Aurora video

Ever wondered what the aurora australis (or borealis for that matter) looks like from space? No, neither did I. But I’m glad I know now. See for yourself.

Hoff's total rock out awesomeness

The best music video / performer / song ever.

Wooden mirror (no glass used)

This is quite an amazing mirror - made of wood.

The Monster Engine!

OK. Now this is just absolutely too cool. Dave Devries has taken some lovely children's art, and "coloured them in"... (click on the title for the link)

Boot XP off a USB drive

If you have a USB drive larger than 256Mb and you don't know what to do with it, send it to me. Or make it your emergency boot disk if your computer dies.

Learn how to do it here.

Low tech ambient pixels... um... thing...

A cool way to utilise those empties.

Willy Wonka pill

This pill will make anything sour that you eat taste sweet, and lasts for two hours. Not the sweetness, the duration of the pill's effect. Another way to make sour foods more palatable is to not eat them. Yummy.

Voice synthesizer

Now you can have some vulgar, childish good, clean fun with this...

Holophonic Sound - Audio So Real It's Scary

True three-dimensional sound that even lets you hear above and below you! This works with regular headphones - the ones for people with two ears. The link may not work, so go to the digg story to get some mirrors in the comments.

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HUD for swimmers

Smart goggles that help swimmers log lengths have been designed by a UK engineering student.

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OK, so the news is from a few months ago, but still: nice one. Now put that HUD in a dive mask, with wireless transmission of air remaining, depth, compass heading etc, and I'd buy a pair in a flash.

Sonic Boom

Ooo… this is cool – a photo of the space shuttle at the exact moment of a sonic boom…

Paris through a pinhole

Beautiful pinhole camera photography : Paris through a pinhole...

Cat called 911 to help ill owner, police say

"Police aren't sure how else to explain it, but when an officer walked into an apartment Thursday night to answer a 911 call, an orange-and-tan striped cat was lying by a telephone on the living room floor. The cat's owner, Gary Rosheisen, was on the ground near his bed having fallen out of his wheelchair."

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I don't know about this. Not the calling the police thing, but owning a cat? Who does that? They're emotional takers, folks. And anyway, it sounds from the description like it was more likely to be a tiger.

Oh, happy new year too.