“Think of a world where everything is by default on, where the ‘record’ and ‘capture’ button is replaced by ‘pause’. And then re-imagine the Airplane Mode. Intentionally or not, it’s a little switch with a big future.” – Jan Chipchase

Kevin Kelly doesn’t think that technology is duping us because the most technical people embrace it most. But I don’t really agree with his premise – “By this logic we should expect the least technologically cultured people to be the least duped, and to be the most aware of the plainly visible dangers…But, in fact, those disenfranchised people not under media

Long-term X Prizes – pretty huge problems to solve, if you’ve got some free time…everything from a cure for AIDS to flying cars…

Vote for Change – pretty slick voter registration system; created by the Obama campaign but useful for anyone.

Cycling – News – Universal Sports – new site streaming cycling races both live and archived. World Championships on now!

“Justice is what love looks like in public” – Cornel West, via the powerful-looking film Call + Response, about human trafficking.

“Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.” – Vinod Khosla

“Around the time that we went public we disclosed in our filing that Beanie Babies accounted for 8 percent of the inventory on the site.” – Pierre Omidyar on eBay

“I made a list of 20 different products that you might sell online. I picked books because books are very unusual in one respect. And that is that there are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category, by far…having a bookstore with universal selection is only possible on the Web. You could never do it with a paper catalogue….and you could never do it in a physical store.” – Jeff Bezos

The history of the Internet – as told by its inventors. Pretty cool…