8 diseases that give you superhuman powers

Diseases that give you: Photographic memory, a connection to God, New senses, Unlimited Euphoria, Immunity to Pain...

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14 Hewlett-Packard Company Secrets From A Former Employee

1: Many HP Printers, like their laser printers, have a built-in page-count after which they won't work. This resides in the a transpart sometimes called image or drum kit. Rather than get the printer fixed, it's often cheaper to buy a new printer, OR you can do a NV ram reset.

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Yahoo Pipes and the Web as a Database

Alex Iskold tests out and explores the emergent world of Yahoo! Pipes. He sees some interesting parallels with Relational Databases in the 90's, concluding that with pipes, the Web essentially becomes a giant database that can be queried and remixed in any number of ways.

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Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes

Sure, feed aggregators are a dime a dozen these days, but Yahoo! Pipes can filter and process feeds in lots of fun and useful ways, no programming required. Today we'll make a master feed of all your online activity using Pipes.

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SlySoft releases AnyDVD HD beta - Engadget

It seems that DRM just can't catch a break these days. First the all-important processing key required to unlock and decrypt HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs was discovered, now just days later comes news that the folks at SlySoft have updated their AnyDVD "backup" software utility to allow for "on the fly remastering" of HD DVD discs, although not Blu-ray

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RFID powder, yeah, powder

0.05mm x 0.05mm RFID chips. The new chips are 64 times smaller than the previous record holder, the 0.4mm x 0.4mm mu-chips, and nine times smaller than Hitachi's last year prototype, and yet still make room for a 128-bit ROM that can store a unique 38-digit ID number

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Kid Does Something Amazing, Google Pays Attention: It's the American Dream

Hell of a story - kid has an idea he wants to pitch to Google, but can't get through by phone or e-mail, so he flies to Mountain View, CA without an appointment to sit in their lobby until they hear him out. And after three days, they do! He's got a meeting today at 4:30! I have no idea how this got missed earlier, but here it is again...

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Top 10 Largest Databases in the World

Many of these databases hold several petabytes of data. Included on the list are Google, ChoicePoint, and the CIA, the largest one will surprise you.

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19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website

I ’ve compiled a small list (or rant) of some very basic and fundamental rules that all webmasters must learn and respect when developing a website that needs to make actual money. This list can also be used by companies looking to hire a web development firm or to evaluate an already deployed website project.

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How to Use Converging Lines to Enhance Your Photography

Next time you're about to take a photo here's 4 tips to help you use 'lines' to get a great shot.

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Encrypt your web browsing session (with an SSH SOCKS proxy)

Using a simple SSH command, you can encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you're on someone else's network. Today we'll set up a local proxy server that encrypts your online activity from your Mac, PC or Linux desktop.

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Digg's 100% Club

Everybody knows that Kevin Rose has a perfect 1:1 ratio of Digg submissions to frontpage stories, but what other Diggers belong to this exclusive 100% club? The following Digg users submit popular stories with pinpoint accuracy, and like the best military snipers, they never miss.

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guy gets addicted to opium through poppy pods he orders on e-bay - legally!

The story of a guy who got hooked on opium he purchased legally on e-bay...nearly two years later, poppy pods are still available on e-bay!

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Harvard Names First Woman President

Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first woman president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers and his tumultuous five-year tenure.

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BBC explores 9/11 conspiracy

Finally September 11 conspiracy goes mainstream as BBC tries to answer the 3 trillion dollar question "Is it an inside job?"

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What You Didn't Know About Diamonds

After Reading This All That Bling May Not Look That Special.

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Bush's $592 million palace in Baghdad

The locals call it "George W's palace". The luxurious US embassy being built in Baghdad is the size of 80 football fields, and will house 8000 workers and thousands of military personnel. So less of an "embassy" then, and more of a "permanent base", and at $592 million, I guess the plan has always been to stay.

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8 Things You Must Do If Your Identity Is Stolen

When your identity is stolen you stand to lose everything, here are 8 steps you must take immediately to protect yourself.

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DEA to allow Church of Reality members to smoke Pot?

"Last year the United States Supreme Court made a decision in the case of Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Wegetal. 126 S. Ct. 1211, 1219 (2006). This case established that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act gives people the right to put religious freedom ahead of federal law under certain circumstances."

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Nuke detectors to ring New York City

In a $46 million test project, New York City will be protected by a ring of devices to detect nuclear or dirty bombs before the end of the year, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday. Under the "Securing the Cities" initiative, detectors will be placed along highways, at truck stops, and at other sites on the perimeter of New York.

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Marijuana Kills Cancer... suck it, DEA!

Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous. http://www.digg.com/politics/ Pot_Prisoners_Cost_Americans_1_Billion_a_Year#c5188835

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Viagra sold over counter on Valentine's Day

Men will be able to buy impotence treatment Viagra over the counter in Britain for the first time from Valentine's Day, chemist chain Alliance Boots said on Sunday. Three Manchester Boots pharmacies will sell the prescription-only medication made by U.S. drugs group Pfizer in a pilot program from February 14.

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72 Free Vector Glass Buttons and Bars

This set is a variety pack of free vector glass buttons and bars for your webpage or blog. Since they are in vector format, they can be easily manipulated and scaled to fit your layout without having to worry about pixellation. To customize, you will need a graphics editor, such as Adobe Illustrator.

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ShareTV.org: TV-torrents Made Easy

The goal of shareTV is to make finding the latest, and best seeded TV-episodes as easy as possible, even for people who are new to BitTorrent.

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iPod Background Finally Possible

Over at iPodwizard we have discovered how to add a background to your iPod using the Apple Firmware.

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Comcast admits bandwidth cap 200 GB / month and is a moving target

Comcast also claims people who hit that moving target "could be doing so for purpose like illegally downloading movies music and other copyrighted material."

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How to install Vista in OS X using Parallels - a complete walkthrough

If your parents ask you to install Vista on their Mac, just send them here instead. This tutorial will take you every single step of the way through installing Windows Vista using Parallels for OS X.

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Enable Hidden BootScreen in Windows Vista

The Windows Vista BootScreen is pointless, but Microsoft decided to hide a more visually appealing boot screen that can easily be enabled with very little trouble.

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How to mathematically crack a Masterlock combination pad-lock

This guy shows you have you can break the combination of any Masterlock pad-lock. He uses math to bring down the possible number of combinations from 64,000 to 100.

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How Does The Hacker Economy Work?

It's a murky world of chat rooms, malware factories, and sophisticated phishing schemes. Here's a look inside.

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Skype hack enables higher resolution video calls

For those that do have sufficient bandwidth, a fast enough computer, and a capable webcam, there's an experimental hack for Skype that allows you to increase the resolution from the ancient 320 x 240 standard up to a much more tolerable 640 x 480. The hack only works one way, so users on both ends will have to apply it in order to see each other's

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Intel demonstrates 80-core processor

Now that the Megahertz race has faded into the distance (we hear it was a myth), Intel is well and truly kicking off the start of a multi-core war with the demonstration of an 80-core research processor in San Francisco last week.

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