The Ariel Atom 2, the fastest car on 4 wheels.

This is the Ariel Atom 2, the 2nd fastest street car in the world (next to the Enzo Ferrari). And it doesnt even have any body work. With 300 HP and only weighing in at 500 KG, its got the best HP to weight ratio for any street car. "It'll go from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, if you can shift fast enough."
And it only costs $80 000!!!!

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How To Use BitTorrent in 5 Easy Steps

How to get started downloading files using BitTorrent in 5 easy steps! Uses Azureus and Pirate Bay as an example. Written for friends and family, it's a great tutorial for beginners!

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Home theater system modelled after the StarTrek enterprise bridge

"..I became aware of the new developments in the area of home theaters and digital video that would finally allow me to indulge my love of the big screen and science fiction, in particular."

Direct Link to the photo gallery is: http://www.reighn.com/theaterphoto.html

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How to make your own Ethernet Patch Cord : A No Nonsense Guide

This simple, no nonsense guide, will teach you how to make a good Ethernet patch cord at a fraction of the price it would cost you to buy it pre-manufactured. A 10" cat5e patch cord can cost you up to 7$ in a store. If you make your own cable, each of them should cost you around 1,20$.

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Awesome High Resolution Wallpapers

High resolution wallpapers that are presized for you to standard sizes of 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200, as well as to widescreen size of 1680x1050, resulting in sharp pictures without distortion.

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Get your Ubuntu box up and working in full throttle as quickly as possible.

This little program lets you choose to install Firefox 1.5, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Multimedia Codecs, DVD Playback, Skype, VLC, and many other essential apps.

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How to Install Firefox 1.5 in Ubuntu Linux

For those are not as terminal savy, this wiki gives a great step-by-step guide how to install Firefox 1.5.

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4 GIGAPIXEL CAMERA!!

Pull the camera out of a retired U2 spy plane put it on a pushcart and voila a 4 gigapixel camera!! Image resolution is absolutely amazing!!! From full panorama picture right down to treads of a tire in the distance!!!

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Geek to Live: Lifehacker Pack

A very nice listing of free programs from lifehacker.com. Take that Google Pack :-P

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The ultimate Google command list

Did you know you can search for any phone number with just [phonebook: name here], or can find the weather in any city with just [weather: city name]? Try out the filetype: command with mp3 or avi and see what you get.

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Tracing An Email

A guide that shows the processes required for tracing an email. The guide is broken up into three parts Enabling Email Headers, Understanding Email Headers and Tracking The Orginal Sender.

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Computer First Aid Using Knoppix

Windows just crashed. The computer won't boot back up. Those "System Recovery Disks" that came with your computer will erase all of your data. Now Knoppix will be your hero.

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Does our Sun have a hidden companion star?

Debris disks discovered around two nearby stars look strikingly like the Kuiper Belt in the outer part of our solar system, astronomers said today. Each disk has a sharp outer edge that might be caused by an unseen companion star. Our own Kuiper Belt is thought to have similarly abrupt outer bound.

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Star Wars:Empire of War DEMO!!!!!

After many failed attempts of turning the Star Wars brand into a decent RTS, Petroglyph looks to set things right with the release of the Empire of War demo. Set in the time period of Luke, Han and Chewy, you command Land, Space battles. Any Star Wars fan has to download this.

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Ubuntuguide reborn

Ubuntuguide - unofficial starter guide for UbuntuLinux users has been upgraded and updated for Ubuntu5.10

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Best (most useful) list of windows utilities I have ever seen

This is bar none the best list of windows utilities I have ever seen. OK, I already knew about approximately half of them and the list is from 2005 but the ones I was not aware of are golden. I know people are tired of these lists but just check it out and see. My apologies if this is not news to you.

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A nice collection of technical reference cards

A bunch of useful reference "cards" (some span a few 8x11 pages) for programming, database, administration, text editors, etc in both Windows and *nix.

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Make an Invisible person in your photo

Here is a fun Photoshop tutorial. I think it would also be neat to make a coloring book of your photos with this tutorial.

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Top 100 essential downloads

Check out top-100 essential downloads of free software & freeware for Windows XP all in one page..

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HUGE list of linux commands ... on one page!

This page just warms my command line-lovin' heart: it's a massive collection of a buttload of Linux commands, with a short explanation of each one, organized alphabetically within sections.

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10 websites you should know about

10 websites you should defiantly know about.

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Thunderbird 1.5 Released

Mozilla has released the first major update to Thunderbird. Version 1.5 includes an automated update system, in-line spell checking, an a bunch of other additions and improvements. Enjoy.

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Space propulsion breakthrough: new spacecraft ion engine tested

The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically improves performance over present thrusters and marks a major step forward in space propulsion capability

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Hard drive recovery utilities: when you can't afford to lose that data

Just imagine this: you've been working on that important paper for the past 2 weeks, and you are just about to finish it. The deadline is in a few days. You save your document, go for a coffee and when you get back, your screen is black[...]

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The Most Popular Myths in Science

Chewing gum does not take 7 years to digest, that dog you just kissed has a cleaner mouth than you do, plus much more from LiveScience.com

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Centralize your music to gmail

this cool app was something i was looking for for quite some time. With offline mode you dont need the network.

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Over 6500 tutorials on 500 categories

Tutorials for: 3DS MAX, AutoCAD, Blender 3d, Bryce 3d, Cinema 4D, Database, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, Lightwave 3D, Maya, MM Fusion, MS Office, P2P File Sharing, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop(a lot), Premiere, QuarkXpress, CSS, HTML, Web Designing, Web Hosting, Java, PHP, Python, Visual Basic, Visual C, and many more.

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Linux Software Installation methods

A description of the various methods of installing software on linux, with pictures. An interesting article for beginners and experts alike.

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Learning to Use Regular Expressions

They have a lot of good tips here.

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Easily Increase Your PC's Speed!

This rough guide gives you a few tips to increase your computers (PC only) speed, through tweaking specific settings! It really works!

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Can't find a distro you like?

Well, this site might be the cure. It makes picking a distro FUN !!!

(That sounds like a cheesy advertisement)

Seriously. Check it out ;)

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Google Earth War

Cool war game using Google Earth. Players generate revenue to fund their armies. You can also start/join alliances and try for world domination. Nice idea and it's improving daily.

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Google map of open webcams

This is a Google map of unprotected/open camera streams obtained from Google searches. The IP addresses for each camera has been mapped to it's Geolocation.

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Plasma thruster tested for Mars mission

The technology was recently verified at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris...The HDLT uses solar electricity from the sun to create a magnetic field through which hydrogen is passed to make a beam of plasma, powering ships through space

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Download Free CD Covers

FindMyCover is powered by ajax and allows you to easily download CD covers. Works fast and is simple to use.

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A little Linux can revive a pokey PC

If you have an old PC just standing there in the corner give it a new lease on life...

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Free online file storage and sending

This is an extensive list of online file storage services and/or large file size email sending services. Includes any known restrictions, etc. All are free.

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Ultimate Boot CD

A utility CD that can do wonders for your computer

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800+ Online Classic Arcade/Nintendo Games

This site offers you the chance to play the great 80's classics. These old arcade games are gaining a new lease of life thanks to an emulator that restores them to how they were upon their release.

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MAC Address: Do you know what the OUI is?

The oui is the first 6 digits of a MAC address (FYI).
Using firefox with the Advanced option "Begin Finding when you being typing" checked makes searching for stuff really easy. Just type the six hex digits and you know who really made that NIC.
Reasons for not digging this are encouraged in the comments.

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