links for 2008-03-06

Finally, that explains it all...

"Any black and white telerecording of a colour programme picks up interference. This manifests itself as a pattern of small grey dots, called chroma-dots, across the picture. Insell suggested decoding the original colour signal from these chromadots". Wow

"Instead of shiny plastic it was encased in laminated bamboo strips. The result, said its Taiwanese makers, Asus, was 'both aesthetically pleasing and good for the environment'". Although, presumably, this is not good news for pandas.

"RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. But the problem many people face is that there are so many sources of information, we've become buried". I have a similar themed article coming soon.

"Cellphones are now more important to US adults than the internet, tv, landline phones & email. In addition, an increasing number of consumers are using their mobiles for things other than voice communications". Loving watching the slow wake up to this.