30 May 2006

New Scientist Breaking News - Satellite could open door on extra dimension: "An exotic theory, which attempts to unify the laws of physics by proposing the existence of an extra fourth spatial dimension, could be tested using a satellite to be launched in 2007."

28 May 2006

iMeep: Who will you meet today?: "Bored? Feeling random? Click the iMeep button and you are randomly paired with another online iMeep user, in real-time, to begin live chatting! Who knows who you'll wind up meeting. Only you can find out!"
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SU Science Junkie: A Testable Hypothesis on Time Travel: "According to Päs, a physicist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and his colleagues, the door to a time machine could be anywhere and everywhere in our universe. And unlike most other scenarios for time travel, we can test this one here on Earth. 'I think the ideas presented are wonderful and exciting,' says Bill Louis, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and co-spokesperson for the MiniBoone neutrino experiment at Fermilab, near Chicago. 'The question is are they true or not.'"

27 May 2006

CleverMod Xbox 360 hacks Ps3 - How to open your Xbox 360 easily without marking it: "XBox 360's are expensive and I like to keep things unmarked/scuffed when I open them up, here's how!"

26 May 2006

Arson Network: "Learn how to create a keygen "

25 May 2006

Telegraph | News | Invisibility cloak 'five years away': "Scientists have taken the first steps towards creating a Harry Potter-style cloak of invisibility.

Professor John Pendry, from Imperial College London, said that it may not take long to develop an invisible fabric - assuming there is sufficient research into the technology.

'If there is adequate funding, I'd have thought it would take in the order of five years,' he said."

24 May 2006

ringtonia.com: Teenager repellent "Mosquito" turned into ringtone: "Remember the teenager repellent called Mosquito I wrote about a few days ago, the ultrasonic device that emits a sound only audible to teenagers? Shopkeepers in England have been installing them in order to prevent anti social youths from hanging out in front of their stores.

Well now techno-savvy pupils have recorded the ultra-high sound - audible only to under-20s- onto their cell phones, and are now receiving calls and text messages in class - without teachers having the faintest idea of what is going on.

The kids call it Teen Buzz, and it's spreading it from phone to phone via text messages and Bluetooth."
LiveScience.com - The Ethical Dilemmas of Immortality: "This is just one of several ethical and moral arguments that have cropped up in recent years as labs around the world aim at the dream of immortality, or at least to extend lives well beyond the century mark. Among other debates:

* Will everyone have an equal chance to drink from a fountain of youth?
* If people live longer but are miserable for decades, will views on suicide and euthanasia change?
* In an immortal society, how do you make room for new generations?"
intermediair.nl - Deze week - Wie ben ik? Zelfkennis is vaak zelfbedrog: "‘Ken u zelve’, gebood Socrates al, en tot op de dag van vandaag worden we doodgegooid met persoonlijkheidstesten, trainingen ‘zelfverwezenlijking’ en zelfhulpboeken als Worden wie je werkelijk bent. Maar kan het wel: jezelf kennen?"