The New Zealand Open Source Society open a petition to Standards NZ
in support of their stance against Microsoft OOXML format adoption:
http://iso-vote.com/petition.html
Pakistan tries to censor YouTube and ends up taking the site off the
entire Internet for an hour until the hijack was reported and fixed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm
A wireless human brain interface controller is demonstrated. Applications
include gaming and assisting paralysed patients:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3485918.stm
MetaRAM to launch a DDR2 DIMM holding 4GB or 8GB of memory while
still being a drop-in replacement for a normal DIMM:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080224-metaram-quadruples-ddr2-dimm-capacities-launches-8gb-dimms.html
And finally. The strange but sad case of the man-eating fairy cake:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7261888.stm
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.