- Cisco may offer Web-based office software (Reuters)
- Photo and original diagram of the world’s first ethernet cable (BoingBoing Gadgets)
- The Extinction Oscillator (Seed Magazine)
- Most complete Earth map published (BBC)
- Yahoo redesigns data center, ditches carbon offsets (CNet)
- Questing for gear in hopping Ho Chi Minh City (CNet)
- How I became a walking hot spot (CNet)
- Micron announces new 34nm NAND chip (DigiTimes)
- The 2nd Coolest Observatory in the World (in Chile) (Skepticblog)
- The AbioCor Artificial Heart: Plastic and Metal Mimics Real Life Function (Singularity Hub)
- Can a new implant coating technique create a new six million dollar man? (PhysOrg)
- Computer-Guided Nanoparticle Therapy Destroys Tumors (PhysOrg)
- Why microbes are smarter than you thought (NewScientist)
- Review: Wetware by Dennis Bray (NewScientist)
- Medicine’s New Toolbox (Technology Review)
- A Robot that Navigates Like a Person (Technology Review)
- Carnival of Space #109 (Discovery Channel)
- Multi GPU tech Lucid to take on graphics giants (The Inquirer)
- Taipei graphics vendors focus on own designs (The Inquirer)
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Worldwide readings midweek
- Priced to Sell: Is free the future? (New Yorker)
- ‘Gao kao’ is over. Now what? (China Daily)
- McNamara asks Giap: What happened in Tonkin Gulf? (AP in 1995)
- Live Your Best Life Ever! (Newsweek)
- From a Beijing Suburb, Vibrant Strings (NY Times)
- Book review: How the west was lost (Guardian)
- Beijing losing the gambling battle (Asia Times)
- Airbus rides the Chinese dragon (Telegraph)
- Cliburn Piano Competition Embraces Internet (NPR)
- Dawkins funds atheist summer camp (The First Post)
- Britain “can no longer afford to be a mini-US” (The National)
- 10 Best Prison Breaks (Wired)
- Don’t Get That College Degree! (New York Post)
- Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy (HBS)
- A Secret History of Dissent in the All-Volunteer Military (LRC)
- Overdue U.K. “Bullet Train” Enters Service Amid Cuts (Bloomberg)