Wow.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
The BeeGees have invaded my hard drive. Thank you, Hitachi.

http://fcmx.net/vec/v.php?i=003702
This one shows the evolution of modern woman.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
This one writes computer science papers for you.

There have been some amazing breakthroughs since the last time I touched Flash. Looks like you can compile a Flash movie without having Flash nowadays! See the following two articles by Jesse Warden and (Mark Winterhalder and Daniel Fischer).

http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2005/04/tried_eclipse_a.html

http://iterative.org/swfmill/doc/using-swfmill.html