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A student's third best friend (after beer and ramen)

Whoever downloaded the billionth song won a new 20-inch iMac, 10 60GB iPods and a $10,000 iTunes Music Card. A music-school scholarship will also be set up in their name. Isn't that just iWonderful?

What? People don't want e-stamps on their e-mail. Surprise.

A federal judge complains about the lack of a settlement between RIM and NTP over the BlackBerry patent dispute, but fails to decide on an injunction, while RIM gains some ground by winning its second patent with the USPTO.

Google's newly appointed philanthropy chief is rallying industry support for an ambitious plan to create a global early-warning system to identify and prevent the spread of infectious diseases and other disasters.

News for Friday, February 24 2006

If you want to find Kristine Crispel's horse farm outside Coffeyville, Kansas, the directions are easy.

News for Thursday, February 23 2006

The confocal laser microscope doesn't lie.

They can share skin care products

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

The friend of my enemy is my enemy

It's called 'Robots.txt' look into it.

Dmitry on the ASP.NET Team posted an awesome RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 on his blog earlier tonight. Check it out!

Microsoft made the February CTP (Community Technology Preview) for Windows Vista available to testers on Feb. 22, saying this is an enterprise release that was also feature-complete for the first time.

Lakehead University disallows Wi-Fi on campus for health reasons.

Are cheap mice good? You decide.

Research in Motion announces that the Patent and Trademark Office has issued what is known as a final office action, rejecting all claims by NTP on one of its disputed patents. Another victory for CrackBerry addicts

News for Wednesday, February 22 2006

€90,000, Plus a Tablet PC!

Because sometimes you just want to code cheaply.

We all do a little Perl now and then.

Taking asynchronous Web forms to the next level

Yahoo made its Go Mobile cell-phone portal service available in the U.S. for the first time on Tuesday, working with AT&T and Cingular Wireless to offer Go Mobile on a Nokia handset.