Spitzer’s Sin has been of great interest to me, for a host of reasons. One of those reasons is obvious to our regular readers: we’ve always argued that prostitution should be protected in law as a legitimate right (and I recently wondered if banning it may be unconstitutional, a case I’d love to see […]

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For those interested in the format war between the next-generation high-definition video disc formats, Blu-Ray and HD DVD, it’s now almost inevitable. Before Christmas, I bought an HD DVD player (on sale for $99!), bought and rented a few titles from Netflix. Within the past few weeks I’d started seeing rumours that the […]

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And it’s all about Google.
After Apple released the revolutionary iPhone earlier this year, there have been rumours that Google would release a phone too, dubbed the gPhone. Well, the project announced today by Google - called Android - is much more exciting than that, and means most mobile phones are likely to eventually become […]

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Around the web today:
Lev Grossman lends Time Magazine’s coveted honour to the Apple iPhone as it’s branded the “Invention of the Year”. I agree: the iPhone is a smouldering jewel of capitalism, a white-hot fusion of technology, ease of use and style, in your pocket.
William Crawley reports on proposed zero-tolerance laws with regard to […]

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The story from Ananova says it all:
“A British scientist has been awarded a doctorate for a paper predicting that humans will one day marry robots. Maastricht University awarded David Levy a PhD for a thesis entitled Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners. The thesis examines human attitudes toward affection, love and sexuality and concluded […]

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