links for 2007-12-25

Slow news week, obviously, but this tickled my fancy

This week's big politics scandal in Greece. Culture ministry official Christos Zahopoulos resigns, then tries to commit suicide claiming he is being blackmailed. A 34 year-old woman who worked in the ministry denies involvement but has been detained

Fisking of pretty evidence-less predictions about technology in 2008 from The Economist