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  • Stats for the Internet in 2010

    Image via Wikipedia A company called Pingdom has realeased some very impressive statistics for the state of the internet in 2010.  It is worth checking out all of the stats given in the previous link but here are some of the highlights that I found most interesting. 107 Trillion emails were sent in 2010, 89.1%…

  • Watch a match burn at 2000 frames per second

    I think pretty much everybody has been taught from a very young age that playing with matches is a very bad thing.  As fun as it is to make fire, it also can result in deaths, forest fires, houses burning down and more.  In the right hands and under controlled conditions, lighting a match can…

  • How to default YouTube to HD

    If you are like me, especially if you view YouTube videos in full screen, you want the video to be at the video to be playing at the highest resolution possible which of course isn’t the default.  The Tekzilla crew has found a great Chrome extension (I assume you can probably find one for Firefox…

  • Epic Battlefield Bad Company 2 Stunt Video [flying tanks]

    Normally I don’t post YouTube videos of people screwing around in video games on this site but this video is so awesome that I am making an exception. A group of gamers decided to see what kinds of crazy things they could do on the game Battlefield Bad Company 2 by Electronic Arts with explosives…

  • YouTube increases upload time limit again

    YouTube has announced on the YouTube blog that people can now upload videos longer than 15 minutes. Some people anyway. Here is a the meat of what YouTube had to say about the changes although you can find the full post over at the YouTube Blog post here: Starting today, we’ll begin allowing selected users…

  • Google Zeitgeist 2010: iPad, Chatroulette big winners

    Google has unveiled the Zeitgeist for 2010 that shows the winners and losers of search for the year. The big winners in search this year seem to be Chatroulette and the iPad.  They were the fastest risers this year.  The fastest falling search was swine flu. There are a ton of categories that organize the…