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Trying to think of a nice Christmas gift for a kid besides software, here's an idea for you!

If you're old enough to remember the classic game of Mousetrap you'll undoubtedly recall its crazily addictive, cartoon-esque maze of chutes, funnels, tunnels and ramps with great affection. Watching a marble meander through a series of improbable obstacles was strangely mesmerizing. And it's just one of the reasons why we think Frigits Deluxe is going to be equally popular. This ingenious, fridge-based plaything has won every toy award going, and is as addictive as it is simple.

Frigits Deluxe Essentially, Frigits Deluxe consists of several marbles and a series of colorful magnetic funnels, tunnels, catapults, spinners and sheer drops that stick to the side of your fridge...

http://www.firebox.c...dex.html?dir=firebox...

via http://www.newlaunches.com/ it turns out that a copy of the blowfly flying alarm clock is now available for purchase, cheap:

http://www.boysstuff...product.asp?id=13583

You'll have to get up when this little baby starts, because it takes off and flies round the room, making a really annoying noise like a mosquito, 
so you'll have to find it first, before you can turn it off. Even if you hit the snooze button, it will take off again, so it will undoubtedly get you out of bed, though of course it might smash the place up a bit before you catch it, and if you sleep with the windows open you might find yourself running round the garden in your jimjams (no way to wake up) and may frighten the neighbourhood dogs.

An interesting feature of the current, and future, generation of graphics processing units, GPU, is their ability to be programmed to process a massive amount of data in parallel...and the application using the GPU to accelerate data processing does not even have to be graphics related.

Recently NVidia released their latest generation of graphics cards, the 8800 series, using the G80 GPU, supporting "General purpose processing". What is especially cool with the latest gadget from NVidia is that they have developed a C compiler to make it easier for a programmer to use the GPU for general purpose processing. Check out this page on Anandtech.


http://www.anandtech...wdoc.aspx?i=2870&p=8

Here's today's flash game. Short on directions, but worth a look...

http://www.nekogames...veflash/yenneko.html

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