I'm siding with the whales. Navy to Defend Sonar in Court

Michelangelo masterpiece goes online

The Matrix Reloaded in Tokyo

Can a single driver make a difference? See: SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Traffic Waves, physics for bored commuters Is there a lesson here that can be applied off the highways?

A Mozart brainteaser

The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were

The Hartford Advocate wonders just how you get back in touch with the Office of Homeland Security

Giant Robot Costume

How the watermelon got its slurp is an interesting look at the fruit.

Motorcycles of the 20th Century

The Road to Oceania:

I had a valuable secret in 1984, though, one I owed in large part to Orwell, who would have turned 100 today: I knew that the novel I had written wasn't really about the future, just as '1984' hadn't been about the future, but about 1948.

So says William Gibson in a fine editorial about Orwell, technology, and an over intrusive government. For all that, there's a sense of optimism to it -- we have the power to make decisions and control our future.

EFF: Breaking News:

...the dinosaurs of the recording industry have completely lost touch with reality

The music industry needs to change. It needs to change quickly.

Master of Design: The CEO of IDEO describes the interplay between technology and design

Lawrence Lessig:

Count this as great news, and spread the word: there are two great souls on Capitol Hill. I’ll see if I can find some more.

Godspeed to Professor Lessig in his attempts to fix the public domain.

Pure Content:

After months of secret negotiations, several hundred secret ballots, and a weekend retreat with Vice President Dick Cheney in his secret mountain bunker, a Class Day speaker was chosen, and it was me. You obviously have made a grave error. But it's too late now. So let's just go with it.

Will Ferrell doesn't sugarcoat it at the 352nd Harvard Commencement...

Web privacy policies confuse Net surfers | CNET News.com:

The dense, legalistic documents that many commercial Web sites post to explain their data-collection habits are more likely to provide false reassurance than clarity to Web surfers

A really good first step is to rewrite the darn things in language that a sixth grader could understand.

If you create a position of Privacy Officer for your company, are you allowed to tell people who the person who fills the position will be?

Those fancy business cards that you've been parsing out to precious cutomers and potential leads.

There's another use for them. Check out how to Make Business Card Cubes

And, if that works for you, there are plenty of other ways to fold paper.

Major in games, minor in work

It was difficult choosing a major in college. I know lots of people who were "undecided" a lengthy amount of time into their education. I also know others who switched as they went along. Sometimes more than once.

If I had it all to do over, I probably would have chosen a science over the liberal arts degree that I elected. But, would I have majored in video games? Maybe. If only it was offered.

Joel on software takes a look at Venture Capitalists, in an article called Fixing Venture Capital. Excellent. It's recommended reading.