Complexification | Gallery of Computation. Great stuff, source included (tnx tikitu).
Also check out one of my pages on algorithmic art (under construction).

The early history of Nupedia and Wikipedia: a memoir (part 1 / part 2):

Larry Sanger was one of the moving forces behind the pioneering Nupedia project. That makes him one of the people to thank for Wikipedia, which has been enjoying more and more visibility of late. Sanger has prepared a lengthy, informative account of the early history of Nupedia and Wikipedia, including some cogent observations on project management, online legitimacy, dealing with trolls, and other hazards of running a large, collaborative project over the Internet.

Also The First International Wikimedia Conference will be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 4 August 2005 to 8 August 2005. Call for papers - Wikimania 2005

Individual-i

A symbol of individual rights
Today, the rights of individuals are being eroded: by government, by corporations, by society itself. This icon “the Individual-i” represents the rights of the individual.
It represents the right to privacy and anonymity in the information age. It represents the rights to an open government, due process, and equal protection under the law. It represents the right to live surveillance free, and not to be marked as “suspicious” for wanting these other rights.
It recognizes that a free society is a safe society, and that freedom is founded upon individual rights.
The battle for individual rights is just beginning; our side needs a symbol.
We hope to see this symbol displayed proudly wherever individual rights are valued.

Have you ever dreamt about the day you can buzz around in your very own flying machine? Well, that day may be sooner than you think.

CBS News | Flying Cars Ready To Take Off

There still is this problem called pollution … I’m still waiting for the ground breaking, environment cleansing, innovation in that area!

ebook: Eric Von Hippel’s - DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION

Many people still have difficulty understanding why open source software projects are successfull. The Boston Globe has an interview with Eric von Hippel, a Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, on users as innovators. In his new book, von Hippel, discusses how open source projects draw on the creativity of ”lead users,” who are often ahead of the curve on technology and marketplace trends. Von Hippel shows the trend already is more advanced than is generally known, and users often freely reveal their innovations for the common good. The social efficiency of a system in which individual innovations are developed by individual users is increased if users somehow diffuse what they have developed to others…..he also notes that the transition to user-centered innovation is hard for some companies to swallow.
The online version of the book is available under a Creative Commons license.

From Slashdot: Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology

An anonymous reader writes “As reported by The Inquirer, a Finnish company known as Viralg Oy claim to have developed software that can create a junk file with the same hash as a genuine p2p download. This, according to the company, can altogether stop the sharing of copywritten files by flooding p2p networks with corrupt/junk data, which then spreads through the network, causing less and less of the original file to be available. However, with the resolve of the p2p userbase, is this software really going to ‘beat all Peer 2 Peer pirates at their own game,’ or simply prove a minor annoyance?”

yeah right, like that is going to work 4 a long time …
E.g. some bittorrent sources do content checking already …

Wired News: Surveillance Works Both Ways

In an attempt to establish equity in the world of surveillance, participants at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle this week took to the streets to ferret out surveillance cameras and turn the tables on offensive eyes taking their picture

Uit de nieuwste WTO.Zip. nr 53
(http://www.globalinfo.nl/article/articleview/582/1/1/)

Een van de toonaangevende progressieve columnisten in de VS, New
York Times’ Paul Krugman, gooide in februari de knuppel in het
hoenderhok door te schrijven hoe er een geoliede conservatieve
smeercampagne gelanceerd was tegen de Amerikaanse coalitie van
ouderenorganisaties AARP. Deze verzet zich namelijk tegen plannen
om het pensioenstelsel drastisch te hervormen en te privatiseren.
Krugman baseerde zich wederom deels op het onthullende nieuwste
boek van Thomas Frank, “What’s The Matter with Kansas” [1]. In dat
boek onderzoekt Frank hoe de bevolking van Kansas de laatste tijd
steevast politici steunt die beleid maken dat vierkant tegen hun
belangen ingaat. PR-operaties en smeercampagnes blijkt een van de
voornaamste geheime wapens van rechts te zijn.
(more…)

another fine del.icio.us app:
type this in your browser http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi?name= and fill in a del.icio.us name behind it.
e.g. informationlab, jacoplane, justl0l, tikitu.

Alright, i admit, we ARE all geeks …