Two cool tidbits. 

First, my colleague, Karsten Januszewski, did a totally cool demo at the Flash In The Can conference where he showed some new features coming in the next release of Avalon.  Check out what you'll be able to do with multimedia in Avalon now!

Second, something near and dear to my heart: Anti-productivity applications!  Better known as "Games."   MSDN is hosting a series of webcast videos, produced by the game-instruction masters at DigiPen Institute, on how to write games.  The cool thing about this one is that you can use Visual C# 2005 Express Edition to follow along.  Go forth and have fun!

Other interesting, non-work-related things:

It appears that a palmtop nuclear fusion device has been invented by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Another part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory called BS on those findings.

Coming next week....my take on Tiger (my OS upgrade gets here tomorrow.  Woohoo!)

And, yes, I will revisit the "Mac Experience" that I've posted before.  Thanks to some great feedback, I've purchased Aaron Hillegass' book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd edition".  I'm going to dive deep into looking at what the new XCode 2.0 has to offer, as well as some other new features (for instance, did you know that Avalon lets you quickly write Konfabulator-style applets, similar to what you can do with the new "widgets" on the Mac?  Of course, when people see them, they'll say, "You copied that from the Mac!"  *sigh*).  It's gonna be a loooong weekend for me!