Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Half-Ton Of Nuts Heading To CBS

When the first orders for nuts started to trickle in to his family's 78-year-old business Friday, Jeffrey Braverman had no idea what he was getting himself into. About 50 orders had been placed in a short time to New Jersey retailer Nuts Online, all in reference to a television show called "Jericho," a show that Braverman said he barely heard of.



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Friday, May 18, 2007

100% Electric Motorcycle

Their Stealth motorcycle has a horsepower equivalent to a 500-cc bike, and it tops out at around 50 mph. That’s not much on the highway, but it’s plenty of speed to zoom around town. And at least your neighbors won’t complain about the noise: This is one good looking, yet nearly silent hog



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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Cool Space Desktop Wallpapers for Kevin Rose

On one of the latest Diggnations, Kevin was talking to Alex about how the hubble is gone now, and said he would pay 2 bucks a month just for them to send another one into space for the sole purpose of getting cool desktop wallpapers.Here you go Kevin, my website is still a work in progress, but you inspired me to start working on it a year ago!



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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Comcast Demos 150 Mbps Cable Modem

At the National Cable and Telecommunications Association Conference in Las Vegas this week, Comcast demonstrated a cable modem downloading at 150 Mbps, according to the Mercury News (AP).



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Comcast shows cable modem that is 25X faster than what we have now..

It lashes together four cables to give you a lickety-split download rate of 150Mb per second, a helluva lot faster than the 2Mbps to 5 Mbps you get with a cable modem these days if you're lucky.



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James Webb Space Telescope: Boldly Peeking Where No Man Has Peeked Before

Video and photo galleries of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's new infrared galactic peeping tom. As well as looking like an Imperial Star Destroyer, it also seems just as big judging by the actual-scale prototype. In fact, it looks so big that it makes you wonder how are they going to put this thing in space in one piece. The answer: origami.



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Secrets of a lost world

Of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one still standing. Built around 4,500 years ago to house the body of the fourth-dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (or Cheops), it stands testament to a lost world's technical expertise.



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Sunday, May 06, 2007

My connection to the world