All you need is love

Interesting article.

With no power comes no responsibility

Clerks 2 - hurrah!

Online turn based (ie not real-time) chess

At www.itsyourturn.com. Anyone fancy a game?

LRB World Cup Blog

John Lanchester's World Cup blog for the London Review of Books. Not quite the Ally McCoist/Ian Wright level of punditry. It's obviously a lot better than that, but I think there is a danger in trying to get too intellectual about football...

New Scientist Technology Blog

A few interesting stories on the New Scientist Technology Blog this week. Including: schoolkids who are using high frequency mobile ringtones, because old teachers can't hear them; Google's plans to get your computer to listen to what you're watching on TV (starting to get a bit intrusive, I feel); and online gaming doing a deal with US cable TV so that you can watch people playing Halo on the telly, as a spectator.

Age of Genius

Just watched this - Andrew Marr does the Scottish Enlightenment on BBC4. Totally great. Knew it was on, should have linked to it on here *before* it was actually broadcast (doh) - anyone else catch it?

La magia del futbol

Breakin' the law

Allofmp3.com is illegal and being prosecuted. Might be worth using up your credit...

Google Notebook

Google Notebook. They're full of good ideas, aren't they?

Hedgestock

Hedgestock 2006: A Festival of Networking, a festival for the Hedge Fund industry. With music from The Who. I don't know what to say.

Another idiosyncratic piece of British life falls victim to the corporate machine

Oxford's Castle Mill boatyard is evicted. Bah - something authentic and interesting gets traded in for some more jerry built "luxury" flats. A plague on British Waterways (In this instance anyway - they've made a pretty good job of the Forth and Clyde canal).