MIT Firefox Toolbar For Searching Libraries

Digg: “LibX is a Firefox toolbar that allows you to quickly search the Barton catalog, Vera, Google Scholar, the SFX FullText Finder and other search tools”

The Zombie Poison Identified as Tetrodotoxin

Digg: “Clairvius Narcisse was declared dead. 18 years later, in 1980, a shuffling, vacant-eyed man identified himself as, Clairvius. He told a fantastic tale of being dug up from his grave, beaten to his senses, and led away to work as a slave on a remote sugar plantation. The authentic “zombie powder” was shown to produce a death like coma.”

Mobile rotary red "Batphone"

Boing Boing: “Cory Doctorow: This old-fashioned red rotary Batphone has a SIM slot — put the SIM from your cellular in it and it becomes a mobile (albeit luggable) phone.

Link “

Make your own motivational poster

Lifehacker: “Instead of staring at that Garfield poster, why not inspire yourself by making your very own motivational poster [like I did for my bud Eric at the top there]?

All you need is a good picture and a pithy saying and you’re good to go. You can upload it to your Flickr account for all the world to see, or you can even create something to order and hang up. It’s an easy way to brighten up your cubicle space. —

Motivator: Inspire! Motivate! Mock!“

Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router: Built-In 160GB Drive, iTunes, and Bittorrent

Holy crap:

Digg: “‘It has a built in network iTunes client, so it’ll show up as an iTunes client to your PCs. And it has a BitTorrent client that can rip down 7 streams automatically (and 10 FTP or web streams at the same time.) That’s with your PC off, all downloads handled by the router. And there’s a lot more. Too much more to share before the jump.

It can act as a network storage device, UPnP/DLNA server for sharing music with compatible streaming devices, and can be turned into a RAID configuration with another drive, so you can have a backed up version of all your data. It can network USB printers, drives. Has 5 Ethernet ports. And encrypts in 64/128 bit WEP, WPA/WPA2 supports TKIP, AES, WPA, WPA2 and MAC.

I want one.– Brian Lam

Asus WL-700gE [via ubergizmo]‘”

Download of the Day: Shazou Firefox extension

Lifehacker: “The Shazou Firefox extension displays where a web site’s server is located on a Google Map.

See exactly where that PayPal scam is being hosted, or check if a vendor you’re considering purchasing from is based in your country. Shazou is probably more for the curious - where a server is physically located doesn’t tell you much about the quality of the info it hosts - but it is fun to know. Shazou is a free download, works wherever Firefox does. Photo by Razvan Antonescu. Thanks, Razvan! — Gina Trapani
Shazou [Mozilla Add-ons] “

The short life and hard times of a Linux virus

Digg: “‘The reason that we have not seen a real Linux virus epidemic in the wild is simply that none of the existing Linux viruses can thrive in the hostile environment that Linux provides. The Linux viruses that exist today are nothing more than technical curiosities; the reality is that there is no viable Linux virus.’”

Star Trek Inspirational Posters

Neatorama: “Awesomely funny Star Trek inspirational posters (downloadable for wallpaper, too!): Link - via Presurfer “

Download of the Day: PrintConductor

Lifehacker: “Windows only: Print several files at once - without opening them individually - with PrintConductor.

Not only can you save a possible system crash or slowdown when opening multiple files for a print job, PrintConductor also allows you to batch-print 16 different types of files, from .pdf to HTML. PrintConductor is a free download, Windows only. — Wendy Boswell
PrintConductor “

Insanely obsessive ultra realistic vector art

Boing Boing: “Mark Frauenfelder: Here’s a gallery featuring artists who use Adobe Illustrator to create extremely realistic drawings that look like photographs. The drawing of the woman shown here was created by Thai artist Ussa Methawiitayakul. Here’s a link showing some in-progress screen shots. Link “