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Really, your hard drive is a sensitive creature. If you shout at it it’ll just work slower and behave badly in protest. Need proof? Check out this video: (via Digg)

When I first heard about cold boot attacks I thought this was another disconnected-from-reality-cannot-be-used-in-real-life kind of research, but after watching the video on the Princeton University website I realized that this is a real problem. Namely, unlike common perception, computer memory takes time to fade out after you turn the computer off. So much time, [...]

Yesterday I complained that the modern desktop hasn’t advanced very much. Today I kind of got my answer. Smashing Magazine posted a list named “User Experience Of The Future” which is a pretty cool collection of current advances in display and user interaction with computers. (via Digg)

There has always been speculation that Google is developing a mobile phone (a gPhone, as most articles called it), but Google always does things differently. This time announcing the Open Handset Alliance, which is a bunch of companies that develop an open, Linux-based hardware and software platform with an open API. The platform is called [...]

Paper art by Peter Callesen – very cool BitTorrent to be pimped by Nobel prize winning economical theory Which companies own the car industry – apparently you need a map to know who really makes your car

Only two links today: 13 fantastics free high-res desktop wallpapers and another 17 Trends in the Chinese computing market (video), including Blin.cn which is a 50-times-faster-than-BitTorrent P2P network Found one more: How to make a beatbox puppet video (if you’re into that kind of stuff. The beats are pretty cool though :)

It’s been so long since we had a link-a-palooza, but here it is: How to get hit by a shovel in the head and survive (by using a new and interesting material by a company called d3o) – videos Very nice optical illusion, displayed at the MIT museum Tokyo Motor Show preview – strange cars [...]

A Polish businessman wanted to warn the world about the path it’s taking. He decided to do it by building what is now one of Poland’s most popular tourist attractions – an upside-down house. The house is so realistic that people get disoriented the the point of sea-sickness when they’re inside. (via Digg)

Displaying data on graphs, pie charts and such is very common yet limited. The Internet has exposed us to many new, creative and interesting ways of displaying data. Smashing Magazine compiled some examples of data visualization in a very nice, categorized list.

My email Inbox folder at work currently holds 181 items. Most of them are there because they need some kind of a follow-up, but I can’t deal with them right now or the action to be taken is in the future. Merlin Mann is a well known figure in the productivity and GTD (Getting Things [...]