I saw the Animatrix this weekend. If you are a fan of anime, I strongly urge you to see it. The Animatrix is a collection of 9 short stories, from 6 - 16 minutes long, representing the unique interpretations, of several Japanese artists, on what The Matrix is. I don’t want to get into analyzing [...]

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I finally got around to seeing the Hulk yesterday. After a week of waiting, the movie was still packing in the crowds.

If you walk in expecting the movie to be the summer blockbuster action flick it promises to be, then you will be sorely disappointed. In no way does this mean the film is [...]

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The first mission to Mars was to answer the question; “Could conditions on Mars ever have supported life?”. NASA will be continuing the mission with $800 million price tag. This time they are sending 2 giant rovers instead of one small one. The design of the new rovers are based on Sojourner Truth, the first [...]

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Here’s what we all have been patiently waiting for. Google has made the next version of its toolbar. It has a few new features. Go check it out.
Changes in Current Version:

Popup Blocker: Make surfing the web easier by stopping annoying popups
AutoFill: Automatically fill in a form with the click of a button
BlogThis: Create a weblog [...]

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For those of you that are thinking of making the move, I can tell you that you won’t be dissappointed. I have done it twice and to tell you the truth; it wasn’t as easy the second time as it was the first. Moving my existing data the second time around proved to be a [...]

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Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady, the creators of South Park, are starting their new project, Team America. Team America will be a parody of Hollywood action movies.

“Our cast will be deliberately made of wood, but that will only be taking to the extreme what is evident in many Hollywood movies right now,” said [...]

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The Power Mac G5 is the world’s fastest personal computer and the first with a 64-bit processor — which means it breaks the 4 gigabyte barrier and can use up to 8 gigabytes of main memory. The new G5 processor — available at speeds up to dual 2GHz with a new ultrahigh-bandwidth system architecture featuring [...]

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I have never really thought much about Macs, for I have been a PC man forever. A few months ago, I went to one of the major computer stores in my area in search of a new monitor. I had already known which monitor I wanted to get but I was looking around anyway. A [...]

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Creative Technology Ltd. announced their new camera, the PC-CAM 880 on June 16. This camera combines the features of high-end digital still cameras with the versatility of a PC camera, priced under $150USD. The camera is a 3 megapixels camera (2048×1536) and has removable memory and TV output. When attached to the PC, it can [...]

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FingerWorks of Newark, Delaware, has technology that turns hand gestures computing commands. The Gesture Pad is meant to be an alternative for the mouse. This should be helpful in preventing repetitive stress injuries.
The gesturing interface works like this. To open a file, a user rotates a hand as if to open a jar. To close [...]

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Microsoft has made the Beta version of Messenger 6.0 availble to the public. The interface for this verion has change from 5.0. It look more like a full blown application. This version doesn’t provide the ability to chat with people on other services, but I’m sure that will come at some later date. P2P [...]

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I know that most of you have seen many reviews of the Treo 600 smartphone. I have too. But I haven’t seen a a price listed yet. I also read that Handspring considers the Treo 600 its last product. Handspring has not been profitable for a while. They hope that the Treo 600 will change [...]

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I love happy occasions. This one is the birth of a new blog, Move The Crowd. Michael has started a new Blog, just today. Obviously, he has too much time on his hands as well as too many thoughts in his head. In order to keep TraderMike to its original format, he has decided to [...]

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Time is really flying, already a year has passed, it was only a few months ago that he was born. So it seems. Well, Jordan has grown a lot in a year. At birth he weighed 9lbs. 14oz. Now is near 30lbs. all muscle! He is really giving Ingrid a workout with the “pick me [...]

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I am anxiously waiting for the Hulk to start playing. There is a lot of buzz around this film. One of the biggest topics is that the Hulk is completely CGI. The previews looked AWESOME. Has CGI come along enough to base a character completely on this technology?
I came across an article today asking “Who [...]

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EMachines introduced its widescreen notebook PC, a couple weeks ago, priced starting at under $1,300. I’ve heard word that you can pick one up at Costco for $1,100. The specs make this machine sound very nice. Reports say that the display is top notch. eMachines have been around for a while and I really don’t [...]

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I found this post, A Poker Computer Program That Bluffs on the Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends site, reporting a program named Poki that play poker. I have been playing poker, monthly, for nearly a year and after seeing the article, I was immediately drawn in. The program is written in AI and it has learned [...]

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This is a partial eclipse of the sun by the moon.

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Gravity Control Technologies(GCT), founded 1999, is researching technologies based on superconductivity and Zero Point Energy Field physics in the hopes of achieving one-hundred percent propellant-less propulsion technology for flight. The company has submitted an entry into the race and the X-Prize committee gave this response:
“In light of the novel and untried technology you propose, the [...]

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Why? United airlines, currently in bankruptcy, is going to introduce email as an in-flight servie. The service is set to be offered to travelers at $16.00 USD/flight. Now, I think that you would have to be a very busy business-person or just straight up addicted to email in order to want this. Now if IM [...]

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