Poohsticks As a fan of A.A. Milne's Pooh books I thought I would share my 2 year old daughter and I's favorite game. A wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon. more inside

Children's Letters To God "Dear God, I am Amareican, what are you?" "Dear God, I think the stapler is one of your greatest invention" "Dear God, if you let the dinasor not exstinct we would not have a country. You didthe right thing." via more inside

Ka-boom more inside

Youtube analysis of David Bowie's teeth. And another sexy youtube link with one of his best early songs. more inside

Unlocking the Mysteries of Svchost.exe If you are using Windows XP, Svchost.exe launches at startup and usually runs several instances of itself, which you can see by accessing task manager (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del). What is it? What is it doing? Do you need it running? Here is some information on it.

Journey to a Black Hole

The Pinky Show explains the war in Vietnam for the young & the young at heart. WARNING: This page contains an embedded Quicktime 7 movie approx. 42 megs in size, but I guarantee that it is worth it & you will enjoy watching it since it is an interesting history lesson explained by two cartoon cats with ky00t voices. Unless such things do not interest you. In which case.. why are you here? more inside

Don't criticize Dick or you will be arrested by the Gestapo SS Secret Service.

My hands are bananas. Keep the monkeys away from my hands! more inside

Papa Ratzi toying with abolishing Limbo. Unbaptized babies, Plato to go to Hell, Divine Comedy to have rewrite.

The Sound of The Universe Being Born Physicist John Cramer of the University of Washington in Seattle calculates what the universe sounded like in the first 750,000 years of its existence. Then ratchets it up a few hundred thousand times (okay, 100,000 billion billion times) so we can hear it. "During the 100-second recording, the frequencies fall because the sound waves get stretched as the Universe expands. 'It becomes more of a bass instrument,' says Cramer" Something Bootsy already knows, baby! Kirk Out! Totally sampled and ripped from TheFi

In which is revealed a device to encourage the recitation of tongue twisters. This may be old, juvenile, and requiring of translation from our Asian monkeys, but I'm still glad we didn't have these in school.

MoFi London/Dublin/Firenze Meetups! It's a bit last minute, but I thought I'd bump this very old meetup thread to the front page to (1) alert any eyes in those locales who haven't followed that old thread and (2) taunt all of you who can't go. We'll be meeting up Monday the 9th in London...where? Dunno. Let's work that out here. We'll be meeting up in Florence...when? where? Dunno. Let's, like, talk about it and stuff, baby. more inside

Lucas to Feature Films: You're Dead To Me Now "We don't want to make movies. We're about to get into television. As far as Lucasfilm is concerned, we've moved away from the feature film thing because it's too expensive and it's too risky." George says for the $200 million it takes to make a big picktcha, he'd rather make 50 little ones. And, that that's where movies are going. What do you think?

Curious George - Where is your blog? Yes, we have a wiki. And now we have a page where you can list your blog. more inside

Star Trek Auction at Christie's. Lotsa stuff from Star Trek's 40 year history are being auctioned off right now, so what are you doing reading this? (Christie's site is a little slow, what with all us nerds jamming the signal.) Go. GO NOW.

Del Close's skull isn't Del Close's skull after all

Card-Carrying Monkeys You stare at your computer screen all day, as if it were a crystal ball. Why not get your fotune told while you're at it? more inside

Vibestreamer. "....is a free MP3 streaming server that allows you to connect and stream your music using only a standard web browser. - Play your music anywhere!". That is all.

"Who are these children?" NRCC head Tom Reynolds surrounds himself with kids in order to not be asked awkward questions about the Foley thing. What a clever trick!