This is a pretty cool (sorry) fan. It has 42 LED’s mounted on the blades which enables it to to display groovy images or animated gif’s as it spins. Very geek.
Unbelievable bright images 5 megs of memory holds up to 128 individual frames. You can animate, spin, slide, flash and dissolve to your heart’s delight. [...]

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An experimental scramjet engine was successfully tested this week in outback Australia. The scramjet, which is a joint development between Australian and US Defence forces reached speeds of 11,000 km/h or ten times the speed of sound! (Mach 10) during it’s 12 minute flight.
A scramjet requires supersonic airflow through the engine, to achieve this a [...]

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Skype have finally released the 1.4 beta version for linux of its VoIP program. Considering that Skype’s last linux release was now over 9 months ago it has been long overdue.
There is a version for most of the popular linux distro’s available for download however Skype on linux still has no webcam support and the [...]

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I guess this place either exchanges children or they do child sex changes..

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EADS Astrium, a European aerospace company unveiled a full scale model of their space jet in Paris this week. The jet is designed to take four paying passengers on a one and a half hour round trip to an altitude of 100 km above the Earth.
The space jet will have both rocket and conventional jet [...]

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The deer is so stunned by how bad a shot this guy is, it can’t move.

I will never understand how people can go out and kill animals as a “sport”. I am glad that this asshole is such a crap shot.

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Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles.
Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan.
Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns.
And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is [...]

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A German geek/programmer has created a giant “Hello World” in the form of a semacode (barcode data matrix) out of a crop field.
The semacode measures 160 x 160 metres and is near the town of Ilmenau in Germany.
Google Earth Link / Project Link

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The Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from the Cape on Friday to begin it’s 11 day mission, during which it will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) to deliver equipment and replace an ISS crew member who has been there for 6 months.
STS-117 is the 118th Space Shuttle flight and will be the 21st [...]

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It’s no secret I am a huge Star Wars fan, the original film 30 years ago captured my imagination and the imagination of millions around the globe.
Reader John Booth from fieldsedge.com has written a series of essays about his memories of the whole Star Wars saga. He was six and a bit when A New [...]

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