Link dump 2009.05.14

From the four corners of the web:

• A Scientist's Guide to Finding Alien Life: Where, When, and in What Universe: A very cool article that goes so far as to speculate about the 'multiverse habitable zone' and the space of all possible life-bearing universes.
• The Belgian city of Ghent is about to become the first in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week.
• The joys of geocaching.
• The Singularity Is Lame And Has Lousy Music.
• Google announces forthcoming service called Google Squared that creates tables of numerical data culled from searches of websites. Check out the video demo.
  
• Rapid Pole Climbing with a Quadrupedal Robot.