Have to stop reading Wired.... just getting to much input - two more and I'm definetly calling it a nice evening of surfing and musings.
First off - US patent 5.732.138 - the Lavalamp Random Number Generator... who would have thought that so much thought and effort goes into making a numebr - and then ends up beeing used for generating dices in an online game of backgammon!?! (Source code on SF so set up your own lamp - and you can start playing dice at home without complaining of "bad luck" www.blinkenlights.de/images/ blm/huge/bad_luck.blm.gif)
Then, floating on (pun intended!) to AntiGravity - or ion-wind-propullsion as it is debunked as...
Smoking out the problems - I admit to being geeky enough to want my own "hovercraft", even if pumping 20 000 V into something on my living-room table is out for now, leave it to the French and their mice for now (memo to self: need to move to place with shack suitable for creative diversions....)
