• Yahoo closed down its music portal last year - now it's opening up again by relaunching a new version that pulls content from Pandora, Last.fm and others. Wired says it's borrowing from the "iPhone playbook" ReadWriteWeb wonders why users would bother switching.
• The government's cracking on with its controversial plan to introduce identity cards, and they're starting to dish out the enormous IT contracts that will underpin the system. First up: £385m to CSC and £265m to IBM - despite the fact that both companies had difficult relationships with the £13bn NHS IT upgrade.
• If that's not enough to freak you out, try watching this video of a freaky hexapod robot - it's based on an ant, but the movement feels truly alien.
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Update: IBM has asked me to make it clear that it isn't one of the central contractors on the NHS Connecting for Health project. That's true: the 'relationship' I alluded to above involved them bidding for contracts and failing - and then, interestingly, briefing reporters that they never wanted the contracts anyway!
