The Mini-Quickies That Fell To Earth

johnathan spectre wrote in to tell us about these really cool plasma shoelaces. plasticPaddy wrote in to tell us about SkyBird, a nifty remote-control ornithopter. Fire up the flux capacitor, because feebeling wrote in about this WWW guide, circa 1993. seizer told us about some crazy guy TCP/IP tunneling through E-mail: now that's dedication. Speaking of crazy people, Green Monkey scared me with his submission, a Web site devoted to Pokémon butts. From the self-referential bucket, the Webby Awards have nominated Slashdot in the 'Community' and 'Print and Zines' categories. Go Vote and we get some trophy or something. _damnit_ wrote in with a nice little piece on the Ides of March. In case you're in the greater Boston area, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda will be speaking at the Geek Pride Festival at the end of the month.

Comments

Glowing wire: AMAZING!

[WayneGayle]

Get electroluminescent wire in spools at www.funhouseproductions.com

The stuff is amazing, a company in Israel has the patent on the stuff otherwise I imagine it would be everywhere. Anything you can do with neon you can do with this stuff (although it doesn't last forever) I think that Macintosh should start putting it in their I-Macs. I could see it used in phones, glove compartments, monkeys, everywhere!

If you really want to see this stuff in action go to burning man this summer! People go crazy with it. woo hoo!
-WG

What's slower than tunneling IP over mail?

[BlueLines]

It could be worse. You could be trying to send IP over pigeon. From rfc2549:

"Patent Considerations: There is ongoing litigation about which is the prior art: carrier or egg."