Creativity

Racing Sim

It includes the 50"DLP projection screen

"The Force Dynamics 301 is a high performance, commercial quality motion system. It is one of a tiny handful of motion simulators designed from the ground up for racing simulation, and its performance far exceeds that of systems costing many times more.The 301 is designed to be adaptable for nearly any use, from personal motion simulation, to carnival rides and theme parks, to retail simulation centers, to team and sponsor promotions." It costs around $20k.

Escher Web Sketch

Escher Web Sketch allows you to draw repeating patterns. It's interesting and anyone that's into Escher will appreciate it.

Creativity Self-Assessment Test

Answer 40 questions and receive a free assessment of your level of creativity measured across 8 different metrics.

Duke Nukem Forever news

Remember Duke Nukem Forever? That game taking forever to come out ...well there's an update. The above link has a story about how the Duke Nukem Forever physics surpass Half-Life 2

Fembot

Freebie of the day - 3m's Highlighters

Fembot
"Me love you long time"
Visitors to The World Expo in Japan will be greeted by robots. The above robot understands 40,000 phrases each in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.
"The humanoid can put on facial expressions suitable for the more than 2,000 types of answers it can give, but it may refuse to answer to some questions for "privacy reasons," making an X with her arms and bowing. She also has a sense of irony. When asked if she is a robot, she says, "Y.e.s, I. a.m. a. r.o.b.o.t" in a disconnected voice and moves about clumsily. A moment later, she says "Just kidding" and starts a natural flow of movements. "
story link


World's Most Powerful Computer Doubles in Size
In California - "Lawrence Livermore has been running a 32,000-processor system since December, but three weeks ago trucks began delivering the components that allowed it to add another 32,000-processors worth of power to the supercomputer, effectively doubling its processing power." The fembot has suddenly fallen in love and wants to move to California.

Gizoogle
This is where Snoop searches, fo' rizzle. It's actually pretty funny.

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The following is just a sick story but I didn't want to be the only one to have heard about it:
Semen-Frosted Brownies
From Idaho - A student has agreed to admit to three counts of disturbing the peace after anonymously sending semen-frosted brownies to a fellow student. The recipient shared the treat with two other teens. The teen later told School Resource Officer Jeff Walther that he got the idea of putting his semen on the brownies from the movie "National Lampoon's Van Wilder," in which characters send pastries filled with dog semen to a fraternity house.

Next Generation XBOX and Nintendo

Freebie of the day - 3m Wire Connectors

Nintendo Partners with IBM and ATI
The next-generation Nintendo is code-named Revolution.
IBM is deep in development with the CPU that will provide the processing power of the machine. The chip is codenamed "Broadway," according to Nintendo. Meanwhile, ATI, which developed the GameCube's graphics chip, is underway with GPU for Revolution. The chip is codenamed "Hollywood," according to Nintendo.
If you want details of the next Legend of Zelda for this new system, click here.

Next XBOX
Code named Xenon. Due out on XMAS 2005.
All games are high-definition. The vision is " all games are in high-definition, players are constantly connected through mobile phones, instant messaging and the Internet and gamers can personalize their environments to suit their tastes. "

Specs for the next XBOX include -
CPU has three 3.0 GHz PowerPC cores. Each core is capable of two instructions per cycle and has an L1 cache with 32 KB for data and 32 KB for instructions. The three cores share 1 MB of L2 cache.
GPU is a generation beyond the ATI X800. Its clock speed is 500 MHz and it supports Shader 3.0.
This site has screenshots of the Next XBOX User Guide.


An interesting read - Guide to getting around blocking filters