Chris Anderson: Those of you who have seen my speeches on the legal dimensions of the Long Tail know that I consider the absurdly complicated and expensive process of rights clearance to be the primary barrier to unlocking the latent Long Tail value in content archives.

Seth Godin:  I had breakfast today with a senior executive who estimates she spends more than 30% of her time in internal meetings. My guess is that many marketers (who seem to go to more meetings than most people) might envy a number that low.

Most people think tanks used in the military are indestructable.  Yes, bullets bounce off and they are a major intimidating force.  But only the drives know the true problems with tanks.  Here are some amazing photos.

These breast-implants can be adjusted after surgery, varying the size of your fake tits based on your post-operative feelings about them until you’re perfectly happy with your wobbly plastic boobs.

A Vatican panel has issued a report that concludes that unbaptized babies go to Heaven, not limbo, as the Catholic church has been claiming for centuries. The question now arizes, how many other dogmatic beliefs will not exist in the near future as they become outdated or unpopular?

Most children learn to speak from their parents or other children. This boy however learned from a bird.

The icefishes (or white-blooded fishes) are a family (Channichthyidae) of perciform fish found in the cold waters around Antarctica and southern South America.

When we first got an e-mail that contained photos of these amazingly "painted" cats, we were impressed. Then when we searched for more information and found out they were a spoof, (thanks Snopes!). In the end we just had to admire the wild cat photos for what they are.   

"Electronic paper" has long been hyped as the future of newspapers and books, but products like e-books have been slow to take off. That may soon change, say executives involved in the pioneering technology.

Can ‘World of Warcraft’ love and ‘Second Life’ sex be considered real-world cheating?

At 39.4 years old, the average adult who downloads video is about five years younger than the average Internet user, according to BIGresearch.

The art world can be very influential, but we’ll let you draw your own conclusions to this.  Some amazing imagery here.

Magnetic "deflector shields" could one day guard astronauts against dangerous space radiation, if experiments now underway pay off. (w/pic)