] As they walked along, Mike gave a shrug and a twitch just
] so. That was enough cue for his Epiphany wearable. Its
] overlay imaging shifted into classic manga/anime: the
] manzanita branches morphed into scaly tentacles. Now the
] houses that edged the canyon were heavily timbered, with
] pennants flying. High ahead was a castle, the home of
] Grand Duke Hwa Feen...

[ Pretty decent... i always liked Vinge. -k]

Vernor Vinge: Synthetic Serendipity

[ Wow... these are case mods as art... really truly gorgeously concieved pieces. Well worth a look. -k]

Bootleg Objects

] Talking Panda sets a new standard for language
] translation software. Designed for the iPod, it’s
] stocked with over three hundred essential words and
] phrases of the language you want to speak, organized for
] instant access.

[ Kinda neat... 300 isn't too many, but as a lifeline kinda thing, could come in handy...

-k]

Talking Panda

] Matthew Somerville is a public-spirited UK geek who
] specialises in hacking badly designed websites into
] accessible websites, by scraping their info and
] repoublishing it to comply with accessibility standards.
]
] He did this service for Odeon Cinemas, whose unusably bad
] website is doubly impossible if you have any disability,
] and made a small splash: he'd disovered a bunch of
] security holes in their user-data collection that he
] brought to their attention, he turned their website into
] something that all their customers could use, he put in
] many hours of unpaid labour to improve their public
] offering.
]
] At the time, Odeon told the press that they were OK with
] this (how generous!), but now they've threatened to sue
] him, siccing lawyers on him and accusing him of
] infringing their trademarks, copyrights, and "database
] rights" (database rights are a really stupid
] psuedocopyright that the EU has created to allow people
] to copyright collections of public facts, like the names
] of all the colours or the start times of all the movies).

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

Good intelligent debate now online. Howard Dean vrs Ralph Nader.

[ worth a listen... some good bits here... -k]

Nader VRS DEAN

[ Not that i know any of the biology here, but it seems like a pretty cool concept... thought the biology folks around here would appreciate it... -k]

A subway map of cancer pathways

] A district court in Boston has used the DMCA to grant a
] preliminary injunction against a third party service
] vendor who tried to fix StorageTek tape library backup
] systems for legitimate purchasers of the system.

[ Fun and games with modern law. Awesome! -k]

LawGeek: DMCA hammer comes down on tech service vendor

[ Fark can go off the deep end sometimes, but there's some pretty funny stuff in here... -k]

FARK.com: (1025820) Photoshop other New York Post front-page scoops (link goes to most recent one)

[ Thought this was kind of a fun friday evening diversion... i've seen all but 11 :

passion of the christ
shrek 2
finding nemo
toy story 2
big fat greek wedding
cast away
gone with the wind
pearl harbor
home alone 2
tarzan
meet the parents
-k]

standing on the bus stop - sucking on a lollipop.

] While iPods sizzle, Macs and laptops are sluggish. It
] doesn't have to be that way. Here's how to get that
] computer market share surging

[ Hmmm. Nothing i haven't heard before. Over and over again, in fact. I'm not sure i agree with most of these, though it's possible that a non-all-in-one system is a good call. I mean, I'd certainly like to see the prices come down, but now that I'm among those who can afford to pay the premium for style, i appreciate the difference it makes and i'm not convinced it can be done on the cheap. -k]

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