Wheeeeeeeeeeee! Wired.com has a completely new look, the first makeover in two years. Same general Wired look and feel, but shuffled around a bit and in blue and green, rather than red and black. Back in the days when Hotwired.com was the main Wired site, the design changed every six months -- you hardly had time to get used to it before it would evolve into some new digital creature.
5:51:40 PM  #   your two cents []

The Irish Times has a new editor in chief: Geraldine Kennedy. She becomes the first woman to edit a major daily in Irish history. Conor Brady sees the last issue under his 16-year editorship roll off the presses in the early morning hours of tomorrow. The announcement was made following a farewell speech by Brady, and with surprisingly little fanfare though with grace. Much speculation in recent weeks, though we had no idea who the new editor was to be until word began to circulate that it might be Kennedy after lunch. This wasn't reliably confirmed until the actual announcement in the news room. Here's the Guardian story -- which, incidentally, doesn't mention that there was a fourth, outside candidate in the final interviews, supposedly one of its own editors. Times' rival The Sunday Independent's version of events [registration needed] is, er, interesting ... but then, unlike the Times, it isn't the "paper of record" [grin].
4:38:52 PM  #   your two cents []

Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel peace prize (NYTimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Nobel-Peace.html
1:07:40 PM  #   your two cents []

From New Scientist: Radio Waves could construct buildings in space: "Huge buildings could be conjured up in space using nothing more than focused radio waves to push individual components into place."

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992901

And also from New Scientist (the things you learn!): lemon juice apparently kills both sperm and HIV. "This method of contraception was widespread in the Mediterranean before the advent of modern methods, such as the Pill."

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992910
1:05:21 PM  #   your two cents []

Dorothy Parker. "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." [Quotes of the Day]
9:41:20 AM  #   your two cents []

Court: Itanium infringes patents. A federal court rules that Intel's Itanium processor violates patents owned by Intergraph and orders Intel to pay $150 million in damages. [CNET News.com]
9:40:34 AM  #   your two cents []

Steal This Newspaper: Open Source Journalism in Spain [bOing bOing]
9:39:58 AM  #   your two cents []

Can software catch a killer?. A high-tech tool known as geographic profiling is playing a key role in the investigation into the Washington-area sniper shootings. [CNET News.com]
9:38:37 AM  #   your two cents []

Cool home vacuum robot, egregiously terrible website [bOing bOing]
9:37:31 AM  #   your two cents []

New interface looks to endanger mouse, keyboard. University of Delaware researchers look to replace keyboard with touch pad [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:36:44 AM  #   your two cents []