At Skylab, a fast-growing architecture firm in Portland, Oregon, led by Jeffrey Kovel, detail is everything. To ensure that the buidings they design accurately fulfill their architectural vision, Kovel and his team take an intensely hands-on approach, supported by Macs. Apple View full entry

"Microsoft's Photosynth takes collections of images, analyses them for similarities, and then displays them in a reconstructed 3D space; will be unveiled at a conference on Thursday." BBC. | Some opinions on the competition at /. View full entry

Real estate search, events, and Wifi? Some deep spying... Via View full entry

Ladies and gentelmen meet yahoo's new sustainable architecture directory. View full entry

A Japanese cell phone company gives you instant information to anything you point your phone at, all streamed directly to you via the Internet | NYT View full entry

The New York Times takes a look at some extreme engineering approaches to solving global climate change - including manmade plastic islands to reflect more sunlight. The New York Times. View full entry

"Building on technologies like Google Earth and increasingly available digital maps, 'neogeographers' gather in Silicon Valley to swap recipes for a machine-readable planet. Annalee Newitz reports from San Jose, California." Wired. View full entry

Company forcasts profits of $2.54 billion to $2.6 billion, compared with a March forecast of $2.7 billion. reported an 18 percent drop in second-quarter profit as acquisition costs negated higher sales. read View full entry

Welcome Google Shakespeare? Yes Shakespeare's complete works are now freely accessible through Google's very useful book search engine. Is this the future of research and libraries? Reuters View full entry

Skype and Dell just announced on Wednesday that they will be joining forces and that they will be now teaming up to bring faster VoIP phone calls. The companies have agreed that every new Dell will contain software such as XPS mobile systems. Dell customers will instantly be provided with instant... View full entry

Will Artificially Intelligent structures soon be flying through the atmospheres of distant planets? The New York Times ponders this and other questions. View full entry

BBC correspondents report from some countries where web users face difficulties. View full entry

The end of an era for Times New Roman? Apparently so. MS Office 2007 deposed TNR for Calibri as the default font. via | more from Poynter on C* fonts View full entry

...from a cameraphone nonetheless...The first working prototype of the $100 Laptop is unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting, 23 May 2006. slashdot View full entry

Do you need this? of course! It's by Gooooogle...You are getting wery sleeepy...Notebook... View full entry