Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream, Globalisation & Spam

Theodore Gray, creator of the Periodic Table Table, has an article on how to whip up a batch of ice cream in 30 seconds or so by using liquid nitrogen.

Phillip Knightley, an ex-pat journalist was who worked for Frank Packer's Consolidated Press and Keith Murdoch's Herald, asks; is the media, particularly TV, in the business of the mass-production of ignorance?

George Monbiot launches the Chartist movement of the 21st Century: a manifesto for a world in which every individual would have an equal say.

Microsoft has filed 15 lawsuits accusing the defendants of collectively flooding its systems and customers with more than 2 billion spam messages. While Telstra has terminated a BigPond account after a two-day spam campaign by the Queensland Computer Company — who was previously booted from iExec for the same offence.