The Architecture of Mailinator

Handling over 4.5 million emails a day on a single 2GHz box: The Architecture of Mailinator

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Bees sense quantum fields, and that’s why they are disappearing

27 million dead bees in a relatively small area should leave some physical evidence. Curiously, something similar happened 50 years ago…

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The smallest Linux running machine [w/PIC]

Its sizes are 35mm×19mm×19mm. Inside there’s an ARM7 CPU running at 55 MHz and an uClinux kernel 2.4.27 + Busybox 1.0.

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Charge your Cell Phone from the Air

A Pennsylvania entrepreneur has developed technology that gives you all the battery juice you need directly from the air.

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The Power of Babble

MIT researcher Deb Roy is videotaping every waking minute of his infant son’s first 3 years of life. His ultimate goal: teach a robot to talk.

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List Of The Most Beautiful Data Visualizations

This list brings up the most beautiful outpourings of information aesthetics. This is a symbiosis between creative design and information visualization: form follows data and evolves in such unique graphs that you can call them art.

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World’s First Open-Source Car Introduced

Winding Road Magazine reports that the world’s first open-source car, the “c,mm,n” (say “common”), was just introduced at the AutoRAI car show in Amsterdam.

The project is a product of the Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment, better known as the “Stichting Natuur en Milieu,” along with a trio of universities.

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All bodies in the Solar System larger than 200 miles in diameter

A giant image of 88 objects in our solar system, including 11 planets and 21 moons.

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It’s easy being green: Google goes solar

Google’s commitment to “green” means that the company sources carpet and sofas made with PVC, paints without volatile organic compounds, and cafeteria food from local growers. It’s not surprising, then, that they would roll out the largest commercial solar deployment in the US

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Cheap but Great Dates

I’m a single, college guy so how bout some articles on creative, free dates or something. I’m sure this could apply to married men as well.

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Ecstacy By Prescription!

The unapologetic hippies at 10 Zen Monkeys talk to a guy from MAPS about legal psychedelic research, and how MDMA has a good chance of becoming a mainstream pharmaceutical. Except that there’s really no market for it (not taken in daily doses). Lots of other drugs are covered too, including pot, shrooms, LSD and ibogaine.

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Plextor Launches USB HDTV Receiver

Plextor unveiled a new mini digital HDTV receiver on Wednesday that the company says will transform a user’s laptop into a wireless personal video recorder.

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