Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Kodak Goes On Offensive With New Models, 100 Year Ink At 50% Cost


The cost of printing is the greatest obstacle to home-printing, according to some brains at InfoTrends; so printing a 4x6" photo for 10 cents should help alleviate the strain from that family album...Here

All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash app










From the femtometer to the light year, Universcale spans
40 magnitudes of measurement into a single cosmic Web
application.

It's really amazing when you zoom all the way out into stars
and galaxies and then realize that every time you go a
magnitude higher, everything you saw before, from the flea
to Mount Everest, is contained in this tiny little grid in the
lower-left side of the screen.

Of course, the Carl Sagan-should-be-narrating-this planetarium
music helps. Left click to skip intro and click on size numbers
to scroll to location Enjoy..Here

Global War on Piracy Launched, PirateBay Gets Nukes


Several filesharing sites suffer a prolonged assault on their infrastructure, uTorrent.com is hijacked by the MPAA, several scene release blogs are under attack, and the RIAA started a new IP harvesting operation. In a direct response to these threats The Pirate Bay teamed up with North Korea, and armed their nukes...Story Here

Newbie's Guide to Flickr

Flickr is a popular photo sharing and hosting service with advanced and powerful features. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other's photos...Howto Here

Dead Family Dog Made Into Desktop Computer


Koln, Germany–After keeping their taxidermied family dog in the living room for 4 years Albert and Petra Zimmerman decided to make better use of their small living space by combining the home computer with Ex-pet Dieter...Story Here

Home of the Hamburger?


A veritable war among the states has broken out, with various locales claiming to be the home of our iconic national meal on a bun. Americans are a proud bunch, and we love our hamburgers, selling them by the billions at home and around the world. ..Story Here