NBA to create searchabe archive of every minute ever filmed

The league, working with Silicon Graphics, is setting out to create a digital archive of the entire filmed history of its games. Every minute of NBA footage will soon be searchable by the general public.

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CSS for Bar Graphs

Great write up on how to create some attractive bar graphs using CSS.

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Patriot Act set to renew without changes to protect liberties

The GOP reached a compromise to offer a 4 year renewal instead of the 7 year Bush wants. The problem is most of the Patriot Act becomes permanent upon being renewed this time and none of the changes requested by citizens were put in. This is bad legislation which goes against the Constitution.

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The Formation of a New Ocean?

A fissure in a desert in the remote northeast could be the birth of a new ocean basin according to scientists.

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Intel calls MIT's $100 laptop a 'gadget'

The chipmaker says developing countries want fully functional computers, not hand-cranked gadgets.

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Way beyond the MSConfig utility.

This utility has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor. You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically. It shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them, and it's by Sysinternals!

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Fastest Windows Password Cracker - Ophcrack 2.1

A Windows password cracker based on the faster time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. Ophrack 2.1 comes with a GTK+ and runs on Windows as well as on a Linux bootable cd.

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Gmail Clips Official Announcement [via GoogleBlog]

Gmail accounts will now have a mini RSS reader built in. Simply go to settings and choose any RSS feed that you would like to be displayed in your inbox.

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Encrypt messages like the German's did in WWII

This guy wrote a java applet that allows you to encrypt messages you type in using the german designed "Enigma Machine". basically, by choosed different letter combinations to seed your key, you can write secret messages almost impossible to decrypt. This is really neat. Definetly worth a try.

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WPA Cracking Proof of Concept Available

Better beef up Mom and Pop's WPA passphrase this Xmas before the kids down the street catch wind of these tools.

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Music Industry Goes After Lyric Sites

"The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics... MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed. Guitar licks and song scores are widely available on the internet but are 'completely illegal', he told the BBC."

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Download Google Earth For Mac OS X!

Ok, so you know there is a beta of Google Earth floating on the net. I'm sure you would love to play with it. Wait no longer my children. A VERY MYSTERIOUS person sent an email to UNEASYsilence's tipline with the download link.

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Upcoming Cinematic effects for the HL2 Source Engine

bit-tech have been to VALVe's offices again and have a really good article up on the upcoming additions to the Source engine - developed for the Day of Defeat mod. Check out some of the videos, this stuff is utterly mind blowing. Motion blur, depth of field, color correction... as if HDR wasn't good enough!

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Free Guitar Lessons for iTunes and your iPod w/ video

iPlayMusic today announced that it will make a series of 35 beginner guitar video lessons available free to iTunes users. All 35 lessons can be downloaded and played in iTunes and on video iPods.

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iTunes Signature Maker

iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration and asks you a few simple questions, iTSM will spend a few minutes analyzing your collection and generating the audio signature.

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More new Gmail features

It's only been about a week since Google introduced Anti-Virus capabilities into Gmail, and now the Googlers are now ready to start offering a few more interesting features that may raise a few eyebrows. Their "What's New" page has changed once again and outlines a few extra features that aren't yet available.

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Best Buy holding 360 shipment for sale? (Insider doc. to prove it!!)

A leaked insider document from Best Buy shows they are stockpiling 360 consoles to go on sale on December 18th. Why do I but from them again???

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Is Freenet the next BitTorrent?

Freenet sounds like the ultimate peer-to-peer system: "Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous."

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Napster's Raunchy New Commercial

Good music...hottie stripping...Surely this didn't air on television. I've read that there is a dirtier one floating around. If you've seen it, post it.

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Huge collection of old propaganda

This website has over 200 propaganda posters from the 20th century. Remember, "If you are giving it up, you are going steady with Hitler!"

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Using Math to Beat the Market

Each new program, Ballard said, is subjected to months of simulated trading before it's used to manage actual money. Ballard won't share how the algorithms work or how much income they've generated over his four-year trading history, except to say they've been profitable.

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auto-lock your computer on start-up

This little tutorial allows your computer to load windows completely on startup and then lock itself, so when you turn your computer on, you can go do whatever and come back and it'll be all ready to go! great timesaver if windows loads slowly for you.

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Nice webdesign showcase Digg sauce

DarkEye is a new breed of living web design showcase. You're in control: you rate, review and submit sites that instantly appear in front of thousands potential users. DarkEye is what you make it so start experimenting today.

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How to Tie Useful Knots

Only know how to tie a knot in a shoelace? Check out these useful knots and follow the simple instructions. Now all I need is a decent rafter and a chair.

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Removing Vocals from Songs

Well written tutorial, on the correct and efficient way of removing voice from any song.

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Web Only Episodes Of Family Guy Coming Next Year

Sometime next year Fox will start to put out web only episode of Family Guy. They will be distributed through Myspace.com and IGN.com, likely for $1.99. Nothing however was mentioned of iTunes or iPod distribution.

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IGN gets devs to spill MORE Revolution specs, & it could launch at $99

IGN.com delivers more unofficial Revolution speculation from developers... "Developers come forward to reveal new performance details on Nintendo's next-generation console."

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Ebay filled with fake Xbox's

One box seller said his listing was just a joke. "I never (actually) thought people would bid on this, I thought most people that were spending any money on anything would read what they are buying."

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Interesting GUI Gallery

On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones.

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New Sony CD security risk found

Another security risk from a DIFFERENT batch of CDs! IT just never ends for Sony does it?

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New IM worm chats with its intended victims

A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor IMlogic warned Tuesday.

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Hate spam? Fight back!

Eat spammers bandwidth with a updated version of the Lad Vampire! Lad Vampire is a javascript page that repeatedly downloads images from scammers websites. The update includes improved visual indicators of the status of a site, a speed throttle, appends information messages to file names downloaded and saves your downloading stats!

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Worn Headers using CSS

Create fancy weathered type for your headers using a variation on known image replacement tricks.

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The Push-Button House

"The Push Button House is exactly that: it starts as a shipping container until a button is pushed, and it turns into a house. Motorized walls unfold like a flower, revealing a fully functionaly house, complete with refined, understated furnishings."

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Learn C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, And More Though Flash Videos

A man named Sean Greasley who is from the UK made quite a few flash video tutorials on how to program. C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, Direct 3D, SQL, with more on the way. These videos combined with a book will get any novice on their feet.

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Meteor lights up night sky in Australia

A Perth astronomer says a spectacular light show in the sky last night was a meteor. Witnesses say the the sky lit up about 9:00pm AEDT, and the light was followed by a thundering sound that shook buildings. Video can be found at: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200512/r66292_183334.ram

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Safe hydrogen storage breakthrough: catalyze it from ammonia bound in salt

Danish scientists at the Technical university of Denmark have developed a method to safely and inexpensively store hydrogen in solid form, using sea salt to store ammonia, which is then catalyzed to release hydrogen used to power clean and efficient fuel cells.

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5 incredible things a $100 cell phone will do next year

The US has shamefully lagged behind Asia and Europe when it comes to cell phones but the gap is going to close next year.

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On the fence about the Xbox360? Checkout IGNs Xbox 360 Experience.

IGN goes over the good and bad of the console now that it has been released, as well as their experience with using it.

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Intel Processor Secret Plans Uncovered

Hardware Guide uncovered some of the Intel's future technologies and products plans.

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