NASA has tweaked the Mars Odyssey's path for its arrival in orbit on October 23. Stories at CNN and space.com. Meanwhile, the Global Surveyor and the Hubble are continuing to track a dust storm that has covered the entire planet.

Polaroid appears close to going under.

How China got to where it is today, and what it has to do to become a world leader.

Worse Is Better in software development, a series of essays by Richard Gabriel.

Dali worked with Disney on a short piece, of which only 15 seconds were made. [via Metafilter]

KPFA: Listener supported radio since 1949. [via Metafilter]

Oh, bother. Winnie's 75. [via Follow Me Here]

Skotos: text-based multiplayer games in the tradition of Infocom. [via The Laboratorium]