del.icio.us links for May 07, 2007

del.icio.us links for May 07, 2007

1. Women’s Knee Implants Give Zimmer A Leg Up

   For Zimmer Holdings, the bees knees are, well, knees. Women’s knees to be exact, in need of replacement by the orthopedic device company’s new gender-specific implants.

2. Get Off The Grid!

   Top 20 Cellphone-Free Vacation Spots

3. BBC fleshes out HD plans

   The proposal will kick off on 21st May and the Trust expects to have reached its decision by 21st November. This means that the BBC HD trial channel currently available to Sky HD and Virgin Media customers will continue (at least) until then.

4. BBC iPlayer approved

   The BBC last week fleshed out its plans for a vast online archive of on-demand video and audio content, but this approval relates specifically to “catch-up” television downloads, simulcast TV via the Internet and podcast audio downloads.

5. Websense to Buy SurfControl

   Websense said that its subsidiary, Websense SC Operations, has made a pre-conditional cash offer to acquire all shares of SurfControl, which makes on-demand Web and email security products. The deal is worth approximately $400 million.

6. Digg’s DRM Revolt

   Video: Digg This! Users Flex Muscle – Tuesday afternoon, Digg CEO Jay Adelson had posted a message on his blog explaining that the site was removing links to articles that featured the newly cracked HD-DVD encryption key.

16 more articles after the jump

1. The Download: Tracking iPod Rumors – Forbes.com

   (240 sec.) What will come first: Apple’s iPhone or a newer version of its money-making iPod?

2. World’s biggest remote control

   Crafted by Innovage, the imaginatively titled Jumbo Universal Remote is a whopper – measuring 28 x 12cm, it’s bigger than a human hand, in fact, it requires two to operate it comfortably. £15, (with video footage).

3. Pandora blocks international users

   They are currently working on rights deals in the UK and Canada, but there is now rod yet when the service will resume. All saved radio stations and bookmarks will be kept in the hope that the site will reopen globally in the near future.

4. No More Spyware

   U.S. House subcommittee has passed a bill outlawing spyware. Should it be passed (again) by the full House (the House has passed such bills twice before) and be passed by the Senate (for the first time) and signed by the President (ditto)

5. YouTube Learns To Share

   A small step in the right direction from YouTube: it has added some of its top user-gen stars such as LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, into its “partners” program, which means that they will begin to participate in revenue sharing as the professionals.

6. Is MySpace Making A New Friend?

   More than 70% of all users who leave MySpace and surf directly over to a photo Web site end up at Photobucket. But while Photobucket relies heavily on MySpace to provide it with users, about half of its traffic comes from other networks.

7. £99 HDMI HD Media Player Bargain!?

   a potential bargain on Amazon – the new Netgear EVA8000 at £99.39 (which appears to be more like £200 on most other sites!). There is a wait for delivery, but if this price is correct it’ll be well worth it for this state of the art, HD media player.

8. Darfur/Darfur: An architect uses her design training to bring awareness to a crisis

   When the architect, mother, and Emmy-winning art director (for art direction of the 1999 HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge) saw a photo of a victimized child in a March 2006 New York Times article about the genocide in Darfur, she was changed.

9. Toronto Marathon

   The first 2000 participants in the Marathon and Half Marathon will receive a Karbon Technical Wicking Shirt – a $45 value! All participants who register by October 1, 2007 will have their name printed on a custom bib

10. The Toronto Marathon Announces New Course

    The Toronto Marathon is excited to unveil a new course. This is the first major race route change since the event’s inception in 1995. Race day is Sunday October 14, 2007.

11. A UK fitness instructor died after Marathon from drinking too MUCH water

    A 22-year-old man died after completing his first London Marathon. David Rogers collapsed at the end of the race and died in Charing Cross Hospital. It emerged the man from Milton Keynes, UK died from hyponatraemia, or water intoxication.

12. Better Sleep Council (BSC)

    Established in 1979, the BSC is a non-profit organization supported by the mattress industry. The BSC is devoted to educating the public about the importance of sleep to good health and quality of life and about the value of a good night’s sleep.

13. May is Better Sleep Month

    Well sleep lovers unite! May is the month for you because it is Better Sleep Month. Yes, that’s right, Better Sleep Month. If you thought you knew how to do sleep well before, then you need to check out The Better Sleep Council.

14. Scraping the Heavens “The Burj Dubai Tower” -The New World-Record Building

    The Burj Dubai Tower will be at least 160 stories tall, a figure that plops another 50 stories onto the old record of 110 held by Chicago’s Sears Tower. In keeping with the project’s mysterious nature, its elevators inexplicably read up to 195 floors.

15. Amazing Breakthrough: Nanotechnology Creates New Microchip World

    In a groundbreaking application, IBM will use this “borrowed” technology to produce microchips that are 35 percent faster, and consume 15 percent less energy than the very most advanced conventional chip currently available.

16. Steve Jobs Thinks Green Apples Taste Better

    Apple plans to completely eliminate the use of arsenic in all of its displays by the end of 2008. Apple plans to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of mercury by transitioning to LED backlighting for all displays when feasible.