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10 psychological tricks that'll give you the edge

A dumb driver nearly makes this guy climb the stairway to heaven not once but twice!

No offence.

This is an uncanny eerie review of the Avatar film.

Keeping up with the new jQuery plugin releases and developments sometimes feels like a full-time job! Every other day something new and better crops up that catches the eye and you think yourself “Wow, that looks good, I could use that!“.

New logo, new theme, new website, new everything... and it's actually pretty.

See video below A revolutionary new technology created by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University uses body acoustics to turn your skin into an interactive touchscreen.

The choice of browsers offered to millions of Microsoft users following an EU ruling is not as varied as suggested, say web designers. The choice was offered to settle an anti-trust case the European Commission brought against Microsoft. Some say almost half the browsers on offer are clones of IE that only give people an illusion of choice.

There's wrong ... and then there’s Clifford Stoll’s Newsweek essay about the Internet from 1995.

Everything about Google from how they make all their cash, to the composition of their workforce, to tidbits about Google's culture (a Googler n00b: Noogler)

For the first time in five years Mininova is about to disappear from the top 10 of most visited torrent sites. This exit is due to a traffic drop that resulted from the removal of most of the site’s torrents following a lost court battle. Newcomer KickassTorrents is still gaining momentum and has already surpassed Mininova in terms of traffic.

"I have been blogging for around 3 years now and the blog has been through 4 different designs. At first I redesigned the blog to have a better aesthetic look, but then I started to redesign it based on user feedback. Over the course of 4 different designs, here are some things that I learned."

The lawn dart is back—albeit as the Sky Dart, a cushy, weighted projectile that barely compares to the dangerous, but fun game from the '70s and '80s. In honor of this toy's comeback, here are the most dangerous toys of all time.

Finally, we have the technology to fold up our video devices like paper and put them in our wallets, where they belong.

A document describing what Microsoft will tell the law about the users of its online services has been leaked. Redmond has reacted by having the site hosting the document taken offline, even though the thing is so uninteresting no one would want to read it anyway.