Question 1. Does it perplex you that many big brands still have reservations about the web?

Seth Godin:  Not at all. Big brands got that way by doing the things that worked over and over. They’re not good at the new, and they’re horrible at experimenting.

The financial industry muscled through tough changes that were supposed to make more filers repay some of what they owe. But that isn’t happening.

The richest man in the world, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year” along with Irish rocker Bono for being “Good Samaritans” who made a difference in different ways.

A mission to determine whether spider-like robots could construct complex structures in space is set to launch in January 2006. The spider bots could build large structures by crawling over a "web" released from a larger spacecraft.

Dorset inventor Peter Hughes’ Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp creates around 10kW of power each time a car drives over its metal plates.

Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a self-assembling cube-shaped perforated container, no larger than a dust speck, that could serve as a delivery system for medications and cell therapy.