Boeing tries to defy gravity: "Researchers at the world's largest aircraft maker, Boeing, are using the work of a controversial Russian scientist to try to create a device that will defy gravity."

Yesterday morning I couldn't find my cell phone before I left the house for work. Within ten minutes of arriving home last night, with some help from my wife, I had located it. In between, I was a quivering wreck. Every moment of my day was potentially a diaster requiring the saving-grace of a cell phone connection. I don't normally make or recieve more than a few calls a day and yet I've subconsciously come to rely on it so much that I am unable to go on without it.

Google is a user's best friend: "Every Web user should know how to exploit the features of the powerful Google.com search engine."

Learning to love Big Brother - George W. Bush channels George Orwell: "As President Bush wages his war against terrorism and moves to create a huge homeland security apparatus, he appears to be borrowing heavily, if not ripping off ideas outright, from George Orwell."

Forget Ideas, Mr. Author. What Kind of Pen Do You Use? "Readers are more interested in process than in product. No matter how well read the audience may be, when it comes to the Q and A, it is always the same."

Unlocking the recessive reading gene: "You can spot born readers easily. They have books in every room of the house, including the bathroom. They read fast and they read often. Born readers know what titles are on the Top 10 list. Kids of born readers are more likely to be born readers, too. These are the children that need mom to pick them up from school because they spent recess in the library and now have too many books to carry home. Kid readers ask for books as birthday gifts."

Rain called on account of Games: Chinese authorities are looking to weather manipulation to ensure optimum conditions for the 2008 Olympics.

Moved all of my books into my new house today. I think I may have too many. Helpful hint, don't start your library until you have a house. I am already out of wall space for bookshelves.

How auction sites like Ebay turn retail economics on its ear for the betterment of just about everybody: "The stock market is down, down, down, investor confidence in big business is shot, conflicts of interest or just plain incompetence are becoming increasingly obvious in some of our most trusted business institutions, even the U.S. President has a taint of corporate scandal, and the once-recovering economy again seems to be faltering. What's to be done about it? And eBay shall set you free."

The Web didn't kill libraries. It's the new draw: "By now, public libraries should have been starting to check out. Computers, and the Internet in particular, were expected to have started rendering printed books and magazines obsolete. The sort of research that once required consultation with a librarian would be done instead with the help of Yahoo or Google, technology enthusiasts wrote. And yet, rather than lead to the demise of libraries, the World Wide Web may have turned out to be a their saving grace. The Internet is fueling an increase in library use which, in turn, has led to a library-construction and renovation boom."