Tuesday, December 9, 2008

09-Dec-2008 AM clippings

Enjoy:

The Clippings author takes a week sick comes back to find the UK has blocked Wikipedia over a 1970's Scorpions album cover:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wikipedia/

Adobe Systems announces Zeotrope, an interactive wayback machine for viewing and monitoring changes in the web over time:
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=183

An entire class fail to get their diploma after their teacher tells them to save in MS Word format, when they should have advised PDF:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/08/cotelands_word/

And finally. Research from the University of Manchester suggests the humble cold sore virus may be responsible for Alzheimer's Disease:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081207134109.htm

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