Personally I'm completely dismayed by this news. Noise pollution is a plague on modern life.

I really like the touch screen printer concept. Pretty neat.

Great stuff. So your smart phone, equipped with all your personal information, including your address, will now allow access to your home and all your worldly possessions. Great stuff. Except of course if it gets stolen.

I don't think they were ugly as such, it's just that modern phones are better designed, but then that's progress. In 20 years time I'm sure we'll look back at iPhones and think "how quaint, there was no 3D projection facility" (or something else).

Oh how I love our, < ahem > 'special relationship' with the Yanks. < grins >

Ooooh, thats good. < smiles > I really like your user name too. Very witty.

The Tron Lightbike: How totally über cool. I so want one of these, well kinda.

Hmmm. Here's a puzzle. Make these words into a useful phase that fully encompasses this news story:

There's a local council here in the UK, (sorry I can't remember which one) that has a regular 'no email' day to encourage their employees to communicate face to face every now and then.

I tend to agree with reuthermonkey here.

Using a small amount of vaseline around your nostrils will stop a percentage of irritant particulates, (pollen etc) from entering your lungs. It all helps to lower your symptoms.

I've indulged in the odd tomato* plant here and there over the years. The thing the consistently sticks in my mind is the fact that there are way more deaths from alcohol abuse than the misuse of tomatoes*. On this basis I've never really understood the state's obsession with cracking down on tomato* lovers.

If the nations 'fighting terrorism' put as much energy and resources into working for peace as they do in preparing for war, (including the manafacture and assembly of huge armies and arsenals) they the world would not only be a much better place but we wouldn't need all this kind of 'protection'.

Yeah, that is true, (well some of the time anyway, to be fair they're not quite that insular all the time).

Great idea Google for US citizens, except, um, it doesn't work in the UK. When are you thinking of making it available to the rest of the world?

I'm a Londoner and I live in the UK. I don't know anyone personally who lives in New York.

Vote: Screenium

I brought Screenium some time ago, (I think following a positive Lifehacker review in fact) which a crackingly good little program. I'm not sure what this program does that Screenium doesn't (and it is $29) but I would definitely recommend it.

Here's one I took earlier, as the saying goes...

Technology itself is completely neutral, the problem comes in, in terms of how the prevailing ruling class incorporate it into the running of the larger society.