Torch that can light fire

Here is a torchlight powerful enough, so that it can light up the substance on which it flashes!

One Laptop per child

This is a project being developed by a group of people, who aim to provide a laptop for a very low cost ($100), which will be durable, power-efficient and responsive and fit well as a learning tool for kids of poorer countries.

Google Map: Amsterdam jewel

This a real picture folks... this phenomenon in Amsterdam is large enough to be noticed from the space, or Google map!

The Fairest

This site features some of the most stunning and breathtaking images updated I have seen. The content is powered by a voting system open to all, and hence updated regularly.

Fake iPods

"Designed by Apple in California; Assembled in China"
See it to believe it! According to people, the UI is completely different and scrolling through songs happen through buttons.
http://digg.com/apple/Yes_fake_iPods_will_go_this_far

The Future

Are you ready to witness our fate in the distant future? Then wait no more as this presentation takes you through the important landmarks of the future and gives you a view of what is going to befall us.

Find out if you are an engineer

All of these (whichever applicable) hold for me!

What is 78 x 23?

The author makes a point by asking the question, which I am sure all of you will appreciate. (Food for thought.)

Who is looking?

Check out these cute looking (yes!) insects in this photographs. Well I never thought insects look cute, but this set of pictures made me change my mind.

Beer can art

This webpage shows some very artistic usage of beer cans!

Scary Movies

Remember the scene from Poltergeist, where the main female character is chilled with fear when she sees the chairs stacked up on the table after she turned around for a few seconds? Click on the picture to remember 99 more such scenes from the scariest flicks.

Happy Halloween!

Clockz

Lots of nice innovative, amazing, futuristic, and cool clocks here in this site. All of them can be viewed online, or downlaoded for personal use. My personal favourite is the Micky Mouse watch. Nice work :)

Face on Earth

Remember the Face on Mars? It made news when Viking 1 took a photograph of a place in Mars, which had surprising amount of resemblance to human face. It was explained that human eyes are trained to find patterns whenever they look at something. Among hundreds and thousands of natural formation, some will resemble elements that are familiar. So the face on Mars was dismissed as nothing more than a random rock formation. Later inspections proved that the lighting in that region at the point of time when the photograph was taken was critically responsible for the resemblance.Thanks to Google Earth now we can make similar discoveries on Earth. The picture shows a rock formation which can be seen in a region in Canada. Doesn't it remind you of ancient cave sculptures?! Click to view it directly in Google Map.

Variations of Wikipedia

Who doesn't know about the Wikipedia?
Yes, it's the web based encyclopedia that is free for everyone to use, and contribute. Given the fact that anyone can change almost any article in it, it is truly amazing that the quality of the information in it well rivals commercial encyclopedias. Kudos to Wikipedia!

Here are the other interesting Wikis that I have encountered.

• Encyclopedia Dramatica - Another parody of Wikipedia, apparently the Wikipedia admins got so irritated with it that they "took it personally", and subsequently deleted the Encyclopedia Dramatica entry from their site!
  
• Uncyclopedia - "Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is a satirical parody of Wikipedia, though Uncyclopedia claims the reverse." - Wikipedia
• Simple Wikipedia - This a simpler version of the Wikipedia designed for slower (mentally challenged) people.
• Memory Alpha - And finally here it comes, the Star Trek Wikipedia.