What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

They took the cocaine out of Coca-Cola because it was redundant. This is a scary time line of what actually happens to your body as you have a coke and a smile.

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Pirates crack Vista Activation Server

Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware.

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A Terabyte of Data on a Regular DVD?

This is the promise of the 3-D Optical Data Storage system developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This technology allows to record and store at least 1,000 GB of data on multiple layers of a single disc. By using several layers, this technique will increase the storage capacity of a standard DVD to more than a terabyte.

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The Demographics of Digg

With more than 100,000th Diggers. Where are they from? What browsers do they use? What language do they speak?

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Vista vulnerable to malware from 2004

Microsoft's Vista may be vulnerable to at least three pieces of widespread malware, two of which date back to 2004 , according to security vendor Sophos.
At least three well-known Internet worms--labelled Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O by Sophos--are able to execute on the OS, according Sophos.

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Civilisation II, Theme Hospital, Doom and loads more classics for FREE

Excellent collection of retro games, all free for download. Some may require DOS Box

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30 Essential Open Source Software Packages for Windows

This is from the perspective of a person setting up a machine from scratch and shows the possibilities of OSS. Good descriptions, covers the obvious and the not-so-obvious, provides URLs, and indicates clearly what closed source software each package can replace. A great list for someone setting up a new machine or updating one.

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AMD Showcases Quad-Core Opteron Processor

Semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) showcased its upcoming server class processor featuring four processor cores on a single chip at the annual AMD Industry Analyst Forum.

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Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried

"Times Online is reporting that French and American researchers have discovered that the stones on the higher levels of the great pyramids of Egypt were built with concrete. From the article: 'Until recently it was hard for geologists to distinguish between natural limestone and the kind that would have been made by reconstituting liquefied lime.'

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