Scientific American ( www.sciam.com) - Great magazine

Scientific American is a great read. Lots of great articles and information. Subscribe or give it as a gift.

Cygwin - The best windows application ever

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.

Required to use Windows? Need the functionality of *NIX command line tools? Cygwin is the answer. Need a real terminal program -- download rxvt.

Cool mandelbrots

Buddhabrot

some cool mandlebrot images.

$115 gets you your own hydrogen powered car

Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies has some cool fuel cell powered cars.

Welcome to 7-zip

7-zip is the file archiver ( compress/decompress ) that I use on windows. Free, and works very well.

Zim - a desktop wiki and outliner

I like and use Tomboy, but for some things Zim (hierarchical, grouping, etc) seems a better fit. From the website "Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor written in Gtk2-Perl which aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop." I'm using it at work, and I installed it on my son's desktop for school related note taking.

Looking for a low cost DIY music player

I've been looking off and on for years for a DIY music player that would allow me to build one 'as good as or better than' those mass produced at an 'extremely reasonable' price. And I'm still looking. :) If anyone has any pointers, please post them.

streamtuner -- Find the music you want

a great app for anyone that likes music. allows browsing and searching of multiple online music sources.
streamtuner

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