iRobot's latest project (swarm project) is to coordinate the actions of groups of hundreds of individual robots. A Swarm Operating System is under development to control as many as 10,000 robots or SwarmBots. Doesn't that remind you of the Borg collectve? [Via Cnet]

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On Thursday, Carl's Jr. launched a special "mini" site touting the Paris Hilton Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger ad that had created a buzz weeks ago.

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Google a choisi la journée où Yahoo sortait ses résultats financiers pour lancer une vaste opération de relations publiques et inviter les journalistes à visiter ses installations.

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HP announced the availability of Gwen Stefani's custom-designed HP digital camera.

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If you're planning on calling in sick for the Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie premiere, you might want to use the tools offered by Geek Squad. You'll find an absentee note - both for work and school - and will be happy to know that Geek Squad has set up "a fully operational workstation. This "docking bay," available during the final week of the line, will ensure that fans keep up with their jobs and lives leading up to the premiere. Geek Squad Agents also will be on hand at the line to provide mobile technological support and counsel." PS: "Geek Squad does not advocate employee truancy. However, we do recognize that wireless Internet access has expanded the boundaries of the traditional office... say, to that line outside of a favorite multiplex."

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"A friend who relocated to California from NY said she missed hearing all the odd variety of music that was played around the office here. "I miss hearing what you all are listening to," she wrote. This "radio" is my response. It will stream for a few hours and then it will recycle. Maybe it will run longer in the future."

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Pour fêter ses 50 ans, le parc d'attractions de Disneyland en Californie va se tourner vers les podcasts. À partir de demain le 3 mai, le journaliste et podcasteur Michael W. Geoghegan présentera des Disneyland podcasts, et ce jusqu'au lancement officiel des célébrations du 50è anniversaire, le 5 mai prochain. For its 50th anniversary, Disneyland Resort in California will podcast the festivities. Journalist and podcaster Michael W. Geoghegan will podcast directly from the 50th Anniversary Press Event, on May 3, 4 & 5, 2005.

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Votre vote ne servira à rien, mais c'est toujours amusant de faire comme si... Vous pouvez même donner votre avis sur le continent d'origine du prochain Saint-Père! Étrangement, les participants ne veulent pas de l'ordination des femmes mais souhaitent que le mariage des prêtres soit autorisé. Your vote won't change a thing but you can give your opinion on a lot of questions regarding the next Pope. Weirdly enough, voters are against the ordination of women but want celibacy for priesthood to be optional.

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This car/airplane/whatever rocks! Imagine a four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that is in fact, a car.

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Yahoo est en train de tester discrètement son service - refait - de nouvelles en ligne... Yahoo is quietly testing its - new - Yahoo News service...

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Après quelques jours d'attente, voici Google Video (beta, évidemment!) qui offre aux internautes de chercher des contenus et de les uploader. Google officially launched its Google Video (of course, in beta!). Search and upload are available.

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For the first time, the Webby Awards will be held in New York this year, instead of San Francisco. Nominations to the "Oscars of the Internet" will be unveiled April 12. Winners will be announced on May 3 and honored at the June 6 event. Pour la première fois, la cérémonie de remise des Webby Awards se déroulera à New York, au lieu de San Fransisco. Les mises en nomination aux "Oscars du Web" seront dévoilées le 12 avril, les gagnants annoncés le 3 mai et ils seront honorés lors d'une cérémonie qui se tiendra le 6 juin prochain.

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John Paul II's death has been widely covered by online media...

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Bloglines launches a service in Klingon Wolfowitz elected World Bank president... Sorry! Wishful thinking :-) Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time Rencontre au sommet: Le Pen à Washington

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Here are two quite unusual keyboards: one with letters in real alphabetical order and one without any letters at all...

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Have fun with the Google bunny...

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NOVA's website now features Wave That Shook the World, an analysis of the tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004.

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AudioFeast is offering a commercial-free MP3 90 minute "St. Patrick's Day" special which includes a selection of Irish music featuring U2, Elvis Costello, Enya, The Corrs, Hothouse Flowers, Sinead O'Conner, Rory Gallagher, and The Chieftains.

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On some of its flights, Delta Air Lines will feature Song in-flight entertainment system which includes pay-per-view movies, MP3 programming and video games.

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Japanese compagny Flower Robotics Inc introduced Palette, the mannequin robot.

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P. Diddy will keynote on the first day of CTIA Wireless 2005, March 14. He'll officially open the Fashion In Motion Runway show, which will feature clothing from his Sean John Collection as well as wearable wireless products and will announce his plans for wireless content.

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You can now customize your Google News page by rearranging content, showing only headlines and adding a custom section. Il est maintenant possible de personnaliser la page des Actualités Google en changeant l'ordre d'affichage du contenu, en ne choisissant d'afficher que les titres des nouvelles et en créant des sections de nouvelles sur mesure.

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Larry Flynt announced that, following the success of Hustler Mobile in Europe, mobile content will be offered to customers in North America and Asia.

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Here's a service that transmits voice messages into space!

Photo: © Talk to Aliens

The new flash memory Network walkman range from Sony features ATRAC3plus sound, direct MP3 playbacka 3-minute recharge for 3 hours of play and a glowing Organic EL (electro-luminescence) display. All three lines- the NW-E100 series, mid-range NW-E400 series and the high-end NW-E500 series - are available in capacities of 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB and will be launched in March and May 2005.

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The Irish Pubs Directory now offers a directory of Irish pubs located all over the world for PDAs (zip file) and iPods (zip file).

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Seems like Google (especially Google Ads) is down this morning. So are Blogrolling, Ping-O-Matic, Yulblog, Hosting Matters and Yahoo.com. Does anybody know what's happening?

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Did you know that, according to Catholic law, you do not have to be a Cardinal or even a Priest to become the Pope?

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A new service allows Skype users to send SMS text messages from within Skype Chat to any GSM mobile phone user. Introduced by Connectotel, Skype to SMS is free of charge for the SMS messages sent, for the duration of the Beta test - as long as you've registered with the service.

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Bonne nouvelle via Micro Persuasion: l'Associated Press se met à offrir des flux RSS directement via son site! Un bémol, malgré des versions française et allemande du site, les fils RSS ne sont offerts que pour les nouvelles en anglais. Good news from Micro Persuasion: the Associated Press is offering its own RSS feeds. Unfortunately, for now, eventhough the AP has websites in German and French, the feeds are only available in English.

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On Feb 23, Christie's will auction 1411 items in about 250 lots of rare documents and technical relics.

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People can now share their secrets anonymously on the web, by sending a homemade postcard to a blog.

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Valentine's Day is the second-biggest card-sending occasion of the year after Christmas. No wonder Hallmark's website crashed early this morning, and is still down this afternoon.

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The Yahoo! toolbar beta for Mozilla is available as a free download. "It includes many of the same features as the Yahoo Toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, Yahoo officials said. The initial Firefox toolbar beta is specifically for Windows and will not include Yahoo Anti-Spy, a spyware-fighting tool added into the IE toolbar last year. But Yahoo plans to build Mac OS X and Linux versions and extend Anti-Spy to the Firefox toolbar "shortly," the company announced." La barre d'outils Yahoo! pour Mozilla (en version beta) peut être téléchargée gratuitement. Les services inclus sont presque les mêmes que ceux disponibles avec la barre d'outils développée pour Internet Explorer. Pour l'instant, elle n'inclut pas l'outil anti spyware mais Yahoo a l'intention d'offrir une barre d'outils pour l'OS X et Linux et d'inclure l'anti spyware dans la barre d'outils pour Mozilla.

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Juergen Broether, a german inventor, wanted to stay in touch with his dead mother. He patented a system - on sale since last December - consisting of a one-way phone and loudspeaker device that can be buried close to the person's coffin, and will transmit a voice message into the tomb for a period of up to a year.

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Mark Wright, Boom Bags president, introduced a stereo luggage.

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Dan Myrick, director of The Blair Witch Project is launching The Strand, an independently produced series, specifically created for the web.

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Sega Toys is launching, on April 2, this cute little dog-looking robot. Sega Toys va lancer, le 2 avril prochain, ce mignon petit chien robot.

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This morning (Jan 25), Google will introduce a new video search service. This index will be operated separately from the search engine offered on Google's home page.

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David Chien, a Houston artist has come up with something pretty amazing.

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If you use Windows 98 or above and Internet Explorer 5.5 or above, you might want to check out the new free Yahoo ticker. You can choose from over 250,000 RSS feeds, use your existing My Yahoo! settings to track your stocks, news, and weather and search the Web using Yahoo! Search directly from your desktop. [Via CyberJournalist.net]

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jobs.feedster.com offers an "index of job related feeds on the web". From its current sources, Feedster adds over 5,000 job postings to its index daily. "Our organic growth has accelerated as the rapid adoption of RSS continues to move more mainstream. Feedster now indexes more than 3.5 million RSS feeds and quickly approaching 4 million," said Scott Rafer, CEO, Feedster. "Out of that index we deliver tens of millions of search queries monthly from our site, through our network of distributed content providers, and to individual users subscribing to Feedster search feeds."

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This actually might not make Google happy but a portal called Xasa offers RSS feeds to Google News.

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According to Pew Internet and American Life Project, technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and analysts "believe the dawning of the blog era will bring radical change to the news and publishing industry and they think the internet will have the least impact on religious institutions." The whole report in PDF format is available here.

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Next year, snowboarders will be able to switch between their iPOD playlist and incoming calls. Launched at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show, Bluetooth-enabled jackets, helmets and beanies will provide wireless, high-performance connectivity and playability on the slopes for the 2006 winter season.

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If you want to have fun tracking Santa tonight, here are a few sites that will help you! Of course there's the official NORAD Santa tracking website. In 5 languages - including Japanese - you can see where Santa is going. You can even access NORAD's declassified Santa files and see pictures of the guy (sorry! no elves!). There's also the Santa Tracker Navigator, which includes Santa's flight plan, a monitoring screen of his sleigh, a Santa Cam and even a Santa blog! Merry Christmas!

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Russ Caslis made a fully functioning PC that fits inside a vintage Millennium Falcon from Kenner's Star Wars toy line.

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IKONOS satellite has taken more than 1.7 million images of the Earth since its launch in Sept. 1999. This year, the public will determine the "the 10 most spectacular images taken by IKONOS during 2004."

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The second Google doodle (here's the first one) also features bears, but this time, playing in snow...

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Here's the first holiday doodle from Google...

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Conchango, and the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer team are looking for two writers and one photographer to report for the project's website during the next round the world record attempt in January. The journalists need to be free to travel in the US - all expenses paid -, one week in January. Applications can be sent here. [Via dotJournalism]

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Here's a new Yahoo feature that enables you to search for videos. You can also submit your video content here.

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For readers interested in getting live updates from England's PM official website, here's the RSS feed. [Via Scripting News]

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How about an iPod or an iPod mini entirely made of 1000 crystal - one for each downloadable song? If you're willing to spend between $699 and $999... you can get one!

Photo: © Crystalmini

Scary news from The Christian Science Monitor, whose journalist reveals that: "Next year, new US passports will have a chip slipped under the cover, containing biometric and personal data." Security issues have been raised and promptly dismissed by the US government. The worst part of it is that "all countries that are part of the US visa-waiver program must use the new passports by Oct. 26, 2005."

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The fun part of an automated news service and linker is that it can sometimes refer to false news. That's exactly what happened at the beginning of december on Google News.

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With Pornolize, you can turn any website or blog into an adult site. :-) Have fun! [Via Google Blogoscoped]

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Miniket is a digital camcorder, a digital camera, an MP3 player, a voice recorder, a PC camera and can store data and is the size of a credit card. "It [also] has a built-in flash memory of one gigabyte that can record up to 68 minutes of video and 18 hours of voice-recorded data, while storing a library of 250 downloaded songs in MP3 form." Developped by Samsung, the Miniket will be sold for approximately $ 750,00.

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On November 22, VotersUnite has "officially launching a presidential recount effort between George Bush and John Kerry. More than anyone we want to put this election to rest, and hope that this recount will help several of our readers have closure. Our goal is to have 100,000,000 votes by January 1, 2005 to see who really won the popular vote. " I really don't see what good will come out of this, especially if Kerry wins the recount. The election is over and the winner has been declared...

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Just enter a keyword you want to track and turn it into an RSS Feed. [Via Google Blogoscoped]

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The idea comes from a Hong-Kong based US company called Artificial Life. Believe it or not, they've come up with a personnalized virtual girlfriend, called V-Girl, that can be downloaded on a cell phone.

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"You are in the top 0.902% richest people in the world. There are 5,945,827,035 people poorer than you. How do you feel about that? A bit richer we hope. Please consider donating just a small amount to help some of the poorest people in the world. Many of their lives could be improved dramatically or even saved if you donate just one hour's salary. Oh, and in case you’re interested you are the 54,172,965 richest person in the world." Go ahead, see where you stand on the Global Rich List! [Via The Red Actor]

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MSN Beta search is now online. According to Microsoft, "the MSN Search index of more than 5 billion Web documents". The search engine is customizable with features such as "search results tailored to a geographic location" and emphasis or de-emphasis of "certain search criteria, such as specific sites or domains, countries, regions, or languages."

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Help.Them.Leave.com is a strange website offering help to Americans that want to leave their countries to escape Bush. "In return for your irrevocable renunciation of your United States citizenship, and a sworn statement that you will never return, we will provide free one-way transportation to one of our politically matched recommended countries on one of the jets we have chartered to provide this service." The countries are: Anarchists: Antartica, Communists: Cuba or North Korea, Leftists: France, Germany, Italy or Spain and Socialists: Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Norway, or Sweden.

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Here's Speegle, a UK-based talking search engine. It reads search results and news and you can even select a male or female voice. Nice! ;-) [Via Bleu Blanc Blog via Google Blogoscoped]

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"Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time, with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock sorta deal. How the time is actually displayed is a whole different matter. A lot of photos have the time written on a crummy cardboard sign, while other photos might have the current time in a more edible format, such as olives. There are photos below sea level and ones over two miles above sea level."

© Daniel Craig Giffen

On its website, Reuters now offers access to what is called the News Room. The sections include: "a list of the 10 most-read stories, The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (a weekly sampling of reader feedback about our news), behind the Scenes (first-person insight into covering the biggest stories in the world), exclusives and up-front corrections in stories, pictures, video, and graphics."

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Until tomorrow, you can download Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 in different formats for free on Marc Perkel Rantz. [Via Le fromage de Tartiflette]

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Cute doodles!

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"Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, today announced the availability of an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed of free Web content covering the U.S. Presidential election. Targeting the U.S. government sector, this free RSS feed will continuously update the campaign issues being reported, enabling users to view a three-paned window that allows them to quickly scan campaign issue headlines. If they see an update or issue that interests them, they can easily click on the link to read the entire story." [Via dotJournalism]

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CyberJournalist.net lists five sites with interactive features that "help readers better understand the electoral process and select which candidate is likely to come out on top in electoral votes."

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After the U2 one, here's the Ashlee Simpson iPod... karaoke edition. [via Waxy]

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"Hi, I'm Shanti Braford. This is my new link spidering & meta-link aggregation engine. Follow the instructions to the left and you'll see who's linking to you in no time! [...] Our backend crawlers are constantly looking for any new links to your site, so you don't have to! Currently Monitoring blogs: 1,737,992 links: 7,415,375." Here's the result: Who Links Here [Via J-Walk]

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"Yahoo Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have joined forces to put Web search features into Adobe's popular Acrobat Reader software. [...] Under the deal, Adobe will first introduce a cobranded Yahoo browser toolbar that users can choose to install on their computers when prompted to download an update of Acrobat Reader. The toolbar — an increasingly popular method of online search engines to stay constantly visible on a user's Internet browser — will feature links to Yahoo products and services as well as Adobe's Web-based subscription service that lets people convert documents into the Adobe PDF file format. Later, the companies said, the toolbar will add features such as the ability to quickly convert Web-based content into Adobe PDF files. Yahoo search will also be built into a future version of the Acrobat Reader, allowing users to search for more information from within the document without going through the extra steps of launching a Web browser. " [Via Yahoo! news]

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From Brad Blog, a complete list of documents that have disappeared from the White House website.

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"Six blood relatives of President Bush who support John F. Kerry's bid for the presidency have launched a website to publicize their sharp disagreements with Bush's policies. The site, www.bushrelativesforkerry.com, consists of personal statements from a group of decidedly liberal second cousins of the president, none of whom knows him personally. All are grandchildren of Mary Bush House, the sister of Prescott Bush, a former US senator from Connecticut and the father and grandfather of the two Bush presidents." [Via The Boston Globe]

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On Webproworld's forum, an interesting discussion on how blogs are used to spam search engines.

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"Rock band U2 has cut a deal with Apple Computer to sell custom iPods promoting the band's forthcoming album. Sources close to the group say the U2 edition of the popular digital music player will come preloaded with the band's new album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, along with portions of the Irish supergroup's 25-year catalogue. The iPods will be black and will be made available the same week as the band's 11th studio album, which is slated to be released in the U.S. by Universal Music Group's Interscope Records on November 23." [Via Forbes]

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Horrible and funny at the same time: "An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was freed after his captors checked the popular internet search engine Google to confirm his identity. [...] "They Googled him and then went onto a web site - either his own or his book publisher's web site, I don't know which one - and saw that he was who he was, and that was instrumental in letting him go, I think, or swinging their decision," he told AP news agency." [Via BBC]

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Your ip isn't as dull as it seems. It has a shape and a color... Mine is a blue-green polygon. What's yours? [Via Comme la lune sur la branche]

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A complete and easy how-to. Very useful! [Via CSS Vault Gallery]

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The latest trend in games? Giving electric shocks to your "ennemy"...

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"You drive a car around a screen that looks like a two-lane highway, your sole objective being to hit as many pedestrians as you can. When the time limit expires, the game ends and you get to see if you made the high score list." Think of it as a new spin on Frogger. Or better yet, think of it as the flip side of Freeway [...] You see, kids? Violence doesn't have to be bad. It can also be retro!" [Via The SaltwaterPizza Blog]

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"Reuters has announced a new interactive TV news channel available through Microsoft's Media Centre, a home entertainment operating system." "With analysts predicting that as many as 20 million people will be using Microsoft's home entertainment PCs by 2008, this channel offers huge potential to broaden Reuters reach within the consumer market," said Chris Ahearn, president of Reuters Media. The channel is initially available only to customers in the US. [Via DotJournalism.net]

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Robert Scoble tells of his encounter, on a plane, with a guy that explained to him why he thought Microsoft - and Microsoft products - sucked. As he says: "I tell that story because for the past two weeks I've gotten quite a few people to tell me just how our products (or our company) suck. The thing is, there's a group of us at Microsoft who are tired of being told this and who are going to turn around the world's perception of the products we build. This group is growing in size." And he asks: "So, I'm looking for more people who think our products or processes or services suck. Tell us why."

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"Danish journalist Hans Henrik H. de Lichtenberg has just launched newspaperindex.com a database of online editions of newspapers in every country in the world." [via CyberJournalist.net]

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You can download Democrat or Republican pumpkin patterns, once you've cast your vote for the candidate of your choice. Patters are offered in PDF or JPG format and you can choose from the following six: President Bush, Republican mascot, Bush mascot, Senator Kerry, Democratic mascot and Kerry mascot.

© Pumpkin Poll

Eyetop (the makers of audio/video sunglasses) has announced that it will present Eyetop DVD will be at Digital Life in New York from 14 to 17 October, 2004.

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"A stout, star-spangled rocket plane broke through the Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space Monday for the second time in five days, capturing a $10 million prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists."

© Scaled Composites

The first bullfight was held in Spain in 1133 in honor of the coronation of King Alfonso VIII.

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Yahoo's new home page is offered in beta version and will replace the old one within a few weeks. Users can take a peak or start using it by clicking on Take me to the: BETA Page on Yahoo's regular home page.

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myRSS was a really good service which enables anybody to create an RSS/XML feed for a site/blog that didn't have any. Unfortunately: "We have successfully completed the market research stage and established that there is a real business need for our service. We are now ready for full commercial operations and are re-launching the company as Market Sentinel. This means that we will be discontinuing the free myRSS service."

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In May 1985, the Wall Street Journal ran an ad featuring William H. Gates III, chairman of Microsoft Corp. quoted as saying: "Next to my software, nothing's more user friendly than the Wall Street Journal." :-) Here is the ad:

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In its forums, WebProNews notices: "Apparently, Google has begun using another spider in their scanning and indexing of web sites. News of a second Googlebot was discovered by a number of site owners who, while studying their site logs, noticed two Google spiders; with different IP address ranges; visited and scanned their respective sites.

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The iMove, a computer display positioning table, enables the user to change the position of their Apple Cinema Display for optimum viewing angle and position. The iMove is available for Apple Cinema Displays (30 inch, 23 inch, and 20 inch models). iMove for iMac G5 will be released in early October 2004.

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Have fun with George W. Bush!

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The National Hurricane Center offers RSS and XML feeds to track hurricanes and tropical storms. Three feeds are available, one in English and one in Spanish for Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico tropical cyclones, and one in English for Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones. [Via Scripting News]

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BMW unveiled its hydrogen-powered H2R model, capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour. The BMW H2R Record Car was conceived, designed and developed by BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH, the legendary subsidiary of BMW AG. The name "H2R" stands for "H two Race Car", "Hydrogen Record Car" or "Hydrogen Research Car".

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Cute!

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Adult star Jenna Jameson has launched a new, “non-explicit” Website, JustJennaJameson.com, for fans in the wake of her best-selling memoir. Intended as a complement to her principal, adult ClubJenna.com, the new free site offers visitors access to her personal diary, a portfolio of choice photographs, links to several auction sites, and her own online store, plus her monthly travel and appearance schedule. "I'm really excited to have a place to keep in touch with thousands of new fans and all the cool people who've supported me throughout my career," Jameson said in an open letter to fans posted on JustJennaJameson.com. [via AVN Online]

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Employees of Ballard Power Systems have built a vehicle running by fuel cells which masters a distance of 3000km with only 3kg hydrogen (equals to 11 litres of gasoline): the Hysun 3000. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this new vehicule, a 3000-km-drive was started on Sept. 7 in Berlin and will end in Barcelona. Pictures and details are available on Hysun 3000 official site.

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CNN has shut down its Spanish-language new site, CNNenEspanol.com, because it wasn't making money, replacing it with a TV promotional site, reports Cyberournalist.com.

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Via Dotjournalism: "Former Observer editor Jonathan Fenby has launched an innovative news and current affiars site that aims to predict the news. Earlywarning.com will use a network of established journalists based around the world to provide insight and analysis on news events. By writing about the forces behind these events, says Mr Fenby, the publishers aim to forecast what will happen, rather than respond to it."

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Six live performances recorded at this year's Monterey Jazz Festival will be available to purchase as downloads beginning in October on MSN Music.

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It's the latest trend in Japan! After origami (the art of folding pieces of paper to create different objects), here comes pornogami, an adult version of that art. The Origami Underground presents different sexual positions, including the missionary, the doggy style, and the "Bill and Monica"!

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... to be used by visually impaired people. :-) [BBC]

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Komodo has begun internal testing of a new email service. "The company is very excited about the preliminary results of our test trials," states Gordon Muir CEO, of Komodo. "Spam and viruses are costing the corporate world billions of dollars in lost productivity, wasted bandwidth costs and wasted man hours." Mr. Muir further states, "With the company's security measures fully implemented Komodo's proprietary email system will totally eliminate spam, spreading viruses and Identity theft via phishing, one of the biggest security issues on the net today. It is the intention of the company to file a series of multiple patents and then allow beta testers from outside the company to test our system before any public exposure."

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Puisque, selon des prévisions faites par IDC et Nokia, 800 millions de téléphones/appareils photos seront utilisés en 2007 et 100 milliards d'images seront prises avec ces appareils la même année, c'était une question de temps avant que les agences de presse qui fournissent du contenu visuel s'associent avec les compagnies de téléphone cellulaires.

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Hop-on.com announced that its original CDMA disposable cell phone is featured in the current Mel Gibson blockbuster film Paparazzi distributed by 20th Century Fox. Hop-on is the developer and marketer of the world's first disposable, recyclable and contract free cell phone. Its initial IS-95 CDMA phones provided a much-needed alternative to full service cellular contracts and prepaid calling cards and also provided the end user the capability to add on additional minutes.

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As I had mentionned three days ago, two new Roger Waters songs are available exclusively as downloads. You can purchase To Kill The Child and Leaving Beirut, since this morning, on BuyMusic, iTunes, MusicMatch, MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, Real / Rhapsody, SonyConnect and Walmart.com. The list, including the URI is on Waters' website. If you want to check out the songs first (they are truly beautiful!), you can do so here, as they are both available in Quicktime (To Kill The Child and Leaving Beirut), Real (To Kill The Child and Leaving Beirut) and Windows Media (To Kill The Child: hi and low and Leaving Beirut: Hi and low). Also, check out the lyrics, as they are quite moving.

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This German photographer has a amazing website, on which you can admire his pictures. Beautiful!

Copyright © 2004. Christian Otte, 14197 Berlin. All Rights Reserved

Olympus will release later this month its new Stylus Verve 4.0-megapixel digital cameras in 6 different colors.

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"To Kill The Child" and "Leaving Beirut" will be made available on a variety of digital music stores - including SonyConnect, iTunes, BuyMusic, MusicMatch, MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, Real/Rhapsody, and Walmart.com - beginning Tuesday, September 7.

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Ars Electronica, an art and technology festival, is under way until September