The US Air Force is working on an unmanned space plane design based NASA’s x-37 program. The X-37B which would consist of a reusable Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) would be about a quarter of the size of the space shuttle and be able to deliver satellites into low Earth orbit. However unlike the space shuttle […]
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Want a cool looking email icon for your blog or webpage?
You can create your own with the Email icon generator at nexodyne. Check it out, you can create an icon for 25 different mail services. Very handy for those like me who are too lazy to make one themselves.
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Check out the paintball gun that this guy is working on. It’s got 6 barrels and is pressurized to 1200 psi.. that’s going to hurt, and it’s going to hurt a lot.
link here.
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Two Jedi Knights petitioned the United Nations last week to officially recognise “Jedi” as a religion. The Jedi’s known as Umada and Yunyun delivered the following protest letter to the UN:
“To whom it may concern,
For the last ten years the United Nations has marked today as the International Day of Tolerance.
While we support this important […]
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Office 2007 users who do not activate the product within the set number of program starts will be punished with “reduced-functionality mode” as outlined in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
From the article:
“In reduced functionality mode, programs function similarly to viewers. When a program runs in reduced-functionality mode, many commands are unavailable (dimmed). Therefore, you cannot […]
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And yet another reason why we love Google.
Google last month announced “Google Docs and Spreadsheets”. You can upload, create and store your documents and spreadsheets online so they are accessible to you and to whoever you choose to share them with from anywhere in the world. And of course once you have created a document […]
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Here is the list of the 10 worst company URL’s on the internet as determined by IndependentSources. You have to wonder just how much thought went into some of these.
Who Represents - www.whorepresents.com
Experts Exchange - www.expertsexchange.com
Pen Island - www.penisland.com
Therapist Finder - www.therapistfinder.com
Italian Power company - www.powergenitalia.com
Mole Station Native Nursery - www.molestationnursery.com
Computer software sellers - www.ipanywhere.com
First Cumming […]
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Stirling University researchers have studied the faces of Britain’s top 20 comedians, blended them together and come up with what they believe is the perfect face for comedy.
They found that the face most likely to make us laugh was rounded, had a wide nose, small forehead and feminine features. The researchers also reckon that the […]
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Creative have released a new firmware update for their Zen Vision:M mp3 players. The update adds FM recording capability again after a previous update removed that function presumably due to piracy concerns. The update also optimizes photo thumbnail capability on the player.
Download the new firmware from here.
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Israel is using nanotechnology to develop a robot the size of a hornet that can chase down, photograph and kill it’s target. The robot which has been nicknamed the “bionic hornet” can fly down corridors, alleyways and other previously unreachable positions in search of potential enemies.
Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the Yedioth Ahronoth Israeli […]
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Are people annoying you at the office? Then you need this ultimate piece of non-lethal weaponry. It is a handcrafted fully operational rubberband machine gun which will fire off 144 rubber bands as fast as you can turn the handle. It sits on a sturdy base and rotates 360 degrees as well as tilting up and […]
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