Canon EOS Beginners’ FAQ V – Misc: http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/misc.html
“Is it true that taking a person’s photograph steals their soul?
Yes. This is why movie stars, fashion models, politicians and pop singers have such dreadful personality and relationship problems – their souls have been severely depleted by all the photographs which have been taken of them.”
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“Of course it’s nice. It’s got sugar on top”
Aha. I’ll try to remember that then.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Software patent bill thrown out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4655955.stm
Finally dead – it was crazy that the bill should have been so mangled and still managed to get as far as this: as the news story says it was loved by no-one at this point.
Hopefully, sane voices can now be heard as the per-country [...]
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New Scientist Breaking News – Entering a dark age of innovation: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7616
The instant and rather glib answer is that the USPTO is single handedly trying to reverse the graph by granting ‘trivial’ patents, but I don’t think that’s quite it.
The analogy to the Dark Ages is great for column inches but the more interesting aspect [...]
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