Porn sites could be separated from standard sites, soon.

In an effort to aide censorship of the internet, a proposition has been revived to make .xxx domains a possibility. This would help aide separation of pornographic content from standard content – .xxx domains could be blocked as easily as blocking television channels. Stuart Lawley, chairman of ICM Registry, says that  ”if the contract is signed, we could be selling names by the end of the year… those that do want to see it can; those that don’t can filter it out”.

Icann, the internet’s regulatory body, had previously given the idea a go-ahead way back in 2005, but they changed their minds 2 years later, as put under pressure from governmental parties.

The .xxx domain name was first proposed back in 2001. Maybe it’ll get approved soon.

The advertisement will be placed on ‘i lold when i saw this fish’’s page. Seems a little fishy, excuse the pun. But bidding is already up to £2.00, and it has a ‘Buy it Now’ price of £10. Seems like a clever way to generate money.

[eBay link]

Gorillaz, if you haven’t been around, are an experimental project by Blur lead Damon Albarn. While there are only 2 real people in the band, hundreds of people stand in to help make songs.

Their new album is definitely something to check out, and I suggest you do. It’s $12.99 for the full version, or $9.99 for the standard.

[iTunes Link]

It works like this – the “piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester” – that means the thing that captures the kinetic movements of the phone – will turn the kinetic energy from moving your phone about and regenerate it into electricity – to charge the smaller-than-usual battery.

Not only should this theoretically make the phone a lot lighter, but understandably it’d make the phone charge by going for a jog or running around. Of course, there’s no possible way it could ever overtake charging – it’d never generate quite enough electricity. But it’s an interesting idea to charge your phone for when you’re out of battery in an emergency.

Maybe there’ll be a positive side to putting your phone in a washing machine.

[Nokia Piezoelectric via Engadget]

I don’t know if you’ve ever written solo for a blog, or run a personal blog, but writing for yourself is hard, and when you’re under the weather that becomes even harder, keeping on top of tech-disconnected work as well as the website.

So yeah, like I said, being ill plain sucks for solo writers. Because you’re the only one writing, I guess it’s just painful, and my advice is get some backup writers – something I’ve tried and failed miserably at. (If you’re interested…)

Still, on the mend, so see a lot more from me soon.

The iPad is preparing for a nice launch after much anticipation later this month. But so much has risen up since its announcement, so here’s a compilation of stuff about the iPad, in short, digestible chunks.

iPad to Support Emergency Calls?

The iPad has an interesting feature – the ability to support emergency calls. Check the video below.

So yeah, the iPad may be able to make emergency calls, in order to comply with the FCC.

Wall Street Journal is Coming to iPad

Murdoch states that Wall Street Journal will be coming to the iPad. Celebrate. Quote below:

Mr. Murdoch said the Journal planned to be on Apple Inc.’s iPad tablet computer. “In fact, we’ve been allowed to work on one, and it’s under padlock and key. The key is turned by Apple every night,” he said in response to a question. “under padlock and key.”

A move to monetize and help control the quickly dying newspaper industry?

AT&T CEO states iPad will be ‘WiFi-driven, not 3G.’

Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, states:

“When you think of the iPad and how that correlates with pricing, the iPad — it is going to be interesting to see the customer reaction to the iPad. Our expectation is that it is — there’s not going to be a lot of people out there looking for one more subscription revenue stream to put on our network, as a result of an iPad. We think it is going to be a largely Wi-Fi driven product. And that is why you see the pricing of the model to be one that is prepaid in nature.

We are going to be anxious to see what the customer response to this is and how customers use it. How much Wi-Fi versus wide area network, and what will have to happen with prices over time, I don’t know. It is going to be an interesting one to watch. We think it will be mainly a Wi-Fi driven product.”

Til later.

Anyway, like said, the lawsuit is going ahead for 20 patent infringements, these vary from patents in mobile processing technology right down to UI infringement. It could be a stab at the Android operating system, but this seems highly unlikely – although HTC is the largest Android phone developer.

However, it is interesting to note that the case was filed with a local court as well as with the U.S. International Trade Commission – which don’t offer money for damages, but instead they can place a ban on imports of the product, which could seriously damage things for Google as HTC is based in Asia.

Apples complaint against HTC is embedded below.

[TechCrunch]

Plants vs. Zombies – it doesn’t get much better than this.

And now that it’s for iPhone, the fun gets better. It’s essentially a tower defense game – you have your house, and your lawn, back garden, or roof. You’ve got an an arsenal of strange and useful (or in some cases, useless) plants to fight for you – pea shooters that fire peas at the zombies, corn launchers that throw butter and kernels, and even coffee beans to wake up sleeping mushrooms.

The yard is divided into six rows and 9 columns in which zombies run and plants attack. Plant in strategic areas and plot your missions out – you get to see what kinds of zombies attack your house in the level before it starts. If the zombies reach your house, your brains are eaten and you must restart the level.

It’s cutesy fun that’s definitely worth checking out, especially for your iPhone.

Home is a virtual world for PS3 users that allows for interaction behind 'avatars'.

The suspect, Annamay Alexander.

Annamay Alexander, 43, mother of three, is currently wanted by the Oklahoma City Police Department, for seducing a 14-year-old child on Playstation Home. She met the child via the Home service, and began to message him, even sending him photographs of her partially clothed or in her underwear. It doesn’t stop there, though. She travelled to Oklahoma to see him and his mother, saying she was there to discuss the child’s desire to engage her daughter.

The mother of the child reprimanded Miss Alexander, yet she still messaged the child saying “I love you, we are going to get married” and “My body is yours, to do whatever you want with it.”

I mean, not only is this downright creepy, disturbing and immoral in every sense of the term, but it’s just a shocker at the kind of creeps you get chilling in virtual rooms like Second Life, Habbo Hotel and Playstation Home. And maybe this could bring to light a serious complication with the Playstation Home system – but it boils down to stupidity on the child’s half. I’m sixteen, and I wouldn’t exactly accept for a woman old enough to be my own mother to try and seduce me.

Whatever. Sicko.

[Gizmodo]

The Dell Desktop range at the moment boasts a refreshed Inspiron, coming in multiple colors, an XPS tower, and an iMac-style XPS all-in-one monitor PC. Their laptop range on the other hand, boasts Minis, Inspirons, also multicolored, Studios and XPS laptops. All of which very attractive.

So yeah, check out Dell’s new range. You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

[Dell]