Droid mercifully gets a manual 2.1 update option
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Reports of webOS 1.4.1 update now coming in
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RIM Announces 4th Quarter Earnings; Conference Call Takeaways: "Roadmap Will Blow You…

RIM annonced their Year-End and Fourth Quarter results today, which you can read on the press release below the break. All in all it was a solid year for RIM when you look at the year over year growth in sales and subscribers, but the stock got beat up a bit in after hours trading as investors expectations were even higher. The two surprises here were the product mix being sold (higher % of lower end devices sold than expected) and that the carriers used this quarter to blow out more of their inventory from their channels.
From Mushrooms to Mansions: Organic Building Materials [Fungus]

Philip Ross works with a mushroom farm called Far West Fungi . And on it they’re growing your future house. Or at least the nontoxic, fireproof, mold- and water-resistant building blocks for it. There are dozens of mushroom-filled shipping containers on this farm, but what Ross is after are the “fungi’s thin, white rootlike fibers” also known as mycelium





