Princeton DoIT Digit-Heads Take Hoi Polloi to Lunch (Campus Technology)

Princeton University's Office of Information Technology has invited the public to lunch to meet some of its premier technology researchers and experts. The idea is to teach them tricks of the trade--"instruction ... on complex ways technology has helped scientists make discoveries"--over sandwiches.

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An Application That's Buggy by Design (Baseline)

Dow Chemical isn't putting tiny RFID chips on the backs of termites and zapping them with radio frequencies, but its use of the technology does demonstrate that companies may find uses for RFID that were never conceived.

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SpiralFrog debuts with free, ad-supported music downloads (ars technica)

Digital music service SpiralFrog has officially launched and brags that it has almost a million tracks available for download. What's unique about the service is that it offers legal downloads, but for free. There are, however, a few catches.

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Cirque technology brings imagination to life (CNN.com)

Cirque du Soleil has been amazing audiences for more than 20 years with its fantastical human circus shows. Las Vegas has become synonymous with Cirque, boasting five shows -- "O," "Mystere," "Zumanity," "Love," and "KA," one of Cirque's most expensive and technological shows to date.

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New Google Earth Satellite to Launch (PC World)

DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google's interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.

The new spacecraft, dubbed WorldView I, is to be launched on Tuesday.

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Virtualization homes in on desktops (CNET News.com)

When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it opened the door for hundreds of thousands of Apple users to run Windows at the same time as they ran the Mac operating system.

It also introduced the masses to the notion of desktop virtualization.

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