• Technology

    NASA Crashes Into the Moon -- But Where Are the Pics?

    By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 10.9.2009 6 Comments

    NASA's double sledgehammer shot to the moon succeeded early this morning when an empty rocket stage and a lunar probe each crashed into separate craters. But the host of telescopes and other instruments pointed at the impact sites did not immediately spot huge plumes of lunar debris.

    10.9.2009 at 03:07pm - Comment by NeilSielski

    There is a longer video, it shows the flight director reject a high 5 from another worker person :0

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    The Extremely Electric Guitar

    By Posted on 6.11.2008 5 Comments

    6.12.2008 at 02:56pm - Comment by NeilSielski

    this is cool, but there have been many other people that have hacked their MIDI keyboards and other things and used a tesla coil, or coilS as their output .

  • DIY

    Do I Need to Buy Microsoft Office?

    By Posted on 6.12.2008 6 Comments

    Not necessarily. It’s hard to ignore MS Office, but you don’t need to blow 400 bucks to get your work done. In fact, you don’t need to install any programs at all. Sign up for the free Google Docs (documents.google.com) or Zoho (zoho.com), and you can do everything in a Web browser. The programs look similar to Word, Excel and PowerPoint and offer all the same features (save for a few lesser-used ones like certain spreadsheet formulas). Zoho even kicks in a few extra applets like a Wiki-building tool. Best of all, these applications let you access your files from any computer that’s online. If you don’t have reliable Internet access or are more comfortable installing programs on your computer, there’s no shortage of competition, either.

    6.12.2008 at 02:49pm - Comment by NeilSielski

    Insted, just get OpenOffice. It has all of the features of Microsoft Office, but free and has a ton of avaible plug-ins. go to: http://www.openoffice.org/index.html



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