Web Week

Skinny TV rated a top-200 invention: A skinny rear projection TV screen of the future and personal digital video players are among this year's 200 top inventions according to Popular Science.

Best blogs baffling: There are blogs out there now for people of different strokes but included in the categories for the 2003 global blog awards is a rather baffling category for "best ecosystem playful primates blog". You can vote for your own blog but the organisers are cracking down on bloggers trying to multiple vote.

The Meatrix: Latest in the online movie sendups of the Matrix comes one concerning pigs, animal cruelty and eco farming issues.

Ban on S&M printers: It sounded like an Internet hoax but the memo can be read at snopes.com. The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term "master/slave" in product descriptions and labelling.

The stories of Taranaki: Visit the award-winning Taranaki information site to find out how the First Taranaki War began, how a rotary cowshed works or how Mt Taranaki ended up on a beer bottle!