Origami is Yet Another New Device Category From Microsoft, to join the Tablet PC and Windows Mobile as platforms that don’t quite live up to the hyperbole. Basic concept: not a phone and not a laptop, it’s an “ultra-mobile PC” that replaces neither for $600 to $1,000.

I’m probably stepping on Tobias’ territory with this one, but I’m too excited by yesterday’s news from NASA to stay quiet. The Cassini spacecraft has returned images of Enceladus, Saturn’s fourth largest moon, that suggest liquid water exists mere meters below the surface, and may have been there for a very long time. The implications for the possible existence of life are exciting.

As a new economy mill worker, I’m gratified to learn that the inventor of the cubicle regrets his invention. I’m even more gratified to learn that there may be a glimmer of hope for escape in the upcoming years.

The nutritionists are at it again…a new beverage study has been conducted. Oh, uh, and it was financed by a beverage company.

Bruce Schneier has published an essay called “The Future of Privacy” that’s a quick speculative overview of what Schneier calls the technology of “wholesale surveillance.”