Some interesting tidbits on Slashdot today:

Corporate greed is first up. Since hurricane Katrina, police in New Orleans have been scattered in small precincts, makeshift stations, and even hotel rooms. Bellsouth Corporation had offered to donate one of its older buildings to the city to act as a new police headquarters. However, Bellsouth angrily withdrew its offer when it discovered that New Orleans was setting up a public access wireless network to help aid infrastructure recovery and encourage resettlement. Talk about kicking them when they're down, huh? America is one of the wealthiest nations of the world and should be able to help itself readily, but it looks like some people won't help out in this time of need because of corporate greed. Sad.

The Register has come into possession of and posted online a letter sent by Condoleeza Rice to Jack Straw, British Foreign minister and acting EU foreign minister due to the rotating EU presidency. The letter was never meant for publication and in it Condi gives a rather terse rebuff to the EU's suggestion of creating a new intergovernmental body for regulating control of the root domain. America: try and stop us.

Lastly, Bryn sent me a video of the awful thing that happens when you try to change the orientation of your XBox 360 during gameplay. As Bryn says, anyone with simple knowledge of physics could tell you that this is a bad idea, but designers nonetheless must always assume that the user is stupid.

P.S - This is what Iain sees when he dreams.