 by Flemming Funch
Chirac proposes a globalization tax to fight world poverty. Well, I generally don't believe in taxes, and most of the suggestions for how to carry it out are unfair, but it isn't entirely unreasonable to make the people pay for it who make the most profit from exploiting poor countries. Actually I'd be perfect happy if all taxes were being paid only by large corporations, and not by individuals. Governments have no right to tax individuals, but they have all right to tax corporations, as they invented them.
A pedal powered wireless network is providing Internet access to villagers in Laos.
Greek government bans all computer games. Yeah, that's really smart. Maybe I'll send my son to Greece and he'll take up collecting stamps.
Somebody is patenting technology for an invisibility cloak, sort of.
Bob Hiltner mentions BookCrossing. It is a very cool concept of registering books you own and have read, and then "releasing" them into the wild by giving them away, leaving them in a coffee shop or something. And then others will leave a history of journal notes about what happened with the book, what they thought about it, and what they did with it. Very intriguing, that idea of recording the history of an item which is passed from person to person.
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