This month's fetish includes Scott's super-shock-absorbing bike, LG's anti-drunk-dialing phone and Excalibur's ultra-buoyant barcalounger. By Brian Lam from Wired magazine.
U.S. authorities want to try a Briton who hacked into top military sites to see what he could learn about aliens. They're upset, the hacker says, because it was so easily accomplished. As usual, sieve-like Microsoft software offered the way in.
Steve Jobs reassures Apple stockholders that he has no interest in becoming an executive at Disney. Buoyed by the news, they re-elect the board of directors and reject a proposal to study ways in which Apple can improve its recycling program.
A Chinese dissident advocating a multi-party system gets 10 years for "subverting state power," thanks in part to information provided to the authorities by Yahoo's Chinese subsidiary.
You can fill your iPod at a garage sale without sweating the vinyl conversion using this groundbreaking device. Plus: Listen to the Neil Young's scorching protest record, go to Coachella.
In Listening Post.
One day after Nintendo's name announcement, the wags are out in force with audio-visual mockery of the Wii. Check out the best the web's wisenheimers have to offer. In Table of Malcontents.
