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This will be my last post until at least Thursday, but most likely Friday. Since I will be out of the city in about half an hour and won't be getting in until later Thursday night. So here's the latest....

• Flood Control

You most likely have already heard about the flooding of New Orleans from the hurricane Katrina...If not...You MUST be living under a rock, with a connection only to this blog...and that would be horrible. But the unfortuanate tradgedy is not what this blog is about, there are others. What this part of the post is about is this article here. In light of recent events the New York Times have the article up that tells about the many way that different countries are preventing floods, some of them are really quite inventive. Check it...

• Physics Fun!

This is a really cool and really neat little engine. It downloads easily to the desktop and all you have to do is unzip it, no Install nothing. It lets you build objects and then make them move to your hearts content. It does have a few limitations, such as not being able to rotate parts straight up and down. I thoroughly enjoy playing with it to see what I can create, so far I've got what I call a "hopping horse..." (which I have pictured to the right) but some of the other things that the creators have made and that are are included are really amazing. You can see some of the pictured on the site. The best part is that around 10 samples come along with the program. The only downfall of it is that it doesn't come with a how-to manual to my knowledge, meaning you'll have to learn it all yourself. Note: Most likely will not work with Windows 95/98.

• More Anti-Violence!

More and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon to create new ideas to stop car accidents, and this isn't a bad thing at all. This is the latest from Toyota, some of their newest cars will have a sensor that tracks where your eyes are looking, if you look away it beeps, and if you continue to look away it makes the car start to break...Interesting, interesting indeed. Just make sure the person behind you isn't to close on the free-way.....

• iPod Speculation
  

You can tell that this isn't real but none the less it's still neat. And also if you thought there was no way Apple would release a video iPod tomorrow at their iPod media event, think again, partially down the page you can see the prizes, the listed grand prize? iPod Video. Most likely the contest officials are either cRaZy or they just let it slip...but then again the rules DO say that the Video iPod will be selling for $800 (under "Winners") which is a cRaZy insane price for an iPod, even if it has video capabilities...maybe video games capabilities, now that, would be nice. Unfortuanatly I won't know what the event was about until Thursday night...

When videos take a long time to buffer, bring food, and eat it, don't slow down the buffering by surfing the net.

Until Thursday/Friday...So long...