Anonymiss Communications "Anonymiss is an Anonymous operations group. It’s focused on women’s issues in the emerging economies, amongst other things. Anonymiss is partnering with regional NGOs, bloggers, and human rights organizations to leverage resources and get results. Grab a stick, get in the game. Fellas welcome." Interesting business.
Above 49: Those Other Indie Games Have heard brilliant things about Fiasco, and most of the others here sound like top rate stuff as well. Must give them a look.
Even Robots Can Be Heroes – ScienceNOW Robots running an evolving algorithm have been shown to spontaneously develop altruism as a beneficial strategy. One in the eye for objectivists or selfish bastards – it turns out thta evolution can, in fact, produce altruism, and that it works better than selfishness.
Kinect and 3D printer turns people into action-figure souvenirs – Boing Boing Another one from the "shut up about your fucking jetpack already" files: using consumer-grade tech and little hacking, we can now scan people in full 3D, and print out action figures based on them. Stop and think about that – all those sci-fi body scanners where the hero walks through some kind of light grid, and then we see the little £D spinning image of them on some computer screen? Yeah, that. Now think about that for just for tailoring alone, for god's sake.
Look at this DIY banana DNA extraction – Boing Boing If you're wondering where science is at these days, look here. It's a bloke in a tent with a drill, some stuff you've got in your kitchen, and about 10 quid's worth of kit that you can buy with paypal over the electric intertubes, demonstrating how to extract your own DNA, and where you can go from there.
Byword Another "focus on your writing and only that" type app. They're not a magical thing that will make you write better, but they do often improve the experience. This one looks particularly aesthetically pleasing.
Information Architects – Business Class: Freemium for News? To any news-publishing company execs who are reading this: I would pay in the region of 25 quid a year *per publication I read online* (and I read a lot) for a Business-Class news experience. I'd like to pay less, of course, but I'm just saying: an annual subscription to a *really good* news experience is something I'd love.
Workers leaving the googleplex A story about how someone got fired from Google for being curious about his fellow employees. One might almost think that Google didn't want it getting out that they appear to be making use of minimum wage labour, and treating them worse than they treat all their other employees. That might make them look like they don't care if they're evil or not.
2D Glasses This is 100% of brilliant. One of those oh-so-simple ideas that you encounter and think "why didn't I think of that?". I'll be ordering a pair!
In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay? A short list of reasons why people will pay for things, even when those things are theoretically available for free. There's no great rocket science here, but it's a handy single-place checklist, if you're planning a creative project, and wondering how you might get paid for it.
petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub This solves a problem I've been trying to solve for myself for about a year now. Need to grab this and get to work.
The pernicious influence of immigrants in the UK If, and only if, you actively hate everything on this list, may you even think about making an anti-immigrant remark. If on the other hand, you have ever thought about doing so, and like even one of these things, even a little, then you must leave the country at once.