The addressing system for the internet that caught on, IPv4 has 2^32 addresses (that’s 4,294,967,296). Vint Cerf thought that would be plenty and at the time in 1981 not many would argue with him.
But now there are many more people in the world and lots of those people want to use the internet. They might share a device, or they might have access to many more and each of those devices needs an address to talk to the internet.

Today the last blocks of addresses were handed out the the regional authorities who will then hand out smaller blocks of addresses to ISPs. So this is it we’re near the end.

Soon to add a new device to the internet we will be forced to use something else. But in most cases we’re not ready for it. We were talking about it when I was at Uni, we were still talking about it a few years later in 2007 when I went to a RIPE course and we are still yet to switch it on in many cases in 2011.

Further reading:
The great articles by Iljitsch Van Beijnum at Ars.
Geoff Huston‘s countdown and writings.
Test your own connection.
Find out how long our region (Europe) has left.

Maxvoltar – Dreaming of an Apple Tablet.

Nice idea, but Apple did it before with the Duo Dock (that’s not to say they won’t do it again).

Idea:
Why has noone written a mash-up site combining all of the UK channels on-demand services via RSS or something?

Get a schedule feed of all the channels and match the shows to the relevant catch up service.

If the Shuttle ever had to land there it might be carted away like this:

Discovery on a 747

• Telescopes, Binoculars, Spotter Scopes, Microscopes and Astronomy Accessories –
• David Hinds Ltd – Telescope Shop
• The Mac in Astronomy –
• REUBEN | We Should Have Gone To University – rare and unreleased material!!!
• Manchester City Galleries – Public Art – Locations of Public art in Manchester city centre

• GPN-2000-001087 – "EVAtion" – I used to have a close-up of this image as a poster in my bedroom growing up.
  I still find it absolutely amazing.
• Google Moon –
• Buzz Aldrin: Engineer, Rapper, Heart-Breaking Realist | Boing Boing Gadgets –
• YouTube – Turbulent Tanking – Mesmerising – a fighter jet mid-air refeuling.
• Remembering Apollo 11 – The Big Picture – Boston.com –

• National Trust Names: Map a name (1998) – where is your surname from?
• Sale Sharks Official Fixture List 2009/10 – HTML version.
  Should be able to go from this to iCal, Google Calendar etc.
• Cory Doctorow: Stop worrying, Hollywood – nobody is stealing your films with mobiles | Technology | guardian.co.uk – They do bag searching at the Vue in Bury, I think it's disgusting treatment of the very people that fund the industry in the first place.
  Not only do they check bags but halfway through the film a member of staff walks in looks at the audience from one side then walks ACROSS THE SCREEN and looks from the other side.
• The computers that put man on the moon | 13 Jul 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com – bit of 40th anniversary nostalgia for you
• YouTube – C’etait un Rendez vous – I've been looking for this for a long time,
  Kottke's description:
  In 1976, Claude Lelouch mounted a camera on the front of his Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 and drove through the streets of Paris — running red lights, jumping curbs and possibly reaching speeds upwards of 120 mph — before reaching his date near the Sacré Coeur. The result is the film C'était un rendez-vous, 8 uncut minutes of insane urban driving.
• O2 Digital News Centre: Turning on Twitter Texts –

• Penny Red: Push the button, save the world: Torchwood and the British state –
• England Squash and Racketball – list of local courts
• Fairways Lodge and Leisure club – squash club
• Computer learns sign language by watching TV – tech – 08 July 2009 – New Scientist –
• A Whole Lotta Nothing –

• ps3mediaserver – Google Code –