Fascinating High Res Galactic Imagery

Stunning pictures of galaxies and nebulae. Many of the photographs are large enough to use as backgrounds for all but the largest monitors.

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'Bride' Stripped Bare

Cool article about the digital gear and process used to make the animated move "The Corpse Bride".

David Weiss: A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab

David Weiss: A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab

Geek to Live: Develop your (digital) photographic memory

Great ideas for using your camera phone + flickr to record and catalog things other than just snapshots.

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Iraq War TImeline

Here is a timeline that I found documenting the current conflict in Iraq. On May 1, 2006, it will have been 3 years since Bush declared "mission accomplished" in a military flightsuit abord the USS Lincoln.

ILM’s state-of-the-art (storage) studio

Industrial Light & Magic uses high-speed NAS servers with a distributed file system, 10gb/sec Ethernet, and a 5000-node renderfarm to store and move 170tb of content.

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Apple's Mac Os X 10.5 Leopard Will Probably Run Windows!

Rumors have been brewing that Jobs and co. are taking steps toward allowing Windows apps to run on Macs. Now evidence has surfaced that Apple has begun the process toward doing just that!

Is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's juggernaut 95% market share?

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Babies decide what words to learn

Like teenagers, babies don't much care what their parents say.

Though they are learning words at 10 months old, infants tend to grasp the names of objects that interest them rather than whatever the speaker thinks is important, a new study has found.

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Windows vista delayed to 2007

Microsoft has delayed the release of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system to 2007.

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Life Expectancy Calculator!

This is the test that insurance companies use to calculate your probable life expectancy! This test merely calculates the probability of your life expectancy based on your habits and environment!

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Iraq Three Years Later: The Path to War

This is the best and most frank recap of what led up to the Iraq war. The pronouncements made by members of the Bush administration are startling considering what was actually found and what actually took place. It is clear to me that this administration did more than act on bad intelligence.

NPR Article

Radio dial scan from the night John Lennon died

Amazingly, 25 years ago somone recorded a dial scan of their radio on the night John Lennon was murdered. A fascinating way to capture history, and something that might become impossible if the Radio Flag legislation goes through.

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In What Language do Deaf People Think?

An interesting column on how the prelingually deaf think since they've never been exposed to spoken language.

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Google Wins - No Search Records Revealed to Govt - Ruling Official

http://www.google.com/press/images/ruling_20060317.pdf

Google will not have to hand over any user's search queries to the government.

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Ultimate Web 2.0 Websites List

For all those Web 2.0 hungry people here is a link to all the web 2.0 websites.

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Star Wars, the TV series, is GO!

The new Star Wars TV Series will have more than 100 episodes, and is expected to debut sometime in 2008.

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How The Bush's Helped Hitler Rise To Power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

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Finally, The Windows On Mac Contest Has Been Won. $13,000 Prize!

Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution.
Thanks to Journalspace for hosting this contest in our hour of need!

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Google Video

It looks like Google Video is now open to the public. I uploaded a home movie there yeseterday and it was approved and posted. Zero cost and hopefully and infinte archive time.

Preparing for Gwyneth

Einstein Hated Marriage, Alcohol, Spelling. Plus, His Cat Was Depressed.

Read 10 obscure (but true) things about Albert Einstein that you almost surely didn't know.

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Gmail

I moved from two IMAP email accounts to Gmail. I used the Gmail loader to get my archived mail off of the IMAP servers and into Google's servers. I enabled POP3 access so I can download the mail into my Treo. This is the only application I'll use to actually download the mail. I'll use Firefox to access Gmail from all other computers and notifiers to alert me of new mail. I'm also using AddressBooktoCSV for OS X which can be found on Version Tracker.

Welcome to my new little experiment!

The past few years I've grown used to OS X and all the cool stuff that it has to offer with built in access to .Mac and what not. I still love OS X but believe that operating systems will become more and more irrrelevant as site providers give us more and more useful content. Don't get me wrong, .Mac is great but it only runs on Macs. I deal with 3 operating systems on a daily basis and syncing between everything was becoming a nightmare.

I have found online replacements for most of the things that I use and I'm going to try and integrate all of them. See the sidebar for links and I'll be posting more info right here.