Pirates of Silicon Valley

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Lego Mindstorms Autofabrik

iPhone demo

iPhone - Steve Jobs keynote

Via Engadget - Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone.

Apple iPhone - size comparision

Jason Kottke built a model of the new iPhone, to scale, and posted up some pics comparing the size of it to various gadgets.

Anti Digg

Digg Scares Me

Blogger writes about IE testing on Parallels, blocks digg requests.

Mystery gas odor in New York

Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odor today that stretched across a large part of Manhattan, including Rockefeller Center. "We are confident it is not dangerous," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference. Bloomberg said the city's air sensors had not detected an elevated level of natural gas.

developing..

Digg
CNN
WNBC


Update #1:Dead birds in Austin Texas
10 blocks of downtown Austin shut down.
CNN - Austin, Texas story


Update #2:ABC 7 updates
could be a mercaptan leak (this is added to natural gas which is normally odorless)

Update #3:Rolling updates and photos from Gothamist

STS-121 Discovery cockpit launch video

Saddam executed

Matt Drudge
Reuters - hanged at dawn
Al jazeera
Newsweek interview with videographer
Wikipedia page on the execution

LMMS

LMMS (a fruityloops clone) running on Fedora 5.

Maps

25 things to do with Google Maps
and here's 25 more things to do
Digital Urban announces panorama viewer

linkorama

25 addictive flash games
cant stop.
BBC moves to file sharing sites
Deal made with Azureus.

Marines in space

Semper Fly : Marines in space

Popular Science article on the proposed suborbital spacecraft that would deploy a batch of U.S. marines anywhere on the planet within 2 hours.

Google Zeitgeist 2006

Google have released the 2006 zeitgeist

Google Earth Update

Christmas has come early - there's been a Google Earth update. OgleEarth has the details.

Linkfest

Microsoft's Yellow Road to Cairo
Microsoft used its new clout to introduce a product vision called Cairo in 1991; it disrupted development and marginalized competition throughout the next decade.

The tactic worked so well that Microsoft repeated it in the following decade as Longhorn. Here's how it happened, and why Microsoft won't be able to repeat the same fraud again.
How to win in Iraq
Wear a moustache.

Friday Linkdump

Stars can be strange
quark matter.
xRez extreme
forget megapixels - here's some GIGApixels
Chaos Theory
addictive flash game
Parallel Universes
YouTube of BBC documentary
Google Patent search
Parallels on an Intel Mac
with a screenshot
The Flickr Ho Ho Ho easter egg
try adding a "ho ho ho hat" or a "ho ho ho beard" note to any of your photos.
Interview with DivX CEO
Prospect Books of the Year
Most overrated and most underrated.
Lifestyles of the rich and fascist
Lifestyles of whacked out dictators.
Airplane and treadmill problem
will the plane take off?

Cheat Sheets

From ILoveJackDaniels.com - Mysql, CSS, Ruby on Rails, PHP and many more.

Second Life - over hyped?

Via Valleywag

Intel graphics - resolution hack

915 resolution page - hacks the BIOS for Intel graphics chipsets so that you can get a higher resolution in Linux.