Big solar eclipse

The big picture goes solar. I like the eclipse photos only slightly more than the people photos.

Topless squirrels

If we are ever in Wisconsin, we have to go see squirrel taxidermy. Looks on the same lines as Tinkertown, a simply amazing place near Albuquerque.

Whalesong

Glorious article in El Reg about CSC rebranding. We´re going through a similar process at the moment, but are trying to avoid the whalesong.

Goosh

Google shell is quite a nice command-line interface to Google. Better than my routes: type "g search" in the address bar or ctrl-K search? Not sure about that yet.

Pulse smart pen

Quite a nice idea – take a smart pen (pulse) that tracks your writing (sadly on specific paper, not anything you care to chose) and records audio simultaneously and send the files to an outsourced service and you have a neat "I can´t make sensible...

Double broadband

I like the idea of wired and wireless broadband together – as a backup for the business it would be invaluable, useful as a pay once for home (and to insulate against provisioning time scales).

Sync multiple things

ScheduleWorld looks like it fills the final part of my sync everywhere requirements – getting contacts from Outlook to Thunderbird and Tasks as well. But I can´t get the log in to work for some reason. Ach well.

Mind reading

Not only do we have a computer predicting what we´re going to say, we also have a real computer peripheral that allows us to play pong with our mind only (splendidly retro).