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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Mona Lisa in infrared (photo)

"An Infrared photograph suggests that Leonardo originally painted the Mona Lisa with a gauzy overdress for nursing (visible, at right), and a tiny bonnet (vague outline visible about the sitter's head)." via nytimes.com

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Flash-based Geography game: Geography Challenge

Improve your geography skills with this game. via www.mentalfloss.com

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Download Torrents at 100Mbps!

"A free shell service called Silence is Defeat is offering the ability to use their 100Mbit full duplex connection to download any torrent you want. Since their connection is full-duplex and uncapped, torrents will download faster, and you can seed your downloaded torrents without giving away your IP address!" http://www.silenceisdefeat.org/

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The probability of these situations occurring is 0.0000001% (video)

Funny video from a Bangkok insurance company.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

New 9/11/2001 Video: 11 September 2001 - What We Saw

This family decided to release a new home video filmed from their window about 500 yds away from the WTC site. Impressive!

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Interactive map of languages spoken in the US

Very cool map with lots of stats by county or even ZIP codes!

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Monday, September 04, 2006

GnomeFiles - GNOME/GTK+ Software Repository

Lots of software categories and ranking. Check it out!

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Sunday, September 03, 2006

Does that product really work? The truth about Infomercial products

Wanna know the truth about that amazing NEW product? Check out the consumer infomercial ratings and reviews.... but wait there's more.

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Friday, September 01, 2006

Sudoku addicts rejoice!

Free daily Sudokus for print or play online

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Java goes parallel with Titanium!

Titanium is an explicitly parallel dialect of Java developed at UC Berkeley to support high-performance scientific computing on large-scale multiprocessors, including massively parallel supercomputers and distributed-memory clusters with one or more processors per node.

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