Quickhit

[The Caltech basketball team, winless for 21 years](http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-28-335/Nerd-Squad--The-Tale-of-Quantum-Hoops.html). The documentary, *Quantum Hoops*, sounds great. This is the kind of thing that restores my faith in sport, which the…

Or the lack thereof... In 1994 Linda Katx started a joke website that pretended to sell tumbleweeds. [People didn't get the joke, and she now makes $40,000 a…

[A Japanese arcade game has led to a rise in illegal beetle imports](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/09/12/japanese-arcade-game.html). Of course, this could be a case of 'Japan is weird' instead...

[3kg Linux computer with solar panel](http://www.aleutia.com/products/e1specs.html). Still a little heavy, but the perfect way to blog from the highest mountains. Assuming you can get an Internet connection, of…

[A 23-foot stretch ferrari](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cars/first-gullwing-stretch-limo-ferrari-299096.php). A stupendously ugly vehicle - I'm not a big Ferrari fan, but this is some kind of sacrilege. There's also no way that can…

[How to earn 1000 XBox gamerpoints in 60 seconds](http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/18/new-avatar-game-awards-1-000-gamerpoints-in-two-minutes/). *Avatar*, soon to be the most rented game of 2008. This is very stupid stuff, but I have to…

[Some suggestions on how to improve the voting system](http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/09/17/voting-for-the-voting-system/). Some really nice ideas here. But it's hard to imagine any of them ever being implemented - even preferential…

[Wikileaks compares two versions of the Gauntanamo Bay operating manual](http://wikileaks.org/leak/gitmo-sop-2003-2004.html). All kinds of ways to learn things from apparently simple sources of information.

[A history of image manipulation from 1860 to today](http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/). I never knew that famous image of Lincoln was a fake, Pictures (and film) are so dangerous because they're…

[What if the original plans for going to space had been followed?](http://manconquersspace.com/MCSPg3.html). Seems to draw heavily on the major points of the genre for its look, should be…