Suing Nemo: Litigation Hits The Undersea World – As if there wasn’t already enough controversy over Simba and Kimba, Toon Zone alerts us to an article at BBC News Online about an author of children’s books in France suing Disney. The author, Franck Le Calvez, claims that many of the characters in Disney/Pixar’s smash hit ...
IMF Presses World to Scrap Farm Subsidies – The world economy would gain an annual boost of 128 billion dollars if lavish farm subsidies were scrapped, the IMF said in a report. Industrialized nations spent more than 300 billion dollars last year on agricultural subsidies — six times the total government aid to developing countries, ...
chaotic intransient prose bursts: They called it “ecto” – With a new name, I felt the program should be cleaned up as well. I re-coded everything from the ground up. There are a lot of improvements now and a lot of new features, most of which have been repeated user-requests. The final product is now ...
The Echo Effect in the Blogosphere – I wish there were a Universal Story ID Number (USID)  in the blogosphere. Then I wish my RSS Feed Reader could organize my content by the USID so that I could turn off a story and all comments related to that story. [< a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/MikeWalsh/" class="extlink">Mike Walsh’s Social Software Stuff] He brings up an interesting point of how with ...
OnStar Considered Harmful – “A few weeks ago Slashdot ran an article on the privacy issues in EzPass. Some of the comments referred to other things Big Brother could do with GPS in cars, and now the New York Times has run a column on what else your car is saying about you (free registration ...
Lawsuit Against Pixar’s Finding Nemo
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2003
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