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July 2008
If Steve Jobs Had A Comic Book… [COMIC] →
With all the buzz about Apple Products these days, we thought it might be interesting to see how these products come about…from the inside. Click the images if you’d like to make them bigger. Enjoy.
Apple Tells Retailers to Stock Up on Current Macs... →
f you needed a bigger hint that new iPods and MacBooks (whatever form they take) are around the corner, AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has “strongly suggested” to its retail channel partners to…
Overclock world record: Q6600 2.4GHz run at 5.1GHz →
What a ridiculous project! But how awesome would it be to be the hardcore system building nerds they asked to do this? A couple months ago, a French Tom’s Hardware-related superteam got together to…
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready...”
– George Orwell
85 Famous Works of Art 'Improved' via Modern... →
A photoshop contest.
Spot The Mistakes The Next Time You Go See The... →
I can’t believe they have already come up with a list of the editing mistakes and such for the movie. See which ones you can find the next time you go see it!
Two OiNK Uploaders Go Free →
Yesterday we reported that the bail date for OiNK administrator Alan Ellis and the six arrested OiNK uploaders was extended again. New information, however, now shows that two of the six uploaders…
Linux Tip: Job Scheduling With Cron and At →
You need to run a job at midnight when system usage is low, or you need to run jobs daily or weekly, but you would rather be sleeping, or enjoying life in some other way.Linux and UNIX systems allow…
The SF Tesla #6 $100,000+ Crash →
The Tesla roadster goes from 0 to 60 in 3.9-seconds (by December anyway) and costs $100,000 if you’re lucky enough to get dibs on the 10 or so electric cars delivered so far. Come to find out, it…
Playboy For The Blind →
It goes to show porn is for all people even if you are visually impaired.
Is Apple Revamping Its Entire Laptop Line? →
The folks at Business Week think it’s time to take a new look at MacBooks. A step-up to multitouch screens starting at a nifty price would thrill consumers.
11 Things You Shouldn’t Leave For School Without →
When you first arrive at college you will be introduced to problems that you never knew existed. While no list will ever include a solution to all of your ills, this one hits on some things that you…
22 Amazing Close-Ups of The Surface of Bubbles... →
Photographer Jason Tozer was asked to take some pictures of bubbles by Creative Review magazine, using the new Sony Alpha camera.
Optical storage goes deep: 1TB stored in three... →
Researchers in California report on the creation of a standard sized optical disc (120mm x 1.2mm) that is capable of holding up to 1 Terabyte of data. The added storage comes from using all three…
WatchAmazing Blob Jump Launch Video
Earthquake just hit LA →
5.8 Earthquake hit California, minutes ago.
Read Faster. Way Faster. No, really, I mean WAY... →
Extremely useful online speed reading java applet. Any text you copy and paste into it is “flashed” one word at time as fast as you’d like. (I use it offline too by saving it in IE7 as a “Web Archive…
Guy busted asking for answers to a job... →
A job applicant posted the questionnaire in full on Ubuntu forums asking for “help from the experts” for his job interview, expecting them to do the work for him. Someone tipped off the hiring…
The 100 Most Oldest Websites in Intenet →
Have you ever wondered about the beginning of internet? The sites that early users of internet used to read?
You’ll Never Count Sheep Again After You See... →
A nightmarish (yet fascinating) drawing, titled The Way of the Sheep, by German art student Markus Neidel.
cuil - search engine →
Cuil Launches A Massive Search Engine with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of their index,…
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Anatomy of the Linux file system →
When it comes to file systems,Linux is the Swiss Army knife of operating systems. Linux supports a large number of file systems, from journaling to clustering to cryptographic. Linux is a wonderful…
First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic... →
AFTER scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.org composed a colorful message for “all publishers” of college…
Apple stores now open at 8 A.M. to handle iPhone... →
All of Apple’s US retail outlets are now in a permanent launch mode and will open as much as two hours earlier each day to accommodate the unprecedented demand for the new iPhone. Also, at least some…
Steve Jobs Calls NYT Columnist a "Slime Bucket" →
Apple lied about Steve Jobs’ health when it tried to quash concerns about his appearance at the WWDC conference last month, Joe Nocera of the New York Times says. Steve himself also finally weighed…
Ben Stein compares Obama to Hitler →
Stein on Obama’s convention speech: “Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that’s something the Fuehrer would have done”
Virginia Tech building supercomputer out of 324... →
Virginia Tech’s Center for High-End Computing System (CHECS) is famous for building a 1100-node, G5-based supercomputing cluster in 2003 called System X. At the time it was built, it ranked as the…
Obey the Japanese Coca-Cola Robot Vending Machine!... →
A Coke vending machine robot walking around outside of Shibuya Station in Tokyo. The Japanese schoolgirls looked shocked, as did many other people.
Smoking Will Kill Up to 1 Billion People in the... →
The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco will kill up to a billion people in the 21st century, most of them in poor and middle-income countries. In an effort to cut that number, Bill…
Taco Bell Makes a Special Delivery to a Longtime... →
For years Wolfe made his own personal ‘Run for the Border’ every day, we’re talking 7 days a week, 365 per year and Tuesday, the folks at Taco Bell returned the favor.
Finally, A Dating Site for Zombies! →
Because Even Zombies Need Post-Apocalyptic Love
U.S is Now the World's Largest Generator of Wind... →
Thanks to blow-hard winds, the United States has just become the world’s largest generator of wind energy. Germany previously held this distinction, though since the United States has about 26 times…
Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard →
You can’t really turn a Linux system to a Mac, but you definitely can make your Ubuntu Hardy looks like a Mac OSX Leopard.
Apple may be moving the MacBook to sub-$1000... →
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer’s talk of “future product transitions” during the recent earnings call has opened the way for a lot of speculation. MacBooks under $1,000 for back-to-school seems like a…
Fresh Prince of Gotham →
The Dark Knight meets Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Warning: this song contains minor spoilers from the movie.