> Much as I'd like to hang on to the lamp, it's hot enough > around here without another heater. One day I'd like to > make my own kind of lava lamp (more kinetic than those > on sale, perhaps I can even get it to do something), Regards getting them to do something I saw a web site ages ago where a guy described setting up serveral laval lamps next to each other and watching them with a cam on his computer- he used the data from the images when he wanted a random number sequence- he was probably just using it for an excuse but it sounded cool at the time. Jon -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics