The software king has big plans for making the world of mobile phones safe for Windows. Can phone makers, and a little Norwegian company called Opera, stop the onslaught?

This is an interesting article on how Microsoft's restrictions both on licensing and the customizability of their cellphone OS are (for now) keeping them out of the beds of the big handset manufacturers. It's also good news for fans of the little guy, open source and Opera.

"No," von Tetzchner says pragmatically, "I don't believe that the best technology always wins."

Microsoft wants your cellphone

The technology industry has been heralded as a clean alternative to smoke-belching industrial factories of yore, but in recent years, its squeaky-clean image has eroded with news reports about high cancer rates among clean-room workers, and old CPUs and monitors piling up in landfills.

Interesting read, especially since I was an uninformed consumer of what has certainly been called "clean technology."

Silicon hogs

A case of the law of large numbers coming into play? Hardly. In a neighborhood of 200 homes, only one on average has a TiVo. More U.S. homes have outhouses, 671,000, than TiVos, 514,000." Microsoft seems to think TiVo's business model is broken, after it tried to adopt the same model for itself. But oddly they continue with their Xbox.

Shit More Popular Than Technology

Fearing the Taiwanese flag would irk China, Red Hat yanked it from its version of Linux -- and started an international geek uproar.

An interesting op-ed piece about how Open Source Software has slipped into the politics between Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan.

Flag of inconvenience

An interview with Scott Adams, author of the Dilbert books.

Dilbert's a weasel and so are you

Talk about being a sour puss...

Lemon Juice a Contraceptive

Just when you thought that you might be safe from stalkers and identity thieves, here comes a service with a free 3 day trial where someone can plug in your address and learn what you paid for it, how much your mortgage is, etc. Yes, this info has been around for ages, so it's not really anything new, but the fact that it doesn't even cost money to do is a little more upsetting.

Every Public Record on your Home

Anti-globalization activists in Oakland, Calif., are recycling old machines, loading them with free software and shipping them off to Ecuador.

Neat story and a good illustration of how techno anarchists can chip in and help.

Building the underground computer railroad

Now physicists at Middle Tennessee State University have broken that speed limit over distances of nearly 120 metres, using off-the-shelf equipment costing just $500.

Alright, go MTSU!

Speed of Light Broken for About $500 in Murfreesboro

Six months ago, Jan Hendrik Schön seemed like a slam dunk nominee for a Nobel prize. Then some of his colleagues started to take a closer look at his research.

Of course, I think the biggest shame is that the shady workings similar to Enron are making their way further and further into the world of scientific achievement. Obviously there have been faked studies in the past, but it seems that those quacks are aiming higher than ever.

Big Trouble in the world of 'Big Physics'