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.