Create Chat Rooms on the Fly (AJAX)

The site allows you to create light weight AJAX chat rooms on the fly by just typing in a room name and a nickname. This is a great service for anyone that wants to communicate with someone who doesn't have the same messaging client as themselves. I created a sample room just for this digg link. It's http://www.chatcreator.com/chatap/rooms/digg/

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Popular Science: Top Gadgets for July 2006

"Need some high-tech gloves to help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome? How 'bout a homing system to keep track of your kids? Find these and more in our rundown of the month�s top products."

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New Imaging Techniques Find Hidden Scars in Brain

"Arrays of MRI detectors could help doctors pinpoint the tiny structural flaws behind epilepsy and other disorders."

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New Mathematical Method Provides Better Way to Analyze Noise

Marcelo Magnasco, professor and head of the Mathematical Physics Laboratory at Rockefeller University, has published a paper that may prove to be a sound-analysis breakthrough, featuring a mathematical method or �algorithm� that�s far more nuanced at transforming sound into a visual representation than current methods.

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Record meteorite hit Norway

As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.

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How bilingual brains switch between tongues

The next time you listen to the Beatles sing �Michelle� you can thank an area of your brain called the left caudate. It could be what enables you to follow the lyrics as they switch from English to French, claim researchers at University College London in the UK.

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'Mind over Matter' no longer Science Fiction

Sitting stone still under a skull cap fitted with a couple dozen electrodes, American scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message -- letter by letter -- on a giant screen overhead...

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5 hot products for the future

Business 2.0 highlights five future products from the Institute of the Future such as fruit injected with medication, glacier water and Internet reputation accounts.

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The Best Google How-TO Ever

Complete guide to all the most advanced features of Google search. It demonstrates how to easily find & download mp3s and complete albums too.. heh, when will the RIAA be suing Google?

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The internet's favorite color

Based on uploaded Flickr images, this page will show you what the most used color on Flickr is.

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Find out if you're being watched

The Miniature Combination Detector attempts to put the power of privacy back into the hands of the consumer with an upgraded detection range. It is sensitive to surveillance equipment such as eavesdropping bugs, telephone taps, body transmitters, video cameras and GPS vehicle-tracking devices with frequencies of 1MHz to 6GHz.

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CIA - Top 25 Search Phrases

This collection reports the most frequent phrases used to search for documents on this site during the previous month, along with the number of times that search phrase was entered.

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The rise and rise of geek TV

The Age is running a story on the increasing portrayal of geeks in a positive light on popular cinema and television.

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Watch a GPS Phone Being Delivered via UPS Ground Live!

A guy turns on a GPS phone today (Wednesday) before sending it via UPS and has a Google Maps/Earth mashup for tracking the phone. I wonder how long the battery will last?

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Regrowing the Damaged Brain

"Electrically stimulating the cerebral cortex could help stroke recovery. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the brain has a remarkable capacity for self-repair. Hoping to take advantage of this ability, researchers have developed a technology to deliver electrical stimulation directly to brain tissue."

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Drug clears most HIV from blood "in a matter of hours"

"In a small trial the drug rapidly cleared most HIV from the blood, driving down levels tenfold in a matter of hours�

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Magnetic Fields May Help Brain Work

Australian researchers say magnetic fields could make ordinary people capable of extraordinary mental feats.

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Remote Controlled Spy Video Car with Night Vision

Drive the remote-controlled Spy Video Car into top-secret territory without being detected. See in the dark as infrared light illuminates real-time video transmitted to the eyepiece of your headset.

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What appears to be a 1080p TV, may actually not be a 1080p TV

Turns out, the existence of a 1080p processor does not necessarily translate into a 1080p capable TV.

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MIT Super Battery recharges "in a matter of seconds"

"It could be recharged many, many times perhaps hundreds of thousands of times, and ... it could be recharged very quickly, just in a matter of seconds rather than a matter of hours"

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How Safecracking Works

n the movies, master thieves and spies can deftly defeat a safe in a matter of seconds using little more than steady hands and a good ear. Safecracking isn't really that easy of course, but expert safecrackers really can get through just about any lock mechanism.

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What makes a song catchy?

A catchy tune isn't always a good thing. If it contains an infectious chorus, even a song you dislike might refuse to leave your head. Research suggests there may be cognitive reasons behind a tune's appeal.

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Mac Mini�s brain replaced with a Core 2 Duo

Faithful Macenstein reader rico sent us a posting on the Taiwanese forum Oikos discussing the results of replacing an Intel Mac mini�s standard Core Duo chip with a Core 2 Duo chip (the 2.16GHz Merom T740). After a quick Babelfish �Traditional Chinese-to-English� translation, we can see why he was so excited!

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The Top 5 Ways to Prevent IP Spoofing

"Networking expert Jonathan Hassell explains the different kinds of spoofing attacks and five surefire security tips to protect yourself."

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The Most Incredible Street Painting Ever!

Felice Varini lets loose in Paris. The first set of pics are the finished results, scroll down to see how it was done.

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Deadly Vortex found in Ocean; 220km in Diameter; 1000 meters Deep

"We were in a 70-metre boat and you could immediately feel the shift in the ship's tract, so you can certainly tell that there's something unusual going on out there,"

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AMAZING Comparison Between Real-Life and the CRYSIS Engine

Can you tell the difference? Of course you can. They're labeled.

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New Satellite Provides Breathtaking Views Inside Storms

New images show the promise of a recently launched radar satellite capable of providing unprecedented views inside storms around the globe. NASA's new CloudSat satellite provides 3-D details of both the clouds and precipitation within a storm, from the Earth's surface to 19 miles high.

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How to Stop Smoking: Simply Don't Plan On It

Want to quit smoking? Don't plan on it, and don't despair.

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10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid

How many of these errors have you seen on digg?

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Scientists help bodies grow new organs

A team of scientists and surgeons at a Melbourne hospital has developed a method of growing new organs within a patient's body.

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Data Theft Hit 80% Of Active Military: Concerns Raised Beyond Identity

"The department announced that personal data for as many as 1.1 million active-duty military personnel, 430,000 National Guard members and 645,000 reserve members may have been included on an electronic file stolen May 3 from a department employee's house in Aspen Hill."

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Photoshop: Photo Retouching - Skin

This will be our first tutorial on the subject of re-touching a photograph in photoshop. We will be working on a photo of a model and using a few techniques to smooth and even out the skin.

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RFID Gains Momentum In Pharmaceuticals

Retail giants such as Wal-Mart have published their cost savings due to the use of RFID technology, but most of their suppliers have noted that compliance is an additional net cost for them. But the situation is different for the pharmaceutical industry.

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24 Hours to stop new copyright law

At issue is their plan to change copyright so that you're going to need separate licenses for "incidental" copies of digital music: copies in RAM, copies in browser caches, and so on.

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Creating landing sites in WordPress

This guide helps you to create a list of related posts, when a visitor is referred to your blog from a search engine. You are shown how to make a script, that will grab the search string from the referring search engine, and find matching posts in your blog.

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Photoshop: Photo Retouching - Skin

This will be our first tutorial on the subject of re-touching a photograph in photoshop. We will be working on a photo of a model and using a few techniques to smooth and even out the skin.

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Programmable Tattoos

Can't decide on a tattoo? How about one you can change to whatever, whenever.

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The Pirate Bay has Posted Some Stats...

"Just some stats... ... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix: Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days .. yawn."

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Amazing Photoshop Replacement - It's not Gimp!

For the past nine years Pavel Kanzelsberger of Slovakia has been quietly working on a graphics application that may shake the very foundations that Photoshop have been built on. The application called 'Pixel' nears its 1.0 release and can still be purchased for a mere $32. It runs on about any OS one can imagine!

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Number Stations

Among the most popular and most viable theories is that the Numbers Stations are a covert means by which government spy agencies use to maintain contact with their operatives. Another theory is that these are the messages of drug smugglers.

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Apple Back to School: Buy a Mac, Get a Nano

"When you buy a Mac and iPod Nano by September 16, 2006, your iPod nano is free after mail-in rebate." Presumably limited to students.

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Apple Back to School: Buy a Mac, Get a Nano

"When you buy a Mac and iPod Nano by September 16, 2006, your iPod nano is free after mail-in rebate." Presumably limited to students.

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Guide to boosting your internet bandwith to the max

Using this guide you will be able to get some significant increase in your internet bandwith. Tweaks include QoS tweaking, Host Resolution Priority Tweaking and many more. Give it a try.

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Driver's Car Searched Due to Suspicion of Home-made Pirate Cd's Seen in Car

This is a real court case report based in Virginia. Basically a police office decided something was not right based on the assumption of home-made Cd's viewable in drivers car.

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The Future of Personalized Start Pages

"The difference from old-style web portals are: the user can personalize them much more (with RSS, inline email, etc), the content is more interactive and potentially much more useful (i.e. gadgets, widgets), they can be collaborative, and there is Ajax pixie dust to make it more of a desktop-like experience."

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howto: Photograph Sunrises and Sunsets

While sometimes wonderful sunrise and sunset shots can be taken spontaneously without any forethought it�s often the case that the best ones come out of planning. Scope out places that might be good for sunsets in the day or two before your shoot.

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The Worst Bill You�ve Never Heard About

"Never heard of SIRA? That�s the way Big Copyright and their lackeys want it, and it's bad news for you. Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy."

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Brain Chips - Connecting the mind and machines

We react naturally to the signals our brains send out to our bodies. Science has long been able to listen into the signals the brain sends, but is just now learning to turn those signals into meaningful action. The result is restoring movement and speech to the disabled.

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A degree in hacking

The University of Advancing Technology, is marketing its new Network Security program as a way to get a degree in hacking. The school is drawing the interest of geeks who use Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, according to UAT's IT manager Raymond Todd Blackwood, and even a few who want to go to the dark side of network security.

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Police will not pursue ransom hackers

After a Manchester woman was held to ransom by hackers, experts and senior police officers have voiced concern that such cases are falling between the cracks

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Apple Fesses Up To MacBook Booboo

After some users discovered that the back vent in some MacBooks were blocked by plastic, and then subsequently blogged about it, Apple�s released a somewhat official statement about the matter through their Support Site.

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6/6/06 was Four years ago?

"Dr Leonard said mothers-to-be should ignore the date, because when Christianity took over the Roman calendar, in the 4th Century, the monk who compiled the dates got it wrong."

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Drinking coffee makes you more open-minded

The coffee you drink as a pick-me-up in the morning could also make you more open to persuasion, researchers say. Evidence from a new study suggests that this happens because caffeine revs up the brain, not because it generally boosts mood.

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The "5-Second Rule" Rules

Researchers at the University of Illinois say the so-called "5-Second Rule" isn't a myth.

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Active Volcanos of the World : Google Style

Lots of info on all the active volcanos.

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Science proves Einstein's brain was different

It was, without doubt, one of the finest minds of all time. Now scientists have proved that Albert Einstein's brain was not only unique in its ability to process concepts: it was also physically different.

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Researchers find hidden Greek text on 'world's oldest astronomy computer'

The size of a shoebox, a mysterious bronze device scooped out of a Roman-era shipwreck at the dawn of the 20th century has baffled scientists for years. Now a British researcher has stunningly established it as the world's oldest surviving astronomy computer.

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Students become more insecure as hackers go to colleges

Computer systems at universities across the nation are becoming favorite targets of hackers; Since January, at least 845,000 people have had sensitive information jeopardized in 29 security failures at colleges nationwide.

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Why Web 2.0 Will End Your Privacy

We all know the plushy, rounded, pastel-coloured faces of Web 2.0. MySpace. Digg. The achingly trendy Silicon Valley startups that are selling for millions to big media conglomerates and making their founders into stars. Tom Anderson. Kevin Rose. These are the pinups of the Web 2.0 generation but little do they know the monster they've created.

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Photoshop, Flash, Programming, & Web Tutorials

Hundreds of tutorials on photoshop, flash, css, asp, php, javascript

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New Slashdot interface

Thenew CSS have been implemented...

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Get Voicemail In Your Email Inbox: GotVoice

If you want your voicemail in the same inbox with your email, GotVoice is an excellent choice.

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Cool pictures from Google Earth

A Norwegian newspaper asked users to send in their Google Earth findings. Look at what they got. Pretty cool.

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Build your Memory.

A site with tons of ways to help build your memory. How to remember names, how to remember dreams, how to master a foreign language and more.

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The truth about switching

If you go looking for information on what it's like to switch over to a Mac, you'll quickly run into hyperbole, zealots, bigots, and naysayers... from both the Windows and Mac camps. So here's what it's like to switch to a Mac, without the hysterics:

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GPS golfing device tells you how far it is to the green

A new US$400 handheld golf course measuring device called the SureShot GPS designed to answer the age-old question: �How far is it to the green?� It shows distance from the tee (or wherever else you are on the course) to the front, center and back of the green, together with up to fifteen hazards.

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Amazing Remote Control Airplane Flying

Never seen Remote Control Plane flying like this

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The Photographed History of Technology

A huge historical database of photographs technology related.

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Ethanol Dazzles Wall Street, White House

Ethanol production in the United States is growing so quickly that for the first time, farmers expect to sell as much corn this year to ethanol plants as they do overseas.

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Spectacular Nighttime Video of Machine Gun Madness

Pretty insane footage - enjoy :)

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Experimental drug Tykerb slows spread of breast cancer.

The drug worked so well in tests that the study was stopped. GSK will expand access under compassionate use provisions.It's not in this article, but Tykerb has also been shown to help with cancers that produce the highest amounts of a protein called EGFR.

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A video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop (Amen Break).

A YouTube video (18:08) that narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures...

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Idiot of the Day... Brian Walker

The man has built for himself the world's largest crossbow to launch a tiny rocket-propelled craft carrying his fragile body 20 miles into the air. He plans to pull 10 gs as the carbon-fiber bowstring releases and sends his little spaceship-like vehicle soaring into the air while firing a jet turbine with 1350 pounds of thrust. He will be wearing a Russian space suit to help keep his innards in, and has hydrogen peroxide rockets to help slow his descent. He is awaiting FAA approval, and is planning to test the launcher with a giant fiberglass arrow before he launches himself this fall.

Microsoft iPod Killer or just The Blur?

Engadget is reporting a possible Microsoft iPod killer... follow the link below to try and make out some ass quality blurry as hell pics. Good luck! link