Libeskind plan chosen for WTC site.

It's a beautiful design. Libeskind's design study for the WTC site is a very interesting read. (Why couldn't I find this link on any of the news sites?)

[Sjoerd Visscher's weblog]

sweet, as an architecture junky, this was my choice by far… for one it is inhabitable, which is a tribute to those that come before….

“OK – I smell a bit” – but leave us BoFHs alone! [The Register]

new bofh, woo hoo… nope, just letters, but still…

The 40GB iPod?.

Last month we wondered whether a 40GB iPod was coming; now rumors are running wild that Apple is very close to announcing one and that they'll phase out the 5GB model. The even juicier gossip is that Apple plans unveil a “radically new successor” to the iPod sometime later this year.
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[Gizmodo]

I heard this too, the radical new ipods, and the discontinuance of the ibook, all rumormill churning…. who knows….

E-Voting Victory (Probably). Santa Clara County, California, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, has decided that their new electronic voting machines must… [Freedom To Tinker]

open voting, woo hoo! maybe not…..

Wallace & Gromit Through The Nose. New Wallace and Gromit movie ~ “Cracking Contraptions” from Atom Films and Shockwave… but $9.95 to download it? Oh, I don't think so! I guess I don't expect them to give it away for free, but who thought up this hair-brained scheme? I bet that dodgey lodger, the Penguin, is behind it somehow. [MetaFilter]

claymation costs money, we all know it….

'Big Brother' plan to catch rowdy pupils. Plans are being made to install webcams in classrooms in an effort to discourage misbehaviour by pupils. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

I really don't think that we need to do this, adding technological supervision to the immense peer and heirarchical supervision of schools is just silly.