The latest Kinect hacks are coming out so fast and furious that I might actually have to create a dedicated page. In the meantime, I found FOUR cool videos to highlight this time, instead of just three. There were just too many cool hacks to choose from.  You can browse more videos at Kinect-Hacks.com or KinectHacks.net.

1) Carnegie Mellon students led by Maya Irvine create comic book-style Kinect.

2) Samia Ahmed jeopardizes the jobs of thousands of spotlight operators by creating Automatic spotlight.

3) Timothy Sherman uses the Kinect to auto-create 3D virtual reality landscapes out of any objects.

4) David Stolarsky of Austria creates the Swimbrowser.

We're filing this sad article under our brand new "Law of Unintended Consequences" category, where idealists act in ways that result in the complete opposite of what they intended. The dictator Robert Mugabe has been trying to kill his main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for quite some time.

To summarize the linked article, Mugabe has had Tsvangirai tortured and arrested on several occasions. The last assassination attempt wounded Tsvangirai but managed to murder his wife. Now, thanks to Wikileaks, secret communications between Tsvangirai and sympathetic Western officials have been exposed. This windfall is now providing Mugabe with the legal pretense to execute Tsvangirai on the grounds of treason, a goal he had been long trying to accomplish in secret.  20 years of real suffering, struggle and martyrdom by the Zimbabwe opposition, flushed down the toilet, all in the name of "transparency."

Make no mistake, if the execution happens, the ...

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