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Sunday, July 30, 2006

Segway Centaur

These things look pretty cool, let's see if they decide to go ahead and sell them.

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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth (Awesome!)

Ever wondered what it would be like to walk through your digital photos in 3D or see what hundreds of other people shot at the same location? See Photosynth in action and hear how Live Labs is exploring new ways to change the way you think about the web.

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The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art

If I didn't know it already, I wouldn't discern that the gallery is made up of drawings. Yes! They are NOT photographs.

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Spectacular Use of Stop Motion Video

This must have taken forever to do but the end result is amazing.



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Sunday, July 23, 2006

Force Effects that even George Lucas can love!

Finally a leaked video of the new technology for the next gen game engines that lucas arts games will be using has leaked for our viewing delight... And viewing delight it is, finally an engine that looks like it could be awesome enough to make even the smallest starwars fan almost shed a tear of delight, and i love the trooper at the end too LOL

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The Bleeding Edge of Compviz/XGL

A 5-minute video that will knock your socks off...

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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Run the McDonalds Corporation

An amazing flash game that... simulates the McDonalds corp. Can you run it?

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Half Life 2: Survivor Screenshots!

Thirty screenshots. "We have thirty screenshots of Half Life 2: Survivor, the arcade game made by Taito. Instead of playing on a PC players sit in a chair with a LCD HDTV monitor, two joysticks and foot pedals to play the game."

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New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trailer!

I don't need to say anything more - it's back!!

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Ten tech-related YouTube clips you shouldn't miss

Ten tech-related YouTube clips you shouldn't miss

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The 1% Rule

It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

June Comscore chart

Comscore chart for most visited entertainment destination. Click on thumbnail to enlarge picture.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Pretty Cool Japanese Photo Gallery

Awesome Flash based application. You can upload up to 20MB per month, and the uploading is fast. After that you can tag the photos, add description, make some comments, choose your favorites entries/users and more, etc

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Biro-Art: Fantastic Ballpoint Drawings

A gallery of some extraordinary sketches made with a simple (Bic) ballpoint pen on A4 laser printer paper. Biro is the British name for the ballpoint pen.

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Saturday, July 08, 2006

In Parallel Universe Al Gore is President: Saturday Night Live Sketch VIDEO

This is so funny and sad at the same time, how many things could have been different if Bush had never stolen the 2000 election... Gasoline for 19 cents/gallon? End to Global Warming? Americans admired abroad? Budget surplus? Universal Healthcare? Stable Middle-east?

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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

12 Web 2.0 StartUp Gems - Useful Services for Free

A wide range of google AJAX / Web 2.0 Services offered by innovative Start Ups
Will be fascinating to watch how they progress

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Monday, July 03, 2006

Oldest registered Internet domain still in operation

Symbolics.com was registered in 15 March 1985 - long before anyone knew what a huge part in our lives the Internet was going to play some 20 years later.

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