14 Aug 2003
Real Chimera

I cannot comment here - I'm too disgusted, scared and outraged. We are playing at being gods here - and we're barely competent at being human.

... this is the first creation of a human "chimeric" embryo -- a reference to the fabulous chimera of Greek mythology, which had a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail ...

Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo [Slashdot]

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M$ Held Hostage

Just appalling - one employee (undoubtably a receptionist), a bunch of lawyers and no engineers holding the worlds largest software company hostage over a patent on an obvious process.... and now they're threatening to go after others! No wonder AOL released the Netscape folks and set Mozilla free!

Will browser verdict snare others?. A patent-infringement judgment against Microsoft and its IE browser raises speculation over which company in the Web browser market might be the next target of Microsoft's pursuer. [CNET News.com]

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