links for 2008-03-12

"Movie poster for 1914 film 'The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola'. This version of the future appears to involve riding sea creatures while shooting magical underwater firearms". A future that surely nobody could argue with.

"There was a reasonably widely-publicised live 3D broadcast of the rugby match between England and Scotland last Saturday". So, the future doesn't have magical underwater weapons after all, but it does increasingly seem to have 3D TV

To understand Alex Wright's talk on "The Web That Wasn't" at SXSW from Macau, you'd need some kind of crazy lash-up that was like a cross between a telegraph system, a library, and a dictation machine. Or Dan Hon's excellent notes and the interweb.

Cheers all round for the London Science Museum teams

Second on the market was the Rio PMP300. The RIAA asked for a sales ban, and got one on a temporary basis on 16 October, claiming it violated the 1992 US Home Recordings Act. This was the official start of the music industry's genie rebottling campaign.