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There's a very interesting article on Legos and intellectual property that talks about what happens when a company lets it's products be "hacked". It talks specifically about the Mindstorm collection, and how hackers created their own operating systems and programs for this device, without Lego's permission. But at the same time, it was these hacks that made Mindstorm such a huge success. So it's a question of do you want to bite the hand that feeds you by suing. The article brings up a lot of good points, and it's a good discussion about how company can deal with threats to their intellectual property.
Rememeber when you were a little kid and thought you could shake the earth by jumping up and down a lot? Turns out you can. British researchers wanted to find out if millions of jumping school children could create a small earthquake, and it turns out that it can. Some two billion joules of energy were calculate to be released by them jumping, which occurred at exactly 11 AM local British time. Man, and to think they get paid to get school children to jump up and down.
Chess legended Bobby Fischer is supposedly playing online chess versus Grandmasters anonymously. British Grandmaster Nigel Short says that he's played against him, and it seems like the only person with that much skill and knowledge about 1960's chess could be Bobby. For those who didn't know, Fischer was one of the greatest chess players ever, and he has been in hiding since 1992. And if you havne't seen the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer", I highly suggest it.
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