Evidence of the earliest known reality series, "Qveere Eye for thye Medieval Man" was found recently in a vault in eastern Great Britain. Officials date the series of tapestry panels back to around 1066, the year of the Battle of Hastings.

Queer Eye for the Medieval Guy

"That's why I call telephones an interrupting technology," said Patel, whose girlfriend always seemed to be in a meeting or driving her car when he called. "I didn't want to talk to her, necessarily. I wanted instead to find a way to feel connected to her, or reassured that she was there."

What I find most interesting about this experiment is its motivation...

Ubicomp tables interconnected via the internet

Some drawings are as much as 10 feet wide, rather lightly marked in pencil with arrows and names: delicate spider webs of scandal.

Lombardi's work has been called "conspiracy art". It's a kind of global MemeStreams, elegantly visualized with a purpose, as Art.

Networks and Conspiracy as Art: The Beauty of Information and Assumption Woven

] On 21 September 2002, The Memory Hole posted an extract
] from an essay by George Bush Sr. and Brent Scowcroft, in
] which they explain why they didn't have the military push
] into Iraq and topple Saddam during Gulf War 1. Although
] there are differences between the Iraq situations in 1991
] and 2002-3, Bush's key points apply to both.
]
] But a funny thing happened. Fairly recently, Time pulled
] the essay off of their site. It used to be at this link, which now gives a 404 error. If you go to the table of contents for the issue in which the essay appeared (2 March 1998), "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" is conspicuously absent.

Bush Sr. Essay on Reasons Not to Invade Iraq Removed from TIME site

Cassini Solar Type III Radio Burst from just last week.

Begs the old question, if there were a solar flare in the universe and no one around, would it make a sound?

Want to Hear a Solar Flare?

Very creative site put together by two Swede? Norse? Scandanavia? guys. Using elements based on the Bayeux tapestry, you create a Middle-Ages story or comic and can then email it to friends or post in a gallery. (OK, so don't email it to them but send them a link.)

I wish I could include a visual of it, much more creative than it sounds. Has Gilliam-esque sensibilities.

Make a stirring tale of your last breakup. Turn an office dispute into an epic. Update Chaucer.

Friend said "Now this is what technology is for!!!!!"

Historic Tale Construction Kit

Incredible images of this week's solar flares, some of the largest in recorded history.

Fast-moving Coronal Mass Ejection

"This webpage will redirect you to a Google image search using a random search term based on the filename scheme used by many popular digital cameras. What results is the most random, random sampling of pictures."

What a playfield for our pattern-seeking brains!
"What is the story here? And now, what about them?"
Like a creativity tool for storytelling.

The Google random picture generator

] Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes
] rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers in
] Montana and across the country as U.S. public opinion on
] the mission sours.
]
] And all the letters are the same.

I can hardly believe 1) that this was done so crudely and 2) that the US Gov't believes that newspaper "letters to the editor" carry so much weight. Are they also posting false blog entries?

Form letter signed by U.S. troops a mystery - greatfallstribune.com

An amazing place started very recently by Edward Castronova, the economics professor who first studied the virtual economy of Everquest, and has subsequently spread his study to areas of virtual world economies both ingame and as they intersect with the real world; Julian Dibble, author of My Tiny Life, "A Rape in Cyberspace" and currently working on a project making real money from ingame sales of virtual items (I smell a book here as well...); and the less publicized Dan Hunter at Wharton and Greg Lastowka at Yale who both focus on legal issues in, around and pertaining to virtual worlds.

Terra Nova - Social, Political, Economic and Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds