With Pattern Recognition now out, William Gibson talks about blogging, which ones he’s looking at and why he may have to quit blogging himself — via Slashdot
After years of ridicule and ruin, internet stocks are recapturing their charm and seducing investors again
Researchers at IBM and the University of Toronto are squeezing light out of molecules. Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fibre optic technology
Run your e-mail address through the Hiveware Enkoder before you post it on your site, and the e-mail harvesting robots will pass right on over it
Despite laws that punish marijuana cultivation more strictly than murder in some states, Americans spend more on illegal drugs than on cigarettes. And despite official disapproval of pornography, the US leads the world in export of explicit sex videos, according to Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labour in the American Black Market, by Eric Schlosser
AOL incompetence has resulted in the death of a litter of puppies
HP will outsource jobs from its frontline support operations in Sydney, Melbourne and throughout the Asia Pacific to India. And Qantas‘ Sydney data centre may soon follow suit
HP has built-in time limits for its inkjet printer cartridges which means machines may stop working even if the consumable has 75% ink let to go
Radical British anti-capitalist activists had a hit-list of more than 50 companies of mass destruction
— mainly oil companies, arms manufacturers, banks and multinationals — in their sights yesterday for May Day protests in London and elsewhere. Entirely coincidentally, the webcams that are down for maintenance are lined along the major routes for today’s annual May Day demofest
The eccentric behaviour of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton could have been caused by a mild form of autism. Professor Simon Cohen-Baron, of Cambridge University, believes that the two greatest physicists of all time showed classic signs of Asperger syndrome
Verbatim has just extended its Digital Vinyl series — CDs overprinted with a grooved vinyl record texture, complete with centre label — by boosting the capacity to 80 minutes (700MB), shipping them in a 50-disc spindle pack and offering a label area that can be directly printed on using an inkjet CD printer — via The Register
Details of hundreds of thousands of Nazi-era life insurance policies were published on the internet yesterday as part of attempts to call to account companies which did not pay out in the chaotic aftermath of the Second World War
Wood mice make signposts out of leaves and twigs so that they do not get lost in fields
In the toughest move to date against unsolicited commercial email, Virginia enacted a law imposing harsh new felony penalties, including prison time
British authorities arrested a man Tuesday believed to head a group of hackers known as Fluffi Bunni
, which used a stuffed pink rabbit to mark attacks that humiliated some of the world’s premier computer security organisations
Conservation experts say overproduction of cheap robusta coffee beans — commonly used in instant coffee — may be contributing to the loss of tigers, elephants, orangutans and rhinos in Sumatra
Amnesty International has criticised Australia’s tough deterrent policy against asylum seekers as a regional conference co-sponsored by Canberra begins on Bali
Three paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin worth an estimated £4 million have been stolen to order
from the Masters collection at the Whitworth Art Gallery. They were found the next day crammed into a tube behind a public toilet
In a huge setback to the big record and movie companies, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled in favour of two file-swapping services; Grokster and StreamCast Networks
California authorities who raided Jon Weinhart’s Tiger Rescue last week discovered nearly 90 dead tigers and leopards at his home — including 58 dead cubs stuffed into three freezers — and piles of big cat pelts stacked in a storage barn
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