Total Eclipse

An OpenSource Virtualization tool. Supports Vista, XP, Linux, OpenBSD and now has OSX in public beta. Doesn’t get better than free.

A source of many lulz.

Written by Bell Curve Co-Author Charles Murray, one of three such opinion pieces on education.

Another article from Charles Murray I used to think about a lot. The idea is to send every citizen a cheque for 10,000$ and let him take care of the rest.

DirectX 10 Reverse engineered and made to work on systems other than Vista or XBOX360. In fact you don’t even need DirectX 10 compatible hardware. This is breakthrough stuff for gamers.

Rudy Rucker; cyberpunk author, computer scientist, descendant of GWF Hegel, and MONDO 2000 refugee has a blog.

Chuck Shepherd’s NEWS of the WEIRD, the longest-running, most widely-read bizarre-news feature in the U.S.

Author Katha Koja on how ridiculous modern Political Correctness has become in regards to education and art.

Natasha Vita on Collective Intelligence and the Singularity with lovely neologisms like “neural macrosensing” or “AGI Oracle”.

An all-round great blog.

Retrospective of the monumental (and pompous) MONDO 2000 Magazine, which helped shape cyberculture as we know it. Gone but not forgotten.