This blogger has seen a lot of three year olds playing the xylophone over the years, as such, this blogger is not easily impressed by such things. That said, this is without a doubt the cutest three year old playing a xylophone ever.
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A small group of 10-13 year-olds sample the video games of yesteryear. For those who experienced them firsthand, these fresh perspectives may entertain you - and possibly make you feel a bit obsolete.
Until today, as a holdover from the days of metal type presses, the NYT used as many as six different type faces for headlines on its front page. Henceforth all headers will be in a variant of Cheltenham, designed in 1896.
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The Register is carrying an interesting, if somewhat angry piece discussing how trackback technology included with the Movable Type / Typepad weblogging software is littering Google search results with empty pages. In this search, for instace, six of the first seven results are trackback pages (as of this posting).
The Bush administrations has devised a clever new plan to save the world's dwindling populations of endangered species: kill more endangered animals.
Here's a great collection of CNN news graphics. Some are of obvious subject matter, others ... not so obvious.
Award-winning author Orson Scott Card makes his living from copyrighted works, so you might expect him to have an opinion or two about copyright protection. In this op-ed piece in Greensboro, North Carolina's Rhinoceros Times, Card weighs in on the MP3 file swapping debate, and he's not coming down on the side you may expect.
This wonderful article on lauded photographer Diane Arbus and the accompanying photos are from Sunday's NY Times Magazine. If you didn't get a chance to peruse the paper version, grab some coffee, close your office door and pretend you're at home on the couch. [free registration required]
A nanometer is roughly 1/1,000,000th of the thickness of a US dime. Nanotechnology involves building very tiny machines, on the scale of nanometers. In this article in the New Atlantis, Adam Keiper explains in layman's terms some of the concepts behind and recent developments in nanotechnology, and discusses where it might be headed in the future.