25 Jun 2003
Orwell at 100

Happy Birthday, George!

From the New York Times comes this fine article by William Burroughs celebrating George Orwell's 100th birthday...

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Happy Tastes Better

Basically this details research going on at Purdue and elsewhere showing that happy animals make better tasting meat.

Gee, do ya think?

Humans figured out a long time ago that stress and angst really effect our health - and that sick, scrawny animals make poor meat. It looks like somebody (besides us grass farmers) finally added one and one and got two!

Animal Welfare's Unexpected Allies. McDonald's and Burger King are now financing research that they would have dismissed as silly ten years ago. By David Barboza. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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Still Moving

Still moving customers over to the new Raven Banner site ... it'll be pretty cool once it's complete. I'm having some trouble with domain registrations, though. They're all fine and well until you try to change something, and then the password monster is bound to bite you in the ass! Oh well - 'tis the price we pay for this hi-tech world, I suppose.

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Renting movies is patented

More patent stupidity: CNET reports the straight stuff ...

Netflix sews up rental patent. The online DVD rental company is awarded a business patent that encompasses its entire process for renting out movies, a win that could put a speed bump in rival Wal-Mart's path. [CNET News.com]

But SlashDot tells it like it is...

Netflix Granted Patent on DVD Subscription Rentals [Slashdot]

It just boggles my mind that you can get a patent on a "business method" ....

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RMS on SCO and FUD

The Man speaks ....

RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD [Slashdot]

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