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I've managed to scratch together a post for today, so here we are.

• Healing Spacecraft

This is a really cool long-term goal that NASA has and 0ne that has already started to be developed. The goal? Develop a sort of "Smart Skin" for spacecraft, it'll have the ability to locate damages and then repair them by itself...Now that would be just plain cool. And if you think about it, imagine the applications it could have on earth! After a hail storm and half of your shingles are ruined, they repair themselves, trouble kids throw a few stones at your windows leaving cracks, self-repaired by the next morning. Not to mension it would cut down labor significantly!

• IPTV ... Techie TV At Large

Remember a little while back when I was ranting and raving about IPTV of different sorts? Thought so, well here is a site that lists a whole bunch of shows out on the 'net that you can download and watch. Out of the many that are listed here I only watch MacTV, NerdTV and DigitalLifeTV...and I have yet to watch 3 of 4 shows from DigitalLifeTV. Anyways check it out if your interested if not...just don't...

• Do You Look For Politeness In A Phone?

Well if you don't already (which you probably don't) you may want to look into it in the future. Although polite isn't neccesarily the term I would use it still seems like a cool idea...What is this 'oh so great' idea you ask? It's a phone that analysis driving conditions and then reroutes and lets through calls depending on them. This is supposed to limit driving distratitions on the road. Although not fool-proof (as the user(fool) could put everyone in their address book on the 'Always Allow' list.) It still seems like it could work very well. The lead developer of the project has this essay up Warning: PDF File! It looks to be interesting (As I haven't the time to read through it right now.) Check it out today...or tomorrow...or next week. Maybe.

• Hybrid In A Different Sence...

If you didn't know, Sony is pushing the UMD disk format on the PSP and trying really hard to get movies available for it. Now, to sell a few extra (hundreds of) copies they are bundling a highly successive game "Wipeout Pure" with it but adding "Stealth Addition" to the end and adding an extra track to the game. So you get not only Stealth the movie but the game aswell, this is a new type of hybrid and it's probably going to be the future of movie licenses.

If you are buying a new mouse with a scroll ball, why not give it a trial run...it might be minty...or maybe linty.