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Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Eldred vs. Ashcroft, a challenge of the Constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. This act extended the term of all current copyrights by an additional 20 years. The net result of this is that no currently copyrighted works will enter the […]

Thanks to Wayne Wooten, who sent me to this Ig Nobel prize winner. Surprisingly decorative and informative!

Recently I experienced something new: the excitement of rushing my wife to the emergency room for stitches. She slipped while hiking and gashed her arm pretty good on some jagged concrete. Score: 10 stitches and one tetanus shot. Today she sent me a link to the The National SafetyCouncil, who are offering an online First […]

While surfing around on sweetcode today I found a link to a project called Alphabet Soup, a wacky project by Matt Chisolm that attempts to generate slightly perverse versions of regular characters using a context free grammar that describes possible characters. For instance, the following renditions of BRAINWAGON were made by his nifty script: Pretty […]

National Geographic reports that a group of model airplane builders are about to attempt the first transatlantic crossing with a true model airplane. A model airplane must weigh less than 11 lbs, and displace no more than 10cc. Pretty damned amazing feat if they can pull it off. They have built four copies of their […]