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25
Feb
2008
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- What are your obsolete gaming skills? » Has the advance of time rendered any of your videogame abilities redundant?
- Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys » Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard.
- ‘Perry Bible Fellowship’ Comic Is Ending »
- Google Lunar Xprize » Google is offering $30 million to the first people to put a robot on the moon.
- Portal 2 Confirmed » On tonight’s episode of X-Play, lead designer for Portal, Kimberly Swift, confirmed that there will be a Portal 2. Video of interview at the link.
- Gene research may help explain autistic savants » Mice lacking a certain brain protein learn some tasks better but also forget faster, according to new research from MIT that may explain the phenomenon of autistic savants in humans.
- Austin Czech Historical Association »
- Self-healing rubber bounces back » A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.
- GetByMail » Remote Access & File Sharing by Mail
- Making your windows folder smaller! »
- LitePC Technologies » trim Windows operating systems
- HDDVD is Dead - Toshiba Press Release » Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.
- Samuel Adams Hop Sharing Program » Samuel Adams beer is selling their hops to microbrewers at just above their cost, to help alleviate the strain of the hop shortage on microbreweries.
tags: beer, blu-ray, comic, czech, encryption, gaming, hddvd, memory, portal, ram, rubber, security, valve, webcomic, windows
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18
Feb
2008
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity » If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory.
- SvSIP » SvSIP is a software that you allow to use your Nintendo DS-like phone. For this, it uses SIP protocol. This protocol is an open standard for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more participants. It is widely used as a signaling
- NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB G94 Tested :: TweakTown »
- C&C: Red Alert 3 Announced for PC, Consoles »
- Can’t wait for September 7? Creature-only Spore to launch sooner » EA confirmed with us that the stand-alone product will let players begin creating crazy creatures, although it won’t include other components of Spore’s Creature Phase. Those creatures will then be able to be used in the full version of Spore.
- DealExtreme »
- Wicked Lasers » High quality lasers
- EA to Deliver PC Version of Mass Effect »
- How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free » Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from Facebook, setting off a fresh round of concern over the popular social network’s use of personal data.
- Tolkien heirs sue Lord of the Rings studio for $150m » JRR Tolkien’s estate is suing the studio behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy and threatening to block production on the planned prequel, The Hobbit over claims it has not been paid its share of profits from the massively successful fantasy series.
- Installing Windows XP on the Asus Eee PC ~ EEEguides.com »
- Audiosurf Coming To Steam » to include Orange box music in this nice indie game
- Computer Sciences Professor Wins Highest Honor In The Field » E. Allen Emerson, professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2007 A.M. Turing Award, widely considered the most prestigious award in computing, for original and continuing research in a quality assurance proc
- Bluetooth Modem via GPRS » on an eee
21
Jan
2008
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Nasa investigates virtual space » The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
- Library of Congress Taps Web 2.0 for User Photo Expertise » As part of an effort to expand access to its photograph collections and tap the collective knowledge of user-generated content, the Library of Congress Wednesday launched a pilot project with photo-sharing site Flickr to publish some 3,000 photos. - New Y
- The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science »
- GeForce 9600GT Benchmarked Out in the Wild » NVIDIA’s upcoming 9600GT graphics card lives up to the company’s performance claims
- Discount Electronics »
- LITTER KWITTER » The Original Cat Toilet Training System.
- CIA: Hackers Shook Up Power Grids (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com » Hackers have tried to extort money from overseas utility companies. At least in one case, the Washington Post reports, the online attackers messed with an electrical grid, disrupting ing power in several cities.
- America’s Army game player saves real life » with no previous medical training, except from the game
- Rendering Games with Raytracing Will Revolutionize Graphics »
- RoboPult » Robot catapult hurls flaming fireballs
- Super Nightvision Headset Hack! » turn an old VHS camcorder into a nightvision scope.
- ‘Darkest ever’ material created » The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders. Researchers say it is the closest thing yet to the ideal black material, which absorbs light perfectly at all angles and over all wavelengths.
- Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision » Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
- Chris Oliver’s Weblog : Weblog »
- JavaFX »
- In-Desk Dock for iPod » Belkin
- In-Desk USB Hub » Belkin
- Aggression: As Good as Food or Sex? »
- Create Quick Linker Widget » Amazon
7
Jan
2008
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- Siemens retreats over Nazi name ‘Zyklon’ » Siemens wanted to trademark it’s old buddy ‘Zyklon’; the gas they invented to kill millions in concentration camps.
- Koders » Open Source Code Search Engine
- DZone Snippets » Store, sort and share source code, with tags
- Google Code Search »
26
Nov
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- Lux Bakery & Cafe » New Cafe that took over the space of Chooby Doo in Austin. I haven’t tried it yet, but I just noticed it last week.
- eEye Digital Security »
- WP 2.3 Related Posts « WordPress Plugins »
- Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download »
- Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC »
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse »
- Joopz » free web to phone to web text messaging
19
Nov
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- How to make ANIMATED Sprays » for source games (Half-Life Team Fortress 2, etc)
- Ghostbusters 3… the game » The whole team of Ghostbusters actors will be reprising their roles in a Ghostbusters game by Vivendi/Sony to be released in 2008 on consoles and PC.
- Portal Papercraft »
- Photography: Digital Camera Reviews, Learn Photography, Photo Galleries - photo.net »
- How to solve a maze with Photoshop »
- Chowhound » food forums
- Black Friday Ads - The Official Black Friday 2007 Website »
- Java Applet Tutorial »
- Newsvine - Leonardo Painting Has Coded ‘Soundtrack’ » An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s "Last Supper"
- Definition Changing for People’s Privacy »
- Open Handset Alliance » Google and other partners strive to create an open source cellphone platform.
tags: applet, black friday, camera, cellphone, davinci, food, ghostbusters, google, java, maze, papercraft, photography, photoshop, portal, privacy, sprays, valve
12
Nov
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- TF2 Wiki »
- Fawnt » fonts… web2.0 stylee
- WordPress Super Cache » updated chaching for Wordpress, supposedly plays much nicer with plugins.
- Steampunk Keyboard Mod »
- GlassBooth » Find out which candidate most closely coincides with your views.
- Human Body in a Vacuum » How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space?
5
Nov
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- InterfaceLIFT »
- James Lipton was a pimp in France » from the Actor’s Studio
- How to Fix Your Motherboard for $15 | Tom’s Hardware » Capacitors are one of the leading causes for motherboard failure, see how to recognize and replace them.
- Gene6 FTP & Mail Server Forum -> How to »
- Project Euler »
- Review: Samsung 226BW LCD, "C" Panel | AndrewSwihart.net »
22
Oct
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- LCD monitor test images »
- wide screen gaming forum »
- The Good Life Barber Shop » Austin downtown barber
- Humping Dolphin »
- Portal: The Skinny » Jonathan Coulton talks about writing the end-title song to Portal.
- Pokemon.Marriland.com »
- PS3 supercomputer » Dartmouth astrophysicist Dr. Gaurav Khanna has rigged up an array of eight PS3 systems to help him crunch numbers in his study of theoretical gravity waves.
- Poll: Some Germans see good in Nazi rule - Yahoo! News »
- Half-Life 2: Portal » Use the Portal gun in Half-Life 2 and it’s episodes
- The Grandmaster Experiment » The queen is the most powerful piece on the chessboard. Yet in the ultra-elite ranks of chess, a woman who can hold her own is the rarest of creatures. How, then, did one family produce three of the most successful female chess champions ever?
- Halfwit-2 : Half-Life 2 Bits and Pieces »
- Main Page - Valve Developer Community »
- Valve’s Portal Mapping »
- Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time »
- Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar »
tags: barber, chess, dolphin, fabrication, german, haircut, lcd, music, nazi, parallel computing, pokemon, portal, ps3, valve, widescreen
15
Oct
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- Progress Cited in Alzheimer’s Diagnosis - » Scientists reported progress yesterday toward one of medicine’s long-sought goals: the development of a blood test that can accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, and even do so years before truly debilitating memory loss.
- Overlord - Game Guide »
- Knights Templar secrets revealed » The Vatican has published secret archive documents about the trial of the Knights Templar, including a long-lost parchment that shows that Pope Clement V initially absolved the medieval Christian order from accusations of heresy, officials said Friday.
- Texas Football main page »
- LEGO Store - Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon⢠»
- The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World »
- Electronic Arts Inc. agreed to buy BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios »
- Synergy » Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.
- Purpose of appendix believed found - CNN.com »
- Teen Cures Cancer » in dogs… maybe
- Hemmi Hotel in Churwalden Switzerland »
1
Oct
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom »
- Velociraptor had feathers »
- J.C. Penney’s 1975 catalog: Not Suitable For Young Children »
- where vehicles are left to die « deputydog »
- Star Wars: LEGO’s Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon Unboxed »
- The Box of Pain » When turned on, it emits an invisible, focused beam of radiation - similar to the microwaves in a domestic cooker - that are tuned to a precise frequency to stimulate human nerve endings.
17
Sep
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html »
- ConceptArt.org Version 3.0 »
- Fallout3 Official Fan Interview - Bethesda Game Studios Forums »
- Wacom Bamboo » PC tablet
- ISO Recorder v 2 » ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and
- Zoviet France »
- Cabaret Voltaire » In 1982, Cabaret Voltaire began to mutate from the hardcore Industrial noise of their early years into a new phase of electronic body music inspired by proto-sampling technology and a tradeoff with the emergent beats of Chicago House. Ken Hollings analyse
10
Sep
2007
extrinsic
Posted by mayberosi
- YASU: Yet Another SecuROM Utility »
- You cannot start the Windows Firewall service in Windows XP SP2 »
- "Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings" error while accessing Firewall settings in Windows XP Service Pack 2 »
- www.freeantennas.com »
- PAiA - Theremax Theremin »
- Game Design Essentials: 20 Difficult Games »
- Cheap Ass Gamer - Cheap Video Game Shopping, Video Game Sales and Video Game Deals: CAG. »
