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Two crazy Nameless pavement pounders - Rach and Leroy - are heading to the Big Apple in November to run the NY marathon. Check out their blog and dig into your pockets and help them raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity

To be honest, we're putting our money on Leroy to cross the line first BUT for Rach to hit £1500 in sponsorship first.

However, we're just glad we don't have to depend on Adam running (and finishing) the marathon, especially after his pitiful efforts last night (on his bike, we might add) following Team Nameless on their 6 mile training run last night in Ashton Court!

Internet will soon be more popular than TV

Microsoft have just revealed that a new report, called 'Europe logs on: internet trends of today and tomorrow', predicts that by by June 2010 the internet will become the main station for home entertainment in Europe.

It seems we're in the right business. Eastenders anyone?

Birdie song. Tweet. Tweet.

We're not planning on posting as many tweets as Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) or beating Ashton Kutcher's (@aplusk) million followers, but we'll give it a damn good try. So, if you're not signed up already, get yourself twittering and follow us @namelessmedia.

stem cells from human fat?

Getting stem cells from human fat may not be a very appetising idea, I agree, but it's still kinda cool that there are other uses for the fat stuff given that people in the western world are generating the stuff by the tonne! It looks like you can get stem cells from lots of different sources if you know where to look :-).

google prefers that you don't use URL rewrites....

This is quite an interesting turnaround given that a couple of years ago, Google was actually recommending URL rewrites as best practice. For the discussion, take a look a the search engine round table's take.

open rights group meeting in Bristol?

I got a rather useful alert through pledgebank this morning saying that:

There's a new pledge near BS1.

1 mile away: 'I will organise a meetup for people to hear about
the Open Rights Group in Bristol but only if 15 other local
people will come.' -- Alaric Snell-Pym

Click for more info or to sign the pledge:
http://www.en-gb.pledgebank.com/orgsouthwest

I'm interested so I'll be going unless the event clashes with something. There has been much happening in the realms of the EU about privacy, digital rights and how we might be losing them if we don't make an effort to understand the laws they're trying to pass...

floating islands and climate change

A Belgian architect has designed a very sci-fi-ish floating island that could house people who have lost their homes to climate change and eroding coast lines. It looks a lot like a lilypad. As this is a sci-fi concept that has come up in a number of lovely books I've read (Greg Egan et al) I'd be interested to find out if the science adds up too i.e.

1 Will it actually float? This is a materials question I guess - and with the race for incredibly strong and long carbon nanotubes full on (see stuff on the space elevator), there may well be a timeline for this sort of development too if it's not viable right now.

2 Will it be resilient to current weather extremes that the world is getting used to? I'm thinking tsunamis, hurricanes, cyclones and anything else the planet can throw at us.

3 How much will it cost? If the answers to the above two questions don't push the concept out of reality then I can see some very rich individuals commissioning their own islands just for the hell of it. No man is an island - but having one is always a bonus :-).