Excellent article on the new Firefox 1.0 browser. It's open source, it's free, and it blows away Internet Explorer.

Invention of the day: Uranium-sucking tumbleweeds.

Quantum lab on a chip.

"A device that automatically moves electrodes through the brain to seek out the strongest signals is taking the idea of neural implants to a new level. Scary as this sounds, its developers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena say devices like this will be essential if brain implants are ever going to work..."

"Mars is experiencing global warming, and we don't know why..." Must be because the US didn't sign the interplanetary Kyoto Treaty. (Via Ari Armstrong.)