Fridges at Starbucks will soon tell employees when a carton of milk has gone bad: http://t.co/pcmPX92fNO

— Fast Company (@FastCompany) October 23, 2013

While I was in Richmond, President Obama must have likened the rollout of the new health care website to iOS7. This created a stir among users in the tech community.

3/3 I don't want a President who only cares about the web when it helps him get elected, but not when it's designed to help the citizens.

— Clay Shirky (@cshirky) October 22, 2013

Sign the petition to open source all the code for http://t.co/hlZQ7Y0EBZ: http://t.co/FV1qDIXMin

— Anil Dash (@anildash) October 21, 2013

@CShirky made a number of comments that got my attention. For another take, see NPR's How Politics Set the Stage for the Obamacare Meltdown.

During a quick trip to Richmond, Virginia, we had the opportunity to visit Hollywood Cemetery. The first burial dates to 1849, and there are many Confederate war dead there. The photos show the main gate and the burial places of James Monroe, John Tyler, Jefferson Davis, and JEB Stuart. Other notables seen there included Fitzhugh Lee, George Picket, and Matthew Maury.

My brother and his wife visited during the shutdown, and we couldn't visit most federally operated sites. We paid a return visit to Congressional Cemetery and actually located the graves of Matthew Brady and John Philip Sousa this time. In the corner of the photo you can see one of the QR codes the cemetery uses to link to more information about the noteworthies buried there.

Hot on the heels of Mashable's report of a robotic petting zoo comes Fast Company on a huggable robotic monkey that can be used to diagnose dementia.