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Stuff You Should Know team on Scientology, physics, and superpowers Stuff You Should Know just might be the geekiest podcast around. Read our interviews with hosts Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant and producer Jeri Rowland. Read more Resource of the day 30 day trial of Foglight Experience Monitor Appliance Sign up for a 30 day trial of Quest Software's Foglight Experience Monitor Appliance to see how it can help you optimize performance, improve capacity, and swiftly deal with problems, before they come up. Meet your destiny with endless burning rage in the Firelands Are you ready to face Ragnaros and his endless raging fire? Well, you better get ready because Patch 4.2 to the World of Warcraft is coming soon, as this video trailer reveals. Read more Geek Gifts 2011: Survival Kit in a Sardine Can Whether your summer plans involve enjoying the outdoors or preparing for the apocalypse, ThinkGeek's Survival Kit in a Sardine Can is something you'll want, says former Boy Scout Edmond Woychowsky. Read more ASUS Eee Pad Transformer tablet is a mixed bag Despite its issues, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is the strongest Android Honeycomb tablet on the market, according to reviewer Donovan Colbert. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Supercomputer with 68,000+ CPUs is world's fastest The Fujitsu "K computer" has 672 racks, 68,544 CPUs, and leads TOP500.Org's 37th list of world's fastest supercomputers. Read more 10 outdated technologies our dads refuse to give up Some dads can't wait to try the latest hi-tech gadgets. Then there are the other dads. The ones who say, 'I see no reason to part with my rotary phone. It does everything I need it to.' Read more Featured multimedia   Gallery: NASA takes a new, closer look at the moon NASA declares the mission of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter a success after beaming back lunar images and measurements in sharper detail than ever before. View on site Gallery: Inside Japan's K Computer - world's top supercomputer The unfinished Fujitsu K Computer, at more than 8 petaflops, is more than three times more powerful than China's second place machine. View on site Aviation world jets into Paris Air Show (photos) Road Trip 2011: Walking around the largest air show in the world, you'll see generals, aviation enthusiasts, lots of planes, and everything in between. View on site Look inside Boeing's 747-8 Intercontinental (photos) Road Trip 2011: At the Paris Air Show, CNET got a look inside the next-generation of Boeing's flagship jumbo jet. View on site 3D like you've never seen it before (photos) Road Trip 2011: Amsterdam's Freedom of Creation has built a business around beautiful, custom-made 3D products. View on site Tech explodes in Pixar's 'Cars 2' (images) Like many of its predecessors, the new movie is full of technical innovations. Some required a tripling of Pixar's render farm. View on site 'Cars 2' revs up classic-auto exhibit (photos) A special classic-car exhibit pulls up alongside the "Cars 2" World Grand Prix Attraction amusement park in Hollywood. Sports cars, concepts, and lemons included. View on site Today's recommended downloads Help Diverse Platforms Play Well Together (Quest Software) 30 day trial of Foglight Experience Monitor Appliance (Quest Software) Putting Business Information to Work (TechRepublic) Paper and Ink or Ones and Zeros: Protecting Your Documents (All of Them) (TechRepublic) 10 Reasons You Need an AD Reporting Solution (Quest Software) Perennial favorites   Escape into three geeky podcasts Alien apocalypse vs. zombie apocalypse: Which could you survive? The most overrated and underrated sci-fi novels Photographer captures entire night sky in massive image Introducing two new TechRepublic newsletters Google in the Enterprise and App Builder are new TechRepublic newsletters that will launch by the end of June. Go to our subcenter to sign up for (and to learn a little more about) these newsletters. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business 25 must-read Word tips Five Word tips that could change your life Five tips for making sense out of the Word 2007/2010 style tools Five tips for using Word's Track Changes feature more efficiently Five tips for working beyond Word's page-numbering basics Five tips for working with headers and footers in Word 2010

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