A Sixth Sense for a Wired World: “What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it? For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers, these are among the reported effects — a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the normal sense of touch.

It’s been described as a buzzing sensation, a tingling, an oscillation, movement, pure stimulation and, in the case of body-modification expert Shannon Larrett’s encounter with a too-powerful antitheft gateway at a retail store, ‘Like sticking your hand in an ultrasonic cleaner.'” (Wired News)

What to Look for in a Link Aggregation Site: “In the last few months, over a dozen of these collaborative link filtering/social bookmarking sites have cropped up; the name ‘memediggers’ was coined to describe them but hasn’t quite caught on. Some have specialized purposes — videos, tech news — while others impose no limits on their users. Let’s take a look at a few of them.” (Webmonkey)