Monday, March 23, 2009

23-Mar-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

IBM Is rumoured to be considering the purchase of Sun for US$6.5 billion. Is this a good deal, and for who exactly?:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10199233-92.html

One week remaining until Section 92A of the Copyright Act becomes law in NZ, unless National and the Hon. Simon Power repeal it:
http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2009/creative-freedom-foundation-one-week-until-guilt-upon-accusation-law-nz

Iran starts to move away from Windows to Linux, even though Windows can be freely copied in Iran. Security is the problem:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/21/1095651288238.html?oneclick=true

The UK gets rid of the prime minister's e-mail account:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7958135.stm

An amazing legged version of a Segway called the Cjaun Crawler. Only seems to work on flat surfaces, but moves pretty rapidly:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2199

And finally. I have heard of many things being done to sheep, but until now playing pong & creating the Mona Lisa weren't among them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw&eurl

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