Monthly Archives: October 2008

XKCD: you’re a copyright criminal, either way

The always witting and intelligent web comic XKCD makes an excellent point today:

Of course, it’s a false dichotomy for most people but for people; but an example of this in the real world consider those that bought Walmart’s DRM music. Their choices are either violate the DMCA (which is still illegal even with Walmart’s blessing [...]

Gecko-grip

This is the coolest thing.  I remember reading about how the discovered how Gecko’s stick to things, but I didn’t think they’d have already reproduced it in a lab.  Cool!
Gecko-grip material aims to be the end of glue - tech - 09 October 2008 - New Scientist Tech.