Super-cool satellite imagery program. Download it now at Google Earth.

I recommend Terraserver if you want to check out satellite images of American cities. Higher-res images and no additional software required.

Probably better than Episode III.

And if I were to do that, I’d build my own:

Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC

Thanks to Geek Goes Meow for the link.

From the latest issue of Wired:

Shockingly Small Change
It unleashes 10,000 megawatts of instantaneous energy …. [Inventor] Basura … usually focuses all that juice on a US quarter. When he does, the coin doesn’t melt or vaporize. Instead, with an ear-shattering crack, its molecules rearrange and nuzzle closer, shrinking the coin’s circumference to that of a dime.

You New Yorkers might also be interested in this one: Destination: Manhattan, 1609