footerest: 2005

Saturday, December 31, 2005

NASA's Spirit and Opportunity still probing Mars after two years

Nearly two years after landing on the Red Planet,
NASA exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to send back amazing images and information about Mars in a mission long outpacing expectations.

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How-To: Make a CAT5 cable (and variants)

Simple and concise.

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Gorgeous Close-Up Photos of the F-117 "Nighthawk" Stealth Fighter

The best set of F-117 Photos I've found. These are Truly some of the best photos showing the F-117 from Display, Take-off, In-Flight, and Landing. High enough resolution to make into screen savers or Desktop pics...

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Friday, December 30, 2005

Watch NOVA programs online for free !

This is great. The Einstein piece on E=mc^2 isn't online yet, but for now you can watch "Elegant Universe", "Cracking the Code of Life", "Life's Greatest Miracle", "MARS - Dead or Alive?", among many others. . .

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Thursday, December 29, 2005

5 Best Freeware Games of 2005

Lists the five best freeware games of the year that include a battlefield 2 like shooter, zak mckracken 2 the successor of zak mckracken and other great games.

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Improve your memory

Pretty basic info, but it's got some good ideas if you (like me) have a horrible memory.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Read Most of O'Reilly's Hacks Books for Free Using Google

Use the Google Book Search to read the O'Reilly's Hacks Series of books (or for a lot of other books, like travel guides) for free.

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26,084 FREE Legal Public Domain Movies!

This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.

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Top 50 Inventions - Scientific & Technological

In the past half-century, scientific and technological advances have transformed our world. PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. Here, then, are the breakthroughs of our time.

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43 Windows XP Fixes from FixMyXP.com

Including Faster Icons, Restart Button On Desktop, Remove Messenger, and Get Rid of the Delete Confirmation.

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Amazing Satellite View of Niagra Falls

My new desktop background

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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Wired Magazine:' 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards '

"Cursing CEOs, an iPod-crazy president and denials, denials denials: Wired News sifts through speeches, interviews and court documents to bring you the year's most cringe-worthy tech quotes."

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Amazing Snowflake Pictures

Snowflakes are temporary works of art. After just a few short minutes on the ground, a fallen snowflake will lose its ornate structure, its unique pattern that will never again be repeated. Photography allows us to preserve a few of these minute masterpieces and to examine their form up close.

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A beautiful view of Saturn for Christmas

One of the latest colour shots of spectacular saturn, from the Cassini probe mission reveal our solar system's unique beauty for all to see as though we were viewing it with our eyes.Few sights in the solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its stately rings.

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Most Spectacular Mars Photo Yet!

"Scientists and engineers celebrated when they saw the first pictures NASA's Opportunity sent from the rim of a stadium-sized crater that the rover reached after a six-week trek across martian flatlands."

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Short and killer Linux tips

A compilation of command line tips that will help you a lot.

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A Firefox for Music?

The Pioneers of the Inevitable are taking aim at iTunes, with open-source music software called Songbird.

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Saturday, December 24, 2005

An Explosion on the Moon

NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains) on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground traveling 27 km/s.

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Friday, December 23, 2005

Hilarious Apple Support Calls

Some of these are unbelievable. Thanks to drunkenbatman for the link.

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Thursday, December 22, 2005

The most beautiful pics

This flash site will amaze you!

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Sorting your email with GMail

I came across a great way of using Google's GMail to create disposable/sortable email addresses that let you duck spam and find out who is sharing your address and with whom....

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