iPhone musique conrete: Simon's been enjoying the iPhone RjDj app, which records the sounds around you and makes real time electronic/sampladelic pieces from them. At times, quite ravishing.

Everyone's picking up on the Web 2.0 activity around this week's horrendous attacks in Mumbai, among them Forbes, the Guardian and Wired.

Nice little piece in the NYT about the "rise" of slow blogging. Not our strength, must be said.

Charlies Brooker gets on the last word on the daft Ross/Brand affair.

Our friend Nick Reynolds on the BBC, morality and John Stuart Mill: "If the BBC stopped making entertainment programmes it would be saying: Moral questions are only for people who watch Newsnight."

It's 40 years since Doug Englebart developed the mouse at Stanford. There's an interesting throwaway line in here about the length of a patent's life...

And forty years sine Apollo 8 astronaut took the iconic Earthrise photo.

Ben "bad science" Goldacre exposes the poor research and thinking behind this week's influential Channel 4 documentary about more parents deciding to go through with the birth of Downs Syndrome babies, which they're simply not.

Not of strict relevance here, but we're immensely fond of scientists and technologists who say the unsayable. No-one falls into that category more consistently than Gaia theorist and radical environmental scientist James Lovelock. His last book, Gaia's Revenge laid out his hypothesis that climate change has passed some kind of tipping point and that environmental cataclysm will result. In this Guardian interview he rams the point home: the mainstreaming of green issues is at best irrelevance and  at worse takes our eye off the real ball here, that is, to figure out how the hell to deal with the consequences of the inevitable.

And how to deal with this on a personal level? "Enjoy life while you can. Because if you're lucky it's going to be 20 years before it hits the fan."