Have you read Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools? It's a blog of neat-o stuff, written at first by Kevin Kelly (one of the Whole Earth Catalog originals) himself and now by a whole team of thoughtful individuals.
Update: There's going to be a Whole Earth talk at Stanford on Thursday, November 9th, with several panelists from the early days, including Kevin Kelly.
Gary sent me this clip about this new(?) Japanese movie that's coming out: Yo Yo Girl Cop. At first I thought it had something to do with the Tokyo hip-hop scene, but it's way cooler than that:
I may be primed to like this, since I recognize the weapon as something used in my favorite kid cartoon of all time, G-Force:
If you haven't heard of G-Force, you might want to read up on it. For starters, the original name of the series was Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. For another thing, they dressed like this when not fighting crime: