Wired reports that BT's ill-conceived patents claim on Hyperlinking has been
tossed out by the US judge.
Good! (Also on
The Register)
Pick up Gnome and throw it as hard as you can. Try to get a High score.
Stupid, fun, and here!
The
Bush Impeachment Countdown weblog have this rather
cool Impeachometer to help to track the inevitable fall from grace of
The Shrub and his cronies..
Maybe not yet, but soon.... Here's a
relatively accurate BBC news article ( thier grasp of technology issues often leaves me bemused )
on the failure of DVD region-coding.
It's unclear whether
HamsterDance was this inspiration, but a group of scientists decided to
dope up a bunch of mice and
blast them with
rave music. Sounds like a
Denzil Dexter kind of experiment, but the scientists involved were from
Cambridge University. According to the
BBC news storyThe experiments, led by Dr Jenny Morton, involved 238 mice, some of whom were given the drugs and then exposed to music from the dance group The Prodigy at high volume.
Seven died, and some others were left brain damaged. Some others who were exposed to the classical composer Bach instead also died.
Those involved have had thier wrists slapped.
I've updated the
Blogger Archive Template page to reflect the
changes I've made here on the Cheeselog. It's not a lot different, a bit tidier tho' and the rolling limit code is a definite plus.