What I learned today

• It takes 8 lightning bolts to take down a 7-foot monster.
• VirtualBox, by Sun Microsystems, is a popular free virtualization technology.
• The Mars Global Surveyor takes nice space pictures.
• Apple Inc. had a great quarter.
• Carbon Nanotubes are similar, but different from Bucky Balls. They can be used to make flexible batteries and give you spider powers, but don't breathe them in! (also on Jalopnik)
• Soon we'll all be carrying our own portable electric Yikes into the office.
• Falcon Heene doesn't know Wolf.
• TV reporters have to deal with a lot of crap behind their backs.
• An irrelevent B-list celebrity thinks an irrelevent A-list celebrity is weird.
• Salmon Rushdie could play Rick in the Broom of the System movie.
• Gawker Media is looking for junior tech writers to berate and enslave.
• There's still a healthy debate about whether the iPhone is a valid business machine or an expensive toy.
• Computer nerds will still waste time making it harder to play geeky Dungeon's and Dragon's games.
• The Ebook reader market will become oversaturated in 2010.
• Apple fanatics will attempt to decode new Mac products based on a leaked list of product codes much like lazy hackers attempt to decode rumored and possibly fake Bill Clinton's private tweets.