Hacking Human Eyes

A study was done where people put on glasses which inverted the image. They saw everything upside-down, but after wearing them constantly for a few days, their brains were retrained to flip the image right-side-up again. When they took the glasses off, the image was upside-down again!

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Best Buy to cancel MIRs, creates Online Rebate Submissions

"Our customers told us they hate mail-in rebate programs. As a result, we're working to find new solutions to give our customers a better shopping experience, while remaining competitive on pricing."

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Big Publishing Group demands my domain

I registered deusto.com in 1997. Now, eight years later, Planeta Agostini, one of the biggest publishing groups in Spain and owner of Ediciones Deusto, sends me letters demanding me to transfer them the domain, because they registered the trademark "deusto" in 2002 .
Now they have presented a complaint to the WIPO and the domain is suspended.

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The Best Time to Buy Everything

CNNMoney reports on the Best Time to Buy Air Tickets, Televisions, Houses, Cars, Video Games, and Toys...

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Extremely Useful "ISO Recorder" Power Toy for Windows

ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder.

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Hubble Ultra Deep Field (6200x6200 JPEG)

This is a link to one of the most spectacular photographs ever taken - the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Save for five foreground stars, every point of light in the photograph is a galaxy. This 1 million second exposure was taken over the course of 400 hubble orbits of the Earth, and is the farthest into space we have ever seen!

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Men Are From Google, Women Are From Yahoo

Men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities. Men tend to see it as an office, a library, or a playground--screw the community, this is about function not family.

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New iPods To Arrive with Wireless

No more wires will be needed to connect your iPod to your car stereo. The patents indicates that this technology will send music and ID3 tags to your car stereo.

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Deaf hacker rewrites implant-firmware so he can enjoy music again.

A 15 year old deaf hacker tinkered with the firmware on his cochlear implant, trying to get it to faithfully render out Ravel's symphony, Boléro, eventually meeting with success.

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Holophonic Sound - Audio So Real It's Scary

You've heard the Diggnation demo of surround sound through regular headphones. Just wait until you hear true three-dimensional sound that even lets you hear above and below you!

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Portable Open Office 2.0.1 released

Here is a portable version of Open Office for use with a USB Drive. Pretty cool since it allows you to have both the file and the software to open the file with you at all times.

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Elmo Asks 'Who Wants to Die?'

Reprogrammed Elmo books sold to unsuspecting parents to teach kids to use the potty

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First 15 minutes of 9/11 attacks on the web

Riveting descriptions of the first 15 minutes of live TV/radio coverage of the attacks: "If Gumbel seemed to somehow miss the crash of the second plane, he was the only anchor who thought he saw non-existent third and fourth jets approach the burning towers at 9:41. "Hold it, hold it!" said a near-panicky Gumbel to his guest...

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A huge virus threat for every Windows PC ever made

Experts believe that this could be the biggest vulnerability that has ever surfaced for Windows PCs. Other than the users themselves.

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RIAA Try New Scare Tactics

Visitors to the site are being shown their own IP address and told that it was "LOGGED" (in all capital letters) -- as if there's something illegal about visiting the website. Rather than worry people, this is mostly just causing people to laugh at the RIAA.

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Supercooled Water: watch as bottled water turns into ice in seconds

This article details a practical experience with liquid water cooled below its freezing point. When disturbed, the water turns into ice within a matter of seconds. It's called supercooling, and occurs when molecules in the pure water cannot fuse together.

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The Truth Behind Bananas

After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.

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Best Open Source Encoder (Xvid, Divx, H264, MPEG-2) - StaxRip

With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format. As a open source application StaxRip is completely free.

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Xbox 360 costs $715 to make

Microsoft is losing upwards of $300 per console sold. "It costs Microsoft approximately $715 to make, the manufacturing costs are still too high, another reason why they�re producing relatively small quantities.'�

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Google Zeitgeist '05

Google just released their Zeitgeist 2005 with lots of fun and interesting tidbits

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