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Earlier this week, there was plenty of buzz going around concerning an effort to draft Larry Lessig to run for Congress in the seat opened up by the unfortunate passing of Rep. Tom Lantos in the 12th Congressional district in California (most of San Mateo county). I pretty much brushed it aside as idle speculation, but Lessig has now admitted that he is seriously considering a run for Congress and has put up a website with a video concerning a p
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Videoegg, the one-time video startup that sort of competed with YouTube and sort of competed with BrightCove (very different companies), has basically transitioned itself into a very robust rich media advertising network. In August 2007 they started selling ad units for Facebook applications. Since then they’ve expanded to include advertising for many other sites, including [...]

Erick reported February 15 that a Facebook group was trying to draft Stanford Law professor and free culture champion Lawrence Lessig to run for Congress. It took 5 days but they may get their way with Lessig announcing Lessig ‘08, a site that will host an introduction to his “Change Congress Movement,” (video above) as [...]

Kingston Technology is offering an easy way to transfer files from a PC to a phone, especially one without card slots - the DataTraveler Micro Reader.

Not just any old arcade machine, the Dream Authentics Tabletop Arcade Machine offers 150 gaming classics and can even double up as a jukebox.

Cuban exiles celebrate news that Fidel Castro's grip on homeland has loosened

Barack Obamawins ninth successive Democratic primary in Wisconsin. Suzanne Goldenberg says that he is eating into Clinton's coalition of support

Barack Obama last night streaked past Hillary Clinton's fading campaign to his ninth and tenth straight victories in Wisconsin and Hawaii

Greg Zanis' Dream Car is a solar-powered pyramid on four wheels that he built at home with the help of his two sons. Deceptively fragile, this little one-seater weighs in at 8,000 pounds, but its 80 batteries powering four electric engines really make it shift. Find out how fast, and watch the video of it pootling along a wintry Illinois street, after the jump. Greg claims he can get his dream car up to 45 mph. The vehicle can run for 80 miles on
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The process of converting your HD DVDs to Blu-ray is time-consuming, potentially costly and sucks balls. Really, there's almost no reason to, since you can bet most everything on HD DVD will be released on Blu, and if you have a million HD DVDs you don't wanna rebuy, you should just buy a dual format player. But if you revel in pain, here's how to do it, thanks to the crazy video guys at Doom9. First, get an HD DVD ripper—DVD Fab HD Decryp
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Sony has just released its first Bluetooth (A2DP) enabled PMPs; the NW-A829 (16GB) and NW-A828 (8GB). With support for MP3, WMA, ATRAC, Sony PCM and AAC / High Efficiency AAC, as well as MPEG-4 / H.264, they come with enough playback potential to make these players good contenders for a space in your pocket / heart. The 2.4-inch (320 x 240) LCD display may be on the small side for serious video viewing, but the PMPs are slither thin at 9.3mm wide
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Filed under: Storage Are you searching for some way to express your devotion to the Wii, but trapped in a corporate job that might disapprove of ill-considered tattoos or Mario outfits? Well, at least you can cart around your Excel spreadsheets in style -- check out these Wiimote lookalike Wedisk flash drives from SolarMemo. The A button releases the USB connector... and that's about as much fun as you can have with it, short of miming your sick
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Filed under: Gaming The idea of wearing a funny hat to mind control software is certainly nothing new 'round these parts. Now Emotiv Systems returns with an update to their Project Epoch USB headset. Crave went hands-on with the system which required a short, six-second calibration before entering the first "game." At that point, Crave was able manipulate a simple cube on the screen with varied success at making it disappear or pull forward. Oooh
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A major earthquake shook western Indonesia Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site. The preliminary magnitude was listed at 7.6.

Deaths most common after 11 p.m., study finds Many hospitals call it "code blue," a signal sent over the intercom when a patient's heart has stopped. When code blue works well, a team speeds to the bedside and revives the patient.

Interior Ministry says action will protect them from al-Qaida The Iraqi Interior Ministry ordered police yesterday to begin rounding up beggars and homeless and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad and other cities to prevent insurgents from using them as suicide bombers.

High court rejects ACLU challenge to Bush's warrantless eavesdropping policy The Supreme Court dismissed yesterday a challenge to President Bush 's order authorizing the interception of some phone calls and e-mail within the United States, dealing another defeat to civil libertarians who say the president violated the law.