The TiVo senior programmer from San Jose spent a week modifying his 25-year-old washing machine to send a message to Twitter when his laundry is ready.

• slashfilm: Toy Story 3 was great, last 30 minutes were pure brillance.  • firstshowing: Toy Story 3 was wonderful, so much fun and heartwarming, too! Totoro is in it a few times as well. Pixar at their best  • colliderfrosty: Toy story 3 continues pixars streak of brilliance. Last 20 or 30 minutes wrecked me. • elguapo1: Toy Story 3 was fantastic. People were crying at the end. I guess we can expect another tear jerker. • EDouglasWW Just saw Toy Story 3 at Showest… Brilliant job @leeunkrich Even Ed Catmull joined in the excitement, pointing at his friend’s reaction. edcatmull: I had a friend just email me after the TS 3 screening and he raved about it. Good sign. 

At the end of February, McGraw-Hill’s Macmillan unit unveiled a new electronic book imprint, DynamicBooks, that will let professors create their own textbooks, using their own material as well as materials developed by Macmillan. "Basically, they will go online, log on to the authoring tool, have the content right there and make whatever changes they want," Brian Napack, president of Macmillan, told The New York Times. "And we don’t even look at it."

Students will pay about one-third as much as the the paper-bound version's list price.