A behind-the-scenes look at the One Laptop per Child Project. Good debate in the comments, too, and in the comments on a previous thread.
Nifty colour illusion [via dev/null].
“A glance at the old cookbooks [shows] that sugar has long been a key to Scottish cooking—as garlic was to the people of the Mediterranean, or chilli to the Thais.” The result? “Scottish children consume more fizzy drinks than anyone else in Europe and they have the worst teeth in Britain.”
Carry your life on a flash drive or iPod. TiddlyWiki and iPodBackup look handy.
eyeOS, an “Open Source Web Desktop Environment”.
The Economics of Attention. From the accompanying interview: “How to explain the ‘enormous flow of free information’? Emphatically, not just in the expectation of future profit. Quite the opposite. This generosity of spirit has not been so remarked as it ought to have been.”