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An absolutely incredible (and functional!) Lego Pinball Machine

ZDNet has an interview (part one, part two) with the founder of Digg, Kevin Rose.

A post in the WoW forums lists the locations of all 50 coins you can collect as part of the Lunar Festival quests.

From LifeHacker: use a dollar bill as a quick-and-dirty ruler. Handy when you're at Home Depot or something and need to check a size.

Serious Editing in iPhoto 6 looks like a solid electronic guide to doing simple (and not-so-simple) photo manipulation without resorting to an application like PhotoShop.

Panic has a new version of Transmit, their awesome MacOS X file transfer client (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV). The latest release provides Intel compatibility, bug fixes, and a few choice new features like the ability to edit any type of file (image, Word doc, etc.) instead of just text files.

MacOS X Hints describes some hidden preferences in Apple's iPhoto 6.

Slingbox appears to be a device that will let you stream live television and control your TiVo from anywhere on the Internet. Doesn't work with Macs yet, so I'm not all that interested, but a great concept. Hope the TV/movie industry doesn't sue them into oblivion.

The New Yorker reviews a new biography of Alan Turing, and takes a fairly in-depth look at his life in general.

Gloriously geeky look at what actually goes on inside the Solaris 10 networking stack. From the author of the networking section of a new version of Solaris Internals.