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cyclomedia writes "Late on 22nd June 1996 Quake was uploaded to cdrom.com's archives in the form of 7 1.44MB floppy disk images. Though it wasn't until the 23rd that everyone realised (or at least, that's my excuse for being a day late with the news submission). Cue much aggravation on the newsgroups as eager downloaders experienced glorious 2 FPS gameplay."

Lets start things off with a thing of beauty: ChazeFroy notes that Malin Space Science Systems has tons of really excellent images from the Mars Global Surveyor. Now something of evil: TsEA sends us HTML magic: a true guideline for HTML usage. 3 things that prove that The net Will destroy humanity: BlackNova sent us a Magic 8-ball powered by Lego Mindstorms, Cuban sent us the pantscam (which is exactly what it sounds like) and _martini_ noted an online thermostat where you can twiddle the temperature at some guys house. Its only a matter of time before technology fights back: NMerriam sent us the truth about what computers think of us in this weeks Onion. But let us not forget that science has given us many wonderful things, like for example, lunatik17 pointed us at a bit about shooting your lawn with lasers instead of mowing. However, science has also given us gmr2048's story about testicular implants for animals so I guess we're kinda even so far. I suspect the only way to defend ourselves from technology is to understand it, and who better to teach topics like ISDN then sent a great way to have celebreties like Alicia Silverstone. Or Mr. Rogers teaching the RS232 pinout, Tonya Harding explaining a Cisco 700, and best of all, Darva Conger on the configure register of Cisco routers (thanks Ex Machina who got it from Memepool) Ever want to be a female olympic marathon champ? Jaster this years winner believes hornet stomach juice is the secret, so get started! Of course, to much of that stuff could wind you up on sent us the the next Darwin Awards (from Gambit Thirty-Two) Ant sent us a pair of stories about poop! (what does this guy do with his time?) What happens when your space toilet doesn't flush? All I know is I hope that I have some custom printed toilet paper to keep things under control. Finally, many people noted that you should call 1-800-888-3999, and select option 7. No, really.

Justin asked me to post a link to The Gnomemaker Page. Perfect for you windowmaker users interested in Gnome. Anand wrote in to tell us that "Tim Johnson has created an alternate, and possibly easier to navigate, interface to the Linux HOWTOs.." DX sent us a link to a Wired column on what it means to be a geek. Is wired the right place for this sort of forum? I suspect reading a weeks worth of comments here will answer questions better than a years worth there *smile* Lastly Jeff Davis wrote in to send us a link to The Gartner Group on Open Source. It's actually not a bad summary, but I question some of those probabilities.

Justin asked me to post a link to The Gnomemaker Page. Perfect for you windowmaker users interested in Gnome. Anand wrote in to tell us that "Tim Johnson has created an alternate, and possibly easier to navigate, interface to the Linux HOWTOs.." DX sent us a link to a Wired column on what it means to be a geek. Is wired the right place for this sort of forum? I suspect reading a weeks worth of comments here will answer questions better than a years worth there *smile* Lastly Jeff Davis wrote in to send us a link to The Gartner Group on Open Source. It's actually not a bad summary, but I question some of those probabilities.