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Fractal drawers
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 13, 2008
Fractal 23, from New York's Takeshi Miyakawa Design, might just be the coolest chest of drawers I've ever seen.Link(via DVice)
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SMS data rate is 4x more expensive than data from the Hubble
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 13, 2008
... because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5p each, that's £374.49 per MB - or about 4.4 times more expensive than the ‘most pessimistic’ estimate for Hubble Space Telescope t...
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The Best Antivirus!
via Simply the Best! by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by Ali این نود۳۲ از چه جاهایی محافظت میکنه ما خبر نداشتیم هااا
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WorldWide Telescope Visualizes the Night Sky [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 13, 2008
Windows only: Microsoft Research releases astronomy application WorldWide Telescope, software which offers "terabytes" of detailed telescope images of the night sky for exploration right on your desktop. Zoom, pan, and explore the solar system, galaxies and more using WorldWide Telescope. The BBC reports:Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra...
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FontStruct: Font Making Made Easy
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 13, 2008
FontStruct is a new online font creation tool from font seller FontShop that was officially launched last week. The site combines a Flash-based font maker (the Fontstructor) with a community site built around sharing, discussing, and building off of those fonts. FontStruct is free to use, as are all the fonts created using it.Creating fonts has never been a cheap endeavor. FontLab's...
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Beta Beat: IntelliScreen for iPhone
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Erica Sadun on May 14, 2008
Filed under: iPod Family, Beta Beat, iPhoneReally cool stuff today over at ModMyiPhone. The new IntelliScreen software customizes your "Slide to Unlock" screen allowing you to load widgets onto that otherwise unusued space. Options include listing calendar events, mail subjects, SMS messages, weather reports and RSS news feeds.One note though about beta releases: We love them for the inspiration...
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Commercial Games Gone Freeware [Saving Money]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 14, 2008
Looking to do some PC gaming but the price tag of commercial games conflicting with your money-saving goals? Check out Wikipedia's list of commercial games released as freeware. It's bound to be a bit hit-or-miss, but with games released as recently as 2008, it may be worth a look. [via]
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The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on May 15, 2008
Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet.We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imaginean online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated content.But there is another fairly recent innovation, which might have just as profound implications. We're speaking of the contextual user...
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NBC Activates Broadcast Flag
via Slashdot by samzenpus on May 15, 2008
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "NBC activated the 'broadcast flag' on a number of shows this week, ranging from American Gladiator to Medium, which prevented compliant programs like Windows Media Center from recording them. The matter is being 'looked into,' but that doesn't tell us whether it was an accident or a ploy to see how outraged viewers would be at...
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synchronized sleeping
via Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger? by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by spavis ADORABLE!synchronized sleeping inter-species divisionbabbee lukee dat u didnt eated her.picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: Jennifer » Recaption This
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