Do you want to blow your mind?

Oh yeah I knew you did!

Go read up on the Matrioshka Brain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_Brain

Such a structure would be composed of a collection of one or more (typically more) Dyson spheres built around a star, and nested one inside another. A significant percentage of the shells would be composed of nanoscale computers (see molecular-scale computronium).

This plays an integral role in the book I'm currently reading, Accelerando by Charles Stross.

Some of these might make me a convert.

http://www.blogkindle.com/archives/2008/02/kindle-v20/

I think I like this one the best.  Looks the right size, rotates view, can be opened, some interesting UI elements.  When can I get one?

Charlie Martin makes some fairly straightforward "in-the-box" predictions about the power of computing coming in the next ten years.  Even so there are some remarkable facts buried in the article.

What Will Your Next Computer Be Able to Do?

We haven’t talked about networks much yet, but the same kind of rule applies to them as we’ve applied to computers: the total speed of the network at the house should go up by between 16 and 32 times in ten years. My cable modem: 8 gigabits a second, at least in theory. My home network in 2018: 128 gigabits a second, or call it 12 gigabytes a second. That’s a whole HD movie in around 5 seconds.

I once told an English professor of mine that I had a goal in life of reading Finnegans Wake, she said, incredulously, "Why?!" 

I didn't really have an answer at the time but I think it comes down to the fact that it is probably the hardest book in the English language [tenuously tied to English though it is] and I wanted to test my reading skills.

There are two books that occupy the same place on my bookshelf.  Donald Knuth's tome "The Art of Computer Programming" and James Joyces "Finnegans Wake".  I have this undeniable urge to read them and I am frustrated by both of them.

Each time I try to read them I get about 50-75 pages in and I have to start over because everything I've read previously in the book seems to evaporate.  It's like I'm grasping what I'm reading right now but the context is hard to hang onto.

I'm like Jason McCullough from "Support Your Local Sherrif", he's always saying he's really on the way to Australia the whole way through the movie, but he never gets there.

Me? I have these two books I'm really gonna read...