All may not be lost

It seems that some Dutch activists have been hard at work trying to reverse the Council of Ministers vote that overturned the European Parliament amendments to the European patent clarification act.

Euro 2004

How true it is.

Police slap cuffs on Punk SMSer

An article at The Reg about a guy who sent lyrics from The Clash's Tommy Gun to the lead singer of his tribute band. 'pparently he used the wrong phone number and sent it to some lady in Birmingham. A month later Special Branch are knocking on his door ...

The lyrics in question? "OK - SO LET'S AGREE ABOUT THE PRICE AND MAKE IT ONE JET AIRLINER AND TEN PRISONERS"

Generic names for soft drinks by county

Amusingly enough, the map doesn't explicitly have a section for "soft drink", nor the term my parents use: "fizzy drink." Some remarkably sharp deliniations though.

More Scientific American stuff

Yay! and Doh!

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Mitochondrial Mutations Blamed for Aging

So in addtion to telomerases, we need to re-engineer our mitochondrial DNA polymerase-gamma. Still, progress.

frontline: the way the music died | PBS

Off the airwaves, onto the web, nothing but link.

Freedom to Tinker

So instead of talking about copyright, I'll let someone else do the talking.

Science & Tech. at Scientific American.com: The Myth of the Beginning of Time

An article at Scientific American.com on the subject of cosmology raises an interesting idea -- String theory suggests that the big bang was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state. There are a bunch of other feature articles at the bottom of the page that are interesting too ... check out the one about wolves at Yellowstone.

Occupation: Girl - Troy in Fifteen Minutes

This is spittingly funny.

Cicadaville.com - Premier Cicada information source

Cicadaville.com - Premier Cicada information source

RIAA accounting practices considered harmful

Today's Good Morning Silicon Valley has a heap o' links about how RIAA bases their sales figures on distributor-to-store shipments and not POS figures. Seems that if you look at POS figures sales have actually increased. So there.

But ...

It doesn't handle <pre> blocks very well. Nor does it handle long words. Wrapping sucks. I shall endeavour to be clever. (and fail, oh yes)
Oh well, as they always say, it's the endeavour that counts in horseshoes.

Dead saxy

Mah new template is daid saxy

Hatemail

It seems that I am a twit. The presence of an email address has resulted in (*gasp*) spam. So I changed my template a tiny, wee, bit.