Teacher Fired For Defending P2P

Ridiculous!

Jorge Cortell, a teacher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain, has lost his job after giving a conference over the legal aspects of P2P. The Dean at the university was "pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association" to make sure that Jorge never taught at the university again.

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Banksy: Graffiti Master

Keeping it real!

Banksy is one of the world's best graffiti masters. His stencil work is f*king amazing! Seriously.

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Visible Human Browser

Try this, Color Cryosection, High Scan, Sagittal, then Fetch Image:

View the insides of a dissected human female body (it sounds sick, but its science), but its is really interesting move through the different slices. (Note: if you have a weak stomach, you may want to avoid this site.)

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Yahoo Music Unlimited Hacked Already?

What were you saying about the iTunes Music Store?

Nobody seems to be very forthcoming about how exactly this is done. Chapin Information Services, has discovered an exploit in the Yahoo website that allows an individual to download DRM-free tracks from the service without ever having paid for them.

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Apple Employees Taking Bets on Rise in Prices of Yahoo Music

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has cast doubt on Yahoo's new $60-per-year music subscription service, proclaiming that Apple employees have started a betting pool to see when the internet search giant will raise its monthly rates. Yahoo's $60 price-point is "substantially" below Yahoo's cost to run the service, Jobs said during his...

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11 Steps To A Better Brain

Note to self, remember to read this article:

According to NewScientist.com, it doesn't matter how dumb I am , I can still improve my brain. Here are 11 steps to a healthier, sexier, brain. And it looks a lot less painful than that "brain roller" I saw on a infomercial last night.

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Build a Skype Phone

Can someone get that?

Here is a mod showing you how to turn a cheap cordless phone into a handset you can use with skype or any VOIP.

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Diggdash Widget for Mac OS Tiger Dashboard

Get your daily fix from DiGG:

Keep up with digg.com news feeds with this RSS style widget. Updates every 15 minutes. Top 5 stories on digg.com. Clickable link for each story.

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Fantastic Resource for Open Source Flash Projects

This one's for my BRO:

Most flash developers rely heavily on forums and community portals such as this one to enhance their development work. You can get some excellent links for applications which you can use whily deploying flash on open source.


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iPod Dock Pin-Out

I hope someone finds this useful:

Dreamed of making your own battery that the iPod can run directly from? Now you have the pin-outs to make that dream happen!

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Home Made PSP Docking Station

Become the official "cool kid" on your block:

Need a helpful docking station for your PSP?, look no further, here is a link that will give you a detailed HOW-TO on a tight budget.

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Apple's WWDC 2005 Approaching

It seems like everyday there's something new at Apple =O)

Traditional Apple News sources have been silent. New iBooks expected, a possible tablet laptop, and also many Mac Rumor sites have participated in Apple's developers Confrence Advertising Program where they recieve Apple products in return for not breaking stories prematurely.

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LEDs to Manipulate Mood, Health, Productivity

Lava lamps of the future:

In theory, solid-state devices (such as LEDs) with "perfect materials and designs" will dramatically reduce (11 percent by some estimates) overall electricity consumption. But it's the ability to control basic light properties (spectral content, emission pattern, polarization, color temperature, and intensity) that has the scientists...

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Infrared Viewer

Bring your own image intensifier tube:

DIY night vision scope.

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Download QuickTime Movies on Your Hard Disk

Exercise your right to "fair use" with this useful H4ck3r'5 Guide to Quicktime:

Excellent tutorial on how to download QuickTime movies on your hard disk. Allows you to save bandwidth by not downloading the movie each time you want to view it. Beware of the fact that you would need to expand hard disk space to continue downloading movies.

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Sony Develops a 25 GB Blu Ray Paper DVD

In a related story, Johnson & Johnson develops a new HD Band-Aid:

Sony has developed a 25 GB "Paper DVD," with 50 GB regular DVD's based on Sony's Blu Ray technology. That is just really cool and it can be destroyed with scisors! Bye bye shredders.

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Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kiosks Running on G5 Systems

Can Microsoft do anything right? You have to see this:

It seems that the Xbox 360 is not even plugged in and the demos we see here are running on a pair of G5's.

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Hotmail Plugin for Apple's Mail Application

If you're like me, you got suckered into getting a hotmail account. Back in those days, Microsoft was still, kinda cool and for them to give away something for free, it's nothing short of a miracle. Then, I made the transition. I went from a regedit kinda guy - to an aqua interface OMG, I love my MAC! Then, I found out I couldn't configure my Mail app to work with hotmail. Damn you! I knew they had done it on purpose, why it's only obvious, it was free for a reason. They had me get cozy and settle in, my eBay account, Amazon, and PayPal, all of my important emails were going there. Ahh! I panicked, what am I going to do? It turns out we're not alone.

Thanks to Daniel Parnell, the genius behind Automagic Software, there is hope. He created the HTTPMail Plugin to support the HTTPMail protocol within Mail. It includes support for both hotmail and MSN. It is also, opensource (gotta love that) and it has recently been optimized to work with TIGER!

I don't know about you but I'm ready to forward all of my messages at once (something you cannot do at all in hotmail) to my new Gmail account and never have to see their horrible hotmail page again! I have invites to give, just post a comment with your request and current email.

save me!

Make Your Own Hovercraft

This story has the makings for a great episode of America's Funniest Home Videos:

Have you ever wanted your very own hovercraft? Here are step-by-step instructions for creating a DIY Ultra-Simple Hovercraft. It uses parts you probably already have laying around the house.

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$14 DIY Steadycam

Now all you need is the camera:

Build your own steadycam. Includes impressive demo movies!

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Making Your Own Power Over Ethernet Cable

Wi-Not?

Power over Ethernet allows you to run only a single ethernet cable to your access point, and run the power over the unused pairs of wires within the RJ-45 cable. This tutorial shows you how make your own POE cable.

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iChat on TV

Apple, please make iTivo:

Are you already using iChat? If yes, here are some additional tips on how you can configure it on your TV and chat with other friends watching TV at the same time. Real cool.

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Transmit Audio With a Laser Pen!

Hmmm. Ahh, my eyes!

Using a simple laser pen pointer, a few misc parts, and about 15 minutes, you can make a simple laser communicator that converts a sound source into light that travels across a room, and back into sound with very little quality loss.

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ShuffleHacks

Got an iPod Shuffe and way too much time on your hands? This blog has a collection of neat things you can do to your iPod Shuffle, like the clear shuffle mod. And after seeing the hand crank power iPod Shuffle charger, I want to see a hamster wheel powered iPod Shuffle charger. Why not?

Dedicated to hacking, modding, and pimping the hoo-ha out of the iPod shuffle.



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DIY Electric Truck

Finally! An electric vehicle that won't embarrass you:

Tim Nolan takes an old gas powered truck, rips the guts out and runs it from a few batteries and an electric motor.
Last updated 2004 but worth a look all the same.

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C.I.A World Fact book

Alright, so you're not Bond, James Bond. So what? Take that first step towards becoming a little more Bondish:

An amazing and thorough world fact book published by the C.I.A. Find info on any country in the world.

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Free Audio Books

Shhh! This is the good part:

Free audiobooks provided by the County of Los Angeles Public Library. Just go to the bottom of the page and click net library. Then you will have access to free audio books and ebooks.

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Pentagon Strike Video

Found on Digg.com, beware of conspiracies, it never hurts to be skeptical even when it comes to believing another skeptic:

Video that asks some questions about the Pentagon Strike. Conspiracy theories?

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Threadless Tees $10 till June 6th (An Open Source Tshirt Company)

Threadless.com is having a $10.00 on all shirts sale till June 6th. Threadless is a site where designers can go and submit designs, get voted on and get their tshirt printed. Best independent tshirt company around!

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Bittorrent search is a GO, GO; site is up!

The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued? The BT search seems to be down right now. (It'll really be down after this story is posted...) Spiegel has more (En): "Naturally other sites such as Bitoogle, Isohunt, SuprNova or Torrentspy... (slashdot)

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TIGER + BLOGS + WIDGETS = F*KiNG COOL! =O)

This is my first attempt at using the new DashBlog widget. If all goes well and you find yourself reading this, it works and it is awesome! Dashboard works perfectly and as of today, there are #245 WiDgeTS available for download, like WOAH!

They cover just about anything, from tracking packages to your favorite TV shows to an FTP widget and a Magic 8 Ball widgy!

Here are some of my fav's:
WEATHER - STICKIES - PICKER - PACKAGE TRACKER - RSS BEAN - TV TRACKER - DAISY TRACKER and now DASHBLOG!

Here are some others I just came across:
Fetch - 8Ball - Snap Shots - Sunlit Earth - Widget Garden - Slashdash (slashdot) and of course a DIGG Widget that you can find on the entry below.

How f*king awesome! How else would I know that sudoriferous means: Sweaty or sweat producing? or that "Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience." - Blaise Pascal. or that the joke "You know you're a redneck when ... You take your dog for a walk and you both use the same tree." was voted the funniest for 05-26-2005 if it wasn't for MonkeyLabs Daisy Tracker widget! I LOVE MY MAC!


what you talkin' bout Willis?

Digg Widget Redesigned

Check out this widget, as found on Digg.com and be sure to click the see widget on this story to view complexfellow blog:

"The widget has been redesigned by a true designer and looks much nicer now. Credit for the redesign goes to http://www.futurawebdesign.com"


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Graffiti Analysis

Graffiti artists are captured on video and then the images are processed on a computer. Then, the animations are projected onto buildings for viewers to encounter as they would graffiti art. The beauty of graffiti without the destruction of our architecture!

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CIA Overseeing 3-Day War Game on Internet

The CIA is conducting a war game this week to simulate an unprecedented, Sept. 11-like electronic assault against the United States. The three-day exercise, known as "Silent Horizon," is meant to test the ability of government and industry to respond to escalating Internet disruptions over many months, according to participants.

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Unlocking the GeForce 6800

Firingsquad is running a story on how to unlock all 16 pipelines in nVidia's GeForce 6800. By default the card only ships with 12 pixel pipelines enabled, but with a tool and a few mouse clicks, the card can be unlocked to run with all 16 pipes. Performance improvements are seen everywhere, so it's a pretty nice free upgrade. These cards are...

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Top Ten Code-Names for Window's LongHorn

10. Windows Kra P
9. Revenge of the Soft
8. Windows OS .exe
7. Kill Bill
6. Window's of Mass Destruction (WMD)
5. I'm Ritch Biatch!
4. LameHorn
3. I Can't Believe It's Not Better
2. Doom 4
1. Bull$#!T