Caroline White writes for journalism.co.uk: “Journalists and web experts in the US are predicting that news feeds will re-shape the way online news is published, despite several European court rulings outlawing the practice of deep-linking.” [ranchero.com]

[MacCentral]

Speech recognition researchers are attempting to crack the hardest nut in speech-to-text: understanding Glaswegian accents.Link

At the Staggernation Google API Relation Browsing Outliner (GARBO). [The Doc Searls Weblog]

About 33,000 Nike basketball shoes plopped into the sea when a cargo ship ran adrift near Tacoma, Washington. They are unlaced and wet, though still wearable -- so beachcombers are trying to match them up into pairs. Link [Boing Boing]

Australian photographer and QTVR enthusiast Peter Murphy sends BoingBoing these links to eerie, beautiful full-screen panoramic shots of "one of the massive telescope destroyed by forest fires in Canberra some weeks ago."View one, view two, view three. Link to site with more info on the fire, and the astronomers whose work and lives it impacted.

"Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, has fallen silent after traveling billions of miles from Earth on a mission that has lasted nearly 31 years, NASA said Tuesday." It's 7.6 billion miles away; in only 2 million more years, it should reach Aldebaran. Link

Society: Local scrapstores provide a cheap alternative to art shops - and are helping Britain reduce its rubbish pile. [Guardian Unlimited]

Politics: Plans to give a host of state agencies the power to access telephone, internet and email records redrawn. [Guardian Unlimited]