Very Cool Web-Cam Effects

The new Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP allows you to add some very cool, live video effects to your Web-Cam output -- check out this great demonstration video.

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The NEXT 35 Sexiest Designed Websites You've Forgotten

After being frontpaged three times with the last one, I figured it was about time for an update. Design Inspiration, especially for the upcoming CSS Reboot.

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List of hacking applications that run on USB flash drive

Security applications such as namp and ethereal are appearing that run straight from a thumb drive and packet capture, detection and injection tools no longer require the installation of WinPCap or other third-party packet capture drivers.

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22Pixels Photoshop Flock, 7000 Resources For Photoshop, One File Download!

Photoshop Flock contains 153 Fonts, that self install, 158 brush packs for Photoshop 7 and up, self install, and over 50 additional packs , self install. Photoshop Flock contains over 7000 individual presets, in addition to the 150 fonts. All in one file, one download, one install, free.

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The Devil's Music

What's the link between the theme tune to the Simpsons, Black Sabbath, and West Side Story? They all use the Devil's Interval, a musical phenomenon suppressed by the Church in the Middle Ages.

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NASA Says Comet Will Not Hit Earth (Photo)!

The now broken comet that was rumored to be on a collision course with Earth on May 25th will miss. NASA says it will be a close encounter, but will miss Earth by about 20 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The comet should pass us within view of telescopes between May 12 - 28!

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DJ Scratch interface for iPod

This software created by art student lets you scratch & reverse tunes using your iPod dial interface.

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New Batteries at Long Last

The vertically aligned nanotubes in the LEES ultracapacitor have a regular shape, and a size that is only several atomic diameters in width. The result is a significantly more effective surface area, which equates to significantly increased storage capacity.

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CBS Healthwatch on Digg and Autism Screening Test

"A Web link to an autism screening test posted recently on Digg.com, a tech news site, generated hundreds of comments from users. Many self-described computer geeks took the online test, for which a score of 16 is considered average, and a score of 32 or higher suggests autism."

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Rat on your pirate boss, get $36,000!

Anti-software piracy group the Business Software Alliance is offering a $36,000 reward to anyone who informs on employers who use illegal or unlicensed software.

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Why Ugly Design Works... And Why Most Designers Miss the Point

Interesting blog entry (by a designer) supporting the "ugly design" theory. Contains some links to some other good discussions and articles on the subject.

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10 Places You Must Use Ajax

The following article takes a look at places that webdevs must implement ajax to stay ahead of the curve.. "It's been well over a year now since GMail changed the way everyone thought about web apps. It's now officially annoying to use web apps that haven't replaced clunky html functionality with peppy Ajax goodness."

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Amateur Hacks Into US Military Computers Looking for UFO and Aliens Truth

An amateur exposed security flaws in US governmental computers to unlock the truth about UFO's and aliens. Sure sounds like they exist. Know he's going to jail or worse.

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Workarounds to disable Non Genuine Windows Warning Messages

This copy of Microsoft Windows XP is not genuine. Windows XP Pirates have again found workaround methods to bypass the latest Microsoft Anti-Piracy effort - Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications that notifies you through annonying pop-up messages if your copy of Windows is not genuine.

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Apple is working on a media center - confirmed by Steve Jobs

At Apple's sharholder meeting, when asked about a Media Center, Jobs replied with "we hear you loud and clear". Interesting notes of what went down at the meeting.

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Colorbox: Javascript game that teaches you color theory

Use the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to move the color at the top of the page. Press the DOWN arrow key to drop it. When a color is dropped, its color is added to the colors in adjacent squares, using the additive color system (color theory).

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Color Wheel - ver 2.0.1

Online color wheel. Great for picking color palettes.

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$30 Alternative to $200 SlingBox

Look out Slingbox, SageTV has just released a $30 addon to SageTV that lets users take their media with them anywhere, just like you do. The client application allows streaming of video, music and photos to any machine connected to the internet. - gizmodo

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Popular Mechanics crunches the numbers on alternative fuels

Popular Mechanics takes an in depth look the economic viability of various alternative fuels in their May issue. "Before we can debate national energy policy--or even decide which petroleum substitutes might make sense for our personal vehicles--we need to know how these things stack up in the real world"

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'Fans who share music aren't thieves'

Important musicians such as Barenaked Ladies and Avril Lavigne have formed the Canadian Music Creators Coalition to among other things, support fans being sued by the Big Four Organized Music cartel. In their first white paper, the artists say, "Fans who share music are not thieves or pirates. Sharing music has been happening for decades."

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Yahoo Launches DVR Service: Yahoo Go

Yahoo launched Yahoo Go today, a DVR and general Microsoft Media Center competitor based on the recently acquired Meedio technology.

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Prices of GAS acrossed the USA. Color coded MAP. Ver Cool

See where the gas prices are cheap in your area. See what the prices are acrossed the lands ...

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What Is Good PowerPoint Design (w/pics)

A great explanation of how to design better PowerPoint presentations that get the point across.

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Amazing Pictures of Manhattan

This guy has some amazing HDR wideangles of Manhattan. Simply... stunning.

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Scientists find brain cells linked to choice

Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston have identified neurons, or brain cells, that seem to play a role in how a person selects different items or goods. Why do you buy this product and not the other one?

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Shiny Scriptaculous Javascript Effects Cheat Sheet

Colorful, downloadable PDF cheat sheet for the Scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/) visual effects library. Site also has cheat sheets for various aspects of Ruby on Rails.

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ThickBox - One box to rule them all.

If you're a fan of LightBox, the javascript solution for displaying pics, then you're going to like how one developer has expanded on it to allow for showing html as well as images.

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Schools Could Be The First In U.S. To Use WiMax

The Federal Communications Commission has set a 2008 deadline for schools to either use or auction their portions of the spectrum. Some plan to use it for WiMax.A cash-strapped school district seems an unlikely candidate to embrace bleeding-edge technology. But facing a use-it-or-lose-it choice...

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Apple Plans Major Overhaul for iPod Nano

Apple Computer has begun assembling plans and aligning suppliers for a redesign of its iPod nano digital music player that will go on sale this fall, AppleInsider has learned.

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Handy freeware programs to put on a USB stick

A list of free programs that do not require an installation and can be used directly from your USB stick or any other removable drive

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Medical Marijuana - Politics Trumps Science

The federal government "loves to ignore our report," said Dr. Benson, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. "They would rather it never happened." Some scientists and legislators said the agency's statement about marijuana demonstrated that politics had trumped science.

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Microsoft Live Drive may launch before GDrive

Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. Could be accessible from anywhere, on any device.

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10 Part Video Tutorial on How to Make Your Own 3D Game

Microsoft's Coding4Fun website has a 10 part video tutorial on how to recreate RocketCommander (http://www.rocketcommander.com) from start to finish. The tutorials cover topics such as game design, managed DirectX, and high level shader language.

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Semiconductors slow light

Researchers have shown that light passing through a sandwich of wafer-thin films of semiconductors can be slowed to less than 1/40th of its speed in empty space. And the researchers think that ultimately their semiconductor sandwiches could bring light to a complete standstill.

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Architects using old Boeing 727s and 737s fuselages in new building

New York�s urban architect recyclers, LOT-EK, have recently designed a library in Guadalajara made entirely of refurbished airplane fuselages.

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Google Cheat Sheets (Version 1.04)

This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas.

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Apple to Release 8GB and 10GB Versions of the Popular iPod Nano this Summer

For all the iPod fans, summertime will see the release of two higher storage capacity Nanos. The rumored touch screen iPod is still in the works. Pictures of the new versions are available -- although it appears that there have been few if any cosmetic changes.

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Super-Glue: Best practice for foiling keystroke loggers

Lessons learned from the Sumitomo Bank Heist in London

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Amazing blacklight tattoos

Blacklight reactive ink is a great way to have a tattoo that no one can see but under the blacklight or to add a little something special to trip out your friends.

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"Amazing", "digg", "revealed": Top 422 digg.com attention grabbing words

The complete list of words that (when used in a story title) get more than 500 diggs per story on average.

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The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind

In 1963, a study about prisons was funded by the U.S. Navy to try to better understand problems in the Marine Corps.' prisons. The study was run by a group of researchers at Stanford, led by psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo. The idea was to create a controlled environment in the Stanford halls to simulate a prison.

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Digg Defender - A Plugin for Wordpress

Digg-Defender uses the WP-Cache system hook to redirect requests from high-traffic sites like Digg and Slashdot to a free global cache system.

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Scientists discover new antibiotic 100 times stronger than penicillin

Scientists have discovered a bacteria-fighting compound 100 times more effective than penicillin - in wallaby milk.

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A great way to preload images on your site with CSS

This is a great way to pre-load images with a very simple bit of CSS. Not a commonly known trick.

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