Heckler & Coch on Hypertext (awesome) http://hecklerandcoch.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_hecklerandcoch_archive.html# 107577149644849638 UK Pensioner's Party http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3475187.stm (it's like a virtual party commoditising MPs -- they choose who they'll support and move around accordingly. Ideas like this have the potential to break up the party thing.) Academic social software guys I talked to yesterday http://www.ceggos.com/scape Scary-cool- Decompression Bombs http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/001711.html (A tiny file that decompresses to 10Gb. Causing trouble.) Sussex Internet Research conference- Ubiquity http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir/ ("The internet seems to be at once everywhere and invisible but simultaneously it structures only a fraction of the communications of the total global community. It can facilitate greater interaction, understanding and political activism; being used at the same time to exclude, destroy and exploit. The much cited ubiquity of the internet needs to be examined in both the contexts in which it is accepted and those in which it is contested." September 2004.) Scans of all the Transformers instructions http://www.tfracetrack.com/instructions/ Mac OS X utility- Points http://deallus.com/points.shtml ("Points was developed to make it easy to track and report status items. It's a focused application dedicated to keeping simple lists, and then easily allowing you to do a wide variety of things with that list. Support is included for emailing the list, logging it to a file, posting it to a blog, and most recently enabled - custom scripted actions. With version 1.1, you can now invoke a script that you write to process the results of your list.") Joi Ito's conference Hecklebot http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/HeckleBot Social Fiction dot org http://socialfiction.org/ ("carthographic sadism. gabber avant-gardism. disco socialism. peripatetic hedonism. autonomous spacetravel." What's not to like?) Purse Lip Square Jaw's February 2004 archives http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/2004_02_01_blogger_archives.php (there are loads of good things so far this month.) Optical Tweezer- using photon momentum to pick up viruses http://theregister.co.uk/content/28/35492.html