• Espionage: The history and evolution of spy and investigative photography, Via. The evolution of spy tools. Spies that fly, including spy photos that made history. Top secret: myth and reality in espionage. The international spy museum. The top 10 strangest (modern) spy gadgets.

• If you’re a foreign dignitary what kind of gift do you get for Bush and his cadre?

• George Dvorsky of Sentient Developments mulls over the question “When did intelligence first emerge in the universe?” and its implications.

• On this day in 1842 Ambrose Bierce was born. Why not celebrate with a browse through his Devil’s Dictionary? Alternately: Forked Tongue, the language of serpent in the enlarged Devil’s Dictionary and The Ambrose Bierce Project.

• In order to run experiments testing theories of extra dimensions, a pair of physicists think the best strategy is to start from scratch and build a whole new solar system in miniature and launch it into the L2 Lagrange Point.

• Check out BumpTop, a desktop U.I. with all the messiness and complexity of your actual pile-strewn desktop. Interesting.