SAGE, as seen on Slashdot and Digg, is a mathematical modelling and computation tool. I’ve never used Mathematica or MATLAB so I don’t exactly have a need for this but I’m sure someone may get some use out of it. It uses Python as its scripting language so it should be easier to extend than using a custom language.

The eGames & Entertainment Expo for 2007 is set to start next weekend at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. It sounds like it will be a decent weekend of gaming goodness so I’m quite keen to go. Any readers thinking of attending?

A guide to metric time. An interesting concept but I think an even better implementation will need to be worked out – “Anglo-Babylonian Time” is just far too ingrained into everyday life, even more so than measures of distance, temperature, etc (interestingly, many SI units inherently depend on the second as well).

Ars Technica has a lengthy review of Mac OS X “Leopard”.

Songbird, a music player with tight integration with the web, has been released at version 0.3.

A Melbourne University PhD student has developed technology to make broadband internet up to 200 times faster without having to install expensive fibre optic cables. 250Mb/s ADSL would be nice.