50 minutes of free easy to understand video tutorials on PHP.

PHP video tutorials that make PHP easy ... even for web designers.

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What If Governments Had Not Destroyed Money?

What would the world economy and financial markets look like had government controlled central banks not followed a course of relentless increases in credit and fiat money supply? Thorsten Polleit explores what would happen if the recommendations of the legendary Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises had been followed by the U.S. government.

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Middle East Crisis: Who backs an immediate ceasefire? (graphics)

If this doesn't put it the situation in perspective for you, I don't know what will.

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Another Osama Bin Laden Message Coming Soon

"A new Osama bin Laden message from al Qaeda's as-Sahab Institute for Media Production is to be released soon, according to IntelCenter, a private contractor providing counterterrorism support work to the intelligence community."

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Teacher under fire for his Cheney-9/11 theory

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- More than 60 state lawmakers are urging the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fire an instructor who has argued that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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Nato General: "Afghanistan Is Close To Anarchy"

The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan today described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy".

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Israeli troops capture Lebanese village.

Israeli troops backed by artillery and tank fire seized control of a Lebanese border village on Saturday and recovered weapons from another town in Hezbollah territory, military officials said.

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What Makes Serial Killers Tick?

"I'm the most cold-blooded sonofabitch you'll ever meet," said Ted Bundy. "I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill." The hallmark of the psychopath is the inability to recognize others as worthy of compassion."

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North Korea producing highly advanced counterfeit US currency

The counterfeits were nearly flawless. They featured the same high-tech color-shifting ink as genuine American bills and were printed on paper with the same precise composition of fibers. The engraved images were, if anything, finer than those produced by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

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Buy It Now: Google, Yahoo Buying Small Startups

Thanks to booming ad revenue, in the last 18 months, Google gobbled up Dodgeball, Urchin Software, and Upstartle, gaining entry into mobile social networking, Web analytics tools, and Web-based word processing. Yahoo went on its own Pac-Man-style rampage, swallowing Konfabulator, Webjay, Upcoming.org, Flickr, and del.icio.us. Urp.

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The Murder Castle of H.H. Holmes

In 1893, Chicago, Illinois was host to a spectacular World �s Fair. During the fair a number of victims were tortured and killed an a true mansion of terror custom built by America's most horrific and original serial killer. I still can't believe HHH's story has never been made into a major movie.

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Ted Koppel: "The US Is Already At War With Iran"

Ted Koppel asserts in a NY Times op-ed that the United States is already at war with Iran. The battle is just being fought through surrogates for the moment.

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US admits it used banned napalm bombs in Iraq

American pilots dropped the controversial incendiary agent napalm on Iraqi troops during the advance on Baghdad. The attacks caused massive fireballs that obliterated several Iraqi positions. The Pentagon denied using napalm at the time, but Marine pilots and their commanders have confirmed that they used an upgraded version of the weapon

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Planet Poster: Mapping The Future Of World Population

Researchers at the Earth Institute at Columbia University have developed map that projects where people will be living in the year 2025.

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CollegeHumor.com and The Onion both in talks to be bought by big media

"The satirical newspaper and Web site The Onion has been in talks to be acquired by Viacom, which could use them to complement its Comedy Central brand...At the same time, Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp is close to a nearly $20 million deal to invest in CollegeHumor.com, including options to acquire the site"

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How big media is wooing the MySpace set

"The company (StreetWise) organizes groups of teens and young adults to promote films, music and video games through a variety of means. Some StreetWise members post messages on popular social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook" "StreetWise has 70,000 registered members."

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Zune Details Emerge! Microsoft portable a totally "Integrated Experience"

Engadget has "received word from a trusted insider that the shape everyone's been expecting the Zune to take may not be the approach most people assumed." Check out what they were able to uncover from their 'insider contact.'

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Abandoned futuristic housing in Taiwan - a photoset on Flickr

Some amazing futuristic buildings in Taiwan, that have been abandoned before completion, 20 years ago. They now look, well... Retro futuristic. Worth to see !

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Microsoft Readies Its IPod Killer

Allard's involvement is seen as significant because he is one of the few executives at Microsoft with experience in launching a consumer electronic device from scratch with the Xbox gaming system. His involvement suggests that gaming might be part of the media player.

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Electric powered MINI Concept with 640 Hp!

Mini Cooper with four electic motors makes 640hp...and 2,213 lb-ft of torque!

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The 10 Coolest Technologies You've Never Heard Of

This PC Magazine story goes into top technologies that may change your life although most of you haven't even heard of them. Number 7 might be familiar to some people already!

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999 ideas that changed our lives

The toothbrush we use, the car we drive, the phone we answer, the chair we sit in at work � every manufactured object we buy has been pondered, argued over, sketched and prototyped. In short, designed by someone or a team of someones.

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AMD Plans To Demonstrate Native Quad-Core This Year

AMD plans "to demonstration our next-generation processor core, in a native quad-core implementation before the end of the year." Earlier this year, AMD's Executive Vice President Henri Richard claimed this native-quad core processor would be called K8L.

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How to take appart almost anything: a tinkerer heaven

This site is a resource to be used by anyone who wishes to see -- for any reason -- how to take apart certain electronic devices. We will try to post a new dissection as often as time permits.

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Get Your Voice Mail Via Email

eVoice is an internet voicemail answering service that delivers your voicemail messages to the email address of your choice.

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Just when you thought your apple remote could do it all...

mira is designed exclusively for the Apple Remote, taking it beyond Front Row with personal control over any application. Shipping with built-in support for over 20 applications, new ones can be given their own specific actions in a few seconds with virtually no learning curve and no additional software or plugins to download or install.

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Apple to do eBooks?

Is it possible the next iPod might catch the eBook bug? We'd say the possibility is very real.

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How much is your average fuel cost? Database of 25k cars from 1984-2006

I came across this site the other day mpgbuddy.com. It has a database of close to 25,000 cars dating all the way back to 1984. What I like is that it also calculates the average fuel cost for the car your are looking up. Lowest fuel cost vechicle they are showing is a 2000 Honda Insight ... I also looked up a 2006 Maserati ... close to $700/year

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Over 100 CSS demos

"A lot of these are experiments without explanation but a lot of people find them interesting, so I will list them here until I get around to documenting them fully. Use them at your own risk and I hope you find them useful."

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Fake version of Google hides Trojan horse

Bot-herders have set up an exact copy of the download page for Googles Toolbar plug-in in an attempt to lure users to download a Trojan back door. Some versions of the scam even spoof the correct Google Toolbar Web address for Internet Explorer, using Googles own redirection service to hikack

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A Secret the Media Kept

"Toward the end of 1979, hundreds of American and Canadian journalists and news organizations got hold of a dynamite news story that would have made personal reputations and careers and sent circulation or broadcast ratings soaring. Any one of these reporters could have had the scoop of a lifetime."

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Patrick Norton's Digital Digs

A look at Pat's house from the golden age of TSS.

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Sweden aims for oil-free economy within 14 years without New Nuclear Power

The country aims to replace all fossil fuels with renewables before climate change damages economies and growing oil scarcity leads to price rises.

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NASA satellite image of Java tsunami strike

NASA satellite image shows the region �s bathymetry and depicts the earthquake's epicenter.

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Secret human cloning project revealed by maverick scientist

A maverick fertility expert has revealed hard evidence of a controversial attempt to produce the world's first cloned human baby.

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How to Stop saying "Um" and "Ah" during a speech

One of my largest pet peeves as an audience member is a speaker who does not have his or her 'ums' or 'ahs' under control. I learned how to stop the 'ums' during my first year of teaching, and the technique that I was shown was quite simple...

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Apple Silences Sceptics with Sales Avalanche; 50% from Windows users

Another interesting figure to come out of the conference call was that 50% of customers polled at Apple's retail stores described themselves as 'new to the Mac,' indicating a surge in interest from people more accustomed to using computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

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WhatsOnMyBookshelf.com Lauches

As an online co-op, WhatsOnMyBookshelf allows users to trade books online using a simple point system. The exchage of a book accompanies the exchange of credits. Each book, when registered, recieves a point value based upon the new book price. Then you redeem credits to order that book.

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Skype intros new Wi-Fi phones

Internet phone provider Skype is expanding its Wi-Fi calling options with the launch of three new wireless phones that will have the Skype Internet calling software embedded in them.

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New Samsung Monitor Pumps Up The Color

While it might not include a gimmicky feature like a swiveling neck, it does feature 97% color reproduction � said to be the best of any monitor in the industry, whose average is 87%. It also impresses with its 2-ms response time, cutting down on those annoying blurs you get on some LCD screens, and a 2,000:1 contrast ratio.

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PDFCreator - A free tool to create PDF files from windows apps

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

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October Debut for Microsoft 'iPod Killer'

Microsoft's so-called "iPod killer" could be unveiled as early as late next month, with the company preparing to build momentum towards an October launch, sources close to the situation have told BetaNews.

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Microsoft to make defragmenting automatic in Vista?

"Now, according to Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista comes complete with an automatic defragmentation scheduler. The default is for the user's hard drives to be defragmented at 4:00 AM every Sunday, when presumably most people won't be doing other work on their computer."

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Cool and Illegal Wireless Hotspot Hacks

It's been 3 months since the last article / tutorial by wireless guru, Dan Hoffman of 'Live Hacking Video' fame, and boy was it worth the wait. As always, he takes you step-by-step through some awesome wireless hacks and then shows you how to protect yourself from them. This will make you think twice before firing up your laptop in Starbucks!

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How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve

As a professional web designer I've noticed a consistent trend in the majority of the projects I've worked on: The more time that is spent dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a design by the wrong kinds of people the worse that design gets. The same trend applies to the number of people involved in the design process.

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Working Smarter with Photoshop's Adjustment Layers

If you're not using this Photoshop tool, you're probably costing yourself a lot of time.

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Confused about high definition TV? Read this!

If you're thinking of jumping on the high definition bandwagon, do yourself a favour and read this guide/breakdown. It will tell you everything you need to know and more...

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Crime of the future - biometric spoofing

Watch where you leave your fingerprints - soon they could be the target of thieves looking to break into your bank account.

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IMDb updates. Adds thumbnail pictures of actors to listings

Check out the cast lists...

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Herti spy-plane now available for civilians

The US military routinely remotely controlled planes - robot planes (or UAVs - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) over Iraq and Afghanistan. Now BAE, the manufacturer of Herti (High Endurance Rapid Technology Insertion) wants to target the commercial market. Herti can fly for up 25 hours at a stretch, and has a range of more than 1,000 kilometers.

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Clean Windows XP install without losing data

Fred Langa shows you how to completely rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation without losing data, and without having to reinstall user software, reformat, or otherwise destructively alter the setup.

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Steve Wozniak, Leo Laporte and Kevin Spacey Team up for a movie

This film explores the origin of the true Hacker versus today's computer criminals by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo. The movie is in post-production and also has archival footage of Kevin Rose.

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Kristen Bell; Star Wars fan girl!

Kristen Bell, who will pay a Star Wars fangirl in the upcoming Fanboys, told SCI FI Wire that she got to change her look from the sunny blond high-school detective familiar to fans of her TV series, Veronica Mars.

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Final Sublime Album Expanded For 10th Birthday

"The double-disc set features what the label describes as Nowell's intended but unused sequence for the original album, which now begins with an unreleased cover of Bob Marley's "Trenchtown Rock."

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50 Albums That Changed Music

All about those rare albums that have a lasting impact on the history of music.

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Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page performs on TV at age 14 with his band

Jimmy Page and friends perform two songs on a BBC documentary when Jimmy is just 14 years old. The young aspiring biologist also timidly claims he will cure cancer by studying "germs" if it is not cured already once he gets out of school. This video does little to predict the guitar legend he would become shortly after this appearance.

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Locally made baby foods becoming big business

Baby food has gone fresh organic -- and it's becoming big business. Ctrl-alt-chicken-puree

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An interesting map of Myths and Fairies

Don't knock it until you've seen it...

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The Israeli Defense Forces - Official Website

This page is chock full of updates on the current conflict. Pretty one sided obviously, but an interesting site nonetheless.

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Every Jeopardy Question Ever!

Here is an archive of every jeapordy question ever... sorted by season.

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Presidential Power on Steroids

It is one of the founding principles of American government that no one branch should be beyond scrutiny or reproach. Yet having abdicated its own role as a check on executive excess, Congress is now entertaining the possibility of helping the president eliminate the judicial check as well.

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Much needed new antibiotic in fight against 'superbugs'

Tygacil; (tigecycline), the world �s first glycylcycline expanded broad-spectrum antibiotic, launched today

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Jellyfish slow down Nuclear Plant in Japan

"A mass of jellyfish forced a Japanese nuclear power plant to slow part of its output this week after the slimy creatures blocked up the plant's seawater cooling system."

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Breast Cancer Treatment Breakthrough

Dr. Maitland DeLand, a radiation oncologist in Lafayette, LA, has found that following radiotherapy for breast cancer, exposing women to low energy non- thermal light-emitting diode photomodulation can significantly reduce painful, treatment interrupting skin reactions.

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Scientists Decode How Plants Avoid Sunburn

Too much sun � for plants as well as people � can be harmful to long-term health. But to avoid the botanical equivalent of �lobster tans,� plants have developed an intricate internal defense mechanism called photoprotection, which acts like sunscreen to ward off the sun's harmful rays.

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US government greenlights electronic medical records

The US government hopes that by 2014, all US residents will have their medical records in electronic form.

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20 Pro Web Design Tips

The difference between a good web designer and a great one is the ability to know how to take short cuts and save time without compromising the quality of work. Pixelsurgeon �s Jason Arber has put together 20 top tips and tricks you should be using to give your work that all-important professional edge

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Apple posts $472M profit on revenues of $4.37B

These results compare to revenue of $3.52 billion and a net profit of $320 million, or $.37 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Apple shipped 1,327,000 Macintosh computers and 8,111,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 12 percent growth in Macs and 32 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

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Apple posts $472M profit on revenues of $4.37B

These results compare to revenue of $3.52 billion and a net profit of $320 million, or $.37 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Apple shipped 1,327,000 Macintosh computers and 8,111,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 12 percent growth in Macs and 32 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

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Nice Crypto Tutorial

Covers encryption protocols, weaknesses, applications, and other crypto security-related information. (pdf warning)

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CinemaNow launches first secure DVD download and burn service

CinemaNow, Inc., an Internet provider of premium on demand videos, launched July 19tth, a beta service that offers DVD content for secure download and burn through its Web site.

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Google Phonebook

While not new, this feature is not well-known and can be useful.

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�MySpace for Jobs� Receives $18M

Interestingly, Jobster doesn �t make its money from consumer-facing services. Instead, it builds Friendster-style social networks for nearly 400 corporate customers, who pay between $1,000 and $9,000 per month for the service. Customers include Boeing, Microsoft, Expedia, Google and Starbucks.

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YouTube's new policy says "we own your content"

" �by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website�"

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Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg's HomePage Content

When folks think of Digg, they're often misled into believing that the content seen on the homepage is representative of what a wide base of Internet users think is news-worthy and important. The numbers tell a different story - that of all stories that make it to the front page of Digg, more than 20% come from a select group of 20 users.

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Don't upgrade now - quad core will be here soon

Thinking of going core2duo or AMD 64 X2? Forget it... "It now appears to make little sense to spend money on a Core 2 Duo, unless you're planning on using the chip as a stop gap."

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Tiny USB HDTV Tuner, that works in the US.

Plug the Artec T14A USB TV Tuner into your laptop, install the software and you're watching HDTV. All of a sudden you've bypassed buying an HDTV, setting up an HD cable box or anything else. Lots of stories like this appear on digg, but this is the first I've seen of a real ATSC tuner!

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Big tests for fuel cells coming in 2007

In 2007, the U.S. military will conduct field tests of hybrid power systems, which combine lithium ion batteries and methanol fuel cells, Peng Lim, CEO of MTI Micro Fuel Cells, said during an interview here Tuesday. The hybrid power systems will be squeezed into portable radar and other devices.

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Get ready for 8 gig Nanos

NAND flash, it is the magic inside of the iPod nano. Thanks to NAND flash memory Apple is able to make those tiny little devices, and now Samsung has announced that they are mass manufacturing 8 gig NAND flash chips. What's that mean to you? Well, it most likely means that sometime within 6 months there will be an 8 gig iPod nano.

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The Math behind M.C Escher's Art

In 1956, Maurits Cornelis Escher completed a drawing called �Print Gallery�. Almost 50 years later, a group of mathematicians at Leiden University, led by Prof. Hendrik Lenstra succeeded in unraveling the mathematical structure of the image.

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SlimTimer makes task timing easy

SlimTimer is a new web based time tracking service that launched this morning. It �s simple, elegant and could prove quite useful. Unlike other services focused on time sheets, SlimTimer works more like a sophisticated stop watch on the web. I�ve been looking for something just like this for awhile now.

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Best Free Online Tools for Day Traders

Wanna quit the rat races and become a day trader? Here's a list of useful, free online resources to get you started.

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Turkey Signals It's Prepared to Invade Iraq

Turkey has signaled again that it will invade Iraq if Bush doesn't do something about the Turkish Kurd terrorist groups who are attacking Turkish troops, or if the Iraqi Kurds ask for autonomy.

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How Power Grids Work

Electrical power is a little bit like the air you breathe: You don't really think about it until it is missing. Power is just "there," meeting your every need, constantly. It is only during a power failure, when you walk into a dark room and instinctively hit the useless light switch, that you realize how important power is in your daily life.

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Motorola's RAZR 2.0 gets a name: K1

Motorola's update to their ubiquitous RAZR phone is getting ever closer. Formerly codenamed "Canary," the slim phone will be known as the Motorola K1 RAZR. A touch longer yet more svelte than its big brother, it has a built-in 2-megapixel camera and a Micro SD card slot for cranking up capacity built-in memory. Release date is still a mystery.

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Kick the Windows habit

There are some refuges from Windows' frustrating flood of spyware, worms and security problems. You could buy a Mac, use a free version of Linux such as Ubuntu, or you could purchase a Linux product such as Xandros desktop 4.0.

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Disney to Support Blu-ray Format

Walt Disney is adding steam to Sony's Blu-ray Disc push with its plan to release nine films in that format. Beginning Sept. 19, Buena Vista Home Entertainment will start releasing select titles, including Walt Disney Pictures' "Dinosaur" and "Eight Below," on Blu-ray.

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Another Take: Calacanis offers to "buy out" digg users

Call it a dupe if you will, but this provides a more accurate look at what Calacanis wants to do, i.e. "Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month"

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Nuance claims breakthrough on speech recognition

Watch what you say about your computer: It's getting better at understanding your voice. Nuance Communications says the latest version of its speech-recognition software can achieve -- with some speakers -- 99 percent accuracy out of the box, without a "training" session to familiarize the software with how a particular person talks.

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Reinstall and Restore Win XP Activation

If you have to reinstall Win XP on the same equipment, you know what a pain it is to reactivate XP. This simple guide tells how to backup and restore two small files so you can avoid reactivation.

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Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.

1. Million Dollar Homepage, 2. SantaMail, 3. Doggles, and so on.

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HP Develops New Passive RFID

HP Labs has developed a prototypical passive tag that's long on memory and short on range, for which it has identified suitable business and consumer apps.

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Wicked Electric Car: Zero to 60 in 4 Seconds (In First Gear)

In a new approach to making the electric car a mass-market product, a California company will unveil on Wednesday a model that is very specialized, very expensive and very, very fast. It goes from zero to 60 miles an hour in four seconds, �wicked fast". Because it is an electric, the driver does not have to shift into second gear until 65 MPH.

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Guide to Those Useless Windows XP Services

here is a look at the default set of services that come with a fresh installation of Windows XP. "We'll tell you the ones that you don't need and try to tell you why, so you can disable them without any problems."

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The Big Lebowski - F***ing Short Version

The Big Lebowski edited down to just about two minutes with only the F-bomb thrown in.

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Iran's Hizbollah says ready to attack US, Israel

Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.

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With Google Earth, defense analysts spot North Korea missile sites

"Colin, an intern here, was poking around North Korea on Google Earth and discovered that defense analysts -- active duty and retired -- are identifying missile installations and sub bases flagged by civilians. From a retired Army satellite analyst..."

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Interview Tips From An Experienced Recruiter

Although your technical abilities are most important, interviewers don �t only consider your qualifications and on job experience. See the "In the Interview" section near the bottom for some tips to help you stay sharp.

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United States to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah

"The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources."

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Is America's $8 Billion Bottled Water Industry A Fraud?

"In a trendy nightclub in New York City, the bartender tells guests they can only be served bottled water, which costs $5 for each tiny half-pint container. One outraged clubber is stopped by the restroom attendant as she tries to refill the bottle from the tap. "You can't do that," says the attendant. "New York's tap water isn't safe."

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Behold the power of Apple's Xgrid!

At first glance Apple's Xgrid may not appear all that useful, but some creative minds at Standford University are using Xgrid to reach processing speeds of up to 200Ghz. Join up and let's see what Xgrid can really do.

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TiVo confirms current Series3 beta testing, hitting retail "soon!"

TiVo has communicated to both the FCC and cable operators to prep them on S3's unique ability to house two CableCARDs for dual tuning. Letter specifically states the Series3 will hit retail "soon." No mention of price. ;)

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How to Make Firefox for Mac More Mac-like

Who doesn �t love Firefox? I�ll tell you who, Mac users. While Firefox has always been great on Windows and Linux, it seems that the Mac version of the browser has always lagged behind in terms of performance and visual appeal. Luckily thanks to some third-party developers, Firefox can easily be tweaked to fit in with the operating system.

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Kick the Windows habit

There are some refuges from Windows' frustrating flood of spyware, worms and security problems. You could buy a Mac, use a free version of Linux such as Ubuntu, or you could purchase a Linux product such as Xandros desktop 4.0.

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QVC Employee stabs himself on live TV with a sword

I wonder how many more sold before the timer ran out on that item.

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World's Largest Nuclear Explosion

The Tsar Bomb was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed or detonated. At 50 megatons, it had the power of all the explosives detonated in WWII combined...multiplied by ten!

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Video: President Bush creeps out German Chancellor with unwelcome massage

President Bush creeps out German Chancellor Angela Merkel at G8 meeting by sneaking up on her from behind and attempting to give her a surprise shoulder rub. Link goes to a German site with video and pictures.

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U.S. gov't billing citizens for evacuation from Beirut

One of Andrew Sullivan's readers, an American in Beirut, reported to Sullivan that the U.S. government's offer to evacuate Americans to protect them from the Israeli blitz comes with a price tag...

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Vanity Fair: The Story Behind "Loose Change"

With $6,000 and a laptop computer, three kids from upstate New York made a documentary about 9/11 that spread across the Internet and threw millions for a loop.

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Arab world fed up with Hizbullah

Israeli Arab author looks at a growing Arab unity against Hezbollah. The response has been so disappointing for Hizbullah that its leaders now talk about an Arab "conspiracy" to liquidate the Shi'ite organization.

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White House backed bill would move AT&T/NSA suit to secret court.

"A lawsuit in San Francisco federal court accusing AT&T of illegally collaborating with the Bush administration's electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens would be transferred to a secret court accessible only to the government under new legislation backed by the White House. "

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Tired of seeing the same old Che shirts

Does the sight of trust fund kids clad in "cool Che" t-shirts make your blood boil?

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Military experts see US Iraq exit in 2016!

The conservative Washington Times is reporting that U.S. war commanders think some level of American forces will be needed in Iraq until 2016 and those forces will receive continued support from the vast majority of Iraqis.

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Hizbullah rejects ceasefire terms, vows to keep bombing Israeli population

Member of group �s central committee says �Israeli demand to see Lebanese army deploy along border matter for Lebanese to settle themselves�; �We will never leave, even if Lebanon is reduced to scorched earth.�

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Stephen Colbert: It�s a World War III or IV

The Colbert Report has the latest from the usual FOX analysts and their take on the new crisis in the Middle East.

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High-Tech Toys

Many toys from the Hasbros and Mattels of the world have gone high-end and high-tech, from music playing e-pets to kid friendly versions of grownup DVD players, digital cameras, and pagers. For a glimpse of these and other items you'll see on toy retail shelves well in advance of the crucial year-end shopping season, read on...

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Trees could grow in Antarctica within century: scientist

With carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere set to double in the next 100 years, the icy continent could revert to how it looked about 40 million years ago, said Professor Robert Dunbar of Stanford University.

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"A complete list of things caused by global warming"

A list of links to articles talking about various strange consequences of global warming.

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U.S. judge overturns $307 mln award to Rambus

A U.S. judge on Monday granted a motion by South Korean memory chip maker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. to overturn an earlier jury order for it to pay $307 million in damages to Rambus Inc. for patent infringement

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Apple to announce iTunes movie RENTALS at WWDC

That's right folks. MOVIE RENTALS. - Because the movies will be rented and not sold, people familiar with the situation report downloads will be coded with a date stamp that will restrict playback.

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2nd Gen Nano Due in AUG WWDC possibly with multiple colors choices

Apple will roll-out the second generation of its iPod nano music player at its Worldwide Developer's Conference, insiders tell Think Secret. The new nano is said to be very similar to the current offering but will feature increased capacity and be available in multiple colors, some of which will feature a metal alloy enclosure.

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Nike+iPod Transmitter Cracked Open (with photos)

After a review of the unit, someone has cracked open the transmitter (inside the shoe) of the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, and posted the images online.

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Window Vista Build 5472.5 is Released

Microsoft has just released the latest installment of the Windows Vista pre-RC1 builds, with Vista Build 5472.5 making its way to TAP and Tech Beta tester today, and for once, MSDN Subscribers too. Build 5472.5 is a standard FRE Staged build, only available in English at the moment, though Arabic, Japanese, and German builds may follow.

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Apple wants more iPod ready cars

Bob Borchers, who is the senior director of iPod worldwide product marketing, told CNET that Apple is interested in making the use of iPods in cars much easier.

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Digg Swarm and Digg Stack to launch on Monday, July 24, 2006

Scott Beale took photos of earlier versions of these products (swarm, stack) from the Digg launch party last month. As far as I know the shots are the first clean images on the web. There is also news around the addition of Sports as a new Digg category.

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Apple wants more iPod ready cars

Bob Borchers, who is the senior director of iPod worldwide product marketing, told CNET that Apple is interested in making the use of iPods in cars much easier.

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Convert your Boot Camp install to Parallels

"A very persistent and very brave ex-Boot Camp user posted his (rather complex) process on the Parallels forums about how he managed to convert his Boot Camp install of Windows XP over to his Parallels install, thereby enabling himself to get rid of his Boot Camp partition in favor of the virtualization software du jour."

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dealspl.us - "Combines Ben's Bargains and Digg"

Dealspl.us was co-founded by Ben Chui, founder and president of BensBargains.net, which is one of the most popular bargain shopping destinations on the internet. Members not only submit the deals, but they decide what the best deals are to make the front page headlines. An AJAX interface allows users to rate deals and comments in real-time.

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Top 10: Vehicles with the Highest Fuel Efficiency

1. Honda Insight - 66 mpg hwy - 60 mpg city

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Google Talk headsets at the Google Store, new version coming?

Could this be the first signal of a Skype-like call-out feature to regular phones or just a new tool for those users who don't have a microphone and can't use Google Talk? The wireless one seems pretty cool, but is very expensive.

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Watch first 24 min. of "A Scanner Darkly"

Title says it all.

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Satellite view of famous houses

Cool site that has views of famous houses from above. Including Beverly Hillbillies Mansion, The Playboy Mansion, The Brady Bunch House, Beverly Hills 90210 Home, Six Feet Under House, Happy Days House. Well the list goes on and on.

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Watch first 24 min. of "A Scanner Darkly"

Title says it all.

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Last.fm has finished it's BETA phase, new site live now!

Last.fm has finished it's BETA phase and is now live with a brand new design. A bunch of new tools and features have also been added, and a new Player is on its way too!

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Dave Chappelle: The Sketch that Sent Him Packing

The sketch that reportedly drove Dave Chappelle out of the biz and into Africa when he saw a white crew member laughing at his blackface performance.

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Samuel L. Jackson to Voice God in Audio Bible

Movie superstar SAMUEL L JACKSON will voice God in a new audio version of the Bible. The taped recording of the New Testament will feature many famous other black actors and musicians

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500 Beatles tapes are found

The newly found tapes recorded them performing more than 200 cover versions of work by the artists who had influenced them: Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly.

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'Pirates' loots box office, grosses $258M

"Pirates of the Caribbean" is looking more like "Treasure Island." Already a record-shattering blockbuster, Johnny Depp's sequel "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" dug up $62.2 million in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $258.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Mechnical elephant awes Belgium

It was something the people of Antwerp, Belgium just had to watch. It was a giant, magestic, mechanical elephant making its way through the streets of their town.

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The worlds most advanced helicopter flight sim

bf2 chopper whores should save up and buy this sim

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Original Footage of the Hindenburg Disaster

With the famous commentary - Oh the humanity!

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From the creator of Hellboy, a new TV show

Hilarious and very original pilot with a quirky steampunk feel that will be picked up by Sci-Fi if enough people vote for it. Features excitable zombies, vampires, turnips filled with demigods, and taxidermied dog secret agents among other things. Full episode. Please vote for it, I want to see more.

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Conan O'Brian interview with Stephen Colbert

Stephen talks about his high school, being a geek, and �Strangers with Candy� among other things.

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Official: Jack The Ripper Identified

Scotland Yard has taken possession of a policeman�s memoirs which names the serial killer

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Zogby Poll: Iran Is a Country Divided

Iran is a country divided, according to a new Zogby International poll of Iranians out today. Nearly a third of those polled want Iran to become more secular and liberal, whereas just over a third want the country to more religious and conservative. Unsurprisingly, many divisions are generational.

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About-Face: Sunnis in Iraq now want U.S. to stay and help them

"As sectarian violence soars, many Sunni Arab political and religious leaders once staunchly opposed to the American presence here are now saying they need American troops to protect them from the rampages of Shiite militias and Shiite-run government forces." "It could influence White House plans for a reduction of the 134,000 troops..."

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Arizona proposes making election ballots 1 MILLION DOLLAR lottery tickets

There is a proposal in Arizona to award 1 million dollars in every general election to one lucky voter in an effort to lure voters to the ballots. "If the general election in 2004 is a guide, when more than 2 million people voted, the 1-in-2-million odds of winning the election lottery would be far better than the Powerball jackpot."

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Lucrative College Degrees

Some majors are raking in big increases in starting salaries. But the initial offers on others haven't kept pace with inflation.

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Indonesia quake triggers 6-foot tsunami

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake sent a six-foot-high tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's Java island Monday, damaging hotels and sending boats smashing into houses, a witness told a local radio station."All the houses are destroyed along the beach," she said. Reports of Fatalities coming in...

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Bush says Syria needs to stop "this shit" at G8 lunch.

Bush, without realizing that a microphone was on talked about Syria needing to stop doing "this shit". The transcript of the report is not yet online (as it is 5:20am), but should be within 30 mins. Side note: Bush chews very loudly.

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Israel sends ground forces into Lebanon!!!

JERUSALEM - Israeli ground troops have entered southern Lebanon to attack Hezbollah bases on the border, a government spokesman said Monday. Israel's six-day-old offensive against Hezbollah following the capture of two Israeli soldiers earlier had been an aerial campaign.

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White House paying $100,000 salary to "Director of Lessons Learned"

"I would also ask the President why we're paying for two 'Ethics Advisors' and a 'Director of Fact Checking. They must be the only people in Washington who get more vacation time than the President. Maybe the White House could consolidate these positions into a Director of Irony." Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel brings the smackdown.

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Haunting image of our galaxy's core

Taken by the Very Large Array in New Mexico, this radio image centres on the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way (2.3MB JPEG). See comments for more information.

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18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

You'll remeber these tricks that you can do with your body when the time is needed.

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Towards Frictionless Nanomachines

Two independent groups of researchers have taken important steps in overcoming friction in nanosized mechanical devices. Friction is a big problem in nanosized devices because their surfaces quickly wear out and seize up. Traditional lubricants are useless in such machines because they become thick and sticky when confined in such tiny spaces.

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A new look at the state of the oceans

The current condition of the oceans, their significance as the most important resource for the world's population, and their impact on the climate will be at the centre of discussion during the seminar 'A new look on the ocean' at the Euroscience Open Forum. One of the current projects is PLANKTON*NET, an online database illustrating plankton.

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Caffeine and Endurance

For years athletes have been using caffeine in various doses to improve their performance; with it you can run it faster, but only if done correctly, this article is about who can benefit from caffeine and how it can be properly used.

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Think fast! Rice Undergrad Unlocks Nerve Speed Secret

Study finds protein responsible for quick release of neural signals

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Space Shuttle Discovery Safely Down

The Space Shuttle Discovery has landed safely.

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A Protein Complex That Untangles DNA

Every second, the cells constituting our bodies are replaced through cell division. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found a piece of the puzzle of how genetic information remains intact despite this continuous exchange of cells. Their results are presented in the latest issue of the scientific journal Molecular Cell.

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Frappucinos pack more fat than a Big Mac and Coke COMBINED

Wake up and smell the coffee - that frappuccino you just drank contained more fat than a Big Mac and a medium Coke combined. A survey of national coffee chains Starbucks and Gloria Jean's Coffees, published in this month's Consumer magazine, reveals your coffee break could see you breaking the scales.

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TOP 69 CSS Menus with Tutorials and Downloads

The ultimate CSS Menu resource with screenshots, tutorials and how-tos.

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TOP 30 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Awesome tutorials. Here is hub of the best Ruby on Rails Tutorials.

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US using dangerous new form of energy weapon

Nicknamed the "pain ray"; It fires out millimeter waves, in the 95 GHz range. The invisible beams penetrate just 1/64th of an inch beneath the skin, directly affecting the nerve endings, and a 2-second burst heats the skin to 130 degrees; like having a hot ironed pressed against you.

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U.S. Miltary Plans Shape-Shifting Supersonic Bomber

The unmanned Switchblade would loiter for hours at low speed, then change it's shape and rocket to a target at Mach 2.

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How To Fix an Ipod with the Sad iPod Icon

He fixed an iPod by banging it on his desk.

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Perl is dying

Six years ago Perl was the undisputed king of scripting languages. Python, Ruby and a cadre of others were riding its coattails. We were promised a new version that would right the wrongs of the previous; a complete rewrite based on a new, state-of-the-art VM. Six years later, Perl 6 is still not out. Perl is now fast on its way to irrelevancy.

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Is 'Apple Backlash' a Media Invention?

Apple is getting some bad press thanks to Chinese sweatshop claims, quality control issues, and French DRM legislation. Consumers, some reports say, are responding with an anti-Apple backlash.

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Using Google Earth to play Battleship

Interesting summer laboratory experiment to see how Google Earth could become a platform for real-time mobile gaming, with details on how it is being used to play that old favorite tabletop game, Battleship.

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Core 2 Duo E6700 Overclocking @ 3.5GHz

So far, with minimal tweaking and a stock core voltage, we have been able to be a fairly solid 3.5GHz (10x350) processor speed along with a DDR2-1170MHz memory bus speed with some fancy prototype Corsair RAM. The last shot above if our 1M Super Pi time of 14.453 seconds. Checksum is 9D24384A for those of you that need to validate it.

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Flexgrid - Bendable LED Display (with video)

Flexgrid, a bendable display made of plexi squares, LEDs, and microcontrollers. Embedded into a suit, this interactive display would allow for users to talk to the clothing, having it react in different ways depending on how you talked to it. This would give the clothing a �personality� of its own

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Master Firefox's Hidden Configuration Tools

Through URIs, you can view Firefox's Web page cache, and see other details about the browser.

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FeedBurner buys BlogBeat, expanding blog analysis

FeedBurner.com, which syndicates Web postings for 200,000 publishers, said it has acquired blog analytics company BlogBeat.net for undisclosed terms.

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The Coolest Flickr Toy: Make Your Own Mozaic Picture

Awesome tool. Just upload your picture and take your mosaic picture. Just try it

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New Yahoo Home Page Goes Live Today

Yahoo �s new home page, which is currently viewable at yahoo.com/preview, will go live at yahoo.com in the U.S. on Monday. The new home page has a significantly different layout than the current look, as well as some AJAX integration, DHTML and more personalization features. Millions of people may have their first interaction with AJAX today.

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Trick : Cheapest broadband, DSL and Cable internet.

Articles tells us about a cool way to get the cheapest broadband access. At around $10 a month .. year after year.

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Minutes Of Work Needed To Buy Gallon Of Gas [Graph]

This is 1950 - 2006 graph of how many minutes were/are required, for an average worker, to purchase one gallon of gas. The June 2006 average, according to this graph is 11 minutes per gallon (MPG). Note: the sources and methodology for this graph are currently unknown.

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High oil prices force Israel to look at extracting oil from rocks.

By using a bitumen catalyst instead of heat and hydrogen an Israeli company can reduce extraction costs to $17 a barrel. They have also developed a process to burn the leftover shale at power plants. Jordan and Royal Shell have both expressed interest. The World estimate is 2.6 trillion barrels of recoverable oil, with 1.2 trillion in the US.

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Bush behind Israeli attacks, plays up "Persian threat" Amongst Arabs

"Israel, with U.S. support, intends to resist calls for a cease-fire and continue a longer-term strategy of punishing Hezbollah, which is likely to include several weeks of precision bombing in Lebanon, according to senior Israeli and U.S. officials." So all that talk at G8 was a load of bull, huh? More pig, anyone?

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Bush Hijacks The Constitution

George Orwell once wrote: "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." This New York Times OpEd boldly speaks the Truth behind the Bush administration seizure of the Constitutional values Americans hold dear.

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Iran's Stake in the Mideast Crisis

An interesting article about how Iran may use the current crisis between Israel and Hizballah to its advantage without getting directly involved. "Tehran isn't eager to get actively involved in the current conflict. But it is more than willing to exploit it to advance its popularity in the Islamic world."

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The Road to War, We could all be in deep, deep trouble.

"The nightmare scenario is war in Gaza, widespread war against the Israelis in Lebanon and between factions. Syria and Iran being dragged into the conflict, and a steady escalation from there to who knows where, widespread conflict, oil prices through the ceiling, bombs going off all over the place." said the diplomat.

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Newt Gingrich Says It's World War III

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says America is in World War III and President Bush should say so.

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Raise Your Right Hand: Chip Implants for Everyone?

The tiny chips, about the size of a rice grain, can carry the sort of information that would be vital to ER docs trying to save your life after a car crash or in any situation where you couldn �t talk and time is essential. They can be implanted inconspicuously under your right arm, as will be done with 280 patients in a test of the technology.

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Sweet forgetting: a pill to ease painful memories

Researchers develop pill that alters painful memories

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TigerDirect's employees explain how it sucks

Credit card numbers not hidden from employees, anyone can enter in the workplace without access card... Some comments on this web site : www.tigerdirectsucks.org are disconcerting about the online store. What's really interesting is the fact that some real tigerdirect's ex-employees have made comments.

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Hacking Techniques in Wireless Networks

A HUGE directory on how to hack wireless networks.

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HOWTO: Make a Movie That Looks Like The Scanner Darkly

This tutorial shows you how to make any QuickTime video look like the Scanner Darkly.

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Free 10 Week Online AJAX Course by Sun Microsystems

A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and toolkits....

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275 Excellent Free Website Templates

Site also includes 60 free logo templates, 63 free banner templates, 84 free newsletter templates, website arrows, abstract images, and much more. Fantastic resource.

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Top 10 Mac Applications For Students

If a student could only have ten application installed for academic work, these are what they should have.

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Blair: ID card scheme will go ahead

The Prime Minster has insisted that the Government's ID cards programme is going ahead - and at the same pace as before. Computer Weekly magazine disclosed that the delay will mean the scheme is highly unlikely to be running by 2008 as planned.

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Myspace.com hijack is currently spreading like wildfire

Somebody has managed to hack Myspace with a flash redirect that exploits what is apparently a gaping wide hole in their code. If you are signed into Myspace, and you go to a compromised page, you will be redirected to a blog post containing a diatribe about how the U.S. government is behind 9/11 & your page will now be hijacked! Solution at link.

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MacBook Pro and OS X Online

A gorgeous flash creation made to look like the MacBook Pro and OS X. I wonder if it is Intel based?

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