Taking a minute or three off to pull together a few Shared items. Hopefully this makes up a bit for the paucity of actual posts of late.

1. Calories In – Calories Out: By and large, it’s just about that simple.
2. Giz Explains: The Magic Behind Touchscreens [Giz Explains]: While there’s a long time before it’s altogether true, the touch screen will (IMO) become the dominant physical interface before too long, and having a bunch of buttons, or a “real” keyboard, on the high tech gear will make a lot of SF TV and movies of the past four decades look horribly and laughably dated.
3. Contact lenses for “anime eyes”: Ooooh … pretttty … Yeah, it’d be creepy if we were talking about actual body mods, but contact lenses? That’s kind of cool.
4. 7 Reasons Fringe Will Rule TV: Makes a note to put it on the DVR …
5. Ruling Splits Star Wars Case: So … the copyright on Star Wars designs has lapsed in the UK? Awesome … 
6. Stopping Movable Type eating your database: Making a note of this one. I think I’m okay here, but …
7. Movable Type Pro to meld blogging and social networking: Urg. 4.2, and I’m still struggling to get around to installing 4.1, let alone update my templates. Urg.
8. Trek Online Game Developing: On the one hand, the Trek-verse has a huge potential for a shared gaming universe. On the other hand, intentionally pulling it “after” the “current” continuity, such that one won’t interact with any “name” talents, is going to seriously impair its popularity.
9. Starlost, The: Release Date (The Correct One!), Extras,… : Sorry, as much as I have a perverse desire to see this childhood love (and famous train wreck of a series), I’m not going to pay that much for the privilege.
10. I am one grain of sand: Hear me roar. 
11. Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at Swiss museum | World…: Oh, Modern Art, is there nothing you cannot do to make us laugh at you?
12. 303 – World Government Plan: Aliens to Police USA: I don’t see a dot on the map for the underground slave labor camp out at Denver International … so it must be a fake.
13. Awesome lightning pictures: Lightning is one of the most awesome — and utterly transient — natural phenomina. Coolness.