Let’s take a moment and reflect on all the men and women that have sacraficed for this country…

…now go out and enjoy all that they fought to protect.

Amazon has the fold out keyboard for the Ipaq for $20. This is quite a deal since this same keyboard usually goes for $80-100.

• Ipaq Keyboard

It’s finally almost here: a very cool AND affordable robot pal. Sure Sony and Honda have come out with some very cool robots lately… but since i don’t have $15,000 to RENT ONE, I’ve had to just enjoy the video clips of them. RoboSapien is different. At $100 he is within most people’s budget and he is capable of doing more than robots costing 20x as much. I had seen RoboSapien in some tech demos a while back, but I admit I was skeptical. Skeptical that it would be delivered at as low a price as they claimed and/or before 2010. Thankfully they have proven me wrong. Slated for July 1st and available from Amazon and BestBuy, RoboSapien is here to stay.

Can anyone say B-day list? :D

• RoboSapien

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Congratulations to my friend Sarah. Her cat has won the coveted “Sitting Pretty Kitty Cuteness Contest”. -Whew- and people wonder why I’m a dog person. ;)

• Cute Cat Contest Winner

This is someone with some skill and a lot of time. And because that he is now also the proud owner of one of the most complete case mods i have ever seen.

• Half Life Case Mod

Ah college, to be a part of something bigger than you are…. like robots striking due to union difficulties…. ah college. Great pics of the striking robots, server bot and others. Classic stuff… even school maskot being beaten up… ah, college…. I should probably go sleep.

• Robot Strike

“The Symbiotic Bacterial Light Project (SBLP), a University of New South Wales-based arts/science collaboration, was formed to research and develop the functional capabilities of the natural process of bioluminescence with respect to its creative application towards visual media and interactive technology.” In other words, they are trying to use deep sea, glowing organisms to make cool/hip things. :D

• Luminescent Furniture

ShipOfFools.com has created the first ever virtual church in 3D. This 3D church exists with the help of MacroMedia’s shockwave plugin - which you need to visit it. Once there, you are given control a 3D person that can move around, sit down, pray, cross themselves and of course do a hallelujah move. If too many people are there you are given a ghosted out character that can move around and listen but not talk or be seen by anyone else (due to bandwidth resrictions), otherwise you can talk and apparently (i’ve only been a ghost so far) select the avatar of your choice to represent you.

In their first week of being live, there were quite a few abuses of system and so further restrictions were put into place to keep one or two people from ruining it for (or at least distracting) everyone else. They have actual sermons on Sundays but it is open 24/7. When a sermon is not going on you can discuss things with fellow parishioners or practice doing the wave in the pews. While the stuff you can do is somewhat limited… it is still quite cool that they were able to pull off an interactive 3D environment in shockwave.
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This guy has a site dedicated to the “Worst Modified Cars in the UK”…. i donno though… maybe the worst is just a lot -uh- worster here in the states but many of these aren’t bad (if you like Novas), but a couple of them are pretty funny.

• Worst Modified Cars

Forming your own body kits from fiberglass is costly and time consuming, not to mention that mess it leaves. But now with this amazing breakthrough technology that fiberglass feasco is a thing of the PAST! Wooden body kits eliminate all of the problems associated with constructing your very own fiberglass body kit (and replace them with their own). No need for large, expensive, complicated machines to construct the fiberglass body panels needed to make your ride fly — now you can have similar results with simple tools through this almost on tv offer. That’s right with just simple wooden hand tools (and a few years apprenticing with a wood sculpter) you can create lavish body panels like these….

• Wooden Body Kit