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 – [...]