Gear up to install OS X Lion

Massive heat waves in the South and Midwest have us scurrying for the cool, comforting glow of our monitors in the delicious air conditioning, so we’ve been scouring the Web and have found some choice selections for your Monday reading pleasure. Check out the scoop on installing OS X Lion, innovation in a slow economy and why your addictive personality might just give you an advantage in the board room.

Ze cloud computing is all the rage in Europe. C’est la vie!

The next time you get sucked into a level on Angry Birds, don’t beat yourself up — addictive personalities can be the mark of a true leader, according to David J. Linden, a professor of neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University.

One of the best ways to get creative is to cripple your own technology, at least for an hour or so.

Years ago, Isaac Asimov wrote about homes heated by CPUs, which forces us to question why we’re wasting all that heat in our data centers?

The bad economy can be good for innovation, unless you’re Borders bookstore, which is a good lesson on why we can’t ignore technological trends.

Holla for all the Mac fan kids in the room: Are you cowardly about Lion? Here are 10 reasons why you need to install OS X Lion ASAP, and then here are nine things you should do right after you install OS X Lion.