iRobot (who makes the roomba) is coming out with a new robot you can control over the internet. if i ever get time to finish building my robot i want to mod it to do something similar. i feel bad for my poor robot, thanks to my lack of time and "ooh i should add this feature too" mentality he'll end up like edward scissorshands. on the plus side, he'll be loved by millions of goth and emo girls around the world.
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9786120-1.html

why go with a two channel audio setup instead of 15.9, or whatever the latest dolby thx pro super ultra whatchamahoozit?

http://www.hometheatermag.com/hookmeup/206hook/index.html

oh my.
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9784606-1.html

the nice thing about walking back from jiu jitsu in my gi is that no one asks me for money or tries to sell me things. i'm not sure if it's because i look intimidating or they just don't want to talk to someone covered in sweat.

well, no flying cars, but they were surprisingly close on everything else. taken from the 1967 movie "1999 a.d."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4796674762025998102

watching this freaks me out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhAmiDxtyNI

i just found out that the cubes at work are made by herman miller, the same company that makes those aeron chairs that were so popular in the heyday of the tech bubble.

"indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull".
what do you want to bet whoever came up with that name also got paid for "attack of the clones"?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/10/film.indianajones.ap/index.html

a nepalese airline sacrificed two goats to get their 757 running again.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/nepal-airlines-sacrifices-two-goats-to-fix-a-757/

norad's hq burried in the middle of a mountain will be closed soon due to operational efficiency concerns. this is the place you hear about in the movies where they detect missles and planes launched agains the US. i like the picture.
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/09/cheyenne-doomsd.html

the time lady is going away. the article gets interesting near the end.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus29aug29,0,2466396,full.column?coll=la-home-center

using ground-based telescopes to take sharper and cheaper pictures than the hubble telescope.
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/LI_Press_Releases_0807.htm