As you may or may not know, tomorrow (May 22nd) is Pac-Man’s 30th birthday. And what better way to celebrate than embedding a playable version of the game on Google’s homepage?

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Happy Birthday: Pac-Man Google Homepage

It’s been something of a long road to this point (beginning with the company being founded by some laid off OpenMoko employees), but Qi Hardware’s ultra-compact, open source Ben NanoNote (actually, 本 NanoNote) is now shipping for just $99.

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Qi Hardware’s tiny, hackable Ben NanoNote now shipping

Consollection is a website that features every video game console every produced along with a bio of each. It’s a great reference in case you get in a drunken argument with a friend over what year the Atari Jaguar was released. And you know what else makes a great reference during a drunken argument

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Consollection: Website Of Every Console Ever Produced (Allegedly — I Never Fact-Check)

The online encyclopaedia disputes claims that the numbers of people editing Wikipedia are in sharp decline.

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Wikipedia denies editors’ exodus

The NHS and other public services must re-organise themselves around the needs of users, say social media activists.

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Web ‘threatens’ public services

A university researcher claims that far fewer people are editing the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia in 2009.

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Wikipedia ‘loses’ 49,000 editors

Astronomers have devised a web-based game that could help work out the basis of galactic collisions.

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‘Galaxy game’ helps astronomers spot galactic pile-ups

Net encyclopaedia Wikipedia to expand in Africa

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Next steps

We just got some wild information from a trusted source about Verizon’s Android strategy, and let’s just say this shakes things up a little bit.

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Verizon’s Droid is a series, not just a phone; Droid Eris coming from HTC

Boy Genius Report has thrown up a full preview of the Motorola Droid — or some prototype of it, anyhow — and any way you slice it, it looks like Android fans, Verizon fans, phone fans, and red-blooded Americans alike should all be feeling pretty good that this thing is gonna kick some ass. As if feeling and looking like a rock-solid, metallic beast wasn’t enough, Big Red’s first Android outing is said to have killer battery life — surprising, considering how mediocre the CLIQ’s is — and the seemingly flat keyboard apparently performs admirably, all things considered. Android 2.0 clips along at a nice pace thanks to an OMAP3 core, and obviously, there’s not much to complain about visually when you’re staring at a 3.7-inch capacitive display sporting roughly WVGA resolution

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Motorola Droid gets fully previewed, ‘must-have’ claims may not be far off