Language Hat on The Bookshelf: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue : "if Welsh were, say, for some reason regularly taught in schools across Western Europe and in America, as French and Spanish are, then to linguists, raised with 'schoolboy' Welsh, the parallels between Celtic and English would seem glaringly obvious and would long ago have been accepted as having a causal rather than correlative relationship." - Read the comments, that is where the discussion gets good.

CNet speaks to Nokia's Niklas Savander in Nokia exec talks Ovi platform. It is a good interview if you are interested in the mobile space as he breaks down the various relationships that a manufacturer has to deal with in various markets, not just the US, but Asia, and Europe. 

NYTimes on Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat : I guess I better hop to my Life List goal of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro to see the snow and glacier.  What the NYTimes doesn't mention in this article is that Kenya and Tanzania have been in the grip of a drought for about the same amount of time that the Southwestern US has been in for the last few years.