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Pulitzer Prizes Missing – No Wait They’re on E-Bay

By jus ⋅ October 8, 2007 ⋅ View Comments

What are the chances that this isn’t some kind of publicity stunt. How is it possible to be clever enough to steal the pulitzer prizes from a locked case inside a locked safe in a secure area in a business and then be stupid enough to sell them on e-bay? Who knows – but the [...]

Penny Black Stamps

By jus ⋅ July 5, 2007 ⋅ View Comments

I am losing heart with the battle with spam. Incredibly, almost 90% of internet traffic is composed of spam with the number expected to hit 99% in the next few years. Efforts by AOL and Yahoo to charge for e-mail delivery begins to look like the more attractive option.

Correlation Patents

By jus ⋅ March 19, 2006 ⋅ View Comments

Patent Office in Violation of Patent – That’s the headline I want read some day. Michael Crichton (yea – that one) has written a New York Times Op-Ed piece on a the use of correlation patents in the biomedical industry. Anyone who thinks the patent office and associated industries isn’t ripe for an oversight body [...]

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