Virtual Reality Is a Real Painkiller. Somehow, this doesn't surprise me. When I am completely immersed in a game, I don't generally notice the pain of my freshly-damaged fingers until I stop. (Only then do I realize I've been at this waaaay too long).

Cory Doctorow just nails the whole DRM controversy. A good, lucid, entertaining article on why current DRM is just a bad idea all around.

Thoughts Captured in Real Time This is very cool. I wonder how much resolution they can get on thought content using this. The folks using Brain Fingerprinting are able to discriminate between memories of things a person has actually sensed and those they "just made up". With something like this, it may be possible to not only tell if the person actually experienced something, but perhaps more about their mental state at the time as well as now.

This is a test image (of me) to see if this "Hello" gizmo actually works for photoblogging.