Investment mistakes happen for a multitude of reasons, including the fact that decisions are made under conditions of uncertainty that are irresponsibly downplayed by market gurus and institutional spokespersons.  Losing money on an investment may not be the result of a mistake, and not all mistakes result in monetary losses. But errors occur when judgment is unduly influenced by emotions, when the basic principles of investing are misunderstood, and when misconceptions exist about how securities react to varying economic, political, and hysterical circumstances. Avoid these ten common errors to improve your performance: 1.

     Rapid protoyping machines (also known as 3D printers) are used in design projects to create a quick mock-up of a device being built in order to test, examine and use it as prototype. The 3D  printetrs use special wax or plastic compound to bulild an item based on it's digital CAD drawings, by printing layers of material one on top of the other. Using rapid prototyping machines speeds up the design and testing process during the conception of a new product. The problem with such machines is their high cost. Using and maintaining such a machine for simple low const projects is too expensive in many cases.How can a 3D printer price be brought down significantly ? Well, how about a 3D printer that can reproduce itself and multiply ?Celeste Biever from NewScientist.com reports that  scientists are working on such macines at the University of Bath in the UK.

A pretty cool idea - write something and it will be spelled out in pictures from Flickr. A picture is worth a thousand words so look at these examples:  Another nice one:      

Instructables is a venue for showing what you make and how others can make it. "Making things is part of being human. Whether you make bikes, kites, food, clothing, protocols for biology research, or hack consumer electronics, good instructions are critical. Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, CAD files, and more. We hope to make documentation simple and fast. Show your colleagues how to operate a machine, show your friends how to build a kayak, show the world how to make cool stuff.

What is Live Website Registration Notifier? Live Website Registration Notifier is a service which allows a website owner or webmaster to get notified by a sound effect when a new user registers on his/her website. It can be used from any browser anywhere. A typical website owner will use it for example when he/she is at home and will jump happily whenever the notification sound is heard. How do I get the alert when someone registers to my website? You leave a browser open on our site and it will play the alert sound for you whenever someone registers to your website. How does it work? You get a line of html to paste to the page you want to monitor.

    RIAA pressed charges against a Woman who has never used a computer in her life.The lawsuit was filed to Brooklyn federal court for using an 'online distribution system' to 'download, distribute, and/or make available for distribution' plaintiff's music files.Let's hope they didn't subpena by email.Read more 

 Blog Herald estimates the number of existing blogs at 200 Million.Think of it this way- approximately every 5th of the estimated 1,018,057,389 web users (according to Internet world stats) has a blog. In other words, there are m-a-n-y bloggers out there with readership of 1. In case they read their own blog.What the overwhelming number really means is that the public has taken publishing into their own hands. Competition over readers is fierce and the best will win. Another implication is that individual blogs are getting harder to find in the sea of blogs. So more and more bloggers should consider writing for open blogs like linkadelic magazine.This cannot be bad for the readers and web users.

     Internet Explorer Ver. 7 Beta preview from Microsoft is now available for download.If you'd like to see what ordnance Microsoft has put on it's popular browser to fight off Mozilla Firefox. You can try it here:Download here  If you don't want to get your hands dirty. You can just take the tour.IE7 tour Or, you can use FireFox like me. 

    Kottke.org weblog has conducted an interesting survey. To decide which media type has more influence today. Newspapers' online websites, blogs or citizen media sites. The news media is changing. While in the past big newspapers and magazines had the authority over news, it seems like it is changing in favor of other types of media. The contesters: New York Times – one of the most respected and leading newspapers. Blogs - by individuals and groups who catch the news and spread it via feeds. Citizen media – Websites such as wikipedia.com who accept posts from their users.

CoMagz linkadelic magazine Is an online magazine, written completely by its users, about what's cool and interesting on the web.     Linkadelic magazine can be viewed as combination of Digg, Wikipedia and ordinary online magazines. It takes users content, put interesting content first, all with online magazine touch and feel. Anyone can submit news, recommended links, write articles or a personal column. Voting of other users kick out bad content while bringing the interesting content to the readers.   Found something interesting on the web ? Submit it now.