"My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: language and code have grown more entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital, and old technologies from new ones have become blurred."

"So what makes this map different from the Rand McNally version you can buy at a bookstore? Or from the dusty National Geographic pull-down mounted in your child’s elementary school classroom? Can one paper wall map really outshine all others—so definitively that it becomes award-worthy? I’m here to tell you it can. This is a masterful map. And the secret is in its careful attention to design."

"What does seven billion look like? Dencity is a map of global population density as the world reaches this important milestone."

Candace has the Leica-branded version of previous model, and complains about the noise above ISO 100. This has the same number of pixels in a bigger sensor. It'll be interesting to see if they can convince the market, but we're tempted.

If you're willing to pay the premium to avoid eBay, here's where to get your Polaroid cameras.

The lowest price from anyone I trust, but do I want to pay well over two hundred pounds more for an IS lens and the other incremental updates from the 400D? Hmmm.

Looks like they've learnt lessons from the awful, buggy Lego Star Wars II for the DS, and have rewritten it completely. Hurrah! Looking forward to seeing it.