March 21, 2003

Friday March 21, 2003 • Howard Tayler

I was, like most of the rest of the world, checking in with my favorite news source regarding current events, and I found a cool toy on, of all things, the CNN website.

Many of you may have already found it. It's a 3D modeler, loaded up with a few of the aircraft involved in said current events, and it's right here. You'll need to say yes to the ActiveX player plug-in install, which I cannot vouch for except to say that I did it and Cycore does not appear to have hijacked my machine... yet.

You can rotate the planes with the grabby-hand cursor, and even trigger some functions like spinning the radar dish or folding the wings back. And on some of them you can fire the missiles (in an astonishing show of good taste, you cannot actually TARGET the missiles.)

We'll probably have to wait for the NEXT war for that, assuming it's fought with something higher tech than sticks and stones.