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The Joe Cartoon Co. has been around for a while, and if the humor is pretty adolescent, the artwork and animation are inspired. Check out The Boss, a recent Flash animation at the site. The voice characterization on the brown-nosing gerbil is just brilliant.

Fun blog: dack.com.

Traffic waves: physics for bored commuters is a serious treatment of a topic that many of us have speculated about: cars are like particles.

Feed Magazine has a good special edition on drugs. Psychoactive chemicals are at the intersection of psychology, chemistry, pop culture, and religion. It’s a fascinating place to be, and it’s only going to get more so.

Jibjab presents the rapping forefathers of our country.

At the Florence museum of science, you can pay your respects to Galileo’s finger. Read about it on this week’s Star Chamber.

The EDGE sounds pretentious, but it’s got some good stuff. Who’s behind this thing?

Beautiful piece by Clay Shirky about looking at proteins: Seven Ways of Looking at a Protein

Interesting looking blog: An Entirely Other Day.

The robots finally are coming. Computers and sensors are cheap, and motors are cheap enough. I.D. Magazine did a nice article about the genuine arrival of robots in pop culture (as opposed to their faux arrival in the 1950s). But I.D. is too lame to back up their magazine with a web site, so here are some other interesting links: an article in the Washington Post, and a nifty kit to turn your Palm Pilot into a robot.