Old Navy SALE!!!

If you hate doing your laundry as much as I do, this is your lucky day. Now you can save up to 75% at Old Navy's Fall Sale. Get polo shirts for $7.99, Tee's for $4.99, Dress shirts for $5 bucks! Yay!

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32-foot Glass Cube to Lead to Underground 25,000-square-foot Apple Store

Construction workers last week began to assemble a giant glass cube, which will be set like a jumbo gemstone atop Apple Computer's upcoming flagship retail store in the underground concourse of the General Motors building in Midtown Manhattan.

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Color Perception Is Not In The Eye Of The Beholder: It's In The Brain

First-ever images of living human retinas have yielded a surprise about how we perceive our world. Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that the number of color-sensitive cones in the human retina differs dramatically among people - by up to 40 times - yet people appear to perceive colors the same way.

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Subscribe to lectures from major universities. (free academic podcasts)

A long list of podcasts and descriptions of lectures that are available to the public. A great way to stay productive during a boring commute.

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Patterns of Visual Math

"An Introduction to the fascinating patterns of Visual Math"

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Pot not a major cancer risk

Although both marijuana and tobacco smoke are packed with cancer-causing chemicals, other qualities of marijuana seem to keep it from promoting lung cancer, according to a new report.

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Logitech Z-5450 Digital 5.1 Speaker System: Look Back�No Wires!

If you've been wanting a surround-sound speaker system, but all those wires draping across the room have held you back, Logitech has your answer--wireless rear speakers!

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Frog secretions block HIV infections

A new weapon in the battle against HIV may come from an unusual source - tropical frogs. Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered that compounds secreted by frog skin are potent blockers of HIV infection.

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Give your iPod a blue tooth

Bluetrip (good name) is available for pre order.

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TUAW Reader Video of Front Row running on a Mac mini

Our reader, Zeno, sent in this video of him getting Front Row running on his Mac mini. I love how totally stoked he sounds in the video. Check it out!

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Laser-etched Powerbooks and iPods

Self-explanatory. Cool concept and powerbook photo, original site is currently down. Linked to boingboing.

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Hack-A-Day How-To: Automatically download and convert TV for your iPod

Using Videora and BitTorrent plus Broadcatching, you can set up your computer to have all your favorite TV shows loaded and ready to go on your iPod Video when you wake up in the morning.

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Watch Quicktime movies in ASCII through MacOSX Terminal

For those of you that remember BBSes, this will really bring you back! This converts movies in to ASCII on the fly, pretty awesome!

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Alarm clocks are bad. How to wake up and feel better.

Nature didn't intend for you to jump out of bed at the sound of a buzzer. This article gives a simple and free (as in beer) system to waking up more naturally that will have you feeling better.

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Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs

The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork. An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb...

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Processor Equivalence Estimates

This is a great chart which shows which Mac , Pentium, Pentium M, and AMD chips are equivalent. This was great when I bought a new laptop.

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Physics Flash Animations

"We have been increasingly using Flash animations for illustrating Physics content. This page provides access to those animations which may be of general interest. The animations will appear in a separate window."

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Blockbuster Hack: One Month Free Code

Anyone can use the promotion code "bbstore" to get a free month trial of Blockbuster Online. It's a promotion code for employees, but they don't check to see if you are actually an employee or not. As a current employee, I have tried it, and it works. I have also had several friends, who are not employees, try it, and it works for them too.

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Apple allows product trade-ins

Apple released this site for any recent orders of iMacs, iPods, PowerBooks, or PowerMacs. You can trade in you recently purchased product for the new version of it.

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View Apple's "Pulled" Eminem iPod + iTunes Ad HERE!

Just hours after being on Apple's website--the new "dynamic silhouette" iPod Ad featuring Eminem was pulled. Why? No one knows. View it here, just clicked Banned Ad icon.

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Rip DVDs for the new iPod Video!

Apple has restricted the video content that can be shown on the new video iPod to 320x240 resolution. This sucks if you have DVDs that are not in that format. Here is a simple guide for Mac users wanting to transfer their DVDs to their new iPods. Is there a podtorrent.com yet?

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Watch NOVA programs online for free !

This is great. The Einstein piece on E=mc^2 isn't online yet, but for now you can watch "Elegant Universe", "Cracking the Code of Life", "Life's Greatest Miracle", "MARS - Dead or Alive?", among many others. . .

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Recharge Standard Alkaline Batteries!!!

I know I know...Afrotech has been submitted before, but this is specific. Check it out. I'm gonna try this as soon as I get my soldering station back.

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Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple

Put down the remote and get schooled on Quantum Physics by Hans Bethe, who was the head of the theoretical physics division on the Manhattan Project. 3 lectures, 45-50 minutes each. Respect.

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Procrastination Hack: �(10+2)*5�

A great system for tricking your mind into actually working. Great for all the bored cubicle workers out there.

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PSP control for ur PC

Have you ever been sitting on the pot and wished that you could be checking up on your downloads or maybe even to see if your friend wrote you back. Well wait no more, now you can use your PSP to access your computer completly wirelessly.

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Calculus? No Problem!

Are you stuck in the middle of calculus homework?

Are you deeply worried about your graded homework for your calculus class?

Here's an easy to way to check answer & solve calculus problems. (Both Differentiation and Integration!)

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