Listen to samples of text read by speakers from various regions of the United States and world. Very cool.

Amazing. If you haven't seen this yet, please do yourself a favor and check it out. Should work in any HTML5 compliant browser, but I'd recommend Google Chrome for the best experience.

Research has shown that downtime gives your brain the opportunity to take in experiences and create long-term memories... and that people learn significantly better after experiencing nature versus the information and noise barrage of an urban environment.

Nothing earth shattering and both seem pretty obvious, but I also think it's something we overlook pretty easily in today's tech dominant culture. I definitely need to break away more than I do -- especially to set a precedent for my girls.

So the next version of IE is going to look like Chrome?

I love Leo and have faithfully listened to This Week in Tech, This Week in Google, MacBreak Weekly, Tech News Today, and iPad Today for a couple years now.

I'm very happy to read about his success, as he's built his TWiT podcast network to be an almost $3 million a year business. He's definitely one of the good guys of tech and has earned his "President of the Internet" title.

If you are interested in technology (TWiT has many more shows than I've listed above) and haven't listened or watched (live.twit.tv), I highly recommend it -- Leo and crew have gotten me through many days of work.

La has made over $80,000 to date from a 99 cent task manager app. Pretty impressive and shows you can make money from Android app development. Probably not to the level of iPhone app dev millionaires, but certainly enough to make it worthwhile.

Moleskine influenced iPad case.

Collection of interesting long articles from around the web. With Instapaper integration.

Wow. PowerBook G3 in 1997 or $1.3 million today?