Somehow, I've got more gmail invites than I know what to do with. Any ideas? These look interesting:
Wired reports on a website that's helping people make a difference. Still, not all is going well, despite raising millions to show political ads and a nifty distributed telephone poll/information system.
...it is a perfect piece of film-making in its genre, which I would call 'action movie' rather than 'sci-fi movie' if it were not for the fact that there are very few, if any, movies that genuinely deserve to be called sci-fi.
There's also a list of top sci-fi authors.
This site has a massive collection of the best kind of banner ads — ones that you can't click on.
Hack spoke to Ciaron O'Reilly on the Ploughshares movement and the dismantling U.S. war planes as they passed through Ireland (Real stream until Thursday).
The interview covers some interesting stuff, including the point that the USA is one of the few 1st world countries that is still predominantly religous.
Wired has a story on the advertising company FreeiPod.com that has an interesting idea...
New Scientist has an interview with Robert Lawrence where he discusses the true cost of meat, and why we should eat less.
This /. story has some interesting comments. Particularly the one in regards to the strength of 256-bit encryption.
I hope this guy wins, and I wonder what the equivalent Australian situation is?
New Scientist reports on a robot gladiatorial contest in Japan. The videos are quite neat — but for some reason I'd imagined the robots would be bigger...
New Scientist has an article on a smart phone virus (well, trojan really) hidden in a game that sends rogue texts. This kind of thing could be really annoying...
The New York Times (see BugMeNot! in post below) has an article on a funky system for capturing what you're looking at by photographing it's reflection on your eyeball.
A nifty computer-controlled graffiti-sprayer on the back of a bike that lets you sms messages to be written on to the street.
Letters from Richard Berry syndicated in TNT magazine to John Howard have been published in a book. Also an article in the SMH (requires registration, try BugMeNot!)
"I suggest, to save you time and money, that you stop writing to the Australian Prime Minister as it is not possible for him to be your pen pal."
