Electric Josh

A screensaver that depicts several hundred balls bouncing (in 2-D) around the screen under the influence of gravity (described here) randomly showed up on my new work machine. It makes a guy want to go back to physics. They bounce in what looks like real time, and there are enough of them that one can see behaviors like splashing and sloshing whenever the gravity direction changes, which it does every thirty seconds or so. What fun.
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Here's a list of the 100 oldest currently-registered .com domain names. All the names that I recognize are the sort of place you'd expect to have been on the Internet in the mid 1980's, but what's amazing is that the 100th name was registered a whole two and a half years after the first one.
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