What We'll Miss About Bill Gates — a Very Long Good-Bye

Bill Gates, we'll miss you. Not just because you're the ultimate geek-villain-pioneer-entrepreneur-monopolist. But because you've always been there for us. To love. To hate. To envy. To pick on.

Vote: The Greatest Gadget of All Time Tournament

Wired.com set up a really slick, March Madness-style tournament to determine the greatest gadget of all time. From Walkman to iPod, and StarTac to iPhone (which you can win). This is fantastic. My final four was: iPod, Tivo, Commodore 64 and StarTac.

Double amputee runs as fast as FloJo, competes with Olympic athletes (video/photos)

Pretty Cool article with photos and videos: His legs were amputated when he was a year old. Now Oscar Pistorius is on track to make the South African Olympic team. Is he an engineering marvel — or just one hell of a sprinter?

Barefoot kickers: What about frostbite, broken toes and dead car batteries?

I thought this was a great article by Chuck Klosterman, from two different viewpoints. 1) It takes a look at a bizarro trend that happened in the NFL several years ago... pro football players kicking barefoot.

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