An old song mentioned something about how you must have been a beautiful baby. But the only way to figure out the reality is to take a peek. I think I'm one of those oddballs who doesn't find babies universally appealing. Some are cute as a button, others are almost painful to look at. So, with that in mind, here's a brainlessly addictive site that'll have you clicking the morning away. Exhibit A, to your left, is the baby shot. Exhibit B is the person all grown up.
Which do you have more of? If it's the former, you can skip this site and go about purchasing your entire life as normal. If it's the latter, you'll find a whole bunch of cool do-it-yourself projects that Martha Stewart might tell you about if she were groovy and punk. While there's some odd spelling and all the cost estimates are in British pounds, don't let that put you off. Those Brits have been setting some interesting styles ever since those nice boys from Liverpool flew over here in the 1960s. Personal favorites from this keeper are the cheese grater lamp and the record bowl.
Colin Fahey is obviously a very smart man. His writing is entertaining and fun to read. He's so smart, in fact, that it was his goal to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test test to see if he could get the lowest score possible. While he failed on that particular goal (the site gives all the gory details), he did a bang-up job of documenting the whole romp and gave some excellent background on what the SAT is. "It is better to have answered incorrectly than never to have answered at all!"
Gordon Moore's prediction that computer chips would double in capacity every 18 months has held true. That's pretty good for a 1965 forecast. So what to do with all that extra power? You could play Solitaire really, really fast, or you could turn that extra capacity over to doing something interesting, such as making a computer see. As you'll gather from these links, the concept is not quite ready for prime time. But it's taking fascinating strides in very nifty directions.
Quick, what's the current level of the Homeland Security alert? You don't know, do you? Well, save embarrassing moments like this by installing this nifty monitor. It puts a little icon in your Windows system tray to let you know at a glance the alert status. It may beat trolling CNN or other Web sites, and it's perfect if you don't get out much.
