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Funky JavaScript via Digg

The code below takes images from the current webpage and spins them in a circle on screen. Try itwhile visiting Flickr.

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

The Most Hypnotizing Website Ever via Digg

a musical realization of the motion graphics of john whitney as described in his book “digital harmony”

How to design an Origami Rubik

How to make roses from maple leaves via Digg

Prepare for Ludicrous Speed via Digg

In 1957, German theoretical physicist Burkhard Heim publicly outlined a new idea for spacecraft propulsion. It was based on his new theory of physics which successfully described Einstein’s theory of Relativity within the framework of Quantum Mechanics, and it married the two so effectively that he became an instant celebrity.

“300” movie Trailer via Digg

Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller (author of Sin City & Batman: The Dark Knight Returns). Opens in March 2007.

MIT Sketching via Digg

Check out the whiteboard that turns hand-drawn sketches into fully animated physics models.

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The Wake-up Light via Digg

This combination alarm clock and lamp brightens gradually to simulate a sunrise to wake you in a more natural fashion.

20 Things You Didn’t Know About… The Nobel Prizes via Digg

One big blooper that did garner a Nobel (Medicine, 1926) was the dubious “discovery” by Johannes Fibiger that rats could develop cancer by feasting on cockroaches infested with parasitic worms.

First Teleportation Between Light and Matter via Digg

Not quite a “Beam me up Scotty” breakthrough, but at least it’s real.

9 Reasons To Become an Evil Super Villain via Digg

3. All of a sudden, you will have the budget for all kinds of toys
5. You will be safe from everyday accidents

They forgot #10, The Sequal Escape Clause. The really big name villians always escape capture, otherwise there wouldn’t be anyone for the hero to face in the sequel.

Monty Python Halo
A HALO spoof of Monty Python skit No. 42 How not to be seen.

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Top Ten Geek Wallets via Digg

Hey, check out the stainless steel wallet. Of course it’s more comfortable than it sounds.

Halloween Costumes for Geeks via Digg

When Magic Tricks Go Wrong – When Everything Goes Wrong! via Digg

Harry Blackstone’s musical extravaganza is the magic version of the sinking of the Titanic.

How To: Dismantle?an Atomic?Bomb via Digg

This is an important step to learn before you go on to build your own A-bomb. You better know how to disarm them.

Why don’t magnets work on some stainless steels? via Digg

Top 10: Dinosaur Myths via Digg

7. Dinosaurs were slow and sluggish animals

Well of course. I mean, they clocked a T-Rex at 40 m.p.h. in Jurassic Park and everything.

What happens when you put a light bulb in the microwave! via Digg

Well this one didn’t explode, but that doesn’t make it safe for you to try it.

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25 Signs That, Sadly, You’ve Grown Up via Reddit

How did your city looked like 100 years ago? via Digg

Armstrong’s Famous Moon Landing Quote Rewritten after Tech Analysis via Digg

Excuse me Mr. Armstrong, the Grammer Police want to speak with you.

very cool “Rube Goldberg Machine” via Digg

Famous peoples last words via Digg

Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”

Top 176 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With “Pants” via Digg

I find your lack of pants disturbing.
Governer Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader’s pants.

Pacelman. Pacman for Excel. via Digg

Cellvaders (Space Invaders on Excel) can be found here too.

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HOWTO: Make a shoulder-bag out of floppies via Digg

Now that we’ve finally found a practical use for this coaster rejects, does anyone still have enough of these to make a bag?

Scientists discover ‘shadow person’ via Digg

Similar shadowy encounters have been described by people with schizophrenia, as well as by healthy subjects, leading the researchers to believe that:

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1. iPod docks
2. SpaceBalls News
3. Foxtrot takes on Web 2.0
4. Listener Steve needs some help
5. and the exploding batteries stories don’t end here

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Rocket Scientists not as smart as originally thought via Digg

The article drew an immediate rebuke from a spokesperson for the American Society of Rocket Scientists, who blasted the study as “state-of-the-art pro-brain surgeon propaganda.”

Triple Sunrise via Digg

Produced by sunlight shining through common atmospheric ice crystals with hexagonal cross-sections, such halos can actually be seen more often than rainbows.

Furniture made from bundles of sharp pencils via Boing Boing

Just the thing to compliment your rusty bed of nails. Would it have killed them to put the eraser side facing out?

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