Is there hope for the United States?

According to science-fiction blog io9, the United States will cease to exist as we know it for the following 5 reasons:
- Too many internal divisions
- A decadent culture
- Too much military, not enough social welfare
- Citizens do not trust their government
- No science and engineering leadership
Check out the original article for a detailed explanation. What do you think?
via io9
Search Your Google Docs Using Spotlight

Precipitate is an open-source app for OS X that indexes your Google Docs and Google Bookmarks making them available to Spotlight searches.
This is especially handy for users who collaborate heavily with co-workers using Google Docs.
Precipitate -> via Lifehacker
del.icio.us to Firefox

Firefox 3′s “awesome bar” is just that. If you start adding tags to your bookmarks, the awesome bar becomes a website launcher akin to Quicksilver for the Mac or Launchy for Windows. If you have a del.icio.us account and want to take full advantage of Firefox 3, check out this handy tool which merges your del.icio.us bookmarks with your Firefox bookmarks and preserves all of the tags.
