reCAPTCHA

This is brilliant - digitize old books while doing a common internet task. I'm all about multitasking, and of course, appreciate easy access to any and all books.

http://recaptcha.net/

On a side note, one of the reasons I was drawn to vision research is that even with all the technology we have today, computers still can't match the abilities of the human visual system. Here's to superior visual processing.

"Blogging -- It's Good for You"

I think I buy the therapeutic value of writing... maybe not from the experiments mentioned, but from personal experience.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-healthy-type