1UP has an interview with Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan detailing the upcoming 1.10 patch for World of Warcraft. They have movies and pictures of the highly awaited Weather Effects-system!

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The cast of the show MythBusters chat about their pasts with ILM, talk about some Star Wars myths (Can you avoid freezing to death in a blizzard overnight by gutting a dead animal like a tauntaun and getting into its carcass?) and why R2-D2 is the perfect sidekick.

http://www.starwars.com/community/news/rocks/f20060127/index.html

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Here are a couple of “remixed” trailers. “The Shining” has been around for a while, but the “Sleepless in Seattle” one is relatively new.

The Shining:

and Sleepless in Seattle:

This is a USB drive that looks like the rubber wristbands that everyone and their brother wears around. Maybe Livestrong will sponsor them and we can still look cool.

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Access your bookmarks from any computer. Supports labels, stars, and notes.

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/

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This article takes apart the cooler-than-thou argument we’ve all heard about how more than 3.2 megapixels is just stupid, since that’s all you need for an 8×10 print.

http://blog.johnath.com/index.php/2006/01/29/the-megapixel-myth/

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Ever thrown a Western Digital hard drive into a campfire? Well, PCMag’s executive editor Jeremy Kaplan did while on his vacation. Why? He wanted to see if Ontrack could save his barbecued data.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1911131,00.asp

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Tutorial on VNC and Hamachi. Good read. Use these tools to connect any two computers, even if they’re behind firewalls.

http://damagedintransit.com/2006/01/27/ultimate-vnc-setup/

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HMCS Calgary visits Prince Rupert. It used the cruise ship dock.

Neat little windows program that can take the best portions of a bunch of groups shots and automagically make a composite for you: Microsoft Research Group Shot