Refaved from Mike:

Open source licensing decision tree.

Refaving from Mohit

Quoted: This is a map of companies in Seattle that do software work. It is not limited to companies headquartered in Seattle, but includes any company with a development office in the area. I've tried to keep companies off the map that are out of business or not yet viable, but please let me know if there is something that needs to be added, removed or edited.

Quoted: Two new digital pens don’t need special paper to write on. But there are a few glitches.

In gadget-head circles, one of this summer’s most buzzworthy new products is the Pulse pen: a ballpoint that simultaneously records both your handwriting and the sound of the words you are transcribing. Both are transferred to a Windows PC when you return home — seemingly perfect for lecture-hall students, journalists and note-takers of any kind.

Mike has a nice little taxonomy of software annoyance and delight here.

Quoted: On a recent flight, I was amused to see the following message displayed on an Airport Kiosk:

There are unused icons on your desktop.

Besides looking exceedingly silly on a airport departure gate display, it also totally obliterated the status of the current flight (presumably "On Time", in this case).

Need to get this upgrade

Quoted: The robots are on the move — leaping, scrambling, rolling, flying, climbing. They are figuring out how to get here on their own. They come to help us, protect us, amuse us — and some even do floors.

Redotted from Mike

Quoted: EverNote(tm) makes it easy to store, manage and access typed and handwritten notes, memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, protect personal information and create bookmarks to documents.

Quoted: Google Inc. will introduce a spreadsheet program Tuesday, continuing the Internet search leader's expansion into territory long dominated by Microsoft Corp.

Pretty good FTP client, just updated to 2.0

Quoted: Welcome to the home of SmartFTP, the free secure FTP client for Windows.