Google has a blog on their solar panels. They work better if they’re clean. Who’d have thunk it? Duh!

At the World Science Festival 2009 Bobby McFerrin demonstrated that the pentatonic scale is embedded in our brains. See below (embedded from Vimeo). Worth a look.

Nick Asbury turned company overviews into poetry. Good to see them put to some use at last. For example:

Thanks to Flashblock I don’t waste a lot of time loading pointless Flash animations in my browser. The few times I do enable Flash it’s usually to watch video. With HTML5, though, this too will not be necessary because HTML5 includes a video tag. Rejoice! Adobe, probably not so pleased.

A wedding entrance with a difference. Dancing up the aisle. Be happy.

A double installment for you this week. First this classic p4p manoeuvre.

Paul Graham writes on the Maker/Manager Schedule differences. It’s a good read and very true from my experience. At the start of my professional career I was a Research Scientist (Maker) eventually I was “promoted” to Department Head (Manager). I left the corporate world in 2004 and now write code more or less full time (Maker). Guess which I prefer.