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Friday, February 14, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Opera releases "Bork" edition -- Comment()
The Swedish Chef Goes After Microsoft: Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely provided them with a broken page. As a reply to MSN's treatment of its users, Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!
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IBM abandons Intel's Itanic: "BIG BLUE has discontinued efforts to adapt Linux for the Itanium, according to IDG. IBM spokesman Ron Faveli said 'IBM doesn't have anyone dedicated to working with Linux on Itanium.'" [Google Technology News]
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Is the world that much different than when you were young? "Or are you just older and (hopefully) wiser and are just getting to see things through a different set of eyes? Now that we seem to be on the brink of a massive war, we are hearing talks about nukes, warnings of biological and chemical attacks and terrorist threat levels. These are things that don't seem to fit in to well with what my vision of the world was when I was young." [kuro5hin.org]
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Microsoft's Open Source Emissary Departs, Offers Suggestions -- Comment()
Dan Gillmor's eJournal tells that Dave Stutz, who has been Microsoft's most persuasive ambassador to the open-source community, has left the company. Stutz writes: "I've spent a lot of time during the last few years participating in damage-control of various sorts, and I respect the need for serious adult supervision. Recovering from current external perceptions of Microsoft as a paranoid, untrustworthy, greedy, petty, and politically inept organization will take years. Being the lowest cost commodity producer during such a recovery will be arduous, and will have the side-effect of changing Microsoft into a place where creative managers and accountants, rather than visionaries, will call the shots."
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Do blogs really foster conversation? "Denham, Lilia and I are debating whether blogs are indeed suited for conversation or if, on the contrary, collective spaces are needed for true dialogue. Ton, you had something to say here, didn't you?" [Seb's Open Research]
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About the Keynote XML File Format: "This Technical Note contains the schema describing the XML file format used by Keynote documents (refered to here and in later documents simply as "APXL" -- Apple Presentation XmL). It is intended for developers who wish to create or modify Keynote presentations programmatically." [ via Dan Hon > More Like This WebLog]
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New York sues drugmakers over pricing scheme: "New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday filed suit against Pharmacia and GlaxoSmithKline, charging those drugmakers with engaging in illegal schemes to boost market share at government and private payers' expense." [Reuters Health eLine]
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Mars Poles Covered by Water Ice, Research Shows: "For Martian astronauts, finding a plentiful water supply may be as simple as grabbing an ice pick and getting to work, according to California Institute of Technology planetary scientists." [Google Technology News]
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The wrath of Rumsfeld: "US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld is angry that Austria does not allow the passage of US troops through its territory, causing a delay of several days in transporting troops from Germany to Italy. [...] However, this is not due to Austrian pacifism or anti-Americanism: it is due to the neutrality treaty of 1955, signed by Austria, the USA, the UK, the USSR and France, which expressly forbids the passage of foreign troops through Austria. The problem is, this is not just your average treaty that can easilybe broken. It's the treaty that led to the withdrawal of Allied troops after World War II, and thus it's nothing less than the foundation of the democratic Second Republic built after the liberation from both Nazi rule and Allied occupation." [The Aardvark Speaks]
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Big Brother: "You think Google is "way kool"? Think again. There are people who believe that Google is a privacy time bomb, and they do have a point." [via John Robb > The Aardvark Speaks]
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The Staggering Sum of IBM's Parts: "In the last year, among other accomplishments, IBM has achieved nanotechnology breakthroughs and forged a pact to operate an Internet film service with five Hollywood studios. What do nanotechnology and Internet films have in common? Not much, except that any company involved with both -- at the same time -- shows a fearless desire to embrace what's new." [osOpinion]
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Red Hat Gets Thumbs-Up from U.S. Government: "Linux vendor Red Hat's Advanced Server platform has become the first open source application to receive a key U.S. government certification, the Defense Department's Common Operating Environment (COE), clearing the way for its use in critical government applications, including military uses." [osOpinion]
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Cool clients for Mac -- Comment()
Brain Off writes that all the cool experimental web clients are for the Mac: "First there was Watson, Webbing Effortlessly with all sorts of Screen Scraped (from Yahoo I hear) Tools. Then Spring, designing online life with by pointing, clicking, and dragging visual web services. Konfabulator looks like a sweet scriptable Widget Engine..."
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Sweet bioinformatics -- Comment()
I searched the net for bioinformatics, glycomics, and system biology resources. Here are a few pointers:
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