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Nokia N800 linux tablet – not exactly sure what it can do, but it’s at least another attempt at improving the state of mobile computing.
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In case you’d like to see this sort of thing: Internet millionaire Anshe Chung being attacked by giant flying penises during a CNET-organised press interview in Second Life. Make what you will of this; I’ll just comment that if Harry Potter-style magic really worked in the real world, we now have some idea of what it would be used for.
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I watched Triumph of the Nerds recently – it was really good. One of the stories was about VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet (and the way the documentary tells it, the first killer app of any kind). The idea was never patented, and so once Lotus 123 came along, the inventors stopped getting any money, and are now conspicuously less wealthy than many of the other players in the early computer industry. I did some googling, and Dan Bricklin, the inventor of VisiCalc, has some interesting comments on software patents and VisiCalc on his blog.
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