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Thursday, May 24, 2007
  Expectations

"Expect more American soldiers and Iraqis to die in the summer."








 
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
  Microsoft happier with the FUD
Linus Torvalds Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims

Linus Torvalds, lead developer of the Linux kernel, has a sharp retort to Microsoft executives' statements in a Fortune magazine article that Linux and other open-source code violate 235 Microsoft patents.

"It's certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does," said Torvalds, holder of the Linux trademark. If the source code for Windows could be subjected to the same critical review that Linux has been, Microsoft would find itself in violation of patents held by other companies, said Torvalds. [..]

Microsoft should name the patents that it claims have been violated so the claims can be tested in court or so open-source developers can rewrite code to avoid the violation, Torvalds wrote. [..]

"So the whole, 'We have a list and we're not telling you,' itself should tell you something," Torvalds said of Microsoft's stance in the Fortune story. And for good measure, he added: "Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'" -- [InformationWeek]


 
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
  Exercises in Style, a special Queneau case
Exercises in Style
was written by
Raymond Queneau (original title in French: Exercices de style).
It's a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style.


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In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man
with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St.-Lazare getting advice on adding a button to his overcoat.
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wiki

-- and another piece of Queneau-cake ->> Zazie

 
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
  Corporate News
 
You know Stone's 'Hidden History of the Korean War'?

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