I've been a fan of this site for a while, but never linked to it:

Totlol - Video for Kids, Babies, Toddlers, Pre and School Kids, Tweens and Parents

Totlol is a video website designed specifically for children. It is community moderated. It is constantly growing. It is powered by YouTube.

The videos were submitted, screened and rated by parents. The selection is huge and if you like, you can participate too.

They take some of the great kids videos on YouTube, embed them on one site and strip out the ads, comments (usually offensive), and "Related Videos" (sometimes *extremely* unrelated). Just the video. Check it out while you can if you have kids, it's pretty incredible.

Sadly, they will be shutting their doors on July 1 as the (*one*) person that runs the site can't get adequate funding. I am hopeful that someone sees the potential of the site and figures out a way to monetize it...

via TechCrunch

Been known for awhile now that 4chan hacked Time's "Most Influential Person" list, but didn't expect Time would actually go through with posting the result...

see here for more details. I'd love to see moot on Oprah.

oh hell yeah...

wow. what these kids did is pretty cool.

via The Big Picture (where there are a lot more pics):

On February 28th, a team of four Spanish teenage students and their instructor from IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia launched a weather probe they designed and built themselves. Their helium-filled balloon carried a payload of electronics and a camera to take atmospheric measurements and photographs throughout the trip. After getting permission from aviation officials and getting good weather, they released the probe on a trip that took it over 30,000 meters (19 miles) above sea level, through winds gusting up to 100 kph, and temperatures reaching -54C (-65.2F), and traveling 38 kilometers overland in a time of 2 hours and 10 minutes. The Meteotek08 team has collected their images and data on both their blog and flickr page

More info here.

thanks Nate for the initial heads up.