Every year on June 17, the Goldberg family take a picture of themselves to capture that moment in time. They have been doing so since 1976.
It’s interesting but a touch depressing I think.
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The battlestargalactica.com website has been hacked by the Turkish group aLpTurkTegin.
Hidden at the top of the page is the following text:
“hack hacker hackers HACKERS HACK
hacked HACKED HACKING hacking aLpTurkTegin alpturktegin turkish turkey turkei
turkay security securi securite secure deface defacer defender”
If you search that text in google it leads to the website of the American Small […]
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Scientists believe they may have spotted caves in images taken by Nasa’s Odyssey spacecraft which is in orbit around the red planet. Seven potential caves have been identified on the side of the Arsia Mons volcano with entrances varying in size between 100m and 252m wide. In one of the images the floor of the […]
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The UK McDonalds FAQ has a number of eyebrow raising entries. The following is a prime example..
There must be a hell of a lot of people out there worrying that their grandmothers are drinking semen spiked milkshakes for that question to make the FAQ.
Other notable FAQ entries include:
“What is the average semen content of a […]
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SciFi smackdown is a cool new site which pits the icons of SciFi up against each other in battle just for the geek of it all.
Their first episode features every SciFi enthusiasts favorite ships, the Starship Enterprise and the Battlestar Galactica at it head to head. Who do you think would win and why?
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Here is a really cool demonstration of multitouch technology. The iPhone will give us a taste of this but I think in the not so distant future we can kiss our mice goodbye.
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With 85 implements covering over 100 functions the Wenger Giant swiss army knife is the undisputed king of pocket knives. Sure it may be somewhat large but it replaces most of the tools and implements you currently have in your garage and even in your kitchen. It also comes with a laser pointer with a […]
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The image of Io above was taken by the New Horizons probe as it recently sped through the Jupiter system on it’s way to Pluto. The image was taken with the spacecrafts Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) from a distance of 2.5 million kilometers. Clearly visible in the 11 o’clock position of the Jovian moon […]
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Want to upgrade the hard drive in your iPod but don’t know how? The Command-Tab blog has a great tutorial on how to do it. The guide is quite comprehensive covering everything including hard drive selection, preparation for the delicate operation and what tools you need to perform the transplant. A word of warning though, […]
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from Wikipedia
A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure formed by conducting material, or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks out external static electrical fields. Faraday cages are named after physicist Michael Faraday, who built one in 1836 and explained its operation.
The electrical charges in the enclosing conductor repel each […]
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With a heart-stopping price tag approaching $50,000 — $49,500 to be exact, although the price will climb to $59,750 in April — the Vividus bed launched last year by the Swedish manufacturer Hastens is among the most expensive sold in the United States.
But the Vividus, which means “full of life” in Latin, is just the […]
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The French government look like to be the next big switcher to Ubuntu. According to reports, two companies, Linagora and Unilog, have been selected to provide 1154 shiny new computers loaded with open source goodness to members of the French Parliament before June 2007.
The switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings […]
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