The G33k Show broadcasts a compendium of New Zealand's Maker and Crafter activities, from electroluminescent crochet to 3D printers:
http://theg33kshow.com/node/227
Oracle gets given permission to buy Sun by the US Justice Deparment for a cool US$7.4 billion:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8213425.stm
Microsoft patents the evolutionary tree; no prior art there eh? Yale Univerity fears multiplication table patents:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/21/microsoft_evolutionary_tree_patent_application/
Younger kids don't need or want a fully-blown office package at school. They could use Abiword, or now there's Openoffice For Kids:
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
The Arduino microcontroller platform now has a pin-compatible big brother called Maple that runs the ARM CPU. Open Source too:
http://hackaday.com/2009/08/22/maple-beats-up-arduino-takes-its-shields/
And finally. Suspicion grows that people with a higher body mass index have smaller wossnames, er, brains. Cause or effect?:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327222.400-expanding-waistlines-may-cause-shrinking-brains.html
Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz
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