I can't think of how to describe this, other than graffiti with light (Macromedia Director required). While the site itself doesn't contain much information on how it was done, it contains some amazing images of graffiti etched into empty space.

It looks as if they have used a multiple camera setup (as made famous in The Matrix) with long exposures to capture images of people and light from multiple angles. This is the sort of concept art I can appreciate.

Remember how you always wanted to play chess while everyone else just wanted to go get drunk? Well, if you can't beat them, join them: shot glass chess is just what you've been looking for.

With this version of chess, the better player is handicapped for every piece taken by having to drink it. That should even things out a little bit.

If you thought the original movie version was bad, just wait; Tom Cruise is planning to remake H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. The 1953 movie version wasn't all that good, but it's going to look wonderful next to this “new 686 prototype with the AI RISC chip” version.

According to one particular scientist, the Kauravas, described in the Indian epic Mahabharata, were all clones. The epic describes a single mother giving birth to 100 sons, having been created by splitting a single embryo and growing each part in a separate kund (a traditional container).

“In other words,” Matapurkar said, “they not only knew about test-tube babies and embryo spliting but also had the technology to grow human foetuses outside the body of a woman-someting that is not known to modern science,” he aded.

Just because a legend sounds a little bit like something we think might be possible, doesn't mean that 5,000 years ago people were cloning each other in clay pots.

Yesterday, while coming back from lunch, a number of students tried to shove pamphlets into my hands. Even though I very politely said “No, thankyou”, they kept insisting that I should take one. For the simple reason that they were so rude, I didn't take a pamphlet, but I did get a quick look at them.

When I got home, I went through my snail-mail: something from the bank, and a strange envelope. I opened the envelope to find a single piece of paper, folded in half. Upon unfolding it, I realised that it was one of the pamphlets that I had refused earlier.

I feel a little like Harry Potter. It is obvious that I was meant to receive this pamphlet. Is it some kind of message? Should I be watching out for a giant guy on a flying motorbike? Should I keep a closer eye on my cats?

We geeks are funny creatures. We leave weird messages on our annswering machines, silly comments in our sourcecode, and tiny pictures etched onto our silicon chips. Be sure to check through all the galleries; some of them are absolutely astounding.