The Ark and The Dove

Guys everywhere wish they had thought of that

Hacker remote-controls his Roomba vacuum cleaner with his Wii remote; plans to be able to use his Nintendo DS to be able to control it via the internet from anywhere in the world where he can get wireless.

Conservative PC rhetoric

Daily Kos speculates on the correlation between left vs. right and Apple vs. PC.

Totally neutral observation here, but the dinosaur analogy is particularly apt - I seem to remember from my natural history reading that mammals existed at the same time as proto-dinosaurs, but mammals were outcompeted and reduced to niche species for 140 million years.  That is, until conditions somehow changed so that all the dinosaurs died out, except very small ones with feathers.

How interesting...

According to AARP (as reported in the Baltimore Sun), playing video games for one hour a day significantly improves one's visual and attention skills, with noticeable results beginning in as few as ten days (they mention that if you play Dance Dance Revolution or certain EyeToy games you get the added benefit of a cardio workout).