In which millionaire privacy activist John Gilmore challenges a DHS advisor to attempt a cross-country plane ride without showing ID. Wired News referees the gentlemen's wager. Ryan Singel reports from San Francisco.
The Defense Department's Cyber Crime Conference draws filmmakers to Florida as they search for a shot of high-tech realism. By Robin Mejia from Wired magazine.
Marooned in the office while everyone else in the universe is watching the 2006 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup? Not to worry. The net offers hope to all. By Eli Milchman.
Even if you don't possess mutant psychic abilities, your mind can create barriers that prevent you from enjoying happy sex. Two movie X-Men need to revise their definition of sexuality before they give up. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
Drug-resistant infections kill more Americans than AIDS and breast cancer combined, but science is fighting back. So far, the superbugs are winning. From Forbes.com.
The latest office-productivity tool from Google Labs takes aim at Microsoft Excel (and misses). Michael Calore finds browser-based Google Spreadsheets tasty, but frothy and a little undercooked. In Webmonkey.
La la is an ambitious CD-trading service that allows members to exchange their used discs for other titles. How does it stack up? Mark Anderson gives it a try, and winds up addicted to the flow of cheap, new music. Plus: Swap CDs and Pay Musicians
Teratomas might help cure cancer or solve the stem-cell conundrum. Plus: A bank of children's DNA in Philadelphia raises privacy concerns. In Bodyhack.
A theoretical technique could turn car tires into needles and roads into records. Plus: Another twist in the tale of cheap download site AllofMP3.com. In Listening Post.
The vignette Persistence of Vision moves seamlessly from being a film about animation to being an animated film. Plus: Colorize pictures using the power of your eyes! In Table of Malcontents.
