it’s all about control

Curse those Mac types … they are always miles ahead of us when it comes to software availability! MacWarriors TrailBlazer is pretty cool.

Interesting: Yahoo! News – Spreadsheets: 25 Years in a Cell. What with Sarbanes-Oxley and all that jazz, I wonder if we are going to see shareholder lawsuits accusing CxOs of using inferior, misleading tools when better alternatives exist.

More analyis … Judge: File sharing legal in Canada | CNET News.com
… to quote the judge :

“The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer
where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to
distribution,” Judge Konrad von Finckenstein wrote.
“Before it constitutes distribution, there must be a positive act by
the owner of the shared directory, such as sending out the copies or
advertising that they are available for copying.”

On another note, apparently that blockquote is illegal in xhtml-transitional. I have no idea why.

Holy frijoles batman! CBC News:Online music swapping legal: court

Sure, sure, lies, damned lies and statistics. But if they support a position I like then they are rigorous scientific _proof_. Kazaa and co ‘not cause of music biz woes’, say Profs. In the words of the immortal Dave Barry: “Neener, neener, neener.”

What you can do to make the world a better place.

Ooops. I am so sorry. You have gone 24 hours longer than necessary without discovering SciDev.Net. To quote them:
“The overall aim of the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) is to enhance the provision of reliable and authoritative information on science- and technology-related issues that impact on the economic and social development of developing countries.”
Cool site. Very cool. Well, to me at least. And it’s all about control. In this case controlling who thinks what is cool around here.

New Scientist is reporting research on a 2 base pair mutation in a gene expressed in jaw muscles that could drastically affect skull size and shape.

Here ya go Kirsten … play with NationStates

An article in Nature about using iron dust and magnets to clean up spill victims. Pretty cool. (‘course it’s not yet ready for _live_ subjects … )