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[Day Permalink] Saturday, March 1, 2003

[Item Permalink] Stunning images of snow crystals -- Comment()
Snow Crystals: "This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes, and how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures appear, quite literally, out of thin air.   The many facets of snow crystals are described here, along with our attempts to understand their formation." (via Slashdot)


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Nader on patent suckitude: "Name one genius inventor who has gotten rich from a software patent. There must be some, but the system mostly benefits a handful of businesspeople and lawyers who don't write code. Look at British Telecom. It took years before BT's patent lawyers "discovered" the company had invented hypertext linking. Now General Electric claims it invented the JPEG file format. If GE is so smart, why did it take so many years to figure out it invented such a popular technology? Which genius inventors get rich on such claims?" [Boing Boing Blog]