The dsigner who made this mouse made the shell entirely from stainless steel, using the innards and electronics from a Microsoft optical mouse. It took 8 months to complete, weighs quite a bit, but is supposedly ergonomic and fully functional.
View more pix (and individual component pix and details) here
http://thecontaminated.com/stainless-steel-mouse/
You know…sometimes, when explorer crashes, your little icons in the taskbar just stop showing up? Their still running…but their not *there*?
Well, when that happened, I used to open up task manger, kill em, and restart em. Well…turns out i dont need to do that 
Unhider shows those programs for you 
While this is one function of the program, it also lets you show the programs that normally dont show up.
Check it out, Unhider
Any of you guys run a web server at home or have a host that allows you to edit .htaccess?
Here’s a nifty little thing that makes it easier for people who know next to nothing of htaccess to protect pages. It’s also for people who *could* do this by hand, but really could be doing something better than text editing .htaccess.
Theres a nice web utility that allows you to setup the basic password protection, error pages, redirects, etc. Nice and simple
Check it out: .htaccess Editor
Heres some good backup software, each with its own strengths.
Hinx Backup Easy, is a small utility that lets you do local backups or FTP backuping, with schedules. Theres the option for incremental backups, and thats about it. Simple, and small Hinx Backup Easy
DocShield has a different niche. What happens if you’re working on a giant paper, and it just goes horribly wrong? DocShield scans marked folders for changed files and saves archived versions. Its like code versioning, but for allpurpose files. This also lets you backup your versions on an ftp server. DocShield
Finally…on a slightly different note, File Alert Monitor, does what any sane human being would be able to pull out of the program name. It works on networked drives too Check it out: File Alert Monitor
This is not for the weak of heart….or for those who have nightmares of owning a brick
Of course, theres always just waiting until June…
Anyways, ZiPhone will jailbreak your iPhone and iPod touch, as well as unlock the iPhone. Make sure the device is running latest firmware, 1.1.4, set it up as a new phone. Download ZiPhone, run the app, close iTunes, and just follow the instructions :P.
Check it out: ZiPhone
Now remember…you really could just wait until June, but heh, if you’re in a hurry 
I really want to know how many of you have gone into the guts of FF and been totally overwhelmed by the number of configuration options. The about:config page is just absolutely insane. Really powerful, but insane at the same time.
To help you….theres Configuration Mania. Its a firefox plugin that organizes most of the options available in about:config. Sure, there are still some other options that aren’t there, but really, those probably aren’t going to be used very often.
Check it out: Configuration Mania
I’m just going to let this speak for itself.
Okay, i can’t keep my mouth shut.
I reccomend the following from PCWorlds list as particularly interesting and worthy of exploration.
#3 : The three AM one looks pretty cool. I haven’t been up till 3 to test it out, but it looks neat.
#4 : I remember reading about Gmail Paper. There may even be a FLB post on it.
#7. The Google Earth flight simulator. The first time I heard of it, i didn’t believe it. Surprisingly, Brian or Joe hadn’t heard of it either. So off to Google Earth I went . . . and there it was. No lie.
#8. Google calculator. One of the things i love about Google.
#12. The Picasa Bear. Just how many it will show is a mystery. . . but its a lot.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/142620-1/googles_top_17_easter_eggs_gags_and_hoaxes.html
This is a REALLY useless utility. This isn’t even like there’s a possible use for it, this program honestly, was made because it COULD be made.
IE Retitler does exactly what it says. It lets you retitle the screens of IE to whatever you want.
Funny…there aren’t any preferences, plugins, or help files. Really…all you can do with it is leave cute messages to yourself when you glance down at your taskbar or the IE bar. Have fun with it
Check it out: Brenton Fletcher’s Portfolio
To be frank though, there are some pretty nice little apps in this portfolio. Have fun flipping through it and downloading a few
Indeed…sometimes, I have these bouts of insaneness and I open up task manager, and start killing memory hogging processes. This usually takes some time as I scroll through XP’s 60ish processes and Vista’s obscene 100 processes. Well…I shall do that no longer!
What you do with this little app is mark up system and critical processes, etc, that you want to keep. Press the big kill button and everything else goes poof!
However, what you really want to do before you do this, is know what you’re killing first. Because, honestly, for your own sanity, don’t kill processes you dont even know
First, figure out what all those nasty processes are, THEN do this.
Check it out: EndItAll
It was almost 207 years ago that the first battery was developed by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the first time, electricity could be gathered and stored, instead of just being handled as a static shock. So the next time you open your laptop, listen to your mp3 player, or pick up the TV remote controll, remember that the battery started with Volta.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/dayintech_0320
And. here’s a list of some common things we use all the time that depend on batteries :
Bluetooth devices
Cars
Cell Phones
Cordless power tools
Digital watches
Digital cameras
Flashlights
Laptops
MP3 players
Pacemakers
PDAs
Telephones - non-cell (Early phones used batteries to keep the phone line voltage up.)
TV Remotes
Okay, so its not the best list ever, and without batteries in general, we wouldn’t have made nearly as many advances in electrical technology as we have today.
As usual, if anyone has any other good ideas/strange places that we find batteries, feel free to leave your ideas in the comments so I can add em to the list.