NASA: Forget Outer Space, Go Deep. Rather than continuing to throw billions of dollars into space, the United States needs a NASA to learn more about what lurks beneath the ocean. A commentary by Graham S. Hawkes from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

My buddy Dave just pointed out that the Sony handheld file server may not be able to play MP3s as it is only a file server. Maybe someone has figured out how to get it to play. He said it also might be around $400 which is about what an iPod will run you.

Here’s a story I wrote about “The first and last time I tried stand up comedy”.

The season for learning [KMWorld]

IBM announces the IBM Learning Management System.

Technology of the Year: Publish/Subscribe. A new breed of middleware vendors brought pub/sub messaging down to the desktop. With Kenamea and KnowNow, you can subscribe a spreadsheet cell to a topic that’s managed out in the cloud. An event published to that topic — such as an inventory update — automatically updates the spreadsheet. It’s true that you could do this kind of thing a decade ago, using NetDDE (Network Dynamic Data Exchange) on your Windows for Workgroups LAN. But pub/sub at Internet scale is far more compelling. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] … [Jon’s Radio]

oh, man…this is a huge win for web developers who use opera (or mozilla). access this site to add css/html/dom reference guides inside your sidebar! [hursmania]

Opera 7 Released. Opera Software today unleashed the final Opera 7 for Windows, complete with a smaller overall code size and an additional feature for the final release. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]

Web services: Google, Amazon & weblogs.[Column Two]

Google and Amazon APIs might come in handy some time.

Internet Stokes Anti-War Movement. The peace rallies staged across the United States over the weekend are a testimony to the Internet’s power as an organizing tool, observers say. It’s the first time a large anti-war movement has sprung up before the actual war. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

NY Times: “The city of Long Beach, Calif., plans to announce on Friday that it will make free wireless Internet access available in its downtown area as part of an effort to attract visitors and companies to the business district.” [Scripting News]

Viva la WiFi!