Hilarious Piratebay.org auction on Ebay

If you win this auction you will receive the "honor" of paying your own fare to Stockholm, Sweden, and pay for all your own expenses (i.e. hotel, food, warez, whatever you're into). And hey, websheriff, MPAA and so on: you are also welcome to bid on this auction. We love you! Oh Pirate Bay how we love you :)

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Blu-Ray Output Will be Downconverted By Hollywood

Hollywood wins again. Want to record 1080i HD signals? Well, screw you! Hollywood has negotiated a deal whereby hardware manufacturers are required to down-convert the analog output in next gen players. "analog signal must be �down-converted� from the full 1920x1080 lines of resolution the players are capable of outputting to 960x540 lines"

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The ultimate Google command list

Did you know you can search for any phone number with just [phonebook: name here], or can find the weather in any city with just [weather: city name]? Try out the filetype: command with mp3 or avi and see what you get.

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Viiv is DRM!

I was listening to an engadget podcast from CES and they described Viiv as drm. Sure enough here is an article saying what intel doesn't want to say. Viiv is DRM. and soylent green is made out of people...PEOPLE!

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The worlds most used forums

Ever wonder which forum is the biggest of them all? well this site ranks the forums by posts and topic. They also provide you with the forums server specs, and they are pretty impressive for some of them. Like for example offtopic.com users online list is like 1000+ at the same time. All positive comments are thanked in advance

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Full length Vampire movie, 9200 dollars

For 9200 dollars (including Powerbook G4 and Panisonic DV cam), you can make a feature length film. I'd go see it. Its amazing what kind of power technology is putting in our hands, the big boys better look out! first podcasting, now this!!

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The Monster Engine

Dave Devries hit upon a genius idea. He turns children's drawings of monsters into real and detailed paintings. The results are beautiful and show a creativity most adults no longer possess.

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Play hundreds of classic Commodore 64 games online

Commando, Giana Sisters, Bubble Bobble, Boulder Dash and most of the other classic C64 titles playable directly in the browser without download. Gotta digg this!

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NASA: Launch Was A Success. The 10 Year Journey Begins.

Jan. 19, 2006 The Atlas V Launch Was A Success. The 10 Year Journey Begins. The spacecraft will cross the entire span of the solar system and conduct flyby studies of Pluto and Charon in 2015. Watch it live @ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/nasadirect/nasatv/tv-ie.htm

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Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications

Alphabetically sorted list of popular Web 2.0 applications. The description for each of the application is taken from their own About or FAQ pages. Bookmark for quick reference.

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Huge List of Free Photoshop Brushes Resources.

A huge list of over 100 sites offering free Photoshop brushes for download.

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The Onion has a podcast now!

I'm amazed nobody posted this on Digg yet...The Onion (quite best fake news satire, in case you have been living under a rock) has a podcast now! Hilarious as always, and quickly is becoming one of the top daily podcasts on iTunes.

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Apple updates their podcast tech specs.

Apple recently sent podcasters a list of updated technical specs to follow.

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MENSA Intelligence Test

very cool intelligence test, simple but clever ...

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How to use RSS Feeds on your Wordpress Site

Simple article description how to display RSS feeds on your wordpress site/blog in 3 easy steps.

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US to open WiMAX spectrum!

Looking to stay ahead of its rival nations in broadband, the United States is making an aggressive bid to open up the spectrum for emerging WiMAX technology, according to an official from the Bush administration.

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RIAA wants to ruin XM with DRM

First they try to do away with PC based XM receivers; now they want all XM DRM'd. They want to ban home recording once again.. it's the 70's all over.. yet more "taping will kill the music industry" crap.

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Google sued for not releasing information to the government.

The Justice Department sued google for not releasing documents that might help them track sexually explicit material on the Web. Looks like everyone is out to get a piece of Google, for one reason or another.

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Lawsuit targets Million Dollar Homepage for being offline for 6 days

After being hit by a denial of service attack that downed the Million Dollar Homepage site, British student Alex Tew now faces a lawsuit from one of the advertisers on the site. The winner of the last 1,000 pixels, which sold for US$38,100 on eBay, is threatening to sue because the Web site was offline for six days...

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Yahoo, MSN, and AOL gave you up to the Feds; Google tells them to shove it

A DoJ spokesperson has confirmed that Yahoo, MSN and AOL all provided the government with search records. Google is still standing their ground, refusing to provide the data.

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Tracing An Email

A guide that shows the processes required for tracing an email. The guide is broken up into three parts Enabling Email Headers, Understanding Email Headers and Tracking The Orginal Sender.

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Hack: Cell phone + wireless router = Mobile hotspot

This guy got his wireless router to use his cell phone for Internet, so he has a cheap Internet hot spot everywhere! Total cost $40 for the phone, $30 for the router, and $9 for the data cable. This would be great for nerds driving in a pack. Best part is most people already have phones and routers capable of this.

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MyStickies Goes Live

Sticky notes for the web! MyStickies let's you put sticky notes on a web page and loads them back up when you come back to the page. You can also tag your notes, change note colors, and manage all your notes from the free on-line account at mystickies.com. Future features include sharing notes with friends and creating public notes.

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HOWTO Do algebra in your head

These pages contain the text of the book Inner Algebra. Its premise is that mathematicians use their mind in certain ways that result in math being easy for them, and most people can learn to do the same.

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College Textbooks 2.0 Style

College students have long been subject to price-gouging by textbook publishers. Now they can fight back, 2.0 style. A new social-networking type of book-swap lets students decide prices for themselves.

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5 Tips for Organizing Your CSS

A thorough list of five tips for cleaning up your CSS to be easier to read, edit and maintain.

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Feds want Google search records

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases...Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government's effort ``vigorously.''

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UPDATE: Apple changes iTunes, now obtains consent before collecting info

Apple has changed the way iTunes works so that users are given the chance to decline the iTunes Ministore.

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27 Unknown Creatures Found in California Caves

Spiders, centipedes and scorpion-like critters are among the 27 new animal species that biologists have discovered in the dark, damp caves of two Central California national parks, officials announced Tuesday.

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New Surveillance Tool Silently Enabled in Firefox

The Mozilla Team has silently turned on a new feature in Forefox called "<a ping>" that will allow Web site operators to silently conduct surveillance on Firefox users' browsing activity. This new "feature" will cause Firefox to notify any server, or a whole list of servers, when you click a link.

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The IRS' list of free e-filing services

This is a great resources and is usually difficult to find. Makes filing much easier.

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Find a job using eBay

A recent Aerospace Engineering graduate from UCSD, John Davis, hasn't had any luck using job placement websites so he has decided to auction himself off on eBay for a starting salary of $46,728.75

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Make an Invisible person in your photo

Here is a fun Photoshop tutorial. I think it would also be neat to make a coloring book of your photos with this tutorial.

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Stores paint rooftop logos for Google Maps

A way to take advantage of the Google Maps is, of course, painting your logo on the rooftop and hoping the mapping satellite passes above your head.

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AJAX Powered IP Location Lookup

Find the geographic location of an IP address using geoip data and google maps.

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A nice collection of technical reference cards

A bunch of useful reference "cards" (some span a few 8x11 pages) for programming, database, administration, text editors, etc in both Windows and *nix.

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Do you always believe what your eyes tell you?

Did something ever just appear out of nowhere when you were driving? I thought I had perfect vision, but that's in question after viewing this page and performing the simple exercise. Not everything is, as it seems.

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How to Detect a Two-Way Mirror

Paranoid about perverts watching you behind those mirrors in bathrooms, hotel rooms, and changing rooms? Find out how to detect and avoid them.

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Reinstalling Windows XP Without Drive Format

Objective: To reinstall Windows XP in order to obtain a fresh install/registry, but without possibly deleting data stored on the drive by the customer. This document assumes that Windows XP is presently installed in the standard WINDOWS directory.

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A cool flash site using typography

The title says it all pretty much.

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New Mystery "Sea Creature" like Fish Found. Possible new Species?

(2 PHOTOS) A strange looking sea creature washed up on the shores of Cayman Brac this weekend...Local fishermen say they have not seen a creature quite like this before. It has boney bristles all along its spine, right down to the tip of its tail and small sharp teeth, which curve slightly inward.

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Screw the RIAA with your own Stealth Server

Inventgeek.com has a real cool article on how to build a stealth server. Now you can hide your files real good!!

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Quick 'n easy CSS borders/shadows you name it!

The Octopus Engine attempts to unify techniques for rounded corners, drop shadows, custom borders and faux columns, all in one pretty package. It�s an all-in-one, one in all approach, encompassing whatever effects one needs.

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42 Quality Google Videos

Need to kill some time? 42 popular videos from "The Best of Google Video" Project.

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Quick 'n easy CSS borders/shadows you name it!

The Octopus Engine attempts to unify techniques for rounded corners, drop shadows, custom borders and faux columns, all in one pretty package. It's an all-in-one, one in all approach, encompassing whatever effects one needs.

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Become Your Own Web Host in 75 Steps

One of the biggest issues involved with becoming a web publisher is the question of hosting. With an internet clogged with false hosting review sites, hosting companies trying to rip you off, and hosting companies run by 14 year olds, the majority of web publishers are at the mercy of random chance when it comes to finding a quality host.

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Build your own TiVo box

Ever had the urge to build your own TiVo box? Here is how to do it. Instructions on how to build a better DVR out of an old PC.

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Myth Busters The "lost" Experiments

Sometimes the guys and their faithful associates make mistakes, freak out or just plain torture each other.

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World�s Smallest GPS Receiver

This GPS receiver chip is small enough to be fitted into devices such as watches and cellphones. As GPS becomes default in our everyday gadgets, things could get interesting!

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iMacIntel disassembled!

One can notice that the processor is not soldered to the motherboard, but via a socket. So, it will be potentially possible to change it in the future, if Apple does not prevent such modifications by some hardware or software trick.

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