NorthQ DVD Player/Recorder. Interesting new danish company with an innovative product. Love the optionel plugin hard drive you can buy yourself on the street and plugin.

You take the licensing meme from the Creative Commons and the value of archiving from the Internet Archive – and you get – BBC Creative Archive.
The value of public broadcasting reinvented for the internet age – instead of public broadcasters trying to be like commercial stations.
If you added subscriptions and notifications it would be the perfect solution (hint: rsspayload!)

Sterling Rush: Dressing the Set for “24″.
A wonderful article about how simple tools/solutions created by the people who are gonna be using them can work.
If this had been the it industry someone would have tried to sell his manager an “Entreprise Continuity Solution” with a zillion options to consider, backup systems, service contracts and legal mumble jumbo.
Instead he just bought an ibook with iphoto and created a really simple solution that works in the real world.

Cory Doctorow: Metacrap
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia

IBM RVA (Not Shark) Downs Danish Bank
Good detailed analysis of the storage/database problems that took down the largest bank in Denmark, Danske Bank, for a week or so. [via Mr. Unicast]

Japan Media Review. Interesting site covering the japanese media and mobile media technology. And the site even has a very stylish simple design.

Ming the Mechanic has a good follow-up to the us=ms$ rant

The Semantic Web and Challenges – presentation by Tim Berners-Lee.

Microsoft and the Commoditization of Software. Dave Stutz resigns from Microsoft and gives this advice to his former employer.

Prada: The Science Of Desire. Amazingly detailed article on the futuristic Prada shop project. Worth a read for everyone interested in the future convergence of the digital and physical spaces.