1. A guide to the French.
2. Inauthentic Medieval Food.
3. Freakonomics book covers from around the world. I'm amused by the subtle differences, and by the huge ones.
4. Forty percent of spam comes from one source.
5. Modular Windows?
6. Dean Kamen's amazing water machine. I saw this on Colbert. Hopefully this won't be another Segway (as cool as the Segway remains).

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If that water purifying machine actually works out there's a Nobel in that man's future, and it would be well deserved.

Access to sufficient clean water will be a greater and greater global challenge as we move ahead. Especially as desalination becomes the biggest water challenge we face.

My nagging question: what kind of maintenance does this unit need? At some point the contaminants that are removed need to be removed from the machine . . .