Quite a cool thing from ‘Harold Hanek’, a Wikipedia browser. It basically allows you to browse Wikipedia faster online using AJAX technology. Gollum is the name of my newest crime of invention. By reducing the complexity of information, I have created a fast and eyefriendly browser through the free encyclopedia “Wikipedia”. Originally this invention was built up for my daughter but now I have expanded it to the world for free as an open source project under GPL. -> Check it out!

Robert Fisk; The Great War For Civilization Speaking on his new book, The Great War For Civilization; The Conquest of the Middle East at King Middle School, Berkeley. Nov 19 2005. Fisk, in yet another stirring account, paints a disturbing picture of recent history and events in Iraq and the Middle East. I highly recommend listening to this! Robert Fisk yet again speaks the truth. – ICH -

AnandTech have a great 11 page article detailing with images the Xbox 360, with a good explanation of each detail here.

ROME (Reuters) – The city of Rome has banned goldfish bowls, which animal rights activists say are cruel, and has made regular dog-walks mandatory in the Italian capital, the town’s council said Tuesday. –> Yahoo! News

“A 122-year-old dairy equipment company has used embedded Linux in a robotic cow-milking system (the system is robotic, not the cows). The Voluntary Milking System (VMS) allows cows to decide when to be milked, and gives dairy farmers a more independent lifestyle, free from regular milkings, the company says. ” LinuxDevices

FireFox reaches 100,000,000 Downloads, 19/10/2005! Slashdot

Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available to public. Download here (5.0MB) What’s new? Improvements to Web site rendering and performance. Release notes.

Hotmail will always be naff, Gmail rocks and thats final However MS are working on something…