A clearly written exploration of the science behind newly passed British legislation allowing for the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos (under specific conditions).

Quoted: Birth, life, death and extinction: an evolutionary biologist's guide to natural selection.

Gnu.org Philosophy archive. A series of papers/posts encapsulating the free software ideal.

Salesforce is huge in web-based software, a definite leader. I wonder how effectively Oracle will compete in this space?

Quoted: BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp said on Tuesday it has created Web-based software designed to help salespeople win more business, its latest attempt to overtake its smaller rival that leads in the field,

All in all, it sounds like Apple's annual shareholder meeting was pretty normal but there are inklings that Apple will be heading into home servers (which I'm excited about and can't believe Apple took so long to enter) and better .Mac features.

This design concept is outstanding, a new window to the world of data visualization. Hello Matrix. Love it!

Sprout's easily configurable multi-media widgets are amazing.

A fair representation of the Amazon Kindle entry into the wireless reader space...

Quoted: Opinion: Despite criticism of the company's wireless device, it's better than anything out there today.

Disappearing car doors. Pretty nifty although probably quite dangerous to open on the freeway.

Somewhat validated rumors about Apple products:

- current sales of the ipod touch
- expected timeline of the iphone 3g
- expected release of the new sub-notebook with flash memory

Quoted: A very good source of mine with good connections to Apple's Asian manufacturing partners called me this morning with some news: Seems like Apple will be making headlines in the next few weeks and months with some of its hottest products: the iPod Touch, the iPhone and a new ultra-portable laptop.