If you're bored with the current selection of netbooks out on the market, you might be interested in the custom hand-painted "Smoothbook Slice" netbooks by the folks at Smooth Creations. Smooth Creations utilizes high grade automotive finishes, clear coats, and

Ed Miliband, the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, has welcomed the creation of a new department to tackle the twin challenges of energy security and climate change.

The London Borough of Hillingdon, West London, serves a local population of over 250,000 residents. It is home to Heathrow, the world’s busiest airport, and a number of large corporations, including British Airways, Nestlé and Xerox. The council employs around

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, the internationally-renowned heart and lung centre, has deployed an Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to form the core component of its IT strategy, which aims to transform clinical care and enable total mobility

It's a 'shop job, but it's still funny. (thanks, r stevens, via)...

The fine artisans at Pressure Printing are holding a seasonal sale with 20 percent off all items! If you dig the artists we post about on Boing Boing, this is a great chance to buy a beautiful limited edition piece

Guest article by Syed Abbas from TnerdWith thousands of blogs being launched every day, one has to offer something different from the others to stand out of the crowd. The "differentiator" is what the readers will remember and that's precisely

Lawrence Lessig's astute comments about the Keating Five scandal. It has surprised me that this, the tremor before this recent financial disaster, the Keating Five scandal, has not been at the center of this campaign before. But now, apparently in

EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva has announced the results of two new EU wide surveys on retailers' and consumers' attitudes towards cross-border shopping. The figures show that even though e-commerce is taking off at national level, cross-border e-commerce is failing

My pal and IFTF colleague Jess Hemerly and her friend Chris Riebschlager just whipped up a fun new photo blog called "Sad Guys On Trading Floors."...

IT security and control firm Sophos today announced that Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected Sophos Enterprise Security and Control to protect its extensive network, which holds all its sensitive patient data, against threats such as

www.lastingtribute.co.uk, the UK memorial website, has created a virtual Field of Remembrance to help raise funds for charity and provide a new place for people to remember fallen service personnel.

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) is creating a new Customer Service Centre in order to improve the quality and consistency of its customer services.

Vidiot sez, "A woman stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the border, over a drawing of an SUV in her notebook. They thought the artist and college professor was an industrial spy and copyright infringer." U.S. Customs

Gordon brown has planned his new top team ministers, and here follows the list of who's now who

What's better than a full-size steampunk keyboard? A dollhouse version for your little miniature anachronisms! Steampunk Keyboard, The Mini Me Version (via Craft)...

As Canadians plan to return to the polls next week, they should know that the Conservative Party has pledged to reintroduce the bitterly controversial, one-sided Canadian DMCA, a copyright act modelled on the US failed Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The

The innovation of the GÉANT2 research project, eduGAIN, which allows the secure sharing of identity data, has been highlighted by the recognition of one its major components, known as SimpleSAMLphp, at the Identity Deployment of the Year Awards (IDDY) 2008.

A multi-year National Research Council review of data-mining as a means of discovering terrorists has concluded that this just doesn't work very well, and that it ends up harming and harassing -- and terrorizing -- innocents whose only crime is