According to Garret, several attempts were made to contact the MPAA before a takedown notice was sent directly to the ISP. "MPAA don't f*** with my s***," wrote Garret in a blog entry. "I did attempt to contact them by e-mail and phone before resorting to the more obnoxious behavior of contacting the ISP."

As Ars notes, it won't change much... MPAA will just start complying, but it's still also, as they say, "delicious irony."

MPAA’s University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation

he verdict is clear: Rarely has a president so vilified for a moral stance been so thoroughly vindicated.

Why? Precisely because he took a moral stance. Precisely because Bush was made "a little bit uncomfortable" by the implications of embryonic experimentation. Precisely because he therefore decided that some moral line had to be drawn.

Let me get this logic straight. Because Bush had a bad opinion and held up critical research long enough, this discovery is vindication of that bad opinion?

Oh Krauthammer, you never cease to amuse. And by amuse, I mean annoy or enrage.

Opinion | Bush got it right on stem cells | Seattle Times Newspaper

Addictive game....it is possible to win though...just try try again.

[ Some configurations seem more winnable; based on my limited experiences, ones that already describe a partial barrier of alternating open and closed spaces are easier. -k]

Chat Noir - Flash game

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes that the likelihood of an ultra-portable MacBook is about 85% at Macworld San Francisco.

Munster bases this prediction on circulating rumors about the ultraportable MacBook that have been making the rounds amongst Mac rumor sites over the past few months.

Well, big grains of salt are required to be attached to Munster and his ilk in general, but damn if I don't hope this is true, if only for the fact that releasing this device would reduce, by a lot, the amount of bitching I hear from a significant percentage of my friends.

Mac Rumors: Ultra-Portable MacBook Likely at Macworld San Francisco 2008?

This is surreal. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports (via TechDirt) that Ohio's Cuyahoga County—ground zero in the nationwide e-voting debacle that I've been chronicling here at Ars—is holding a "recount" of their November 6 local elections by going back to the memory cards in their Diebold touchscreen voting machines and reprinting all the paper ballots, so that they can tabulate paper copies of the votes in compliance with a law that defines the paper record as the only official record of the vote. How stupid is this idea?

Wow. Just wow.

Ohio e-voting review makes a mockery of "recounts"

God, that would be great!

PRESS RELEASE: An Alzheimer’s Vaccine? - FierceBiotech - Biotechnology Articles, Biotech Industry News, FDA Approval News

Air traffic as seen by the FAA.

The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.

Weeee airplanes are fun and pretty.

[Extremely awesome. -k]

Flight Patterns - FAA Visualizations

"I see stupid strikes, and I see less stupid strikes. I see smart strikes," Eisner said in the keynote, which was structured as a conversation with Neil P. Cavuto, senior vice president and managing editor of Fox Business News. "This is a stupid strike."

Um. Yeah, good call Eisner. Idiot.

Eisner, a well-known critic of Apple (whose CEO, Steve Jobs, is a powerful member of Disney's board of directors), suggested that the profits may be getting sucked up elsewhere. The studios "make deals with Steve Jobs, who takes them to the cleaners. They make all these kinds of things, and who's making money? Apple! They should get a piece of Apple. If I was a union, I'd be striking up wherever he is."

Apple's taking who to what cleaners? Is he on fucking crack?

Eisner's advice to striking writers: Blame Steve Jobs, not the studios | The Social - CNET News.com

I'm torn. It looks generic and kinda lame, but James McAvoy is pretty awesome, and the end of this trailer shows a scene that looks a touch like Gun Kata, which we know is cool as hell.

Wanted trailer

Akezys says: "Recently police at the Vancouver airport were attempting to question a recent immigrant that could not speak English. They tasered him after 24 seconds of speaking with him. The man had spent 10 hours stuck in the airport with no-one helping him."

Awesome! TASER is totally safe! Immigrants can fuck off and die!

Taser death at Vancouver Airport - Boing Boing