I enjoyed these Lego Mindstorm television advertisements. (Or go in their front door.) Too bad the cool kit is $200... Also: Mindstorm internals page, Sept '99 Wired story, a programming site, a very specific RCX internals site, and a web ring. There's supposedly an open source Mindstorms OS in progress, but the site is down...

Speaking of Legos, this guy has done some neat sculptures. WizardCAD, a Lego CAD program, is in development (beyond existing Lego-brand software). And, of course, ye olde MIT Programmable Brick which never ceases to entertain.

Other blogs you probably read have already mentioned this, but Randal wishes that we spread the word, so here it goes: the State of Oregon v. Randal Schwartz. (Thanks to Referer Log and CamWorld, respectively.)

Ack! "Development and distribution of Programmer's File Editor has come to an end." PFE was the cleanest, fastest, and all around best freeware text editor for Windows computers. (There's a Mac version, too, but I've never seen it. Probably doesn't compare to BBEdit, though.) The only thing it lacked was syntax hilighting. And he didn't release the source, either. Erg! PFE should remain available from other sources, especially now that PFE fans are desperately trying to rescue the thing.

I'd pay twice the market value for a version of BBEdit for Windows. (sigh) Anyone have any recommendations on Windows text editors for programmers (besides Emacs for Windows)? I don't want to install Visual Studio just to use the text editor...

I guess I can't wait for XEmacs for Windows, despite my frustrations with it in X.