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Eye of Science: Velcro.
 Looks organic, right? Like something you'd see in a nook on a coral reef? It's actually velcro.
Oliver Meckes and Nicole Ottawa are microphotographers who founded Eye of Science
in 1994. Capturing everything from insects to velcro, their images help
scientists (and the rest of us) make sense of the things too small to
see with the naked eye. It's all done with Transmission-Electron
Microscopy and Macintosh computers.
Posted in: Future
[Eyebeam reBlog]
1:37:28 PM 
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Year's best HTPC cases reviewed.  Here[base ']s a new one for the year-end wrapup list: AnandTech has an
in-depth look at the best home-theater PC (HTPC) cases. Last year at this time we were pretty sure there weren[base ']t enough
PC cases that could be defined specifically as home-theater cases to warrant such a wrapup; there were just small
desktop cases tricked out by modders to work with home-theater setups. Today, there[base ']s a range of cases with features
designed to make them fit in with any entertainment system, including text displays, conveniently placed audio and
video ports, and quiet cooling systems. If you[base ']ve wanted to build an HTPC but were afraid of the compromises you might
have to make, it looks like your wait is over.
[Via DesignTechnica]
[Engadget]
1:34:58 PM
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LED floods, need we say more?. 
We[base ']re not entirely sure why it took so long to do this (we here at Engadget would look forward to a future where all
articifial light is LED or fiber-based), but an Arizona-based company named Enlux clustered un-housed LEDs on a
head-spreading circuit board (matched also with aluminum fins) to make LED-based floodlights. The geek-over-practical
quotient is pretty out of control though: while each bulb lasts 50,000 hours (used 8 hours a day that[base ']s 17 years) and
uses less than half the wattage of similarly bright incadescent bulbs, each Enlux flood will set you back $80 bones.
Yes, that[base ']s eighty dollars.
[Via MetaEfficient]
[Engadget]
1:32:48 PM
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Craigslist vs. the Newspapers. Report: Craigslist costing newspapers millions: Interesting information on the phenomenon that is CraigsList. I wonder how long until the newspapers file a lawsuit for unfair competition?
Free community Web site Craigslist has cost San Francisco Bay Area
newspapers up to $65 million in employment advertising revenue,
according to a report released Monday.
Craigslist, which generates more than 1 billion page-views each
month, also has cost the newspapers millions more in merchandise and
real estate advertising, and has damaged other traditional classified
advertising businesses, according to a report published by Classified
Intelligence.
[Gadgetopia]
12:28:44 PM
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Lightning: Mozilla Strikes Again. Given the growing success of Firefox, a new Mozilla-based project code-named 'Lightning' may be worth keeping an eye on.
Lightning is the working project name for an
extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling,
tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird.
[...]
Q. Is Lightning meant as a competitor to Outlook?
A.
With Lightning, Mozilla Thunderbird will have a set of user features
that is much more competitive with Outlook, especially in enterprise
usage. The primary goal of Lightning is to provide a pleasant and
productive user experience for both email and calendaring tasks,
largely independent of specific competitors' product plans. If the
result of the Lightning project is an acceleration of users' migration
from Outlook to Thunderbird, though, very few tears will be shed.
Thunderbird with calendaring features would be very cool.
[Gadgetopia]
12:27:30 PM
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Wikipedia and the Tsunami Disaster. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: If you haven't looked yet, Wikipedia is [~] once again [~] doing an insane job keeping track of developments in the Southeast Asia tsunami disaster.
Currently on the page is scads of information about what caused the
tsunami, what a tsunami is, what the currect effects are, what every
country is going to help, and what phone numbers and URLs you need if
you want to assist. It's an amazing level of detail and it should be
your first stop for information, rather than any of the news outlets.
We've previously raved about Wikipedia's abilities in this respect with Hurricane Ivan, the Madrid Bombings, and the 2004 Olympics. [Gadgetopia]
12:24:02 PM
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FrontPage Code Cleaner. Frontpage Code Cleaner: Here's a handy service, though FrontPage 2003 is a lot better with code than its predecessors.
Our Frontpage Code Cleaner will read the page you specify,
and clean a lot of the un-needed code created by Microsoft Frontpage.
This helps to shrink the size of the actual page, which has many
benefits.
Just for fun, I fed Gadgetopia's front page into it, and it dropped it from 70K (yikes) to 66KB. [Gadgetopia]
12:21:18 PM
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Flash Done Well. Asia's Deadly Waves: The Impact on India:
Here's a really great example of Flash design to show pictures and
graphics of the tsunami disaster. It's very non-linear, very
exploratory. The pictures may seem simple enough, but click on the
"Graphics" link to really get a feel for how Flash can be done right. [Gadgetopia]
12:19:55 PM
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MT Wiki Vandalism. MT Wiki . MT . WebHome: This note was posted on the front page of the Movable Type wiki. Depressing.
THANKS TO EVIL PEOPLE, SEARCH HAS BEEN DISABLED AND PAGES ARE NO LONGER EDITABLE - NOT MUCH FUN HUH? [Gadgetopia]
12:18:19 PM
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ccPublisher 1.0. After
six busy months, I'm very pleased to announce the release of
ccPublisher 1.0. ccPublisher 1.0 is a feature complete, stable tool
which allows users (that's you) to easily license your work, and
optionally upload it to the Internet Archive for free hosting and cataloging.
You can download ccPublisher for Windows (.msi) or Mac OS X (.dmg) from our servers or from the SourceForge.net project. Linux distributions will be available soon.
We're
not done developing ccPublisher, and have lots of improvements planned.
But I'm confident there are features and ideas we haven't thought of.
So write them down or join the discussion. [Creative Commons Blog - rss]
11:47:58 AM
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Mini Eectric Chair for Bugs
The
Rechargeable Insect Vacuum
will help you rid your home of creepy crawlers. You'll never have to
touch them or waste your favourite glossies to squash spiders against
the cream walls of the bedroom.
While vacuums only suck the creatures into the
vacuum bag, the Insect Vacuum exterminates them with a jolt of
electricity inside the sealed chamber. An internal trap door prevents
the bugs from crawling or flying out.
It seems that the tool is completely safe to use around your family and pets. And it's rechargeable,
outputting enough power to suck up hundreds of bugs per charge
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$30.00.
Probably the cruelest gadget I've ever blogged.
(via
Flylosophy
)
- regine [Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women]
11:44:02 AM
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RokPlayer wants you to watch TV and movies on your cellphone. 
Look, we[base ']re not going to get into the whole debate about whether or not people are going to watch video on their
cellphones (though we did keep ourselves busy on a recent flight from New York to San Francisco with a few episodes of
Undeclared on our Treo), but a British company called Rok Player definitely thinks that you will. Early next
year they plan to start selling MMC flash memory cards that come pre-loaded with TV shows and movies formatted for
viewing on your cellphone, though obviously the phone has to have an MMC or RS-MMC card slot, and their software player
is only compatible with a handful of handsets like the Nokia 6600 and the Siemens SX1. It[base ']s for the UK only (licensing
issues abound), and the carriers might not like it since it means people won[base ']t be signing up for their streaming
services, but Rok Player say they[base ']ve already secured the rights to distribute a few dozen different British TV shows,
several Japanese and Bollywood films, and will be announcing deals with three [base "]major Hollywood studios[per thou] next
year.
[Via PicturePhoning]
[Engadget]
11:40:50 AM
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