Since the world has not ended yet, I guess I'll post a new link. This Halloween style Choose Your Own Adventure story is definitely not for little kids. The story's humor is a little immature, a little violent, and a little gross. That just means most of my friends will like it!

Take a look at the worst Halloween costumes ever. What the heck ever happened to this style of cheap plastic costumes? Could it be that kids are just more creative today? Or are parents just willing to spend more money?

Tomorrow, October 31, 2001, we will be treated to Halloween's first full moon since 1955. But if that news isn't spooky enough for you, there's more: The Seven Sisters constellation, associated with some end-of-the-world beliefs, will also be at the top of Wednesday night's sky. According to myth, the Seven Sisters is at its highest point in the sky during a great calamity, possibly the biblical flood or the sinking of Atlantis. The Aztecs and Mayans believed it would be overhead at midnight on the night the world comes to an end. Happy Halloween everybody?

Here's a joke from The Dull Men's Club:

Car Trouble . . . with a Computer Engineer to the rescue

There are four engineers traveling in a car -- a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, an electrical engineer, and a computer engineer. The car breaks down.

"Sounds to me as if the pistons have seized. We'll have to strip down the engine before we can get the car working again", says the mechanical engineer.

"Well", says the chemical engineer, "it sounded to me as if the fuel might be contaminated. I think we should clear out the fuel system."

"I thought it might be a grounding problem", says the electrical engineer, "or maybe a faulty plug lead."

They all turn to the computer engineer, who up to then had said nothing, and asked "Well, what do you think?"

"Ummm . . . perhaps if we all get out of the car and get back in again?"

Now here is a "timely" topic: Daylight Saving Time - History, Rationale, Laws & Dates. I never imagined anybody could write so much about such a dull subject.

I'm not sure how this is suppose to be punishment, but an Ohio judge sentenced two men to dress as women for throwing beer bottles at a woman.

Here's a web site that will find Your Magic Fairy's Name. I'm not sure I want to trust my magic fairy. Its name is "Voodoo Aurorawitch."

Thanks to my friend "ChaosJester" for sending me this link: The Late-Night Cable-Movie Plot Generator. You make your title from two lists of words, and the plot generator generates a movie plot:

Fools' Summer
A psych major looking to veg out for the summer (Sarah Bellomo) swims in the deep end of teens and trouble on a wing and a prayer. Never one to miss any action, Dennis (Joey Lawrence) goes to great lengths to say, "I Love You". Is it enough? Ron Jeremy and Mickey Rourke show they'll do anything for money in the infamous "salad-bar scene".

I don't have any exciting links for today. My new Visor Prism came in the mail, and I've been messing with it all day.

The Wayback Machine claims to be the world's largest database with over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present. I even found some of my old web pages in there, but only from 1999 or so. The Wayback Machine also has a special September 11 collection.

OH YEAH! Way Too Much Information On: The Kool-Aid Man!!! I always regretted not ordering the special Kool-Aid video game for the Atari 2600. But now that I see a screen shot, I guess I wasn't missing much.

Today, I officially unveiled my new, slightly more serious blog: Kristen's News Corner. Thanks again to my friend Radek for helping me come up with another great title.

The 2001 Mars Odyssey will arrive at Mars tomorrow, October 24, 2001. Check the NASA TV Events Page for when you can watch the broadcast from Mars.

The internet is being evacuated due to Spamthrax. As silly as this satire sounds, I'm sure one of my friends will believe it, and in a matter of days I'll be receiving urgent e-mail messages warning me about this cyberterrorism.

This article from the Montreal Gazette offers a chilling vision of the future. Will revolutions in nanotechnology, robotics and genetic engineering lead us to a science-fiction-style nightmare? Reading this article was not a good way to start my day.

Here are 50 things you probably didn't know about Windows XP. Sounds good, but I'm still not convinced I should upgrade yet.

Japan's Matsushita has developed a two-sided optical rewritable disc that can store 100GB. The company hopes the new format will be used for the next generation of DVDs. Current DVDs store about 4.7GB per disc. Anyway, I guess they won't be out in time for Christmas. Darn.

Ok, I have to take back a link I posted a few days ago. Now experts are saying ironing your mail is not such a hot idea. A person ironing weaponized anthrax could vaporize it and inhale it. Guess things are never as simple as we'd like them to be.

In this two part article on Silicon.com (click here for part 1 and here for part 2), two of the world's top tech thinkers, Peter Cochrane and Ray Kurzweil, explore the high-tech credibility of some of the memorable scenes Hollywood has churned out. How credible are Johnny Mnemonic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Independence Day, Blade Runner, and Star Trek? Well, what seems crazy now, will be common in 20 to 50 years.

To make the Pentagon's job a little easier, somebody named Ubique has created this Military Codename Generator. Get ready for Rolling Arms!!!? Well, if you don't like that name, you can just generate another.