Mac Cluster's Last Stand?. Research scientists want to make supercomputer clusters from Macs. Apple's machines are powerful and cheap to run. But there's a problem: They're the wrong shape. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]

It's those handles, I'm telling you. Nice for carrying, bad for stacking...

Turning into digital goldfish. Digital distractions like the web and e-mail can leave you with the attention span of a goldfish, nine seconds. [BBC News: sci/tech]

Interesting article, but I have a few comments

1. Wasn't it supposed to be MTV that was rotting our attention span? At least, I remember that from a few years ago
2. What are these people finding on the internet? I never found anything that I would consider for entertainment on the web... other then the comics...

   But, I guess, when you have free time (what's that?) you can do whatever you want with it