machine-envy

These are my links for December 21st through December 30th:

Lawlor-Pollock News & Updates -
How SUVs Can Save the Climate � Sightline Institute -
pybeanstalk - Google Code -
Index of /~ben/funkload -
Nose Plugins: Home -
Johnny Chung Lee - Human Computer Interaction Research -
Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python - Michael G. Noll -
Is There Anything Good […]

Over Christmas, this story broke, and it made me laugh so hard I couldn’t let it pass without commenting. From the Guardian:
Egypt is planning to pass a law that would exact royalty payments from anyone found making copies of the country’s ancient monuments or museum pieces, including the pyramids.
Although the story is clearly barmy, it’s […]

In an extraordinary move the WTO has ruled with Antigua that it was illegal for the US to block online gambling. What makes this extra bizzare is that the compensation is to be claimed by allowing Antigua to violate American intellectual property.
The reaction of the US is to rewrite the rules: “In May, the […]

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This blog was drowning in spam, so some action was needed.  Lets hope the new versions of akismet and spam karma can manage the best they can offer.  I will leave the comments open on this post, so come on casino and pharmacy owners - give it your best shot!