Irony abounds as Australia's "Open Government" censors 90% of its plans to spy on its citizens' mail and internet use to stifle debate:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/no-minister-90-of-web-snoop-document-censored-to-stop--premature-unnecessary-debate-20100722-10mxo.html
While in Austria, Linz is to have not just Open Source, but an Open Commons, Open Courseware, Open Data, advisory and coordination centre:
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/first-open-commons-region-in-the-world-linz-austria/2010/07/24?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+P2pFoundation+%28P2P+Foundation%29
Dell drops Ubuntu from its online store, claiming that advanced users will order it by phone. Are they incompetent or being lent on?:
http://www.techi.com/2010/07/get-this-damned-ubuntu-out-of-dells-internets/
India's US$35 computing device seems to be just a pipe-dream, for the foreseeable future at least:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/india-35-tablet/
And finally. A classic example of the stupidity of the "free market", viz. the 6-bladed razor. I gave up at 2 blades + slime strip:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072305083.html
Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz
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