Wednesday, May 31, 2006

A Beginner's Guide to Everything that Goes on Inside a PC

Before building a PC properly, it's important to understand the what goes into creating a working personal computer. It's also important to understand the roles that components play, and how various factors in one component can impose requirements and trade-offs on selection of other components. Here's the perfect guide.

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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Teams Duel Over NASAs Next Spaceship

Flying NASAs Crew Exploration Vehicle, or CEV, by 2014 is vital to whats dubbed the Constellation Systems the spaceship, boosters and related hardware needed to tend the international space station, return to the moon by 2020 and plant footprints on Mars in future years.

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Enron - Skilling and Lay found GUILTY

Just announced - both are found guilty.

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Historical Sounds in MP3 Format (Excellent)

Great historical speaks and ounds in MP3 Format (include Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein,Robert Frost, etc)

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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

My Second Life :)

Monday, May 15, 2006

Digg Office almost Complete

Kevin Rose has just posted some pictures of the new Digg office on flickr. The office looks amazing, check out these pictures for a behind the scenes look at Digg.

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Friday, May 12, 2006

E3 2006: Best And Worst Of Show

It's a tough job, we know. But someone's gotta do it. We trekked to Los Angeles this week for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the annual showcase for the latest and greatest in gaming. We braved long lines and played plenty of video games to find out what's hot--and what's not. Here's our take on this year's show.

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Disneyland :)

We had a great trip to Disneyland! 2- nights, 2- days. Nice weather, quiet streets, short lines.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

New Gmail Feature: Gmail Pictures

Gmail Pictures (which isn't yet available) will be rolled out to accounts slowly very very soon. It lets users choose avatars for their email conversations with people, almost like avatars in instant messengers.

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Monday, May 08, 2006

Massive Rock Slab Growing at Mount St. Helens Crater

A spectacular view of a hulking slab of rock that's rapidly growing in Mount St. Helens' crater. The slab of the rock looks like something out of science fiction!

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Sunday, May 07, 2006

Search bots behavior analyzed

"A large scale experiment on search engine behaviour was staged with more than two billion different web pages. This experiment lasted exactly one year, until April 13th. In this period the three mayor search engines requested more than one million pages of the tree, from more than hundred thousand different URLs."

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My name among other Supercross greats



"RC" wins his 5th AMA Supercross title - May 6, 2006 in Las Vegas! It's his 14th National Championship as well.

And, the day before, he and Suzuki announced their plans for the next three years together. (Ricky will race selected races starting in 2007. See Suzuki's press release and info below.)

Click on thumbnail to view the larger image. Photos by Bruhn, Hoppen, Quackenbush, and Faught.
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Friday, May 05, 2006

Noah & I ride our new bikes

The Night Sky on Your Desktop

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Pictures: AMAZING views of Planet Earth

Breathtaking shots from space

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Visualizing Digg Data

"In our ongoing effort to analyze digging patterns, news trends, story
connections/relationships, friend suggestions (future feature), and
digging bots/fraud, we'd like to share with you the first visual
maps/movies of actual digging activity."

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Monday, May 01, 2006

M. C. Escher's Impossible Drawings become Actual Physical Objects

It may come as a surprise for some, but many of the so-called 'impossible' drawings of M. C. Escher can be realized as actual physical objects; designed and built using geometric modeling and computer graphics tools

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