Monthly Archives: October 2008

XKCD: you’re a copyright criminal, either way

By docwhat | Published: 2008-10-13
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 [...]
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Gecko-grip

By docwhat | Published: 2008-10-10
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.
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