Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Says UFOs are Real

Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Says UFOs are Real; Warns Of 'Intergalactic War'. He asks the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with â??ETs.â??

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Reducing Firefox's memory usage

Many people have complained about Firefox's memory use. Federico Mena-Quintero has a proposal for reducing the amount of memory used to store images, which, in his proof of concept code, "reduced the cumulative memory usage [...] by a factor of 5.5."

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XBOX360 DVD player sucks?

ArsTechnica has it that the built-in DVD player on the 360 just isn't that good, with noticeable artifacts and dithering. Obviously, this would seriously impact the 360's use as a media hub. Does anyone have any experience with this? Would this change your decision on whether to buy a 360?

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Ajax 2.0 = Ahah (Asychronous HTML and HTTP)

Ahah is a new way to generate webpages. Actually, it is more of a subset of ajax, but intended to be simpler and faster. It is backed by David Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails.

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How the THX 'Deep Note' sound came to be

"I like to say that the THX sound is the most widely-recognized piece of computer-generated music in the world," says Andy Moorer. "This may or may not be true, but it sounds cool!"

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Black Friday Online

Can't make it to the store today? Check out theses Black Friday deals that are available online now. Updated regularly.

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Regeneration Gene Possibly Found

Researchers discovered that when a gene is silenced in planarians, the quarter-inch long worm is unable to carry out a biological process that has mystified scientists for centuries: regeneration. The answer could have far-reaching implications, because similar genes are found in humans.

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Ultimate Boot CD

Probably all the diagnostic tools you'll ever need is on this one CD. Has partition tools, memory tools (such as Memtest86), boot managers, and mosty likely every kind of hardware diagnostic around.

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Artists feeling the Sony Rootkit debacle

"This is serious business," says Red Light Management's Jordan. "As managers, we've always supported trusting our fans. Copy protection has nothing to do with trust." This is my first digg, and yes...It's about Sony.

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Sony Will Present PS3 At CES 2006

Sony has decided to acquire the central stand at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) that will take place in January next year in Las Vegas. Ok...that would seem rather normal...except for the fact that the stand will have 12,000 sq. feet (aprox 3660 square meters). That's a lot. Time to take away the X360 thunder.

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Xbox 360 Gets Its First Patch Already

Yes, it seems that Microsoft is back to its old habits. We've already grown accustomed to the patching/re-patching/re-re-patching, and re-patching-some-more habits displayed over the years by the giant from Redmond. But this is too much, even for them.

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First Xbox360 Game Pirated?

It seems that it has taken those crazy software pirates only 1 day to rip the data off an Xbox360 Disc. However you still need a (nonexistant) modchip to play it.

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Bill Gates: " Xbox Live Will Become Windows Live "

"Speaking on the eve of the Xbox 360 launch, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates outlined how Xbox Live would evolve into Windows Live, using Windows Messenger as a conduit. The Xbox team showed limited Live integration with Messenger back at E3 in 2003, and even that limited showing caused something of an outcry."

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Oil Expert To Address Theory That Peak Oil Production Has Arrived

"Princeton University emeritus professor and renowned oil analyst Ken Deffeyes thinks that the all-time production peak for petroleum, or 'peak oil,' will occur on or around this Thanksgiving." --- It's all downhill from here, kids...

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HUGE Excel Guide

An amazing resource for anyone using Excel with tutorials and tips on a ton of items from the beginner to the advanced. Layout could use some work, but absolutely the first stop on the Internet for anything regarding Excel.

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Great 1920 x 1200 Wallpaper Images

It's tough to find high quality wallpaper images at 1920 x 1200 resolution, but these are some fantastic macro photographs.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Trailer!!

Check out this world exclusive Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Trailer! This is a direct link and you'll have to download xvid to watch it. :) Have Fun an Have A Happy Thanksgiving!!!

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Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 days

Learn the hard to die language, it is VERY powerful and VERY useful, it puts the phrase "don't work harder, work smarter" at it's zenith.

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Fire and Ice on camera together

A remote South Atlantic island, trapped under polar ice, is blowing its top in spectacular fashion. It is the first time that researchers have had a chance to watch an Antarctic lava flow in action.

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How To: Fix iTunes

It took quite a while for me to come around, but iTunes eventually changed the way that I listen to music (and download podcasts) on my PC. I was a long, long, long time WinAmp........

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Don't update your version of Kazaa

A court has ordered Sharman to release a new version of Kazaa by 5 December that includes a non-optional keyword filter. Justice Wilcox also ordered in a hearing yesterday that dialogue boxes appear on the Kazaa Web site "to place maximum pressure on KMD users to obtain the updated release".

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Mac OS X Tiger free video tutorials

Atomic Learning offers a variety of free video tutorials covering many aspects of Mac OS X 10.4. Here you can learn about the Dashboard, Spotlight as well as other new features.

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Mandrake Linux Free now available for download

Mandriva Linux, formerly Mandrake Linux, announced Tuesday that the ISO images of the free edition of its 2006 operating system are now available for download on public FTP mirror sites.

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U.S. Democrats offering many tech-friendly initiatives and geeks miss it

Over at ExtremeTech: "Tax-deductible tuition for technology majors. Universal broadband. Patent reform. Funding for math and science teachers, at the elementary and high school levels. Energy independence. These should be on your radar, but an effort to give them to you has been largely ignored. Wake up!"

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Breakthrough in Biodiesel Production

Japanese scientists have discovered a way to convert vegetable oil into biodiesel with a new much less expensive catalyst (10 to 50 times less expensive) than what we currently use. The new catalyst uses a common, inexpensive sugar to form a recyclable solid acid that does the job on the cheap.

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Carving a perfect home movie

DV Guru takes a look at how to make your home movies not so ho-hum this holiday season.

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Let them sing it for you

Amazing web applet that finds samples of songs from the words you input, and strings them into a song. Very interesting, and entertaining.

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First Official Microsoft Statement on Xbox 360 Freezes and Crashes

"We have received a few isolated reports of consoles not working as expected," and "With any launch of this magnitude, you're bound to see something happening."

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First Official Microsoft Statement on Xbox 360 Freezes and Crashes

"We have received a few isolated reports of consoles not working as expected," and "With any launch of this magnitude, you're bound to see something happening."

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Best Black Friday Deals

This is a breakdown of the best deals for Black Friday. This is by no means a complete list however. I labored for hours over all the websites, ad-scans, and listings i could find. Hopefully this will help other people besides me.

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An Huge List of Free Proxy Bypassers

The majority of the users are people trying to bypass their school or business's filters. Also used to surf the web anonymously.

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Xbox 360s Crashing Like Mad?

There appear to be increasing reports of Xbox 360s crashing even with games running on default settings. Could this be an early sign of serious defects or a problem between the gamepad and chair?

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How To Change Your Firefox Throbber

You know that cool little icon in the upper right-hand corner of your Firefox browser? That is your Firefox throbber - yeah, I don�t like the name either. However, its job is to let you know when there is still data being transferred from a site�s server and the process of making your own throbber is really simple.

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Nintendo DS Price Cuts at Target

For $99 dollars this December you'll be able to pick up a Nintendo DS at your local Target store. A remarkable price for a remarkable system! Don't be a loser and ask your mommy for a PSP this Christmas.

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Hot Water Heater Using Microwaves Announced

New device to be unveiled next week in Toronto will drastically cut energy costs and totally eliminate the need to store hot water.

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Navio threatens to hack Apple iTunes Music Store's FairPlay DRM

The move by Cupertino-based Navio Systems [to reverse-engineer the FairPlay encoding systm] would essentially break Apple�s Digital Rights Management (DRM) system in order to allow other online music retailers to sell downloads that are both DRM-encoded and iPod-compatible by early 2006.

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next fuel source

The scientist who cracked the human genome now hopes to exploit the properties of DNA to solve the world's pending energy crisis.

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Learn To Hack-- Legally!

Hackthissite.org lets you do just that... hack the site. They have basic starter missions for n00b hackers and much more advanced for the 13375!

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Hollywood, BitTorrent Reach Agreement

Hollywood negotiated an agreement Tuesday with the 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of films, according to executives familiar with the deal.

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Inside Google's Office

A bunch of great photos of googleplexes, some gizmos and the people there

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No New Xbox 360s Until After Xmas

This story will not lighten the hearts of the gamers that didn't get an Xbox today... "The initial shipment in the U.S. [was] somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 units... the second shipment... may not come until after Christmas."

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A CompUSA Sale that's well...Madness

Just a few of the items on sale are: 50 Pack of DVD-R or DVD+R: $7.99 Hitachi 500GB Hard Drive: FREE After Rebates eMachines T3104 Mini Tower w/ AMD Sempron Processor 3100+: 89.99 After Rebates & More! If your looking for that computer for the family member who is just getting into computing, there are some great gifts!

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Nice little programmers cheat sheet!

Handy little ascii chart and calculator.

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Introduction to netcat, the "TCP/IP Swiss Army knife"

Decent introduction to some of netcat's capabilities for those who have never heard of it before.

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Microsoft opens the Office XML format to all

Microsoft have sumitted the Office XML file format to Ecma, the international standards body. Their stated intention is also to submit the result of the Ecma work to ISO for approval as an international standard. Microsoft are offering a broad �covenant not to sue� to anyone who uses our formats, with no agreement to sign.

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History of the "Intel Inside" jingle

Describes how the intel inside jingle was produced and who made it. Why doesn't AMD get one of them?

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XBOX 360's Stand Off advertisement

Late last week, word broke that an advertisement for the XBOX 360, entitled "Stand off," wouldn't be aired due to its questionable content. It was shown at Sunday's "Zero Hour" event in Palmdale, but was hidden until today/last night. It's on the MSN Video site, but many people have been having trouble getting it to function, so here it is.

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XBOX 360 Hard Drive assumes every MP3 you have is illegal.

If you want to store MP3's on your hard drive, you'll need to rip it again. Super.

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Play some Xbox 360 multiplayer without Xbox Live

This did not take long.

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More machines than people on the Internet

THE UNITED NATIONS is warning that machines are starting to take over from humans as the biggest users of the world wide wibbly web.

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VIDEO: Steve Jobs S.N.L. sketch

Video of the Steve Jobs Saturday Night Live sketch.

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The Search Engine Experiment: Who Really Has The Best Results?

A public experiment discovering which of the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo, or MSN) really offers the best results. By taking the test you also find out which engine you personally prefer (and it's a blind test, so prejudice won't effect the outcome).

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Gallery of Bizarre Street Signs

A Gallery of hilarious, odd, and bizarre street signs from around the world. Classics such as "Don't Pet the Elephants", "Horrible Torture Device", and "Iceberg of Doom". Also doubles as a great source of forum avatars.

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RIAA prez: Lots of companies secretly install rootkits! It's no biggie!

RIAA President Cary Sherman gave a recent college press-conference where he addressed Sony's rootkit fiasco (among other things -- the whole trascript is worth reading for a quick visit to the planet greed). His take? Other companies do the same thing all the time!

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Abnormal fruits reported everywhere in Japan

In what appears to be influences from global warming, abnormal fruits, such as grapes not turning red and peaches with their flesh turning brown, are being reported throughout the country, forcing producers to try to find effective countermeasures.

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