I vote for suggest new features and options. We are proposing a redesign to an open source project called KATO (mainstreaming software agents) where we have made available a discussion area and survey for soliciting feedback and ideas on the redesign. You can make a difference there on that project in only 5 minutes.

A quick search of the wordpress plugins directory shows over 500 twitter related plugins so this is news because?

Not exactly. Keepass is a windows app that will work under wine. What if I need to access my passwords from a linux box that doesn't have wine installed?

From a technology perspective, you are correct. The only justification for cloud computing is economic and that makes sense only if your web and db resource usage fluctuates wildly and unpredictably.

Assisting with remote project collaboration is exactly right. That's what I'm planning to do with it.

It isn't the car that makes the story news worthy. It is the inventor. Bucky Fuller was an extremely visionary and inspirational engineer. He predates software so don't hold it against him but he was an individual holder of about 50 patents of which the Dymaxion car was one. He had a bit of a post mortem come back last year with an exhibit at the Whitney.

This story is less concerning when you read this two week old story from the NY Times (which I blogged about here) that talks about this trend where the R&D centers for major companies federate their pure research efforts amongst each other in order to increase efficiency and save money. Even though they are spending less, it doesn't mean that they are doing less.

Humans value cognition highly and computers are our best tool at boosting cognition. That great potential in an important area is what elevates computers to this higher status. Are computers our next evolutionary step or our ultimate downfall? It's an old question well exploited by science fiction writers turned cult leaders.

I haven't actually used this but take a look at synergy.

Oracle has been trying to acquire MySql to years. It seems to me that they want to get it for a reason and that reason most likely isn't just to keep it safe from Sun's influence.

I saw a 10% drop in my stats this past month but I have seen such drops before and the IE stats come back in subsequent months. My wife still uses IE and I have noticed that she complains more about browser crashes than she used to. I have set windows update on her machine to automatic for critical updates. If that perception was shared by others, then I could see a precipitous drop in IE usage in the future.

I don't use Vista myself but I know someone who does. He had to back out SP2 because it reduced Powerpoint to a crawl. It looked to me like there was excessive HD activity.

OK, not the most exciting science story of all time. Perhaps Carl Sagan either implanted or discovered a potential capacity for fascination with the science of primes in his novel "Contact" where a large sequence of prime numbers is used as an attempt by extra terrestrials to communicate with humanity.