I've found more and more stuff on the ars technica website that I've liked and enjoyed; and less and less of the garbage that infiltrates most blogs (like this one).
Carbon: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
"Planet Earth seemed to have a pretty good system going. Carbon [...] got used as the building block for all life on earth. [...] Eventually, the carbon would make its way deep underground where heat and pressure worked their magic, creating coal, oil, and natural gas. All well and good. Then things started to go wrong."
Open-Source OCR Tool: Thanks Google and HP
Built on top of 10-year old shelved HP technology, Google is releasing this OCR Tool to the open-source community. Printed documents are no match for the Google Brain-Trust Bulldozing Machine.
WiFi Uniqueness is not skin deep
A Carleton University researcher by the name of Dr. Jeyanthi Hall analyzed a dozen or so devices, and found that due to manufacturing variances each WiFi stack gives a unique fingerprint that is accurate to within 95% during her testing. Pretty cool.
GPL: GPL's Pro Lawsuit
So IChessU is dedicated to teaching chess to the masses. That is all well and fine, but apparently they have trampled on the GPL in the process, which is a general no-no.
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