True - The death of handwriting. My handwriting has always been fairly appalling.

Via New Scientist - First test of the space elevator.

Brings back memories (nightmares) of university Signal Processing courses - FilterInfo is freeware which lets you design analog / digital filters - it will even generate source code for you.

Ren & Stimpy creators weblog - JohnKStuff.

Some Nintendo DS news - apparently it will get a tv tuner & opera browser. More in this Japanese News Video. Although apparently the tv reception capability only works for a particular type of broadcast which isn't in widespread use (even in Japan yet).

Nice SameTime/Quickplace plug - Toyota board drives paper away. Excellent use of collaborative technologies.

Getting information out of Active Directory can sometimes be like pulling teeth - Hyena makes life much easier. Shame its not free :-(

On a related note - Softerra LDAPBrowser lets you pull information direct from the Active Directory LDAP schema (or any other LDAP source). Plus its free. Saves messing around with nasty vbscript queries. Someone really needs to wrap up some Active Directory queries in php to idiot proof this - they'd be onto a winner.

In terms of AD scripting take a look at Microsofts Script Center or (better) the Active Directory Cookbook which has examples in vbscript & perl.