"NASA is ready and willing to share the international space station (ISS) with other U.S. government agencies and commercial firms once construction of the $100 billion orbital outpost is finishe
"Although detachment from that computer and an expansion of interests might present the simplest ways to avoid or remedy these physical problems, your job may not allow you that luxury." Ahe
"Make sure you choose words based on their meaning and appropriateness, not on how: * they sound * you think they’ll make others perceive you." Indubitably verifiable.
"A Nokia Research team set out explore this topic during a July 2006 field study in Uganda with a brief to understand how people share mobile phones. The research builds on prior research from In
"...the 2007 Digital Future Project found that 43 percent of Internet users who are members of online communities say that they “feel as strongly” about their virtual community as they do about t
"The report states that the forthcoming review of intellectual property [...] should update the law to take account of the changes in the way people want to listen to music, watch films and read
"For all of Mark Cuban's talk about how YouTube (or whoever bought them, such as Google) would get sued for breaking the law, it's never been at all clear that that was true."
" [It] will be sold with a wireless ID card that fits inside a wallet or handbag and lets the phone detect when its owner moves more than a few metres away." Genius - that'll be real hard to
"In a digital age it looks preposterous, to consumers if not producers, that copyrights on books and songs last from 70 years after the death of the authors." The Grauniad - op-ed on copyrig
"The British Library has called for a "serious updating" of current copyright law to "unambiguously" include digital content and take technological advances into account."
"Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found." That's my excuse, and I'
"There's a cruel irony in a new report just out from the World Wildlife Fund: Water crises, long seen as a problem of only the poorest, are increasingly affecting some of the world's wealthiest n
Need a cheap wifi signal booster? Grab yourself a cheap Chinese fry-basket utensil, and set to it with a soldering iron and a glue gun. From Kevin Kelly's new 'Street Use' blog - you need this in your
The EFF challenges the content moguls to answer some simple questions about their approach to intellectual property and copyright infractions. Link via BoingBoing.