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The modern Pony Express delivers the Internet in rural India. How technology can help the disabled. A fantastic journey across the sea in a solar-powered ship. Clean power in Iceland, but at what price? And capturing dangerous stunts on You Tube.

I’m always looking for more audio sound effects - especially free ones. Beatsuite.com has a collection of Royalty Free and free as in no cost audio samples designed specifically for podcasters. Terms of use are simply that you need to credit Beatsuite.com for providing them. As far as I can tell, the collection is available only on Apple’s download site and the files are listed as requiring Mac OS X, but fear not, the WAV files in the download will work just as easily for Linux and Windows users too.

Digital photos, music and video all conspire to fill up your computer — but eventually, you’ll want to get those files back into the living room, where the big screen and the good speakers live.

What’s daily life like in Iraq? Go to the Blogs. A look at Internet censorship under authoritarian governments. The best way to communicate for shepherds: whistle. Rebuilding wounded soldiers’ bodies by preparing for the Paralympics. Build a safer mosquito. Buying a pirated DVD? Be careful…

Like a lot of people, I carry around a digital camera almost full time — the one built into my cellphone. But that doesn’t mean I take many photos with this thing; most of the images it generates look terrible, like a copy of a real photo that’s faded in the sun.

Want to race? Not with this South African man with amputated legs. Blogs that change the course of Hollywood. Put a mirror on a mountain. Bad to be a bat these days caught in the wind, turbine that is. A rally for a change to climate change. Old maps better than the new? And having babies in India.

After spending two mind-numbing days trying to feed the same numbers into the two leading tax-preparation programs, I’m stuck with this puzzler: H&R Block’s TaxCut says my wife and I owe the feds $18,000, but Intuit’s TurboTax says our bill comes to $3,000 and change.

Can the brain make you rich? Indian high-tech workers heading for the promised land: Back home. How green is ethanol? Capturing carbon underground. Making renewable energy work in Spain. And get on the Stairmaster and make some energy!

You might buy a Mac to get away from Microsoft, but it can be hard to avoid Windows.

A few stories about recycling, some products you might not have thought about too: chairs, kitchen counters, and jackets. Take a ride in Estonia on board a bus with Wi-fi. Thinking about plagiarizing music? Be careful. And Israeli rock.