Giving good phone.

How to get a Bluetooth hickey. (And before you ask, no, we haven't been visiting the UK lately, and in any case our phone is a battered old Nokia. We found this via this Wired News article. And for those interested there's also dogging, which you can read about here.)

The 2004 Wired Rave Awards pays tribute to "the mavericks, the dreamers, the innovators. The 20 people paving the way to tomorrow and inspiring us to follow in their footsteps. We admire their smarts. We salute their achievements. And we can't wait to see what they'll do next." And the winners are: Peter Jackson, Steve Jobs, Rebecca Solnit, David Byrne, Jeff Bezos, Joe Trippi & Scott Heiferman, Antenna Design, The Flaming Lips, Zaha Hadid, Bram Cohen, Richard Marks, Mike Lazzo, Joseph DeRisi, and the Public Library of Science.

For those of you who fondly remember the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based game, there's now a new way to play it, via AOL Instant Messenger. (From a
Wired Story.)
P.S. A bunch of the other text-based games available as a free download here. Yes, Berts, Leather Goddesses of Phobos too.

Spam is passe (yeah right, tell that to my inbox). Spim is what you have to watch out for now.

The WorldInterWideNetWeb is no longer just about teenage geeks; more and more senior citizens are online these days. [*].
So, if you have an older relative or friend just getting wired, you might want to point the way to this useful feature on NYT. (Er, you'll have to sign 'em up for a free subscription too.)

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference." ~ Nolan Bushnell (Found at Conversations with Dina.)

Our buddy Nilanjana S Roy heralds The return of the short story, and also files the first book review we've read in ages that's made us want to go out and buy the book. (The review is of Kleptomania by Manjula Padmanabhan.)

And for the Escher fans who noticed the Lego interpretations of his work in the post below, you might want to check out this and this.

Ah, the things you can do with Lego®!

A blog we just discovered: Blame India Watch monitors the anti-India hysteria among tech workers in the US.