You may think of yourself as an omnivore, but it’s really the bacterial colonies in your mouth and gut that do the eating. In fact, new studies suggest human genetic material is only a small portion of the total genetic material in you, the rest being microbial. Yep, you’re as much a symbiont as the next nature program freak show.

The Unstabalizer sounds like a great way to separate drunk people from their money. It’s a concept application for bars that sets the price of beverages based on demand — the more people buying martinis, the more expensive they are and the cheaper the neglected margarita.

Texas is going to hook up a bunch of webcams on its border with Mexico and give Internet voyeurs a toll free phone number to call to report people sneaking across. If I were a coyote, I’d pay someone to flood the phone line with false reports when I wanted to cross.

As I write this the sun is just about to set on Eagle Beach at Aruba. I can watch it happen at Eternal Sunset, a website that follows the sun around the planet and streams the images from west-facing webcams as it goes.

Zing is going to have to work real hard to give me a usable interface for browsing and buying music on a small screen (there’s a reason the iPod’s designed to work with a desktop computer). Still, I must admit the concept of a Wi-Fi enabled music player done right triggers in me a Pavlovian gadget lust effect.