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Here is two great sites to find apps to run off usd thumb drives if you like me and havent got admin rights to you computer at work this might be a great way to run the app you need at work or a great way to run an app to waste time one or the other.

Checkout these two site……JS

Portableapps.com

Pendriveapps.com

The Petersburg Times
Grant Johnson went to Egmont Key on Sunday with his mother, his aunt and two grandparents, hoping to pick up a few shells and fly his kite.

Instead, the 9-year-old happened on a remarkable find: a 5-inch-long, 4 1/2-inch-wide shark tooth.
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The tooth’s white enamel had turned gray. There were a few chips from ages spent in the sea. But there was no denying it was a shark tooth.

Megalodons could grow as long as 60 feet and heavy as 77 tons by some accounts - more than twice as long as a great white shark. They became extinct about 2-million years ago.

That is one hell of a shark…JS

A bionic device the size of a pencil eraser - the labor of 20 years for a group of visionary Hub doctors and scientists - is offering hope that some forms of blindness could be alleviated within a few years.

The Boston Retinal Implant Project, partially based at the V.A. Medical Center in Jamaica Plain, is one of 22 programs around the world working to restore vision to the degenerative blind. Their work: a bio-electronic implant that delivers images to the brain via a connector the width of a human hair.

This is really amazing not having you sight has to be the worse disability ever if these guys can develop ways to give sight back to people it would just be the biggest break through ever…JS

Musicovery  is a great site simple to use with a interesting way to play music online. When you get to the site there is a widget that you can choose what type of music what year and what mood your in and with those selected Musicovery selects several tracks that fit those guidelines which as displayed in a graphical mp3 spider web, there is no other way to describe it very cool looking.

The down side is you don’t choose what you listen too but you can have all the functions of any other media player volume, skip track etc. There is the option of keeping  your favorite track so next time you choose those selections again in you favorite you tracks they will be there.

I really think this is a great site for discovering new or old tracks that you might not of heard with its random selection of tracks to you mood and type. All you need to do is get a free account and you right to listen to all your favorite tracks online.

Check it out differently worth a look…JS

Feedfrend and Socialthing both perform the same thing basically they collaborate all your feeds from like

Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, etc.

They add all this stuff into one RSS feed that you can view on there site or add to your favorite reader but the really cool thing is that you can find people you know and add them to your feed it really makes it easy to keep track of what you friends and family are doing on the Net. I love aht these site are doing this has been a problem for me for ages i use Google reader, I would make a folder for each of my friends and add all there feed to it this was time consuming and very painful to set up now with all my friends in the one feed keeping track of whats happening has never been easier.

I have used both services they both have good and bad points Feedfriend is easy to use it has a very plain clean look and has heaps of options for stuff you can add to you feed. Social thing on the other hand has a great looking site still easy to use but because it is still in beta you seem to be limited on what you can add to your feed, but for me Socialthing has the upper hand at the moment simply because when you add your Twitter account it searches all the people you are following and adds them to your feed.

Both services are great and if like me you need to see all your friends, family, and your stuff in the one place then check them out Socialthing and Friendfeed…JS

By the way if you want an invite to Socialthing leave a comment first comment will get my last invite.

Microsofts World Wide Telescope is a new way to explore the universe and make tours of the universe for you friends. It will be available in th second half of this year for a free download at worldwidetelescope.org.

Checkout this video what you see here is only 1% of what you can see with this tool i personally it look great even better than google sky checkout the video HERE…JS

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Finally, mankind has the answer to that eternal question, how many coconuts does it take to go from London to Amsterdam? The answer: 150,000 — converted into biofuel and poured into a special 747, of course. Virgin Atlantic completed its first biofuel tests yesterday with solid results, using a mix of 20 percent coconut oil and 80 percent jet fuel to power a 747 — a first for the airline industry. There’s still a long way to go, of course — only one of the jet’s four tanks carried the alternative fuel, and even Richard Branson admits that giant coconut plantations devoted to airline fuel probably aren’t workable — but despite harsh criticism from skeptics, it’s still an impressive achievement. Branson says that although this test didn’t use a viable fuel, it’s a landmark proof-of-concept — and that next-generation biofuels made from algae may one day power all our aircraft. Although this isnt the answer to our fuel need it nice to see companies as big as Virgin showing that biofuels might be our answer to our green house problems…JS

I love this video its great to see what a 3 year old thinks about a movie classic…JS

This is very cool about 200 people stopped all at once in central station in New York the event was organised by ImprovEverywhere.com. The thing I like about this is they way they got so many people coordinated to stop a freeze for 5 mins in such interesting poses checkout the video this is great…JS