On the death of letter writingHand written letters may be dead, but that doesn’t mean the process of thinking, communicating and creating a sense of self has been abandoned, writes James Bradley. It’s just now tweets not post cards.
Technology 
Going, going, gone: 40 technologies on life support
Do you remember receiving a grainy fax? Using a public phone booth? Making someone a mix tape? PC World examine the top 40 nearly obsolete technologies.
The little laptops taking on the big boys
A new breed of mini-laptops are threatening to take over the traditional market, and the big manufacturers aren’t happy.
The week in geek: Google powered laptops, Crackberry fans rejoice
Google powered laptops … Crackberry fans rejoice … Crowdsourcing search fails
The world smirks at Conroy’s censorship plan
The rest of the world has been smirking at Stephen Conroy’s ill-conceived plan to censor Australia’s internet for a while now, but a new study published by Brooklyn Law School is a serious embarrassment, writes Colin Jacobs.
Google/Sensis deal cuts both ways
Could it be that, post-Burgess, we have a kinder, gentler Telstra on our hands, asks AntiGeek.
What if an opposition leader joined a social network and nobody came?
Malcolm Turnbull has joined Twitter, the “micro-blogging” service that allows posts of only 140 characters. And he’s been an immediate hit, writes the AntiGeek.
WYD Web 2.0: priests on pashing
The WYD social networking site is pretty impressive stuff, especially the Ask a Priest function, writes Eleri Harris.
Crikey essay: The fiction of impartial Australian science
Our society lives with a couple of open fictions. One of those fictions is the idea that science is impartial, that it can be relied upon to form the best possible basis for public policy, writes Ben Gilna.
