The Register on ID cards: "In enthusing about the scheme and its possibilities, Clarke is really telling us what's profoundly wrong about it, and why it should be stopped."

Is anyone else feeling a tad under-represented by their elected representatives?

Ptooie: "ptooie is a packet sniffing system built to respond to the "health" of the network where it is planted. we chose the form of a flower for its seemingly innocent appearance and endlessly punning potential."

Jude kicks off his weblog: "I get to write self absorbed personal crap that would otherwise be inappropriate"

Speak Up Whilst I Kill You; voice in games seems, as Greg Costikyan noted, to be very natural. Look at Xbox live, Mario Party 5, even Donkey Konga uses sound input (err I think) to detect clapping...

Xbox live raises a whole set of issues on its own, because you end up playing with people you don't know (or sometimes, even speak the same language as!)... the others will usually be played in an established social setting. I've written about this before: IMHO the games industry will be the first guys to explore how you contact and interact with strangers whilst retaining privacy.

"You have to be a Nintendo surgeon"

Bloody hell, this is fantastic: a golden eagle wired up to a webcam, in flight.