Try out Speedtest.net

OK. Just got my new wireless-n MIMO router, a D-link DGL-4500 gamefuel router. Now, I think this may have something to do with the outages I've been having the past week, but it is an incredible coincedence that I jumped up to this speed with the new router. Previously it had been no slouch at around 10,000 kb/s. There's a way to copy your results as a link and hyper link. This is about the average of my scores. Everyone, go to speedtest.net and use the midpoint of your results and post them. It'll be kind of curious. I'll try the dsl at work tomorrow.

Fastest Train in the World.

Here we go to Japan, and get the feel of what it's like going 500Km/h, then we get to see what that looks like on the outside. Pretty Amazing.

Hard Drive Writes At 100x Standard Speed

With news that could turn the technology world on its ear, scientist have discovered a way to improved the write speed of a hard drive by 100x faster than current speeds.

Dutch scientist at Radboud University Nijmegen used a special laser to send flashes of polarized light to a 5-micron-wide spot on a disk surface which is heated. But the only problem is that the demonstrated drive has a 5-micron width, which is 10 time larger than your normal recording area. And this only improves the write time, and does nothing for read time.

Hopefully they will make this into a usable model.
Hit the jump for the entire article. [InfoWorld via Gizmodo]