What is the sound of a dynasty passing? Probably a resounding "Chee-hoo!" * Kahuku beat St. Louis for the Hawaii state football championship for the second year in a row, as St. Louis coach Cal Lee became a page in the school's history. Could this be the start of a new dynasty?

* The official exclamation of celebration and jubilation in Polynesia, also "Chee-hee!".

Word is Hunter S Thompson will be in Hawaii in December, which is partially discussed in his column. Interesting that he may show up for the Hawaii-BYU game. I wonder what the good doctor will be doing in his spare time here?

Submitted by Jui

Here's an in-depth look at the US M136 light antitank weapon, also known as the Swedish AT4. It has replaced the M72 LAW rocket as the man-portable antitank weapon of choice for US forces (you can see many soldiers in Afghanistan carrying M136es if you look closely at the film).

This is the antitank weapon found in Ghost Recon, however word is that it is improperly modeled in the game -- the M136/AT4 is a NON-POWERED projectile, that is, the projectile is launched by a charge contained completely within the launch tube; the game models the projectile as a rocket, complete with "Whoosh" and gas trail. Word is, launching an AT4 is more like a single "BOOM!" Also, they are not intended to be reloaded.

No, not that kind of mushroom ... another kind entirely, but impressive nonetheless.

Here's an interesting page I stumbled upon. I'm not sure what its intended purpose is but ... it's a listing of high-traffic homepages on the UHUNIX servers.

THURSDAY, 11/28/2001, 11:Ish pm HST by Penfold

You are much too easily amused.

"Give a man a compalation tape and he will dance fo a night, teach a man to scratch and he will be dancing for generations"

Proof positive that on the web, you can find anything.

The previous two posts submitted by Bluebell

No, it's not what you think it is.

Cool it man

ROSTOCK, Germany (Reuters) -- The youth wing of the German Greens gave party leaders a bundle of marijuana cigarettes and told them to relax after a fractious meeting.

Seems that McDonalds and Starbucks are experimenting with automated phone in ordering. Now if Jack-in-the-Box would let us, it'd be all over. Read about it here.

THURSDAY, 11/29/2001, 3:00am HST by Raul

While it's not a high-quality camera on paper, there's something interesting about the Konica DG-2, designed specifically for construction-site photography. Must be that "armor."

Busted by remote

Slow down, Hawai'i. The cameras are watching.

The state will launch its long-planned photo traffic enforcement program next week, using lasers, underground sensors, digital cameras and computers to catch speeders and drivers who run red lights.

The title says it all. Read all about the Islamic take on the little blue pill here.

From Mark Barry, collector of unusual stories: The epic and somewhat sad story of the guy who went flying by tying weather balloons to his lawn chair.

Glub glub glub

It may sound like a demented Tomorrow's World feature, but France Telecom (and Amphicom) have invented the world's first underwater telephone.

WEDNESDAY, 11/28/2001, 9:Ish pm HST by Penfold

A site for more strange news (besides the dose you get here).

Submitted by Bluebell

As an alternative to the Rice Boy Page, the Molested Car Page, and it includes not just imports, but domestics too.

Regis canned?

NEW YORK -- In a measure of how far Who Wants to Be a Millionaire has fallen, ABC executives on Wednesday refused to guarantee that the game show that made the network a fortune two years ago will be back next fall.

The can like Moses
Brings its laws down from the mount
Preach on, SPAM my man

Get you fill of Spam-Ku here.

WEDNESDAY, 11/28/2001, 1:00pm HST by Raul

Multiplayer GR rules. Not much more to it than that.

Ghost recon review roundup:

• The infamous lukewarm Gamespot review by some moron (imho).
• Geekgirl's excellent rebuttal of the previous review.
• Ghost Recon outshines band of others

From Tef: Here's a little story about a guy getting busted going 205 mph in a 55mph zone in a Corvette.

Well my Flying Clipper hackey sack finally suffered a mortal wound, so I replaced it with a Sandmaster sack from Walmart. Check it out and other late-model hackey sack technology here on worldfootbag.com.

TUESDAY, 11/27/2001, 12:30pm HST by Raul

Here's a new loader product, and it's a new take on the theme. The Ricochet 2K is an agitating loader specially designed to deflect paintballs by means of angled front surfaces. Internally, it uses a constant-agitation system that turns after each shot (the sensor, incidentally, allows the loader to count balls on its integral LCD ball-counter/game timer at the back). The downside? It costs over $100 (!)

Check out the reviews here and here.

In other paintball news, .62 cal paint is back!

Did the world really need a product like Laserbay? It takes the place of one of your 5.25" drives -- and lets you see your name in lights, lest you forget it. Check out a review here.

Well the NVIDIA nForce chipset has gone live, and HardOCP has gotten their hands on one of the earliest models, the MSI K7N420 Pro. Check out there in-depth review here. Is it as "crip" as the name would suggest?

It's been a while since we had any hemp content, so here's a load:
Smokersguide.com provides Amsterdam travel info, and a good look and background info on all manner of cannabis "products," as well as some other psychedelics. Here's the aptly-named Cannabis.com, a clearinghouse of info. And for eye-candy, here's a gallery of beauties from Cannabisculture.com (above).

MONDAY, 11/26/2001, 11:Ish pm HST by Penfold

Wobble like a weevil.

Lots and lots of ways to kill you time. Besides the roach game, there's Ask Yoda and even a hockey game.

Also from Mei Li, the BadFads museum.

Play spot the silicone here.

Cut and paste up all the spam email you get and try and make poetry out of it, and you must just end up being famous. Check it out here.

MONDAY, 11/26/2001, 4:00am HST by Raul

Well for those that are playing Ghost Recon (all one or two of you), Red Storm left out the kind of biographical information on the soldiers that was present in the Rainbow Six series, so they posted specialist bios on the Web site. Who are the specialists? The people with the funky guns! See above. Yes, you can wreak havoc with the OICW in this game.

While Microsoft insists that you should never have to backtrack over a DirectX install (and that there is no way to uninstall a given DirectX installation), this program, DirectXBuster, can do just that, should you ever need to.

Well ever since Michael Jackson donned funky yellow contacts in Thriller, special-effect contact lenses have been building towards this: NFL Crazy lenses, for the truly hardcore fan. They aren't corrective, but feature team logos, names and colors. Talk about crazy, all right. They are made by Coopervision, but both their home site and the Crazy Lens site are down right now. I've provided the links in case you want to try later. Here's an article on special-effect lenses in general. Here's a look at other Crazy Lenses, including a dartboard one for you dart fiends out there.

NVIDIA employees' hands in the cookie jar?

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission Monday sued 15 people -- including 11 Nvidia Corp. employees -- for alleged insider trading in shares of the graphics chipmaker based on advance information that it would win a lucrative contract with Microsoft Corp.

Gratuitously ripped from the Lemur's blog: For you Harry Potter fans out there (yeah, admit it), the sorting hat on the Web. This one's a little more in-depth than the short version on the official HP site.

SUNDAY, 11/25/2001, 7:Ish pm HST by Penfold

Kayaking then biking, I'm going to kill myself pretty soon.

Hockey times

Hockey times for the week of 11/24/01. Only 4 games, this is so very wrong. I need DirecTV.

• ESPN2-21 Sun, Nov 25, 2001 10:30 PM "Chicago Blackhawks at Detroit Red Wings"
• FSW-42 Thu, Nov 29, 2001 5:30 PM "Edmonton Oilers at Los Angeles Kings"
• ESPN2-21 Thu, Nov 29, 2001 5:30 PM "Pittsburgh Penguins at San Jose Sharks"
• FSWH-41 Thu, Nov 29, 2001 5:30 PM "Edmonton Oilers at Los Angeles Kings"