It looks like the Phoenix Mars Lander may have found ice on Mars.

If the discovery of ice is confirmed it would vastly increase the chances of finding life on Mars now or evidence of life in the past.

Such a discovery would be likely to lead to a step change in our perception of the universe.

• A new day [Jason Santa Maria]
• Internet audio [Guardian]
• DataPortability.org: Not just irrelevant, but bureaucratic and over-engineered [Tom Morris]
• Trevor Horn – Record producer video feature [RecordProduction.com]

Almost run over again – by a cycle on a footpath.

Following on from my previous cycle-related rant I ask the question – why do a small minority of cyclists break the law and tarnish the good name of cycling?

I refer such cyclists in the UK to Highway Code rule 64.

• ‘Oldest’ computer music unveiled [BBC]
• Flickr co-founders join mass exodus from Yahoo [TechCrunch]
• Tracking former Yahoo execs – where are they now? [TechCrunch]
• A year in, it’s clear: we got Brown wrong. He is simply not up to the job [Guardian]

• Sky wins TV licence cash to aid digital switchover [Guardian]
• Net video – how not to be like TV [Guardian]
• Why REST? [The Cafes]
• Representational state transfer (REST) [Wikipedia]
• 11 search trends that may disrupt Google [ReadWriteWeb]

I don’t have a car, but I’ve always been fascinated by cars.

I don’t need a car where I am in London, with its comprehensive public transport infrastructure, and I find cars a pain clogging up the streets and obstructing me getting from A to B.

But I still find cars fascinating.

BMW has always been a company I’ve admired for their design and engineering skills, and their GINA concept car is fascinating.

• Social networking gets a sanity check [GigaOM]
• Why the new media world looks like a Doctor Who plot, says the BBC [Guardian]
• Go Speed Racer go [Subtraction]
• Origins of the ampersand [Hoefler & Frere-Jones]
• The Ampersand [The Ampersand]
• Choosing the right tool [Stopdesign]

• Newsrooms are entering a hub-and-spoke future [Guardian]
• The ownership of comments [Weblog Tools Collection]
• Email checklist [Seth’s blog]
• Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS [37signals]