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Cost of crash: $2,800,000,000,000

According to this article, the recent stock market crash has had a cost of $2,800,000,000,000, or $2.8 trillion.
Picture from the inimitable Brokers With Their Hands On Their Face blog.

Weird Games

Bubble Tanks 2 is a game where you collect bubbles and Adventure Ho! is a "unique" RPG flash game. Photo here.

Triachnid

Triachnid is an unusual Flash game where you control a three-legged spider.

40 video covers of the Super Mario theme.

This site has collected 40 covers of the Super Mario theme. This example on a church organ is by no means the weirdest one in the collection.

Complexification

I have long been a fan of www.complexification.net, a website devoted to artistic computer programming. It uses a free computer language (specialized for visual programming) called Processing that I have always wanted to spend some time learning. There are many more examples here.

Android launches

The T-Mobile G1 phone, the first Android phone (running Google's open source operating system) was just released. I think things will get interesting very fast now in the cell phone world: although v.1.0 of the phone is not going to be perfect, Android's integration with Google's stuff, especially Google maps, combined with GPS in the phone, allows the phone to do some interesting new things. We are going to start to see phones extending the web, not just accessing it. Check out the Android application showcase. Not available in Canada...yet.

Pi pi pi pi

Here's something you don't see (hear) every day: A song about pi.
Image from Wikipedia

Brokers in despair

This blog is devoted to one thing only: Pictures of stockbrokers holding their heads in their hands.
Via: BoingBoing

Thoughtware.tv

Thoughtware.tv is a site that collects "only the best videos and news on Human Progress, ranging from topics such as Transhumanism, Artificial General Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Life Extension, Biotechnology, Genetics, Ethics and many other fields of Social, Scientific and Technological interest." There is some interesting stuff here. Some of it makes me think of the futurist Ray Kurzweil.

M of the M

Mario Pumpkin here. More Mario snow here.

These Balls Are Made For Hiding

These Balls Are Made For Hiding is simple, hard, addicting game. Photo here.

Funny HaHa and Funny Peculiar

I enjoy this blog devoted to reprinting odd items from the newspapers. When I was a kid I used to read books of misprints and reports of odd items that were called 'Funny HaHa and Funny Peculiar'.
Via: BoingBoing

New Scientist

Deepest fish ever seen. For more video click here.

Artificially evolved walkers

I love to look at these artifically-evolved creatures, some of whom seem so biological it is almost eery. You can download the evolution software (written in Java, which runs on all platforms) here.
Via BoingBoing via kottke.org

Operation Nice

Operation Nice is a blog entirely devoted to the virtue and joy of being nice. A nice idea.