Very cool – New Scientist. If I was going to college now, I would absolutely be studying materials science, there is just so much cool stuff going on.

Dude! – Eric Rudder’s Blog. Very constrained and corporate feeling tho. Eric, let it all out!

Some of these are hilarious – THE ECONOMISTS

We’ve raised our own personal terror alert to Blue – we are “guarded”. We had three police cars in our driveway this morning, after 3-4 young people celebrating a 21st birthday got out of hand, broke into the boat locker in the park next door, stole a canoe, landed at our dock, and wandered thru our yard to the street at 6:45am. Unfortunately they parked their car at the park, and were nicely caught on a security camera, so they spent the remainder of the day in jail.

I bought Links 2003 and installed recently, wanted to see what state of the art in golf games was. This can’t be it. Buggy as crap – hard to finish a round without a crash. And compared to a modern 3d accelerated game (Battlefield 1942, Unreal Tournament, etc), this is such a slow game. It renders a static background, a player moving, and a little white ball flying thru the air – a pathetic amount of motion and detail compared to one of these other games. And yet it takes Links sometimes as much as a minute to render the next scene. What is it doing?

Tiger Woods 2003 is reputedly a better game.

The High-Definition Camcorder Enters the Picture – Sam, you need this.

Gary has a great reading list – Gary Burd: Blogroll

Just finished A Door into Ocean – great book, surprised I hadn’t read it before. Very well developed alternative society.

Via Matt Croydon::postneo, the top 75 security tools. good links.

Dude, quit sending me spam, or at least take your home phone number out of the spam – Google Search: 954-916-6650

I need to get smarter about SHN – Some SHN Resources looks like a place to start. I have plenty of storage, I’d like to start ripping my CDs in SHN format rather than a lossy format.

URLScan Security Tool – version 2.5 is available. Not clear it has a ton of new features but I probably should move to anyway…

Effective Engineering and Blue Point Engineering seem interesting, I need good vendors/sites that help me figure out exactly what pneumatics to buy for animatronic applications. Frightmare has an interesting product too.

First down to Orting to meet up with Adrian and watch some rockets fire. Some crappy weather, I couldn’t stay long enough to see Adrian’s rocket, but we saw lots of other cool rockets.

Lunch at Burger King. They have new chicken tenders in the shapes of stars and lightning bolts. I don’t even want to think about what we were really eating.

Then Paintball at Splat Attack – a great place, nice people. A little hard to find – print out the directions and follow them religiously, and have your windows rolled down so you can hear the rat-a-tat-tat of the guns.