Ethen Zuckerman posted some great notes on his talk, "The Cute Cat Theory Talk" at Etech. On the days when I let my cynicism subscription lapse I like the idea that unfettered access to publications and publishing tools will really turn this world around for the better.
I never played D&D growing up, but probably should have. One of the inventors, Gary Gygax passed away recently. This cartoon from xkcd.com seemed a fitting memorial.
I've been looking through the papers posted by James Hamilton at Microsoft Research. Lot's of really good data especially as it relates to the systems they have to to support, like Microsoft Live.
Speaking of Live, I've been using Live Writer quite a bit lately. It's really quite good, although for reasons I can't quite figure out the backspace is really slow. While I'm super happy about google doc's and the simplicity of use, Live Writer is a pretty good blogging client.
Speaking of google ... Google Calendar sync is now available. It sort of worked for me, although recurring meetings didn't get synced. Now if my wife's appointment book automatically appeared in my calendar I would know what is going on from day-to-day.
