Peter Clay’s U.S.S. Bakula rocket fins flutters and wave like flags as it enters and exits the speed of sound and was captured with an Aiptek DV4500 onboard video camera.

Click for the video (4.5 MB WMV)

The video has been examined frame-by-frame by some experts and resulted as “not fake”.

The video has inspired many theories as to what was captured but these are the only known facts.
• USS Bakula is PML Quantum Leap with some “enhancements” Peter added for extra strength
• This flight used a AT K550 to a K185
• The G10 fins are VISIBLY intact and feel solid (see the post flight exam) with only a minor fracture at the base on two opposing fins
• The G10 fins were built with an extra “tip to tip” layer of 3oz fiberglass making their final (average) thickness 3/16″
• The fins did flutter in some capacity
• The anomaly occurred entering and exiting Mach
• The footage is unaltered except for where altimeter data is added
• The lower section of the sustainer rotates from it’s original orientation with the camera / upper sustainer.
• The Sustainer recovered without incident

The fins in the picture are the ones “featured” in the video captured. Click the image below for the fin exam video (WMV small)

WMV Video (4.5 MB)
Slow-mo Video of the Flutter (WMV 900kb)

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A follow up to the Disposable E-mails I have posted a while ago. Some sites may have already blocked those popular Disposable e-mail addresse’s domains forcing you to give your true e-mail address which is bad, so keep Spam away!

services added lately are marked with a * sign

No registration:
• * maileater - All emails stay up for exactly 4 hours.
• * mytrashmail - email stays for maximum 5 days in your account (emails inspammed accounts are deleted after 12 hours)
• 6url.com - E-mail will expire in a certain amount of time.
• greensloth.com - E-mail deleted after 4 hours, lots of ads!
• spamday.com - provides mail forwarding, account exists for 24 hours, after that its deleted.
• tempinbox.com - provides Atom feeds, receive-only.

Registration required:
• gishpuppy.com - forwards email to your real account.
• mailnull.com - forwards email to your real account
• spammotel.com - forwards email to your real account
• willhackforfood.biz - account exists for an optional time selected

Mike Hollingshead has an Amazing Pics of the Aurora Phenomenon taken with a canon digital rebel with 17-40L lens. These images were all shot from Blair Nebraska. Imagine standing under it. It should be a breath taking experience.

View the gallery

Other Aurora Galleries:
http://www.royhooper.ca/gallery/AuroraBorealis?page=1
http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-11-8.htm
http://www.noriomatsumoto.com/

Digg Story:
http://digg.com/science/Aurora_Photography

With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 15 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the ‘make monitor.opml’ button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format. RSS feeds of the following search engines are currently included:

• Technorati tag search
• del.icio.us tag search
• Google News search
• Blogmarks tag search
• MSN search
• Yahoo search
• Icerocket search
• Feedster rss search
• Blogdigger search
• Plazoo search
• blogg.de tag search
• Find articles search
• furl search
• Flickr tag search
• Google Blog Search

Several search engines offer their results as RSS feeds - so many it’s hard to keep track. Useful web service MonitorThis to the rescue: enter your search keyword, and MonitorThis generates a file of 15 search engine RSS feed URLs, from Google to Yahoo to Technorati to del.icio.us.

http://uckan.info/depot/monitorthis/

via [lifehacker]

A bunch of cool Flash sites I have on my bookmarks list. Some of these are old but they’re all worth lookin’ at.
Here are they: –(enjoy:-)

Widegroup Plotdev Random netdiver Derbauer TagderArbeit Redgraphic Fantasy Interfaces Terminator 3 Homestarrunner Purepulse Infiniumlabs Levistrauss P3rpl3xity Hulk Layerbit Evolutionbureau Avionics BillyBussey Flashlevel B7ven Tdcollins Ilove2design xm2 Sixtailer Simplyinteractive Iconsound Flash4all Magwerk Kigot Transformers Cmart

Ingreme RtrTechnology Lamborghini Awronow Flashlevel Vegart Ben Tetsoo AndyFoulds Suryahenna Bryantparkhotel Spooks Neoplast Goowy Flashface Sixthsense Beaterator Adrianlafond Webagent007 wa007 Bradmillerstudio 2ndnaturestudio DouglasArthur p3rpl3xity Realityslip Albinoblacksheep CowboysandEngines FinishTV Michaeln MiniUSA TheBuddyGroup 2advanced

If you know some cool flash sites, don’t hesitate to post it on the comments area!
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Deskloops is an interesting free Windows XP application that helps you organize your open application windows.

Looks a little bit like 3d desktop switcher on linux
To rotate pages, middle click+drag

Deskloops does this by arranging windows along a virtual horizontal loop. At any one time, you’ll see window open on screen as usual, but in fact any number of other windows, set on that loop, can be rotated in from left or right. A strip of thumbnails on top of the screen maps the loop’s full content.

Download Deskloops Beta

This page contains various tips and tricks for Firefox or Flock. Most of these tips involve editing of text files on your hard drive and is not recommended if you’re not familiar with basic file and folder usage.

~Note: Some of these tips/tricks may not work or aren’t needed with Flock. I haven’t tested them all.

Link: Tips & Tricks

Videos of this machine being played

This extreme gaming machine called “Force Dynamics 301″ is a high performance, commercial quality motion simulator. This system is designed from the ground up for racing simulation. This allows you to simulate the real feeling when driving a vehicle, like feeling the gravel under the car.

Things it can do:
3 degrees of freedom; high center of rotation
60 degrees pitch/roll
18″ vertical travel
80 degrees/sec maximum rotational velocity
24″/sec maximum vertical velocity

More Information at the
Force-Dynamics Website

A great collection of buttons from:

zwahlendesign - Standard web badges or web buttons 80x15 pixel and 88x31 pixel in PNG format (maximum quality) only with the “Silkscreen”.
gtmcknight - A collection of over 3000 kinds of buttons to choose from.
decrem.com/bart - Cool Flock buttons created by Mark Sahawne

Rapidshare Download Limits and Waiting Time too long? click here

–Small update (Thursday, Nov.24 2005)
• Del.icio.us 0.5.9 - For those who prefer not to use the “synchronize bookmarks” on flock, here is a little extension that ads a set of options on the right-click menu. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links on del.icio.us, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection.
• Fire something 1.7.0 - Just for laughs. This extension allows you to change the product name (for ex. the title bar name) in various parts of the browser. Random name generation ensures perpetual humor.
• Windows update 1.1.4 - (windows only) Adds “Windows Update” item to the Firefox Tools menu, and launches Internet Explorer to the Windows Update site when clicked.

–Update #5.1 (Monday, Nov. 14 2005)
• Viamatic foXpose 0.1 - Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows in thumbview with a single click.
• Internet Explorer Tab 1.0.6 (Official) - Allows you to view a webpage with Internet Explorer but within the Flock browser inside a tab.
• AboutSite 0.3 - Adds an option to the context menu that gives you one-click access to various services that provide information about the web page you are viewing.
• Autocopy 0.6.0 - Copies selected text to the clipboard automaticaly. Like linux or mirc. Can be disabled/enabled. (Adds an icon on the statusbar)
• Contexthighlight 0.2 - Lets you highlight words on the page via the control menu.
• Disable target 1.0 - Prevents download links opening a blank window.
• Download Sort 2.5.4 - Enables you to automatically save downloads to different directories.
• Translate Page 0.1 - Adds a translate page option to the tools menu.

–Update #4
• Informenter 0.3.1 - InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required.
• ScreenGrab 0.6 - Screengrab saves entire webpages as images.
• Accessibility Extension 0.99.1.1630 - Adds it features on the toolbar to make it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content.
• Wikipedia Lookup 0.2 - Lookups up the selected word in the WikiPedia encyclipedia. The contents can be opened in the sidebar as well as in a new tab.
• MozImage 1.4.3 - Allow you to browse images on your local disk and on a web page. Also has an integration with Imageshack.
• Link Checker 0.4.2 - Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding.
• MesureIt 0.3.3 - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
• MD Hash Tool 0.4dp - Message Digest Hash Tool is a Firefox extension which can be used to compute Message Digests for files and/or text strings using various algorithms (currently MD5 and SHA-1).
• Cookie Toggle 0.8.1 - Toggle cookies on and off from the toolbar

–Update #3
• Checky 2.5 - Validate and analyse HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, WAI, Section 508, P3P, Hyperlinks, Metadata and many more. Adds a context and tools menu.
• DerBrowserTimer 0.4 - It adds a simple timer to your Flock browser. You can count up, like a stopwatch, or count down, like an oven timer.
• Diggler 0.9 - It adds a menu button next to the address bar with actions relevant to the current URL, for example to step out to the parent directory, or to visit the equivalent ftp URL, or to visit the site in archive.org.
• Flashblock 1.3.3a1 - Replaces Flash objects with a button you can click to view them.
• Listzilla 0.7 - It posts a list of your favourite extensions to a website, therefore allowing Top 10 extension lists, My Recommended extensions etc.
• Nuke Anything enhanced 0.52 - Allow hiding of almost anything -for example before printing - via context menu “Remove Object”.
• Radial Context 2004.11.08 - Replaces the standard context menu with a radial one.
• Resizeable Textarea 0.1a - Allows you to resize textareas. You don’t have to scroll up and down or left or right, just resize it with this tool
• Undo Closetab 20040617 - Allows you to reopen a closed tab.
• Webmail compose 0.6.5 - Makes mailto: links load your webmail’s compose page and adds a Compose link to the context menu.

–Update #2
• Basics 1.0 - It moves the ‘New Tab’ button to the left side of the tab bar.
• Download Statusbar 0.9.3.1 - Allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in an easy to use, hide-away statusbar.
• Get File Size 1.1.4 - Allows you to view the size of file under the properties menu of an item.
• Minimize to Tray 0.0.1.2005091606+ - A powerful extension to minimize Windows versions of Flock to the system tray.
• Scrollbar Anywhere 0.8 - Allows to scroll the page as if the scrollbar is under your mouse pointer. Just hold the right (or any other) mouse button down and move the mouse.
• Text Area Word Counter 0.1 - Counts the total number of words in all the text areas in a document.
• CuneAform 0.3.1 - HTML Editor that anyone can use.
• All in one Gestures 0.17.3 - This extension includes mouse gestures with customization, rocker navigation, tab and history scrolling, and autoscrolling similar to that in IE, all in a single package.

–Update: More flock Extensions
• Bugmenot 0.7 - Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu.
• Cutemenus 0.4 - Adds icons to menus and popups.
• Linkification 1.1.6 - Converts text links into genuine, clickable links.
• Searchstatus 1.12 - Display the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking with search-related tools.
• Clonewindow 0.2.5 - Clones the current tab’s address and history into a new window when the New Window command is used (and optionally into a new tab when the New Tab command is used).
• Createshortcut 0.3.1 Selecting the menu item displays a dialog box that allows the creation of a shortcut to the current page/link on your desktop. (Windows only).
• Popupallow 0.2.3 - Temporarily allows popup windows to be opened while the Caps Lock key or the Insert key is held down.
• Popupcount 0.3.2 - Counts the all-time total number of popups blocked by Flock, displaying the number in the statusbar.

–Via Rapidshare
• FasterFox 0.7.8 - Performance and network tweaks for Flock.
• FeedView 0.9.8 - Feedview shows newsfeeds/blogs in a more stylish way.
• Fireftp 0.88.3 - FTP client for Flock
• Google Images Relinker- skip referred page on google images, and jump straight to the full-size image.
• Image Zoomer 0.2 - Allows zooming in/out of images from the context menu
• Print Preview 0.4 - Creates a Print Preview toolbar button.

For more bunch of Unofficial/Official Extensions, Click here.

Also watch out for new official extensions to come on the Flock website.

Flock is a new browser, built on top of firefox. It is a functional browser with excellent features (including firefox features like tabbed browsing, etc.). What really makes is stand out are two additional features they’ve added to build social networking directly into the browsing experience: social bookmarking and a wysiwyg blog writing tool. They have windows, mac and linux versions for Download.

A Flock review from Newsforge
Visit the Flock Website

Microsoft have released an official screen-shot of the upcoming Windows Media Player 11, allowing users to see the player in it’s full glory rather than in photo’s taken from slide show presentations at strange angles, or on some beta testers cluttered desktop.

The sidebar has been leaked and it works in XP. Here are the instructions how to download and install it.

1. Download the Vista sidebar, and decompress it (it’s a RAR file).
2. Copy the decompressed folder into the Program Files directory (C:\Program Files\).
3. Now go to the Users folder, and under your username create a new folder named Parts (C:\Documents and Settings\x20 in my case), and copy the files from C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Parts into this folder.
4. Download this patch and put it in the Windows Sidebar folder mentioned above, then run the file named Patch (and do as it says).
5. Next up, download XMLRW.DLL and place it into the Windows Sidebar folder. This file is part of Internet Explorer 7, so if you have that beta, just get it from your own IE7 folder.
6. Now just run the sidebar (C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe) and click the plus sign to load the widgets!

Via [tipmonkies]

One of the best tricks to stop spam e-mail from reaching your inbox is by creating a disposable e-mail address. I’ve used a Hotmail account for spam for a long time, but recently, many services have popped up which serve exclusively to route spam to. Some of these services provide RSS feeds of e-mail, others let you forward e-mail to your real account. Some require registration, some don’t. See what works best for you.

• DodgeIt- no registration required, provides RSS feeds, receive-only.
• E4ward- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, allows multiple aliases of an account.
• KasMail- requires registration, allows up to 25 aliases, can set aliases to expire after a certain amount of time.
• Jetable- provides mail forwarding, account autoexpires after certain amount of time.
• Mailinator- no registration required, provides handy spam map, receive-only, e-mail expires automatically after a few hours.
• PookMail- no registration required, very simple to use.
• SneakeMail- requires registration, provides mail forwarding.
• SpamGourmet- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, can create custom aliases which automatically expire after a certain number of e-mails received.
• Spam.la- no registration required, no frills. You can see all spam being sent to all Spam.la accounts, or just your own.

Via [tipmonkies]

A huge list of free online games that are multiplayer, realtime, and graphical including: Adventure Quest, Air Attack, Alien Adoption Agency, Allegiance, Ambroid, America’s Army, Arc, Area00, Artifact, Battle of Phantasia, Benign Online, Blade Mistress, Botbattle, BZFlag, Coke Music, MU Online(Picture) and many more…

Free Multiplayer Online Games

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A very nice alternative to Start.com, GoogleIG, etc.

They currently have a number of features in the works, including:

~Full managing of the “my feeds” section
~Search for feeds
~Bookmarks module
~Tag module
~Stock quotes modules
~Flickr module
~To do list module
~Color Themes
~User background image
~Read/Unread status
~Multiple pages
~OPML export
~and so much more…

Netvibes Website

A reference to all of the about:config entries and what they do. Many of the entries that appear in Firefox will also apply to Mozilla Suite and vice versa. about:config is a list of preferences that you can change. This article is meant to be a partial documentation of those preferences. Useful for Firefox tweaking.

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• 7-Zip - File archiver (Open Source).
• Ad-Aware - Deletes unwanted Software
• ATnotes - Stickies for your Desktop (Freeware)
• Avast Anti-Virus - One of the best Virus Scanner around
• Avant Browser - Another Web Browser (Freeware)
• Apache HTTP Server - HTTP server (Open Source).
• Audacity - Audio editor (Open Source).
• AutoGK - DVD to DivX/Xvid Converter (Freeware)
• AxCrypt - Encryption Software (Open Source)
• Azureus - BitTorrent client (Open Source).
• BB4Win - Alternative shell for Windows (Open Source).
• BitComet - BitTorrent client (Freeware)
• Blender - 3D graphics creation suite (Open Source).
• Bosskey - Virtual Desktop Program (Freeware)
• Cain & Abel - All-in-one Security Tool (Freeware)
• CDex - MP3 ripper (Open Source).
• Celestia - Real-time 3D space simulation (Open Source).
• CCleaner - Cleans Crap on your Computer (Freeware)
• Chaos Manager - Free Organizing Software (Freeware)
• Context - powerful text editor (Freeware)
• CVSNT - Versioning system (Freeware).
• Cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows (Open Source).
• Dia - Drawing program (Open Source).
• DIManager - Desktop Icon Manager (Freeware)
• DVD Shrink - DVD Decrypter Software (freeware)
• Eclipse - Java IDE (Open Source).
• Econsole - Customizable Cmd Alternative (freeware)
• EditPad Lite - Source code & Text Editor (Freeware)
• Everest Home Edition - System Diagnostic Tool (Freeware)
• Feedreader - Easy to use Feed Reader
• Fiddler - HTTP Debugger (Freeware)
• FileZilla - FTP client (Open Source).
• Firefox - Web browser (Open Source).
• Foxit PDF Viewer - Fastest PDF Viewer around (Freeware)
• Stellarium - Open Source Photo-Realistic Sky Generator in Real Time
• foobar2000 - Audio player (Freeware).
• FreeMind - Mind-mapping tool (Open Source).
• Gaim - A multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client (Open Source)
• GhostMouse - Mouse Recording Program (Freeware)
• Gizmo - IP telephone (Freeware)
• GMail Drive - Gmail shell extension (Freeware).
• gnuplot - Plotting utility (Freeware).
• Google Earth - imagery and other geographic information program
• Hottnotes - Another sticky notes reminder program (Freeware)
• HTML-Kit - Create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts. (Freeware)
• HTTrack - Offline browsing utility (Open Source).
• Icon Sushi - Icon editor (Freeware).
• Inkscape - Vector graphics editor (Open Source).
• IrfanView - Image viewer (Freeware).
• Izarc - Another compression utility (Freeware)
• Java - Programming language/platform.
• Konfabulator - Widgets Software (Freeware)
• Keepass - light-weight and easy-to-use password manager (Open Source)
• Kerio Personal Firewall - Firewall (Freeware).
• mIRC - IRC client (Nagware/Commercial).
• Media Monkey - Jukebox Software (Freeware)
• MWSnap - Screen Capture Utility (Freeware)
• MySQL - Database server (Open Source/Commercial).
• NetHack - Game (Open Source).
• Notepad++ - A source code editor (Open Source)
• NVU - Web editor (Open Source)
• OpenOffice - Office suite (Open Source).
• Opera - Web browser (Freeware).
• PDFCreator - PDF Creator (Open Source)
• Process Explorer - Useful tool for tracking Programs and dll’s running on background (Freeware)
• PHP - Programming language.
• PuTTY - Telnet/SSH client (Open Source).
• PSPad - all-in-one programmers editor (Freeware)
• Quicktime Alternative - Play Quicktime files w/o Quicktime Player
• Ras Monitor - Monitors bandwidth usage
• Rainlendar - Desktop calendar (Open Source).
• Real Alternative - Play RealMedia Files w/o Real Player
• Restoration - File undelete software (Freeware)
• RSS Bandit - News aggregator (Open Source).
• Samurize - advanced sytem monitoring and desktop enhancement (Freeware)
• SciTE - Text editor (Open Source).
• ShellExtension - Adds nifty functions for explorer (Freeware)
• ShellON v2 - Shell manager for Windows (Freeware).
• Spybot SAD - Deletes unwanted Software
• SQLyog - Database management tool (Freeware/Commercial).
• Sunbird - Standalone Calendar
• TaskMaster - Another To-do manager (freeware)
• TextPad - Text editor (Nagware/Commercial).
• The GIMP - Graphics editor (Open Source).
• The Regex Coach - Regular expression tool (Freeware).
• Thunderbird - Mail client (Open Source).
• Trillian - Instant Messaging client (Freeware/Commercial).
• TSWare - Web Editor
• Vim - A Free text editor (Open Source)
• Virtual Dimension - Virtual Desktop Software (Open Source)
• VirtualDub - Video processing and capture (Open Source).
• VOIP Buster - Internet Telephony Software
• Winamp - Media player(Freeware).
• WinMerge - Diff utility (Open Source).
• World Wind - Free Satellite Viewing Software
• XMLSpy Home Edition - XML Development Tool (Freeware)
• ZipGenius - File compression tool (Freeware)
• Zone Alarm Firewall - Stops hackers from getting into your PC

Update: thanks to Bugmenot2, mrpeaches, tearor, dig.it for the the useful comments on digg.com. Also, thanks to simon, zapada, sridhar, kingofsf, runningsystem, kevin, ebjcoat, chris, vuzman, ChrisD, Erick, h198x, Rolandog, James Deville, mizo, enredando, gul, Wyzyrd, and Federico for the comments on my article.

After twelve years of reserch and development, Guy Negre has developed an engine that could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century. Its application to CAT vehicles gives them significant economical and environmental advantages. With the incorporation of bi-energy (compressed air + fuel) the CAT Vehicles have increased their driving range to close to 2000 km with zero pollution in cities and considerably reduced pollution outside urban areas.

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This site is similar to BrowserShots.org, in which you submit a URL and receive a screenshot, but specialises in taking screenshots of several Mac based browsers. It also isn’t bogged down like BrowserShots.

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You can use this website to turn a word or words into a larger, nice-looking ASCII graphic.

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As a result of the recent successful hovering flights of the M400 Skycar, Moller International is accepting deposits to secure delivery positions for our M400 Skycar until after the Skycar has flown from hover to full aerodynamic flight and returned (transitioning flight). A limited number of delivery positions are available. The M400 Skycar can cruise at a very cool 350mph, and achieve up to 28 miles per gallon over a range of 750 miles. No traffic, no red lights, no speeding tickets. Just quiet direct transportation from point A to point B in a fraction of the time

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The so-called “pocket” version of the well-known “Web-Dev-Bookmarks” (alvit.de/web-dev) is a single page, which includes essential links for web-development. Creativity resources, css galleries, color schemes & palettes, royalty free images, css layouts & navigation menus, ajax apps, SEO etc. - here you’ve got them all. Simple, nice and useful.

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The Firefly solves that nagging battlefield problem of needing a quick look over the next hill, by deploying a disposable ballistic camera from a standard-issue, rifled-mounted grenade launcher. There’s no special training required; soldiers just fire off the grenade-sized reconaissance device and wait about 8 seconds for the photos to come back to a carried pocket computer.

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Well, I am no hacker, but I do enjoy the hacker movies. Here is my top list of great hacker movies as well as the crappy ones. Leave a comment on what your favorite hacker movie is and why?

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www.shiftedreality.com/….

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Photoshop lover is your 1 stop photoshop tutorials and resource site. It has a huge collection of photoshop tutorials for photoshop users of all skill levels.

http://pslover.com

Linux aplications for your KDE Desktop

www.kde-apps.org

This site is currently displaying a list of All LiveCDs on All hardware performing All functions.

http://frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

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