Eeep.

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: "European scientists from five universities are creating a Sims-like virtual world to study how human societies evolve. New and Emergent World Models Through Individual, Evolutionary and Social Learning (NEW-TIES) is based on 1,000 independently-behaving agents capable of moving around the world, interacting with each other, and building simple things."

And now I'm worried.

MakeZine.com: Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light Using Open Source Tools

MakeZine.com: Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light Using Open Source Tools: "Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light Using Open Source Tools" In case any of you were wondering, it IS possible to burn your own circuit boards.....

And you can program a micro controller too.....

Whenever I see these things I get filled with a massive sense of inferiority. It should motivate me to go back to school and learn how to do all this stuff but it really just fills me with frustration that I didn't go back already.

On the other hand, this is so unbelievably cool that I have to try it sometime.