The Guardian report of a new drug called cheese. It sounds pretty rank and not like any dairy product I’d like to sample.

Cheese-like heroin killing Texan teens

This will do nothing for the reputation of the wonderful stuff whose name they’ve nicked. I’d far rather it was known as “Joss Ackland’s Spunky Backpack” instead.

Former EFF employee, current boing-boing co-editor and sci-fi author discusses freedom, legislation and the information age. He covers the inaccuracies of futurology, and the unexpected revelations that real innovations bring, and discusses his book “Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present”. It’s a long one, and I’ll confess to not having watched until the end of the 56th minute before posting it, but this looks like a Good Thing(tm).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgXwmXpaH2Q

Part of the Authors@Google series, the event took place on May 21st 2007.