‘The following resources offer suggestions for how allies (including men) can support women in geek communities.’

‘In some ways, it is like the very ubiquity of technology has led us back to a world where socially normative gender roles take hold all over again’.

‘Yes, I'm sure there's a lot of money in this. But it wasn't why I got into tech. I don't like advertising very much.’

‘I’ve stepped off the escalators of feature creep and planned obsolescence, and all the expense and toxic e-waste that come with them. Crap technology, it turns out, is green technology.’

‘This is an example anti-harassment policy suitable for most open source, computing, or technology-related conferences.’

‘That’s the choice we need to make: are technologists and designers here to enable people to do meaningful things in their lives in community with their fellow human beings or are they here as an elaborate dopamine delivery system, basically drug dealers for users?’

The growing creativeness of Chinese manufacturers.

Sensible WSJ article by Lawence Lessig on how the law hasn’t caught up with technology when it comes to copyright.

'Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?' A good idea.

If this is true, it's pretty telling.

Or: 'talent evaporates'.

Looks interesting.

I now understand continuously variable transmission in cars.

Tim Hunkin's excellent series for online viewing or download.

A brand new PC with Vista battles a twenty-year-old Mac II to see who can boot up and open a Word document faster.

‘This is utter, utter rubbish that would be out of place in a ten year old's homework.’ Apparently I'm not the only person who’s irritated by the BBC’s technology coverage.

It carries one person and runs on AA batteries!

As you might guess, it confuses them!