] Wearable cell phones will start making their way into the
] U.S. over the next 12 months -- and by 2007, 20% of U.S.
] cell-phone users will likely be donning haute couture
] phones

[ I'm all for it. With bluetooth and UWB, there's no reason the transciever needs to be near the speaker/mic. -k]

BW Online | June 21, 2004 | Your Lapel Is Ringing

] Mary: Why would God make us so different if he wanted us
] to be the same?

Go see this movie. Now.

[ Yeah, we caught this last week... I thought it was really really good... -k]

Saved! (2004)

] Rocket plane SpaceShipOne reached an altitude above 62.5
] miles (100 km) during its brief flight Monday morning,
] making it the first privately built craft to fly in
] space, controllers said.

] Shortly after, the space vehicle landed safely at the
] same place from which it took off.

Welcome to the era of corporate space. Lets hope science fiction has properly prepared us.

[ Hear hear! -k]

CNN.com - Private craft flies into space - Jun 21, 2004

] Alien Hand Syndrome is an unusual mental disorder in
] which one of the sufferer's hands seems to take on a life
] of its own.

[ Kinda reminds me of the effects of the Revolutionary, used to kill Thecla in Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer... which, if you are even marginally interested in fiction, is a MUST-fucking-READ. Abaddon evangelizes Engines of Creation... I evangelize Gene Wolfe. -k]

Alien Hand Syndrome

] A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed,
] dramatically reshape copyright law by prohibiting
] file-trading networks and some consumer electronics
] devices on the grounds that they could be used for
] unlawful purposes.

[ This looks, like, *really* bad. Have to read the bill... -k]

Antipiracy bill targets technology | CNET News.com

] "The Ansari X Prize is stimulating the re-examination of
] a premise that has gone almost unchallenged for decades -
] that 'rocket science' can only be undertaken by
] governments and corporations with billions of dollars at
] their disposal," Carmack points out on the X Prize web
] site. "It doesn't have to be that way, because we have
] advantages at our disposal today that no government on
] earth had at the beginning of the space age - the amazing
] advances in electronics, computerized manufacturing
] processes, in-place space assets like GPS and satellite
] data systems, and, of course, several decades of
] hindsight. I expect people to remain skeptical, but an
] existence proof will change the conversation completely."

[ That's why X Prize was created, and I agree wholeheartedly on this... this gonna be huge. -k]

Armadillo Scores Test Liftoff Success In Bid For X Prize

] For the first time, the No. 1 album in the United States
] is loaded with anticopying protections, marking a clear
] step into the mainstream for the controversial
] technology.
]
] According to figures released by Nielsen SoundScan,
] Velvet Revolver's "Contraband" was the top-selling album
] in America last week, despite being prominently labeled
] on its cover as being "protected against unauthorized
] duplication."

[ Did they name it "contraband" on purpose or is that just a terrible irony? What a load of shite. -k]

Copy-blocked CD tops U.S. charts | CNET News.com

] Signal Orange doesn't say that these soldiers or
] their families condemn or support the war, and it
] doesn't speak for them. Whether they opposed or
] supported the war, they were fighting for our right to
] decide democratically whether a war is just or not.
] They've been buried twice - once in the ground,
] and once in the media. If we can make them visible in the
] media through Signal Orange, we can demonstrate that they
] had voices that have been lost.

[ Interesting method. Certainly a powerful statement. -k]

SIGNAL ORANGE

] Greetings fellow pirates! Arrrrr! I'm here today to talk
] to you about copyright, technology and DRM, I work for
] the Electronic Frontier Foundation on copyright stuff
] (mostly), and I live in London. I'm not a lawyer -- I'm a
] kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally
] they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and
] send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble.
] I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing
] completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk
] about DRM. I lead a double life: I'm also a science
] fiction writer. That means I've got a dog in this fight,
] because I've been dreaming of making my living from
] writing since I was 12 years old. Admittedly, my IP-based
] biz isn't as big as yours, but I guarantee you that it's
] every bit as important to me as yours is to you. Here's
] what I'm here to convince you of: 1. That DRM systems
] don't work 2. That DRM systems are bad for society 3.
] That DRM systems are bad for business 4. That DRM systems
] are bad for artists 5. That DRM is a bad business-move
] for MSFT It's a big brief, this talk. Microsoft has sunk
] a lot of capital into DRM systems, and spent a lot of
] time sending folks like Martha and Brian and Peter around
] to various smoke-filled rooms to make sure that Microsoft
] DRM finds a hospitable home in the future world.
] Companies like Microsoft steer like old Buicks, and this
] issue has a lot of forward momentum that will be hard to
] soak up without driving the engine block back into the
] driver's compartment. At best I think that Microsoft
] might convert some of that momentum on DRM into angular
] momentum, and in so doing, save all our asses.

This is a great talk Cory Doctorow gave at MSFT recently regarding all of the arguments we have made over the years regarding DRM. (via boingboing)

Why Microsoft should get out of DRM

] he most revealing close-up pictures ever taken of a comet
] have scientists shaking their heads in astonishment. The
] rugged, diverse landscape of the comet Wild 2 is unlike
] anything they have ever seen or imagined: towering
] columns and spires rising above steep-walled craters and
] violent jets of gas and dust shooting skyward.

[ Neat! -k]

To Surprise of Researchers, Comet Has a Personality