The elements of spam.

Ce n’est pas d’accord: US group implants electronic tags in workers. (Via.)

The future is clearly multi-input touch screen interfaces. I mean, maybe the crazy infrared LED refractimacation causes syphilis or something, thus rendering my prediction totally off-base. But otherwise, just tell me whom to buy stock in, and I’ll start liquidating my 401(k). Just watch the video with a bag around your head, so it’s not too messy when your mind gets blown.

PS: Proof that I am, after all, fundamentally old-school: my first thought after seeing this was, “Whoa! If this stuff were in an e-book reader, we could replicate the interface of an actual book!!”

For those of you who’ve suffered too long with ugly Firefox themes, I have great news. Someone has finally created a Netscape theme, both beautiful and attentive to detail. If you’re using Win XP, also install the pretty Media Center theme Microsoft has made available, and your desktop will be hott like Infangelina.

A Flickr photoset pairing prose with whimsical typography. Also, a Tetris valentine. (Waxtastic.)

This Lifehacker tip on tagging your songs in iTunes is actually hella handy. Most of my songs lack the metadata to make the “smart playlists” useful. I’m totally changing that right now.

Make a stun gun out of a disposable camera. Actually, though, don’t. But now you could. Although you might prefer to make your own home theater projector (will need magnifying glass and duct tape) instead. (Ferreterrific.)

And yet they died nobly. They are the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity. And so this afternoon in a real sense they have something to say to each of us in their death. They have something to say to every minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained-glass windows. They have something to say to every politician [Audience:] (Yeah) who has fed his constituents with the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. They have something to say to a federal government that has compromised with the undemocratic practices of southern Dixiecrats (Yeah) and the blatant hypocrisy of right-wing northern Republicans. (Speak) They have something to say to every Negro (Yeah) who has passively accepted the evil system of segregation and who has stood on the sidelines in a mighty struggle for justice. They say to each of us, black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for caution. They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers. Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realization of the American dream.

OK, despite it conforming pretty well to my Web 2.0 tired-ass design checklist, I actually think Yahoo!’s test of a new home page looks purty. And what is this about Yahoo! video games?

Every week it seems another story comes out about Google’s oh-so-mysterious plans for the “dark fiber” it’s been purchasing. Does anyone else suspect the reason for the proliferation of this story is the sexy, noirish sound of the words “dark fiber”? Would we have heard twice about this if the story involved Google exploring “wavelength-division multiplexing” technologies?