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This sounds really cool: MindRover is a game in which you design robots, wiring them up in what amounts to a visual boolean logic programming environment, then they compete in 3D arenas against the computer.

Wes Felter ponts us to xplanet, which puts an image of the earth on your Linux desktop. Cool? Not close - it also lets you rotate the globe, and update the cloud maps on the fly. Now that's cool.