AMD, Intel x86 patent fight likely to be long and messy - Ars Technica: It's amazing to me that the x86 instruction set isn't an open language like C at this point. I like Intel and all, but this is one area of computing (the core instruction set) where one company exercises way too much control. Hopefully AMD and NVIDIA will be able to break this up a bit. Since it looks like x86 is ultimately going to end up everywhere, having this be an open standard is going to be really important.

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky: Love this. If you really want to know how we're going to \"save the newspapers\", this is the essential blog post to read (forget that crappy article that you read in Time).

Flickr Photo Download: Dew in high demand: It's pretty cool that it tracks the stats per person.