100 things we didn't know this time last year

You can learn alot of stuff in 365 days.

Amazing when you think about it. Most of this stuff will be/is commonplace and we will take it for granted.



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7 of the top 10 Podcasts on Podnova are by former TechTV stars

With Leo Laporte, Alex Albrecht, Kevin Rose, Amber MacArthur, Chris Pirillo, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, David Prager, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, and more. These kind of ratings are crazy. How did TechTV ever go off the air?

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Want to try Windows Live Messenger? Look on EBay.

Microsoft is now auctioning invitations to the Windows Live Messenger Beta. Is Microsoft really hurting so bad for cash that it needs to auction off invitations to a beta? That's getting pretty desperate.

Also check out SGB for a little more insight into it.

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Tutorial to make a Complete Design

Yet another Photoshop web design tutorial. Always a good read. Now if only I could find the time to do a few...

Make a really clean sharp web design with Photoshop. This covers all the steps and you don't need any experience to do this (it'll walk you through all the steps).

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Design a Complete Web Page Plus Code In Photoshop

This is a Photoshop tutorial that will take you through the basic concepts behind designing a web page in Photoshop like a pro. It includes the original file for download, plus standards compliant code that you can substitute your own images into for a complete working web site.

I've been looking for a decent tutorial for this.

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Laser board game: A geekier chess

In this game, you may move one of your pieces one square or rotate one 90 degrees before firing your laser to see if one of your opponent's (or one of your) pieces will be removed. A high-tech re-imagining of chess.

(via Digg as Seen on Boing Boing)

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New Animal Discovered

I'm amazed by the fact that even with all the exploration that we have done that we still find new species. And not just new species of insects or microbes but a fairly large animal.


In the dense central forests of Borneo, a conservation group has found what appears to be a new species of mammal. WWF caught two images of the animal, which is bigger than a domestic cat, dark red, and has a long muscular tail.

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