Geek out

Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview on Tuesday – the first public beta. Featuring: RSS feed aggregation complete with a rendering engine, improved security, and tabbed browsing – nicked from Safari and Firefox. The IE7 beta is now available to the public. Download it and make sure that your CSS will work

mimobots are little friendly data fiends! Feed the 2″ monsters all your essential data (tunes, pics, presentations, videos, etc.) and transport your files wherever you go. mimobots are what happens when designer toys meet USB flash drives – a marriage of art and technology.

I have so much work to do today it’s not fair that I should be the only one feeling guilty about doing this instead. So suffer!Blame Shawn

NewScientist: A trick for transferring quantum information from atoms to photons and back again could be used to create impenetrable global communication networks and computers that work at astounding speeds. “…the technique could also be harnessed to build a quantum computer, by passing information from one part of the machine’s memory to another. Quantum particles

YubNub, the (social) command-line for the web. YubNub is a command-line for the web. After setting it up on your browser, you simply type “gim porsche 911” to do a Google Image Search for pictures of Porsche 911 sports cars. Type “random 49” to return random numbers between 1 and 49, courtesy of random.org. And