Topic: FUN - on March 19, 2005 at 2:28:00 PM CET
2-sided pov toy
i've spent the last few months working on a persistence of vision (pov) circuit for a bike wheel. this is my first foray into electronics and micro-controllers so, while it works, it's a bit of a hack. in fact, you might just want to skip on down to the "things to fix" section.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 19, 2005 at 11:23:00 AM CET
THE INCREDIBLES At Pixar
As it was explained to me later, Steve Jobs originally proposed a building with one bathroom, something that would drive foot traffic to a central area all day long. Obviously, they’ve got more than one bathroom in the building, but just standing there and watching as everyone arrived to start their day, it was obvious that Jobs had managed the feat.
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Topic: TV - on March 19, 2005 at 11:19:00 AM CET
Harmony® 880 Advanced Universal Remote
Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems, the Harmony 880 helps you tame tough configurations like switching your television between video aspect ratios depending on the program source. The interactive color display lets you quickly choose a 16:9 ratio for movies and HDTV, or a standard 4:3 ratio for basic television programming.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 19, 2005 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Google - Bash Style
This is what happens when a coder is sick for three days, and is tired of coding everything else. He reads a thread on a forum, and notices that there was a Mac OSX style Google. That gives him the idea, why not a Bash style Google?
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Topic: TV - on March 19, 2005 at 10:52:00 AM CET
LateByte
Cool Site that let's you download Torrents of Late Night TV Shows such as Leno, Letterman, and Conan. Requires free registration and the website is in dutch but the downloads are in English.
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Topic: IT - on March 19, 2005 at 10:50:00 AM CET
Skype goes for the gold
Net phone phenom Skype is preparing to expand its menu of paid services, hastening its efforts to evolve from a free provider of niche services into a profitable company that could give industry giants a run for their money.
The Luxembourg-based upstart has so far signed up 29 million registered users for its free Net phone calling software--a unique version of voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP--making it one of the fastest-growing services on the Net.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 19, 2005 at 10:46:00 AM CET
MIT Backs Brazil's Free Software Over Microsoft
MIT's Media Lab has recommended Brazil install open-source software instead of proprietary software offered by Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) on thousands of computers that will be sold to the poor, according to a letter obtained by Reuters.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 19, 2005 at 10:44:00 AM CET
UK police foil massive bank theft
Police in London say they have foiled one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain.
The plan was to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui.
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Topic: VIDEO - on March 19, 2005 at 10:38:00 AM CET
The Open Video Project
Anticipating a future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video, a great deal of research is currently focused on many areas related to digital video. Research in these areas requires that each investigator acquire and digitize video for their studies since the multimedia information retrieval community does not yet have a standard collection of video to be used for research purposes.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 19, 2005 at 9:21:00 AM CET
Google Code
We're very happy to be launching code.google.com today. To begin, we're releasing some developer-oriented libraries and tools. A number of engineers have used their 20% time to ready these tools for release, and will also help build the communities we hope will form around them.
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