Somewhat interesting set of answers to this question by some leading thinkers.

My answer: http://yudkowsky.net/tmol-faq/theology.html#ultimate from the Meaning of Life FAQ.  

John Templeton Foundation : Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

Wonderful, wonderful read...

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

"Mac users account for 10 percent of retail Windows Vista Business and Ultimate sales."

Microsoft's Big Mac Sales

Interesting things from the FAQ:

From what enterprise data sources can Mashup Hub create feeds?

IBM Mashup Hub can generate Atom feeds from Microsoft® Access exported queries, CSV files (Excel worksheets are forthcoming), relational databases, XML documents, IBM Information Server, IBM DB2® pureXML™, Web services, and IMS (Information Management System) databases and transactions.

How is Mashup Hub's feed mashup capability different than Yahoo Pipes?

Mashup Hub feed mashup can be based on joins between feeds, and it has a special ability to process XML content in feeds, which is what you typically have when the feed is from an enterprise data source.

IBM Mashup Starter Kit

"There appears to be a battle being fought inside Apple, on whether Apple will be a company that provides solutions or provides tools."

Very interesting post...

Call Me Fishmeal.

I don't.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Well worth reading...

"I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."

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"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."

Orwell: Politics and the English Language

I love it.  I love it.  I love it.

http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/ 

Go Dan Ingalls, Go

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death." -- Joan Vinge

Visible Earth: Wonderful location to get images like the below