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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

News from the world

Today's selection

1) Spanish people have a yearly tomato fight, which produces amazing red-tone pictures.

2) Good people create an open standard to format documents, XML. Everyone thinks "oh cool, yeah". Then some vile troll makes a software patent that says "I will use that open standard to format documents", the patent gets approved, and the trolls sue Microsoft for using the open standard. Go software patents!

3) Entropy law of defamation: it takes a hundred people to build a good reputation, but it takes just one to ruin it. Here's applied to Katrina and New Orleans and generally the behavior of people during disasters.
Posted by Mattia at 5:21 PM
Labels: cock-ups, computer, euro, law, news, other fun, united states

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