Watch Star Wars in ASCII
Monday, April 7th, 2008Ever 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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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!
Earth-like Planet Found
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007The 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 ...
See the sun in 3-D
Monday, April 23rd, 2007NASA 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 ...
Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Think Office online
Monday, December 11th, 2006While 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 ...
Turn a Webcam into a Microscope
Sunday, August 20th, 2006If 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: [gv data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=4853726031184663613&hl=en"][/gv] Don't mind the backround voices. Thats my cousin. For instruction on how to make one click here.
How to Make Ice Sink
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006In 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 ...
Microsoft Office 2007 (Beta 2)
Thursday, May 25th, 2006Microsoft 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 ...
Wanna Be Invisible?
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006So 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, ...
New Meat Eating Dinosaur Discovered: The Mapusaurus
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006Scientists have recently discovered the fossil of a giant meat eating dinosaur. They say that its beigger then a T-rex and traveled in packs. >Click
Saturn’s Moon Has Water!!
Thursday, March 9th, 2006*GASP!* This may just be the greatest discovery that human kind has made ever since it entered the space realm. It appears that Saturn's moon "Enceladus" has water on it. The water channels erupt like the ones in Yellowstone Park. They think that under a thick layer of ice there ...