] Apple Computer is attempting to patent the user interface
] for its IPod music player with the U.S. government.

Haven't we been through this before ...

Apple Seeks IPod Patent

] Internet music piracy is not responsible for declining CD
] sales, claim the researchers behind a major new
] statistical study.

Once again...

Net music piracy 'does not harm record sales'

]
]
] America Online on Tuesday unveiled a sweepstakes to tout
] its success in fighting spam: the Dulles, Va.-based
] Internet provider will give away a Porsche seized from a
] spammer.

HAH!

AOL To Give Away Porsche Seized From Spammer

Google now has a calculator -- looks like it has the functionality
of the unix 'units' program, as well.

Google Search: golden ratio

] At a summit here this week, delegates from around the
] world gathered to take a preliminary step toward U.N.
] involvement in some of the areas that are bedeviling
] Internet users and governments alike, including spam,
] network security, privacy and the regulation of the
] technical underpinnings that control the sprawling global
] network.

What a mess. For better or worse, the system we're stuck with
is one that requires one entity to sit in an office and hand out
numbers. ICANN, V$, ARIN, etc, serve various pieces of that role
and we have an ad hoc situation that is not really serving anyone's
interests. I don't necessarily think that putting the UN in charge
of it is the right solution but ICANN doesn't seem to be either...

United Nations ponders Net's future | CNET News.com

] The Abel Prize, often described as a Nobel Prize for
] maths, has been awarded to two mathematicians for
] unifying swathes of mathematical theories that were once
] thought to be unrelated.

Maths 'Nobel' awarded: Pair get prize for formula that counts solutions to problems.

]
] This article proposes the reservation of a special use
] TLD to allow a more convenient addressing of devices by
] general physical location or context.

I'm going to come out and say that this is *not* what DNS is for
and that this is a bad idea.

Top-Level Domains for Addressing by Physical Context

]
] Now, a team at Purdue University in Indiana, funded by
] the US National Science Foundation, has developed an
] air-based technique that, at 40W/cm2 has a cooling rate
] comparable to that of water.

Neat.

Chip cooling technology struck by lightning

]
] Philips, Sony and E-Ink have come together to announce
] the Worlds first consumer application of an electronic
] paper display module in the Sony LIBRIé e-Book reader.
] The black and white ink-on-paper look of the plastic
] display film is 170 pixels per inch (PPI) and resembles
] newsprint.

Holy shit!

Sony LIBRIe - The first ever E-Ink e-Book Reader : Handhelds : MobileMag

] Mar. 25--EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - More than two
] years after its first attempt ended in failure, NASA
] plans Saturday to fly a tiny unmanned aircraft designed
] to top 4,900 mph.

NASA to Fly Unmanned X-43A Test Plane Saturday