I don’t want to use my newly acquired credit card just to try either of Second Life or Project Entropia. But I really want to know, is spending on this virtual land worth it?

Better forums (fora?): Lussumo Vanilla vs. bbPress
I’m still deciding which of the two is better.
You must host your own site to be able to use eiter one.

A computerized typewriter that translates electrical impulses from brainwave signals into letters and words could be available in the next five years.
In the short term, the technology will allow its developers, from the Fraunhofer Institute and the Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany, to watch a thinking and behaving brain function in real time.
But in the long term, such a brain-machine interface could replace the joystick in electronic gaming or serve as a communication tool for people unable to speak or sign.
“We are dreaming of something like a baseball cap with …

Xero mobile is on the move. Will it succeed? Starting with zero subcribers, Xero will target the campus and retiree market.
If this were to happen in the Philippines, would it be free TXT in exchange for spam TXT ads? But we’re already paying and still getting those ads!
On Apr. 11, a little-known outfit called Xero Mobile became public through a reverse merger, making available 46 million shares trading at about $1 apiece. What’s remarkable about this newly public outfit is that it doesn’t have any products, customers, or revenue. Even …

“We use viruses to synthesize and assemble nanowires of cobalt oxide at room temperature,” the researchers wrote.
The international team of researchers, led by a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used the M13 virus, a simple and easily manipulated virus. [source]

Next Attraction: For men: Replace your heart with cells from your balls. For women: Sell your breast milk and earn a fotune.
Human testes could be a source of embryonic-like stem cells, providing a way to grow tissue to repair the body without having to destroy or create embryos.
German researchers have discovered that cells from the testes of adult mice that normally turn into sperm can be transformed into different types of tissue, including liver, heart, muscle, skin, pancreas and nerve cells.
Dr Gerd Hasenfuss, of Georg-August University in Gottingen, said his …

Google acquires Writely from Upstartle. Writely is a word processor on the web. Beta testing had been temporaily closed until evertyhing is tranferred to Google servers. The writely site is here.

The PLDT Phone + unlimited Vibe connection sucks. It’s almost impossible to connect. Where do I complain?

As rumors unfurl about a new gadget upcoming from Microsoft, the company’s Origami Project [^] is starting to take shape as a very small tablet computer, one perhaps affordable enough to appeal to mainstream consumers.
The concept, which Microsoft plans to detail next month, is built on top of the Windows XP operating system but aims to be a new kind of device, rather than a replacement for existing PCs, according to sources familiar with the effort. With a screen bigger than that of a handheld but smaller than a notebook …

The shares are down, but satellite radio won’t die yet, thanks to Howard Stern. This could be the reason why Google is thinking of marrying radio ads with adwords.
There are no federal decency standards to constrain you, that’s a plus. However,
The bigger problem, is that the potential of satellite radio to justify even current valuations remains very much unproven. The mass appeal of satellite radio is not yet a given.
Even if the two managed to run a cosy duopoly, moreover, they will also have rival technologies to contend with. …