Saturday, March 25, 2006

New Internet Backbone Map 'Published'

The map includes 134,000+ routers. The map is made by CIO.com.

Link to Boing Boing includes map links and supporting articles.

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Top 25 Craziest Deaths

They say: "shh.. it happens". This is a list of crazy, weird and even funny deaths of prominent people in the last 100 years. Funny stuff, and hey, it's a top 25 list!

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First SpaceX launch ends in failure

The first attempt by private company SpaceX to launch a satellite into space ended in failure Friday after the Falcon 1 rocket had to be destroyed a minute after launch, an official said

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Steve Jobs' Taxes - $295 million

Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs this month used over 4.5M of the 10M restricted shares owed to him by the company to pay income and other employment taxes applicable to those shares, AppleInsider has discovered. He did not sell any of his stake in the company.

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Norwegian reinvents helicopter stablization with tiny helicopter

A Norwegian engineer reinvented the way helicopters keep themselves stable. The result: create a radio-controlled craft that can take off from the palm of your hand

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Friday, March 10, 2006

The Story of Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Story behind the creationg of Ctrl Alt Delete. This guy burns Bill Gates; great video!

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EXCLUSIVE: Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah�s Ark Mystery

High on Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions.

Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity.

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