"The next generation of directors will come from the Polytechnic of YouTube even if their films are shown online or on mobiles rather than in cinemas." William Gibson's Garage Kubrick idea coming to fruition.

OK, got to get them to do a "OK, so which right is being contravened here?" tagging game…

He is the CAPTCHA man.

2005 Christmas appeal by Guardian on behalf of MSF.

And more from BBC people who are insanely intelligent and do excellent work.

I love reading this kind of stuff – someone who knows their stuff, is open about sharing ideas, passionate for their work. V interesting and instructive.

"At its 2935th Transport, Telecommunications and Energy council meeting in Brussels, yesterday, the European Council adopted the following conclusions about how to deliver an accessible information society…"

"The much-anticipated Darfur debate between Enough co-Founder John Prendergast and Professor Mahmood Mamdani generated lively and sometimes heated responses in the auditorium at Columbia University that evening last month and on the blogosphere in the following days."

"The purpose of our centre is to provide a national focus for research and development into curation issues and to promote expertise and good practice, both national and international, for the management of all research outputs in digital format."

How to use social network analysis to uncover corruption…

"Use our new LOCATE service to tell us where you’re travelling to so our embassy and crisis staff can provide better assistance in an emergency such as a tsunami or terrorist attack. It only takes a few minutes to register your contact details and travel plans online and the local British embassy will know you’re coming. There's no need to contact them directly." What about dopplr integration? Huh? Huh?