Who needs one of those easy-to-use, wussy web counters on your website, when you can have a mechanical real life one!

By Restless
The site has info on making your own Tesla coils, can crushers, lasers a potpourri of devices for the advanced nerd. Check it out!

Thx to neatorama.

This is pretty incredible, I don’t think Spielberg or Lucas could have done any better.
They put a camera in one of the two solid rocket boosters on a Space Shuttle flight, the video starts as the shuttle is skyrocketing into space, then suddenly, both boosters seperate. The Camera […]

A Nerd over at M.I.T made a very basic 4-bit computer.
What’s so amazing about that you ask?   Well instead of electronic circuits made of silicon, it uses rubber tubes and legos, and instead of electricity, the current is…water.  check it out here.

By Restless
From the BBC:
As the communal bloodshed has worsened, some Iraqis have set up advice websites to help others avoid the death squads.
One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth’s detailed imagery of Baghdad so […]

From Photonics.com: 
Light Changed to Matter, Then Stopped and Moved
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 8, 2007 — By converting light into matter and then back again, physicists have for the first time stopped a light pulse and then restarted it a small distance away. This “quantum mechanical magic trick” provides unprecedented control over light and could have applications […]

Very cool, very “Minority Report” as the video goes on, you realize there’s a lot of cool possibilities with this technology, especially for collaborative projects etc.

          
Gorbachev / Russian Leader         Bill Gates / Nerd Stud
From CNN.COM:
Gorbachev to Gates: Show software ‘pirate’ mercy
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
In an open letter, Nobel Peace Prize […]

It happens to all of us at one time or another.
The dreaded Earworm.
You’re walking down the street, minding your own business, when suddenly, some catchy tune gets in your head, and you can’t get it out,  and sometimes, you don’t even know what the song is.
Well now you’re in luck,  a new service called midomi […]

By Restless
This June, Netflix will make 1,000 movies available for download rental and this is certainly the future of the vid rental industry (sorry, Blockbuster). I’ve just discovered an interesting archive site of films in the public domain, which is worth a look.
Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. […]

From CNN.COM: 
Ray gun makes targets feel as if they are on fire
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia (AP) — The military’s new weapon is a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they will catch fire.
The technology is supposed to be harmless — a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop […]

Ok this is very cool, had to share. 
Apparently this guy created his own homemade Commodore 64 PDA/Laptop.
The Commodore Picodore 64!

By Restless
A new weapon is being developed which brings the “force field” in from sci-fi to the now.
For the past several years, Taser International, Inc. has been testing products with the military market in mind. Most recently it has been working on Tasernet, a weapon it describes as a “non-lethal area denial and force protection […]

This new computer looks like it has a lot of potential, and how can you go wrong when it’s endorsed by William Shatner? I know $300 is a lot, but I may just have to give this machine a shot.