The Seattle Times has a brief but fascinating profile of the daily skirmishes between illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and police in the municipal tunnels that connect Nogales, Arizona, with Nogales, Mexico. It’s a setting rife with opportunity for a fiction writer with an eye for a dark and gritty urban future. [digg]

Experts in the field, that’s who. Or to be more precise, experts reading Wikipedia in their field of expertise consider the online encyclopedia more accurate than non-experts reading the same articles. [slashdot]

Alan Durning over at WorldChanging asks: “Would you, personally, rent your car during off hours?” It’s a fascinating idea: allow people to rent your car by the hour when it’s not in use. Fraught with a ton of practical difficulties, but fun to think about anyway.

How do you get people to join your new social networking site when everyone and her grandfather has a MySpace profile? You make it into a game, with prizes for attaining high levels of social status, of course. Innovatory genius or cynical marketing ploy? You decide.

First the good news – Bigelow Airspace are setting up the first colony in orbit! Now the not-so-good news – it’s an ant colony. Don’t worry, though, the ants and their other insect buddies won’t get bored – while they’re there, they’ll be able to play bingo. After all, nothing says ‘viable orbital habitat’ like a roach infested casino, right?