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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Ever wanted to watch George Lucas' famed Star Wars reconstructed through the use of ASCII characters? Open up your terminal and type in this command:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
How awesome is that!
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
The European Southern Observatory has just discovered a planet that resebles Earth more closesly than any ever found before. Here are the basic details:
The planet has a diameter of 1.5 that of Earth's
The planet has a mass 5 times that of Earth's
The planet orbits a Red Dwarf (These produce less ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
NASA has just released tones of 3-D images of the Sun takes by its new STEREO telescopes. STEREO was launched in in October 2006. the way it works is that there are two telescopes each orbiting at diffrent places around the Earth (one ahead and one behind). They're kind of ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
While reading an article predicting Microsoft's eventual demise after Vista, I came across Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It seems to be an online version of MS Office. It has all the essential feature- formatting, images, indenting, etc - as well as a few not so common ones - Comments, block ...
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Sunday, August 20th, 2006
If you take a CD-ROM drive's lense and stick it in front of a webcam you get an instant microscope! I tried it and heres a video of it:
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Don't mind the backround voices. Thats my cousin.
For instruction on how to make one click here.
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
In order to make ice sink you need to have heavy water. In order to do that you need to make D2O. The D stands for deuterium which is heavy hydrogen. So take some D2O and put it in the freezer, then put it into some water and amaze your ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Microsoft is distributing their free Office 2007 Beta 2 over here if you want to grab a copy.
Anywho, heres some screenshots of the new software exposed(Click to make bigger)!
Office 2007 Word has a couple new features, looks really nice, and its default font isnt Times New Roman anymore!
Office Outlook 2007 ...
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
So apparently a new substance has been discovered that allows scientists, if used right, to render objects invisible. This new superlens makes it so that light hitting the object bounces back, and essentially erases the incoming light. Sir John Pendry, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who invented superlenses, ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Scientists have recently discovered the fossil of a giant meat eating dinosaur. They say that its beigger then a T-rex and traveled in packs.
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