"Sita Sings the Blues" looks interesting.

Kevin Kelly argues that all living things have minds, that human-like minds have evolved independently several times, and that perhaps minds evolve inevitably wherever there's life. Then he points out that technology is already creating billions of tiny "minds", and they're constantly getting smarter and more human-like.

Picture shows how we'd look, had we evolved from dinosaurs.

Is Japan beating the U.S. in the "robot race"? Is that more important than the space race?

Quoted: There are plenty of robot builders, but none bring as much elegance to engineering as Shigeo Hirose...this guy seems to know that the real fuel of robotic development is a careful combination of humor and fear.

Just signed up for the WhiteHouse site. You should too.

Quoted: WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. This site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.

Matt's poster won a print design award.

Incredible story; great mix of personal insight and historical perspective. Read this and you'll want to tell people about it too.

Quoted: Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness.

Kristel is solving puzzles right now.

Quoted: Microsoft's annual puzzlepalooza draws largest crowd in its history

Tilting at corporate windmills.

Quoted: Øη (Null Eta) is my visionary strategic business strategy framework strategy, based on instantly achieving zero efficiency using only cool greek letters, secret naps, and the occasional off-site retreat on the Las Vegas strip.

An interesting perspective.

Quoted: Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of individual artifacts and gadgets for sale. Rather, Kaczynski, speaking as the Unabomber, argued that technology is a dynamic holistic system. It is not mere hardware; rather it is more akin to an organism.