Monsters and Critics  reports some interesting tidbits:
“It may come as no surprise to learn that Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and MySpace are causing more and more people to spend huge chunks of free time online, but what of the poor, long-serving television set that’s gathering dust in the corner amid all these Internet-fuelled [...]

From Aperture.com:
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view: September 7–November 1, 2007
Lisette Model (1901-1983) was as elegant as she was profane and one of the last century’s most significant photographers-a woman whose searing images and eloquent teachings influenced her students Diane Arbus, Larry Fink, and a host of others, many of whom went [...]

The New York Times tell us:
“After turning millions of Internet users into virtual explorers of the world with Google Earth, the Internet search giant is now hoping to turn many of them into virtual stargazers.
Google is unveiling within Google Earth today a new service called Sky that will allow users to view the skies as [...]

Shutterbug Reports:
“…Photo backpacks. They support the load by means of a shoulder harness system, usually aided by a chest (sternum) strap and often a waist belt so you arrive at your destination no worse for wear. They’re great for nature hikes as well as general travel.
I [...]

TGDaily reports:
“A Bay Area lawyer has filed a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit against apple and AT&T over the company’s iPhone batteries. Sydney Leung claims that Apple doesn’t tell people that the battery needs replacing after several hundred charges. He is also upset that the sealed battery can only be replaced by sending the iPhone [...]

DPreview on the Canon EOS 40D:
“As anticipated Canon has today announced the successor to the hugely popular EOS 30D digital SLR. Enter the EOS 40D, headline improvements are a more robust build with weather-proofing, ten megapixel CMOS sensor, DIGIC III and 1D style menus, 6.5 fps continuous shooting, three custom user modes on mode dial, [...]

“Last month the Atlantic County Utilities Authority (ACUA) of New Jersey dedicated their first windfarm site (five, 380-feet tall wind turbines capable of producing 7.5 megawatts). Entry to the event was via a donated canned food item. These were contributed to the local Community Food Bank for distribution to those in need, over the holiday [...]

“This is the mobile Internet, and, to see which phone could load wired.com fastest, we broke out the stopwatch and pitted four gladiators against one another: Helio’s new Fin, which surfs the Interwebs on an EVDO wave; the HSDPA version of the RAZR 2, the iPhone, which rips a mean EDGE curl on the information [...]

From Cnet:
“HD’s higher resolution, broader color space, and advanced compression algorithms have opened the door for a substantial improvement in video quality, even for the most prosaic of home movies. Though prices for consumer models hover well above the budgets of many wanna-haves, as more units trickle into the market in 2007 we expect the [...]

“Mac OS X or Windows? Nothing gets a flame war going faster than that old debate. But these days, many people are using both of those operating systems on a network. Maybe you have a Windows PC in the home office, but you’ve got an iMac for video editing and a Mac Mini for serving [...]