365 Days of Skywatching – Free ebook
“What’s Up 2006 – 365 Days of Skywatching by Tammy Plotner is a free, downloadable ebook. Brought to you by Universe Today. If you like the weekly “What’s Up this Week” column in Universe Today, you’ll love this. The entire viewing schedule for 2006 is available as a free, 400+ downloadable ebook. You can download the whole book, turn to the page for tonight’s suggestions – print off the page and head outside.” [via] Link. We’re helping Universetoday with their PDF downloads, so please grab the PDF from here.
Here’s a midnight post from Kevin Rose who has a great track record with what usually is announced at Macworld: “I’ve heard: 15″ intel Macbook – order tomorrow, ships Feb (thinner, dual core), iPod FM receiver, iWork/Life ’06, New remote of some type, Photocasting (iPhoto)” 
We’re getting ready to cover Macworld here in San Francisco, and as usual, bizarre flight and travel things tend to initially seem dismal, then work out – I saw two friends as I walked by Ritual Roasters in the Mission area that I haven’t seen since weirdos like us were running Generator 1.0 on online banks and Comcast cable boxes with Flash 3. Any way – one of them makes really fun things, here’s his photo set 
Fanjita writes – “Just a small thing, really, but I’ve ported my Tetris game to the GTA exploit, and have it running on a v2.50 PSP. There’s a small technical glitch that means it doesn’t run yet on v2.60, I hope to sort that out ASAP, before I release a version that will run on any firmware that can run GTA. So – no release yet, but it’s imminent. As well as being the first homebrew game for v2.5 and v2.6, it will also be a good test of the improved GTA loader that will be used to launch the EBOOT loader. Sadly at the moment this is still for US and EU versions of GTA only, my attempts so far with the German version haven’t worked correctly, but I hope to change that soon.” [
Chris writes: “I recently read this interesting article in Wired magazine about “
Amazing video of an RCX robot using vision command (or a derrivative) to play pong on a real screen. Jmarco writes: “I have designed a Mindstorm Robot who plays Pong game. It have a Webcam, and it’s controled through Infrared with the laptop computer. There is not trick. It truely plays itself!” [
Michael writes: “I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. I remember reading about an expensive commercial product for it, and there’s a much cheaper product available that is