[Update: it appears Petri’s site is probably being slammed with requests and periodically offline]

Crayon Physics is a game by Petri Purho, a student attending Helsinki Polytechnic. He’s a very prolific game developer, cranking out his tenth game, each game developed in under 7 days to force him to be productive and to learn something new.

He’s looking for criticism to improve his coding skills at developing games, so help a brother geek out. Download it (5 MB), test it, give him constructive feedback.

Here’s a demo of the game via youtube.

Cracked.com gives us details on their list of the eight strangest community sites on the Interweb they’ve come across. From “Ice Chewers” to “Furries for Christ.”

Folks, I have an open mind and just push the ‘I believe button’ from time to time so won’t have to deal with understanding some things (like Furries for instance). But I wish I really hadn’t just learned about the Boytaurs community, because I’m thoroughly confused over this one and really don’t want to try to understand the bizarre, primal nature of this and why it would be attractive.

To each his own.

[via digg]

Time magazine has an Internet related article that reads quickly on search engines being used for ‘How to…?’ questions.

The top 10 ‘How to’ searches in the US over a 4 week period ending 7/21/07:

1. How to tie a tie
2. How to have sex
3. How to kiss
4. How to lose weight
5. How to write a resume
6. How to levitate
7. How to draw
8. How to get pregnant
9. How to make out
10. How to make a video

Read the Time article for more interesting revelations.

From Alex Vorn’s Tech Gadget Blog we learn that Microvision and Motorola have inked a deal to integrate Microvision’s PicoP laser projection technology with Motorola’s mobiles.

I’m not holding my breath that we’ll see it any time soon, honestly I’m not sure what user scenarios they’re envisioning besides marketing/sales, maybe instant porn theatre on the sidewalk?

If my mobile can stream TV can I rebroadcast it via the projection system? Now that would be cool.

Link to the article with details.

In a shocking announcement on Firefox CEO Mitchell Baker’s blog, the Mozilla foundation is looking for suitors to take over driving the overall Thunderbird effort or possibly spin off a separate foundation to own it.

But one thing is clear according to Baker, it’s all about the web and the success of Firefox so it just makes sense to do one thing and to do it very well.

He gave no indication of a timetable to make the decision, but if you’re passionate about the project and a contributor to it, you’re encouraged to provide input on its fate.

Likely the real cause of this is simply fallout over the popularity of online mail accounts like Gmail and Live Mail.