Monthly Archives: December 2004

Philip Greenspun has an insightful post on the effect of intellectual property on long-term corporate profits. He points that, of the top ten Fortune 500 companies, only IBM seems likely derive much of its income from patents.

Oh well, Ursula K. Le Guin hated the Sci Fi Channel’s Earthsea mini-series. I still need to watch it but now I’m much less excited about it.

Google is indexing the contents of several of the world’s largest libraries, with browseable text for all public domain works.

Renowned security expert Bruce Schneier gives his security recommendations for PC users.

Cool-looking Windows, Linux, and Mac game.

The inventor of swarming downloads brings us swarmstreaming.

Approaching that $100 consumer PC Steve Ballmer wants.

The moron managers of the Manhattan apartment building where Pale Male the red-tailed hawked has been nesting for 11 years have evicted him for “safety and health reasons.”

Salon covers a plan ti kill 25,000 African elephants a year.

PubSub LinkRanks. LinkRanks are a measure of how many pages link to each particular site, with more weight given to fresher links and to links from a wider variety of pages.

Computer error t-shirts.