Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Google fun!

ATHENS VIRTUAL 360°TOUR

Goodyear and Novamont Present BioTRED Tires

Newfound Greek Site is Really Ancient

Archaeologists in northern Greece have uncovered traces of two prehistoric farming settlements dating back as early as 6,000 B.C., the Culture Ministry said Monday.

Quality Open Source for Windows

TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation. We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a wide audience.

EvilLyrics - Lyrics search tool

EvilLyrics is a free lyrics fetching program designed for use with most popular music players (iTunes, Winamp, WMP, etc.).

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable. The source, which is available free thru netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to CRAYs.

Windows Live Safety Center




Windows Live Safety Center is a new, free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.

Google requires user to enter 'minge'

Scientists drill world's smallest hole

Researchers at Cardiff University's Manufacturing Engineering Centre have managed to drill holes in steel as small as 22 microns (0.022 mm) in diameter using a electro-discharge machining (EDM) process, and reckon they could be the smallest ever achieved.

Firefox 1.5 Final is out

Macrovision wants DVD Decrypter pulled from AfterDawn server

U.S. Wants to Peer Into Phone Service Networks

The federal government wants to peer into your computer communications, forcing companies that provide high-speed access or Internet-based telephone service to design -- or redesign -- their networks to accommodate surveillance....

300GB disc set to challenge DVD

A computer disc about the size of a DVD that can hold 60 times more data will go on sale in 2006, according to its American developer InPhase Technologies, a Lucent spin off.

The top 10 hacks of all time

Dos Games Heaven

Textbook Revolution, the web’s source for free educational materials.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Saturn Surprise: One Ring is Actually a Spiral

Eye Movement and Direction and How it Can Reveal the Truth or a Lie

Can the direction a person's eyes are looking reveal whether or not they are making a truthful statement? Short answer: sort of. But, it isn't as simple as some recent television shows or movies make it seem. In these shows a detective will deduce a person is being untruthful simply because they looked to the left or right while making a statement....

Can You Spot The Phish Attack?

Knowing the difference between a legitimate e-mail and a scammed phishing e-mail is not always as easy as one would think.

According to data from e-mail security firm MailFrontier, only 4 percent of users can spot a phished e-mail 100 percent of the time. That's a very sobering thought as the holiday season is upon us and Americans flock online for their shopping needs....

Everyone’s eyes are wired differently



The first images ever made of retinas in living people reveal surprising variation from one person to the next. Yet somehow our perceptions don't vary as might be expected....