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Mitsubishi WD-62530 62" LCD Projection TV

2007-08-08T14:52:00.001+03:00

Here is a great deal on Mitsubishi WD-62530 62" LCD Projection TV. Currently going for $510!

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Xbox 360 HD DVD Player

2007-07-18T22:43:00.001+03:00

Xbox 360 HD DVD Player currently going for $41. Auction ends on friday.

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Bose AcousticWave Music System II Graphite Grey

2007-07-14T18:31:00.001+03:00

Here is a great deal on Bose AcousticWave Music System II Graphite Grey. Going for $300 at the moment.

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Pioneer PDP-4270HD 42-In

2007-07-09T19:48:00.001+03:00

Here is a great deal on Pioneer PDP-4270HD 42-In. $2800 Plasma Television going currently for under $700.

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Pioneer HTS-GS1 5.1 Channel Surround

2007-07-07T22:23:00.001+03:00

Nice deal on Pioneer HTS-GS1 5.1 Channel surround sound for XBOX 360

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Nyko PSP Speakers Case

2007-07-06T14:59:00.001+03:00

Here is a great deal on Nyko PSP speakers case all in one hi-fi stereo and sound.

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8GB Apple iPhone AT&T Free S/H

2007-07-05T14:35:00.001+03:00

Here is a great deal on 8GB Apple iPhone AT&T in hand - Sealed NIB - Free S/H

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President Bush Singing the Hits! This is so funny!

2007-02-10T10:15:00.000+02:00

President Bush Singing the Hits! This is so funny!
Here are some great videos of President Bush and other politicians singing. A hilarious cleverly dubbed/edited video of Bush singing Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bush singing Imagine and Walk on The Wildside Remix, Bush and Blair singing "Endless Love" together, Colin Powell singing YMCA in front of a live audience, and more....

Video Compilation: Anna Nicole Smith And Our National Media Embarassment
A great video "highlight" reel of the obsessive coverage of Anna Nicole on the news networks yesterday.

Top 150 Tech Heroes on IT Conversations
On wednesday SYS-CON published their final list of 150 all time technology heroes. The list is a mix of people who might have made the list if it were published 10 or even 20 years ago (like Claude Shannon). 36 people on this list have been on IT Conversations. Many of them multiple times. We've made a lit of their shows.

Genesis to play FREE Rome concert
Rock band Genesis will perform their biggest concert ever with a free gig for more than 400,000 fans at an ancient hippodrome in Rome. The concert at the Circo Massimo on 14 July will be the final show of the band's first tour in 15 years.

6 Startup Lessons for the Year 2007

2007-02-07T06:45:00.000+02:00

6 Startup Lessons for the Year 2007
Too many niche startups fall into the trap of trying to satisfy everyone's needs. Companies have a natural tendency to expand their line of goods as they grow. The article argues that what startups need to do, instead, is stop trying to be everybody products and deliberately narrow their reach regardless of their growth or traffic.

Man gives away free iPods because it makes him feel good.
This guy fixes and gives away iPods because he "gets a real buzz out of knowing I just made someone s day". But he's not the biggest fan of Apple.

Are we on the brink of the flying car?

2007-02-03T15:30:00.000+02:00

Are we on the brink of the flying car?
A flying car on the market by 2012?

Exxon's 'outlandish' earnings spark furor
"The world's largest publicly owned oil company announced yesterday the largest corporate profit ever, but news of its near $40-billion (U.S.) windfall in 2006 sparked an angry backlash, coming on the eve of a major report blaming the use of fossil fuels for wreaking devastation on the planet."

Snakes eat poisonous toads and steal their venom
"The snakes are unable to synthesise their own toxins, so they can only have derived bufadienolide compounds from their diet. Hutchinson s team confirmed this by feeding snake hatchlings either a toad-rich or a toad-free diet. Toad-fed snakes accumulated toad-toxins in the nuchal glands on the back of the neck; snakes on a toad-free diet did not."

The history of the personal computer in TV commercials

2007-01-31T14:45:00.000+02:00

The history of the personal computer in TV commercials
With around half a billion Dollars being spent on Windows Vista's marketing launch, I started thinking, "What about the marketing of the computers from our past?" Remember when home computers promised, as Atari once put it, "A World Beyond Your Wildest Dreams?" These 14 videos show how much has changed in 30 years.

Digg's Front Page Stories as HUGE Mosaic Artwork
All hyperlinked, very visual, and very shiny.

Evolutionary musical organism

2007-01-27T15:30:00.000+02:00

Evolutionary musical organism
Bacterial Orchestra is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism made of audio cells. Every cell -consisting of microphone and a loudspeaker- listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds trying to play them back in sync with what it hears.

Giant python swallows 11 dogs
Guard dogs protecting a fruit orchard in Malaysia have met their match - a 7.1-metre long python that swallowed at least 11 hounds before it was finally discovered by villagers.

Violence among teen girls increasing
Hair-pulling and eye-gouging used to be the norm if and when a disagreement between girls escalated into anything more than name-calling. But no more. Nowadays, girls are just as likely as boys to throw a right hook or land a sucker punch.

Richard Dawkins and Intelligent Design to Feature in School Religions Class

2007-01-24T07:45:00.000+02:00

Richard Dawkins and Intelligent Design to Feature in School Religions Class
Teenagers will be asked to debate intelligent design in their religious education classes and read texts by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins under new government guidelines. In a move that is likely to spark controversy, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has recommended that pupils be taught about atheism and creationism in RE class

The Latest Cancer Cure? Yes - It's 100 Anti-Cancer Drugs in One
Resveratrol is 100 anti-cancer drugs in one. Resveratrol works in so many ways to block cancer, researchers can t find a cancer-promotion pathway it doesn t inhibit. It is virtually non-toxic since, after oral ingestion, it is quickly metabolized by the liver, attached to a detoxification molecule called glucuronate, which renders it harmless,

BurnAgain DVD, Easily Create Multi-Session Discs
Burning multi-session discs is one of the few complicated tasks on Mac OS X. BurnAgain DVD is an application that makes this process relatively simple. With a clean and appealing interface and a straightforward set of features, burning multi-session discs shouldn t be a headache anymore.

The Road to KDE 4: Job Progress Reimagined (Screenshots)
Have you ever had your taskbar filled with 10 applications all doing something that involved waiting for a task to finish? Document Printing Progress, a K3b CD burning dialogue, Audio Encoding via KAudioCreator, Kopete, KTorrent, checking email in KMail. The new Jobs support in KDE 4 will unify the display of progress for these tasks.

Flying manta ray boat raft toy lets you actually fly

2007-01-21T06:30:00.000+02:00

Flying manta ray boat raft toy lets you actually fly
Someone made a toy manta ray raft that you can attach to the back of a boat. Once he boat reaches high enough speeds it becomes air born and you can fly around at about 30 feet in the air or more. Looks dangerous in the video but fun as heck.

The coolest 10 keyboards ever made
The title says it all.

CRAZY cool javascript : Edit whatever you want on ANY page : Images, Text.
This is cool! GO to any web page, clear the address bar, and paste this: "javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0" (without the quotes) and hit enter. Feel free to edit whatever you want on the page!

Hollywood Screenwriter's Deadly Car Crash and Graphic Suicide Attempt
He crashed through a bus shelter, through the plate glass windows of a pool hall, and against the giant mahogany bar 20 feet inside, killing two people who were pinned against the bar and injuring 20. Then, when everyone was trying to rock the jeep back off his victims, Red wandered off, picked up a shard of glass, and slit his throat.

New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trailer

2007-01-17T15:15:00.000+02:00

New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trailer
More FX, more Shredder, more comedy. This seems like a full trailer, not just a teaser. Check it out!

HP beats Moore's Law with new chip architecture
A number type of nano-scale architecture developed in the research labs of Hewlett-Packard could beat Moore's Law and advance the progress of of microprocessor development three generations in one hit.

Pokemon Diamond & Pearl DS reviewed and it gets 9/10!
Handheld gaming specialists Pocket Gamer gave their verdict in an in-depth review -"As well as providing an addictive and extensive single-player campaign, the Wi-Fi modes of Pokemon Diamond (and Pearl) mark the game's first true evolution"

Meet the new F-35 Lightning II, America's new fighter jet.
In full production, it will replace currently operational fighters like the Air Force s F-16 Fighting Falcon and the tank killing A-10 Thunderbolt, the Navy and Marine Corps F-18 Hornet, and the Marines AV-8 Harrier jump jet.

How the US National Security Agency access was built into Windows

2007-01-14T09:45:00.000+02:00

How the US National Security Agency access was built into Windows
A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers had revealed that special access codes prepared by the US NSA have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system was built into every version of the Windows operating system in use. The discovery came close on the heels of the revelations that Lotus, had built the same thing in its Notes program

Gamestop and EB: $100 off PS3
Gamestop and EB Games is offering $100 off the purchase of a PS3 by handing over your PS2.

Digg beats Flickr, and breaks into the top 20 web sites in the US
Moving on up. . .

First test-tube baby has baby herself

2007-01-14T09:44:00.000+02:00

First test-tube baby has baby herself
LOUISE Brown the world s first test-tube baby has given birth to a tot of her own. The brunette was overjoyed yesterday after becoming a mum at the age of 28.

Please Digg: Man Comes Home To Find House Demolished by City!!
This guy's house was demolished by the city while he was out of town simply for the bricks the house was made of! Now the city's giving him the runaround claiming they didn't do anything wrong! Hopefully Digg can get this poor guy some national attention and shame the city into fixing the situation.

A trip to sealand - with pictures
Some great pictures from a recent trip to sealand (after the Fire they had back in June). Is this the new future home of the piratebay?

Scale model of the battle of Helm's Deep made completely out of candy
I get a real swelling of pride whenever I show anyone these pictures. It s a warm fuzzy feeling, mixed with a little bit of dorky shame. This past Christmas Vacation my brothers, sister, myself and my girlfriend built a scale replica of the battle of Helms Deep, from the second book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Two Towers.

How to write a masterpiece of a resume

2006-11-15T08:58:00.000+02:00

Award-winning guide to resume writing. Offers examples, format choices, help writing the objective, the summary and other sections, as well as samples of excellent resume writing.

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Which browser is the fastest? An unbiased test.

2006-11-10T13:02:00.000+02:00

The Opera site claims that Opera is The Fastest Browser on Earth!. The Mozilla site claims that Firefox empowers you to browse faster (faster than what?). Mozilla itself is quoted as being an alternative to Microsoft IE and it's faster to boot. Apple's Safari pages claim that Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac web browser.

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Hands On: Apple iPod Shuffle

2006-11-06T09:32:00.000+02:00

No question about it: Apple's new iPod Shuffle is minuscule: It's smaller than a matchbook, slimmer than a microcassette, and light enough that you could clip it on your shirt and not even stretch the fabric. In my first hands-on experience with the updated Shuffle, I found it a worthy player for the price--provided that you'll be happy with..

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Lost Moon Landing Tapes Discovered

2006-11-02T13:26:00.000+02:00

"For years 'lost' tapes recording data from the Apollo 11 Moon landing have been stored underneath the seats of Australian physics students. Last week, up to 100 tapes, clearly marked "NASA Manned Space Center", turned up after a search in a dusty basement of a physics lecture hall at Curtin University of Technology in Perth."

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Space Shuttle Launch as seen from ISS, 220 miles up.

2006-10-31T09:41:00.000+02:00

An amazing picture of the Space Shuttle, launching from Florida, as seen out the window of the International Space Station. A must see!

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The Most Hypnotizing Website Ever

2006-10-27T09:58:00.000+03:00

Definitely listen with speakers or headphones. The dots are arranged to trigger notes on a chromatic scale when they pass the line. How can something be so creepy yet so cool at the same time?

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JFK papers and photos to be put on Internet

2006-08-28T23:16:00.000+03:00

"Researchers and history buffs won't have to trek to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston to study his papers and photographs after an unprecedented effort to post the material on the Internet."

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The 25 Greatest Calvin & Hobbes Comic Strips

2006-07-13T21:19:00.000+03:00

Calvin & Hobbes ran from 1985 to 1995. Bill Watterson drew thousands of strips, and while I wish like hell that he would come back and draw more, it's probably best to reflect and be thankful for what he's done. Below we have showcased, in no particular order, some of our favorite Calvin & Hobbes strips of all time.

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Tags: Calvin & Hobbes, Calvin Hobbes, Calvin&Hobbes, Comic, Comics, Strips

Amazing Water (Drop) Photographs

2006-07-06T13:42:00.000+03:00

A professional photographer takes pictures of water, drops, rain, etc, and focuses them just so that they are have *stunning* results!!

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Tags: water, H2O, photos, photography, photographs

Why Electron Microscope is Superior?

2006-06-28T16:10:00.000+03:00

Powered by highly charged electrons as opposed to conventional optic microscopes which are powered only by certain light sources, an electron microscope is capable of displaying images at amazing clarity even in the most magnified scales.

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Tags: microscopy, microcope, electron, magnification

Creating windows applications with PHP!

2006-06-23T21:10:00.000+03:00

Win Binder is comprised of a DLL, PHP scripts and some auxiliary files which allow programmers to create native Windows applications using PHP! In just a few minutes I followed the tutorial in making a digital clock with scrolling text.

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Tags: php scripts, php, windows, programming

Download thousands of songs a day, legally - now with album art goodness

2006-06-21T00:34:00.000+03:00

Splits up internet radio songs to single MP3 files, naming by bandname and song name. Downloads album art. Can search for songs and bands that stations have been playing. Fast connections can get thousands of songs a day...

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Tags: internet radio, mp3, downloads, songs

How to Run Linux on a USB Storage Device

2006-06-20T00:29:00.000+03:00

This site offers a great guide to booting a distribution of Damn Small Linux on a Lexar 512mb Jump Drive. It includes complete instructions with screenshots. Definitely worth a look!

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Tags: linux, usb storage, usb, lexar

Embrio: The Answer to the Segway

2006-06-17T23:34:00.000+03:00

Like the Segway, Bombardier's Embrio concept--a prototype that may or may not make production--uses gyroscope technology to balance riders but adds a dash of flair absent in the Segway, which we as car nuts find slightly nerdy.

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Tags: embrio, segway, bombardier, prototype, gyroscope, car

Google Earth Sleuthing - Story of a Burning Ship

2006-06-16T23:22:00.000+03:00

An obscure satellite photo captured a scene of daring rescue at sea where a burning ship's crew was rescued by two other ships. The interesting thing was it took the power of thousands of forum readers to help find the answer to the mystery.

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Tags: google, google earth, satellite, photo

The Invention of Artificial Light may Slowly be Killing of Humankind

2006-06-15T23:22:00.000+03:00

once humans possessed the technology of artificial light, we extended our usable waking hours by an average of 13%. Some researchers believe that this modern convenience, credited with bringing the human race in from the dark, may also be responsible for numerous ills

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Tags: artificial light human people dark sleep

How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes

2006-06-14T15:48:00.000+03:00

Overview for anyone interested in getting started with Google Maps. Walks you through step by step signing up with google, adding the code and customizing your new map.

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Posted under: google map maps googlemap googlemaps mapping

Toyota launches hybrid minivan in Japan

2006-06-14T01:47:00.000+03:00

The 7-seat minivan gets 47 mpg US in the Japanese test and exceeds Japanese fuel economy standards for 2010. Can be had in 4x4 with two electric motors of 105 kilowatts and 50 kilowatts. Stars around $31k.

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Posted under: toyota hybrid car auto vehicle minivan

Hawking says humans must go into space

2006-06-13T20:06:00.000+03:00

The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.

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Posted under: humans space

AMAZING Collection of Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures

2006-06-13T17:51:00.000+03:00

This a very cool page on the Iowa State University's website; showcasing tons of pictures of humans, food, bugs, and other objects taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope. These images are fascinating!

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Posted under: electron microscope