This week we take a glimpse into an undiscovered world that only vegetables and a few left handed people have ever come to grips with. Amazing photos.

This week Cringely offers up a speculative piece asserting that
Microsoft might not really care if its bid to buy Yahoo succeeds or not
— Bill Gates just wants to disrupt Yahoo and poach the company’s employees.
‘Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo has thrown that company and several others
into a tizzy. Yahoo can’t be getting much work done, that’s […]

Harpers magazine has published a blueprint of Google’s new data center at The Dalles, Oregon where they will be tapping into some of the cheapest electricity in North America.

When you view the earth at night, you can see where global weath has accumulated just by the lights.  Very cool.

Scientists have developed amazing variants of vegetable where the traditional white florets have been changed to a garish orange, purple and green.

This kinda explains why NFL Quarterbacks like to have short names…

The mpion actually claims to fight acne by releasing positively and
negatively charged ions, which supposedly neutralize breakouts.

China has added ghosts, monsters and other things that go bump in the
night to its list of banned video and audio content in an intensified
crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

Saleem was the latest in a long list of poor laborers who had come to
Gurgaon, India to work and lost their kidneys as a result. Police say they
were victims of a major organ-trafficking racket based in this city for
nearly a decade.

About five years ago, students from India looking to go overseas for an international
degree had few options - it was US, US or US. Like a student of the Indian
Institute of Technology said, "US was the constant; one had to then choose among
MIT, Stanford or Georgia
Tech."