Yogi Berra. "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."  

Israeli startup Lenslet has built a computer processor that uses optics instead of silicon, enabling it to perform 8 trillion operations per second, equivalent to a supercomputer and 1,000 times faster than standard processors. [Wired News]  

Future Car: Toyota Fine-N Full-Cell Car goes 500km [I4U News]  

Surprise! Thanks to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, we now know our little corner of the universe is even smaller than we thought. A commentary by Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. [Wired News]  

Edwin Khodabakchian echoes what seems to be a common -- but I think incorrect -- perception that XAML, the XUL-like layout language revealed this week to be a building block of Longhorn's Avalon presentation subsystem, heralds some kind of Web/GUI convergence: ... [Jon's Radio]