on the topic of Google Maps: - How to Make Google Maps EZ

i can't remember who i was talking with about lazer tag- but yeah, check out DIY LAZER TAG GUNS
from makezine.com/blog/

The whole thing seems like an elegant yet straight-forward way of doing things. That link about the xmlHttpRequest was exactly the part I was wondering about. About a year ago or so I made some websites that used some xml pages as a database and used the xmlhttprequest to gather info from the xml pages. The only thing was is that I could only get it to work on IE and on Windows... I figured it was because it was using Microsoft ActiveX, so I gave up on it. Looks like it can be done cross browser / cross platform though.

Ed, my first dip into Ajax was through this tutorial. It's one of those things that doesn't seem too complicated, but seems very powerful. I'm taking a look at the right way to use it before I dive into it.

I wonder if some on the right are competing for Ann Coulter's 'Delusional Insanity' Crown. on the death of Peter Jennings:

Peter Jennings is dead. May he rest in peace. Lest we forget, however, while he was alive, Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human decency by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.

Hey Par, I was reading about ajax in this brief article here:

"Instead of loading a webpage, at the start of the session, the browser loads an Ajax engine — written in JavaScript and usually tucked away in a hidden frame. This engine is responsible for both rendering the interface the user sees and communicating with the server on the user’s behalf. "

Its kinda funny, this is what I thought stuff like gmail, google maps etc was doing. In fact when I was thinking of making a game, I built a page for the game that used a hidden frame to refresh and reload content. Kinda cool, I shoulda kept going with it, I could have called it ed-jax.

NASA's white elephant has landed safely.

Hey Al, have you heard anything about this new military weapons system dubbed the DREAD? It sounds pretty fuckin crazy. I guess it's a centrifuge-based projectile system. According to the article, it will revolutionize armaments. Read all the specs on it here.

sweet, I wasn't sure if that e-mail went through or not. Okay, I'll try sending some more tonight.