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.

Watching New Ideas Grow

I cannot watch every piece of information, every day, on every subject I am interested in, but a new site called TransTheoretical.com will be watching some of the areas I want to know about. So far they have listed the following as areas they will be exploring:

1. Database of theories
2. Quantum cryptography
3. Optical computing
4. Meta-heuristics
5. Grid computing
6. Probabilistic resource allocation
7. Multidimensional data analysis
8. Multidimensional data visualization
9. Noninvasive neural-computer interfaces
10. Human cognition
11. Intersections of linguistics and artificial intelligence
12. Intelligent agent emergent behaviors
13. Nanotechnology and self-replication
14. Swarm intelligence and logic

I will be watching...