Dan Bricklin got to ride a Segway at a recent conference, logging more than two hours cumulatively over a two-day period. If you’re at all curious about the experience in more detail than the nightly news soundbites you’ve all seen, Bricklin describes it vividly and answers most of the questions I’d been curious about.

Powerful photo: ‘…(P)araplegics from the Lives in the Balance group “hang” around Thursday, April 18, 2002 during a demonstration to urge the Senate not to ban therapeutic cloning for stem cell research. The group believes that while Congress debates the issue, their lives and the lives of millions of Americans are “hanging in the balance.” ‘ Yahoo! News [thanks to Thomas Brock]