doom writes "Charles Stross has announced that there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy because reality (in a manner of speaking) has caught up to him too fast The last straw was apparently the news that the NSA planted spies in networked games like WoW. Stross comments: 'At this point, I'm clutching my head. Halting State wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter-- what else are the NSA up to?).'"

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It’s safe to say that if you use a pay-phone these days, you went wrong somewhere in life. They still have uses mind you, handy if you need to seek shelter from the rain or if you’re 15, live at home and want to make out with your girlfriend.

There’s a good argument that the phone booths of old be turned into free wi-fi hotspots, how good would that be? But until that happens, artist Benedetto Bufalino and designer Benoit Deseille have an entirely new concept for the humble box of steel – turning it into a fish tank. A touch of nature in the urban jungle as it were.

Their unique art installation has proved wildly popular with locals and tourists during its tour all over Europe. Who knows, you might even be lucky enough to see it replacing that abandoned phone booth on your local street corner one day.

Via Benedetto Bufalino 

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Thank you all so much. I'm sitting in an airport with a dying battery, but seriously, I have not felt so unstressed in a long time. More on this later, promise!