Good grief - where do I put this gem from Wired?

'Musings' seems like the best choice for this diatribe against genetic engineering the human race. Although it could go into 'Technology' or 'Asatru' or even 'Patently Copywronged '.... sooner or later, if this happens, you can bet even money that somebody'll patent a human being.
11:05:54 PM     comment []

From Daring Fireball comes news of a bevy of command line utilities for OS X. These include command line PHP - one of the most useful little languages I've run across, and a appswitch utility... once I get back from the Moot I've gotta get some of these.
11:01:32 PM     comment []

A very nice article from Scientific American on the absurdities in the modern patent process.
11:15:00 AM     comment []

The father of the relational database has dropped normal form ... his books and ideas were not only groundbreaking and interesting, they were useful.

Edgar Codd, database theorist, dies at 79. The mathematician laid the theoretical foundation for the standard method by which information is organized in and retrieved from computers.
The New York Times [CNET News.com]
11:13:14 AM     comment []