Will this deal reach Europe? 100€ is an agreeable price for a non-productive, but fun device class. University lent out iPads this semester, but I have to return it in two weeks. Nice device, but I wouldn't spend 500€ for this thing.

I shatner this article.

And thus the word "Shatnered" entered my active vocabulary. I'm still unsure about the meaning. I'll guess I'll shatner that out over a Scotch tonight.

No I'm talking about about the Novell patent deal.

Machines should work. That's what they're best at. People should think.

Apparently Google valued Motorola mainly as a patent holder. Their $12.5bn offer corresponds to $510,204.08 per patent (24500 patents). When Novell sold their patent portfolio to Microsoft they cashed in $450mil for 882 patents, or $510,204.08 per patent.

3 Billion? More like 561 224 488 USD.

Yeah. I hate that many sites demand a set "security question" one could social engineer with ease. Mother's maiden name? Highschool? These are not very hard to find out.

The German sign states:

One more

Somebody should make a comic strip about this great man... oh, they did?!

Random fact:

This is what you get when you advocate the class-less society. Golden everythings.

RAAAIN!!!

Once again the cause can also be the solution:

I think this is Myriad

"Fuck natural

You can use the set for bowling, too. The are also great dodgeball sparring partners.

Pretty smart to do it. Not so smart: Letting the whole world know you did it.

There's also Simfy, which is is great service and provides 11+ million songs. It's only available in Germany, I think, but I guess most users here are able to set up a proxy if they want to try it out. The free version features ads and only runs on your desktop. A premium account (which you get for the first days if…