-  An article about the first transoceanic telegraph cables.
 -   Nice resources for paper prototyping user interfaces.
 - Articles about open source telephony.
 - An interesting talk about some of the first spy satellites,
 - and an interesting talk about computational origami. Check out some of his paper creations.
 
And finally, since I am at LAX right now and people trying to get to Chicago are stranded, you can easily find operational information about commercial airports. For example,
http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/flyfaaindex.jsp?ARPT=ORD&p=0
gives you the infromation about Chicago O'Hare (ORD), and you can substitute your favorite airport codes in the URL. If you aren't up on your airport codes, here is a list.
