It’s official: British Airways and Air France are retiring the Concorde. I’m less saddened by the retirement (they’re old planes, after all) and more worried that no one has shown interest in a replacement. Has airline technology hit a plateau?

You’ve always wanted your own robot, right? Of course, that’s assuming you don’t already have one.

If you do any collaborative programming, there’s yet another reason to get a Mac with OS X. Hydra allows multiple users on a network (automatically detected by Rendezvous) to edit the same text file(s) in real time. The editor has lots of perks: syntax highlighting, spell checking, and functional bookmarks to name a few. The team is expecting to add scripting support in the near future. Oh, and its a free 600K download.

Steve pointed out a local project, started at SDSU, which created a diesel-electric hybrid sports car. 240HP, bright red, and it can run on bio-diesel at 80MPG! Pretty hot stuff, and it was made with mostly off-the-shelf components.

The site is a bit sparse at present, but more information and photos are available elsewhere.

Chuck brought this Apple article to my attention. Basically, there’s a way to re-set the timer inside an iBook or TiBook’s battery so that it will more accurately display the time/power remaining. Apple recommends performing this procedure “every few months”, so I’m overdue on my TiBook and Karen’s iBook.