Report on the Future of Search

A comment at Kaila Colbin's blog for VortexDNA:

The web and searching it has made us different.

What is different is that we are learning immediately.

I am changed already and I expect much more.
The wing of a bird is too slow for us.
The walk of a cat is too late.

Top 200 Start Page

Information Architects is a team in Japan that compiles the top 200 web sites into a "tube map" that functions as a categorized start page.

Free Virtual PC beats major vendors

The venerable Serdar Yegulalp has given the virtual PC tools robust testing to find that the open source Virtual Box is better than the offerings from Microsoft or VMWare.

"I tried it out before as a possible replacement or parallel installation for VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC, and I ultimately wound up using it instead of either of those programs. Version 1.5 sports some handy performance improvements..."