New Trek movie rumored to be in the works

There's rumors floating about the net about the timeframe for the next Trek. This article from TrekToday covers Bermen's comments about the movie and the cancellation of Enterprise.

"Star Trek franchise head Rick Berman recently made the first mention of a possible timeframe for the next Trek feature film, saying fans shouldn't expect a movie in the very near future.

"I think that if this film is made it certainly won't get finished in the next year," Berman told Ian Spelling, for the British Star Trek Magazine (via the Sci-Fi Pulse). And although Berman didn't specify exactly when a new Trek movie could arrive in theatres, he did hint at what timeframe he would personally like to be aiming for. "If it gets done in two years or three years I think that timeframe for a new, fresh feature with a whole different outlook would be fine."

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Argggh, what be ye's Piratical name?

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

Argh me be liking this here little quiz. Arrrgh!

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The History of the THX "Sound"

Every wonder where the "THX Sound" came from? This article reveals who was responsible for it and how he made it.

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Last Entry from a Death Star Stormtroopers' Private Blog

It's the last entries from a Stormtrooper's blog while stationed on the Deathstar. It talks about all the practical jokes they're gonna pull the next day (April 1st) Pretty funny stuff.

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Laser Could Rival Energy From Sun's Center

From Yahoo News:

"LIVERMORE, Calif. - Ed Moses talks of the "grand challenge" that has consumed him for the past five years, comparing it to trying to hit the strike zone with a baseball from 350 miles away or tossing a dime into a parking meter from 40 miles. "That's the precision we have to have," says Moses, the director of a high-energy physics adventure to produce the world's most powerful laser — one that scientists hope will create in a laboratory the energy found at the center of the sun.

In a building the size of a football stadium, engineers have assembled the framework for a network of 192 laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser.

The trip will take one-thousandth of a second during which the light's energy is amplified many billions of times to create a brief laser pulse 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States.

The goal is to create unimaginable heat — 180 million degrees Farenheit — and intense pressure from all directions on a BB-size hydrogen fuel pellet, compressing it to one-thirtieth of its size."

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LEEEEEEERRRRROOOOOYYYYYY JENKINS!

For all you World of Warcraft (WOW) fans, you have got to watch this video. LMAO!

Video (16Megs WMV) - Right click & choose "save as"

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How to hack your TiVo

I've heard of folks doing this before, here's a pretty detailed article on how to do it.

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Geek Tattoos

Wow talk about dedication! Some of these folks *really* believe in their OS. I kinda feel sorry for the guy with "Amiga" tattooed on the back of his head. :) Some of the other tats are pretty cool.

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How LEGOs® are Made

This is a pretty cool Flash presentation of how LEGOs are made. Included are mini video clips and very cool pixel animations.



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Your Brandname Recordable DVD May Be a Counterfeit

CNews has an article on being careful when you buy recordable DVDs. You may be paying for a Memorex DVDr, but you may not be getting a Memorex disc.

"magine a DVD of the latest Star Wars movie shows up at a flea market - new in a full retail package. The movie hasn't even been on the big screen for more than a week. Your "spidey sense" tells you immediately that there is something wrong with this picture. It's a fake, a counterfeit- guaranteed. Now if you walked into a local store and you saw a retail box of Maxell Blank Recordable CDs or DVDs, it would never cross your mind that these too may not be the real thing."

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Discovery Channel's "100 Greatest Americans" list

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Okay, I don't know if you heard about this or not, but the Discovery Channel is running this "contest" to see who their viewers consider the 100 greatest Americans. They've made a list of 100 Americans and are asking the visitors to their site to rank them. I was looking over the list and found a bunch of folks, that for the life of me, I can't figure out why the hell they're on there. I mean they're Americans, and they may have had some popularity, but they're not "great", they haven't made any great contributions to our country, the world, society or the human race. So why are they on "the list"?

Here's the list with they one's I personally fell don't belong marked in bold:
Ali, Muhammad
Angelou, Maya
Anthony, Susan B.
Armstrong, Lance
Armstrong, Neil
Ball, Lucille
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bush, Barbara - What did she do? She's married to one former president and gave birth to another President. Big Whoop!

Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bush, Laura - Okay I don't even get the Laura Bush thing here, kinda like the Barb thing. And don't ya think it's a little too early to making the call on the "Georges"?

Carnegie, Andrew
Carson, Johnny
Carter, Jimmy
Carver, George Washington
Charles, Ray
Chavez, Cesar
Clinton, Bill - Again I think it's still too early to make this call. Time will tell.

Clinton, Hillary ???? You GOT to be kidding me...
Cosby, Bill
Cruise, Tom - He's just a freakin' actor. That's it. Nothing nore, nothing less. He's not trying to cure world hunger is he?

DeGeneres, Ellen - Okay, she's funny. But one of our greatest Americans?

Disney, Walt
Douglass, Frederick
Earhart, Amelia
Eastwood, Clint - I like Clint, but he's just an actor.
Edison, Thomas Alva
Edwards, John - This isn't the "I talk to dead people" Edwards. This is the one who ran for VP last election. I still don't know why he's on the list.

Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight
Favre, Brett - Can someone help me out here? Does he do a lot for charities or is he just there as one of the sports tokens?

Ford, Henry
Franklin, Benjamin
Gates, Bill
Gibson, Mel - "Bird on a wire". I like Mel, but come on...

Giuliani, Rudolf
Glenn, John
Graham, Billy
Hamilton, Alexander
Hanks, Tom - I like Tom, and he might be a cherished American, but one of the greatest?

Hefner, Hugh
Hepburn, Katherine
Hope, Bob
Hughes, Howard
Jackson, Michael
Jefferson, Thomas
Jobs, Steve
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jordan, Michael
Keller, Helen
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline
King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther
Limbaugh, Rush - Controversial yes, greatest, debatable.

Lincoln, Abraham
Lindberg, Charles
Lucas, George
Madonna - See Rush Limbaugh.

Malcolm X
McGraw, Dr. Phil - Um, nope. Sorry.

Monroe, Marilyn
Moore, Michael - See Rush Limbaugh

Murphy, Audie
Nixon, Richard
Obama, Barack
Owens, Jesse
Parks, Rosa
Patton, George
Powell, Colin
Presley, Elvis
Reagan, Ronald
Reeve, Christopher
Rice, Condoleezza - Hmmm I'm begining to think the Republican Party put this list together... ;-)

Robinson, Jackie
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Roosevelt, Theodore
Ruth, Babe
Sagan, Carl
Salk, Jonas
Schwarzenegger, Arnold - Ummm, WTF?

Sinatra, Frank
Smith, Joseph
Spielberg, Steven
Stewart, Jimmy
Stewart, Martha - Nuthin says "Greatest American" like a conviction & prison time...

Tesla, Nikola
Tillman, Pat
Truman, Harry
Trump, Donald
Tubman, Harriet
Twain, Mark
Walton, Sam
Washington, George
Wayne, John
Winfrey, Oprah
Woods, Tiger
Wright, Orville & Wilbur
Yeager, Chuck

So you can see there are some folks that I can't for the life of me figure out why they're on the list. Maybe the DC should have made it the 50 greatest Americans and cut out some of the fluff?

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Free graph paper online in PDF format

This kick so much ass. Man I could have used this a long time ago!

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Yahoo to introduce a iTunes & Napster like music service

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It looks like Yahoo is introducing their own digital music store. And it looks like they are taking a little from Apple and a little from Napster.

"For a fee of $4.99 USD per month paid annually, or $6.99 USD monthly, customers can stream or download an unlimited number of songs and transfer them to portable devices supporting Microsoft's Janus digital rights management technology...As with any such music service, songs will become unplayable if the subscription lapses. Alternatively, users can purchase individuals songs they wish to keep indefinitely for 79 cents, or 99 cents for customers who forego the monthly fee."

Hmmm.... I think I'll be keeping an eye on this.

Yahoo Music Engine Website

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Solar Death Ray

lol This is too cool. I think I'd like to build one of these bad boys.

"The Solar Death Ray is made of 112 mirrors mounted on a platform 4 feet
wide and 6 feet tall. Each mirror is a square roughly 3.5 inches on edge. All
these mirrors focus the sun to a single spot 5 feet, 6 inches from the mirror
platform. A wooden fork extends from the mirror base to the area near the
focus and serves as a mounting point for Solar Death Ray targets. The
mirror platform is mounted to the support frame on a pivot that allows the
platform to be angled. The whole system is mounted on a set of wheels."

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I'm a Nerd Video (Stormtrooper version)

Herbert Midgley (website) is a nerd and proud of it! He recently did another version of his "I'm a Nerd" song and this time wearing his own Stormtrooper armor, which looks awesome by the way!

Check it out:


Herbert's Blog
Mirror of "I'm a Nerd" Video (Stormtrooper Version)

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Lockheed Martin unveils its proposed space shuttle replacement

Via the Popular Mechanics website.




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Worms may hold the answer for lost human limbs

Very interesting research:

"This study introduces the possibility of carrying out systematic gene function studies in an organism that traditionally has not been accessible to genetics," said Sánchez Alvarado. "The importance of this advance lies in the biological attributes displayed by planarians -- that is, abundant adult stem cells responsible for the extensive and robust regeneration of amputated parts, as well as the continuous renewal of differentiated tissues (tissue homeostasis)."

It's too soon to tell whether research into planarian worms might one day let doctors regrow amputated limbs or diseased organs in people. Nevertheless, since many of the genes found in flatworms are also present in humans, scientists believe they may provide insights into how to use adult stem cells to replace diseased or damaged human tissue."

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E-mail & chat acronyms

Probably the biggest list of online acronyms I've ever seen.

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