1. New blog discovered: Lord Matt
Lord Matt is this guy from England. [linky] I like his style, anybody that can self title themselves "Lord" has got it going. His blog is a bit esoteric and chaotic but I think that's what makes it a good one. Don't go changin' Matt. Oh and by the way does wikipedia know you are using their style sheet?
2. Cool Thing: The International Space Station in Second Life.
I've been skeptical about second life up until now, [linky]I mean there are many different online communities out on the web that you can participate in and they have all been niche markets, what makes Second life different? Well now it has its own space station, so that's something.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17841125/
3. Cool Website: The size of our world
Somebody sent something cool to me via email and whenever anyone does that I feel the need to search for the original source, here it is: [linky]. This is a really neat representation of the different sizes of celestial bodies, running from the Moon and Earth all the way up to Betelgeuse aand Antares. It is interesting to see them laid out side by side.
4. Cool Tool: The Enigma Cypher Machine in Flash.
I'm not sure how useful this is [linky]...unless you want to pass love notes in class...but it is pretty cool none-the-less. Here we have the great ENIGMA machine of NAZI fame from WWII, de-mystified in flash. Made into a toy as it were.
I don't want to belittle the effort of the team that put this flash implementaion together, but still, here it is, on the web for anyone to use. A very fascinating statement about our technology as compared to the generations that have come before us. Accellerating change indeed.