Enigmo, the newest game from Pangea, is much more than a puzzle game. The 3D graphics require a pretty up-to-date graphics card. But why? A big part of it is the physics of the drops of water, oil and lava bouncing all around the screen as you try to fill pots with their respective liquids. There is so much going on with these drops as you move and rotate bumpers, sponges and other tools to get the drops where they need to go.

The first 10 levels are challenging enough that you'll definitely want to buy it to see all 70. Read the review at Inside Mac Games and download it from Pangea. You won't be sorry . . . well unless you can't get the drops to go in the pots!

The new film starring Jim Carrey is promoted with scenes of many comical things the character Bruce does when God gives him His powers. It sure seemed silly and crude in the commercials. Turns out the director [and writer apparently] is a Christian and the movie tackles some important spiritual issues in the midst of all the fun.

Interviewer: And God deals with Bruce's anger so lovingly, which seemed like one of the major themes of the movie--that Bruce had God wrong all along.

Tom Shadyac: That's right! And God loved Bruce all along, but that soil had to soften before he could see it.

The rest of the interview is at ChristianAnswers.Net.

Controversy continues to brew as evangelical missionaries want to move into Iraq to help with water, food and other necessities. Some critics don't want relief workers to bring help "in Jesus'name". Larry Cox of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board says

Yes, we are unapologetically Christians. But we also are committed to freedom. We believe no one should ever be coerced in matters of faith, either unduly influenced to accept or prevented from exploring a new teaching. In places where other religions dominate, our approach to relief efforts is geared to making information available for those who want it. Ministries are conducted with no strings attached because, after all, that is how God loves us.

Meanwhile, one 100-member church's effort to gather food to send to Iraq through the IMB turned into a community project.

Producers and growers donated about 80 percent of the total food count. Monetary gifts used to purchase additional food brought the total to 12,000 pounds of product.

Check out this report for more on the project.

As celebration of the fall of Saddam has waned, new persecution toward Christians has started from the fundamentalist factions in Iraq. The article on Crosswalk.com says religious tension is high.

Christian women say they've been harassed by Shiite men for walking on the street without head scarves, and priests complain that Shiite clerics inflame religious hatred by calling for the expulsion from Iraq of
" nonbelievers."

The Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne Beta Test progresses including a bunch of tournaments last week. I'm pretty bad against online players so I only play a game or two in each tourney. Most of the balance issues are taken care of but there's still some work to do.

The Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo just came out. If you can meet the rather steep specs requirements, you will have a lot of fun trying out this FPS. There are only a few maps but its so well made, I'll be playing it for a while.

I was just invited to beta test Everquest for Mac and it seems you can still register. I imagine mentioning the War3 beta got me some points in the selection.

Sure Apple's new music download service is groundbreaking, with its support from the major labels, AAC encoding and ease of use. Sure it's enclosed inside the pretty iTunes wrapper. But does it have a good selection of Christian music?

At first this was hard to determine since the service was getting hammered so heavily few of the pages would load without a "504" error. Tonight, Apple must have added some more servers because the iTunes Music Store now seems to be performing as advertised.

To get to the Christian music, go to the "Inspirational" genre. Most of the songs there are Christian. You can see "new releases", "staff favorites" and "just added" albums.

To get to all the artists, you should use "browse" then choose inspirational. You'll see they have a good number of artists. Here's part of the screen you get if you double-click on Jeremy Camp's album "Stay".

Many of the Christian albums don't get the $9.99 price that the others do. I guess that is due to the smaller market. If we show Apple we want this, perhaps they'll lower the album price. Note: if any album has less than 11 songs the price will be just the price of the songs.

At the annual shareholder meeting, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was asked if a music service was indeed forthcoming from the company. Jobs is quoted in a Rueters article saying "You'd think so if you haven't been asleep the last two weeks." Not exactly a "no comment" but hey, the announcement is only 3 days away.

In another quote from ThinkSecret, Jobs said " 'there will be a time' when Apple would speak about its relationship with Motorola. This was after a question about processor speeds. Though we all know GHz isn't everything, most Mac fans have been upset with the speeds Motorola has been producing and the lack of a G5. Rumors of Apple switching processors and companies abound.

Apple has invited members of the press to an event on April 28 with "announcements that will be music to your ears." MacCentral received one and reported on it today.

Seems some or all of the Apple/Music rumors will be vindicated on Monday! The question now is which ones. New iPods? Music Service? iTunes 4? They bought Universal Music?

iPods, Music Service and iTunes 4 are quite likely as they are very much related. We'll see if Apple will put Universal into the mix and take on the daunting task of revitalizing it.

In this commentary on the Motley Fool website, a commentator seems to be the lone voice of support among financial analysts that sees benefits for Apple and music in general of buying Universal Music.

The Presidential Prayer Team is a non-partisan, non-profit effort to "encourage specific nationwide prayer for the President. The goal is to enlist at least 2.8 million participants, or 1% of the American population, to make this prayer commitment."

Sign up to pray and you'll get regular emails with requests and a window decal.

There's also a site for kids. I'm tempted to go there for updates because it looks cool.

The L.A. Times is reporting that Apple is in talks to buy Vivendi Universal's music division. Unlike some previous Apple purchase rumors (like say, Palm? LOL) this one make sense as Vivendi has been trying to unload some of its divisions. There were already rumors of Blizzard possibly being up for sale (Apple should buy them! Revenge for Microsoft getting Bungie!) Buying Universal music would be a big boost to the upcoming music download service.

New iPods are apparently on the way too, hopefully by the end of the month, according to ThinkSecret. The site claims they will come with a dock and a revamped design.

Shepard Smith is on the air right now and about two minutes ago he said something to the effect of " We are getting lots of suggestions for new names for Saddam airport. Freedom and Liberty among them." I don't know if I was the only one to send those in (I doubt it) but I did send those two in one email! WOOHOO! It's currently called Baghdad. Anything to get the regime name off of it. Boy, I wish I had the VCR going. Here's the text of the email:

From: Chuck Jacobson <chuckiej@webchuck.net>
Date: Thu Apr 3, 2003 11:54:42 PM US/Eastern
To: foxreport@foxnews.com
Subject: Renaming the Airport
We should name it Freedom International Airport or Liberty International Airport.

BTW, "Shep" is also the anchor who mentioned on the first day of the war that they were hearing that the "target of opportunity" was something President Bush had been praying for. Think about that.

It started with the Profile, an attempt to steal the thunder of the flat panel iMac with an inferior computer inside and out. The commercials even made it bend when its plastic "legs" don't bend. The iMac commercial it tried to imitate, though, wasn't out of the realm of the possible. At least all the movements it made are possible.

Now Gateway is launching an ad campaign "Rip, Burn, Respect" imitating the Apple "Rip. Mix. Burn." campaign from a couple years ago. They will promote the two big music download sites (Listen.com and Emusic.com) and their computers. This as Apple tries to get the major record companies on board for its download service which will work through iTunes and probably have AAC encoded songs (higher quality than MP3). It will be incredibly easy for Mac users to download high quality music and listen to it on their Mac and iPod. Gateway will never be able to claim that and these recent moves will likely not prevent good ol' Chapter 11.

Details on MacRumors.