The Engineering Department at The University of Wisconsin, Madison has a webcam with a surprisingly high frame rate. The coolest part is that there are controls to pan, tilt, and zoom the camera! It accepts simultaneous inputs, so if there is more than one user, you battle them for control.

Looks cold in Madison.

The Flight of The Conchords invented rap.

nicknormal has taken some awesome shots of New York City panoramas at the Queens Museum. There are some additional views on the Queens Museum website.

My trivia team, Stefan's Dream, once again took second place in this years annual KVSC Trivia Weekend. Trivia Weekend consists of a bunch of nerds getting together to answer 50 straight hours of some very obscure trivia. This isn't off-the-top-of-your-head material. It's pretty much a Google search-fest, and you're lucky if the answer is online. There were a record 80 teams competing this year, and we came up 250 points behind the winners, Pull Start Diesel. Well done people. Here are the final scores for the top 5 teams:

1. Pull-Start Diesel – 13890
2. Stefan's Dream 8: Stefan Down Under – 13640
3. Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women – 13245
4. Sock Monkey Jihad – 13230
5. Neo-Maxi Zoom Dweebies – 12450

More photos here. Thanks Alison for some of the photos.

Wow. Amazing photo on NYT.com:

Good thing space helmets have holes in their face plate.

This chimpanzee has been trained to play Pac-Man, and gets really excited when he kicks ass. It looks like the trainer has picked up some behavior from the ape too.

DontDim is an AppleScript I whipped together that turns off screen dimming if you're browsing a video sharing website (like YouTube), because it's annoying to tap the mouse every 15 minutes. Once you browse away from the site, the preference is turned back on. If you're curious about what its doing, or you want to edit the URLs that trigger the script, you can open the app in Script Editor. Out of the box, it supports YouTube, DailyMotion and video.google.com.

» Download DontDim

Adding Keychain support would be useful, but apparently keychain scripting is wanting. Suggestions welcome.

This is a shot taken from the San Francisco Marriot, where I watched the Super Bowl.

favicon2dots takes the favicon from any URL you enter, and makes a nifty isometric icon from it like this: