This is a must-try Flash application that basically simulates markers on paper. Sound boring? Nah! Other Flash toys to try:

• Online Kaleidoscope at Zefrank.
• Maconoscope: Cartoon portrait maker.
• The Letter Project at Zefrank. There's a limit to how many letters you input though.

March 11 was the busiest trade deadline day in NHL history with 46 players being moved in 24 deals around the league. Some big trades were also completed in the weeks leading up to the deadline. Here are the most significant:

• The Toronto Maple Leafs acquired RW Owen Nolan from the San Jose Sharks for C Alyn McCauley, prospect Brad Boyes, and a first-round pick in the 2003 entry draft.
• The Colorado Avalanche acquired D Bryan Marchment from San Jose for 3rd and 4th round picks in the 2003W entry draft.
• The Philadelphia Flyers picked up RW Tony Amonte from the Phoenix Coyotes for LW Guillaume Lefebvre, a 3rd round pick in 2003 NHL entry draft, and a 2nd round pick in 2004 NHL entry draft.
• The Detroit Red Wings acquired D Mathieu Schneider from the Los Angeles Kings for C Sean Avery, D Maxim Kuznetsov and a first-round pick in 2003 entry draft and a second-round pick in 2004 entry draft.
• Colorado acquired LW Bates Battaglia from the Carolina Hurricanes for RW prospect Radim Vrbata.
• The rich-ass New York Rangers acquired RW Anson Carter and D prospect Ales Pisa from the Edmonton Oilers for RW Radek Dvorak and D Cory Cross.<
• The St. Louis Blues acquired RW Valeri Bure and a conditional pick in the 2004 draft from the Florida Panthers for D Mike Van Ryn.
• The Ottawa Senators acquired C Bryan Smolinski from Los Angeles for the rights to prospect Tim Gleason or future considerations.
• The Anaheim Mighty Ducks acquired RW Steve Thomas from the Chicago Blackhawks for a 5th-round pick in the 2003 entry draft.
• Toronto acquired D Phil Housley from Chicago for a picks in the 2003 entry draft or 2 picks in the 2004 entry draft.
• Toronto acquired veteran C Doug Gilmour from the Montral Canadiens for a 6th-round pick in the 2003 entry draft.
• The Washington Capitals acquired D Sergei Berezin from Chicago for a 4th round pick in the 2004 entry draft.
• The New York Islanders acquired D Janne Niinimaa for LWs Brad Isbister and Raffi Torres.
• St. Louis acquired G Chris Osgood from the NY Islanders for prospect Justin Papineau and a second-round pick in the 2003 entry draft.

Pleasure before business today. This is one of the absolute coolest sites on the entire Internet, hands down. Norbert's emulators is a collection of video-game emulators that run in your browser window. Guaranteed to bring back memories of smoky pool halls in the 80s.

Other fun:

• Graal: A Web-based RPG reminiscent of Kyle's Quest or Zelda.
• Tactics core: A technology demo for a very cool-looking Web RPG. This one has to been seen to be appreciated. This could easily be something you buy commercially.
• Pro quarterback: Kind of a mindless game that vaguely resembles American football.

Dr. Mikee lays on the hurt with:

• Bush's broken campaign promises
• Bush watch ... Bush lies: Brings out what I have always found most annoying about Bush -- his making assertions and going forth as if they were true, when they at best have no proof and at worst are outright falsehoods.
• Deconstructing the faith-based intitiative: I personally don't believe anything labeled "faith based" has any business being a centerpiece of public policy in the United States. Leveling the WTC towers was a faith-based intitiative.
• George Bush (Sr.) -- The unauthorized biography: Dirt on daddy Bush.
• Enron and the Bush administration: kindred spirits in fraud and criminality: This article hits a grand-slam homerun. My absolute favorite paragraph in an article full of great ones:

  The Bush administration was installed in office through fraud and rules that way today, in both domestic and foreign affairs. It has seized upon the September 11 terrorist attack to implement a sweeping, right-wing agenda of attacks on democratic rights at home and embarked on an open-ended colonial war in Central Asia, whose principal purpose is to pave the way for US dominance of vast reserves of natural resources, particularly oil and gas.

• Is George Bush genuinely born again? As the good Dr. put it, "Even these religious wackos don't trust him!" In fact, they stop just short of calling him the antichrist.
• US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war: Of course.
• And finally, as you know, polls show Britons see Bush as a larger threat to world peace than Saddam Hussein. I feel the same way. I also feel they are not too far from each other in the area of being threats to their own people.

America too fucked up? Switch.

Whew, that was a LOT of stuff to post. My parting shot, a personality test I ripped from someone else's Blog: Which OS are you?

SUNDAY, 3/9/2003, 10:Ish pm HST by Penfold

Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes ... Well Okay, We're Not, But the potatoes are real good.

Hockey times

Hockey times for the week of 3/9/03

• "Detroit Red Wings at Anaheim Mighty Ducks" ESPN2, Sun Mar 09 10:30pm HST
• "Detroit Red Wings at Los Angeles Kings" FSWH, Mon Mar 10 05:30pm HST
• "Boston Bruins at Chicago Blackhawks" ESPN, Mon Mar 10 10:00pm HST
• "Chicago Blackhawks at Anaheim Mighty Ducks" FOXW2, Wed Mar 12 05:30pm HST
• "Anaheim Mighty Ducks at Phoenix Coyotes" FOXW2, Sat Mar 15 04:00pm HST

Got way too much time on your hands? How about trying some pencil carving.

Photographing snowflakes, not for the faint hearted. See how do do it or just look at the pretty pictures here.

Battlestar Galactica

SCI FI has signed director Michael Rymer (Queen of the Damned) and stars Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver Oscar nominee, Miami Vice Golden Globe winner), Mary McDonnell (two-time Oscar nominee for Passion Fish and Dances with Wolves), Jamie Bamber (HBO's Band of Brothers) and Katee Sackhoff (Halloween: Resurrection) for the new four-hour original miniseries Battlestar Galactica. Production begins in Vancouver in March. Battlestar Galactica will air exclusively on SCI FI in late 2003.

Got a 79-87 Turbo Buick? Find out how to make it hot here.