Did you know that a five digit alphabetic password can be cracked in 20 minutes. Quadruple the length to 20 digits, and it would take 63 quadrillion years (no really). I think most of my passwords are pretty secure, the one for this site is a combination of three different passwords, which makes it… 19 digits, alphanumeric with uppercase letters. Unless you have a CRAY, bring it on
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The instructions are pretty simple. All you do is add potting soil to the green sewer-pipe-shaped flower pot, and push the spores deep into it. Soak the soil with water using the dropper, add a squirt of the food solution, and then it's off to a dark location for a few weeks. Break out our NES to relive some classic Mario memories, then three weeks later, check on it and hopefull find your very own 1up mushroom.
I've ordered mine, I'll post pics when it comes.
Get yours now! [ThinkGeek]
Some of these show innovation, but others are just stupid. The 'Safetype keyboard' for example. How are you supposed to reach the keys in the middle when your fingers are on the outside. Then theres the IR keyboard which projects a virtual keyboard and monitors where your hand are. If god would have wanted man to type on light, he would have given him fingers made of shadows 
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These should probably also have been included…
Senseboard
The Microwriter

Doesn't use any batteries, and is apparently lighter than other mice. It must use some kind of magnetic induction from the included pad to draw it's power. 
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Ever wanted to create your own box with a swirly pattern that goes around the outside? Probably not, but Paperboxes lets you print a box net with a pattern so the swirl appears to go round the outside of the box.
Paper Boxes
Now that Dell have aquired Alienware, they seem to be selling ridiculously over-specced and over-priced PCs. The XPS Renegade has four 512Mb GeForce 7900 graphics cards in SLi, two 10,000 WD Raptors in RAID 0 aswell as a 400GB drive. It also has a 4.26Ghz overclocked CPU. Pretty amazing, but for the price of $9930 USD, it should be.
Dell XPS Renegade
28th March 2006
According to The Inquirer, Dell has sold all of these. They probably didn’t make that many, but it’s suprising they sold any at $9930.
This guy really needs to chill, Onyxia is a bitch to kill. Kind of brings back memories though, and almost makes me wish I'd kept my WoW account.
<a href=”http://media.putfile.com/ony_wipe”>Raid on Onyxia</a>
If your parents ever say to you “Boy, you're going to be a star. I'll pay for the video, you'll make millions out of it”, please… ask your mates first. Parents are often blinded by love, and deaf 
Wo bist du, mein Sonnenlicht
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XGL is an X server which uses OpenGL for it's drawing operations, allowing you to create some pretty swish desktops. By the time Longhorn's finally released, most of the technology it offers will probably have been around under linux for a while, but I'd still like to see a DirectX version running on windows.
XGL wiki
Source [WhaleSalad]