This is impressive, apparently Mr. John Watkins wrote an article, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” (easy readable version), asking a number of highly educated and conservative minds to predict what they believe will be in the US at the turn of the century.

What I found most impressive about this list is some of the predictions did indeed come true. While the predictors were off on the details, their general ideas were dead on. Some of them accorded only within the last 30 years. Other predictions, however, still remain pretty far fetched, even with today’s standards.

Sony has done it again. While it’s not rootkits, it is definitely in the same ball park; they attempted to “update” their DRM schema. This go around was against DVDs which inadvertently made them incompatible with a number of DVD players. Sony attempted to push off the responsibility of updating onto the hardware manufactures, but finally relinquished and have agreed to replace any DVD of theirs which cannot play due to the DRM update.

What do you get when you combine an 8bit arcade game, 6400 post-it notes and a 4 story building?

A rather impressive large scale replica of Donkey Kong, the original game were Mario made his first debut; complete with oil barrels, rolling barrels and ladders.