IBM flushes restroom patent.  The company has quietly eliminated a patent it received on a method for determining who gets to use the bathroom next.  [CNET News.com]

Critics have charged that too many patents in recent years don't pass the smell test, because they cover "obvious" inventions.

They are kidding, aren't they?  Please tell me they're kidding.  Boy, does this one belong in topic.itzagas or what?  ROTFLOL... 

The Economist: Free Mickey Mouse  [Tomalak's Realm] 

Carter takes out Nobel Peace Prize.  ABC Online [Australian Broadcasting Corporation] - Former US president Jimmy Carter has won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, in a move intended as a criticism of current President George W. Bush's stance on Iraq.  [MyFreePress.com] 

Radio stream:  KPLU All Blues
[more at A Blander Blog via The Scobleizer Weblog]

Related sites:  Public Interactive | KPLU.org 

Heroin arrests net 13 people  "... the most humorous moment came after Melissa Irene Pratt, 42, of Modesto realized that she had been sold a $20 chunk of Tootsie Roll. After undercover officers drove away and marked patrol cars moved in to arrest Pratt, she promptly informed the patrolmen that she had just been ripped off."  [The CampinGuys Radio Weblog] 

>>  This cool personal webspace is bubbling over with personality and left me feeling quite inspired...  [Coolstop Daily Pick 10/11/02] 

Doc Searls:  "It's only natural for the industry to protect itself. But there also needs to be some introspection about the changed market conditions that invite the piracy in the first place. The Net and the CD-R are facts of market life now. What the industry is trying to protect is an obsolete and overpriced distribution system." 

Charles Miller:  "I recently discovered a bug in Internet Explorer version 6 that causes random type in my weblog's sidebar to disappear. In a competetive environment, this would be IE's problem. In the real world, it's mine." 

October 2002

 


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