Using computer-controlled temperature and LEDs , an underground rice and vegetable farm called Pasona O2 in Tokyo hopes to have its first harvest this summer (2005).
See pictures of these gardens!

As if not enough the Jedi shower, you should take a look at the E-Meter (Electro-psychometer) roughly known as the “pastoral counseling device” used by the Church of Scientology to detect, among much other things, the emotional state and thoughts of those attached to the device (don’t ask me how nor through what).
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Now that I’m all motivated with photography, I thought I could evolute from IrfanView to ACDsee. IrfanView does its job, but ACDsee handles photos in a more professional way. Anyway, I tried to install ACDsee 7.0 and I felt lost like a stray (newbie) dog.
But hey! There’s a site named OldVersion.com which hosts several programs [...]

The Virgo Consortium recently completed its massive “Millennium Simulation”, tracing the universe’s evolution from its early origins to present day. To simplify the computations, they considered only dark matter which composes most of the universe. Using a 512-node cluster with IBM processors, the group produced over 20 terabytes of data with some of the most [...]

The people over at Treehugger have found an amazing little article on how to build a large 17′ - 3kW+ output Wind Turbine. Apparently this is the latest project of OtherPower.com and the site has a variety of other engergy saving/producing projects.
via Slashdot