Some Interesting Things that are worth understanding and thinking about

First a few specific ones ...

• The pale blue dot (... on the mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam)
• TED talk on war-tapes by Deborah Scranton
• www: why web works
• Randy Pausch's last lecture
• Cliff Stoll's talk on computers
• Space Race Reporting
• HD in full bloom [MOV]
• Eric S. Raymond's Rootless Root, Master Foo Discourses on the Graphical User Interface
• "When the saints go marching out" from THE HINDU, Arundhati Roy
• Kevin Carter's life and his Pulitzer-Prize-winning photograph
• Love at First Byte, an article on Donald Knuth.

... and some not so specific ones

• Science
• Nature
• Arts and Letters Daily
• TED Talks
• Radio series of LA Theatre Works
• This American Life on NPR
• Wait Wait dont tell me
• A prairie home companion
• Nova on PBS
• Slashdot
• A bit of Philosophy
• World News: BBC
• Today's News from India: THE HINDU
• 125^th edition of THE HINDU
• Mathematical Quotations Server
• 100 or so books that shaped a century of science
• Ponder this [Exploits]

More to appear soon. So keep checking.