The story of forced migration out of the island of Diego Garcia, so that it could be sold to the U.S., who built a military base there.

A witty article in The Guardian, from the reviewer who demolished The da Vinci Code (the book), writing about the film. Quote:
"Has our culture now created a sort of genetically modified turkey - the critic-proof product?"

A conference of synthetic biologists is discussing guidelines for the creation of new life forms. Some disturbing advances happened in 2002 when the polio virus was reconstructed from scratch, and last year when the 1918 flu virus was reconstructed from frozen body remains.

The annual Webby awards indicate a list of web sites worth visiting.