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	Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report
		But Longhorn is years away, and the patent case hurts Microsoft almost as much as it hurts Redmond’s competitors and hundreds of millions of human beings who use, design, build, manage, or own websites.
		But whether he sues others or doesn’t, the decision in the patent case will cause destruction, expense, and no small amount of suffering, and has set a dangerous precedent in favor of patents that cause destruction, expense, and suffering.
		IE Patent Endgame Detailed: A federal judge “rejected Microsoft’s post-trial claim that Eolas had misrepresented the facts in the patent case, which claimed the software giant had stolen browser technology relating to plug-ins.
	www.zeldman.com /daily/0903b.shtml (3184 words)

	Godless Science, Godless Ethics
		The more sophisticated harrumphed that the quantum mechanical view had destroyed any notion of objectivity as a property of the world it describes, replacing it with an interconnectedness that could only be interpreted as flowing from a transcendental universal consciousness.
		But this, as has been explained repeatedly in both the technical and popular literature, is patent nonsense, involving misinterpretations of quantum physics on several levels.
		My own favorite personal antidote to stories of transcendental quantum consciousness is to take out my old physical chemistry class notes from 30 years ago and look up the postulates from which quantum mechanics is derived.
	www.godless.org /science/godless-science-ethics.htm (4311 words)

	Brimstones
		Patent Nonsense: a catalogue of inventions that failed to change the world
		People of the Ice Whale - Eskimos, White Men and the Whale
		Peoples of the Sun - the civilizations of pre-Columbian America
	www.brimstones.co.uk /onlinebookshop/user/html/titles/p.html (4246 words)

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