Aw... nasty.

Quoted: Some mad scientist decided to make gummi bears more juicy by using Frankensteiny technology to give them tiny circulatory systems and crunchy little veins, in this weird piece of artwork from Jason Freeny at Moist Productions.

Quoted: Employees at computer, phone and software company Apple have filed a patent to place solar cells on portable devices, Trade the News reported Monday.
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Outfitted with such technology, Apple’s devices, like the iPhone, could have photovoltaic cells stacked underneath LCD touch screens, thus maximizing the area available for harnessing the sun.

Quoted: In a pretty significant move, Reuters is making its news content available to the developer community through the use of a non-commercial API offering, through Reuters Labs. This means that you can now take Reuters news and create applications around it, or better fit the content into your existing applications and sites.

I tried out the NY Times Tech Talk podcast this morning, but I didn't care for it as they resorted to Vista bashing, which is uninspired commentary at best and really just annoying at this point. Unsubscribed.

Quoted: This week on NYT Tech Talk, Bettina Edelstein talks to Times reporter Matthew L. Wald about green technology for jets and J.D. Biersdorfer continues the discussion with cellphone inventor Martin Cooper about the future of wireless communications. Pedro Rafael Rosado joins in a chat about low-cost laptops for kids.

I want to build one of these in the backyard.

Quoted: The Mono-rail Track Velocipede wasn't as flashy as a jet pack, but maybe it was more practical—as long as you had what Scientific American called in May 1900 a "single-rail railway" to use it on, of course.

An update on Yahoo's search for an alternative to the MS bid.

Quoted: Sources tell us that News Corp.put a variety of offers on the table last Friday after weeks of negotiations, including ones involving Google, private equity funds, and even one scenario involving Microsoft as a search advertising partner. Now the latest development is that Time Warner is putting together yet another proposal to combine Yahoo with AOL.

Edmund Yu could rock this.

Quoted: How it works: You design a logo for the Seattle 2.0 blog. If I like it better than any other logo (if there is any other logo), then you are the winner.
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Prize: Besides bragging rights, of course, Your design firm (or yourself) gets a sidebar banner on the Seattle 2.0 blog that links to your site for one year. This is priceless!

John Cook on...

Quoted: ....what the differences are between Seattle and Silicon Valley.

This is his response to that New York Times article Derek faved.

White label social networking platform and CMS.

Quoted: Pringo Networks offers a complete social networking and media sharing platform allowing your company to effectively build an integrated online community around your existing user ...