Perhaps the first piece of the DMCA wall is falling: Court: DeCSS ban violated free speech | CNET News.com

At least I no longer have to carry the record for the smallest... Whew!

Telegraph | News | 425m-year-old penis found

An answer to an age old riddle.

style.org > Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow

This has been my point for the past year or so:

"Today, software engineers are not required to understand and assess security risks in their products' architecture and design. Security has not been a part of the quality assurance process. To get a degree in architecture for designing and constructing buildings, a professional would be required to understand physical risks and how to reduce those risks -- that is, fire safety, earthquake issues and so forth. "

The rest of the article didn't do much for me: Technology News: The State of Software Security: An Interview with ISS Founder and CTO Chris Klaus

Don't rewrite your pages yet - Eolas may not be able to roll around in their dough after all.

Patent Office Reviews Disputed Web Patent: "In a little-noticed ruling dated Oct. 30, the Patent Office said such arguments were enough to launch a review.
'In view of the admitted prior art ... a substantial new question of patentability is raised as claims 1-3 and 6-8 of U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906,' Kunin wrote in the order.
'We're certainly heartened by the fact that the Patent Office has decided to take a look at the patent,' Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said. 'We maintained all along that the patent was invalid.'"