Virtual World vs Real World
Is our Real World losing all detail while the Virtual Worlds gathers more life?

Read the Gizmodo article from frog Design Mind called Closing the Loop
Personal Fabrication – not too distant reality
If you could make anything you wanted, what would it be?
The Dream Factory
The concept is simple: Boot up your computer and design whatever object you can imagine, press a button to send the CAD file to Lewis' headquarters in New Jersey, and two or three weeks later he'll FedEx you the physical object. Lewis launched eMachineShop a year and a half ago, and customers are using his service to create engine-block parts for hot rods, gears for home-brew robots, telescope mounts - even special soles for tap dance shoes. "Designing stuff used to be just for experts," Lewis says. "We're bringing it to the masses."
Open Source Movie!!

"You can help us realizing this project by purchasing the DVD of the movie in advance. The DVDs will include the movie in high quality widescreen, making-of documentaries and all production files. And even better, all orders before September 1 will get their name mentioned in the credits of the movie! "
Target product
The result of this project will be a short movie, 12-20 minutes, which will be distributed under the Creative Commons license which means it will be freely available worldwide for public viewing and redistribution without royalty demands or written permission from the original copyright owners. The movie will become available in three ways:
1) Downloadable version
- Movie in medium size quality, optimal for internet distribution.
- Available on blender.org and other websites2) DVD, extended edition
- Movie itself in maximum (wide screen) video quality
- The Making-Of documentary
- All the digital files (Creative Commons) and software (GPL) as used for the animation production
- Resale via blender.org e-shop3) 35 mm Film
- Targeted at movie theaters and festivals
- Rental costs covering expenses for reproduction and distributionThe movie will be submitted to festivals worldwide, such as the Siggraph Theatre, Cannes Film Festival or the Dutch Animation Festival.
Creative concept
The concept is currently being developed by Bassam Kurdali, Andy Goralczyk and Ton Roosendaal. New team members will be involved with this too.
In cooperation with Montevideo the concept then will be further worked out into a full script. Work on definite storyboards is scheduled to start in first week of September, when the team is together to start working.At this time it is not clear at what level the script or storyboard will be public during the creative and production process. One of the key aspects of the project is to have a small team of people working closely together for a short period, it might help their creative synergy when not every idea or trial or decision is public immediately.
On the other hand we'll depend on contributions from the community as well. This will be one of the aspects the team will further study on.
Out goes the reel, theatres may now stream movies off the Internet
Now they have developed a technology using which you can "Broadcast Movies Directly to Theatres(Read more at wired.com)":http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68332,00.html
Now, isn't that amazing. So basically a theatre will become a huge TV.
Katsuya Matsumura’s PC Cases
Katsuya Matsumura makes PC cases which are very "different".
Take a look here
Broadband in Andhra Pradesh – Aksh bags Rs 400cr broadband project
A consortium led by Gurgaon-based Aksh Broadband Limited has been selected to implement the Rs 400-crore Andhra Pradesh broadband project, which aims at extending broadband services to each and every village of the state in the next two years.
The project, once completed, is expected to give a stiff competition to other broadband service providers, including the BSNL, as the promoters have indicated to charge just Rs 100 a month for a domestic broadband connection.
The project will provide services with a minimum bandwidth of 2 Mbps, which is almost eight times higher, as compared to the bandwidth offered by the BSNL.
The state cabinet that met here today has approved the finalisation of the project. The execution of the project is scheduled to begin in April 2005 and will be completed by December 2006.
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Canadian Laws on Multimedia sharing / copying
Read this for the Canadian
laws on File Sharing. They are very pro-consumer and extremely sensible.

Take a look. Copying music is not illegal as long as it is for Personal use. That's the spirit.
An amazing look at the future
This is a must see movie clip
The Future of the World
It's a mindblowingly superb take at what technology is aiming at. Very interesting and very beautifully made.
Sodomy
Some food for thought.
Whats wrong with homosexuality.
Its time to re-evaluate the answer in the present paradigm.
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20030327