Master Da Vinci�s Streamwriting Technique

Productivity blogger Brad Isaac�s recent series on tapping your superconscious describes a technique called �Streamwriting� that Leonardo Da Vinci used to solve problems.

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Getting Out From Under: Procrastination

There's considerable misunderstanding about procrastination. For one thing, it's not laziness. Settling into the fertile psychological ground between our intentions and our actions, procrastination is an active mental process of diverting yourself from doing high-priority things in the delusion that tomorrow will be better.

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No More Mosquitos!

The Mosquito Mega-Catch is able to kill up to 1,200 mosquitos in one night, reducing mosquito populations over an entire acre. Summer's here, and what better way to enjoy it than without these suckers?

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Google Insider Trading Goes Off the Charts (Literally)

Google insider selling has become so fast and furious over the past month that it's completely off the charts. That's not just a figure of speech. It has LITERALLY gone off the charts- take a look for yourself.

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How To: Build a Touchless Lightswitch

Turn on a switch by waving your hand by an antenna.

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XBOX 360 Camera for $40, New Wireless Headset, and More Details Leaked!

"Our friendly anonymous source at Microsoft has provided us with a few more details concerning the 360 accessories announced back at E3." "If you'd like information on what other peripherals are coming out and at what price, read on for more."

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Chinese Built an Experimental Fusion Reactor

Chinese scientists have completed construction of an experimental superconducting fusion reactor that will replicate the same energy generation process that fuels the sun, with tests to begin as early as July, state media reported Friday.

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Discovery of the Largest Crystals on Earth

Some amazing photos of the worlds largest crystals. The temperature in the cave is over 150 degrees Fahrenheit with 100% humidity.

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Video from the pirate bay raid

Video from the ISP that hosted the pirate bay. The intro text says that this copy can't be used as evidence. Why are the police covering the cameras one by one?

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BBC to broadcast in US

This is good news because perhaps we will get some good non-bias reporting in the US. Jeremy Hillman, the new editor of BBC World said: "We really feel there's actually a huge vacuum for us to fill in terms of global, responsible, impartial reporting,"

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Scientists Design Maglev Car With Greater Stability

"Since the late �60s, scientists have been designing, building and operating �flying trains,� or magnetically levitated (�Maglev�) systems. However, the sci-fi-like technology still faces challenges for increased stability, controllability and cost-effectiveness � but scientists are making steady improvements."

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What is in Your Bottled Water?

What has driven this consumer demand for bottled water? Is bottled water safer than the water that comes out of our taps?

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Study finds Cell faster than AMD / Intel / Cray

"Overall results demonstrate the tremendous potential of the Cell architecture for scientific computations in terms of both raw performance and power efficiency."

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9,800 fonts for free

As blogs such as Buttonator.com have shown, tools for simple Web design are getting easier to use all the time. And sites like Creamundo.com can expand your look-and-feel choices for text, offering 9,800 free fonts that can be sampled and downloaded. link

A Beginner's Guide to Everything that Goes on Inside a PC

Before building a PC properly, it's important to understand the what goes into creating a working personal computer. It's also important to understand the roles that components play, and how various factors in one component can impose requirements and trade-offs on selection of other components. Here's the perfect guide.

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Netvibes announce the digg module !

Netvibes introduces a digg module. Go try it !

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Phone Number Geolocator

This is a cool little web tool that uses the Google Maps API to plot the location of phone exchanges on a map. Could be useful for finding the general location of an unknown phone number.

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How to Protect Yourself Online From Big Brother

Stop the government from spying on your internet connection by using open source software and strong encryption. Everyone encrypt their internet connections and stop the NSA in their tracks!

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Why water freezes faster after heating

A common chemical process may explain a bizarre property of water that has been a mystery since the time of Aristotle ¨C how hot water can freeze more quickly than cold.

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Robot Hand Controlled by Human Thought

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan a person�s brain when they thought about making a �rock�, �paper�, and �scissors� shape with their hands, then mapping the scans to robot hand actions, researchers could effectively control the metal grabber just by their mind alone.

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ProTools now for Intel Macs

Digidesign releases ProTools 7.1.1 for Intel Macs.

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ProTools now for Intel Macs

Digidesign releases ProTools 7.1.1 for Intel Macs.

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The 9 Best Widgets

There are thousands of widgets available for Tiger, here are nine of the best. Nice selection.

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Skype software to ship on Dell laptops

The Skype software will be offered as part of Dell's audio/video communications package on the new XPS M1210 and M2010 laptops, Skype announced Wednesday. The communications package also includes an integrated Webcam and microphone, noise isolation ear buds, and a mobile broadband antenna.

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Segway's Brilliant New Strategy? Leasing!

Can't afford to ride a Segway? Now maybe you can.

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Red Hat creates social networking site

Red Hat has created a new social networking service called Mugshot. With support for Linux, Windows, and OS X, the platform independent service integrates with a variety of desktop applications and enables users to communicate and share informtaion.

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SeeWindowsVista.com - A Look at Vista's Upcoming Programs

This web site, made by Microsoft, highlights some of the upcoming programs in Vista. Programs not made by Microsoft. The web site is hosted by Tom Skerritt a.k.a David Drumlin from Contact. An interesting web site, worth a look for the design alone.

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Manage Apache Bandwidth Quota And Throttling With mod_cband

This article shows how to install and configure mod_cband on an Apache2 web server. mod_cband is an Apache2 module which provides bandwidth quota and throttling. It solves the problem of limiting users' and virtualhosts' bandwidth usage. The current version can set bandwidth quotas, maximal download speed, requests-per-second speed, etc.

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ThePirateBay Strikes Back

MPA, IFPI and Antipiratbyrån jubilation proves impotent, as ThePirateBay.org prepares its return.

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New Gmail Feature: Reply by Chat

Google has just added a new feature to Gmail. You can now send messages you were about to email to a Gtalk user who has just signed on. Gmail will even then combine the email and the chat converstation in a single thread.

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How To Stay in Touch While Traveling Abroad

Helpful article on figuring out the coverage of your cellphone all over the world.

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China preparing information warfare army

The Chinese People�s Liberation Army (PLA) is developing information warfare reserve and militia units. Also, China is developing the ability to launch pre-emptive attacks against enemy computer networks in a crisis, according to the document, �Annual Report to Congress: Military Power of the People�s Republic of China 2006.�

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Water Over A Bridge

Bridge built to route a river over another river. Excellent piece of engineering.

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Mt St Helens shooting steam and Ash 16,000ft

The ever growing and shifting Helens is at it again, Im driving down in a couple hours with a highpower lense in hopes of a second round.

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Stalkerati.com: A site to "keep track" of your friends!

This site is hilarious! You type in the name of a friend and it will run searches on MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and more. Create profiles on your friends and save them to your "buddy list", then you can just click their name and see all their profiles later on! The buddy list also shows you who's online by checking their IM statuses.

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Nearly 50 Million Americans Create Web Content

Forty-eight million American adults have contributed some form of user-generated content on the Internet. That's 35 percent of Internet users. Of those adults who have posted content on the Web, 73 percent, or 31 million, have a broadband connection at home.

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The Pirate Bay Raided: Exclusive Interview

Rickard Falkvinge, head of the Swedish Pirate Party talks with WiredFire about today's raid and what really happened.

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Track the US congress and your representatives

This site has been mentioned on numerous media outlets but still, most people aren't aware of it. People need to learn their rights.. another site is http://flexyourrights.org

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Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced

After oodles of entries, most of which were featured on digg, the Slashdot redesign winner has been announced.

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Winamp Tweak Guide

When it comes to media players there is no doubting on the popularity of Winamp. Its ease to use and extensive customisation via plug-ins have made it quite a legendary piece of software, being one of the most downloaded programs ever

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Amazing new Zelda Twilight Princess Screenshots

Apparently running on Gamecube, these show off the spectacular looking new Zelda game. A better look at the Twilight Realm and more!

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Satellite could open door on extra dimension

An exotic theory, which attempts to unify the laws of physics by proposing the existence of an extra fourth spatial dimension, could be tested using a satellite to be launched in 2007.

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Arctic "Noah's Ark" vault to protect world's seeds

A frozen "Noah's Ark" to safeguard the world's crop seeds from cataclysms will be built on a remote Arctic island off Norway, the Norwegian government said on Tuesday.

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Stay Awake and Alert for DAYS on End

Eye-opening stimulant Provigil is today's wake-up drug of choice, but the experimental compound CX717 may help the bleary stay awake, and productive, for days -- yes, DAYS -- on end.

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Microsoft Unveils Mac Keyboard, Mouse

Includes "Wireless Laser Desktop" for Mac�s Comfort Curve Keyboard, and a high-definition laser mouse.

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First official trailer for Snakes On A Plane (Featuring Samuel L. Jackson!)

The trailer for the greatest movie ever (I hear Orson Welles didn't even try to cast Mace Windu) that is being shown before X-Men 3

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How-To: Wall Mounting an LCD or Plasma

"Over the weekend I helped a friend wall mount a Panasonic LCD and thought to myself, hey why not take a few pictures and post an illustrated how-to guide on this. I think it turned out quite nicely here are some before and after shots."

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Impressive Collection of Before and After Photo Retouching Examples

This collection of photo retouching samples shows what's possible when cleaning up a photo to meet a client's needs. Includes everything from basic color correction to changing the outfit of a little girl and extending the world behind her.

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Human Body on Silicon Chip Being Produced for Experiments

The Our vision is building the human body on a chip," says Linda Griffith at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A living, 3D, interconnected set of tissues. The idea is to create not feeling entities but brainless mini-bodies that will be ideal for studying

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Mac Mini PVR Setup

Very nice mac mini setup, pvr, clean.

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A different kind of Wal-Mart SuperCenter

Wal-Mart has a "secret" 460-terabyte capacity datacenter nestled in nowhere Missouri, just up the road from its Bentonville, AR headquarters. I wonder if they are logging phonecalls there.

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How to Make Great Photographs

"Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology." Ken Rockwell.

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A new superbug is stalking the world

If you are unfortunate enough to catch it, you will suffer from intractable diarrhoea with gut-searing pain and fever. The full extent of the illness is unclear because American hospitals are not required to report it.

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Wells Fargo Introduces Envelope-Free ATM Deposit System...

In a bid to make it even easier to separate you from your money, Wells Fargo is converting 400 of it's Bay Area ATMs using digital imaging technology. This will eliminate deposit envelopes...

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Over 100 drugs, recrystallized and photographed

The Molecular Expressions Pharmaceuticals Collection contains over 100 drugs that have been recrystallized and photographed under the microscope. Many of these are presented here and we hope that you enjoy your visit.

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How concert photographers work

An interesting article about how to get a press pass, what equipment to use, and tips about how to get the good photos.

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Meet New (Random) Friends at Fo.rtuito.us

When you register at Fo.rtuito.us it randomly introduces you to another member. You have four days to interact with that member via anonymous email to see if you can become friends. If after those four days both people decide they would like to stay friends, they are added to your permanent friends list. You are then introduced to another person.

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Replacing The Desktop: What's Missing In Web 2.0?

Web applications replacing the desktop? Here are two problems we need to solve before that can happen. Problem 1: Offline Access. Problem 2: Encrypted, Searchable Storage.

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Accessibility Colour Wheel

This colour wheel displays different coloured text on different backgrounds so you can see how accessible it is. Personally, I find the AJAX in this amazing.

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Pharmaceutical company sells AIDS-infected medication

Bayer knew that the batch had been infected with AIDS so they pulled it from the US market and sold it overseas.

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Newly revealed da Vinci Sketches, Hidden by Monks for 500 Years

Sketches hidden beneath one of Leonardo da Vinci�s most famous works have been revealed to the public for the first time after scientists discovered the provocative images under a thick layer of paint

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Clone your hard drive with open source software

This document serves as a guide for cloning your hard drive using 'dd' and 'netcat'. If you've ever used Ghost before, then you understand the general concept.

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New product sidesteps DRM for home networks

A new product from Canadian company Sondigo allows you to stream audio around your home network and neatly avoids all DRM hassles, playing protected content from any online store in any format your PC can play.

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Top 10 Most Common Passwords

Life these days has become largely dependent on passwords - whether we're checking our emails, tranferring funds or shopping, passwords have place. We're constantly bombarded with horror stories of fraud, and phising sites. Why is it, then, that users on websites opt for the same, consistent, insecure passwords time after time?

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Medical Marijuana for Fido

Pet owners across Canada have a new a new way to treat the ailments of their beloved four-legged friend -- through cannabis treatment. Only in Canada eh; Pity.

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New! : My USA TODAY Tech (BETA)

USA Today's new tech page in Beta, check it out tell us what you think.

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Will Doug Bowman Make Google Beautiful?

Good news folks� Doug Bowman, uber designer has joined Google which means, a likely end to the mishmash, drab and boring user interfaces from Google. Yeah!

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A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers?

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested a plan on Wednesday that would establish a DNA or fingerprint database to track and verify all legal U.S. workers.

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Windows Vista Beta 2 Features Reviewed

The much-ballyhooed search feature is turned on for the first time, and it's just about everything that Microsoft promised. The universally disliked UAC has received significant work, and is finally usable. And overall, there's a better organization and "fit and finish" to this beta than previous Vista versions.

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Create your own font online - Download hundreds of fonts in the gallery!

This awesome site uses Java to let you create your own font. Once you finish it you can upload it to the gallery so you can download it, as well as hundreds of others, other people have made! Check it out...

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Common Childhood Vaccine linked to Autism and Bowel Disease

New American research shows that there could be a link between the controversial MMR triple vaccine and autism and bowel disease in children.

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Websites as graphs: Visualizing the DOM Structure of Websites

A fresh look a the tag structure of websites, in a visual way.

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How Identities are stolen using SQL injections & how colleges are hacked.

This site shows, with examples, how hackers are getting into college computer networks using SQL injections. While this may be 1-2-3 for web application programmers, it is quite revealing for those not involved with web application security on a daily basis.

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Interactive dining table

"The conception is quite simple, animation shows and inspires people around to share the food on the rotary table..."

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