Guessing I am not the only one dreaming about my own Mech, I think you will find this dude pretty cool By the looks I’m guessing it won’t be finished until next christmas.

Giant robots in the backyard | CNET News.com

UPDATE: It seems the Mech is now on sale: Check it out

Slashdotter avitzur writes with a link to the story behind the Macintosh Graphing Calculator. An excerpt from this strange account: “It’s
midnight. I’ve been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I’m not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I’m
evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer’s main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an
eight-billion-dollar corporation.”

Slashdot | Skunkworks At Apple — The Graphing Calculator Story

Slashdotter gManZboy writes “We’ve been hearing about self-healing systems for a while, but (as is usual), so far it’s more hype than reality. Well it looks like Mike Shapiro (from Sun’s Solaris Kernel group) has been doing a little actual work in this direction.
His prognosis is that there’s a long way to go before we get fully self-healing systems. In this article he talks a little bit about what he’s done, points out some alternative approaches to his own, as well as what’s left to do.”

Slashdot | A Diagnosis of Self-Healing Systems

Slashdotter Amit Malhotra was one of several readers to point outt a story running on numerous sites about a study linking cell phone use to DNA Damage.
Of course, a recent gammaworld campaign has served to remind me that mutations are almost always beneficial, so there is nothign to fear.

Slashdot | Study Links Cell Phones to DNA Damage

Slashdotter belg4mit writes “An astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins is pushing for the adoption of a new, static, calendar. The press release is written better than his site but a little short on details.
Interestingly he claims this should be easy to implement and points at the hoops coders must jump through for the Gregorian calendar.”

Slashdot | New Calendar Proposal