These are a few sites I thought were interesting from August 26th through August 29th:

• Making Fireflies | Geekdad from Wired.com – excellent, cheap LED fun
• Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He’s the King of the Worlds – Conveniently for me, Anathem comes out on my birthday.
• Protesters at Democratic convention fly the ?cage? | csmonitor.com – “Free speech zone” at the DNC going completely unused.
• Early Humans Beat Neanderthals by Being Gadget Geeks | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – Good news, Gadget Lab readers: Your wanton lust for the latest, shiniest new toys from Cupertino, Akihabara, and even Round Rock, Texas may just be evidence of your evolutionary superiority.
• Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents » Tim Showers – Web Development, Design, and Data Visualization» Blog Archive – Awesome overview of different ways to visualize texts — tag clouds, wordles, word trees, and more