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Wikipedia has blocked the Department of Justice from editing the free online encyclopedia. Apparently someone using one of the DOJ's IPs went into an entry and deleted information surrounding a controversial topic.

Google teamed up with big names in the Art World to add a little more pizzazz to iGoogle, their personalized home pages. Is it another step towards making them a social network?

Imagine Google Maps - but underwater. There's a rumor that Google is working on "Google Ocean." Google won't comment - but Oceanographers are really excited at the thought.

Ina Fried from the Binary Blog got a bum refurbished nano. There was a virus on it! And in other Apple anomalies, LifeClever has the ringtone for the iPhone that was in the commercial - but not on the phone itself...

Radiohead says that they won't do the same "pay what you want" program for their next album. They said it wouldn't have as much significance.

And the UK Ministry of Defense -- or Defence, if we're being British -- is getting ready for their MoD Grand Challenge. It's their version of DARPA. 11 teams will test out small autonomous robots in an hostile urban environment.