Mars Closer To Earth Tonight Than Until 2016
December 18th, 2007
Mars will be at its closest point to earth tonight, and will not be this close again until 2016. Forecasts for viewing mars in the sky for much of the midwest and eastern North America tonight indicate clear skies. Check it out tonight … look to the east!
I will certainly be going out to take a look. Tonight and other nights until it gets smaller!
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The Top 100 Tech Innovations of All Time!
December 4th, 2007
Here are the most exciting, amazing, and incredible PC advances of all time. From the venerable TRS-80 to the first programmable graphics cards, this is every single major tech advance for the last 20+ years!
I can agree with most of them on this list. However I do have some favourites:
Skype – Use this for the podcast.
Firefox – Open source browser that has become the best replacement for IE.
Core 2 Duo – The main CPU that still has a great amount of life in it. Outperforms most other consumer grade CPU’s.
Ubuntu – Made desktop linux viable for the average user.
Cable Modem – Moved everyone out of the dark ages of 56Kbps dial up.
Doom – Influential first person shooter game. Set the standards for more to come.
Windows XP – The OS that won’t die. I still use it and I don’t see myself moving to Vista.
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Why Not Use a Base-10 System for Time?
November 5th, 2007
“Metric Time (MT) is an attempt to create a decimalized time system for our modern base-10 using world. This is a neglected part of the Metric System (or SI) which has created a whole measuring system based on 10 for mass, distance, volume, etc., but no official decimalized time units for normal day-to-day use.”
Personally I think this is definately needed. It’s quite funny… I was talking to Mike last night about this after the daylight savings change and he had suggested the idea of Metric Time. Definately a good read.
Although we could adopt a stardate type format 
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Unusual Weapons Of The World
October 28th, 2007
Very creative and unusual weapons, the mostly guns and rifles. This is maybe some kind of gadget but those are very pimped weapons. Maybe and that could be the name dot those story, ” Pimped Weapons “.
I’d say the award goes to:
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“Second Earth” found–20 lightyears away!
October 17th, 2007
Scientists have discovered a warm and rocky “second Earth” circling a star, a find they believe dramatically boosts the prospects that we are not alone.
Off to the Moon -> Mars -> “Second Earth.” This is a truly amazing discovery, if the plan is to get to Mars by 2030 I am pretty sure we can do this by 2100 or sooner. We aren’t going to be going there at light speed seeing as it’s totally impossible. It would definately have to be done with a generational ship. Not an easy task… might as well practice with getting to the Moon and Mars first
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What Does Earth And Juipter Look Like When Viewed From Mars?
June 27th, 2007
What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? At 13:00 GMT on 8 May 2003, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had an opportunity to find out. In addition, a fortuitous alignment of Earth and Jupiter—the first planetary conjunction viewed from another planet—permitted the MOC to acquire an image of both of these bodies.
Now this is why you take a trip to Mars… whenever you can in the future.
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How Killing People With My Dad Improved Our Relationship
June 16th, 2007
We have all seen, heard, and read no end of press that focuses on the negative aspects of video games. Personally I’m a little tired of it, especially when my own experience has been exactly the opposite. If anything, killing people online with my dad has improved our relationship.
Definately a worthwhile read, it just goes to show it’s never too late to learn how to game 
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This community blog throws Fark and Digg together, insuring that that 95 percent of all frat boys with laptops will be members. The two cantankerous communities can’t possibly co-exist in peace, however, so this will be a fight to the death!
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The First Quicktime VR…. From Another Planet!
March 17th, 2007
A quicktime VR (360 degree picture viewer) from Mars – absolutely stunning!
Couchville – Simple TV Listings
March 5th, 2007
This is a handy little site that helps you find cable or over-the-air channel information.
Simple to use and easier than other websites.
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Guy digs multistory carpark in his basement
March 1st, 2007
Irate at missing out on a parking space house owner in Finchly London, builds a 3 story 30 car park in his basement. Neighbors get suspicious at the disappearing cars going in through the single garage.
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Declutter your desk – Mount all the extras underneath! (PICS)
February 17th, 2007
A friend of mine, Van, was tired of having so much crap in his home office. So he decided to mount all the extras (route, external drives, modem, etc.) underneath his desk. Now he just has his laptop, monitors and keyboard/mouse on his desk. The link provides lots of great pictures and simple instructions.
I need this…
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Bill Gates: Vista is so secure it could run life support systems.
February 1st, 2007
” While on a trip in Europe, Bill Gates claimed Vista is so secure and reliable that it could even run life support systems in hospitals. Would you let your life in Vista’s hands? ”
“This would really give a new meaning to the ‘Blue Screen of Death’”
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Software Wars
January 14th, 2007
A graphic map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software against the Empire of Microsoft!
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From snow covered mountains to wide sand deserts – our planet offers us manifold impressions of colors and forms on its surface. Using computer rendering techniques we can visualize these from any perspective without being impaired by clouds and dust.
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HALO THEME LIVE “In-studio” (video)
December 20th, 2006
From the original high school students who played the Halo theme for Libertyville High School comes the “in-studio” CorpoMix version of the performance in all its glory. Featuring Corporeal members Dave Verlee (guitar), Hanah Stuart (violin), Dave Bedell (drum kit), and Robb Leu (bass), they’re back and better than ever.
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Imagining the Tenth Dimension
December 17th, 2006
This animation illustrates the concepts presented in chapter one of the book “Imagining the Tenth Dimension” by Rob Bryanton.
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Amazing photograph of Saturday’s lunch launch of the space shuttle Discovery
December 12th, 2006
Are You a Programmer? Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test
December 10th, 2006
A variation on the Myers-Briggs MBTI test, designed for programmers. Self-scoring, with lots of detail on each of the 16 types. Takes 10 minutes or less to take.
E=4 Extraversion
I=7 Introversion
S=17 Sensing
N=3 iNtuition
T=17 Thinking
F=2 Feeling
J=17 Judging
P=2 Perceiving
You are an ISTJ
ISTJ – Business executives, administrators and managers, accountants, police, detectives, judges, lawyers, medical doctors, dentists, computer programmers, systems analysts, computer specialists, auditors, electricians, math teachers, mechanical engineers, steelworkers, technicians, militia members. Similar to the ESTJ, they have a knack for detail and memorization, but work more behind the scenes instead of up front as a leader.
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Latest Firefox build passes Acid2!
December 9th, 2006
The Firefox Acid2 bug (bugzilla #289480) has officially been marked as FIXED and VERIFIED, and merged into the official development build (to be part of Firefox 3). Hurray! Thanks goes especially to David Baron for his hard work on the reflow branch.
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US plans permanent base on Moon
December 5th, 2006
Will serve as science center and possible “stepping stone” for a Mars mission. Funds will come from scrapped shuttle missins, as well as other countries & even some businesses. Could the richest of us be vacationing at the moon in 15+ years?
Best Buy: “Sir we need to see your receipt” You: “Um, no you don’t”
November 29th, 2006
A humorous analysis of the ridiculousness in being asked to show your receipt upon exiting stores like Best Buy and Costco, a must-read…
Something to keep in mind…
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Student tasered at UCLA library for not having his ID 11-14-06 11:30pm
November 16th, 2006
Don’t you hate it when you forget to bring your ID to Library… and the CSO or UCPD end up zapping you like five times with a stun gun? What is happening in todays universities now a days?
UCLA library is a 24/7 library only for UCLA students…
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I want a Firefox Extension to …
November 2nd, 2006
200+ extremely useful Firefox extensions that save time and effort.
Nice to have them all in some place.
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Very funny picture
October 25th, 2006
I don’t even know how to describe this, just too funny.
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Colliding galaxies make love, not war
October 19th, 2006
A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.
Comcast Gives Up on G4TV. They Killed G4! Sweet!
October 16th, 2006
TV Week today is reporting that the cable giant Comcast Entertainment Group has decided to fold the G4 brand. “I do agree with the vision of going after young men more than just going after gaming,” E! and Style chief Ted Harbert told the trade pub.
Finally!
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Microsoft Now Decides to Accept Outside Security for Vista
October 15th, 2006
Microsoft did an about-face yesterday, agreeing to make it easier for customers of its forthcoming Vista operating system to use outside security vendors, such as those who make popular antivirus and anti-spyware programs.
Until now, Microsoft had planned to block those companies from installing their products in the deepest levels of the new OS.
This needs to be done as some products do a better job than Microsoft itself.
Make your own font
October 11th, 2006
To fontify your handwriting, you’ll need: A printer , a thin felt tip pen (.5mm Bic), a scanner (that can scan an 8 1/2 x 11 black and white document at least 72dpi), nine bucks (via PayPal or credit card).
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First Teleportation Between Light and Matter
October 4th, 2006
At long last researchers have teleported the information stored in a beam of light into a cloud of atoms, which is about as close to getting beamed up by Scotty as we’re likely to come in the foreseeable future.