• Bento | Gmaps:Google Maps with English translations showing eating/dining options in Tokyo, Japan
• Motherload: A flash based game where you drive a mining pod on Mars digging for ore. Sounds silly but it’s strangely addictive; I clicked it intending to play for just a few minutes and ended up spending hours on it today. Then again, part of that could have been the cold medicine.
• MythBusters | Lost Experiments: The Discovery channel has put online short video segments from the MythBusters TV show where we get to see never before released footage. :D Very cool!

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• Intelligent Design
• HP Genetics
• The Misadventures of Hello Cthulhu
• The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés
• Inflatable Pub

Not from Pukka:

• Sobics Brick Game [Editor] I’ve hit level 20, and 540,400 points. What’s your best score?
• Marble Magnets
• Fridge Tin Pen Holder
• Serious Sam 2 Demo Released [Editor] Serious Sam was a fabulous game with cutting edge graphics and old school hordes of bad guys to gun down. As an extra bonus, it only cost at $19.95 when it was released (vs. the $50–60 of most new games). I’m most excited to see this new demo coming out, though it does mean I need to delete some other stuff from my drives so I can install it. Hmm, maybe after I do that I can also try out Google Earth.…
• Astronomers pass judgment on ID
• A list of all the myths tested by the MythBusters (including if the myth was confirmed or busted).

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In part because I still don’t believe I’ve got enough money to do this² and in part because I’ve not been on an airplane since I was two. I don’t remember that flight but my Mom tells me that I handled it fairly well. The flight is one part of the trip that I’m not all that happy about as it’s fourteen hours in coach and while my legs do fold up; I’m pretty sure it’s going to be miserable for me. Of course, the worse part of the flight for me is that I’ve enjoyed watching too many disaster movies where planes have exploded, crashed, been ripped to shreds or something equally nasty happened to the passengers. It didn’t really help that I caught the episode of Mythbusters³ where they “fire a bullet into the shell of an aircraft to find out if a single shot can cause explosive decompression — and total aircraft destruction.“⁴ Eep!

¹ At least, I think I do. I’ve got to get some laundry done first to get a better idea.
² Actually, I don’t but thanks to my local bank; I can go and pay it off in installments. *whew*
³ One of the few TV shows that makes me glad I’ve got cable TV.
⁴ SPOILER: For the record, a bullet won’t do it. It took a shaped explosive charge to do any signifcant amount of damage to the plane, but even then Buster was still in the plane (though the roof of the plane was gone from that section). This episode was very slightly reassuring in that it takes quite a bit to really damage a plane, but still disturbing given my lack of flight experience.

9 days and counting… © Mark McKibben, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.