From Honeyguide:

The London Science Museum has a major new exhibit on Renaissance Engineering, and features working models of many of da Vinci’s machines. You can read the BBC’s story on it here, or you can visit the museum’s on-line exhibits.

From Robot Wisdom: Applet to manipulate a face lets you emote a human face. Pretty neat, but even neater was the discussion on improved emotions.

The User Meeting is nearly over. I’ve got to teach a half-day class tomorrow morning, and then that’ll be that. For our first effort, this went pretty well. The new version of our software the we released recently has been a big hit, so the mood was friendly. Friendly users is the goal, after all.

Odds are, updates will be sparse until the User Meeting is done, Friday afternoon.

Orson Wells, arguing with advertising types over a frozen pea commercial. This is the real thing, and is the basis for an Animanics sketch that eventually led to Pinky and the Brain.

Oh, right! How’d the play go? Well, all three shows were sold out, and we had to turn away at least 20 per show. It was the first time I’ve played to sold out houses for every performance. The play itself went on without a hitch. It lasted just over three hours, but noone complained.

Tactical Nuclear Warhead Made From Smoke Detectors: I plan on launching my home made ballistic missile capped with my home made tactical nuclear warhead on April First, 2000. Email me if you want me to notify you of the exact time and location so you can enjoy the fun!

Stephen Hawking has conjectured that the laws of physics will disallow time machines. One of his arguments is that if time travel were indeed possible, we would be “awash in thousands of time travelers from the future.” Carl Sagan, in an interview with PBS’s Nova, offers half a dozen counter-arguments.

I don’t know why this always happens to me, but every time I look back at one of my relationships, it looks just like a Stanley Kubrick film.

Rejected iMac “Think Different” posters are only a few of the many items you’ll find up for sale at eGad.