The Late, Great Penn Station (Image Gallery)

In 1963, one of New York City's finest buildings was demolished to make way for a new $116M sports arena and entertainment complex. Pennsylvania Station, the monumental 1910 Beaux-Arts masterpiece was leveled, and replaced with the fourth incarnation of Madison Square Garden. Here are some images of the old Penn Station...

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Flying Windows, Bad Ass Mac Screen Saver

If you own a Mac you definitely want to check this out. This screen saver will take which ever windows you have open and fly them around your screen, flip, twist and twirl them around in an impressive eye candy way. Those around you will most likely want to find out where in the world you found those. Best of all, freebie....

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Free math book published because they think textbook prices are too high...

"With the current price of a new algebra textbook approaching $110 and publishers bringing out a new edition every three to four years just to prevent students from selling their used books, we have decided to create a site where the textbooks are free."
They only have one up right now but plan to add more, along with video and audio lectures.

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David Letterman and Bill O'Reilly go at it.

An interesting conversation from two of America's biggest blow hards. Who do you think had the upper hand?

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Clinton Responds to Coulter's "gay" charge, via Letterman

Ann Coulter recently accused Bill Clinton of being a closeted homosexual. Here now, is his response, as reported by the staff at Late Night with David Letterman.

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iPhoto for your documents. It's Free

Document Management Tool for Mac OS X using tagging, similar to iPhoto. It is excellent document organizer, with integrated scanning, tagging and thumbnail zoom. Every computer has loads of PDF files, probably scattered all over your hard disk. Use kip to search, view and manage all these documents in one convenient place.

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Wild speculation: iPhone to launch in August?

A reader is reporting to us that a coworker's tech-unsavvy friend, who is regularly hired by Apple to do marketing photo shoots, was recently brought on to take some shots of "the sleekest, sexiest damn phone he's ever seen." The launch date? "Some time in August." Yeah, not a typo -- August.

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Very cool video, about an artist using a Mac and his work.

Inspirational *****

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Segway Centaur

These things look really cool, hopefully they do decide to go ahead and sell them.

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Demo of Windows Vista voice recognition goes wrong

Funny video of a bad Microsoft presentation

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Feeding the homeless punishable by $1,000 and 6 months in prison

Council officials decided to curb the charity practice, with possible fines of $1,000 and six months imprisonment, after complaints from residents.

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a nice collection of high rez Mac OS icons

Enjoy(:

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Farming The Sun: $600,000 A Year

Here on Mr. Gartner's 200-acre pig farm, the fields are now covered with 10,050 solar panels, which soak up the sunshine and convert it into electricity. The ambient hum in the air is not the sound of insects but of transformers carrying a high-voltage current to the villages nearby. Mr. Gartner makes more than $600,000 a year.

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Video of man with his dead twin "parasiting" on his stomach.

An Indian man with a fetus in his stomach. This case called "Fetus in fetus" and the fetus is the man's dead twin. As the man grown the "parasite" twin did to. Watch this incredible medicine video, but have in mind, there are some shocking scenes.

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Plant a phone call to yourself. You'll need it!

Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting.

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College students find ways to drink safely.

A study by the National Social Norms Resource Center shows that 80% of college students drink and 73% of the drinkers do so responsibly. They also found the safest place to drink is on campus, but universities are doing more to force drinking off campus. Students drinking at private keg parties are at the highest risk.

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Pentagon Watching Youtube Closely

The Pentagon is keeping a close eye on what its troops post online, with special attention being paid to videos that show the aftermath of comba

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What a dumb idea...

Don't try this @ home!!!!!!

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Motorola RIZR announced, slide style RAZR

Motorola kept with its 4-letter naming scheme and announced the RIZR. It's a slider (hence the name) and is packed with a 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth and a memory card slot.

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Awesome 4-rooms-in-one house!!! (Pics)

a house designed by Luigi Colani has the ability to rotate the center pylon of the house. This reveals a new room each time it is rotated. Very cool.

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Middle East Crisis: Who backs an immediate ceasefire? (graphics)

If this doesn't put it the situation in perspective for you, I don't know what will.

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Get free stuff for Web design

Spice up your Web site with a variety of free resources from fellow designers

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Reporter Destroys Record Breaking Object

A man creates a Jenga Block masterpiece. A reporter steps too close. Hilarity ensues.

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Is America's $8 Billion Bottled Water Industry A Fraud?

"In a trendy nightclub in New York City, the bartender tells guests they can only be served bottled water, which costs $5 for each tiny half-pint container. One outraged clubber is
stopped by the restroom attendant as she tries to refill the bottle from the
tap. "You can't do that," says the attendant. "New York's tap water isn't
safe."

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Top 5 Strangest Military Gadgets

If you're in the military, YOU should be able to fly!

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Science Facts that People Get Wrong

Nullius in Verba. That motto, from the Royal Society coat of arms is traditionally translated as "dont take anyone's word for it". There now follows some miscellaneous nonsense you hear or read about from time to time...

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Video: "Darth Vader's less-talented, less-charismatic younger brother"

" Life is hard when you're Darth Vader's less-talented, less-charismatic younger brother and you manage a grocery store."


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Bush Personally Blocked DOJ Investigation Of Wiretapping Program (Video)

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, Gonzales said President Bush personally blocked Justice Department lawyers from pursuing an investigation of the administration's warrantless wiretapping program.

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Behold the power of Apple's Xgrid!

At first glance Apple's Xgrid may not appear all that useful, but some creative minds at Standford University are using Xgrid to reach processing speeds of up to 200Ghz. Join up and let's see what Xgrid can really do.

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The Big Lebowski - F***ing Short Version

The Big Lebowski edited down to just about two minutes with only the F-bomb thrown in.

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Updated: Giant Diggnation Mosaic (3MB PNG) created from 2,500 UNIQUE icons

In version 2.0, the program was instructed to use each Digg user icon found via Google only once. The medium resolution version of this mosaic is a 3MB PNG file. Approximately 3,000 icons were found and downloaded to yield 2,500 matched icons.

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Coming to video iPod: NVIDIA 3D graphics

When the so-called "true video iPod" debuts, chances are that it will be sporting technology from longtime competitor NVIDIA. Chillara is not certain that 3D functionality is at the heart of the NVIDIA's offering; it does stand to reason that NVIDIA's main edge over Broadcom would rest in the company's 3D prowess...

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Penn and Teller's Bullshit: Bottled Water (FULL VIDEO)

Stop wasting your money on bottled water.

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Street Artist "Installs" Fake People in City

This artist has created fake people and animals, placing them all over Washington DC and New York

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E-Rope - The coolest power strip idea.

As we all know, the biggest problem with conventional power strips are the unconventional plugs with whom the ol' girl mates. These boys come in all sizes and shapes resulting in at least one or two unusable sockets due to overlap. Well no more dear reader...

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Photographer Sues After Picture Appears On Burundi Currency

"Most copyright disputes are about money, but here's one that's literally about cash. Freelance photographer Kelly Fajack claims in a lawsuit that one of his photos was reproduced without his permission on a currency note circulating in the central African nation of Burundi."

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Police Looting In New Orleans

This video shows uniformed police officers looting a Walmart. They appear to be pushing a cart of stolen goods. From MSNBC.

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Awesome unique barcode designs

Barcodes are usually pretty boring, these guys are changing that. Check out their unique designs.

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iSight ... (do you have OSX & iSight?)

Check this out (turn on the iSight before)...

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