Once upon a time I mini-ranted about the cloud not really being ready for all of us to move in. And only a week ago Google's mail service once again went down taking a couple thousand (now restored) email accounts with it in the process... There are...

some horrific images, but a message that needs to be heard... The Democratic Republic of Congo sits atop one of the world's most vast deposits of diamonds and gold; yet it is also home to the world's most deadly war. In Rape of a Nation,...

Hackers hijacked the European climate exchange (a carbon trading website) and replaced it with a truth site detailing flaws in the system. It also contained this video: The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo. To see the...

...so far anyways. Having been running Chromium for a while now, I have really grown quite fond of this browser and the speed at which the web comes so readily available to me.  One thing that they definitely got right is the library of extensions,...

Interesting discussion over on the guardian.co.uk to check out. Will 3D change cinema for ever? The Observer conversation: James Cameron's Avatar is the biggest box office draw in history and is expected to triumph at the Oscars on Sunday. But how...

1. Software is a poor organizing principle for digital production. 2. Digital literacy should reach beyond the limitations of software. 3. Discourse should not be trapped by production technologies. 4. Accommodate and forgive the end user, not the...

The launch of the iPad (a name I still find rather unfortunate) kicked of a flurry of hoorays and boos from all over the web. It has really been quite funny to follow. I do have to admit I too have my problems with the iPad (or rather the iPodTouch which...

Mark Val told me about pipes a while back, and I have finally gotten around to open a few pipes and play with them. If used properly pipes.yahoo.com is clearly an incredibly powerful tool that allows you filter any kind of data feed, combine it with...

1971--Daniel Ellsberg, a top-level Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on a decade of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President...

I have to admit, that I did not manage to hold out and updated when the release candidate was ready last week. But now it's official, the even faster Karmic Koala is packed, ready and good to go. And 'go' it does. Faster then ever. I am with Ubuntu...