Yahoo! News - Public Opinion Photos is your source for those retarded USA Today style graphs and charts, so tirelessly lampooned in the Onion. Want to know what day of the week is most american's favorite? How about what animal most americans would like to be reincarnated as? All this and more.

The next generation of the Rocket eBook.

Man who was declared dead returns mysteriously, is shot on Salon.

isometric screenshots, a series of drawings of historical (or fictional) events in the isometric style.

some fancy flash work at cisma.. nice aesthetic, and sophisticated scripting.

a great New York Press article about robots designed to spray grafitti and distribute pamphlets.

"Studies have shown that in nearly 100 percent of the cases, a given agent of the public will willingly participate in high-profile acts of vandalism, given the opportunity to do so via mediated tele-robotic technology."

Check the site of the people responsible for the robots. This stuff really strikes a chord with me..

John Siracusa's series of articles on arstechnica critiquing Mac OS X are excellent, and the latest one on the public beta is the best yet. The section on the user interface is especially insightful, listing OS X's crucial shortcomings one by one.

that book Unleashing The IdeaVirus is now available for free download. I don't know much about this book, whether it's worth reading...

"vectorama.org is a multiuser playground, a visual chatroom in which a maximum of 10 users can play together at the same time."

an interesting interview with Nathan Shedroff, founder of vivid studios.