Brad Feld: I heard on NPR today during their series this week on income taxes that according to IRS calculations, American’s spend 6.6 billion hours doing their taxes each year.

Repeat after us: there is NO information overload. Sure, Google indexes 8 billion+ documents, images and items, and that same Google has announced it may scan up to 50 million books currently only available in old-world universities like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, University of Michigan, and the NY Public Library, yet for consumers craving relevant information [...]

The world’s largest iceberg has finally crashed into a massive tongue of ice floating in Antarctic waters.

Starting in 2008, and every other year afterward, the Kavli Foundation will be sponsoring three prizes worth $1 million each in the fields of astrophysics, neuroscience and nanoscience.

The pursuit of it was written into the Declaration of Independence, but finding the causes and effects of that elusive “it” — happiness — has been notoriously difficult.

Human beings (fueled by a need for self-worth, validation, control, vanity, even immortality) love to collect and store possessions, memories, experiences, in order to create personal histories, mementoes of their lives, or just to keep track for practical reasons. And with the experience economy still gaining ground — with consumers more often favoring the intangible [...]

An Australian artist who paints using chocolate has admitted he licks his own brushes.

Dan Gillmor:
At the “Changing Economics of News” gathering in Berkeley, we’re getting down to some fairly core issues. The industry that has provided high-quality journalism (amid the garbage) for all these years had better pay attention. Here are key observations by panel members:

The sunlight is collected by panels outdoors, transported through fibre optic cables, flowing into beautifully designed luminaires that light the house….. well, at least when the sun is shining. Great photos.

Motorola Corp. is developing mobile phones with a novel capability: They can link a home computer, stereo and car sound system into a seamless, commercial-free music zone.

TiVo is in talks with Internet search giants Google and Yahoo over a possible deal aimed at bridging television and the Web.

A month ago, Mark McGwire was hauled before a congressional hearing and lambasted as a cheater for using a legal, performance-enhancing steroid precursor when he broke baseball’s single-season home run record.
A week ago, Tiger Woods was celebrated for winning golf’s biggest tournament, the Masters, with the help of superior vision he acquired through laser surgery.
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