The storm that knocked power out to more than 37,000 homes in Knoxville was something to Twitter about on Monday (and I’m sure I missed some others): boriqua:   Turning cell off now to conserve battery. Goodnight, all!  boriqua:  Entering third hour without power. Thus our first unplugged night is born.   boriqua: Holy shit-storm has…

This one is going around, but as one who’s worn glasses since I was five, I can’t resist. You may have seen it, but if not, see “How Glasses Can Change A Person.”

Some are calling what Virgil Griffith is doing hacking, but I think it’s journalism, computational journalism. Griffith, a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, created a stir last year when he released Wikiscanner. It revealed how active companies were in cleansing their Wikipedia entries of negative news. Now, Griffith, pictured on right,…