The Genius Sperm Bank: "He insisted he was just trying to take advantage of the possibilities of genetics. The women came flocking."

Some nice snippets from Mike Rowehl at BayCHI: "When women text message they tend to have multiple threads of conversation bundled into each message, and there tends to be more of a structure to the message itself. Standard things like a sign off for each message (kisses, love you, etc). Messages from men a simple and normally singularly focused."

A nice post drawing analogies between physical and digital spaces: An Elite Is Inevitable?: "As I think about building an online space which recognizes the value of proximity and unintentional contact, it seems like a technical infrastructure which forces space to be a finite, limited resource with transferable control has the potential to increase the value for people in that space."

...though of course, I'm not sure why it matters that online spaces "tend to become sprawling ghost towns", or why reuse of land matters when this sprawl is entirely virtual. Viva la sprawl!

Walsh alert! "Mark Walsh, from the Aiki Corps, has just sent us a report from Awassa, Ethiopia, where he went to teach aikido for three months"

I'm looking forward to hearing some good stories, Mark ;)

Non-scents from Nokia: "We like the Scentsory because it's as mad as a box of frogs, and if you dump the smell-o-vision nonsense, it looks like a damn fine phone."