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February 21, 2002
Archive of the Web:
The "Wayback Machine" at the Internet Archive is extremely cool, and a bit scary. It lets you find old or dead web sites. They take a complete snapshot of the entire web every so often, and archive it. You can type in a given website or URL and see the content on various dates (thanks to Pat Galea). 
February 14, 2002
Copyleft:
Interesting discussion of notion of "copyleft": The Great Giveaway: Good ideas are worth money. So why are hard headed operators giving them away for free?, by Graham Lawton, NewScientist.com. It's interesting to note that though the (often leftist) advocates of the copyleft idea seem to brand themselves as radical opponents of copyright (and private property, capitalism, commercialism, profit motive, etc.), the very notion of copyleft requires there to be copyright. This is because copyleft is really just a special type of copyright license, one that gives users of a copyrighted work virtually unfettered permission to use/copy/distribute/modify the work--but only "on the condition that" similar "copyleft" is given in the subsequent work. Without copyright, there could be no copyleft. While copyleft is an admittedly clever use of copyright, advocates of copyleft are also necessarily advocates of copyright.
February 13, 2002
Incivility at the PTO:
Examiner Obscenity: in a purportedly genuine Official Action sent by an Examiner at the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to a patent applicant (see Paragraph 8) (JPG file, 116Kb; courtesy PATNEWS)
Voicemail message, with increasingly frustrated obscenities, purportedly left by trademark applicant/appellant with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) (WAV file, 1.3Mb)
February 10, 2002
Words that Bug Ya:
I've updated my list of Annoying and Pretentious Terms & Figures of Speech. Suggestions/comments welcome.
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