It's finally a reality - $100 laptops - specifically for 3rd world countries.

Eight year old in college - now that's pushing it just a bit, IMHO

It's neiher a toy nor a prop - it's the military's new PHaSR Rifle - Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response - basically a fancy laser that temporarily blinds you.
(more info here.)

The world keeps getting smaller and smaller - Anonymous sperm donor tracked down via internet - by his 15 year old son.
What's especially interesting about this is the forensic possibilities for crime scene investigations.
(Anyone remember 'Gataca' - when they sweep the building for a DNA sample after someone was killed?)

Is this kind of like the American version of the African tribal tradition of having to kill a lion with a spear to become a man? - Man battles buck with his bare hands, and wins

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Grand Canyon Skywalk)

I'm game if you're game - Grand Canyon Skywalk

The possibilities for this are just - wow.
Introducing the KHRONOS PROJECTOR: "a video time-warping machine with a tangible deformable screen"
Check it out.

Sound traveling faster than light.

....interesting...

Step aside, Superman, technology is going to make your abilities obsolete. Power currently under review: X-Ray Vision that can see through concrete.
And that's the "good" use of it. In a similar but more disturbing devlopment, a type of infrared camera lens has been developed for normal cameras, that allows see-through images to be taken. Intersting technology, but disturbing nonetheless.
I can just see the lawsuits about violation of privacy being filed right now. Well, that's if the move to ban it from the US doesn't go through.

C-R-A-Z-Y - the Top Thrill Dragster rollercoaster - 420 feet tall, 120 mph

...even I would think twice

Another day, another step closer to the future:
Qubit Links for more powerful computers (waaaaaay more powerful)
Buckypaper for an amazing material 10 times lighter than steel, but 250 times stronger (and twice as hard as a diamond)

Top 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer

This is so wrong and so funny: "Rat Boy Monster"

Wow - I posted a while back (I think) about Sir Mix-A-Lot's song, "Baby Got Back" being translated into Latin (see here). Well, now Jonathan Coulton has gone and made the world that much better by making an actual song of "Baby Got Back," but remixed into a folkish kind of tune, or as he put it, "whiteified."
Very amusing, so check it out.

Sears Tower in jenga blocks!
...and people accuse me of having too much time on my hands