Blogger Pro rolls out, but for now it’s just for Internet Explorer users. Enought of a reason for me to jump ship from Mozilla and whore for Microsoft?

The Collective Unconscious Project:

‘Users can contribute to the site by logging their dreams. This has a double effect, both helping to grow the database of dreams that the project can explore, and creating a personalized dream log for each user. The explore section of the site is the realization of TCUP. This is an environment that allows you to travel from dream to dream in a nonlinear yet interconnected way — without being made fully aware of what those connections are, and without being in control of the path you take.

In this way I hope to make the environment itself very dreamlike. The next dream that you view will be based on the dream you are currently viewing, what emotions are related to that dream, etc. Unexpected connections will be made, and interesting stories will be told. Images will also surface and pass by. Unable to be viewed for very long, these snapshots of memories aid to the dreamlike interaction.’

Blinkenlights

Celebrating its 20th anniversary the Chaos Computer Club has made a special present to itself and the city of Berlin. Since Sept 12, 2001, the famous “Haus des Lehrers” (house of the teacher) office building has been enhanced to become world’s biggest interactive computer display: Blinkenlights.

The upper eight floors of the building have been transformed in to a huge display by arranging 144 lamps behind the building’s front windows. A computer controls each of the lamps independently to produce a monochrome matrix of 18 times 8 pixels.

During the night, a constantly growing number of animations can be seen. But there is an interactive component as well: you can play the old arcade classic pong on the building using your mobile phone and you can place your own loveletters on the screen as well.

Death Knell to Cloning Movement?: “News this week that researchers can take versatile stem cells from

bone marrow worries backers of cloning because they fear they’ve lost

their best argument.” Wired

Turning Macs on Thievery: ” Stolen computers are notoriously difficult to recover. But a Houston

man cleverly found his sister’s stolen iMac using remote control

software, friends on the Net, luck and brains.” Wired