Friday, June 23, 2006

Macro Photographs of Insects

Nice collection of highly detailed, vivid photographs of a number of cool insects, and a frog.

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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Man Finds Message In A Bottle 11 Years After It Was Written

Steve Lieder opened the bottle and found a note. Lieder was amazed to find it was written eleven years ago by one of his closest friends, who died last year.

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Sunday, June 18, 2006

2500+ Useless Facts

A giant site devoted to compiling thousands of useless, yet interesting, facts.

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iPod shuffle catching fire (how not to fix an ipod)

Story about a guy who tried to fix his iPod shuffle and it ended up with sparks, flames and smoke flying out of it. I'm just surprised how much of the ipod melted. Its made of quite tough plastic. Think he must have got into the battery or something.

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Top Ten Strangest Mac Mods

A lot of hard work was put into these strange and cool Mac modifications.

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

Top Ten Accidental Discoveries

Just read the title

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Top 5 Most Gorgeous 2D Games

With the advancement of technology, it's rare to play a game that doesn't incorporate 3D graphics. While 3D games are great, classic 2D side-scrollers are beautiful in their own way. GameDaily takes a look at what they believe to be the most visually striking 2D games, with less text and more screenshots because that's what you want to see.

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Top Ten Strangest Computer Setups

Some crazy and useful computer setups.

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Robot Walks on Water and Land

We know you're still reeling from the awesomeness that is the robotic panda and other more aquatically-inclined robots we've seen in the past, but the Strider is actually as useful as it is impressive.

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Monday, June 12, 2006

A Ring Tone That Adults Cannot Hear (with MP3)

In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear.

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Meet Japan's latest robot

Video shows latest robot swaggering around a Tokyo department. Dressed as a samurai and named ''Kiyomori,'' this 39 joint robot can walk and sit easily.

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Friday, June 09, 2006

Nintendo Monopoly prototype pictures released

There's going to be a Monopoly board game based on Nintendo characters. The tokens look pretty sweet.

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Super Mario Bros Tricks in Animated GIFS

This site page has "all of the known tricks of the games based on the Super Mario Bros engine. we concentrate here on tricks that are nearly impossibly difficult to play in real play, but are useful in the making of tool-assisted speedruns. For most of the tricks, a frame advance feature in an emulator is a definite must-have."

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Monday, June 05, 2006

Animator vs Animation

It's a struggle between a stick figure and his creator, using items on the Flash toolbar!

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

McDonald's gets a new look

A comfortable armchair. Cool hanging lights. Funky graphics and photos on the walls. Wi-Fi access. Premium coffee. Isn't Starbucks great? Except. . . this is McDonald's.

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Taking photos with a lens made of ice!

Matthew Wheeler took his first picture through an ice lens in response to a challenge by Scientific American and CBC calling on listeners to light a fire with a lens made entirely of ice. Too easy by far - Matthew took it one step farther and started photographing the natural beauty of his surroundings through the ice lenses he made.

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Delorean + Mac Mini = Priceless

Totally customized Delorean suited up with a Mac Mini system. The screen is projected onto the hood! Be sure to go to the ":Why a Delorean" section to see the pics.

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5D Rubik's Cube

Slashdot is reporting that there is now a working 5D Rubik's cube, following up the 4D version . It has already been solved by 3 people, so hurry!

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Fantastic Four fan makes "The Thing" costume out of real rock!

This is a costume my friend made for last years comic convention in Toronto, he won two awards for it. It weighed about 110lbs. It was a big hit there, he was the star of the show when he walked into the convention.

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Saturday, June 03, 2006

Incredible Photo: "Land's End"

This is a striking environmental image of land erosion in New Mexico. "These fields seem to be slowly eroding away into barren wasteland. At 30,000 feet one can more easily see geographic transitions like this and it's one of the reasons I find flying so enjoyable."

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Discovery of the Largest Crystals on Earth

Some amazing photos of the worlds largest crystals. The temperature in the cave is over 150 degrees Fahrenheit with 100% humidity.

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Friday, June 02, 2006

Discovery of the Largest Crystals on Earth

Some amazing photos of the worlds largest crystals. The temperature in the cave is over 150 degrees Fahrenheit with 100% humidity.

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