Winning entries in The Guardian‘s SMS (short messaging system) poetry contest.

Birds sing a new tune in wireless era: “Danish ornithologists say that birds, especially Starlings, have begun incorporating the sound

of a ringing cellular phone into their own songs. So far, reports of wireless warbling have been

restricted to Copenhagen, where birds seem to favor Nokia’s classic ring tone.” CNet

Top 10s: The Guardian‘s omnibus collection of authors’ quirky lists of recommended books in various categories.

Exploiting the friendly ‘good vibes’ at New Age gatherings to ‘pick up chicks’

Japanese scientists report optical transistor. New Scientist

Stop demonizing cell phones! ‘A car swerves into your lane. When you see the driver is talking on a

cellular phone you shout, “Those #$@!&! things oughtta be banned!” But let’s not stop

there. If you look at what people do on cell phones, you’ll see that banning the phones is

only the beginning–there’s a lot more we should get rid of.’ ZDNet

Stones that could be Britain’s pyramids: ‘The history books tell us how the Romans brought civilisation to

the barbarians of Britain.

But yesterday an archaeologist turned that long-held belief

upside down by claiming that the ancient people of these

islands were far more advanced than any of the early

Mediterranean cultures…

“There was no great movement of peoples towards the Atlantic,

because they were already there,” he told the Hay-on-Wye book

festival yesterday. “Only recently have we begun to discover that

these people were far more advanced than those around the

Mediterranean. We have underestimated dramatically the

complexity of these people.” ‘ The Guardian