Kate Carruthers

Here is a great story from ISN on  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:27 -0600 (CST) - now the bad guys can extract personal info using flirting robots.  Talk about paranoia for online dating! "http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9831133-56.html By Ina Fried, December 7,

Over at Techdirt it has been noted that "David Hazinski, a journalism professor and former NBC correspondent, claiming that 'unfettered' citizen journalism is 'too risky' and that it needs to be regulated (via Romenesko) by 'official' media companies, handing out 'certificates'

This via Michael Krigsman is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time - it's an error on the huge billboard in Times Sqaure in New York. "The big screen in New York’s Times Square runs Windows and Adobe Flash. I guess you could

Over at Freakanomics they did a Q&A with the creator of Second Life, Philip Rosedale about Second Life (aka SL). This is interesting stuff - the questions are wide ranging from security and privacy to economics. But I still don't think that SL is a very good

I can't believe that crappy program says I look like these celebrities! via Aide-mémoire

Great to see that Pia and Jeffrey Waugh have been awarded the NSW Pearcey Award 2007 for their collaboration within the open source software sector and their sustained contribution to the Linux movement in Australia (more at LinuxWorld) via Aide-mémoire