- The seven most annoying things about the immediate future:
http://valleywag.com/tech/modern-and-awkward/the-seven-most-annoying-things-about-the-future-270430.php

- That Jack Bauer guy sure has friends in high places. Apparently Justice Antonin Scalia is a big fan of the show 24, and recently used moments from the show to justify pieces of his judicial philosophy: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070616.BAUER16/TPStory/TPNational/Television/

- How many bytes are in a megabyte? How many meters are in a kilometer? You probably know those answers by heart, but do you know how many bits are in a terabit? Muahaha! The following chart shows all of the prefixes for units. Get use to the prefixes tera, peta, and exo. They will become relevant in the next ten years:
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/prefixes.html

- Speaking of petabytes, IBM created a new super-computer that can do over 1 petaflop (1 quadrillon or 1,000,000,000,000,000) operations in a second. It's articles like this that motivate me to finish my computer science degree:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/ibm-unveils-one-petaflop-blue-gene-p-supercomputer/#comments

- Why do certain colors represent certain items or ideas? For example, why is the Master's jacket always green? Why are republican states red and democratic voting states blue? The next two links explains these color-related questions, and many more:
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/05/01/11-great-color-legends/
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/07/03/13-more-great-color-legends/