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but it's probably pointless. Not enough developers care about their craft.

There's a prominent "popular science" website out there (no, it's not this one that I'm thinking of) that has ENORMOUS XSS vulnerabilities in its image gallery. They pass captions and img src in URL encoded query string parameters. Yuck.

I noticed this about a year ago and reported it to the development team, with a demonstration link that put in a (sorta not nice) image and caption. No response, and when I checked six months ago the vulnerability was still there. So much for being a nice guy.

Buy the most recent issue of Popular Science. They've got a great guide in their How 2.0 section on building your own home theatre system with a projector-type system this month. Try there for some inspiration. :)

I first saw this technique reading an article in Popular Science about super-sized industrial dump-trucks that have to be assembled on site instead of transported. But instead of storing the energy from braking, they were dissipating it with some mega heat sinks since mechanical brakes were not practical due to size.

Of course if you want to really go crazy and reduce entropy in more ways, why not incorporate piezoelectric pads into the tires themselves? ;P

The current issue of Popular Science has a similar article. It's "the hundred best products and technologies" of the past year.

Here is another related link to the Popular
Science Web site. It has their top ten science
stories for this year.

Has interesting stuff like -
Pig Organs for Human Transplants,
Water On Mars,
Sub Atomic Particals, etc.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Currently neural cells do not divide. Once they die, they die. They are not replaced.

Actually in a recent issue of Popular Science they did a test on the brain and they did find evidence of brain cells regrowing.

Popular Science also has it's rundown of this years greatest inventions, prety cool. http://www.popularscience.com/fea tures/bown/bown99/.