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Scott Berkun on how to manage smart people….

David Jones of the New York Times writes about the growing popularity of self-service kiosks at airline check-in and their growth into the hotel sector as well….

The SWIPE Toolkit demonstrates “the value of personal information on the open market and enable people to access information encoded on a driver’s license or stored in some of the many commercial data warehouses.” Covers how to decode your driver’s license and request your data from large data warehouses….

Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes about Mac lovers within Microsoft. You can also follow along with updates via their blog….

The Economist covers the current status of Galileo, a European Union system similar to our Global Positioning System….

Would you like to pretend you have a girlfriend? There are over 60 women on eBay right now willing to be your imaginary girlfriend: write letters, talk on the phone, instant message, and even send underwear to the highest bidder. Most offer 4-8 week terms and include a break-up letter detailing how sad she is to see you go. Sounds like a great job for writers looking for work. Just create a fantasy and take in the money. Thank you Jason Kottke for the link….

Torrentz.com lists files available for distribution using BitTorrent. You can pull down entire Simpsons seasons!…

Jürg Lehni and Uli Franke of the Czech Republic created Hektor, a robot that spray paints an Illustrator image onto a flat vertical surface….

Joel’s latest article is about what he is going through sorting through hundreds of applications for two internship positions open this summer at his company, Fog Creek Software. Joel offers some good advice on what not to do. I was hoping he would go into more detail about what does catch his eye in the résumé process. Fog Creek Software reads through résumés by hand, other companies parse and rank. One of the reasons I moved my weblog over to my domain is that I wanted to associate all of my work in one location. If someone sees an e-mail…

Opportunity landed last night and communicated back to Earth. It is on its side, 15 miles off the center of its target in Meridiani Planum. Arnold Schwarzenegger was at JPL to cheer everyone on. Total Recall takes place in 2084. If we do get to Mars in person by 2030, it would not be unheard of for someone like Coohagen to have the planet organized as a business 50 years later….