Congratualtions to Frank Brogan, Lt. Governor of Florida, on becoming Florida Atlantic University’s fifth President. The story is generating significant national attention, probably because Mr. Brogan will have to step down Lt. Governor. According to Google News, it is currently the #9 story in the US.

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This is getting intense! :P The remaining three games in the series will definitely be interesting.

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“There remains little doubt that something was measured last September when the largest planet in our solar system fortuitously passed in front of a bright galaxy some 9 billion light-years away. What remains is for physicists to agree on what was seen.”

Hmmm… no wonder they’re having trouble with this. This is a followup to a news item posted a few weeks ago. Thanks again to Darien for sending this in.

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The fight against piracy has just begun. This would be catastrophic if it went through. ISPs cannot be held responsible for the actions of their users that are not covered in their terms of service agreements. For example, if you have signed an agreement with your ISP not to send spam e-mail (which you likely have, read the fine print) then accountability is at stake. The illegal distribution of copyrighted material is the fault of the user, not the ISP. The solution is to ease licensing agreements. Create a free, legal, format for music that cannot be redistributed thousands of times without referencing the original copy. This link was submitted by Darien.

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Periodic visitors to this site will know that I’ve been following grid computing and its applications for awhile. Thanks to Darien for this additional article on the topic.

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This was sent in by Darien.

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I’ve been following this tournament a bit. Kasparov won the first match (out of 6). You can see the matches live online at X3D Technologies.

I’ve made some further minor improvements to the site that should continue to improve loading time. I’ve been working on a complete site redesign, but it takes time.

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