Handy freeware programs to put on a USB stick

A list of free programs that do not require an installation and can be used directly from your USB stick or any other removable drive

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Medical Marijuana - Politics Trumps Science

The federal government "loves to ignore our report," said Dr. Benson, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. "They would rather it never happened." Some scientists and legislators said the agency's statement about marijuana demonstrated that politics had trumped science.

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Microsoft Live Drive may launch before GDrive

Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. Could be accessible from anywhere, on any device.

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10 Part Video Tutorial on How to Make Your Own 3D Game

Microsoft's Coding4Fun website has a 10 part video tutorial on how to recreate RocketCommander (http://www.rocketcommander.com) from start to finish. The tutorials cover topics such as game design, managed DirectX, and high level shader language.

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Semiconductors slow light

Researchers have shown that light passing through a sandwich of wafer-thin films of semiconductors can be slowed to less than 1/40th of its speed in empty space. And the researchers think that ultimately their semiconductor sandwiches could bring light to a complete standstill.

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Architects using old Boeing 727s and 737s fuselages in new building

New York�s urban architect recyclers, LOT-EK, have recently designed a library in Guadalajara made entirely of refurbished airplane fuselages.

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Google Cheat Sheets (Version 1.04)

This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas.

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Apple to Release 8GB and 10GB Versions of the Popular iPod Nano this Summer

For all the iPod fans, summertime will see the release of two higher storage capacity Nanos. The rumored touch screen iPod is still in the works. Pictures of the new versions are available -- although it appears that there have been few if any cosmetic changes.

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Super-Glue: Best practice for foiling keystroke loggers

Lessons learned from the Sumitomo Bank Heist in London

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Amazing blacklight tattoos

Blacklight reactive ink is a great way to have a tattoo that no one can see but under the blacklight or to add a little something special to trip out your friends.

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"Amazing", "digg", "revealed": Top 422 digg.com attention grabbing words

The complete list of words that (when used in a story title) get more than 500 diggs per story on average.

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The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind

In 1963, a study about prisons was funded by the U.S. Navy to try to better understand problems in the Marine Corps.' prisons. The study was run by a group of researchers at Stanford, led by psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo. The idea was to create a controlled environment in the Stanford halls to simulate a prison.

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Digg Defender - A Plugin for Wordpress

Digg-Defender uses the WP-Cache system hook to redirect requests from high-traffic sites like Digg and Slashdot to a free global cache system.

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Scientists discover new antibiotic 100 times stronger than penicillin

Scientists have discovered a bacteria-fighting compound 100 times more effective than penicillin - in wallaby milk.

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A great way to preload images on your site with CSS

This is a great way to pre-load images with a very simple bit of CSS. Not a commonly known trick.

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