- Jobs offers support to dad of teen killed over iPod Apple CEO offers condolences ‘from his heart’ to family of teen killed last week over iPod.
- London tube bombing on Flickr Apparently this is a picture from within one of the carriages (or leaving one of the carriages underground)
- The “Light Play” Sunlight Table traps light in fibre-optic threads and uses it to create pinpricks of light in a table top… “By doing so, it encourages a dialogue between work and nature and re-establishes a connection with the outside world”
- Blogs respond to London blasts “News of the suspected terror attacks across central London has quickly spread across the net as people try to get information about the chaos. “
- War of the fire ants -†the extraordinary reproductive habits where “Males pit their genes against females by chucking DNA out of eggs.” “The result is that both the males and females have their own, independent gene pools, leading some to speculate whether each gender ought to be technically classified as its own species. “
- Wikipedia article on the London bombings “On 7 July 2005, beginning at 08:49, during the height of morning rush hour, a series of four explosions struck London’s transport system.”
- Google Employee Blogs A list of weblogs by people who work for Google – a good number of people then. I wonder what their policy on weblog stuff is (if they have one)
- The Guardian is to change its size to a ‘Berliner’ format halfway between broadsheet and tabloid… Clearing out the tabs brings this story about the Guardian’s proposed change in size that I first heard about at a typography event last year…
- Software patent bill thrown out which is bloody good news “European politicians have thrown out a controversial bill that could have led to software being patented.”
- Robot Wisdom on the Street – a weird and disturbing article about what happened to Jorn Barger “Coined the term ‘weblog,’ never made a dime.”
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