Your Digital Wallet

With new technology called near-field communications, you could use a cell phone to make purchases, or even download a movie trailer from a poster.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17355&ch=infotech

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Diet Coke/Mentos Rockets

All you need is a 2 litre bottle of diet coke and some mentos!!

The Mother of All Windows XP Tweaking Guides

The TweakGuides Tweaking Companion Version 3.1 is the complete system optimization guide for Windows XP users. It contains an enormous amount of detailed descriptions and resources together in one free 175 page downloadable PDF file.

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Hirsch's PowerPoint slides

From the International Peak Oil and Gas Conference in Pisa, Italy available here. Plus a very handy poster

Irish firm claims 'free energy' invention

An Irish technology firm has issued a challenge to the world's scientific community.

It says its invention smashes one of the basic laws of physics by producing free energy. The company, called Steorn, has placed an advertisement in the Economist seeking 12 top scientists to examine its invention, based on magnetic fields, and publish their results. It says the energy eliminates the need to recharge mobile phones or refuel cars.

Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said the company had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it could be developed.

'What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy,' Mr McCarthy said.

'The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy,' he told RTE radio.

Mr McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but 'it actually fell out of another project we were working on'.

One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.

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Updated 27th August

A new way to test your bandwidth

This site allows you to select servers to ping from around the country on an interactive map and graphically displays connections as they travel with varying speeds along the way. It also lets you store results of tests for your computer and sort them by date, time, speed and distance.

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The Truth on what's really happening in the Middle East

George Galloway talks on the issue of Israel's assault on Lebanon and the Gaza. It's a pity there isn't more people like George!!