Microsoft is giving copies of Vista and Office 2007 away. Why? To ensure that resident enthusiasts get familiar with the new features and convince their office managers that they ‘must’ upgrade so that they can have access to even more features they will never use. 
There are 2 catches to this give away though. The first [...]

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Look carefully at the image above. The little blue dot outlined in the square is the Earth captured in an image by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a distance of 6.4 billion kilometres (4 billion miles) on February 14, 1990. 
Carl Sagan was one of the driving forces who pushed for the Voyager craft to take [...]

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On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space.
The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude [...]

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Here are the top 20 excuses/comments by programmers upon discovering that their programs don’t work:
20. “That’s weird…”
19. “It’s never done that before.”
18. “It worked yesterday.”
17. “How is that possible?”
16. “It must be a hardware problem.”
15. “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
14. “There is something funky in your data.”
13. “I haven’t [...]

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This ad has been going around the internet for quite some time and is most probably a joke. But what if it’s real? And what’s the story with the weapons? 

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South Park character generator, make your own here.  

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Paper may soon replace DVD’s as the storage medium of choice if the ‘rainbow technology’ developed by Indian computer scientist Sainul Abideen proves viable:
Files such as text, images, sounds and video clips are encoded in “rainbow format” as coloured circles, triangles, squares and so on, and printed as dense graphics on paper at a density [...]

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Ok this is really cool, all geeks are going to want one of these. lostinspacerobot.com make full size replicas of the much loved B9 robot from Lost in Space. Each robot is hand made and comes with over 500 different audio voice tracks recorded by Richard Tufeld who was the voice of the original robot. [...]

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Here is a site that offers free disposable email addresses that expire after 10 minutes. Perfect for signing up to web sites that require email validation and it’s a way to help keep your primary address spam free. I imagine that the transient nature of this system would also appeal to certain groups, such as those engaging in [...]

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The longest and most productive mission ever sent to Mars appears to be over. NASA has not detected any signal from the Mars Global Surveyor since November 2, the most probable explanation being that the craft can no longer generate enough power to communicate with Earth due to problems with a solar panel. 
Mars Global Surveyor [...]

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In 1900 a Greek sponge diver sheltering from a storm discovered an ancient ship wreck 40m below the surface off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Recovered from the wreck were several artefacts including the most complex device ever recovered from the ancient world, the Antikythera Mechanism. Over the past decades many astronomical [...]

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Need a new case for your computer? How about a new girlfriend? Why not build a case that you wish was your girlfriend instead. Fellow geek Katsuya Matsumura has done just that, check out the making of his uber-sexy computer case here.

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