A number of interesting links for you all to check out this time.  As usual, a lot of these are through Slashdot articles.

• Duey's Drawings is the website of pencil artist Brian Duey, and contains some absolutely stunning art.  Many of his pieces are so realistic that you just wouldn't believe they're done with pencils!  Contains links to several other pencil artists' websites as well.
• This is one that many of you would have already seen.  J D Hillberry's site has some amazing pencil artwork as well, and I especially love the Trompe l'oeil pieces of his.
• Top Ten Data Disasters is an interesting article about this company called Ontrack, which has succeeded in recovering data from drives damaged by freak accidents (a hard drive damaged due to a rotten banana?  It happens...).
• Variety posted an obituary for the VHS format, and here is the Slashdot article on the same.  Quite sad, I must say... though we still use the VCR at home, and I have a big collection of VHS tapes (with some obscure movies recorded from TV... must figure out a way to convert them to a digital format sometime).
• Speaking of converting video into a digital format, this Slashdot article discusses whether digital data would be readable and understandable in the future.
• This one is absolutely amazing.  Here is a music video created using stop-motion animation on... a whiteboard!  I love the video as well as the music!
• Anyone who uses a cellphone will find this interesting — here is a quick rundown of the Top 10 Mobile Phones in history.
• Another interesting Slashdot discussion on a drug that removes the need for sleep...
• Crave at CNET posted this article on the Top 10 Geek Girls, and here is the associated Slashdot discussion.  Interesting, though I feel that some of the names just don't fit that list.
• flOw is a game that you might like to try out playing.
• Speaking of games, this Slashdot article talks bout NASA using a simulation built off the Unreal Tournament 2 Engine, with some hilarious commentary...
• And this is a bit too technical, but I thought I'd link it anyway — Slashdot posted this article, about a fast inverse square root function found in the code for Quake 3.  Now I looked at the actual article and also the analysis of the code given, and wasn't able to understand much at all.  One of the comments in the discussion helped clear up things a little bit though.  Apparently, this code calculates the reciprocal of the square root of a number, very efficiently, utilising no division and no actual square root function at all!  Instead, it employs shifting of bits so that division is accomplished, and some trickery based on Newton-Raphson approximation.  What?  Newton-Raphson in TWO LINES??  I remember when we used to write these programs in Engineering, they were much bigger...  I honestly don't know how people come up with stuff like this.
• This is just in!  There's a new Doom II level by Richard Wiles out!  It's called Monolith and it is the first in an intended series!  I decided to peek in the /newstuff directory today just to see if anything interesting was there, and I found an innocent-looking file called monlth01.zip there.  I looked at the associated text file for it and almost spat out the coffee which I was drinking at the time!  Anyway, it's a nice little map, with all the usual tricks.  Seems extremely difficult though, so I must play it on a low skill setting.

Well, that was a pretty massive edition of Teleport Destinations, wasn't it (at least, when compared to previous versions)?  Until next time, then!