Who's reading your e-mail?

New plans to scan e-mails for illegal images of child abuse may give the appearance that children are being safeguarded but they may not be as effective as they first seem, argues Technology commentator Bill Thompson.

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Top 100 Free E-Books

Yesterday's front page digg on The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci has helped him take the top spot from Sherlock Holmes. There's a lot of classical literature here; some of them even have audio downloads - it's a great way to diversify you portable device.

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How to Kill Blogs

"PayPerPost is a new system that pays bloggers a bounty to write about products and services. Companies sign up for the network (currently there are offers to cover iTunes, Superman Returns, Match.com, and many other products) and pay bloggers when they cover their products. "

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What to do with a Dead iPod

For many of us, who have had iPods for several years, the time is fast approaching when our iPods will die. But even when your iPod is dead, you may find uses for it.

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Digg Responsible for the April 2006 Alexa Tech Anomaly

Technology sites across the web saw their Alexa rank double overnight and non-geek sites saw their rank mysteriously fall. This same night, Digg's Alexa reach tripled, and it appears that it was because so many of us installed their toolbar when our own Alexa ranking was Digged.

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Next Mac OS X to Have GPS Device Tracking Capabilities

According to informants inside the Cupertino-based computer giant, the next version of Apple's operating system will let you track belongings through clever GPS and integrated mapping.

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Firefox 2.0 Gets Two NEW Features: Undo Close Tab & Scrolling Tab Bar

After upgrading to the latest nightly build of Firefox 2.0 I noticed two features that I haven �t seen before. One of the features was an �Undo Close Tab� button when you right-click on the tab-bar or on a tab. The other feature that I don�t like very much is a scrolling tab-bar.

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A better wall plug

This is just brilliant: A new plug design, angled out from the wall to make it easier to plug things in or out. It was created by University of Notre Dame student Julia Burke, and won an IDSA award this year.

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Fully Automatic Car: Can Drive Up To 150 MPH - All On Its Own

German car giant Volkswagen has turned fiction into reality by unveiling a fully automatic car which really can drive itself - and at speeds of up to 150mph. It can weave with tyres screeching around tricky bends and chicanes, and through tightly coned off tracks - without any help or intervention from a human.

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Scamming the Nigerian scammer

The tables have been turned on at least one Nigerian scammer after an online vigilante successfully played him at his own game with an intricately laid "anti-scam" operation.

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Fireworks Factory Explodes!

Two words: HOLY SH**!

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Know your rights when you've been pulled over

Video on what you should know when you've been pulled over by the police.

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Insaine Smart Car Video -- Amazingly Safe

Video shows a few crashes of a smart car. One of the crashes is a 70 mph head on collision against a concrete wall...just watch to see what happens....

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Possibly the greatest TV advert ever made?

This advert for Lynx deodorant was shown on ITV1 just before the England World Cup match.

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Octopus can turn invisible at will!

This octopus can camouflage to the point of unassailable invisibility!

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How to make the perfect Omelet with a Zip lock Bag - Video - in English

Perfect demonstration of how a Zip lock bag can be used to make the perfect omelet.

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45,000 Bottle Rockets

Launching 45,000 Bottle Rockets in 2 minutes.

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Amazing new commercial for Coca Cola

Great PsyOp work

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Video of Disneyland's renovated Pirates of the Carribean ride

Video of Johnny Depp riding and interaction with the new additions to Disneyland's Pirates of the Carribean ride.

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Metacritic has reviews of Superman

"This Superman is like nothing you've ever seen before, but it tickles something primitive and comforting at the back of the mind. Gorgeously detailed and meticulously realized, it's a homecoming of a movie. Just wait for the theme; you'll understand." ---Premiere, Sara Brady

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What Really Happened In Harry Houdini's Final Show

They say a magician is only as good as his final show. If that is the case they Harry Houdini got shafted.

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WORLD EXCLUSIVE Transformers Trailer!

Rated-M.com has the WORLD EXCLUSIVE first look at the Transformers Trailer from Michael Bay.

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The Simpsons on Conan O Brien (video)

This is a video of the guys who do the Simpsons voices on Conan O Brien

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The U.S. vs. John Lennon (Trailer)

Artist. Humanitarian. National Threat it reads on Apple's page. The film comes out in September of 2006, I can't wait to see it. It's available in HD as well.

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Superman Returns has 21 Million Dollar opening day...ho hum.

"Superman Return raked in $21 million on Wednesday, which includes grosses from Tuesday night preview showings. Its opening day ranks as the 29th highest-grossing ever and eighth when counting only Wednesday starts." Very good, but hardly 'super'...sorry...Spider Man 2 made 40.4 mil on its Wednesday debut 2 year ago.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (ain't it cool news)

"Mateys and scalawags � drink up, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN�S CHEST is 20,000 leagues more badbum than the original. This film is just frecking swaggeringly cool from beginning to end."

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First official Beatles stage show opens

Lucy swoops on a trapeze across a sky twinkling with diamonds, Mr. Kite presides over a psychedelic circus of stiltwalkers and acrobats, and the unmistakable voices of John, Paul, George and Ringo fill the surround sound-equipped arena.

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9/11 Survivor Accounts Released In Podcasts

"I wanted to crawl into my fire helmet." Firefighter Mickey Kross describes a fierce wind lifting him up amid the collapse of the North Tower, in a podcast from the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.

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2004 Pentagon Report Predicts Rioting and Nuclear War Due to Climate Change

According to those who've viewed the suppressed 2004 Pentagon report, the document predicts that climate change will cause global rioting and anarchy, and the use of nuclear threats to defend dwindling food and energy.

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Has Noah's Ark Been Found? A Team Of Texas Archaeologists Believe So.

"A team of Texas archaeologists believe they may have located the remains of Noah's Ark in Iran's Elburz mountain range."

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Dozens Barred From Tour de France After Doping Scandal

Favorites Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso and other cyclists were barred Friday from the Tour de France in the biggest doping scandal to hit cycling in years.

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The History of MySpace

There's more to MySpace than just users with questionable web design skills. The site itself has something of a shady history. With a little bit of research, I've managed to piece together a timeline for how the site actually came about.

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Overview of who owns the Media in the US

Doesn't look like it's been updated recently, but this shows you a chart of which companies own which media.

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iPod Updater 2006-06-28 Now Available

iPod Updater 2006-06-28 includes iPod Software 1.1.2 for iPod, iPod Software 1.2 for iPod nano, and iPod Software 1.1.4 for iPod shuffle. iPod Updater 2006-06-28 contains the same software versions as iPod Updater 2006-03-23 for all other iPod models.

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10 Ways to Tweak Your Tech Résumé

1. ATS: The most important letters you need to know

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Apple to release TiVo Killing "AppleVision" set-top box

Analysts believe that Apple are set to release a set-top box, utilizing Front Row technology, creating a potential 'TiVo Killer'.

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Windows apps on a Mac... NATIVELY w/o Windows (Images)

CrossOver Office (from Codeweavers) for the Mac allows Windows programs to run on Apple Computer's system without a copy of the Microsoft OS installed. Here the software is running Microsoft Project. 2 Images.

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Using ICMP tunneling to steal Internet

You connect to a open access wireless network. You are prompted with some sort of authorization page when you open a browser, but you can easily ping external hosts. You don't have authorization for TCP or other traffic, so what do you do? Tunnel! This article explains the basics of ICMP tunneling, and how it works.

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Not everyone cooperated with the NSA

Apparently the national call database isn't as complete as was originally thought. While lawmakers who support the Bush administration's domestic spying program see the gaps in the database as a problem; I'm sure there are many others who see this as a good thing.

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What are your odds of being sued by the RIAA

Interesting article examines the probability of being sued by the RIAA. The result looks good for file sharers.

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Google Checkout: no PayPal killer

Google may be trying to displace PayPal for small business use (and maybe even get into larger accounts than PayPal ever did) but let's be clear: this is not going to be a person-to-person payment system anytime soon.

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NASA's J-Track 3-D: Track 900 man-made satellites in real-time

"What you will see (assuming your system supports this JAVA applet) is a plot in 3-dimensions showing the position of these satellites. Be sure to try the "Satellite" pull-down menu to choose which satellite you wish to view."

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Skype to sweeten bitter pill

In a recent meeting, Kurt Sauer, Skype's chief security officer talked about the security features in Skype, and how the company could make its products and services more amenable to corporate IT managers and network security specialists. It's not quite there yet, but the company is definitely heading in the right direction.

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Amazingly Detailed Flash Periodic Table

Displays everything from boiling points to electron orbitals. Completely customizable coloring. Each element links to wikipedia.

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Stream your entire music collection through a web browser!

This is a really awesome application, I tried others, but I hated having just use the browser to select what song to play, and then use a media player to play the stream. With this I can stream it directly through a browser and even create playlists. It's so nice being able to listen to my entire music collection from home while at work.

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MySpace has sent cease and desist letters to several Web sites

The social network, owned by Newscorp., has sent cease and desist letters to several Web sites with services built to thrive off MySpace membership, a community in the tens of millions. The MySpace legal letters ask that piggybackers shut down.

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Large Scale Computer Attacks Predicted by Feds

The cyber threat confronting the United States is rapidly increasing as the number of hackers with the tools and abilities to use computers against the United States is rising. Also, the sky _is_ falling.

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Microsoft says Vista beta testers better hurry

For those who want to try out the current test version of Microsoft's Windows Vista, it may be now or never. The company is nearing its self-imposed cutoff point and plans to stop allowing new downloads after Friday.

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Must know tips & tricks for photographers using photoshop

Some really neat tips, tricks and tutorials that can make a huge impact on your pictures.

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Shadowcrew Co-Founder Sentenced

"The man who administered and co-founded what federal law enforcement officials described as one of the largest illegal online centers that trafficked in hundreds of thousands of stolen credit card numbers was sentenced Thursday to 32 months in prison."

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the REAL reason Google did NOT buy MySpace - AdSense says Web 2.0 Founder

A Source Leaked privately WHY Google decided AGAINST buying MySpace

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Personal Biometric Device offers secure access to multiple facilities.

Now this is an interesting key-fob-sized device designed to eliminate the need for employees to use multiple access cards and passwords. The plusID authenticates a user's identity with their fingerprint and enables secure access to buildings and other physical facilities, local and remote computers and networks.

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A Car Navigation System That Takes Pictures

The camera lets you take pictures of places you've been. Geographical coordinates are then assigned to each picture, so that you can bring up a gallery, and choose your destination by clicking on a picture.

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Top 10 Coolest Desiner Gadgets

From the mysteriously floating Giovannoni Timesphere, to a futuristic Transparent Toaster, here is a list of extremely cool designs of future gadgets.

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AMD to release new low-cost dual core 3600+ processor

AMD has taken some heat in the past few years for the higher costs of their processors. They're not willing to let it slide, though, and they're out to prove it with their new low-cost Athlon X2 3600+.

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LED Architecture (photos)

Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are reinventing the look and feel of skylines, bridges, facades and other architectural surfaces around the globe. The light bulb is being unscrewed by energy-efficient LEDs that are both environmentally friendly and cost-effective. The $10.2 billion industry is growing to provide new design options for architects.

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IE 7 Beta 3 released to public

Microsoft released IE 7 Beta 3 today. Download it http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? familyid=4C1A8FBE-FB6A-47AC-867D-BB1F17E477EE& displaylang=en#Requirements

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OSX 10.4.7 on your x86 Windows computer!

Yesterday Apple released OSX 10.4.7, today it's possible to install it on your Windows computer. The guide let's you create a dual boot menu in which you can choose from OSX and Windows. You'll also create a nice rescue disk in case something goes wrong.

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9 Mac OS X Leopard Rumors

My two favorites are bittorrent integration and the ability to run Windows apps natively.

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Microsoft to release the "Ultimate" Keyboard

Can a keyboard create its own mood lighting? Respond to you? Enlighten you? Move with you? Microsoft say their ultimate desktop keyboard can with ambient backlighting, proximity sensing and 30-feet of range.

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A simple picture of "watching eyes" keeps people honest

In a finding that will have office managers everywhere scurrying for the photocopier, researchers have discovered that merely a picture of watching eyes nearly trebled the amount of money put in the coffee room box.

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Gliffy, the Online Visio Killer

Two guys with some time on their hands have created a tool that might just become a Visio-killer. Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser. Like other online apps, it has inherent advantages over traditional software. Collaboration is easier,and so is publishing diagrams you create to the web.

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How to Make Real life stuff Anime style

This Photoshop Tutorial shows you the technique used to convert virtually any photograph, picture or image into an anime style graphic. Complete with step by step previews to show you exactly whats going on.

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10 Possible Consequences of Google's GBuy

Why does Google want to automate the advertiser click cycle and make it as fast as it possibly can? The first reason is obvious: Google makes money on click conversions. The more clicks done quickly, the more money for Google, and the happier the advertiser.

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Defeating China's "Great" Firewall

I geuss it isn't so "great" anymore!

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BlackWidow is Next-Generation Cray Supercomputer

Code-named "BlackWidow," the new system is part of an evolving heterogeneous processing capability that is the centerpiece of Cray's Adaptive Supercomputing vision. It will be available in the second half of 2007. Applications developed for the Cray X1E system and its predecessor, the Cray X1 system, will port to BlackWidow.

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Say Hello to voice phishing

Hi-tech fraudsters have begun using recorded telephone messages in a bid to trick users into handing over confidential account information. The tactic has been adopted as a variant of recently detected phishing attacks targeting customers of the Santa Barbara Bank & Trust.

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Microsoft introduces 360 degree camera!

With Microsoft's software driving an online videoconference session, and the RoundTable camera placed atop a conference table, remote participants will see the face or faces of the active speakers as they assume the floor. Participants who may grow weary of the angle changes during heated arguments may prefer the optional panorama view.

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Cool little USB TV receiver

This is neat; a little USB-type T-DMB TV receiver for your PC. Key specs are Band-III (174-240MHz), MPEG-4/H.264 video decoding and MUSICAM and MPEG-4/BSAC audio decoding. The antenna is 335mm and the USB 2.0/1.1 device weighs less than 40g

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30% of the entire US Internet population use MySpace

Can 51 million people be a fad? The executives at News Corp. and MySpace certainly hope not. The article has some interesting statistics of social websites. Unfortunately digg is not on the list.

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How to photographically make your neighborhood look like its own planet

This person has posted a nice technique on how to photograph your neighborhood to make it look like its individual planet. Very cool.

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Google File System - how Google does it

While many IT shops deal with the issues related to hundreds or thousands of users, Google regularly manages, administers and upgrades software and systems for millions of users. How do they do it? This article presents an excellent overview of the Google file system and its unique capabilities.

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How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible - 40 Tutorials and Articles

"AJAX is a great tool for creating rich internet applications, however, when improperly implemented it can cause hugh accessibility issues. The good news is that most of these issues can be fixed so your websites are viewable by a much wider audience."

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Underused features of Mac OS X

Here are some underappreciated, lesser known features of Mac OS X, including speech commands, Automator actions, Smart Folders and sharing printers, files and network connections.

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Apple celebrates 1 year of podcasting on iTunes

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of podcasting on iTunes, Apple has created a special celebratory page which lists some of the bigger and better podcasts out there. Of course Diggnation is there, check it out...

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Senate committee approves broadcast flag, about to nix net neutrality

The Senate Commerce Committee has given the broadcast flag a big thumbs up while giving net neutrality the finger. Does anyone else see an inconsistency here?

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Widgets are the new black

More and more start-ups are happening right now with only a widget as their main product, Sniperroo or Slide.com for example. The blog Widgetoko focuses on this area, and delivers you your daily dose of widget-y goodness. Robert Scoble says: "killer widget blog (...) I love it"

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Chappelle to Return to Comedy Central July 9.

It is being reported by the 'New York Post' that David Chappelle will return to Comedy Central on July 9, the new show is currently dubbed, "Dave Chappelle: The Lost Episodes".

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Pay $12 for...blank CD's?

Cordless Recordings artists "The Residents" have released a new album. How is this news? You buy the album art with two blank cd's and burn them yourself.

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FREE Legal Archive of Quality Classical Music MP3s

Here is an archive of quality classical music performances by Italian musicians.

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The Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006

The Top 99 Most Desirable Women is an annual list compiled by the readers and staff of AskMen.com, ranking the females that have been collectively deemed the year �s most alluring. 2.5 million reader votes were cast for the 2006 version of the list, which will be read by millions more worldwide. Wow Holy Hotness.

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Amazing Matrix bullet time effect made by kids

Project White Rabbit is an experiment by young independent filmmaker/effects artist Ryan Wieber. The goal of the experiment is to test methods intended to emulate the "Bullet Time" effect popularized by the Matrix films... practically and inexpensively. Information on the project can be found here: http://whiterabbit.ryan-w.com/

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Colbert on 60 Minutes

CBS 60 Minutes segment featuring our good friend Stephen Colbert

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Family Guy: The Best of Peter Griffin

You saw 'The Best of Stewie', now here's the best of Peter! Equally hilarious.

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20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S, and the vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

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Library wins, FBI drops demand for records

Library refused to comply with FBI national security letter for records on privacy grounds. Text of national security letter included. First instance of public disclosure on one.

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How Cocaine Hijacks The Craving Brain

When 18 cocaine addicts watched a 40-minute movie that featured people buying and preparing a substance that looked like cocaine, brain scans showed they produced more dopamine in the dorsal striatum than when they viewed a nature film. The effect was more marked in the most strongly addicted people.

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Best Selling Games of All Time

This list is a gives a great overview of all time video game sales. If anything, you can check off the games you had just for fun.

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WEP Cracking, the FBI Way

WEP cracking usually takes hours. Lots of hours, depending on the amount of traffic on the access point. A few months ago, two FBI agents demonstrated how they were able to crack a WEP enabled access point within a couple of minutes. 3 minutes to be exact.

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CNET's Take on Digg v3

Read CNET's opinion on Digg v3.

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Flash Player 9 released today

Flash Player 8.5 has been upgraded to version 9.

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Cnet: Top 10 Google apps!

Cnet has released its top 10 google apps!

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Digg Ad Revenue Could Top $200K Per Month

With the new Digg design providing three advertising slots on most pages, the site could earn more than $36 per 1,000 page views, based on the pricing of its ad units. With 5 million page views at present and traffic likely to grow with today's expansion, that starts to get into serious revenue.

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Quickmaps - Draw all over Google Maps

Quickmaps gives you a bunch of tools, including a couple dozen markers, line and doodle tools for drawing, and text labels that you can place anywhere on a Google map.

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The use of colour in web designing

This article explains the use of colour, what colours signify, and how to find colours that fit with each other in your web pages.

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Motorola does it again! Behold the new H5

Smallest bluetooth headset in the world. Fits like a hearing aid.

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Microsoft to launch code-sharing site

Microsoft on Tuesday is expected to officially launch a community-building Web site where it will share code with developers.

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How To Make Digg Look Better on High Resolution and Widescreen Monitors

I wrote a layout for the Stylish Firefox extension to make digg look a little bit better on widescreen monitors and monitors with aat least a 1600x1200 resolution.

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Disabling The Guest Account in Mac OS X

Something that has always bugged me about Mac OS X is that when you connect to a remote computer you have the option of being a registered user or a guest. Anyone that is on your network can connect to your computer via the guest feature. Wouldn't it be nice to not allow this?

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CSS Galleries

A single RSS feed of all of the major CSS showcase and gallery sites (CSS Mania, CSS Drive, Unmatched Style etc.). Indexes all featured sites into one simple feed, with thumbnail.

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8 Invaluable Wordpress Plugins

8 great plugins that'll help you pump more juice out of your Wordpress installation.

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Google Could've Bought MySpace (for half price)

Google could've bought MySpace for half price. They passed because they thought the could do it better on their own. Talk about a strategic blunder.

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Digg V3 with Right Hand Menu

Just a Stylish or userContent.css hack I made up to move the menu on Digg back to the right hand side in Firefox.

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New Windows Vista Build 5456

It is fantastic,new improvements and more check out the screenshots

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How To Get 50% Off Cable TV Bill

Article on how to get discounts on your cable bill. This applies to a lot of your current bills.

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The Complete List of MacBook Pro Defects

So you thought it would be a good time to buy a MacBook Pro? Think again. This wiki is a comprehensive list and description of all the MacBook Pro defects known to man. Very helpful for the wary consumer.

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Confirmed: SMART cars coming to USA

DaimlerChrysler is going to announce tomorrow that the SMART car will come to the United States in early 2007. That's the word from three major newspapers citing insider sources! This comes after months of speculation.

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Mxtabs.net finally closes after 7 years, thanks a lot MPA

Tablature is great for learning to play songs without having to learn sheet music. With pressure from the MPA and sheet music organisations Mxtabs, one of the greatest tab resources was forced to close despite over $3000 per month in sales of licensed sheet music via their links.

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easy fake cover of magazine generator

I've found websurfing around something that I've never seen before. I think that u should see it and check how it works. It works this way, you can choose which magazine, then u can upload the pic that u want on the cover and u can write also the title that u want on the cover then click generate and u'll be on rolling stones's cover!

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Statistics on Digg Users

According to Digg's advertising partner Federated Media: "Audience: Business and IT influencers working in technology.* 94% male * 88% 18-39 * 64% HHI above $75k * 52% IT professionals, developers or engineers * 26% managers or above * 39% publish their own blog"

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Every freaking way to charge an iPod

Here is a round up of just about all the ways of charging an iPod and/or making a DIY battery pack.

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Scientists have announced they are creating a PC that is emotionally aware

University of Cambridge professor, Peter Robinson, said his team has a computer that can recognize various expressions generated by actors, including boredom, confusion and surprise.

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Optimize Your Bittorrent Download Speed

Bittorrent can be fun, as long as you get decent speeds. Not satisfied with your current speeds? These suggestions might help to optimize your download pleasure

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The Top Ten List Of Top Ten Lists

Geek bloggers have gone nuts lately with the "Top Ten" lists, although some of them are really good. So here's the Top Ten List Of Top Ten Lists.

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WidgetBox is a new marketplace for widgets

If you like widgets, there�s about to be a whole lot more of them available for use in your blog or profile page.

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One desktop background to rule them all

How to make a desktop background to help gauge how websites look on different monitor sizes. A downloadable template is provided.

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Digg's 8 million 'social freeloaders'

Digg reportedly attracted 8.5 million visitors in May, but only has 304,000 registered users, submitting, on average, about 2000 stories a day. The Social Web that is purported to be harnessing a �collective wisdom� of millions, is merely reflecting the opinions of a small number of self-selected active contributors...

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VIDEO: Kevin Rose Presenting DIGG V3 !

Here's a 15 minute video from GET of Kevin Rose at the Digg V3 Party last night previewing Digg V3 to the audience! 15 minutes long, Flash Video.

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9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards

Some people just misinterpret how the web should be used/designed.

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Space Time Travel - Visualizing Relativity

"Part of the difficulties in understanding relativity are due to the fact that relativistic effects contradict everyday experience. Images, films and virtual reality let us in a sense experience relativistic flights, gravitational collapse, compact objects and other extreme conditions."

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GeekTV interviews Kevin Rose & other diggers on v3 at party

At the digg v3 preview party, Geek Entertainment TV interviews Kevin Rose, Time, Eric Rodenbeck and Michal Migurski of Stamen who did the amazing visualizations. Includes video of some of the visualizations in v3.

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How to Hack a $10 Digital Disposible Camera

Turn a "disposable" 10 dollar digital camera from RitzCamera, CVS, or Walgreens into one you can use over and over, just like a normal digital camera.

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Kevin Smith fans rejoice - Clerks II trailer is up!

Let's hope this one doesn't suck!

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10 Ways to Relaxify Your Workspace

According to the article, "relaxifying" your work space is crucial to productivity. There's actually quite a bit that you can do to make your workspace a soothing, happy place instead of just the building you go to every day to kill eight or nine hours.

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Dell Investigates Report Of Laptop Explosion

A spokesman for the Round Rock, Texas, computer maker confirmed that the computer was bought from Dell, but declined to give any further details. "We're aware of it, and we're digging into the details," the spokesman said. "There's an investigation going on right now. When something like this happens, we want to know why."

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Sony Expects to Sell 100 Million PS3s

Sony's massively successful PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles both sold upwards of 100 million units worldwide. But despite the PlayStation 3's steep price point, Sony's sales expectations haven't flagged at all.

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NASA Finds Intense Lightning Activity Around A Hurricane's Eye

In 2005, Hurricane Emily, a very strong hurricane had some of the most lightning activity ever seen in a hurricane. Scientists are now trying to determine if the frequency of lightning is connected to the hurricane's strength.

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'Warm' species invading Antarctic

Scientists are calling for action to prevent foreign species from taking hold in Antarctica and wrecking the continent's unique ecosystems. Male and female North Atlantic spider crabs (Hyas araneus) have been found in waters off the Antarctic Peninsula. Neil Gilbert says the species could not have migrated such a great distance by its own accord.

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Apple Covers Up "Lap" Suggestion for MacBooks

Apple has changed their website and removed the "On Your Lap" suggestion that once appeared on the student page. AppleDefects.com previously reported that Apple has been promoting the MacBook as a laptop, despite their customer service techs and user manuals suggesting against using it on the lap. Does this mean Apple is paying attention?

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Cheney Calls Tapping of Bank Records Essential

"A secret program that allowed U.S. officials to examine hundreds of thousands of private banking records from around the world in search of terrorist ties has been "absolutely essential" to protecting the country from further attacks, Vice President Cheney said yesterday."

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MacBook Pro Light Sensor Secrets Revealed

Mac programmer Amit Singh, who in February figured out how to access and manipulate the motion sensor in Apple's laptops, has published an explanation of the ambient light sensor also found in the company's latest portables.

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Apple will staff the Best Buys selling Macs

Apple has decided to use its own specially-trained employees in order to sell its Macs at Best Buy retail stores rather then rely on the regular Best Buy employees. Apple will train select Best Buy employees using Apple Solution Consultants to sell their products.

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The first Free Online TV channels aggregator. Watch TV on web

Unlike all the others, Streamick.com aggregates the TV channels and keep them updated costantly (with descriptions and schedules), and it uses a "streamrank" relevancy system for the new channels and reports of unworking streams. In less then 2 clicks you could be watching ABC news or ESPN or a movie. No software is needed.

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Nicotine In A Bottle: An Alternative To Smoking?

An 8-ounce bottle contains the same amount of nicotine as two cigarettes is being marketed to tide over smokers when they can't light up on a plane or a bar. But critics say it could be one more way for young people to get hooked.

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How To: Hide MP3s Inside GIF Images

This page describes how to use GIF's "application extension block" to create a file that displays an image if you load it in a browser, but plays music if you load it in Winamp. Includes a demo and a server-side script that will create combo files from your uploaded GIFs and MP3s.

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Sound Dogs: the original online sound effects library

Founded almost ten years ago by veteran Hollywood sound editors, Sound Dogs is the original online sound effects library. The site boasts over 400,000 downloadable sounds including award-winning effects from big-budget films and world-class music. The virtual library of sounds lists everything you can imagine.

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GM eyes 'plug-in' hybrid.

GM is finally admitting its mistakes when it comes to hybrid vehicles, and is considering a plug in Hybrid. They also admit that the specialized docking mechanism for the EV1 misjudged the need to plug in anywhere.

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The majority of web surfers use 1024x768

The screen resolution 800 x 600 pixels has signficantly decreased since July 2005. More and more internet users choose for screen resolution 1024 x 768 or higher. The finding has important implications for web site designers because most web sites are designed for a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. 1280x1024 is #2 in the world.

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Chemical Factory in a Suitcase?

You have probably heard a lot about nanotechnology, but have you heard about microreactors? This revolution in chemical technology offers tremendous advantages in efficiencies.

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Deputy mistakes pistol for taser, shoots wacko in tree

One deputy attempted to discharge a Taser at the man, but when it did not work asked another deputy to fire a Taser. Instead of grabbing the Taser, the deputy grabbed and fired the gun. "Ow, that hurt, I'm coming down, I'm coming down," said the wounded man.

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World's 2nd Richest Man Give Away Fortune: To Bill Gate's Foundation

Warren Buffett: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Cnet Benchmarks: Mac OS X, Parallels and BootCamp on 17inch MBP

This review gives everyone a fair idea how quick Mac OS X is compared to Windows XP and how quick a Paralleis virtual machine of XP is compared to both. Interesting Read!

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MacBook discoloration not caused by oil or perspiration!

Despite applying the Shieldzone Standard kit to my MacBook palm rests and trackpad, the yellow discoloration is forming UNDERNEATH the film. Apple, the discoloration is not caused by oil or perspiration! This is a serious manufacturing defect which needs to be rectified! Where is the product recall?

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Is your new MacBook stained? Stained MacBook info site

"Is your new MacBook stained after few weeks of purchase ? This site was born as a way to give pressure to Apple regarding recent QA issues with the new white MacBook. Many people all over the world are complaining about stains appearing in their newly acquired piece of Apple hardware." This site has what causes and some fixes for the stains.

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Beautiful Nasa Photos

Here is a collection of Beautiful Nasa photos.

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This messes with your mind

This is a video of a crazy optical illusion that involves a hollow mask spinning around. Im not sure whether being recorded on video alters the perspective but its worth a look.

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The Art of Lockpicking

Video on how to pick a lock using shims, by Lee Lawson.

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Fix An Xbox... With A Mint Tin (Pictures)

A friend of mine gave me an XBOX to fix. It got dropped, with predictable consequences on the hard disk drive inside. Here's the thing... it's a stock unit, no mod chip, so it will not boot unsigned code. I managed to locate a nifty howto on building an EEPROM reader and a really nice bit of Windows freeware.

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Scientology Orientation Video on YouTube!

Here's video of a cam that was snuck into a Scientology orientation session, shouldn't be long before this gets censored by the CoS.

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Fix An Xbox... With A Mint Tin (Pictures)

A friend of mine gave me an XBOX to fix. It got dropped, with predictable consequences on the hard disk drive inside. Here's the thing... it's a stock unit, no mod chip, so it will not boot unsigned code. I managed to locate a nifty howto on building an EEPROM reader and a really nice bit of Windows freeware.

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Prior Art on Apple's MagSafe (patent pending) technology

This is interesting; it just seemed too good an idea not to have been thought of before. Everyone should adopt this technology for devices that are dangerous or fragile. Whoever gets(or has) the patent should be forced to license it cheap.

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We will be able to live to 1,000

Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why.

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video of an RC Helicopter With machine gun

A video of an RC helicopter with a machine gun flying and fireing the gun

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Belgium To Tag All Children Under 12

ELECTRONIC ID CARDS for all children under 12 are to be introduced in Belgium. They will bear a code designed to allow parents of missing children to be traced instantly. This announcement came as Belgian police continued to search for two young girls who vanished from outside a bar in the middle of the night, a fortnight ago.

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