(just because I was getting tired of Safari autocompleting 'Interesting Links')

All IT staff should read this - Small shops tackle DR on a Budget. DR/Failover is more and more important these days as disk capacities outstrip tape library capabilities. After all if it takes two days to pull your tapes from offsite storage whats the point ? Why not colocate critical servers and mirror/cluster your data for immediate failover - initially expensive in hardware and bandwidth but less hassle than dealing with tapes and teaching people to drive the backup/restore system.

Most robot-drones are sensor platforms - this Grenade-bot looks like it'll be a huge step up in terms of offensive firepower and area suppression.

These guys have made their media streaming service available for free - Orb. Access your media from almost any device remotely.

Ed Brill brings up some historical points in the internets history - Do you remember when ? I remember 5 of 10 so that probably makes me a middle-aged internet citizen.

The Indian 'Simputer' has finally entered production. It looks pretty cool in terms of features and of course its OS is Linux. As you can see in this email from John Hall (Kernel Hacker extrordinaire) I suspect a lot of geeks will want one of these.