Saw this on Slashdot the other day. It is a port of the Processing Visualization Language to javascript. It looks pretty cool.

Windows XP running in VMWare Fusion under Leopard runs much faster when you are using the bootcamp partition. If you do not use the bootcamp partition then allocating the full space for the virtual disk image will improve performance some. Of course, your results may vary as this is only in my non-scientific tinkering.

I have been looking for a good free or cheap Windows application to make nice photo slideshows like iPhoto does for a friend in Japan. I happen to find Microsoft Photo Story 3, which is a free product from Microsoft that accomplishes this. It is not as nice as what can be done with iPhoto, [...]