Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/technology/04library.html

The perspective from this article is really off. They talk of the Google book project as the only effort to create a public repository of digitized books, to the point of starting off by suggesting that now that a federal judge in New York has derailed Google’s plan that the dream of of a universal library dead.

Really? have you never heard of project Gutenberg, the Internet Public Library or the Open Library Project? Chalk up another one for clueless journalism.

and speaking of clueless...
Transocean Ltd. gave its top executives bonuses for achieving the "best year in safety performance in our company's history" — despite the explosion of its oil rig that killed 11 people, including nine of its own employees, and spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42393722/ns/business/

sigh, our world is doomed.

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today's photo

Scooby, drunk again, is just begging for some meddling kids to do an intervention