The $100 laptop is all the rage over at an IT conference in Tunisia; the big scandal is that Steve Jobs offered to give them OS X for free; the developers turned it down in favor of Linux.

Naturally, Jeff’s all in a tizzy about this.

I know that the true movie connnisseurs will be waiting in line at their local DVD outlet tomorrow to get The Triple B Collection: The Films of Andy Sidaris so it seems only appropriate that I provide this link showing all the movies that have Shreveport listed as a filming location. (You will probably notice a high number of 2006 release-date films that were moved to Shreveport after Katrina halted filming in New Orleans.)

This is cool.

Meet FLIP, a very strange piece of oceanographic equipment used by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. FLIP isn’t a ship, even though researchers live and work on it for weeks at a time while they conduct scientific studies in the open ocean.

Their Web site is pretty excellent too. It’s aimed at kids, but it gives me the impression that Steve Zissou is actually behind it.