Baseball trading cards you never see

Virtual Cards Earn Tangible Cash discusses how real baseball cards are being traded that are never seen by the owners – very much like stocks and shares. Just as we thought that anyone should be able to set up a bank, so now we can set up a stock market.

Nice Bombs Ya Got There

‘Nice Bombs Ya Got There’ looks at (scary) advances in X-Ray technology. Not one for the tending towards flab.

Modular robots

modular robotics at PARC are super funky robotic creations. This is a good way of adding redundancy to a configuration, as you can carry unused robots in a setup and swap them in when necessary.

GrameenPhone

Grameen principles are working for phones in Bangladesh. Just brilliant.

LibDems have no chance

Why the Lib Dems will remain Britain’s third party by a UK conservative. And I agree with a large part of the commentary. Extraordinary. The hypothesis is that relying on swing voters means that the LibDems will never get enough votes to compete. They need to...

Informavores and short visits

Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster is the latest Nielsen article. It’s good.

e-justice

Electronic Order in the Court looks at the interesting but slightly worrying rise of the use of technology – especially PowerPoint in US courts. How are juries going to be affected by the travesties of communication that PowerPoint seems to favour?