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To celebrate the PlayStation’s 15th anniversary, Sony designed a cool Flash site with a timeline of the PlayStation products over the past 15 years. The site can be navigated  by either the graphics on the top or the history timeline along the bottom of the site. Once you click on a particular console or portable device, information detailing that machine will pop up along with pictures and ads from when that console was on the market.

The site can be found here.

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To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle’s book; The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Google used this logo for a day back in March, 2009. The book has sold 30 million copies since it was released in 1969. It teaches counting and the days of the week through the story of one very hungry caterpillar. It also features some beautiful illustrations and is a great book for all children. It’s currently on sale @ Amazon for $7.91.

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TinEye let’s you search for images with that same image. It may sound stupid but it’s actually pretty useful in some instances. It’s true usefulness comes when you see an interesting image and wonder what it is, and where it originates from. It’s also great if you posted an image online that you own the rights to and you want to see if anyone is using it without your permission.

The website is http://www.tineye.com/.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, the great show once on Comedy Central and then on SciFi Channel before being canceled off the air about 10 years ago can now be found on Hulu. This show is about a human and two robots stuck on an evil ship forced to watch horrible movies. The three of them tear the movie apart making fun of everything from the actors to the low budget props to the music to the..well.. they knock the whole movie. It’s a formula that actually works and it’s one of my favorite shows of all time. There are currently only 5 one and a half hour episodes available.

MST3K on Hulu

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There have been some pretty cool NES mods over the past few years but this one is one of the better ones I’ve seen. Here’s what the creator has to say about it:

“My nesP is basically a noname china brand portable media player, with the advantage of being able to play nes roms, and a nes controller hacked to the controls. First off the buttons on the original media player just sucked, they were so small and tight that my fingers could not easily push them. So I got the idea of modding a nes controller to it, that’s when I remembered about the above mentioned mod, and thought maybe I can cram this inside of a cartridge case with the controller. Well it worked perfect, it was like it was made to fit, I didn’t use any hot glue or anything other than some double sided tape to hold the battery in place. It’s a really tight fit though. It’s got 4gb built in memory, with a sd card slot in the inside so you could expand the memory if needed, and not only does it play nes games, but it also plays gameboy and gameboy color roms as well. 2.8” TFT LCD, built-in rechargeable lithium battery, Video player, MP3 player, FM radio, Picture viewer, Audio recorder, it’s got a camera and video camera (but I disabled them to fit in the case), built in speaker, and the best part… TV-OUT !!! so you can play on the big screen! The unit has 2 additional buttons on the front, ones power, and the other is used to navigate the main menu, basically it’s a ‘back’ button. And there is a small hole drilled in the back with a reset button behind it. The unit has 3 plug ins on the right side, AC power (to charge the battery) Mini USB (to put files on the thing) and the TV-OUT plug. I also spent some time and redid the images used for the main menu and the game selection screen.

Now last thing, this unit cost me a lot to finish, due to going through 3 game cases, 2 controllers, and 2 of the media player systems I used, so to recoup my loses, this thing is for sale. So if you’re interested drop me a PM. Thanks for looking.”

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