* A heartwarming bedtime story for children of the iPod generation.

* David Pogue on Bill Gates and life after Microsoft. Sneer at the man and call him all the names you want, he's still unloading surreal amounts of cash in a systematic and thoughful way. Whether or not his questionable business practices can taint the motives behind his philanthrophy is left as a moral thought problem for the reader.

* Netscape, in an effort to hop on the "user generated content" bandwagon (ala, Flickr, Digg, etc), releases a beta of their meta-news site. Stories are submitted and voted up to the front page by users (ala digg) but the twist is they have a bunch of editors sitting behind the scenes filtering high-quality content up to the top of the page.

It' s been a week or so since this site has launched and, well, the buzz seems less than spectacular. Considering this site has probably gotten millions of visits over the last week, there ain't a whole lot of action going on. Seven comments? Forty-five votes? And that's on the front page.

* The Guardian launches a printable Internet edition. (via Daring Fireball) Updated every 15 minutes. Would love to see what sort of back-end they have producing this thing.

* Conan O'Brien vs. Bear (??) (via Coudal)