Proof the human race is stupid: It took until 2006 to come up with this

We still don't have personal jetpacks, we didn't get mayonaise in a squeezable plastic container until the year 2000, and until now, no one else has thought of this: a simple but much-needed update to the common electrical wall socket.

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We Hate Tech Podcast is over....

Glen and Josh have called it quits....

will someone be there to pick up the pieces?


http://wehatetech.com for more details.

Reclaim GBs of Your OS X Hard Drive

Use these tips and apps to reclaim GBs of hard drive space to make room for new stuff.

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Apple to offer films to download on iTunes

Apple, is preparing to launch a film download service. An announcement is expected as early as this week. The news will represent another move in Apple�s strategy to network computing and entertainment products around the home so music and video can be wirelessly streamed from one device to another...

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Acer has its own take on video iPod due next month.

The specs include a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, 20-40GB hard drive, support for most common audio and video formats, video out and a battery life of 4-8 hours. The form factor is eerily similar to leaked photos of Apple's video iPod.

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'Pharmed' goat drug not approved

"An application to license the world's first medicine to be produced from a GM animal has been turned down."

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Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies

The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.

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Biggest Subwoofer Enclosure I've Seen!

This guy in Italy built an entire chamber out of bricks and render for his subwoofer "enclosure". Some people have too much money!

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How to make PCB's with a laser printer

This is a cool way to make good quality pcb's cheaply and easily.

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Study Shows Brain Anticipates Taste, Shifts Gears

"As the prism of our senses, the human brain has ways of refracting sensory input in defiance of reality... How the brain processes this faked input and prompts the body to respond is largely a mystery of neuroscience."

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London To Be Totally Wi-Fi-Enabled

The City of London Corporation is all set to have Wi-Fi network in place covering the entire city. The project is being undertaken by the corporation in partnership with a private Wi-Fi firm, The Cloud. It is expected to be implemented in full in the next few months.

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iTunes MOVIE Store may Finally be introduced during Feb 28 Event

Apple may use the event to launch a world-first - a movie download service through iTunes. He said: "We believe there is a greater-than-50 per cent chance that Apple will announce its first, full-length feature films available for download on iTunes."

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Origamiproject an mystery Microsoft project?

What is "origamiproject.com" (domain is registered to Microsoft) currently it only shows a flash animation. but invites us to stay tuned for more information on 3.02.06

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Apples crack dealing rumor mongers...

When Apple Computer this week sent out an invitation to a "fun" announcement at the company's headquarters, it may well have been handing out crack to rumor junkies. Here's a couple of the latest rocks people are pressing into their pipes:

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VMware Introduces Free VMware Server

VMware Introduces Free VMware Server

Microsoft is 'Darth Vader' - Wozniak

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks the company should spin off its iPod division, and believes it's past time for Microsoft to shed its 'Darth Vader' image.

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Apple sells billionth song.

At approximately 12:37 PM Eastern on February 23rd, 2006, Apple sold its one billionth song on iTunes, marking the end of their Billion Song Giveaway campaign.

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Terry Gilliam: Studios are the Pirates

Director and ex-Monty Python Terry Gilliam is fine with people pirating his movies, as long as they don't screw up the encoding!

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Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of two new moons around the distant planet Pluto.

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Next-gen content protection spec available for licensing Blu-ray & HD-DVD

"AACS LA founders IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, The Walt Disney Company, and Warner Bros. Studios today announced the immediate availability of AACS (ADVANCED ACCESS CONTENT SYSTEM) under interim licensing agreements"

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Super Slick TV Listings using Ajax

EvokeTV is an interesting new way to look through TV listings using Ajax. Not only does it have the listings for thousands of areas, it also gives you the show's synopsis in a nice little sidebar. Add some nice Ajax gloss, and you have a great tool for channel surfing (or BitTorrent downloading)

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Super-Repellent Plastic

With GE's new plastic, self-washing buildings, cheap diagnostic chips, and free-flowing honey jars are possible.

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Gamers are now considered on par with crack addicts by the news media.

WGN aired a story on video game addiction, now prior to airing the story, the anchorman said in the teaser that "video games can be more addicting than crack cocaine". When I heard that, I knew that I had to record the segment and upload the video for others to see. This is the news media at is worst. You can see the video on the link.

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Prof says there's no hacker he can't foil

A University of Toronto professor says he can now use a photon of light to smash through the most sophisticated computer theft schemes that hackers can devise.

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The swiss army knife of gaming cheating

Poke is the ultimate gaming utility. It's a small program that allows you to cheat in every game out there - published or to be published in the future!

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Apple is a HUGE Open Source Support - Who would think?

As the first major computer company to make Open Source development a key part of its ongoing software strategy, Apple remains committed to the Open Source development model.

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Windows XP on the Intel-based Macintosh: A Virtualized Possibility

"We now have Windows XP running on the Intel-based Macintosh � as a guest operating system under the Linux version of VMware."
"To anybody who has used Windows XP under Virtual PC on the PowerPC version of Mac OS X: you will simply be blown away by how fast Windows XP runs under VMware on the new hardware."

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The Phantom Gaming Console is no more...is anybody surprised?

The company has spent millions to bring us the ghost. From its inception in December of 2002 through September of last year, Infinium racked up $62.7 million in losses. The Phantom Lapboard might still be built.

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Early HDTV adopters screwed by Blue Ray & HD-DVD rules

If you're one of the first adopters who mortgaged the house to buy the earliest HDTV displays, don't expect to get full HD resolution when you take out a second mortgage for a high-def disc player when they come out later this year.

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No more cashiers at Taco Bell and KFC

The Back to the Future 2 prophesy comes true, except instead of Max Headroom and Ronald Reagan we have a old colonel and a talking taco.

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All Google's Roads Lead to Kansas

Coffeyville might seem like the middle of nowhere. But if you use Google Maps, the small town is the very center of the universe.

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Explorers Discover Huge Cave and New Poison Frogs

A cave so huge helicopters can fly into it has just been discovered deep in the hills of a South American jungle paradise.

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Apple working on "Optimus-like" LCD Programmable Keys

This may initially show up on the MacBook Pros. Although only limited to the Function Keys and the Left & Right Edges of the Scrolling Touch Pad; Each Key Panel will change its image depending on the User's programmable desires...

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New intel iMac -- better than a light bulb!

Apparently the new iMac is so energy efficient that you could use it as a lamp while the CPU is being 100% utilized and probably save on electricity rather than turning on a light in your house.

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Mac OS X Essential Freeware

A list of quality freeware to make Mac OS X a much more productive place.

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Severe security hole in Apple's Safari browser discovered

A severe security issue has been discovered in the Apple Safari browser that can result in the execution of evil shell scripts without notice of the computer user. This article describes the issue and the countermeasures to prevent harm from your system.

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Wired Magazine: "Can Surround Sound Save MP3?"

The popular format that defined the online music revolution is outdated, but a new upgrade may give MP3 its best chance for a second life.

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Digg's Front Page Stories as a Hyperlinked Photo Mosaic (UrlyArt)

The screenshots of about 1,000 of Digg's recent front page stories, laid out in a photo mosaic of Digg's logo, and complete with links.

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Save your battery while watching DVDs in OS X

Instructions on how to copy DVDs to your hard drive so you can watch them without running down your battery. Looks like a good way to get through an entire movie on a plane without running out of power.

This use to be a feature of the operating system, but Apple removed it in recent versions.

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New free emulator for OS X can do Windows and Linux and is Universal

Check it out! Q is a new Cocoa implementation of the open-source emulator QEMU. Its optimization for OSX includes being a universal binary, support for CoreImage, CoreAudio and OpenGL. Who needs to wait for Microsoft?

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Sleep A Thing Of The Past

New drugs which will allow people to survive on only two hours sleep a day are being developed, scientists have said.
The drugs will allow people to cope with the pressures of 24-hour society.

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7000 fps movie of rare "Sprite" lightning

Mysterious flashes of light called �sprites", that occur above thunderclouds during powerful storms, have been captured on film in unprecedented detail by researchers using an ultra-high-speed camera. They "resemble a giant undulating jellyfish with its tentacles falling from a halo of light". Link to movie included.

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Google adds TONS of new widgets for Google's Personalized homepage

I noticed that there are a crapload of new user-created widgets for Google's personalized home, sweet!

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Create a TV Ad for Firefox

Firefox is having a contest to see who can make the best 30second tv spot for them. Seems like a really cool idea, and the winner gets some great prizes

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Should Apple save the day and buy Blockbuster?

Poor Blockbuster Video hasn't made a profit in years, NetFlix is cleaning its clock, and the future looks bleak for this pioneering video rental chain. Steve Jobs to the rescue?

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Does AT&T owe YOU $21,000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), based in San Francisco, filed the suit against AT&T for giving the NSA direct access to its databases of communications records, including whom their customers had phoned or sent e-mail to in the past. The suit was filed Tuesday in the United States District Court of the Northern District of California.

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Linux Boots on INTEL iMac

Members of the Mactel-Linux effort today announced that they have managed to boot Linux on a 17-inch iMac Core Duo, and devoted special thanks to one user in particular for his efforts.

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iLife '06 Updates Available

Every aspect of iLife has been updated. iDVD - This update to iDVD 6 resolves issues with integration with the other iLife applications, importing of legacy projects and some theme related issues. It also addresses a number of other minor issues.

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RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use

The RIAA argues in a DMCA rule-making filing that copying for personal use (to an iPod) is not fair-use.

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Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands

Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands

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a PS3 release has been set!! (will contain a xbox live like service)

Next Generation has the hot scoop�the PS3 will probably be hitting the streets on September 21st in the US, September 16th in Japan, and include a new XBox Live-alike system, HUB. According to well-placed industry sources.

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Space elevator now one step closer to reality (with cool pic)

A slim cable for a space elevator has been built stretching a mile into the sky, enabling robots to scrabble some way up and down the line. A private US company on a quest to build a space elevator by April 2018, stretched the strong carbon ribbon 1 mile (1.6 km) into the sky from the Arizona desert .

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Intel iBooks Coming Out May be Dual Core

Apple's announcement today that it has dropped the 1.67GHz Intel Core Duo processor from its professional MacBook Pro line -- in favor of using faster chips -- presents the possibility that the company may now adopt that low-end 1.67GHz dual-core processor for use in its forthcoming consumer iBook notebooks.

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How To Troubleshoot Any Networking Problem

Tech author extraordinaire Mark Minasi shares a bit over two dozen "rules of network troubleshooting." This will be new for some, a good review for others, and a handy reference for all.

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Learn Basic Unix in no time

Learn the basic commands in Unix in 10 minutes. This should be very helpful if you are starting off in unix/linux.

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New washing machine washes, dries, and irons.

This thing is being touted as a housewife's dream, but I think a lot of you single guys would appreciate it more.

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Apple's "Quietly" building the iPhone. Here's how we can tell...

At Amphetameme, we've been trying to figure out what Apple's up to next. We think it's a full-screen, touchscreen iPod that also happens to connect to every damn thing under the sun. We think it's also likely this (the new one we think will show up in April) or the next generation to come is a phone.

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Ford Invents Hybrid that is *300% more efficient* than Toyota Prius (Pic)

Ford is developing a new form of automotive propulsion, and the implications for the American Auto Industry are huge.

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How MY SPACE grew into a Monster - Learning from Flaws of Competition

The Internet has a rising star whose name isn't Google. Just over 2 years old, MySpace now has 2 1/2 times the traffic of Google Inc., and it quickly eclipsed Friendster as the top social-networking site where users build larger and larger circles of friends.

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Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy

I think the biggest enemy of an IT company is the human resources department.....

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Top 10 Things All Switchers Should Know

Those Intel-based MacBook Pros and iMacs will soon be in your hands. But before you open those boxes and fire them up, there�s a few things I think you should know.

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New Mac OS X Interface Design?

Apple is looking for a senior visual interface designer "to conceive, design and develop future enhancements to Aqua, the dynamic user interface for Mac OS X." This job opening indicates that Apple is getting ready to combat Vista with the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

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Apple may Announce Surprises on April 1st (Apple's 30th Anniversary)

Apple may be planning a birthday bash in the form of exciting new products, according to a new analyst report. Charles Wolf of Needham & Co. says that Apple could use April 1--Apple's 30th birthday--as an opportunity to introduce an Intel-based iBook as well as the "real" video iPod

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A very big swear word in Yorkshire, UK

a great big "fuck" has been found on google maps in Yorkshire, UK. really.. apart from the register article, try searching for "Billingley" on maps.google.co.uk and have a look at the satellite image a little to the left of the town.

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AT&T says Apple is infringing on MPEG-4 patents

AT&T says that Apple and others are infringing on its MPEG video compression patents. PC Magazine reports that "AT&T possesses several patents related to video compression, which the company says are an essential component of the MPEG-4 video technology.

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Intel iBooks/Touch-Screen iPods in April

"At the end of his Macworld keynote address in January, Steve Jobs, Apple�s CEO, noted that the company will celebrate its 30th birthday on April 1, 2006," analyst Charles Wolf wrote in a research note released to clients on Thursday. "While it�s possible that Jobs� was simply pointing out the longevity of Apple.

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Yahoo Offering Huge Benefits if You Use their Search Engine

Unlimited Email storage, Netflix Discount, Frequent Flyer Miles, No Yahoo! Mail ads, all if you use Yahoo as your primary search engine. This might get me to switch....

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Hak5 Host Darren guest hosts 24 The Podcast, very funny!

Darren form the ultra cool Hak5 IPTV show stops by and talks tech, film styles, and crap about people on th show. Session 7 is the show with Darren, you can listen on the site or subscibe thru iTunes.

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USB Cuff-Links

Both functional and fashionable.

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digg template for all you digg bloggers out there

I've noticed more and more digg people using digg's automated blog poster to submit digg news to their blogger.com blogs... sometimes to the point where digg news is the only content on the blog! For those people, here's a template for you.

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IBM touts new chipmaking method | CNET News.com

BM said on Monday it had developed new chipmaking methods that will allow its upcoming Power6 computer processor to run twice as fast as current versions.

Did Apple jump the gun?? Hmmmm


IBM touts new chipmaking method | CNET News.com

Darren from Hak5 guest host on 24 The Podcast!

The uber cool Darren from the ultra leet IPTV show Hak5 stops by and talks to Joe about 24, the tech, the film style, and the storytelling.
Joe and Darren also discuss the upcoming 24 game.

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Is There Really Dark Energy In The Universe?

Theoretical physicists have studied a new model of gravity that can, they claim, account for the acceleration of the universe without any need for dark energy. Their model relies instead on modifications to the way that gravity behaves at ultra-large cosmological distances.

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VIDEO of the Multi-Touch Interaction Research - APPLE?

Engadget or/and boingboing had an article about how Apple patient a touch screen, i think this is what they we're talking about. There's a REALLY COOL VIDEO! along with it (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/multitouchreel.mpg)

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Video: Real Transformers!

Check out this video of a real transforming robot! Those crazy Taiwanese...

[via engadget]

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WINE Arrives for Intel Macs

Although fully functional on developer releases of OS X for Intel, the WINE compatibility layer, which allows Windows programs to run on *nix systems including OS X, was not available for the public release of 10.4.4. However, thanks to the hard work of the folks at Darwine and their contributors, it appears this barrier has been broken!

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Diggnation/ Beavis and Butthead style

This Beavis and Butthead doing Diggnation and its even them at there couch. really funny.

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Hak.5 Episode 7 Released!

Hak.5 has just released their 7th episode covering a CVS digital camera hack, a way to secure VNC traffic with SSH, video submissions, more sketch comedy, and an intro by Kevin Mitnick! If you've never seen Hak.5 before this is a perfect time to check it out. One of, if not the best IPTV shows out.

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Black Mac Minitosh - Not another Mini in a Macintosh Chassis

This is the true Mac Mini "case mod". DVD goes in through the former floppy slot, and 99% authentic from the outside, and BLACK, no butchering here, only respect.

This is not the Japanese mod, I did this myself, and documented it for you.

33.3% nostalgia 33.3% hack 33.3% pointless; still 100% Macintosh.

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128 KB-Quality Music Is A Rip-Off

When you download music, you may not be getting all that you paid for, thanks to excessive digital compression.

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Windows Neptune: The OS That Never Was

Microsoft Windows Neptune was a version of Microsoft Windows that was shown as technology demonstrations of a possible home consumer edition of Windows 2000. Very early in development, the project was cancelled. One build was sent out to testers before it was canceled, and if you look in the right places you can locate it on the web.

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deviantART: Reverse Engineering 64 by ~Cmr8286

This is awesome!!

deviantART: Reverse Engineering 64 by ~Cmr8286

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For example, George Deutsch, a presidential appointee in NASA headquarters, told a Web designer working for the agency to add the word “theory” after every mention of the Big Bang, according to an e-mail message from Mr. Deutsch that another NASA employee forwarded to The Times.

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New space-time theory does away with big-bang, dark energy etc.

A new theory presented by Alexander Franklin Mayer at Stanford claims time is not just linear, but points in different directions, just like gravity does not point in the same direction everywhere.

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Flat Panel CRT Monitor

Tired of ghosting, bleed through, and other bad things LCD's have? Then get ready for SED!

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Nintendo Revolution to cost $200

Will Nintendo's new wonder machine cost the same as Sega's Dreamcast did on 9/9/99?

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Area 51's Looking Good

Looks like Google wanted to really see how Area 51 looks like. Better resolution of Area 51 guys, so come up with new jokes!

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Hak.5 Episode 7 Released!

Hak.5 has just released their 7th episode covering a CVS digital camera hack, a way to secure VNC traffic with SSH, video submissions, more sketch comedy, and an intro by Kevin Mitnick! If you've never seen Hak.5 before this is a perfect time to check it out. One of, if not the best IPTV shows out.

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Over 300 very popular Movie, TV Show, and Book Title Fonts

Check these out. You can download any of them that you want for free, and they're pretty cool.

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Why George Lucas Sold Pixar To Steve Jobs

It was twenty years ago this month that George Lucas sold Pixar to Stve Jobs. This short story explains why.

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Send a SMS Text Message to any phone for FREE with Google

Ok, Ok, I know you will only save 10 cents by using this service, but you get to use your keyboard to type. Save time, save (a little) money. Might as well bookmark this because you will probably want to use it later.

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Special Relativity Theory explained courtesy of Stephen Hawking

An in depth view on natural sciences including everything from Space Time to the Quantum Theory to the Uncertainty Principle

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