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Meet Shea Gunther, green activist, Web junkie, and fearless instigator of new projects. Equipped with a satellite Internet connection and an unfathomable amount of energy, this "eco-entrepreneur" has embarked on the construction of a "super green" house in Maine. Naturally, the building's rise to life will be closely blogged, vlogged, and uploaded to Flickr.

When we chatted with Shea online, he told us why the "Gunther Green Home" will come equipped with at least one secret passageway, what he thinks of "Green Greed," and why he loves the Web browser StumbleUpon...

Hey, Shea. Have you always wanted to build a "net-zero eco-pimped out" house—or was it something that came up recently?

I have actually been dreaming about building my own house since I was 13 or 14. I've been designing the house in my head ever since. The "green" part of the equation really came on strong over the past 4 or 5 years as I've learned about green building.

I think you can tell that I've been dreaming up this house since I was a kid by the fact that I told my architect in the first meeting that we had to have a secret passage or two. Read the full profile...

Dr. Siobahn Morgan created the Doctor Who Homepage way back in 1993. The simple, retro, university-hosted web site is still chugging along 15 years later.

We caught up with the University of Northern Iowa astronomy professor for a chat about the old days of the Web, Doctor Who, and the nature of fandom...

Hey Siobahn, I checked and your site was originally added to the Yahoo! Directory back in August 1994 by the man who is now the CEO of Yahoo!

Obviously someone with good taste!

So you started the site in 1993?

Yes, I ran across some access_log files that are dated '93. I had for many years thought it was '94, but now I've just made myself a little bit older. I think the files said I had 5 hits in May 1993. Wow! Read the full profile...

Sometimes the world is full of things that get you down. What better time to close the blinds, kick up your feet, and make it all just a little crazier? This nonsensically animated head and its bizarre actions call to mind the goofy cartoon film "Yellow Submarine." The head emits horse whinnies, elephant trumpets, duck quacks, human laughs, robot beeps, and grunts like some animal we haven't yet identified. It has a vast wardrobe of noses, notably an exploding cannon and a propeller. It can swallow its eye, run a projector, and grow an arm out of its ear. But you have to figure out how to make it all work.

Can you make the head:

• Grow hair?
• Breathe fire?
• Cry?
• Grow an elephant trunk?
• Run?