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Oh yes, and as for the feminist conspiracy, it's not as though it's a big secret: https://eyebeam.org/events/art...

That's only one area of many where feminists try to rewrite wikipedia en masse to reflect their ideology.

I would hope with environmentalism being pushed as the trendy thing to do that concepts such as Reware will become more mainstream. We really have more money than we know what to do with.
We really should do this for better reasons (i.e. other than it being trendy), but whatever gets the ball rolling...
http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/wiki/Reware
How cool would it be to donate old devices to schools and lets students tinker around with them?

There are a number of projects making realy interesting use of outdated hardware, this project in particular focuses on taking outdated palms and cell phones, getting linux mobile distro's and media applications working well with them:

http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/blog

Here are Cubit's project websites:

http://nortd.com/cubit/
http://eyebeam.org/project/cubit

A phased millimeter-wave radar array with sufficient range would not only let you find a sniper in a building, but it would let you know what kind of rifle he was holding and for that matter whether he was circumcised or not and what parts of his body were pierced.

I don't think bears would know the difference between a cruise missile and, say, a 747.

The first thing to realise there are plenty of technology related hobbyists around the world, although most are not high profile and some may be different very different demographics than yourself.

Some (hobby) groups to consider looking towards for ideas and help include: woodworkers, metalworkers (hobbyists using micromills and mini-lathes from TaigTools and Sherline, etc.), model railroads, model aircrafts (static and RC), robotics, amateur radio (ham), 2600, LUGs, and Artist Run Centres/Communities

Random list of some I use or know of:
  Make magazine http://www.makezine.com/
  Instructables http://www.instructables.com/
  ARRL http://www.arrl.org/
  http://www.sparkfun.com/ (check out their tutorials)
  http://www.fpga4fun.com/ / http://www.knjn.com/
  QRP-L http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/qrp-l/>
  GQRP http://www.gqrp.com/
  http://www.pololu.com/ (cheap stencils laser cut, e.g. 3x4 for $32)
  http://www.diyaudio.com/
  http://www.digikey.com/ (if you're still buying electronics from Radio Shack, get these 3 catalogs now!)
  http://www.mouser.com/
  http://www.jameco.com/
  the ton of various surplus/NOS dealers online
  http://www.frontpanelexpress.com/
  http://www.seattlerobotics.org/
  http://www.chibots.org/index.php
  DorkBot
  http://eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page= tools
  MIT CBA FAB http://fab.cba.mit.edu/
  http://www.leevalley.com/
  http://www.smallparts.com/
  http://www.danssmallpartsandkits.net/
  http://www.wmberg.com/
  http://www.acklandsgrainger.com/
  http://www.grainger.com/
  http://www.onlinemetals.com/
  http://www.amqrp.com/
  http://www.princessauto.com/
  http://www.sherline.com/
  http://www.taigtools.com/

a post-modern abstractist style FPS

Actually, it's already been done. At a show called INSTALL.EXE a few years back at the Eyebeam Gallery in NYC, they had a number of abstract interactive installations (to call them 'games' might be stretching the term a bit) based on the source for Wolfenstein-3D and Quake. Here's a review.