Gil's link of the day!

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060828fa_fact2 A really good story from The New Yorker about the man who solved the Poincaré conjecture.

http://www.arcanegazebo.net/2006/08/measurements_of_gravity_using.html A story about an undergrad in a lab who decides to take a 230 L DeWar flask full of liquid nitrogen down a stairway in a handcar.

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ This guy put a jet engine in the back of his Beetle. It works.