Best of the Rest: Death of Mixtapes, Roomba Vacuum Bots Play 'Pac-Man'

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- The onward march of technology is making once common things, like blind dates, getting lost, and mix tapes, increasingly obsolete. [From: Kottke]
- The Web has made it easier than ever to become a pro at something... like disarming a knife-wielding psycho. [From: Asylum]
- We've seen cats and dogs riding Roomba vacuums before, but these hacked vacuumbots playing 'Pac-Man' bring the arcade classic to the real world. [From: Urlesque]
- iPhone giving you connectivity issues? TUAW suggests a network settings reset to get that data flowing again. [From: TUAW]






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