how the brain works

• Watch the following three interesting and in-depth video links, each about an hour long, from the Numenta site and Google:
  How HTM maps to the brain — Quoting the Numenta site: "This is an hour long talk describing how HTM technology maps to the anatomy and physiology or the brain. Engineers who are familiar with HTM have found this talk helpful so we decided to record it and make it available."
  Prospects and Problems of Cortical Theory
  How the Cortex Works

Open id PIP

Personal Identity Provider allows you to manage your personal information online by providing a single sign on to multiple websites. PIP also provides the flexibility to share only the information you choose with each website.

When you create a PIP account, you will receive a personal identifier in the form of a URL that you can use to sign in or register at any site that supports OpenID


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Sysinternals

Some cool windows apps

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Which defrag should you use

Here is a blog about the to 40 defrag utilities some are free.

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jQuery User Interface Library

"Draggables, droppables, resizables, shadows, sliders, sortables, tabs, accordions, selectables, trees, and modals. All completely documented, demoed, themed, and 100% Free Open Source Software."

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Digg's picture of the Year [PIC]

With all the iPhone drama and unlocking drama. This picture truly sums up the comedy in all this.

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10 Ajax Start Pages to Consider

Ajax start pages are easy-to-use, customizable webpages, allowing you to keep up with the latest news and add interactive content. You can add new RSS feeds and widgets, and move your content around the page.

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Turn Your Windows PC into a Media Center Powerhouse On the Cheap

After installing a $70 capture card in your computer and a bit of freeware third-party software, you've got all the tools you need to record television shows on your PC's built-in Media Center, extend that Media Center to your Xbox 360, schedule recordings and stream TV over the internet.

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IBM Adds Lotus Notes Code To OpenOffice Project

IBM's participation could make OpenOffice.org a more serious threat to Microsoft's stranglehold on the productivity software market.

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French Prints Show the Year 2000 (1910)

The National Library of France (BnF) has an amazing collection of prints from 1910 which depict life in the year 2000. They are credited to Villemard. There's speculation that they were included with "foodstuffs" of the era, much like the German postcards we looked at back in April.

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Bottle makes dirty water drinkable in seconds

Military chiefs are excited because the bottles, which can distill either 4,000 litres or 6,000 litres without changing the filter. The bottle can clean up any water - including fecal matter - using a filter that cuts out anything longer than 15 nanometres, which means that viruses can be filtered out without the use of chemicals.

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Amazing Steampunk Theme'd Site

I know, it looks like a web developer site. But it is so cool.

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Swedish Mobile

Company promises free calls. Using P2P on your mobile.

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Similicio.us - Find Similar Sites

Similicio.us is an application that finds websites that appeal to similar tastes, using Delicio.us bookmarks.

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40+ Free Windows Apps For You

Cool apps to try

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Fgpyyih804423 in 160 seconds. How Safe is Your Windows Password?

The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure...

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Watch Any Youtube Video On Your Phone

Simple tool that converts any youtube video for immediate viewing on your mobile phone.

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Rumor: Google Phone Confirmed By HTC Insider

JB over at Crunchgear has the exclusive on the "upcoming" Google Phone, supposedly set to launch in Q1 2008. His source is someone inside HTC, the company that Google's working with to pick one of 20 models to finalize their design.

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