The Movie in Your Head: SCIAM Mind Magazine

This is a great article on theories about how the mind processes sensory input, especially visual input. Various experiments are discussed. Experiments mentioned focus on noninvasive methods of measuring brain activity. Very insightful.

Google Earth

So far Google's expansion into many areas from email to advertising to library services etc. has gone on without causing to much of an uproar in the highly sarcastic world of software developers and sundry IT fields but everyone is watching. Hopefully Google will maintain the foresight it has shown so far without giving in to negative forces.