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A very happy birthday
To the lovely SBlake! And it's raining too! Wonderful
Don't seem to be able to upload pictures from here, sorry. You'll have to imagine the insane teddy picture until I get here from my other computer. (My other computer is a Lenovo T41. Oh, wait, that's supposed to be a prestige brand, right.....) -
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You may regret this request!
Mere_ubu asked all her friends to post kitty pictures in our blogs. Well, I can't choose, but it was easier to post all of these from Picasa straight into Blogger, so here's a link:
My blog at http://gentleartofcontemplation.blogspot.com/
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RFID goes fishing
RFID tagging is helping to establish whether falling salmon numbers are mostly due to dam building or other factors. This study compared the numbers of hatchlings that survived their journey from nursery to ocean along a river with eight dams and a river with none - survivor proportions were about the same ( Read more... ) -
The Permission Problem: The Invisible Cost of IP Law
The New Yorker talks about IP law's secondary consequences - how owners of assets (like patents, or small claims on an oil field) ask so much in compensation that works that need cooperation (like developing a drug with an impact on several 'patented' genes) don't happen. Told ya so!
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Slow-Moving Vehicle - it's always the other guy. Isn't it?
Review of a new book that examines the reasons why our experiences as drivers can be so frustrating, and why it's so hard for planners and engineers to do anything about it. The answer, as always, is 'human nature'. Gee, ain't it grand!
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