An interview with Noam Chomsky in The Guardian.

An article by George Dyson in The Edge about the developtment of computers, from von Neumann's early design to Google, Inc.

Down-to-earth maths: an article proving that a wobbly tables can be fixed just by rotating it (modulo some assumptions).

An insightful article about whether we should consider computer games as works of culture.

A set of articles and interviews in Forbes magazine about communications and language.

Today I read about Philo Farnsworth, teenage american inventor of the TV. It reminded me that the inventor in Futurama is also named Farnsworth, probably not a coincidence...
I like Futurama, it has very smart references and in-jokes for scientists. Check out this webpage and links inside for some of that. Dave Bacon also points out to a reference to a near-failure of Fermat's theorem in a Simpson's episode.

The 2005 Ig Nobel prizes are out!