Nikon\’s answer to the Canon Digital Rebel is the D70, a $1000 digital SLR with a 6 megapixel sensor. Competition is good. Hopefully digital SLR prices will drop even more.

Some spoiled kid took apart a brand new dual processor G5 that his parents gave him and installed an Athlon into it cause he doesn\’t have any Apple programs.
[ From Boing Boing ]

Designtechnica reviews the APC TravelPower, a backpack with a built-in power adapter. You can leave your laptop, cell phone, PDA, digital camera, and mp3 player in the bag and charge everything at the same time.

Some dude in the Czech Republic built an entire Mac system into a Tatra (a Russian car). It uses a G4 for GPS navigation, mp3s, and watching movies. It also has an ethernet network, so passengers can plug in their laptops and surf the web using WiFi. He even wrote his own software to control everything.
[ From Slashdot ]

This is so cool. The new Creative Labs Muvo 2 uses a 4GB Microdrive for storage. According to this post, the Microdrive isn\’t soldered into the device, so it\’s possible to remove it, reformat it, and use it as a regular Microdrive in your digital camera or whatever. A 4GB Microdrive sells for around $500, but you can get a Muvo 2 for only $200 now. I gotta find out if my camera supports 4GB Microdrives.
[ From Gizmodo ]

Wal-Mart locks in workers on the night shift, leading to situations where workers can\’t get out in an emergency. They have to call the night manager who has the key and wait for him to show up, if he even bothers to answer the phone. Managers threaten to fire workers if they use the fire exit in any situation other than an actual fire.

Several Wal-Mart employees said that as recently as a few months ago they had been locked in on some nights without a manager who had a key. Robert Schuster said that until last October, when he left his job at a Sam\’s Club in Colorado Springs, workers were locked in every night, and on Friday and Saturday nights there was no one there with a key. One night, he recalled, a worker had been throwing up violently, and no one had a store key to let him out.

Awesome life size Lego model of Han Solo frozen in Carbonite. That scene scared the shit out of me the first time I saw Empire Strikes Back.
[ From Boing Boing ]

Maas Digital created an amazing computer simulation of the Mars Rover for NASA. The launch part looks so cool with all the stages and boosters and shields breaking away.
[ From Signal vs Noise ]

The Spirit Rover only has a 1 megapixel digital camera but it has really good lenses. The CCD is also bigger and better quality than a consumer digital camera. Interesting stuff.
[ From Slashdot ]

The December 2003 issue of National Geographic features the first article shot entirely with digital cameras. Photographer Joe McNally used 2 Nikon D1X cameras and a Powerbook to shoot the future of flight story.