Magnifique.

Slashdot posts about the OLPC Human Interface Guidelines. They're incomplete, but just check out the keyboard map. Also, according to the blog post from which the Slashdot article was derived, there are aentirely new approaches to security and application access as well... The system uses SVG for graphics, and you can "view source" on any running application! Sweet. These guys are really putting some thought into this.

Good News.

There's a lot of good news in science and technology today!

Sol will save us.

A breakthrough in Solar collection techniques raises the efficiency of solar cells. On average, solar cells collect an about 12-18% of the sun's energy, but the highest level of efficiency achieved to date has been about 30%. This new technology raises that level to an astonishing 40.7%. Clean power, here we come.

Perltidy.

Ah, perltidy. Where have you been all my life? I mean, seriously, why would anyone even bother to format code carefully when you can have a script do it flawlessly for you?