The Great Geek Manual

An amazing photo gallery of Dewy Spider Webs.

Build your own Infrared Goggles for less than than ten dollars.

Darth Vader explains the Pythagorean Theorem.

Dial A Human is a directory of numbers where you can reach an actual person at the largest businesses out there, including Amazon.com, America Online, Apple, etc.

Feeling brainy? These Video Lectures of Nobel Prize Winners will take the wind out of your sails pretty quickly.

It’s hard to elbow your way to the top of the pile, but have you ever tried Un-Googling Yourself?

Since the passage of the Patriot Act, Internet traffic begins to bypass the U.S..

Slippery Brick presents a gallery of eleven cool Nintendo DS mods.

The top eleven Reasons the Internet is Better than School.

This directory of 35 Places To Download Free, Legal Music should keep hardcore audiophiles busy for a while.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end,
it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

- Doug Larson

1486
The first copyright in history is granted in Venice.

1804
Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

1858
The first transatlantic cable fails after less than one month of service.

1859
A solar flare is observed for the first time by astronomer Richard C. Carrington, who will write about his discover in Description of a Singular Appearance seen in the Sun in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1960. “While engaged in the … observation of … solar spots … two patches of intensely bright and white light broke out. … I therefore noted down the time, … and seeing the outburst to be very rapidly on the increase … I hastily ran to call some one to witness … and on returning within 60 seconds, was mortified to find that it was already much changed and enfeebled. Very shortly afterwards the last trace was gone. In this lapse of 5 minutes, the two patches of light traversed a space of about 35,000 miles.”

1865
Joseph Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery.
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