Dear Senator, I wanna be illegal!

This is freakin' hilarious! A Maryland resident petitions his senator and asks how he can become an illegal alien. read his letter.

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Liquid explosives sit on bathroom shelves

"Chemicals sitting in anyone's bathroom at home could be used to make a bomb that would badly damage a passenger jet, and experts have been warning about this danger for years."

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FlickrStorm best way to search Flickr

FlickrStorm is a third-party Flickr search tool that aims to give you new ways to search and collect photographs from Flickr

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Skype Outruns MySpace

"Skype's flown past MySpace. But both cases are even more confirmation that "free" rules cyber space."

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ShowMeWhere: Google maps for everyone!

Easily Create and Share Google Maps. Show Me Where is a point-and-click interface to creating customized Google Maps. Want to place a marker on a map? Just click there. No more geocoding is necessary in order to add points to your maps. Instead, just navigate there using the Google Maps interface you are accustomed to.

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Video: "Popular Mechanics" editor debunks 9/11 myths

The editor of Popular Mechanics, in his new book, debunks the myths of 9/11 that 36% of the american people now believe.

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Why Do They Hate Us?

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, US officials declared that the attacks had been motivated by the terrorists � hatred for America�s �freedom and values.� The sad thing is that today, there are still Americans who fall for it.

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Newest Army Recruiting Tool: A Military Themepark

Hey kids! �You can command the latest M-1 tank, feel the rush of a paratrooper freefall, fly a Cobra Gunship or defend your B-17 as a waist gunner.� Maybe, they'll even pipe in that smell of napalm in the morning.. smells like ... victory.

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US Drug Czar Wants Random Drug Testing in Schools

America's drug tsar raised the stakes on drug testing in schools yesterday, suggesting that it could come to be seen as normal required and "responsible behaviour" in the same way that some US schools routinely test all pupils for tuberculosis. Wow.

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Poll shows 30% of Americans unsure of 9/11 year.

SOME 30 per cent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.

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Some of the most amazing Sept 11th pictures you might ever see

A photographer, who had worked for an alternative New York picture agency, had been carrying three cameras with him, when he left his home in Manhattan that sparkling Tuesday morning, and started walking south towards the plumes of smoke. He took some pretty amazing (and disturbing) pictures.

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8 Changes I Experienced After Giving Up TV

"In June I decided to do a 30-day trial of no TV watching. DVDs were OK, but no regular programming or cable shows or tape anything with my DVR. At the end of the 30-day trial, I was pleased with the results, so I kept going. Now that it's been over 60 days, I thought I'd share my observations on life without TV."

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German TV proof that Qana photos were staged

Conclusive proof that the photographs from Qana were cynically staged, as Green Helmet directs cameramen in a video from German TV (with English subtitles).

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Bill Gates Donates $500 000 000 to AIDS Research

The Bill (and Melinda) Gates Foundation donates half a billion dollars ($100 000 000/year over the next five years) in an unexpected act of grand generosity. I can't even comprehend half a billion dollars.

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ABC: Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink, Triggered by Flash

The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera.

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TIME: How the plane bombing plot was thwarted

"Britain's MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been tracking the plot for several months, but only in the past two weeks had the plotters' planning begun to crystallize, senior U.S. officials tell TIME. During the past few months the plotters' attack plans had changed."

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Where to find the world's hottest startups?

The "Web 2.0" catchall phrase used to describe websites that thrive on what their users make of them is no longer limited to the States.

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Not the Worst President Ever, But a Definite Contender

Although George W. Bush is probably not the worst president in U.S. history (Woodrow Wilson may have that dubious honour), the president may be in contention for that title in the post-Second World War era.

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Digg viewer in OPML

An OPML-powered widget to show others what you and your friends and friends-of-friends (going to as many levels as you like) have been digging. Just type your name in and you can start digging (no pun intended) through digg.

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A Head Start on the Future of High-Def

it seems as if we �ve been hearing about high-definition video since the Eisenhower administration. The Federal Communications Commission�s mandatory cutoff of old-fashioned analog TV broadcasts, now scheduled for 2009, has been delayed, what, 500 times?

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Google announces homepage revisions.

From their blog: " In this iteration, you'll see that Google Video is now featured on the homepage. And we've grouped into a More>> dropdown some other services like Books, Groups, and Froogle. "

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The Top 100 Tech Products

A break down of the current top 100 tech products.

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Lucky Bastards; European Apple Stores use Sexier iPod ads; US too tame?

Here's an actual Apple iPod ad found in a Czech Apple Store

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Apple steps up open source commitment releasing open OS X Intel kernel

As of today, we are posting buildable kernel sources for Intel-based Macs alongside the usual PowerPC (and other Intel) sources, starting with Mac OS X 10.4.7. We regret the delay in readying the new kernel for release, and thank you for your patience," the message read in part

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The Visual Dictionary

The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we're trying to catalogue it.

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KToon LiveCD!: Start your own animation studio with Linux

If you want to try KToon quickly and without dealing with library dependencies, then you should try our LiveCD. You just have to download the iso image, burn it, and then boot your machine from cdrom.

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Windows defense handcuffs good guys

Microsoft's PatchGuard is designed to keep out malicious code. Security firms complain it's keeping them at bay, but not intruders.

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WWDC Secrets Paul Thurrott Hopes You Miss

Daniel Eran does another smart epic covering WWDC & Leopard, deconstructing some of the dumber ideas floating around. A good comparison of Leopard & Tiger, Apple & Microsoft, Spotlight vs WinFS, Time Machine vs. Shadow Copy, and Vista 32/64 vs. Apple's new Quad Universal Binaries... @ RoughlyDrafted Magazine

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CrunchGear Launched! For the Gadget Obsessive

CrunchGear is all about new gadgets, gear and computer hardware. We �ve covered gadgets occasionally in the past (Sonos, Eye-Fi, Sony MyLo and others) and this audience in clearly intrested in the newest stuff to hit the market.

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Imminent Worm Attack: Experts Warn Of 'The Big One'

As the spotlight on a dangerous Windows vulnerability grows brighter by the hour, security analysts Thursday said that it's not hype driving the alarms, but genuine fear that a major worm attack is just days away. This is no drill. Thursday's deepening concern was fueled by several releases of new exploit code.

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Digg CEO: Jay Adelson Talks To Venture Voice

The best I can tell you is Digg as a concept can be applied to other content aside from news. Just wait and see what we are going to apply it to.

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More Features of Leopard Leaked

A slew of unannounced features in Apple Computer's upcoming Mac OS X Leopard operating system have begun to turn up around the web...finally starting to make Leopard look exciting.

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DIY camera shoulder rest

Do you use a camcorder, do you have problems with the shakes, then you need one of these. It bolts to the tripod mounting on the camcorder and turns your camcorder into a shoulder mount.

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Digg's $60 million man - NOT!

It ain't so, says Kevin Rose. The founder of Digg.com says he's broke and "can't afford a couch in my new apartment." Short article on Marketwatch (3rd story down)

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446 Million Watching TV on Their Cell Phones By 2011

From the "Take it or leave it" network: IMS Research forecasts that by the end of 2011, nearly half a billion people will be watching TV on their cellular handsets. Driven primarily by the adoption of broadcast-based services such as DVB-H, mobile digital TV will experience 50% year-on-year growth through 2010.

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BitTorrent arrives for books

Would you like a limitless supply of books to read, for free? BookMooch is like BitTorrent for books. Not eBooks, but real physical dead-tree books.

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AOL User 927: Scariest AOL user search record

Gawker Media blog Consumerist pored through the records and found a user obsessed with flowers, slow dancing and rape porn.

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Leopard's top-secret secrets

"So Leopard has secret features, eh? But why would Apple call attention to the fact that there are secret features? What's Steve Jobs up to? Andy Ihnatko thinks he has the answer."

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Ford Mustang Shelby GT unveiled!

Observe the 2007 Ford Mustang Shelby GT, the car that, until now, was only available as the Ford Mustang Shelby GT-H, the black and gold pony exclusively rented out at your local Hertz Rent-a-Car.

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Yowser: The new Yahoo browser

In an interview with Guy Kawasaki, he discusses that if he was the CEO of Yahoo (and he once had the chance), what would he have done differently. Guy discusses the Internet browser Yowser that Yahoo should make as well as other things that Yahoo should do to set themselves apart from Google.

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HOW-TO: Replace your car stereo with a Computer

This is a really cool guide, it's basically telling you how to replace your car stereo with a PC designed specifically for the car. It's got sleep mode, hibernate mode, a touch-screen LCD, Internet access, FM radio, 100GB of MP3 storage (upgradeable), and best of all there's no proprietary components so you could build it all yourself. Nice.

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Superb high resolution wallpapers (up to 2560x1600)

An excellent source for free backgrounds, sorted by user rating. The images are available in all common resolutions, from 2560x1600 down to 1024x768, and are very diversely themed.

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CT Scan of Apple Design Award

The winners of the Apple Design Award for "Best Student Mac OS X Project" took their award to a CT scanner to see how it works. The award lights up whenever you touch it.

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Weighing a Switch to a Mac

Ten years ago, if you were a Windows user, the idea of switching to a Macintosh might not have seemed enticing. An abundance of new Windows software was arriving on store shelves, while the selection available to Mac users seemed to be falling behind, often relegated to a back corner of the same store.

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First look at Leopard (Mac OS X)

Here are some of the first unofficial 'real life' images taken from Leopard, including Time Machine, Mail, iCal, Preview and Spaces.

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Apple thrashes Dell on Mac Pro pricing

"We thought it would be interesting to compare pricing between similarly specced systems from Dell and Apple, and were gobsmacked at the results - this should be very good reading for Apple advocates..."

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IE7 is basically non-compliant with CSS web standards.

IE6 51% IE7 55% Firefox 93% Will this affect Web 2.0?

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Verizon owns 81% of U.S. fiber-to-the-home subs

Verizon Communications owns about 81% of all fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in the United States, according to a report released today from Ovum-RHK.

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Who is more tech-savvy.drug traffickers or federal agents?

In the pitched battle surrounding illegal drugs, each side has its advantages. Law enforcement can take advantage of private sector expertise, expensive machines, and, of course, the law. Those who cultivate, manufacture, and smuggle illegal drugs can leverage vast sums of cash, generated by constant demand.So who's winning? It's a tough call.

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What's Wrong With Showing Your ID?

If a 19 year-old college student can get a fake ID to drink, why couldn't a bad person get one, too? And no matter how sophisticated the security embedded into the ID, wouldn't a well-financed terrorist be able to falsify that, too? The answer to both questions is obviously 'yes'.

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Hacker Sophistication Outpacing Forensics

In the never-ending cat-and-mouse game between hackers and those charged with stopping them, it's pretty clear who's winning--and it's not the cat.

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Viddler to make moments in video searchable

Video Sharing site "Viddler" gives users the ability to add tags and comments tied to particular points in a video. Those tags are then searchable, so if you want to find the particular point of intrerest in a video, its that easy. Users will also be able to link to specific points in a Google Video as well.

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Saitek's Illuminated Keyboard Brightens Your Desktop

Saitek Eclipse II Keyboard Review

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Every Super Bowl XL Commercial

Every Super Bowl XL commercial including the lost, forbidden ones.

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Buzz Aldrin - UFO spotted on Apollo 11, never mentioned for public's sake

Buzz Aldrin describes the flight back to Earth on Apollo 11, and the strange object they saw orbiting near them. They asked mission control where their old missile was, and the object was clearly to close to be the missile. They made no further mention of it so no to scare the public,

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15 States Expand Right to Shoot in Self-Defense

In the last year, 15 states have enacted laws that expand the right of self-defense, allowing crime victims to use deadly force in situations that might formerly have subjected them to prosecution for murder.

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Growing cannabis no worse than growing tomatoes, according to judge

Judge Harris said: �If you are Sherlock Holmes and you go back to Baker Street and inject yourself with cocaine, as he did, you cannot be called a nuisance. So quietly smoking cannabis at home, not that it is to be encouraged, I�m not sure at all it constitutes a nuisance."

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Congress Lacks High-Tech Expertise.

Almost daily when Congress is in session, lawmakers are struggling to comprehend new technology and the government's role in shaping its future. In the biggest spurt of legislative activity since the dot-com boom, advocacy groups and businesses are seeking new laws to shape the fast-evolving digital landscape.

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Congress full of fortunate sons � and other relatives.

Politics has never been more of a family business. In 1986, at least 24 U.S. senators and representatives were closely related to governors or other members of Congress, USA TODAY research shows. Twenty years later, there are more than 50, among them four sets of siblings, four widows and dozens of offspring.

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Why secret salaries are a baaaaaad idea

"It �s a golden rule in most businesses that salaries must be kept secret. Except for a few heretics it is almost universally accepted that mayhem would ensue in the workplace if people knew what their co-workers, their managers or - gasp - the CEO was making."

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Kill the Gatekeepers

Why digg is the media of the future

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Leaked Screen Shots of Torrentspy's New Features

Torrentspy, one of the largest bit torrent sites on the internet, is gearing up to release some new functionality to it's site users. They've really hopped onto the 'wiki' bandwagon with this one, leaving much of the site moderation to it's own users through an interesting rating system. It's some pretty nifty stuff, check it out.

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State of the Blogosphere: 70% of blog-pings are from spammers

echnorati's David Sifry has published his latest installment in his quarterly series, "State of the Blogosphere." This quarter's news: Technorati is tracking 100 times more blogs than it was three years ago, and the blogosphere is doubling every 200 days, and 70 percent of the pings Technorati receives comes from spam-blog

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Engadget "Hands on" with Mac Pro

Engadget has the first "real" pictures of Mac Pro and a hands on preview.

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Specify the caller ID and Setup a scary-as-hell phone call for a friend.

Give this program a time & number to call, specify text, and even what the caller ID should read. Hit enter, dust off hands, go enjoy a cookie and wait for your friend to be terrified as "The Government" calls and tells him he's a suspected terrorist.

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WORKING guitar made out of LEGOS!!

Though it needs to be retuned way to frequently to make it pratical, it does work. All I could ever make was toy spaceships. :(

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Kids nicked for stealing 26 million veterans' data

TWO ADOLESCENTS were arrested by the feds at the weekend after they stole a laptop which had details of 26.5 million veterans and military staff. According to the Wall Street Journal, the feds swooped on Jesus Pinada (19) and Christian Montano (19) in Rockville.

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Yahoo! Search Builder launches

With Yahoo! Search Builder you can create a custom Web search engine by selecting a set of trusted sites to search across or you can tune the search algorithm to the topic of your choice.

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Promotional V8 BBQ that brands the food it cooks

Custom V8 BBQ from Muscle Car BBQ Grills with several significant differences for companies wishing to show some promotional flair: it uses genuine parts to create a very authentic final result (your choice of Chevrolet, Ford, Oldsmobile or Hemi valve covers), it comes with the pistons of your choice as the controls

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Liquid Time Machine Freezes Drops Mid Fall

Nate True has developed yet another impressive hack using UV strobe lights, luminescent-dyed water, and a timer to create the illusion of water stopping in the air, slowing down the splashes into the pool beneath, and even travelling upward. You have to see it to believe it.

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Alltel to offer podcasts on cellphones

Alltel Corp. the No. 5 U.S. cellphone provider, said on Tuesday it will provide a service to download audio clips from the Internet to cellphones in a bid to expand its business beyond voice services.

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Payment Card with Electronic Paper display

The potential for electronic paper applications seems to be boundless and the recent announcement that SiPix and SmartDisplayer have created the first flexible display panel to be embedded into an ISO-compliant payment card highlights the potential.

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Digg Adds Cloud Timestamps

This morning we rolled out a couple dozen bug fixes and cloud view timestamps for all topics.

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VERY cool collection of high speed photographs.

I've never seen so many in one place. Kept me amused for hours.

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Bands find large Web fanbase doesn't equal big money

A pair of 20-year-old kids from Everett, Wash., who make up the band The Scene Aesthetic, are rock stars on the Web, and virtually unknown anywhere else.

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New Tool Targets Intellectual Property Theft

A new suite of tools called CodeSuite compares computer source code to detect such things as plagiarism, copyright infringement, intellectual property theft and patent infringement. It can also generate detailed HTML reports and statistics spreadsheets.

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AMD not eliminating ATI brand, reports false

One of the unforeseen ramifications of the AMD-ATI hookup is the new hyper-rumor-transport bus, a new technology whereby unsubstantiated rumors become fact at an alarming rate. Reports that the ATi brand name was going away are false.

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Diagnoses at the click of a mouse

VisualDx, a computer software system used in 350 hospitals in the USA and 10 other countries, along with the U.S. military and several state and local health departments. The system, made by Logical Images of Rochester, N.Y., provides instant access to nearly 13,000 medical photos that can help doctors diagnose more than 700 diseases.

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The 15 minute Windows XP tune-up

Computing siteTweak3D.net offers a few suggestions that can get that sluggish machine running at max speed in fifteen minutes or less...

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Newegg now has Core 2 Duos

Newegg.com finally is offering Core 2 Duos ...and they apparently have them in stock. Get them while they are hot!

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Swiss Public Toilet

Swiss modern design at its best. Would you dare to pee in this toilet?

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Leopard's new features, a brief tour

So Apple has posted a Sneak Peek section giving us much more information about all the cool stuff announced at WWDC today. What does it tell us, exactly?

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Search AOL's Search Records

I whipped together a quick interface to assist people in searching the giant text that was recently posted. While processing the data, I also got rid of redundancies, and made a fairly fast and effective way to query the results. Check it out.

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New Website for Programmers and Designers to Find Each Other

A new website has launched for programmers, designers, web entrepreneurs and content writers to find each other and work together to create websites and web applications.

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First Pics of Levi's iPod Jeans Released

"Those ridiculous Levi's iPod Jeans have finally shown their denim faces �or asses, I guess. There's a big red cable sticking out of the jeans to connect your iPod to, and loads and loads of pockets to hold all your iPod accessories."

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The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch

Since the dot com bust, major sites haved stopped with major redesigns and are now taking an iterative approach to web design that focuses on watching how people actually use the site.

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70 year old chinese monk stands on 1 finger

Apparently from what the video says, he is the only one in the world who can perform this feat of strength and focus.

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Best card trick in the world!

You be the judge! I thought it was pretty cool

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Legalizing Marijuana - A New Republican Strategy?

The Republican Party has a new voter registration project in Fresno. It involves luring people to sign a LEGALIZE MARIJUANA petition and then re-registering them as Republicans.

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Official: Iran ready to expand nuclear activities.

Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Sunday that Iran will expand, not suspend uranium enrichment activities, in defiance of a U.N. Security Council resolution. Ali Larijani called the U.N. Security Council resolution issued last week "illegal" and said Iran won't respect the deadline. "We reject this resolution," he told reporters.

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US Detention Camps - Built by Halliburton

KBR, a Dick Halliburton subsidiary on Jan. 24 received a $385 million contract from the DHS to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities for an emergency influx of immigrants." I suspect that detaining "immigrants" is not really why these facilities are being built. What could this "influx" really be?

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Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD

Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.

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In Early Polls, the Democrats Take the House

A climate favoring change away from Republican control is already clearly in place. The biggest worry point for Republicans is the intensity factor: How interested are the voters and how likely are they to turn out for the election? In that category, polls show Democrats enjoying a significant advantage.

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Iran threatens to use 'oil weapon' in nuclear standoff.

Iran warned Britain and the US yesterday that the international community could face a new oil crisis if the United Nations security council imposes sanctions on Tehran over its alleged attempt to acquire a nuclear weapons-making capability. Iran is the world's fourth largest oil exporter and is estimated to have the second largest oil reserves.

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BP Shutting Down Large Alaska Oil Field

BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. began shutting down the Prudhoe Bay oil field Sunday after discovering unexpectedly severe corrosion and a small spill from a transit pipeline.

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Another PowerBook violently explodes.

Just when we think these explosive batteries can't get any worse, then you see a PowerBook that looks like it was hit with a high powered explosive charge -- which, in a manner of speaking, it was. This unit was apparently a year old and wasn't even powered at the time. (pics included)

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Awesome Photo-deblurring

Got a blurred picture?, this new algorithm sure will take care of it.

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Sporty New 157 MPG Car- Looks Great at only $13,000

"This German creation claims a fuel economy of 157 mpg with no fancy hybrid drive train, fuel cells, or plug in paraphernalia. Weighing less than a thousand pounds, the sporty rear-wheel drive 4-seater is designed to be maximally aerodynamic." The Loremo AG can handle 0-60 in less than 10 seconds, but with a top speed of 100 MPH.

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Ultimate boot CD

A Linux boot diagnostic CD that has many different anti virus,hard disk,networking,bios,system info, and benchmarking apps

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Google Testing New Layout For Videos - Try It Yourself

See the new Google Video Layout (Still in Testing) for Yourself! If you Find that won't let you digg it, just check out the video xP

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Blackberry a Juicy Hacker Target

"Jesse D'Aguanno, a consultant with Praetorian Global, has developed a hacking program that exploits the trust relationship between a Blackberry and a company �s internal server to hijack a connection to the network." "D'Aguanno said he'll release BBProxy for download in a week or so."

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AJAX Hello World!

This tutorial will teach you how to create a hello world web page using AJAX technologies. Odds are if you found this tutorial, then you have created a "Hello World!" program before.

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Forbes: Haute High-Tech Homes

It is no longer enough to have marble-clad bathrooms, a kitchen full of custom appliances, and foot-wide carved moldings. Now, you need a home theater that puts real cinemas to shame, flat-screen televisions that slide from view at the click of a button, and audio systems containing thousands of songs that can be instantly accessed from any room in

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A Brief Hacker History (With Pictures)

Captions by Associated Press.

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VMWare for OS X Official

It just popped up on the VMWare homepage (link is to signup for the beta). Hope Steve wasn't planning on this being a big suprise :(

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How to add a Google Map to any web page or blog in 30 seconds.

Adding map to your page is so simple now: few clicks, copy and paste.

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DIY - Build a Glider from a Fastfood Container

"I wrote this nifty tutorial on how to make a simple glider out of a common fast food breakfast container".

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PR firm hired by San Francisco to delete Craigslist postings?

According to the author of this Craigslist post (original post has been deleted from Craigslist), his firm was hired by the city of San Francisco to flag and hopefully delete any Craigslist postings that painted the city in a negative light.

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Apple on Vista, Leopard, Retail windows

Apple's Leopard operating system is taking aim at rival offerings from Microsoft. Meanwhile, Mac OS X developers get their hands on Leopard beginning Monday. And the announcements coming out of WWDC will reportedly spur display changes inside Apple retail store windows.

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The Art of Defeating a Paypal Scammer

Among the files actually hosted by the scammer is this image. It is only 3k, but imagine the impact it could have if we all worked together? If you have Flash installed you automatically attempt to download that image once per second. The more users idle on this page, the greater the likelihood the that this scammer's tool will be brought offline.

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Styleboost finally relaunches!

Styleboost is a gallery for showcasing beautiful web sites. It has been around since January 2001 and is created, designed and maintained by Johan Bakken. Nice to see this classic back online!

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Wireless mesh routers and DIY ISPs

Roofnet is an experimental 802.11b/g mesh network in development at MIT CSAIL which provides broadband Internet access to users in Cambridge. There are currently around 20 active nodes on the network, which you can see using our real-time connectivity map.

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Easy to make robot with an old palm III

The complete construction plans and software are documented on these pages. The entire robot can be constructed from standard parts using glue, tape, and a small amount of soldering. The software we provide can be compiled on a Windows PC using the free Code Warrior Lite compiler and downloaded to the Palm.

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AMD to drop ATi brand

AMD has bought ATi and they're going to ditch the ATi brand - so get ready to be buying AMD Radeons...

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Introducing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Apple has just previewed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the next installment of Macintosh systems. New features include Spaces

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Duran Duran to Perform Live in MMORPG

British band Duran Duran are to create a virtual island within online game Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts. Second Life is an online 3D digital world, which is imagined, created and owned by the residents. Are virtual celeb appearances the next big thing online? I want to battle celebs in BF2! :)=)

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WWDC 2006 Keynote Address Video

Apple is hosting the WWDC 2006 Keynote Address. Get it before the herd stomps on it.

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Airlines to replace 'no smoking' with 'no mobile'

""No mobile" signs are to replace the outdated "no smoking" signs above airline seats with the introduction of in-flight mobile phone services in Europe next year. Air France will be the first airline to trial the satellite-based technology early next year, followed by the U.K.'s BMI and Portugal's TAP."

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Apple reduces Cinema Display prices by up to 1/3

30" now $1,999 /// 23" now $999 /// 20" now $699 nuff said...

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How To Crack 128-bit Wireless Networks In 60 Seconds [inc Video]

128 bit WEP encryption secure? Think again! KisMAC + standard dictionary cracks two keys in under 60 seconds. "I'm not even sure if I want to run a wireless network anymore to be honest..."

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New Mac Pro a bargain?

The folks over at dealnews/dealmac configured a Dell Precision Workstation 690 to similar specs of the new Mac Pro. The results are surprising.

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Gallery of stunning digital photography with tutorials

This guy uses a very scientific approach to photography with wonderful results. The site is packed with technical data and tutorials which provide practical "how to" information for any digital photographer, but a visit to the gallery is worthwhile for anyone.

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State of the Blogosphere: 70% of blog-pings are from spammers

echnorati's David Sifry has published his latest installment in his quarterly series, "State of the Blogosphere." This quarter's news: Technorati is tracking 100 times more blogs than it was three years ago, and the blogosphere is doubling every 200 days, and 70 percent of the pings Technorati receives comes from spam-blog

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Fake but accurate: Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?

A seemingly faked picture from reuters showing smoke in Beirut.

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Reutergate: "Picture kill"

Kathleen Carroll, AP's senior vice president and executive editor. Carroll said in addition to personally speaking with photo editors, "I also know from 30 years of experience in this business that you can't get competitive journalists to participate in the kind of (staging) experience that is being described."

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How I learned to break in to Apple and Code for them without Permission.

One man was so determined to finish his project, he broke into Cupertino every day, to code for them without pay or permission. Six months later, he sneaked the app into the final version of Mac OS 9, without Apple ever knowing.

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Six steps to secure sensitive data in MySQL

A common reason for not securing databases is that it is "difficult" and "complicated". While this is certainly true, if you're using MySQL, there are some easy things you can do to significantly reduce the risk you face. This tutorial lists six such items, but you can find many more in the MySQL manual and discussion forums.

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Best Acoustic Guitar Solo I've ever heard

This is amazing.

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� minimun wage increase REJECTED by US Senate - $5.15 for few more years

The GOP strategy put Democrats in an uncomfortable position. Either they could vote against the bill - thus rejecting a minimum wage increase - or they could vote for it - thus agreeing to cut taxes on multimillion-dollar estates. Most rejected the bill, blocking a GOP victory months before the election

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WalMart Gives Up in Germany: 45K Workers To Be Laid off Nexy Year?

WalMart will give up in Germany. Effective December 31, all WalMart shops will be sold to the METRO Group, Germany �s largest group of retail chains. After eight years of hard struggle, WalMart surrenders to the German United Services Union.

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How to budget with three accounts

Financial blogger Ramit Sethi has a great bare-bones way to set up a good personal financial structure. Basically, it boils down to three separate accounts: checking, savings, and investments, with sub-categories within each. Once you have the basic infrastructure processed, you'll be better able to see where your money goes.

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The Invisible Grip

It worked, too. Women held my glance longer; men moved faster. This worked with waitresses. With clerks at hotel desks. It worked with bartenders. Even with cabdrivers, whom I looked at in their rearview mirrors. I began to gain better control over these transactions by searching out their eyes. It took only a few seconds...

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Coke and Pepsi told to spill secrets or face ban

INDIA �S highest court yesterday demanded that Coca-Cola should reveal its secret formula for the first time in 120 years.

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You NEVER see this on American TV. Why?

Journalists who ask questions. Is that too much to ask for?

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Top 10 Best Summer Beers

Delicious, nutritious and refreshing, beer is a 100-percent natural way to unwind after a long, hot day. And no, Duff didn't make the list.

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Troops on the Ground Reveal Iraq's Civil War

This isn't more hot air from a Bush administration demagogue. This is what the US Troops doing the fighting in Iraq today have to say. "I don't think there's any winning here ... I now see only 15 or 20 people out during the day ... it's a Kosovo, ethnic-cleansing type thing ... there's no plan - we are constantly reacting."

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Eye-Opening Business-Financial Charts (Research Resource)

From today's NY Times: The mysterious page (the host's Web registration is anonymous, and the homepage just says "please leave now") may be a shrine to the host's love of graphical representations of data, or (more likely) it's a holding place for the charts to be linked to from other pages. But either way, chart lovers will be in heaven.

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FAQ About Congress

How many members of Congress are there? How long until Election Day? What is a "Constituent"? How much do Representatives and Senators get paid? Congress never seems to do anything. Why is that?

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Networking 101: Understanding Tunneling

The computing world has become dependent on various types of tunneling. All remote access VPN connections use tunnels, and you'll frequently hear the geeks talking about SSH tunnels. You can accomplish amazing things with tunnels, so sit back and relax while you enjoy a gentle introduction to tunneling and its uses.

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An Idiot's Guide to Neural Networks

ugly webpage warning! If you use the 'Search' option on your browser to look for articles on Neural Networks or "Connectionism" (which is another name for the same subject), you will find a great many sites explaining what they are and how they work. Unfortunately, they all seem to be written by mathematicians, all of whom speak Double Dutch.

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RIAA Sues LimeWire

The RIAA has sued the popular P2P program LimeWire in federal court today. "The labels are seeking damages, including $150,000(!) per occurrence of an illegally traded file."

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Black Hat hackers take Vista apart

Microsoft spent a whole day at the Black Hat conference extolling the security enhancements in its upcoming Vista operating system, and hackers showed that the OS can be hacked regardless.

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IE7's superior feed handling

"Firefox is still my web browser of choice, but having just upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 beta 3, it needs to be said: IE7 handles displaying web site feeds a LOT better than Firefox by default."

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Kevin Rose Discusses the Business Week Cover Photo

He also admits to using cheap headphones despite being worth $60 million.

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Who is the king of Wikipedia?

With more than 80,000 articles under his belt, this man is the on-line resource's busiest contributor.

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Newspapers to Use Links to Rivals on Web Sites

The Washington Post, The New York Sun and The Daily Oklahoman, in Oklahoma City, have contracted with an online news aggregator, Inform.com, to scan hundreds of news and blog sites and deliver content related to articles appearing on their Web sites, regardless of who published those articles.

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Craigslist: An Information Age Black Market For Drugs, Sex

"Eric" sells marijuana online through Craigslist. Recently Eric posted an ad on craigslist indicating he was willing to trade marijuana for sexual favors from women. He isn't the only one. The online drug and sex trade has been booming for years, but never has it been this much out in the open.

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How To: Create Your Own Hotspot

Thinking about turning your business into a Wi-Fi location? The cost is low and the return can be great. Here's how.

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Segway Human Transporter HT-V1A passes FCC

No one's quite ready to tell us what it is or what it's for; but the FCC approved a Bluetooth transmitter for Segway. Maybe it's so Segways can communicate with each other and travel in formation.

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42 String Guitar - Unbelievable!!!

The Pikasso - Four necks. Two sound holes. 42 strings. Two access doors; one on the upper player's side and one at the tail block.

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So how do you code an AJAX Web page?

See hands-on examples for creating lighter, faster interactive sites

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Who Says ATMs Can't Be Hacked?

Recently there was discussion on Digg about hacking Diebold voting machines and ATM networks being unhackable. I was one of the people on the "If humans built it, it can be hacked" side of the argument. So here you are: "Cyber-Thieves Steal $700K Via ATM Hacking"

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Wikipedia Lookup Extension

Lookups up the selected word in the Wikipedia encyclopedia in the language specified in your user preferences.

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HUGE list of "circuits for the hobbyist" - Enjoy :)

Hundreds of circuit diagrams are here. Awesome resource for DIYer.

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Watch Streaming TV Online for Free! (HBO, ESPN, ABC, etc.)

This is a completely free, user driven site. According to them it's legal. but you decide...

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Phone numbers stations mystery revealed at DEFCON

For three months, mysterious telephone numbers have been appearing on the Craigslist classified ad site which, when called, play recordings which sound much like shortwave numbers stations used by certain governments to communicate with intelligence agents in the field. Now the secret behind these phone numbers stations has been revealed.

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Intel Core 2 Extreme Overclocked to 5.2Ghz

A guy on the VR-Zone forums overclocked the new Core 2 Extreme to 5.2Ghz. He's got the benchmark scores to show how powerful it is...

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Transform a Face from a Photo into a Different Race, Gender, and More

This on-line java-based tool allows you to upload a photo of someones face and then transformer it into a variety of different things including, baby, young adult, Afro-Caribbean, Caucasian, east-Asian, manga cartoon, masculine, feminine and many more. It works well and can create quite a few laughs.

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Simple Key Mod Makes Most All Current Locks Obsolete

The most fundamental security device in the world has been hacked in a way so simply and quickly, this could be considered the biggest hack in history.

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Illuminate your wallet

Creative blogger Nate True has solved a major problem with just a bit of wiring and some old cell phone LED lights: the dark wallet.

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Gmail Vs Yahoo Mail Vs Hotmail

Let us compare the features of most popular email services on the web

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Google: We won't sell music

The Internet search giant used a keynote slot at the annual NARM conference to quash rumors of a so-called "Gtunes" store--much to the delight of retailers attending the confab. "We are not going to be selling music," said Chris Sacca, head of business development for Google.

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Sprint/Nextel To Raise Speed Limit

Sprint/Nextel will raise its data-speed limit sooner than planned.

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Everything you need to know about repairing Apple permissions

The 'Repair Permissions' function of Disk Utility has been under quite a bit of speculation as of late. There are those in one camp who believe repairing permissions is not much more than voodoo, while others in the support end of the Mac OS X community swear by it as the first line of defense. Macworld gets to the bottom of all this.

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Shipping Containers Recycled as Homes

Architects are designing modern homes from the millions of excess shipping containers that are piling up at the port of LA due to the US trade deficit with China. By using the steel shipping containers as building material, homes can save 50% of construction costs, while reducing the waste and blight caused by trying to store them. (Link to Video)

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