Lists? We can do lists. Fast Company tells us what they’ve thought of next (link courtesy of futurewire) and MIT Technology Review offers its top 10 emerging technologies (via GeekPress).

The Beastie Boys are releasing a concert film/documentary called Awesome; I Fucking Shot That! on March 31, with a special showing event on March 23. Most of the footage in Awesome is shot by fans who were given cameras by the Beastie Boys for the movie. Worldchanging’s write up is well worth reading.

Will Wright, creator of Sim City and the upcoming Spore, has penned an inspiring essay for Wired on the ways in which video games build imagination, creativity and social consciousness.

Nanoscientists at the University of Tokyo have unveiled the first two-part molecular machine, which moves under the influence of exposure to alternating UV and visible light. The light causes a chemical bond to kink or unkink, producing a flipper-like motion in the two prongs of the molecule.

It’s not been a good week for the ‘life on Mars’ lobby. Now it seems that scientists re-examining the ‘macro-molecular carbon’ (MMC) in the meteorite ‘Allan Hills 84001’ have determined that it probably wasn’t created by biological methods, despite being an essentially organic substance.