We use cell phones, faxes, and web pages. We do Facebook, Plaxo and LinkedIn, and "get" blogs, RSS, and podcasting. Coming up next on the horizon: widgets, social feeds, data portability, mashups and open mobile. Anyone have an aspirin?

Your wardrobe today comes to you courtesy of a clever gent who found himself drowning in blue ink about 70 years ago. And in one year, thanks to him, this one company used enough orange thread in a year to go to the moon and back 18 times.

There's a tendency in today's marketplace to use foul language in marketing materials. Our own Mr. Marketing provides some insight into when it's appropriate to curse and when to avoid it. He shares his darned good ideas with you here.

Scientists have developed an electricity-generating fabric. In the carpet footsteps will generate power to light your company's signs and displays. If woven into a T-shirt, the wearer breathing could generate enough power to light up the logo on his chest.