del.icio.us links for April 15, 2007

del.icio.us links for April 15, 2007

1. Where’s George? ® 2.2 or if your in Canada, Where’s Willy?

   Do you ever wonder where that paper money in your pocket has been, or where it will go next? This is the place to find out. Enter the denomination, series, and serial number of any US dollar bill, and your current USA ZIP or Canadian Post Code

2. NASA pay $26.6 Millions to Shuttle Survivors (Update)

   proposed Columbia Memorial Space Science and Learning Center in Downey, Calif. The city of Downey is converting this one-time NASA manufacturing site to a memorial to honor the seven shuttle astronauts killed in 2003

3. ‘Virtual Humans’ Sought for Crash Tests

   In an announcement scheduled for Sunday at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit, the companies say they have requested proposals from 40 research and university groups worldwide

4. Red / RED ONE Ultra High Def Digital Camera
   

   Designed for flexibility and functionality. Weighing in at around 8 lbs, a streamlined packaged designed specifically to maximize your shooting options, along with a 35mm PL lens mount. Shot up to 2540P@60fps, 2K or 720P@120FPS

5. Apple – Get a Mac

   3 more PC vs Mac advert for you to watch during the Tornado

6. Apple – Final Cut Server

   Final Cut Server frees you up to spend more time on high-value creative work. Collaborate over a LAN or WAN, or use the power of Xsan to share media across a large number of workstations. Final Cut Server makes it easy to work at any scale.

15 more articles after the jump

1. Apple – Final Cut Studio 2 with FCP 6

   Use Final Cut Pro 6 for native editing of virtually any format, from DV and SD up to HDV, XDCAM HD, DVCPRO HD, and fully uncompressed HD. Or use ProRes 422, a new post-production format from Apple that offers uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes

2. Samsung Plans Blu-ray-HD DVD Disc Player — Blu-ray HD-DVD

   The Korean company’s Duo HD, or BD-UP5000, player will fully support HD DVD and Blu-ray, including interactive features within the discs. Samsung currently makes a Blu-ray-only player.

3. Edible Geek: Chocolate Gadgets

   What’s better than shiny real gadgets? Chocolate Gadgets of course. You can get a cell phone, iPod, remote, Blackberry, computer or mouse for about $3 each, but you have to buy in bulk. That’s a lot of geeky chocolate.

4. MySpace Blames Canada

   Looks like MySpace Canada is up – they started inviting Canadian users to switch over today. You can take a peek by visiting ca.myspace.com

5. Facebook’s Active Users, In Millions

   This is from the May edition of FastCompany, showing registered users who have visited the site at least once each month. Speaks for itself.

6. Global warming and sea levels, take bets in online gambling service

   An online gambling service, BetUs.com will now take bets on global warming including whether some of the United States’ East Coast hot spots will soon be underwater. Others include bets that Virginia’s Cape Henry will be submerged by 2015 at 200-to-1

7. Websiteicon

   Loads of great free to download sets of icons for hardware and software, but mainly PS based

8. B Scene

   Release your inner musician with these two simple little games

9. Einstein was right: space and time bend

   Ninety years after he expounded his famous theory, a $700m Nasa probe has proved that the universe behaves as he said. Now the race is on to show that the other half of relativity also works

10. iStalkr: Social RSS Aggregator

    A web app that allows you to create a lifestream tracking all your RSS and ATOM feeds for services you use, like Digg, Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, Flickr, Last.fm, Google Reader’s Shared Items, Tumblr, Twitter , etc, and create a time line of your activities.

11. The End of the Internet

    You have just reached the End of the Internet.

12. Fonts 500

    Yes, another 500 free fonts, a good selection though

13. ongopongo.com = share + search google my maps and other map links

    Google Maps has added a new feature where you can customize maps using a simple interface called ‘My Maps’ and share them. It’s really simple. Here’s a HOW-TO GUIDE. Cnet put together this VIDEO GUIDE. Here’s the Google Maps Help Group.

14. cl1p.net – The internet clipboard

    Copy and paste between computers in three easy steps Enter a URL that starts with http://cl1p.net. example: http://cl1p.net/verbarsignora/ Paste in anything you want. Click ‘Save’ when done. On the other computer open a browser to the same URL.

15. PICARD Lederwaren – English – PICARD SOLAR

    The bag features a full side flap of solar panels and is designed to charge your phone, media players, and gadgets as you move from place to place. Not available until August and is being reported as coming with a price tag that approaches $700