"For the safety of our race (if any still remain) I have translated this book in the hopes that a resistance may arise. Read the baby powder scented Final Solution of our enemies from beyond..."

I beg you, read about the Zogg menace now.

New U.S. Army uniform summary, with high res photos.

Don't overlook the XM307 Advanced Crew Served Machine Gun on the photos page.

Which website are you?

BBSpot has another "Which Are You" quiz: Which Web Site Are You? I am Snopes.com.

Which Website are You?

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Which OS are you?.
Which Nigerian Spammer are you?.
Which File Extension are you?

This invaded my inbox this morning. Thanks to the original author, whoever that is.

Ultimate Earth Mover

This is the largest earth mover in the world..... built by the German company, Krupp, and seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine). It is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or reassemble onsite.
Specifications:
The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long.
It weighs over 45,500 tons
Cost $100 million to build
Took 5 years to design and manufacture
5 years to assemble.
Requires 5 people to operate it.
The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material.
A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.
It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46 feet long).
There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back. It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour).
It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)

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The Navy has released pictures (pic 1, pic 2) of the damaged USS San Francisco. The sub ran aground a few weeks ago.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a web page devoted to Endangered Gizmos.

FCC Chairman Michael Powell calls TiVo "God's machine," and its devotees have been known to declare, "You can take my TiVo when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!" But suppose none of us had ever been given the opportunity to use or own a TiVo -- or, for that matter, an iPod? Suppose instead that Hollywood and the record companies hunted down, hobbled, or killed these innovative gizmos in infancy or adolescence, to ensure that they wouldn't grow up to threaten the status quo?

That's the strategy the entertainment industry is using to control the next generation of TiVos and iPods. Its arsenal includes government-backed technology mandates, lawsuits, international treaties, and behind-the-scenes negotiations in seemingly obscure technology standards groups. The result is a world in which, increasingly, only industry-approved devices and technologies are "allowed" to survive in the marketplace.

Imagine a world where it is illegal to skip commercials--as absurd as it may sound, that is where things are headed. Currently it is merely impractical to sell a gadget that automatically skips commercials in a recorded TV show, as such gadgets tend to get their pants sued off: witness the ReplayTV.

"When you activate Windows XP, Microsoft stores the data in the Windows Product Activation database files wpa.dbl and Wpa.bak in the folder %systemroot%system32. If you change the motherboard or make significant hardware changes, XP will require you to reactive. But if you plan to reinstall XP on the same hardware, you can back up the activation status and then restore it after you reinstall and avoid the activation process."

Hit the source page for all the details.