www.yugop.com: A well done site showcasing Flash techniques. I especially like the way they give you something to do while the Flash is downloading. (tks Daniela)

Palm alumni finally unveil their new organizer, the Visior. Love the price.

Review of MS's latest mouse, the IntelliMouse Explorer.

The Vatican releases a guidebook of things you can do make up for your sins and cut down on your time in Purgatory. Someone forward a copy to these folks.

The earth rotates, revolves, and oscillates.

Hubble gives us a better view on a couple of massive star clusters near the center of our galaxy. They're pretty far away, so any ship we'd send to get a closer look would run out of fuel before reaching it's destination. Fortunately, NASA is working on a way to harness human waste to power it's spaceships. There are just so many punch lines I could write for this...

For Bryan and Dom: Physics of Paintball

5th graders robotics project. Here an excerpt from Kara and Tanya's "Death Beam" project:"We enjoyed in this project was working with Legos and giving demos. We also thought it was funny when the heads fell off the Lego people."

By contrast, here's the most gruesome use of Lego I've come across so far. The purpose of these works are, according to the creator, "to show the gap between the ideal world marketed to children and reality". I'll let you decide.

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