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Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider does? Well check out this nicely made video and all will be explained.

Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It’s essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. It works very well and I must say it’s nice to do command line searching.

Here is a link to a great article that gives a little more insight into how Google operates it’s data centers. I would so LOVE to see one of the data centers in action.

A man working on a brand new Dell notebook noticed something odd and decided to look into it. What he found was that Dell had installed a hardware keylogger on their notebooks. The response from Dell and Homeland Security is very interesting. You can read about it and see pictures here.

Did you think the Y2K bugs were done? Well they’re not! The next is the Y2K38 which begins on January 19th 2008 when 30 yr loan and other calculations will have problems. Read more about it here on Wikipedia.

I played with this a while back and it is quite impressive. It allows you to take multiple random photos of say a location and generate a 3D image from them. You can try it out here with the technical preview of it. I am sure this software will be expensive when it goes live.

Well yes they do. Some of the best in the world. What you may not realize is that they also have been developing a state of the art automobile suspension system. It’s hard to explain how truly amazing the system is. It’s better to just see it in action here. It uses linear electromagnetic motors instead of the now old fashioned gas cartridge. You can read all the details here. I can’t wait to drive a vehicle with this system.