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« Previous EntriesSued for automating email
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Polaris IP filed a Lawsuit yesterday against
AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC, and Yahoo. They claim they hold the patent to basically processing email automatically with a computer.
The patent was filed in 1998, although according to a unix program name vacation they were doing this in ‘83!:
vacation is Copyright (c) 1983 by Eric P. Allman, University [...]
HP Recalling Batteries
Saturday, October 15th, 2005RED HERRING | HP Recalls Notebook Batteries
HP is recalling 135,000 battery packs in HP and Compaq notebooks cuz they might melt the laptop case.
Magic Germ Wand
Saturday, October 15th, 2005Pretty crazy, this plasma wand disinfects. I need one so I can become OCD.
Plasma pencil kills germs
Save 101.1 KLOL
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004Everyone sign this petition. Our local radio station, Rock 101.1 KLOL, which has been around for 32 years was shut off last Thursday and switched to all Latino music. All the DJ’s were either fired or moved to other Clear Channel stations. Now we have no rock station in Houston!
Save Houstons Rock 101 Petition
College Girls Stats
Monday, October 25th, 2004NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) — Higher education leads to kinky fornication if a new survey of college girls is any indication.
“Maxim” magazine recently polled college gals about their lives and learned that most are concentrating on fornication, not education.
For instance, 69 percent of coeds claim they’ve had sex with a guy when their roommates were [...]
Brain in a dish
Monday, October 25th, 2004Oct. 22, 2004 — A University of Florida scientist has created a living “brain” of cultured rat cells that now controls an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator.
Discovery Channel :: News :: Brain in a Dish Flies Plane
Pace Up Onda Blog
Tuesday, June 8th, 2004Andy started his own weblog: “P.A.C.E.“
No Dodgeball = World of Pussies
Monday, April 26th, 2004Okay, what is this world coming to? I think we are raising the future pussies of America. How do we expect to raise men to protect our country if we treat them like flower holding pussies all of their childhood. Kids need to lose, kids need to get hurt, kids need to be made fun [...]
Walmart Driving Netflix away
Monday, April 19th, 2004Walmart has begun an online DVD rental site, just like NetFlix.
See wal-mart’s page here. I think i’ll sign up for a netflix account.
Walmart.com - DVD Rentals
Ozzy Molested?
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003“I was sexually abused when I was a kid,” the heavy-metal icon told the Mirror. “Two boys used to wait for me to come after school. Then they would f–k around with me. They didn’t f–k me, but they messed around with me.
Read More : Yahoo! News - Ozzy: I Was Molested