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Monday, September 26, 2005 

Superman: Most Expensive Movie.... Ever.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the New Superman movie, being directed by Bryan Singer, has topped $326 Million dollars--- making it more expensive then Titanic ($250 Million).

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CSS Techniques Round Corners - 20 CSS Tips & Tricks

20 CSS techniques, tips, and tricks that you may find handy. Topics range from rounded corners, Netflix style rating sytems, styling lists, different layout techniques, styling RSS feeds with CSS and more. A great catalog of links to help you easily get the effects you want for a site.

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Order Ubuntu Breezy (5.10) free CDs Now

Ubuntu is taking orders to ship free CDs of its new OS version, Breezy Badger, to be launched in October.

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Thursday, September 22, 2005 

VirtuSphere, The Virtual Reality Machine

VirtuSphere provides a mechnical basis for truly immersive virtual reality environments, permitting the user to move about in virtual space by simply walking.

The device consists of a large hollow sphere which is mounted on a specially designed platform that allows the sphere to rotate freely as the user walks in any direction. The user wears a head-mounted display, which provides the virtual environment. Sensors under the sphere provide subject speed and direction to the computer running the simulation. Users can even ineract with objects in virtual space using a special manipulator.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=462


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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 

Web Design & Development Cheat Sheets

All the cheat sheets you'll ever need as a web designer, graphic designer, web developer, or anything related to it. Including a new Adobe Illustrator Cheat Sheet.

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Google Search Techniques

Learn to use Google's advanced query syntax to get results quickly

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Light transmitting concrete

Three years ago, Hungarian architect �ron Losonczi invented LiTraCon, the first light transmitting concrete.

A wall made of LitraCon has the strength of traditional concrete but thanks to an embedded array of optical glass fibers, view of the outside world, such as the silhouette of trees, houses and passersby, are transmitted inside the building.

The wall can be quite thick as the fibers work without any loss in light up to 20 m.




http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003654.php


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Microsoft Codename: Max

Microsoft® Codename Max is not like any other product. That's because it's not a product—it's your opportunity to try an exciting new user experience from Microsoft. Today Max lets you make lists of your photos and turn them into beautiful slide shows to share with your family and friends. Tomorrow...who knows?


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Stellarium Astronomy Software

Stellarium is free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX.
With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Stellarium is also used in planetariums.

http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/index.html


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Opera is going free!



Opera Software has removed the banners and licensing fee of their Opera Web Browser, and it is now freeware.

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Thursday, September 15, 2005 

Ajax Powered Online Dictionary!



no need to go to dictionary.com. As you type a word in the textbox, a javascript event fires and a HTTP GET request to the ASPX page. The response from the ASPX page is simply displayed in a div tag under the textbox. The page is not refreshed/reloaded for every keystroke as everything is done by the javascript in the page.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 

Software List for a Better Computing (A must have)

There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features my personal pick of the "best of the best."

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 

The Most Intelligent Chatbot in the Planet by The Ai Team

Founded to create true artificial intelligence - making it possible for humans and computers to speak to each other in everyday language - Ai is an international project with a research center near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ai Research is headed by Jack Dunietz, a 23-year veteran of the technology industry, who has established several successful publicly traded firms. The Ai team consists of scientists, researchers, engineers, and language specialists. All work together to nurture Ai's child machine, and to ensure that it will successfully pass the Turing Test within the next 10 years.

 Ai Research is a leading artificial intelligence research project. At Ai, they are creating a new form of life. The web site is an essential part of the emerging global discussion about artificial intelligence. On their website, they showcase the state of the art in patterm-matching conversational machines, demonstrated by Alan, and in reinforcement learning algorithms, demonstrated by HAL.

Click here to Launch Alan
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Thursday, September 08, 2005 

Sony throws down a new Walkman



Well, well, well — Sony is officially rebirthing the WALKMAN in this device, which’ll be rolling out in Q4 in sizes of 6GB (NW-A1000) and 20GB (NW-A3000). It features an organic EL display that makes the readout appear fairly seamless with the rest of the player.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 

Apple iPod Nano


Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at $199, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small design. So small, it will take your music places you never dreamed of.

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BAE VTOL UAV impresses in autonomous tests


Using a 22-inch-diameter fan with a nominal outside diameter of 37 inches, the Unmanned Vehicle (UAV) is about 5 feet tall and has flown with simulated payloads of up to 25 pounds.

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Sunday, September 04, 2005 

Affordable hydrogen fueled cars - Never buy gas again!


I've been watching this develop for about a year and it seems to be nearing production. This converts your EXISTING car to run on hydrogen, and best of all, they give you a hydrogen generator that you can run at your own home for little to no cost. Even if you aren't interested in this kind of thing, it's still a good read, plenty of pictures ;).

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AJAX Powered Online Calendar!!!


Certain apps tend to jump out for Ajaxian writers. The online calendar is one of them, and Kiko has stepped up to the plate with their offering.

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Saturday, September 03, 2005 

Real-time HTML Editor!

Type HTML in the textarea above, and it will magically appear in the frame below.

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Invisible force field!

Scientists at 3M have discovered an 'invisible' forcefield!

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Never Turn Your PC off With this New Vista Feature

A new technology built into Windows Vista that automatically saves unstored documents when IT managers run patch installations will be a boon to PC users who never turn off their PCs.

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Thursday, September 01, 2005 

The Largest Hadron Collider Scheduled on 2007

The LHC is an accelerator which brings protons and ions into head-on collisions at higher energies than ever achieved before. This will allow scientists to penetrate still further into the structure of matter and recreate the conditions prevailing in the early universe, just after the "Big Bang".

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