Amazingly Detailed Flash Periodic Table

Displays everything from boiling points to electron orbitals. Completely customizable coloring. Each element links to wikipedia.

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Google File System - how Google does it

While many IT shops deal with the issues related to hundreds or thousands of users, Google regularly manages, administers and upgrades software and systems for millions of users. How do they do it? This article presents an excellent overview of the Google file system and its unique capabilities.

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BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype

i found this interesting video over at youtube it shows a great way of using desktop on your computer its done up using physics engine and the whole thing is 3d

A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives

Sometimes you need to QUICKLY erase your Hard drive. The article explains how to do it when you only have seconds, and the data needs to be 100% unrecoverable.

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The International Space Station as Seen from Earth

You can photograph the international space station as it passes by, check these photos.

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Genetic HIV Resistance Deciphered

An estimated 1 percent of people descended from Northern Europeans are virtually immune to AIDS infection, with Swedes the most likely to be protected. One theory suggests that the mutation developed in Scandinavia and moved southward with Viking raiders.

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A VC's View of Web 2.0

The day of giant corporate software packages is over, says Oracle vet Ray Lane. The future lies in bottom-up, user-driven services.

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Security without firewalls: Sensible or silly?

For years, infosec experts have called the firewall a critical ingredient to security, whether it's in a large enterprise or on a home PC. But the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has defied that logic with what some would consider surprising success.

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Web 2.0 works for Corporate America

"And though these Web 2.0 services have succeeded in luring millions of consumers to their shores, they haven't had much to offer the vast world of business. Until now. Slowly but surely they're scaling corporate walls."

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A great Interactive Periodic Table

Here's a great interactive periodic table of elements. You can click the button for html and pdf files that provide background information and further data on the Periodic Table of Elements.

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Worlds Fastest Growing City (pics)

In many areas, it is not easy to see Dubai's sky without at least one crane in your view; Industry experts cautiously estimate that 15 to 25 per cent of the world's cranes are in Dubai. Some US$ 90 BILLION are on-going in Dubai alone.

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TagLines - Visualization of the Evolution of Flickr Tags

TagLines is the visualization of the evolution of Flickr tags over time. An algorithm chooses the eight most popular tags for each day, along with interesting photos corresponding to each of these tags. TagLines provides via Flash two metaphors for visualization: the waterfall and river.

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Entire community wiped out in 10 months (with before and after pics)

Human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday released the first-ever satellite images of the effect of the Zimbabwean government's controversial Operation Murambatsvina, which left 700 000 people homeless last year, according to a United Nations report.
(Via: http://www.mg.co.za/)

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Stalkerati.com: A site to "keep track" of your friends!

This site is hilarious! You type in the name of a friend and it will run searches on MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and more. Create profiles on your friends and save them to your "buddy list", then you can just click their name and see all their profiles later on! The buddy list also shows you who's online by checking their IM statuses.

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Impressive Collection of Before and After Photo Retouching Examples

This collection of photo retouching samples shows what's possible when cleaning up a photo to meet a client's needs. Includes everything from basic color correction to changing the outfit of a little girl and extending the world behind her.

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