On the Telstra story, I received a note pointing out that both Telstra and the group of nine are bluffing mercilessly.  Telstra isn't really investing in its network (currently, at least) and seems to be ignoring the public interest.  The group of nine are probably just trying to make sure they get access -- bluffing in turn -- by talking about their (pretty soft) plans.

What Telstra is doing is similar to the Deutsche Telekom move that I've written about here before.  Give us complete freedom to exclude, or else we won't build the network.

On the Dandelife project, I received a few notes about the Timeline portion of the Simile project at MIT.  The website says:  "Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information."

I can't see a way to neatly pull these two additions together except by making some awkward joke about "lying about your age" (bluffing plus timelines), so I will close here.