Random Plugs

Complete Randomness is substituting today for the search for truth thru depression:

1) I'd like to thank Jon Postel and Co. for giving us the Internet. VoIP rocks. This appears
to be another case of technology leaping ahead of industry in a very open-source kind of
way.
Now that people have made `the obvious thing' into `the right thing', how long before
billionaire mega-corps try to take it over or legislate it into uselessness?

2) Non-Photorealistic Rendering is cool, but this is cooler still:
MERL NPR Camera
The guys at MERL are coming on strong these days (Howdy, HPF)

3) Where should we eat in Vegas this year, and has anyone seen the new Cirque show
at the MGM yet?