Wednesday, December 19, 2007

60 Logos: What if the Whole World Went Web 2.0?

Everyone from Halliburton to Burger King and everything in between.

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Sunday, December 09, 2007

The Twice Shy Entrepreneur

A number of venture capitalists I’ve spoken with have said that too many “old guard” entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it’s hurting their startups.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Major Breakthrough For Super Efficient LED Lighting

A North Carolina company has achieved a major breakthrough on LED lighting that will dramatically lower costs. The company will also release the world's most energy efficient LED lights.

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Keyboard Bag

Especially for geeks! Don't know what to do with old broken keyboards? Here is an amazing solution how to use them! Make a Keyboard Bag! Easy to do and nice to have!

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Best Photographer Dad Ever!

Crossing the desert on the back of a dog, or searching for lost treasures on the bottom of the ocean. Jan von Holleben’s photographs allow children to make their dreams come true. (12 Photos in Total - Click to See Next Button for More)

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Monday, November 05, 2007

Helix Wind Turbine Could Halve Your Electric Bill

Home-based wind power solutions are, as of now, not extremely practical. A lot of them

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How Dubai Works?

An odd oasis of fantastical skyscrapers sits firmly planted in the desert. The city sprawls over the sand and even creeps out to sea -- man-made islands coated in luxury villas dot its coastline.

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How to Create a “Sky” and “Wood” Custom Dock in Apple Leopard

I made Sky and Wood for you, and here’s what they look like

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Designer makes 15+ Leopard Docks - And Still Making More!

Looking for a new Dock pattern in Leopard? Well, you've just hit the right place, as the designer here has made over 15 docks for Leopard, and he continues to make more!Stop in and have a look. You're bound to find a dock you like!

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Monday, October 29, 2007

13 Bargain Websites that are Cheaper than eBay

Looking for a place to find some good deals or bargain discounts while shopping online for electronics, clothing, accessories, etc? Well, there are a good number of sites out there. I’m going to list as many really good deal-finding shopping sites that I can, so check them out and see what you think!

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Digg and Reddit Users Want to Legalize Marijuana

[The rise of news aggregator websites like Digg and Reddit has become a surprisingly helpful asset to online activism for drug policy reform. - Between Digg and Reddit, we've now had several stories take off, pulling in unusually high traffic and pushing the drug policy debate beyond the self-selected audience of seasoned reform activists.]

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Marijuana convictions: Kicked out of school but welcomed into Iraq

In what's being called the "Drug War Draft," President Bush's policies deny financial aid to students with drug convictions but make it easy for them to enlist in the military. A group of college students made this video that points out the hypocrisy of the Drug War Draft.

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Friday, October 12, 2007

Microwind Generator: 30X More Efficient and Cheaper!

Popular Mechanics just held it's yearly Breakthrough Conference, and one of the winners was the Wind Belt an invention we've not seen before. The Wind Belt

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Income inequality worst since 1920s: Rich getting richer

The super-rich are gobbling up an ever larger piece of the economic pie, and the poor are seeing their share of earnings shrink. New data showing the top 1 percent of Americans are claiming a larger share of national income than at any time since before the Great Depression.

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

A Glimpse of the Real Estate Development in Dubai [PICS]

Here’s a birds eye view of the construction and development work in Dubai…

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Bling! Gold Plated MacBook Pro (Pics)

Steve Jobs and Jonny Ive will surely wince when they see what Computer Choppers have done to their beautiful machine, but for readers who weigh in on the wrong side of the Taste:Cash ratio, the 24 karat gold plated MacBook Pro might be just the thing.

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Top 10 Streaming Movie & TV Websites of 2007

We've searched far and wide, through every nook and cranny of the deepest recesses of the internet with one goal in mind -- To find the absolute best websites that offer Streaming Video Entertainment for movies, television series, cartoons, anime, bollywood flicks and beyond. So, with no further ado, here is the result of our journey.

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The Shock Doctrine Short Film

This is excellent! WATCH IT.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The next generation of engineers

Watch out for these guys

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Guide to unlock all the armor in Halo 3!

Check out this guide which shows how to get all the armor in Halo 3.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

5 Pen Tricks from Japan — Uh oh…

The Japanese, Taiwanese, and Koreans — none of them can hold pens still for a second. Now you won’t be able to either.

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iFuntastic v3 Released: You now have permission to go nuts

The moment you've all been waiting for has finally arrived. iFuntastic version 3 is here, and chock full of new features: PowerPC compatibility, application installation, image editing, downloading/uploading, multiple-home screens and icon re-arrangement, ringtones from iTunes and much more!

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Removing Backgrounds Quickly in Photoshop

A tutorial on using the Extract filter for quick and dirty background removal.

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Smooth Mac-like Backgrounds in Photoshop

This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc).

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Monday, August 20, 2007

'Holy Smokes' Hurricane Dean from Space

The crewmembers aboard the space station took a short break Saturday to get a look at the storm from their vantage point. Even from space, the storm expected to reach the Gulf of Mexico Aug. 21 and gain strength as a potential Cat 5 storm, impresses the crew with its size.

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Probably the most incredible photograph you'll see today

By a guy called Maciek Duczynski in Norway. It's a composite. It might probably be subtle HDR. Please don't scream Photoshop whenever you see a great picture. Give the benefit of the doubt to the artist.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Lifehacker's Top 10 PDF Tricks

Chances are you've already got a free PDF reader installed on your computer, but you can do a lot more with your PDF files than you might think. Hit the link for our top 10 list of techniques for converting, exchanging,sharing, managing and editing PDF documents

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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Online Storage 2.0: Six Sites Reviewed

"Services like box.net, openomy, and eSnips are more than just places to access your files from the web. Some include media organization tools, Windows shell integration, drag-and-drop uploading, tagging, and social content sharing. ExtremeTech has a review up of six online storage services with Web 2.0 twists."

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Virgin America Airlines : AWESOME!!

This looks like the greatest airline, ever. In-flight WiFi, games, topic-based chatrooms, all in a touchscreen right in front of you. Now that's pretty shweet.

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Minneapolis Bridge Hero Offered Photo Op With President Bush, Says "Nope"

Mr. Hernandez was not available to comment on the offer; Ms. Schwartz said he left town for northern Minnesota late on Friday, overwhelmed by the attention and concerned that his co-workers were being overlooked. He spent the weekend fishing. When President Bush’s staff contacted him to request a photo opportunity, “He was just, like, ‘Nope,’"

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The 11 Best Movie-Effect Photoshop Tutorials

11 of the best tutorials that make your photos look like the movies. From Scarface to Pirates of the Carribean to '300' to A Scanner Darkly. It's all here.

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Olympic Logos That Aren’t Awful - London 2012 Organisers Take Note

The London 2012 Olympic committee has spent £400,000 on a rebranding which has been met with universal derision. Here are some examples of how Olympic logos should look.



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Bob Marley's "Exodus" released on limited edition USB stick, with picture!

It's not the first album to be released on a USB stick, but this new limited edition drive packing Bob Marley's classic "Exodus" is certainly one of the highest-profile releases to date, and apparently the first from a major label catalog artist.



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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Perhaps some of the best DIGG tools one would see

I really love these tools. Hope you would like them.



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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Most useless sign ever!

What does it even mean?



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101 Essential Blogging Resources

Heaps and heaps of resources for bloggers, from domaining to communication to monetization to statistics tools. This is a must have bookmarked list...



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Insanely Detailed Paper AT-ATs (Download & Construct)

These downloadable PDFs for a papercraft AT-AT model are insanely detailed and amazing.



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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Wii Sports Weight Loss program makes you lose weight on a fun way

The Wii Sports Weight Loss program is a 10 week plan to lose weight on a fun and easy way. With 30-45 minutes playtime per day you will burn more calories than you'd expect! This new way of losing weight has been tested and it has been proven that this form of training works.



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New Assassin's Creed Trailer From Ubiday 2007

It's been months since a new trailer for Assassin's Creed has been released from Ubisoft. So what better time than during Ubisoft's "Ubidays" to reveal a completely new trailer showcasing some great looking in-game footage. Enjoy the direct feed video here!



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Purple and Brown, The claymation videos Kevin talked about on Diggnation

It's the claymation cartoon Kevin Rose talked about on Diggnation Episode 98. I thought it was funny



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Misunderstood Lyrics

Heavy Metal act Children of Bodom have indecipherable lyrics, mostly because the lead singer's screaming. So why not just make it up as you go along? That's what these guys did, while adding visuals to their nonsense.



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Controlling Multiple Macs, Locally and Remotely

"For anyone who owns more than one Apple computer, the thought of controlling two or more machines at the same time is surely something many people think of. Despite any previous assumptions you've had, this is quite simple and easily completed by anyone willing and able to follow a few simple directions."



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Advanced OS X: Surf a Secure Tunnel via SSH

Now before you fire up Monster.com on your soon to be former employer’s dime, there is thankfully an answer.



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Saturday, May 19, 2007

US government trying to seize new Michael Moore film, says producer

The film Sicko has already caused Moore to clash with the American authorities. Now, according to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Company is behind the film, the US government is attempting to impound the negative.



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Friday, May 18, 2007

Lifehacker: Top 10 Mac OS X tweaks

Mac OS X is a great operating system out of the box, but a few simple customizations can make it even better. Check out our top 10 favorite Mac OS X tweaks for making your Mac experience even more personalized, customized and convenient.



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How dumb does Microsoft think YOU are?

Not only will they not tell us what those patents are hidden in Linux, they also won't tell us how they found them. Argh!



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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Simply Google - all of Google's hidden features in one webpage!

Google accounts, maps, blogs, pack, desktop, pigeonrank, talk, toolbar - WOW they've made a lot of stuff!



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Flickr = censorship

Recently Rebekka Guðleifsdóttira discovered that a gallery Only-Dreemin was ripping her off. They'd sold thousands of dollars worth of her images. So she did what anyone with a following on the internet might do and she posted about her frustration and plight on her flickrstream. What's yahoo do? Deletes the image & threatens to terminate account.



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Monday, May 14, 2007

Amazing Twirling Tower Could Power Itself and Ten Others - Includes VIDEO

A noob architect decides that he's obviously the best guy to revolutionize office buildings and, next thing you know, he's designed a wind-powered rotating skyscraper. While the technical details of the wind-power system are sketchy at best, the architect, David Fisher, claims that the tower could power itself and ten other similar sized buildings.



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Saturday, May 12, 2007

[Pic] Evolution

It's not the one you already know.



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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

9 Attitudes of Highly Creative People

"...some attitudes to build into your approach if you want to be a more creative person:"



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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

The Top Ten Ways To Earn an Income Online

This blog post gives 10 great tips regarding earning a full fledge income on the internet. See for yourself :)



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Color-changing card trick - except it tricks you in a way you didn't expect

Video showing what looks like a simple card trick, but keep watching for a complete surprise. Very clever psychology twist.



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May Day Immigration Reform Demonstration

GameJew reports from the May Day immigration reform demonstration. What happens here is very shocking.



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Saturday, April 28, 2007

What's in my menubar? (OSX)

Seems like every time another Mac user looks over my shoulder, they freak out over the number of little icons I have up in my menubar. And — like all Mac geeks — we have to immediately start trading information, learning tricks, and sharing tips. I’m sure you know the drill by now.



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Friday, April 27, 2007

Apple Notifies Partners: DRM-free Music and DRM-free Music Videos Soon

Yesterday, Apple sent out short notices to their iTunes partners who provide the music content to the iTunes store. The notices let partners know that they would soon be able to offer DRM-free music and DRM-free music videos to customers through iTunes.



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Strawberries + Alcohol = A Healthier Happy Hour

According to new research, the antioxidant capacity of strawberries can be significantly enhanced when they are combined with ethanol, the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits. Those antioxidants attack free-radicals that can cause cancer, arthritis and heart disease.



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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Experience of Getting High

The cannabis "marijuana" or hash high is different for each person, depending on the particular details of conditions, setting, timing, state of mind, and the variety of cannabis used. Although cannabis is generally pretty benign, nothing is always safe and fun for everyone in every situation.



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The Miracle Polymer for the New Millennium

ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene) is the building material of the future. This wonder polymer, a transparent plastic related to Teflon, is replacing glass and plastic in some of the most innovative buildings being designed and constructed today. It can be made into glass-like sheets or inflated in pillows. Here are some projects that use ETFE.



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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

30 Nicest Apple, MacOS and iPod Wallpapers

Here are some good 30 Apple related wallpapers (Apple logo, Mac OS, iPod) that are definitely worth a look.



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Monday, April 23, 2007

The Ultimate Guide to Handbrake

Handbrake is a great Mac tool for ripping DVDs to your iPod. A lot of people know what it does, but few people know everything it can do. Check out this guide to learn new tips and tricks!



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4:20 in vancouver B.C.

check out the smoke from 5000 people blazin



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Monday, April 16, 2007

How To: Build a pen dart gun

This one is different than any other videos and how to's I've seen, this one looks absolutely wicked! (gonna make me a few of these!) Warning: Do not aim and shoot at any living object!



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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Turn Any Picture Into 3D Image

Fotowoosh, a new service from Maryland-based startup Freewebs, will turn any image into a 3D model. In a week or so, the company says, users will be able to upload a picture and have an animated 3D image returned to them in an embeddable Flash widget.



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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

40% Efficient Solar Cells: They Are Being Used Back On Earth!

A company called Spectrolab has achieved a new world record in solar cell efficiency. By using concentrated sunlight, Spectrolab demonstrated the ability of a photovoltaic cell to convert 40.7% of the sun
’s energy into electricity. By contrast, regular solar cells are 12 - 20% efficient.

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VIDEO: Uwe Boll recreates 9/11 plane crash to advertise his Postal movie

Dressing people up as Bin Laden and telling viewers to see his movie wasn't enough. Nor did he stop at Columbine reenactment video or uncut orgy scenes. And now, we get to see a World Trade Center window washer doing his job with a plane crashing into the building from behind him. Expect America news stations to freak out when they see this footage

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Japanese Beat Doll

There's something oddly hypnotic about this Japanese rhythmic dancing doll that bobs to the beat of any song you play.

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Friday, April 06, 2007

God & Albert Einstein

He was slow in learning how to talk. "My parents were so worried," he later recalled, "that they consulted a doctor." Even after he had begun using words, sometime after the age of 2, he developed a quirk that prompted the family maid to dub him "der Depperte," the dopey one. Whenever he had something to say, he would try it out on himself,

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holy crap, huge turtle!

that thing is HUGE!

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

The Southland's hidden Third World slums - Los Angeles Times

In the Coachella Valley, hundreds of trailer parks house desperately poor Latino workers amid burning trash, mud, contaminated water.

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Monday, March 26, 2007

Color matching sphere (Great for people that need color schemes)

It matches colors that fit well together. This is really helpful when designing anything. You can pick a color that you want to use, then it will give you colors that go good with it.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

What can Pulp Fiction teach you about typography?

Remember the scene in pulp fiction where Samuel L. Jackson shoots that guy in his apartment after yelling at him about Mr. Marseilles? Someone took the audio from that scene and animated their speech using font size, shape, color, and movement to convey emotion.

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Paper Tip/Trick

This is a really good trick that will help you meet your quota for the papers you are writing in college or high school. It is nearly impossible to spot, and it can add pages to your paper.

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Monday, March 05, 2007

Monday, February 26, 2007

How to Make Mac Icons

Detailed tutorial on creating an icon for mac applications or the web.

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Save YouTube videos to your PC/Mac in ANY format - FREE and ONLINE

Save videos directly from Google Video, YouTube, Myspace, Revver, PutFile, Break.com, Apple Trailers, Dailymotion, Metacafe, IFilm, Grouper and many more into 3GP, AAC, AC3, AMR, AVI, FLAC, GIF, GVI, IPOD, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPG, OGG, PSP, WAV, WMV and others - Completely FREE !

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Transform Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Unleash the power of Gmail.

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Half-Life 2 meets iPod meets Techno (music video)

Amazing music video melding iPod commercial style and Half-Life 2 gameplay.

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Create Wall Posters with your own images -in a Snap!

Block Posters Is a good tool that allows you to upload any image, choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be and then print it at your own home.

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Australia's leading Muslim cleric, Sheik Al- Hilali, Speaks Out

In this shocking video, Sheik Al- Hilali, an Autralian citizen, publicly expresses his views on his country-- imagine what he says in private! Definitely a 'must-see'video . . .

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15 Answers to Creationist's Evolutionary Rebuttals

This is an informative article based on a pro-evolution standpoint from Scientific American. I found this article to be worthy of a Digg posting with the intention of drawing a healthy and respectful debate over such a delicate topic of discussion. Please, share you opinions as it is always good to have multiple viewpoints on such a topic.

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Really Cool Music Video Banned from MTV

This video titled "Agenda Suicide" by The Faint, is a moving mixed-media masterpiece (say that 10 times fast) but due to it's controversial/offensive imagery, was banned from an MTV Awards show. Still it's awesome.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

52 Money Hacks: One For Each Week!

In another age, they
’d call them acts of frugality, but today they’re known more suavely as money hacks. Hacking through those extra, nearly invisible expenditures in the minutest of ways can you save money every week and thousands of dollars per year ...

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Entire building blocks vandalized with 'laser graffiti'!

These guys have developed a new form of high-tech graffiti and they can simply 'spray' an entire appartment building or skyscraper with it just like that. Watch em do it in this vid, crazy shit.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

How to Sue Telemarketers and Win

Every time you receive an unwanted call from a telemarketer, you are legally owed $500. This guy already made over $6,000.

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Monday, February 12, 2007

Script For Escaping Verizon Cellphone Contracts Without Fee

Leave your Verizon cellphone contract early without paying $175. Just follow this step-by-step script and you can be contract free in under 30 minutes (YMMV),

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Thursday, February 08, 2007

New 9W LED Bulb Can Replace 70W Incandescent

I've seen my fair share of LED bulbs, but usually the lumens they output are fairly modest. This bulb, however, outputs 308 lumens using 150 warm white LEDs, and is rated at 9 Watts.

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The Most Cinematic and Beautiful Flash Game EVER. (Must Play!)

One of those you-wake-up-in-a-room-and-you-have-to-escape games. Except with an actual plot. Very fun.

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Monday, February 05, 2007

Digg the Bomb (LED Sign)

After the whole ATHF "Bomb Hoax in Boston" thing (Hilarious by the way), I couldn't resist making my own "sinister looking device" for Digg and maybe mail it over for the guys at diggnation to realize how REALLY bright this thing is. It's very simple to make your own. Paint, perfboard, LEDs, wire, hot glue, batteries, and their holder. See pics.

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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Get Around the Coinstar Fee!

So, you go digging through your couch and you find somewhere around $200 in loose change and you REALLY don't want to count all of that yourself. Fortunately, god invented CoinStar to do that for you. Unfortunately, CoinStar charges you somewhere around 9% for its services. This is why you want to learn how to hack a CoinStar.

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Friday, February 02, 2007

Making a Good Favicon

"If ever there was a pet peeve of mine, missing or crappy favicons probably ranks pretty high (undoubtedly, higher than it should)."

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

The *REAL* Better Way to Burn on a Mac

In response to this morning's 'A Better Way to Burn' ad that found its way to the front page I present to you a real alternative. The Open Source "Burn" does everything expensive packages do and more. It's the best burning app of its kind on any platform. And best of all it's free!

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Wii OS!

wii for pc in-depth review.

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Monday, January 29, 2007

City of the future?! [Pics]

Pictures of island that was comfortable and peopled, but now is fully disused.

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Grape plasma FIREBALL

Put a standard green grape in the microwave and let the fireworks begin

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

A great set of little tips to make everyday life a little easier

Here are a couple of my favorites: 12. To determine whether an egg is fresh, immerse it in a pan of cool, salted water. If it sinks, it is fresh-if it rises to the surface, throw it away. 8. If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato-it absorbs the excess salt for an instant "fix me up."

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Smart Folders in Mac OS X…What They Are and Why You Should Use Them

One of the most underused features in Mac OS X is the use of “Smart Folders”. So…what are they? In a nutshell, a Smart Folder contains items in the folder based on search critera that you set in the preferences of the folder instead of grouping the contained items by location, like a regular folder. This makes it very easy to be organized.

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Crazy pool tricks you have not seen.

It's tough to find a pool trick shot video that still has some original shots in it.

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The Pixar Story: George Lucas, Steve Jobs, Dick Shoup, Alex Schure, Disney

Steve Jobs still wasn't terribly interested in what was happening at Pixar, but as November 22 neared, he perked up. At a Disney gala in New York, hosted by Rudy Giuliani, Jobs was witness to the dramatic reactions to Pixar's stunning work. He soaked up praise as the night wore on

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Monday, January 22, 2007

VIDEO: CNN Debunks Claim That Obama Attended Radical ‘Madrassa’

Fox News and other conservative outlets have been playing up a report that Barack Obama attended an Islamic madrassa school in Indonesia as a boy. CNN sent a correspondent to the school and found the claims were completely untrue.

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'Grammar Girl' a quick and dirty success

Grammar lessons often are associated with high school drudgery -- diagramming sentences and memorizing obscure rules in between passing notes in English class -- but an Arizona technical writer has turned the seemingly dry subject into a popular podcast.

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Toyota plans 'ultra-inexpensive car'

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build a low-cost car undercutting Renault's emerging-market Logan through a "radical" rethink in design and production, the president of the fast-growing Japanese automaker said. The Logan starts at about $6,200 and Toyota's will be less!

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"I TAKE ILLEGAL DRUGS FOR INSPIRATION" - Susan Blackmore

The famous British psychologist and scientist Susan Blackmore is speaking about her experiments with illegal substances and promoting the stance that calls for legalization of all drugs.

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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Ripping on Simon Cowell

See three critics bashing on Simon Cowell...

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I'll never bitch about a girl taking her time putting on Make-Up ever again

Celebrities without their Make-Up.......YIKES!!

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Copy music from iPod to your computer [freeware]

YamiPod will let you finally get rid of iTunes. The KILLER feature. You can copy music from iPod to your computer, bye bye stupid DRM rules that do not let me copy music i bought from my iPod to another computer (at work for example) Works on mac/linux/windows

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Myers-Briggs Personality Test

Online test based on Carl Jung's personality types.

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Saturday, January 20, 2007

An Absolute Goldmine of Web Design Education

"There is an incredible resource that some of you may not be aware of, that I wish to share."

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Fastest zip line in the world.

Tallest and fastest zip line in the world, located in Sun City, South Africa.

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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Most organized college prank ever

These kids have some balls. I wish this would have happened in my classes, I never would have missed one.

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Super Mario World: Secret Laser Suit

"I'm really just posting this so no one sends it in to our tips line. While I probably would've loved to discover the "Laser Suit" in Super Mario World when I was but a young boy, the current me knows this is just a finely crafted hack."

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Toy boat floats on dense, invisible gas

Sulfur hexafluoride is over five times as dense as air. Watch this YouTube video of an aluminum foil boat floating in a tank of the stuff.

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The Pirate Bay: Sponsored by Wal-Mart

It turns out that Wal-Mart is running targeted banner campaigns on The Pirate Bay to promote their DVDs. They hereby contribute to the estimated $75,000 in ad revenues the Pirate Bay generates every month.

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Building a Niche Minisite - Part 2

The second half of how to build a niche minisite. This one goes over design, development, ad integration, SEO, and hosting.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Listpic: A Visual Craigslist Browser

Here is a new way to browse Craigslist visually by showing all the Pics on 1 page as thumbnails like iPhoto, it makes browsing much faster. We just released a major update and added personals, pets, better job listings, search, sub-cities, and made it tons faster. Listpic makes browsing Craigslist much more efficient and fun.

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Apple's New Calling: Good article by a Time reporter who got a sneak peak

If you've ever wondered how it works, this is how it works: I don't call Steve, Steve calls me. Or more accurately, someone in Steve Jobs's office calls someone in my office
—someone at a much higher pay grade —to say that he has something cool.

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

NSA Admits To Microsoft Vista "Contributions"

"According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret that it was jokingly referred to as 'No Such Agency' has admitted making 'unspecified contributions' to Vista. The assistance is at the US taxpayers' expense, although the NSA says it all makes perfect sense." Innocent? Probably. But how can you tell?

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Monday, January 08, 2007

Windows Vista - A genuine imitation.

“Microsoft did not steal ideas from Mac OS X.”

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WWII Nose Art Babes

Back in World War 2, many creative and talented pilots faced danger with a sexy babe painted on the nose of their aircrafts. Some were wholesome girls next door, while others were naked nymphos ready for action! Reportedly, many of these surviving planes' artwork has been altered in order to be less offensive when displayed at airshows.

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Picture of Earth from Deep Space

"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives." This was posted about 100 days ago, but I thought it deserved reposting.

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Seinfeld's Soup Nazi, Mulligatawny Soup Recipe

As featured in the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld, this is Kramer's favorite soup. I've made it on loads of occasions and its simply amazing. There are copyright laws covering this so it can not be used for commercial purposes.. Enjoy!!

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

50+ Free Courses on iTunes from UC Berkeley

Get free podcasts of full-fledged courses from UC Berkeley. Excellent courses from the humanities, social sciences, and physical and natural sciences. This is a great educational deal.

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