Sonic the Hedgehog (flash game)

This is literally an exact replica of the original game, including all characters and levels (i believe). Well done.

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WPA Password Generator

Steve Gibson has created a generator at grc.com/pass that makes "unbreakable" WPA passwords.

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FakeAP

Black Alchemy's Fake AP generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points. Hide in plain sight amongst Fake AP's cacophony of beacon frames. As part of a honeypot or as an instrument of your site security plan, Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables.

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Top 25 Inventions of 2005

Time Magazine has brought to use the greatest inventions of this year. From the cloned dog, to an airless tire. Cool read.

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Jack Thompson gets his Law License in Alabama REVOKED!!!

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead. BURN!!!

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AJAX Drag & Drop Site Creator

They claim to be the "...the first ever AJAX based, online site building software."

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Marijuana's Active Ingredient Kills Leukemia Cells

Using what is fast becoming the most effective drug discovery technology, Microarray processing, The New Drug Study Group in London has discovered as possible link to Leukemia Treatment and THC in Marijuana.

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In The End, Do We Even Need Our Brains?

Fascinating and baffling cases in consciousness research: what the world looks like to a man whose vision is restored after 50 years of blindness; how a roomful of people missed seeing a man in a gorilla suit walk through their midst...

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Firefox 1.5 Coming on the 29th of this month!

Finally! Can't wait!

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Find the most beautiful colour combinations

Colorcell is an experimental website about colours. It wants to find the most popular and beautiful colour combinations using a cell composed of four different colours. Submit your own and vote for other peoples' efforts.

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The Mathematical Magic of the Fibonacci Numbers

This page looks at some patterns in the Fibonacci numbers themselves, from the digits in the numbers to their factors and multiples and which are prime numbers.

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Digg Gets Kiss From a Rose

A brief history on the creation of digg.

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Apple Silently Starts Sending Out Universal Binaries

The public release by Apple of Universal Binaries to regular users is yet another indication that we may see Intel machines sooner than was promised.

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Hot Xbox 360 Unboxing Action

Hot Xbox 360 Unboxing Action by Joystiq. :). Updated every few minutes.

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Apple Computer shares hit all-time high

NOV. 16 2:28 P.M. ET Improved availability and continued upbeat demand for iPods on Wednesday prompted a Bear Stearns analyst to boost his earnings estimates for Apple Computer Inc., sending shares to an all-time high.

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Digg.com makes Slashdot.

For all of the Slashdot talk on Digg....Talk of Digg is now on Slashdot...

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How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

just what the title says

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X Files Opened: The National Security Agency's UFO Investigations Unearthed

"A document has surfaced that had been stamped - Top Secret Umbra - the codeword for the highest, most sensitive category of communications intelligence."

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Trade in your old PCs and tech stuff for cash/gift certificates

Newegg and other vendors now offer a trade in service through dealtree.com to trade in your old PCs and other tech stuff for cash or gift certificates to their stores. Has an online estimator and will give you a prepaid shipping label. My old Pentiun III went for around 80 bucks!

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Mini-Meetro Launched

What It Is:MiniMeetro is a Meetro faceroll and map for your blog or website, allowing your web visitors to see: - Who is nearby you when you use Meetro - Your Meetro buddy list -Random Meetro users sorted by distance or keyword. Does that sound awesome or what?! ;)...looks like Meetro will be looking to dominate the chat community..oh brother.

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See what Google knows about your site with Google Sitemap

Here is a quick guide to set up your site on Google Sitemap. After a quick (less than 5 minutes) setup, you're ready to see interesting stats like what keywords your site shows up under and much more.

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Kotaku threatened with legal action by Best Buy

Kotaku.com, a member of the Gawker media network, was threatened with legal action from the retail chain Best Buy. In order to avoid a lawsuit, several stories were removed from the gaming news blog. Freedom of the press my arse.

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Intel's new P4s allow multiple OSes to run simultaneously!!

It's called virtualization, and each OS thinks it has total control of the system.

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Steve Jobs nominated for TIME's Person of the Year

TIME Magazine has a poll up as to who should be the 2005 Person of the Year. Steve Jobs or U2's Bono? Decisions decisions...

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What is World Of Warcraft?

Leeroy Jenkins makes his first prime time television appearance tonight, on Jeopardy. "This role-playing game out in 2004 returns to the "World" of Azeroth, where heroes like Leeroy Jenkins do battle."

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Microsoft's upcoming releases will be 64-bit only

Although it might not affect the common user, MS plans to release Exchange 12 and variants of the Longhorn server as 64-bit only, among other products.

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Beautiful shots of the Xbox 360 blades interface

Super high res shots on a Dell 24" LCD monitor of the menu interface. Not really groundbreaking news, but this guy takes close-ups of the buttons and text, and wow is it ever crystal clear!

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Free T-shirt, mug, or poster from Sun (Java)

Grab it while the grabbin's good.

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How To Disassemble The "Screwless" XBOX 360

Microsoft has clearly announced to the public that it has designed the Xbox 360 from the ground up to thwart those who want to crack open the case -- even simply for a look inside. They have stated that the unit will be screwless (partially true) and be extremely difficult to disassemble -- unfortunately only partially true.

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Windows Genuine Advantage now supports Firefox

The Microsoft Genuine Windows Validation programnow works in Firefox and other Mozilla browsers.

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The Intel iBook To Be Announced At Macworld 2006

Not the PowerBook, the iMac, the Mac minis, or the PowerMac, but the iBook will receive Apple's first Intel chips in January!

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See Google Requests Around the World

A neat visual depiction of requests submitted globally to Google around the world on August 14, 2003.

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MIT's $100 Laptop Launch Video

"UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte Unveil $100 Laptop Prototype at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia" (requires real player)

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Man turns his old Mac SE into a modern PC gaming maching AMAZING!!!

He tells you how he did it, many pictures. This is a must see!

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Wired Magazine: 'Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot'

"A news-oriented bookmarking site called Digg is giving Slashdot a run for its money. Indeed, a good "Diggdotting" is melting down servers all over the net."

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Intellectually Stimulating Game ( How Fast Can You Think? )

See if you can beat my high score of 674. To be fair to yourself try it just once and see how fast you can think. Post your high score in the comments for everyone to ogle at. Cheers!

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Defragment your iPod to make it faster

"I got a copy of DiskWarrior the other day and decided I'd see what would happen if I ran it on my iPod."

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Is Earth in a vortex of space-time?

NASA is ready to check bizarre prediction of Einstein's relativity.

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Squirrel-Speak Decoded!

We've began to decipher the language of the little critters!

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iPod nano now does video too !!!!

iPod hack allows you to watch video on the Nano and iPod photo.

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Feedburner Adds Digg Splicer

Feedburner now supports Digg feed splicing. Combine your blog and digg feeds with a single click! "Share collected links in your feed, too! Splice your blog feed with your links feed from one of the popular link collection services listed below.

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The Conspiracy behind The Aurora Project

Does the United States Air Force or one of America's intelligence agencies have a secret hypersonic aircraft capable of a Mach 6 performance? Evidence suggests yes.

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How to: Apache/Perl/MySQL/PHP for windows

Excellent tutorial on how to set up Apache Perl MySQL and PHP working and talking to each other on Windows. Step by step easy to follow instructions.

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Scarface poster created using the entire script from the movie...

This is pretty awesome... This truly outstanding Scarface Pop Art will be cherished by the ever-changing landscape of Scarface followers, including the old and new generation of loyal fans. It was created using the entire 300 page script, including each and every written word from the 1983 film staring Al Pacino.

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Dvorak's Take on XBOX 360: XBOX 360 to the Rescue

I have not seen a hardware/software system as well thought out as the Xbox 360 for a decade or more.

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Find your GPS position from your cell phone... FOR FREE!!!!

Plug in the coordinates into maps.google.com and see your location. Works on Verizon Wireless on every LG phone I have tried.

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Sony's Official Apology

Here is the statement from the Sony/BMG website trying to make amends and telling customers what they intend to do.

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No more .99 songs on iTunes

Looks like Jobs is getting pressured to raise the prices of songs...

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Getting started with Ruby

"What Ruby lacks more than anything is good starting points for getting into the language. There's a bunch of absolutely excellent resources out there, though. I've attempted to summarize the best of them by category."

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The Ten Best Ajax Links: Tutorials and Examples

If you have a website, or portal you run; Ajax will almost guarantee you get hits if you put it in there, and advertise that you have done so. This is a little sad; but quite true.

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First proof of living memory trace found

This is the first time anyone has revealed a short-term, stimulus-specific neural pulse within the living brain that occurs after exposure to a previously unknown stimulus.

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Sony Confirms It: No DRM For Future PS3 Disks

Last week, there were many rumors floating around the Internet regarding a certain patent belonging to Sony, which, if adopted, would have linked the individual copies of software with the hardware.

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Aurora Photography

Impressive pics of the Aurora phenomenon. All shot with a canon digital rebel with 17-40L lens.

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Sony to Recall 4 million CD's with XCP DRM from Stores

In addition, Sony will offer exchanges for consumers who purchased the discs with a copy that does not contain the XCP DRM.

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People who play video games exhibit traits similar to those of drug users

The same physiological responses that trigger a smoker's craving may also be at work in the brains of people who spend a lot of time playing video games. Depending on who you ask, this is unbelievable or obvious.

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Is Gravity Leaking From Our Universe?

A mysterious force is ripping through physics and astronomy departments these days. It has splintered long-cherished theories and has caused otherwise rational scientists to latch onto a weird and ugly notion.

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Marines Get Brutal New Weapon

The Marines have begun using a weapon that is easily capable of turning buildingsâ??and humansâ??into bits of rubble. This is called the SHAW-NE (shoulder mounted assault weapon novel explosion) and it uses a thermobaric mixture that produces a shockwave in the air easily crushing walls and sending entire buildings collapsing to the ground.

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Someone may have got into your gmail account and you even knew it

Read about a bug on gmail that granted access to your gmail account, the geniuses at google have been defeated once more.

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Javascript Libraries Roundup

A comprehensive list of almost all Javascript libraries out there. Cool AJAX and Javascript Effects libraries, all in one place with links to documentation and examples. Its a must see for all webmasters, web designers and developers.

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Google Registers A Few New Domain Names

The folks in Mountain View have registered a few new domains in the past couple of days: GoogleMagazines.com, GooglePapers.org, GoogleMicrofilm.com, GoogleLibrary.org, and more.

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Our Wish List for Windows

"If it were possible to remake Windows with a magic, Windows-morphing wand, standards support and sensible security would be part of the imaginary makeover. "

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An Overview of Cryptography

Everything you ever wanted to know about cryptography but were afraid to ask...

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Music Selling Delimma: iTunes

This is real: I produced my CD back in 1999 and signed-up to sell my product online at CDNOW.com. Amazon bought CDNOW and life went on. I now see that my CD is listed at iTunes. And we won't get one red cent!?

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Google is watching you

They know what you've searched for, they can read your gmail, if you signed up for adsense, they know your social security, and home address, which they can map to a satellite map, they can dig up your posts to alt.images.binary.erotica, and they know which sites you've clicked off your google searches - what's next?

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Google Maps Beer Hunter

"BeerHunter.ca is a Google Map that shows Beer stores - as well as their open and close times closed stores are shown with 50% transparent icons" "(BeerHunter.ca currently only lists outlets in Toronto)"

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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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Warner Brothers Releasing 100 Classic Television Series for Free

4800 episodes of classic Warner Brother television series will be available early next year in a ad supported service called In2TV.

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Meditation can boost your gray matter

Meditation alters brain patterns in ways that are likely permanent, scientists have known. But a new study shows key parts of the brain actually get thicker through the practice.

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Google Earth to be linked with enterprise search tools

Google's enterprise unit was recently entrusted with the business versions of the snazzy Google Earth mapping products, and executives are already discussing ways to integrate them with the company's enterprise search products, according to a Google executive.

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Avid Free DV

Avid Free DV is feature-streamlined, standalone software which includes basic video and audio editing capabilities, up to two streams of real-time effects and support for both Windows XP and Macintosh OS X platforms. And its all FREE!! a perfect solution to adobe premiere.

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2005 last minute to be of 61 seconds

The rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun have served as the basis for timekeeping since the dawn of history. The day was divided into 24 hours, each of 60 minutes, each of 60 seconds. 2005 December 31 23h 59m 58s

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Caller ID Spoofing with OSS

"Spoofing Caller ID information is really simple these days. All you need is a few bucks and some open source software. The following steps should have you spoofing away in no time."

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Tutorial: How to re-calibrate your Laptop Battery!

I've noticed that my battery life sucked! After 15 minutes my (less than a half year old) laptop computer kept automatically shutting off because it claimed the battery was dead but it wasn't.

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How to Clean Anything...

Large database of interesting cleaning techniques for just about anything... "Howtocleananything.com was created in 1999 by group of cleaning professionals after a discussion of the poor quality and disorganized cleaning related information available on the internet."

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BestBuy Store Xbox360 Unit Allocation Numbers

This is the list of core and premium systems being shipped to BestBuy stores nationwide...the list is categorized by store #... to find your Bestbuy store number visit www.bestbuy.com and go to store locator.

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FOX says you can get shows from friends

go to this page and click on number 8, it says Our recommendation is to ask co-workers, friends, family and neighbors for anyone who may have taped off-the-air the show you are looking for. This could mean that bit torrent is all right!

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Web Creme

Check out this new showcase that features most beautiful and inspiring web designs.

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pdf of Xbox 360 manual

For all of us not able to get one on launch day. Not sure of the ligitemacy, link found via http://www.kotaku.com/

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MySpace Gets Wormed Again

Someone found another way to use javascript on myspace and using a modified version of Samy's original worm, did it again. Hooray for cross-site scripting! Poor Tom, when will he learn to stop using coldfusion?

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The Evolution of Computer Viruses

A virus timeline starting with the first time the term "computer virus" was coined back in 1983.

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EvilLyrics - Awesomest Lyrics Program

Displays lyrics for the current song in Winamp, iTunes, Foobar, QCD, WMP etc. Special Karoke Mode that highlights the current line being sung. I love the program--been using it for years.

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The 8 Steps of Image Editing

Not every picture requires that each step be performed on it, but going through the checklist in order can help you determine the quality of the image, and compensate for a bad scan, bad lighting conditions, damaged photos and other inadequacies.

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Google Analytics is live now

Google is offering Urchin website analysis tool for free now.

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Download old operating systems and applications

Not sure how legal this is, but WinWorld is offering free downloads of old Windows versions (1.0 up to 98), various "abandonware" applications and even the legendary Microsoft Bob!

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