Hmmm. Why didn’t somebody do it sooner?

All aboard for the Harry Potter rollercoaster - Yahoo! News

J.K Rowling, who became the world’s first billion dollar author on the back of
Harry Potter’s success, has given the go-ahead for the creation of a Florida theme park dedicated to the schoolboy wizard.

Hmmm.  How personal  and versatile can your cell phone get - you use it to vote for the American Idol, and you also use it to tell policy makers what you think.   Yes, it can be the next protest or popularity tool.

1M text messages protest China plant - Yahoo! News

A Chinese city has halted construction of a chemical plant after residents sent more than 1 million mobile phone text messages protesting possible pollution dangers, news reports said Thursday.

Six ways to write more comprehensible code

As a developer, time is your most valuable resource. These six tips on how to write maintainable code are guaranteed to save you time and frustration: one minute spent writing comments can save you an hour of anguish.

This application I know will be very revolutionary …

Slashdot | Computers Outperform Humans at Recognizing Faces

“According to the recent Face Recognition Grand Challenge, The match up of face-recognition algorithms showed that machine recognition of human individuals has improved tenfold since 2002 and a hundredfold since 1995. ‘Among other advantages, 3-D facial recognition identifies individuals by exploiting distinctive features of a human face’s surface–for instance, the curves of the eye sockets, nose, and chin, which are where tissue and bone are most apparent and which don’t change over time.