Steven Johnson’s new website Outside.In looks really interesting: it strives to bring to one place the disparate voices of a neighborhood. I suspect it will be a lot more useful for people urban-ites: those of us in the wilderness of American suburbia are likely to find there aren’t that many people talking about our town.

Whatever the cause (and there are many theories, here’s one) of overcrowding of jails in the United States, prisoners have to be put somewhere. The United Kingdom has used prison ships in the past, and is thinking of doing so again.

Charles Stross has some cool things to say about the new SF readership and the changing landscape of the SF field. This post has kicked up a lot of discussion.

Evidently going to Paris can give you a psychiatric disorder. I guess this condition’s been known about for a couple of years now. Is it just me, or does this seem a little silly? Why stop there? I think I’ve got Buffalo Syndrome–the sinking feeling that you are being cosmically persecuted via sports disasters…

Project Blackbox is Sun Microsystems’ approach to a case mod: they’re putting a whole data center in a standard shipping container. Shipping containers are going to be the lego blocks of the next century.