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Why I’m a Mac User

[Richard Scoble](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/) of Microsoft asked: > “Mark: tell me what you can do on a Mac that you can’t do on a PC? > Give me, say, five examples. Here’s your chance to do some great > advertising for Apple. The kind they can’t buy.” While I don’ feel the zealous need to defend my ...

$1bn to build unmanned fighter

A US defence contractor has received more than $1bn in funding to build a prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military. Northrop Grumman will build at least three full-scale flight prototypes for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) over five years The contract win will allow Northrop to continue work on its ...

Plagiarism Detectors

A survey of around 350 undergraduates found nearly 25% had copied text from another source at least once. A new service that can scan 4.5 billion web pages is now online so that lecturers can check the originality of the work submitted by students. I wonder how much of this plagiarism would be avoided if ...

Teen arrested bootleggin Spider-man 2′

A 16-year-old was arrested early Wednesday in a theater showing ‘Spider-man 2’ after a projectionist using night vision goggles saw him using a camcorder to make an illegal copy of the superhero sequel. Pretty amazing to think that NVGs are so inexpensive that even movie theatres can give them out now. I wonder how long ...

Open Clip Art Project

Open Clip Art Project | Creative Commons Kind of surprises me that we haven’t seen a big project like this in the past. It would be nice to have a large, open, royalty-free library though. Might be a good way for artists to try and get some exposure. It seems like this collection could grow ...