6. March, 2004 - Bill Gates will save us
- Bill Gates says you should buy stamps to send e-mail, but of course it would be Microsoft who’d be selling the stamps (though you’d pay with CPU cycles, rather than money) and who would own the patents on printing them. Sounds like there are probably a lot better ways to combat spam without selling your soul. [slashdot]
- My post about how to land a 747 the other day led to Karl wondering if a Boeing 767 runs out of fuel at 41,000 feet what do you have? Answer: A 132 ton glider with a sink rate of over 2000 feet-per-minute and marginally enough hydraulic pressure to control the ailerons, elevator, and rudder. Put veteran pilots Bob Pearson and cool-as-a-cucumber Maurice Quintal in the cockpit and you’ve got the unbelievable but true story of Air Canada Flight 143, known ever since as the Gimli Glider. I think I initially saw this on AVWeb, but I can’t find the link just now. [karl]
- Menu Calendar looks like it might be a useful bit of Mac software. It even lets you click on a date in the calendar that pops up to get right into iCal. [vowe]
- Sheriff’s Web site operator sought $300,000 from county for a website he’d started doing on a volunteer basis. When he shut it down because they wouldn’t pay, the sheriff’s department hauled him in on extortion charges and confiscated his equipment. Asking $300,000 took some real balls, but he made sure that he’d actually owned the website all along, so I think it’d be a shame if any of the charges stick. Sounds like a very good reason to have a contract in place. [slashdot]
- Political Dish Crossword Puzzle (Interactive) is a funny political crossword puzzle from a liberal point of view from Mad Kane that uses Java. It doesn’t seem to be completely happy with the Mac version of Java, though.
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Last updated on Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:56:04.