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Check out the Fantasy Novel Title Generator, which is right on the money.

Mastercard has more information on the MacGyver commercial that premiered during the Superbowl. Fun stuff…

Aubrey Herbert’s Economic Education reports that in a recent interview, “Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson states that much of Powell’s landmark speech to the United Nations laying out the Bush Administration’s case for the Iraq war was false.” No way!

The Observer has an interesting timeline of free speech.

Yahoo! News has an interesting article on the bottled water industry:

Consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water in the belief–often mistaken, as it happens–that this is better for us than what flows from our taps, according to environmental think tank the Earth Policy Institute (EPI).

For a fraction of that sum, everyone on the planet could have safe drinking water and proper sanitation, the Washington, D.C.-based organization said this week.

CNN reports that Volkswagen is “working on a prototype vehicle which features Google Inc.’s satellite mapping software to give drivers a bird’s eye view of the road ahead.” Cool!

Siemens is developing a system called Park Mate for cars that not only finds you a parking spot, but will also automatically parks your car too. Supposedly this won’t be available until 2008, but it sounds pretty cool…

CNET News reports on the upcoming PMA convention, typically where many new products are unveiled each year. CNET’s article makes some predictions on this year’s trends, including a Canon director’s assertion that “the megapixel race is pretty much over.” This statement is based on the idea that the seven- and eight-megapixel range is capable of making high-quality 13"x19" prints, more than enough for most consumers and “prosumers.”

Boing Boing reports that “A Finnish casemodder built a functional PC inside a 1.5l Ballantine’s whisky bottle.” As Gizmodo points out, it would have been more impressive if he hadn’t cut into the bottle… 😉

Josh Kinberg of sandbox films was kind enough to share his programming expertise in creating Greasemonkey scripts that allows you to save local files of both YouTube and Google video files. Check out his blog post here for the scripts and more information on how they work.

Both of these scripts will allow you to save the videos as Flash .flv files (you may need to supply the extension). If you don’t have a means to play such files (I didn’t), then you can download an FLV player from download.com.

For those of you unfamiliar with Greasemonkey, it is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to write scripts to change how you interact with specific web sites, usually adding or supplementing the page content or changing its design or function. If there’s enough interest, I’d be happy to make a more detailed post with some of the scripts I use regularly.

Enjoy!