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Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture

No, it's not going to destroy the world. But this collection of photos of the LHC at the Big Picture is a great reminder that... more

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Surf the Flood

The Brazilian city of Porto Alegre has been experiencing heavy rains as of late, so a bunch of kids got together and decided to do... more

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THE WIRE - 100 Greatest Quotes

Featuring Omar, Bubbles, Bunk, McNulty, Rawls, Stringer, Avon, Snoop, Marlo, Cheese, Prop Joe, Clay Davis and many many more!... more

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Pulp Mario

Mario in Pulp fiction mode.

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Mesmerizing, Isn't It?

This is what goes on behind the scenes whenever you open your mouth to speak. The image was captured at 50 frames per second over... more

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The Most Horrifying Video of an Automatic Chicken Plucker You Will See Today

This is Janet's Whizbang Chicken Plucker, built using the instructions from the hit bestselling book: "Anyone Can Build... more

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This Is Not a Photoshop

This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with this. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant tapes. They are... more

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AT&T's Tech Support People Are Just as Happy as Their Customers

It's just plausible enough to be real, and just real enough to be crushingly depressing.... more

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Photo of Boeing's Matrix Laser Destroying an Air Drone

Boeing has successfully tested their new Matrix laser over airborne targets, which is a world's first. In total, they shot... more

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Pigeon: Impossible

A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped... more

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Wii Pray Producer Will Reach Bajillionaire Status (Before Descending Into Hell)

"A family shouldn't have to wait until Sunday to worship the Lord. Now you can go to church every day without leaving... more

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Lost Scotch whiskey cache buried in Antarctica

A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that... more

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Anaconda Malt Liquor Gives You Ooooo!!!

Commercial from the movie Black Dynamite.

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How Do You Trim The Top of a Hedge With a Ride-On Lawnmower?

The answer: with a crane people...with a crane. It makes perfect sense now. I mean, the manual for the ride-on lawnmower did... more

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Space Chair Project

Kewl stuff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6PSbUl_68k&feature=player_embedded

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Panda Name Game Ends Yún Zǐ, which means "son of cloud."

San Diego’s favorite furball finally has a name. According to tradition, the panda wasn't named until he turned 100... more

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1950s Stereo 3D Projector Is Luke's Grandpa

I first saw this 1950s projector when I was a kid. He was evil, he killed that Old Dude, but at the end the Goodguys blew up his... more

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"Time Traveling" Web Browser Let's You Search Like It's 1999

Los Alamos National Labs' Memento browsing tech lets you search up Web pages from the past, though it's unlikely that it can go all the way back to 1955.

While the rest of the Web-savvy world fawns over breakthroughs in real-time search and pontificates on the future of social networking, Los Alamos National Labs is looking to the past. A team there is developing a "time traveling" Web browsing technology, dubbed Memento, that will allow users to find old versions of Web pages without trolling old archives.

Current archival resources, like the Wayback Machine, can search for old, cached pages of Web sites, but a search for a particular URL brings up little more than a list of cached dates the user must sort through to (maybe) find what he or she is looking for. Like an online gull-winged Delorean, Memento will take you directly to the web page you want at the historical time and date you specify, by harnessing the content negotiation feature of Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP -- the system that serves as the infrastructure for the entire Web.

One of HTTP's central functions is content negotiation, during which a URL can send various types of data to a browser depending on what the browser asks for (this is why a Web server will often send a Spanish version of a site to someone in Spain and an English version to someone in the UK). Memento simply adds a new query layer to the its request from a server, asking it to call up a specific time and date as well.

Using a server with built-in Memento -- so far the Los Alamos team has developed a plug-in for Firefox as well as a version with Memento built-in -- users simply select a date and time from a drop-down box and go to the URL as they normally would. The browser goes straight to the archived page for the date and time specified, no archive wandering required. Naturally, for Memento to be most effective, site-owners will need to keep more detailed archives with more time-stamped pages. But the Los Alamos team thinks that a better way to find archived information will encourage site managers to archive more pages.

Honestly, we just want to have one last dance with GeoCities.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/time-traveling-web-browser-lets-you-search-its-1999Los Alamos National Labs' Memento browsing tech lets you search up Web pages from the past, though it's unlikely that it... more