The National Cryptologic Museum in the Baltimore/Annapolis area is a pretty cool site to see. I remember going there in high school... I also remember being one of the very few kids who enjoyed it, so it must be geeky!

I've read that many solid state forms of memory (Flash, etc) have a limited lifespan in terms of the number of writes performed on an individual memory address. I also understand that this life cycle is very large, but could this be a way to balance the load on a given memory address over time? Would that then suggest that Apple will follow suit with (I forget who it was) who released a laptop with a Flash based drive instead of a spinning disk HD?