Audi V8 travels 800 miles on 1 tank of gas!

A great segment where Top Gear attempts to drive 800 miles on a single 19 gallon tank of gas in an Audi A8 with a diesel V8 Twin turbo. This absolutley defies the laws of physics.

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Complete introduction to CSS

This article will take you through the beginning stages of picking up CSS. Covering; where to put your style sheet, creating a class, common CSS attributes, applying CSS to a HTML attribute, redefining a tag, shorthand CSS, pseudo elements and media-dependent style sheets.

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HOWTO: Be more productive

"With all the time you spend watching TV," he tells me, "you could have written a novel by now." Sadly, that's just not the case....

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The Truth Behind Bananas

After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.

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The most artistic puzzle yet.

You've all seen the lame Xbox360 web puzzle. Well, try this extremly fun and artistic flash puzzle!

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Comic books on Itunes

12-Gauge Comics has started putting issues of it's series Body Bags up as a free download on Itunes as a "comicast" with voice actors.

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A better OS X screensaver than Flurry?

A very cool looking screensaver that resembles Flurry and reacts to sounds picked up through your computer's mic.

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Vertical Farming

At humankind's current rate of growth, it is estimated that by the year 2050, the planet will be host to three billion more people than it is today. Yet at present, over 80% of the planet's arable land is already in use, which leaves one to wonder how such a large number of people will be fed.

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Nintendo Zelda Twilight Princess (Revolution/GameCube) Gameplay Footage

Finally, there's some footage of regular gameplay of Nintendo's Zelda Twilight princess. Cowboy up, Zelda.

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How Fiber Optics are Made

Excellent video on how fiber optics are made(via make)

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100 usd laptop pic roundup

You can see $100 laptop's whole story.

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"AFTERGLOW" Is this how we will interact with a Future OS?

(Click on the Movie Link) You've got to see this to believe it! A Japanese guy uses a Laser Pointer to interact with the GUI to manipulate elements, bring up the tool bars, draws directly on the screen. Initially a Presentation Application, which may evolve into something more...

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Jet Pack Video Clips......."The Rocketman" in Action!

.....Makes you want to get your own Jet Pack!

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Bender Prototype ships in Tokyo?

This home robot can do all sorts of tasks, but owners say he is sometimes irritating. He interrupts conversations and ignores demands to be quiet. "One day I found him watching TV, which we never anticipated. Then sometimes he would start dancing..."

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Create dynamic images using PHP

This tutorial shows you how to create a little man holding a sign that displays various messages. (You know, like those you see on a lot of forum signatures.)

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Intel developing next-generation Power Mac for Apple

In a move that may surprise some Apple watchers, reliable sources tell AppleInsider the Mac maker has contracted the design duties for its next-generation Power Mac motherboard over to industry heavyweight Intel Corp.

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HandBrake Lite: DVD to iPod in 2 clicks...

The title says it all, kids...(mac only btw)...

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CSS Menu Generator

"CSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons"

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Top 50 Inventions - Scientific & Technological

In the past half-century, scientific and technological advances have transformed our world. PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. Here, then, are the breakthroughs of our time.

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High Quality Luminous Powders and Paints

Think of the many posibilties.

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Trigonometry explained

Here you can find trigonometry explained in a easy way, with lots of examples and applets so you can "see" what's all about.

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Spherical Perspective - a brief tutorial

Fascinating re-analysis of how perspective can be created. It's amazing really how we can think about so many complex things, and leave the really simple ones behind...

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The ultimate educational notebook iBook mod

Really easy and fun educational style iBook mod, for those of you who use the iBook for school and education. Really easy.

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Micro Dwellings

"Low cost movable housing modules that can form different configurations on land, on water and under water. The Micro Dwellings can expand and grow together with other systems into small communities. They can be built onto rooftops of existing buildings or be suspended from a bridge or a wall."

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Mac OS X 10.4.4 Nearly Ready for Release

The development of Mac OS X 10.4.4 Update appears to be in the final stages at Apple Computer, as tipsters say the latest developer builds of the software are accompanied by only a few outstanding issues. According to sources and reports already present on the Web, Mac OS X 10.4.4 stands to deliver over 120 bug fixes to "Tiger" operating system.

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HBO ready to make deal with Apple for video.

Time Warner's HBO is interested in making a deal with Apple to offer programing for the video iPod, the cable network's chief executive said on Thursday.

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Own Steve Wozniak's home--only $8 Million

Steve Wozniak's home in Los Gatos California has been completely remodeled and is up for sale. Ever wanted a unique home? This could be your chance!

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New Apple PowerBooks 68% Faster using 28% less battery

If New Apple PowerBooks use the Intel Napa Platform that uses the new Yonah chips, that have two processing brains on a single chip. Then the New PowerBooks can be expected to run 30 percent to 68 percent faster on software programs compared with single-core chips.

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Make a Macro Lens from a Pringles Can

So, you like the idea of doing macro photography, but you think you can't afford it? Think again - with less than £1 worth of equipment, and a little bit of sweat and tears, you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens.

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Alogrithms Dictionary Online

This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann's function.

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3-dimensional murals

There is a man by the name of Eric Grohe who paint's Murals so realistic that birds fly into it. He was replicated the greatest stone entry ways using only paint, on flat walls. you have to check out these pictures

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PHOTO: Slide Show of Laptops with "Transparent" Screens.

Pretty cool. I tried this, but it didn't work too well. These guys must have LOTS of time. I mean, getting the contrast, and color just right. Tough.

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Alarm clock wakes you with a noisy hovering chopper

This alarm clock launches a small, noisy helicopter to hover over your bed when it goes off.

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Download Google Earth For Mac OS X!

Ok, so you know there is a beta of Google Earth floating on the net. I'm sure you would love to play with it. Wait no longer my children. A VERY MYSTERIOUS person sent an email to UNEASYsilence's tipline with the download link.

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Steve Jobs Named Best Leader of 2005

No one in techland had a better year-or a broader impact-than Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs. Apple continued to set tech's fashion agenda in 2005 with...

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How to Mod Your PowerBooks Apple Logo.

Step by step guide to changing the colour of your PowerBooks Apple logo.

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BTSeasonPass.com : The best TV Torrent site out there.

BTSeasonPass is a new, simple site that allows users to define custom rules regarding what TV Series are shown in their torrent lists, filtering down the thousands of torrents that appear daily to just their preferred few. Shows are automatically grouped and sorted by Season and Episode number, making finding torrents simple.

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NBC iTUNES TV Ad

Well this was just posted on the Apple website. Its the NBC TV commercial for iTUNES + NBC

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HOW TO: Make Ballistics Gel

Here's a How-to on making your own Ballistics Gel

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Why Apple moved to Intel: IBM decided not to make the G5 for portable

Neat interview explaining how Jobs wanted to switch to Intel a long time ago, among other things.
"I've seen both sides of the Apple story because I sold the G5 to Steve (Jobs) the first time he wanted to move to Intel."

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How to Avoid a Wiretap - Wiretapping Counter Measures

Telephone wiretap and dialed number recoding systems are used by law enforcement and national security agencies to collect investigative intelligence and legal evidence. In this paper, we show that many of these systems are vulnerable to simple, unilateral countermeasures that allow wiretap targets to prevent their call audio from being recorded

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Coloring Black and White Photos

This is horrendously cool. You draw a bit of color on objects, and it colors them for you.

NEAT.

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Google Calendar expected 12/6

As the title says!

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Steve Jobs Anime T-Shirts

Skwat is a Belgian T-Shirt designer who sells a range of Apple-themed "Wear Different" t-shirts featuring Japanese anime-style characters. The shirts depict chibi iPod users giving the thumbs up, and Steve Jobs holding an iMac. There's even Jobs and Steve Wozniak holding an early Mac.

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9/11 Re-Evaluated

A look back at 9/11 and issues with the report. Semi-conspiracy theory

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Will the future reduce everything (including art) to an algorithm?

Automated scripts harvest source images from the Internet and run 24/7 creating artwork from the artist's algorithms. The art is dematerialized into 0's and 1's and once the cron job is set, the artist is no longer needed.

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Bored? Find Out What's Hot on the Net

"There are so many things to read on the internet that we need some sites and tools that read them all then hand pick the most interesting sites so we don’t have to."

Beat Boredom

Make An Ioniser - A Negative Ion Generator

Most technical wisdom suggests that while negative ions make you feel good, positive ions can cause headaches and nausea. This is why a negative ion generator can improve the perceived atmosphere in an office that has an unaturally high positive ion balance.

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Safe hydrogen storage breakthrough: catalyze it from ammonia bound in salt

Danish scientists at the Technical university of Denmark have developed a method to safely and inexpensively store hydrogen in solid form, using sea salt to store ammonia, which is then catalyzed to release hydrogen used to power clean and efficient fuel cells.

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Mac and a New Media Content Distribution System?

Think Secret claims that Apple is set to unveil a new media content delivery system, which will include feature-length content, expanded television offerings, and more...

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Fuel Up With Banana Peels

Mad scientist Doc Brown powers his time machine by feeding coffee grounds and other biowaste into the DeLorean in Back to the Future...

Now, What if we could double the energy efficiency of coal and reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil? Carbon fuel cells, derived from biowaste and bananas, may do the trick. By Cyrus Farivar.

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Convert any image into ASCII art

Ever wanted to convert a picture to colored/black & white ASCII art? Now you can instantly with text-image.com's online converter!

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ASCII-O-Matic

Create ASCII images from their stock collection or upload your own!

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Toogle does mad ASCII art

Check this site out - it converts images related to word searches into ASCII art :)

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ASCII Generator

This is a fun text generator, just type in any text and hit "Do it" and there you go!

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Potential Full Spectrum Solar Cell

The realization that potentially indium gallium nitride can absorb most of the visible light from the spectrum could reduce the cost of solar cells several order of magnitudes, while increasing the efficiency dramatically. Could be revolutionary..

(nice...my first digg!)

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How the unusual symbol for the Apple "Command Key" came to be

Ever wonder where that weird flower-ish symbol on Apple Computer keyboards came from? Pretty interesting story in here about how Steve Jobs and his designers came to this Swedish symbol.

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