Game Consoles in 41% of Homes [Game|Life]
I'm not sure if that seems low or high — surely every family at some time in the last 35 years has picked up something. My guess is that "and plugged into a TV set" is the unspoken condition. Pictured here is 1972's Magnavox Odyssey, the first multigame, digital home console.
The Patent Office Wants You [27B Stroke 6]
Overburdened patent office workers are considering a new plan to get advice from the public on innovation. The aim is to avoid awarding patents to unscrupulous companies (and all the usual suspects do it) for which prior art or application-specific obviousness are in play. Democracy in government or free internship? If the process is made transparent (such as with a voting and commenting website) this will be awesome.
China Will Be #1 in Greenhouse Emissions by 2008 [Autopia]
A true and tested metric of industrial development if ever there was one: China will be the most polluting nation by 2008. Bearing in mind, of course, that China is 1/5 of the planet, population-wise.
New Film Fest Celebrates the Art of Disposable Camera Movies [Table Of Malcontents]
Making movies with disposable cameras is an art form unto itself, and now gets its first film festival all to itself.
