If you work in the tech industry, you must listen to this … if you don’t, you should still listen. This is a fantastic overview of why our patent system is screwed up when it comes to software. Any lawyers or lawmakers out there that want to start a movement to eliminate software patents???

Very impressive work.

Arial side by side photos showing before and after the quake. Terrible.

Somebody please tell me what I am missing??? I can’t find the word ‘box’ in any of the dictionary files on my Mac.

chris@The-Book dict $ pwd
/usr/share/dict
chris@The-Book dict $ ls -l
total 2176
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      516 Jun 22  2009 README
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      706 Jun 22  2009 connectives
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     8640 Jun 22  2009 propernames
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2486813 Jun 22  2009 web2
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1012730 Jun 22  2009 web2a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel        4 Aug 28  2009 words -> web2
chris@The-Book dict $ grep ^box$ *
chris@The-Book dict $ 

What a wonderful way of looking at ‘things’.

Fantastic. I can’t imagine it catching on, but it looks pretty cool.

Beautiful artistry.

Give a damn, dammit.

Brilliant.

My Lucy is a celebrity now!

Oh, and you should download this app and click on the ads.