released

My favorite release of linux has just released the official Dapper Drake version 6.06)

Frogger in Flash

Paul Neave has been working on a Flash version of Frogger for some months now. It has been up for some time, but is now finished, and now (like most of his games) has a worldwide high-score list.

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Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands

Article describing how to repair Windows XP when your PC is inaccessible from the standard boot procedures, and you have to use the recovery console as your last resort!

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How to pour iced tea while doing a barrel roll

O.K. This is too good not to share with everyone. This guy does stuff with a commercial airplane that is just insane. You have to see the video.

Touchscreen Computer Display Floats in Mid-Air

IO2 Technology has the coolest sounding display I have ever seen called the M2i. The device projects a 30" diagonal 4:3 aspect ratio display into the air. That's right, into the air like a hologram. The entire projection unit is designed to be hidden out of site so that only the display image shows.


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San Andreas Multiplayer (SA:MP) Released

San Andreas Multiplayer is a mod for GTA:SA that turns it into.. multiplayer. It supports 100 players, and custom gamemodes through built-in scripting support. You can do virtually anything that is possible in single player (you're not limited to just vehicles).

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The Six Minute Project

The six minute project is an interactive multimedia experiment, in which people take a picture of whatever they are doing, wherever they are, every six minutes for 24 waking hours. The result of each contributing gallery is 240 connecting snapshots that tell one story.

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$24,000 VooDoo PC!

Everything you could imagine, and then some!, just too bad not many people can afford it.

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From XHTML/CSS to WordPress

The ultimate guide to WordPress theming. As an addition to two previously posted articles about webdesign workflows, this shows the whole process of how to turn a (x)HTML site into a WordPress theme.

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Gun Engine Explodes Fuel Efficiency

Bon Kulman interviews Kazimierz Holubowicz, inventor of the gun engine, which was designed with the objective of increasing engine efficiency from 20% to 92%.

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Wooden Computing (Awesome Pictures)

A bunch of wooden desktop computing setups. Monitors, keyboards, mice, and some Amazing Wooden Case Mods. Made of everything from bamboo to mahogany.

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Ultimate Web Designers Resource

Has XHTML, PHP, FLASH, AJAX and many more resources. Definitely worth a look at this site.

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ABC Launches Free Online Episode Streaming

Starting today, you can stream episodes of ABC's LOST, Desperate Housewives, Commander in Chief, and Alias for free at ABC.com. The ad-supported episodes will be available for at least a two-month trial period.

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Convert any file to DVD with Linux and Open Source tools.

You've just downloaded the new episode of your favorite video podcast, and you'd like to watch it on your big-screen TV. Unfortunately, the video is encoded in XviD or QuickTime format, which your DVD player doesn't support. Don't worry -- here's how you can convert any video file to DVD using dvdauthor and MPlayer.

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Live re-enactment of Super Mario Bros.!!

These guys at Gordon College really put some time into making a real life version of everyone's favorite video game. You have to just see this one.

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StarCraft being ported to Linux (Early version available)

This guy wants to play StarCraft on his Linux box without wine so he's doing a port using the Mono platform

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ThickBox - One box to rule them all.

If you're a fan of LightBox, the javascript solution for displaying pics, then you're going to like how one developer has expanded on it to allow for showing html as well as images.

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New German Car gets 157mpg - Loremo LS

Loremo LS is powered by a 20hp turbo diesel engine that will reach a speed of 100 mph and the GT model will reach up to 135 mph with a 0 to 60 mph acceleration of 9 seconds. www.loremo.de


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the Mysteriously Illustratrated 600 yr-old Cryptic Voynich Manuscript

The 600 year old, one-of-a-kind book is known as the Voynich Manuscript. The textual content of this mysterious illustrated book is unknown because it is written in an unknown alphabet and unintelligible language, and despite the efforts of expert cryptographers over many decades, not a single word has been deciphered

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Web 2.0 Sudoku

This site randomly generates a new sudoku challenge every day. The community rates the difficulty level and can also comment on the challenge once they have finished. Only 2 days old, but very fun!

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Digg Creates Boom for Documentary Film!

"Digg.com drove significant traffic from animators who were amazed by Ankilewitz's ability to create 3D animation with the use of only one finger. Wow this guy weighs 39 pounds and he's overcome all odds, a doctor gave him until the age of 6 to live and now he's on a journey to speak with that doctor, commented one Digg blogger." http://www.39poundsoflove.com

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Dragon's Lair

Remember this game? I could never figure out how the hell the game worked, but it was always fun to watch and was good at taking my quarters. Below is the entire game start to finish. Enjoy. UPDATE 4/24/06: The video has been removed. :(

Google - Da Vinci Code Website Now Active

The Da Vinci Code involves a thrilling murder investigation that unearths a secret that could change the course of history. The film opens May 19th worldwide The quest, which began April 17th requires skill, intellect, and perseverance. Over a span of 24 days ending May 11th, you will encounter unique challenges.

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World's first Drug to reverse Gray Hair (Incredible)

Researchers at the French company Loreal have made a breakthrough discovery that has lead to a new Drug that can turn Gray Hair back to its natural color. (Works in 2 to 4 Months)

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XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command

Have you ever run into a "Missing HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," or "Windows could not start..." message? That was when I learned about XP's built-in "Rebuild" command. It often can easily fix "missing HAL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," "Windows could not start..." and similar problems in just a minute or two.

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Lots of old Sierra and Lucasart games online FREE

Games include Leisure Suit Larry, Kings Quest, Full Throttle, Sam & Max and more! My friend "Overmann" will love this one for sure.

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One Red Paper Clip guy now has a year in Phoenix

Remember the guy who started out with a paper clip and has been trading his way up to a house? He is now one step closer to his goal.

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Larger Than Life Sculptures - Two-stories High and Hyper-Realistic

Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor who creates gargantuan-sized sculptures that capture details of the human body so well that they're hard to believe. Mueck is a master at capturing human expression and recreating the detail of muscles, skin, fat and bones that we are all made of. *Warning contains nudity*. Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck

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Gravity-Powered Aircraft

A concept which could minimize the need to burn fossil fuels for air travel.

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The Perfect Xen 3.0 Setup For Debian

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen 3.0.1 on a Debian Sarge system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems, so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).

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ThinkGeek Does April Fools a Day Early

ThinkGeek.com continues the tradition of coming up with some great fake gear for the tech crowd. I especially liked the iZilla digital media monster and the wireless extension cords (WEC).

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First version of the Diva Video Editor has been released

Diva is a project to build an easy to use, scalable, open-source video editing software for the Gnome desktop. Our goal is to provide users with a complete and tightly integrated set of tools that can be used to import, edit, enhance and export digital video material.

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Retouching photos to the max!

Greg Apodaca's web portfolio showcases some of the most EXTREME retouched photos that I have ever seen done. This is worth checking out to see who the real models are behind the magazine covers our society idolizes. His site shows the original scans followed by his retouching of each image. Check this out!

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Fun with Photoshop

Got bored last night and was surfing "Hot or Not". Found this horrible picture and decided to see whether I could photoshop it or not. Turned out decent. Did a little roll over, and also a video clip of the pictures transitioning. Enjoy! (And remember, people in magazines don't actually look like their pictures!!)

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Lightbox JS 2.0 Released

Lokesh from HuddleTogether.com has finally released Lightbox JS 2.0!!! Check out the site for more information! I have upgraded and am currently using it on this site.

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First Retail holographic Storage!

That long wait for holographic 3-D storage is finally over. A company called in-phase is selling a 515Mbit per square inch drive.

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100 Year Exposure Photo

Artist Jonathon Keats is taking one long photo. His project, a pinhole camera that is taking one continuous picture of a room in the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco, is a mixture of uber-low-tech and ultra-high concept geekiness.

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Top 10 PHP Frameworks

In this article we will look at ten popular frameworks, and compare them to each other. First I will give you a general chart which gives you a quick overview of all the frameworks, and after that we'll go through each framework and discuss it in short.

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Automatix kicks Ubuntu into gear

Automatix installs a laundry list of applications, plugins, and utilities that are supposed to turn a barebones Ubuntu install into desktop perfection. You can pick and choose what you want. Need codecs of various kinds? This is so not legal in some countries.

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Smart Cars: Coming to the U.S.

The fuel-efficient Smart Car is (finally) on its way to U.S. shores. The Smart Car gets 60 mpg and can reach speeds of 85 miles per hour, and will range in price from $15,000 to $25,000 fully loaded.

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Scientists Finally uncover what causes Asthma

Medical experts have been baffled by what causes asthma. Most of them favor the idea that it stems from "helper" cells that have gone awry. But researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have come up with convincing evidence that the answer lies in a special type of natural "killer" cell.

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Star Wars, the TV series, is GO!

The new Star Wars TV Series will have more than 100 episodes, and is expected to debut sometime in 2008.

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Google aquires @Last Software

Google aquires @Last Software, the makers of SketchUp. SketchUp is a 3D modeling application which is incredible. It seems that during thier time developing a plugin for Google Earth, Google decided to buy them. I just hope this doesn't kill Sketchup.

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PriceRitePhoto, They're Back

Well that didn't take long. After becoming the most dugg story of all time and being delisted from all the major price comparison search engines, PriceRitePhoto is now back in business at both PriceGrabber and Yahoo! Shopping -- even after Yahoo! admitted in Forbes that the retailer had hacked their feedback system.

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DIY-Make Your Own Greenscreen for $16

This is a great tutorial for any independent photographers. This greenscreen uses pvc piping that will only cost you $16. I found this tutorial earlier and today my friend and I built one. It worked great!

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iWood for the iPod

From the makers of iWoodNano, the iWood for the 5G iPod is now available for customizing. It starts at 85 euros, and is really amazing. Everybody needs to check this one out.

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Cable Companies: We'll Kill VoIP

Cable companies in the U.S. and Canada may be moving to squash one of the biggest threats to their future expansion --- VoIP. A Canadian cable company is already charging customers a premium for using competing VoIP products, and users are complaining that Comcast is purposely degrading the quality of Vonage connections.

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Effective Style with CSS and em

Revisiting the em unit of font-size and examining the benefits. A good read for those who want to make their site more accessible and usable.

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Linux Terminal Server for Home Media PCs

Guide to setup a Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) on Ubuntu Dapper (optionally within VMWare) to remotely boot a diskless Linux Media PCs running Freevo. Useful for people who plan to manage 2 or more Media PCs in the house. Also works as a regular terminal server with sound and local media (such as USBs & CD/DVD-ROMs)

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Ubuntu voted 'Linux distribution of the year'

This is the latest in a long line of awards that Ubuntu has racked up over the last six months, an impressive achievement considering that the distribution is less than two years old.

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Amazing 750 Square Meter Videoprojection (video)

Four projectors covering the whole 750 square meter front of a townhall building at night. The amazing images/animations being projected make use of the shape of the building. Really nice!

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Open Office 2.02 Released

Although not updated on the official website yet, Filehippo reports that Open Office 2.02 is released and their download link works.

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New AJAX-powered blogging system.

AJAXPress is an AJAX based blogging system. It is a standalone application written in PHP with a MySQL backend, and allows users to create their own AJAX-powered blogs. It comes complete with an AJAX powered admin interface.

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55 TO STAY ALIVE

College students knew they were risking their lives when they drove 4 abreast on I-285 at 55 mph. But the film they made on the adventure is receiving national attention. Check out the video.

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Milk Ring

An old friend of mine wrote a humorous post the other day that I thought was hilarious. I'll never look at milk rings the same way again. Now if I can just get him to show up for poker night....

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Google releases new Page Creator

"Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes." Looks good to me! Check my page out at http://bducharme.googlepages.com.

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Open Source Web Design Templates

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!

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Web Sudoku

Sudoku is the number placing game taking the world by storm. The rules of Sudoku are simple. Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each of the nine digits. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square.

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Man in Vietnam hasn't slept in 33 years

64-year old Thai Ngoc had a fever in 1973, and after that he never went to sleep again, not even for a quick nap. He even had a medical examination, but doctors gave him a clean bill of health.

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10 Guides for a New Ubuntu User

Links to 10 Guides that are very useful to a new Ubuntu user.

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Wolfenstein Radio PC

At first glance, we thought this was a prop from an upcoming Wolfenstein movie, but in reality it's just a masterfully modded PC.

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Damn Small Linux 2.2 has been released.

Damn Small Linux 2.2 has been released. Many new features and bug fixes.

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Gooogle Video Hosting Superbowl XL Commercials

Looks like google has decided to set a page for just the superbowl commercials...

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Paper-like display in two years

Philips Polymer Vision has announced foldable, rollable, ultra-thin displays in two years' time. These displays don't use alot of energy so they are perfect for large laptops and cellphones.

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Wine 0.9.7 Released

This is release 0.9.7 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

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Flash Earth: Google Earth In Your Browser

Flash Earth is a Flash version of Google Map's satellite pictures. Unlike Google Maps, Flash Earth allows you to zoom and move your view smoothly and responsively. It also has support for MSN Virtual Earth (but I'm sure you all prefer Google).

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Using Waterpipes to Create Colossal Ice Structures!

The Alaskan Alpine Club keeps a photo-journal of their gigantic creation...Remember, they just use water and strategically placed pipes!

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Kevin Rose Reveals It All...

Come get the inside scoop on Digg's founder, Kevin Rose.

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Awesome Audio player Wordpress plugin

Once installed, this plugin allows you to insert mp3 audio files into your posts and pages.

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(Video) 8088 Corruption....awesome hack

Color video running at 30 frames per second, with audio, on an original 4.77MHz 8088 IBM PC Model 5150 with 640K RAM, CGA video, 10MB drive, and Sound Blaster Pro. No tricks, this is for real! This kind of speed is only achievable using text mode (!) and 8088 assembler. Programmer: Jim Leonard

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Wireless Laptop Antenna made from a Pen.

Searching for a way to maximize my wireless signal from my laptop i stumbled across this crazy contraption. A wireless antenna made from a standard ball point pen.

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Crazy Perspective-Bending WWI Propaganda Photos

These photographs were taken on military bases in the early 1900's by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas. They often consisted of upwards of 20,000 officers and men and had to be taken from a 70-ft tower built specially for the purpose.

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Ubuntuguide reborn

Ubuntuguide - unofficial starter guide for UbuntuLinux users has been upgraded and updated for Ubuntu5.10

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Photoshop Tutorial - Text Photo Montage

I've seen this effect before, one of my teachers has Einstein made up of just letters. This tutorial shows you how you can easily do it using photoshop. Pretty cool I think.

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Hilarious SUN advertisements that never made it to print

If you haven't seen these, you gotta check it out. I especially like the playboy centerfold ad.

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China Discovered America - Map Revealed

A map due to be unveiled in Beijing and London next week may lend weight to a theory a Chinese admiral discovered America, and not Christopher Columbus.

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100,000+ Lego Pieces Harpsichord

The size is 6 x 3 ft. weighing approximately 150 lbs, and built with an estimated 100,000 LEGO pieces! It actually plays.

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Swallow the "Pill Cam" then let it take 2,600 photos of your Gut

The patient simply swallows the pill with water. It progresses down the esophagus and takes about 2,600 color pictures at a rate of 14 per second. After 20 minutes, the doctor evaluates the video images. The disposable capsule is passed naturally, usually within 24 hours

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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