An anonymous reader alerts us to a two-week-old story that hasn't gotten much traction in the press to date. A Japanese newspaper and the AP report that China plans to demand source code from hardware manufacturers, and ban the sale

Wired is running a story about a case the Supreme Court will be hearing on Tuesday that relates to searches based on erroneous information in government databases. In the case of Herring vs. US 07-513, the defendant was followed and

A German techie has found a remarkably simple way to discern some of the content of encrypted volumes containing images. The encrypted images don't reveal themselves totally, but in many cases do let an attacker see the outline of a

The latest PSFK Conference is coming to Singapore this Friday (October 10), bringing more creatives together than you can shake a stick at — Mark Dytham is even giving a talk!PSFK's Piers was even kind enough to invite me as

My friend Ian — editor of Tokyolife — sends me a few pics from from the launch party for his latest book, which covers all things Bape. It took place at the Colette store in Paris yesterday. The blue edition

I don't know what the hell is being said, but Jesper — our main man in Sweden — sends me a link to the Swedish TV series Big in Japan (Stor i Japan) in which, according to Jesper, "two Swedish

Photographer Sven Ingmar Thies sends me word that his Japanese Rooms book — I mentioned it a while back — was awarded the iF gold selection this year in the communication design (photo and book design) category. Congrats to Sven,

Headline is misleading... 9000 square miles would make this pyramid 45,000 times larger than the great pyramid in Egypt. Someone didn't do their math right, or they didn't carry the 2 in their calculations...Ancient Peru pyramid spotted by satellite. The

I'm facing a difficult dilemma and looking for opinions. I've been contributing heavily to an open source project, making considerable changes to code organization and quality, but the work is unfinished at the moment. Now, a company is approaching me

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I've met Terry Stauffer a few times--at Together for the Gospel and at least one or two other conferences. He has been a regular commenter at this blog and maintains a blog of his own. He serves as pastor of

My friend David Bodanis offers a thoughtful theological reflection on the financial crisis here in the Financial Times. David is writing a book on the Ten Commandments ... which should be excellent. Another wise friend, economist Bob Goudzwaard, forwarded these...

I just received this email from a chaplain ... I am a chaplain in a minimum security prison for women, and I am looking for good Bible study materials that would support the "New Kind of Christian." I have one...

The follow up to Amazon's eBook device, the Kindle 2, has leaked according to a report from Boy Genius. It's not any prettier nor is it smaller, folks. But the keyboard has been redesigned (no divide down the middle), ...

Sweet! HTC has posted their Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade for the Touch Cruise. The upgrade is a generic ROM, which means it lacks any carrier customizations and is thus targeted at the unlocked version of the Touch Cruise. However, ...