If you have small children you will be aware of the OMG WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO THE COMPUTER phenomenon. Here's a free program that protects you from baby's errant fingers, via Kim Komando's excellent newsletter.

The two coolest new kids on the block. Here's a write-up on the new social media darlings. Pinterest has 10 million users after two months. If you're a visual type and collect web sites you might investigate.

Did Churchill actually say he liked to travel on Italian ships because there was "none of this nonsense about women and children first"? Anything suspicious can generally be stress-tested on Snopes. Re Churchill, almost certainly not.

A report here of a prototype ASUS laptop running Microsoft's way successful Kinect gaming system. Quick! Tell your children! Much rejoicing.

Surely if you drive around for long enough you must get SOME interesting photos? Google Street View cars, each with nine cameras, have covered millions of miles of road. The Guardian has a neat little photo essay on some of the interesting results. That's an elk we're about to run over, right? 

The practical alternative to work. There's a cartoon with bonus tips for better meetings technique.

An excellent compilation of the strange depictions of viruses and malware in film and TV. From the Naked Security blog.

It's on in Perth til 19th Feb. Love a good fringe. Also like it when they wear their hair up. Programme.

It's in Milan. And not just a concept, currently under construction. Looks pretty, huh?

Two 17 year old kids in Canada sent a lego man into space and captured his journey on video. When they should have been playing video games. What is wrong with them?

The megauploads.com case is too bizarre not to read. Police arresting the guy had to cut through his safe room to arrest him. WHAT'S THE POINT OF A SAFE ROOM? 

He had 45 credit cards in his wallet (megawallet) and 3 passports (in case two get stolen). He spent $10M in a weekend and here's where it gets completely unbelievable: he moved to New Zealand in 2010.

Here's the Reuters article.

As shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES as we hugely savvy people like to call it. Here's Time's short write-up of eye-tracking software, which is actually built in to female human beings.

Just sayin'. We're not the sort of people who'd dress up in these and frighten children. No, sir.

... in the Russian Rocket Factory I broke into.