TechCrunch reports that Microsoft has unveiled their new WorldWide telescope, which is being billed as "an observatory on your desktop".  It's made bloggers cry and wowed professors.  Think of it as Google Maps for the universe.

Unfortunately, it won't be available for a few more months.  Right now it's in a private alpha beta.  In other words, it ( Read more... )

Back in December I came across a site called Spokeo.com and wrote a brief entry detailing their, uh, services.  If you don't recall, the site allows you to see what your friends are doing on the Internet.  After you sign up the site pulls all of your friends' activity on the Web based on the e-mail addresses you have saved as contacts and neatly  ( Read more... )

Neat-O-Rama blogs about the evolution of famous tech company logos.

I've always been a bit of a logo geek.  A company or team's logo can say a lot, and often provides us with our first (and perhaps only) impression.

The brief histories that accompany each logo evolution only add to the geekiness factor.