Skype could be cut off for good over dispute - Times Online

Skype might have to shut down because of a dispute over the core technology used to make the internet telephone system work.
EBay, which paid $2.6 billion (£1.6 billion) for the voice-over-the-internet system in 2005, is facing a court battle with the original founders of the [...]

Is it OK for a punch line to have nuclear weapons?

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The Last Week of the Season

The last week of picks. Until the playoffs, of course.

Chicago vs. Houston
Tennessee vs. Indianapolis
Kansas City vs. Cincinnati
Oakland vs. Tampa Bay
Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh
Carolina vs. New Orleans
NY Giants vs. Minnesota
Detroit vs. Green Bay
New England vs. Buffalo
St. Louis vs. Atlanta
Washington vs. San Francisco
Seattle vs. Arizona
Dallas vs. Philadelphia
Miami vs. NY Jets
Jacksonville vs. Baltimore

Denver vs. San Diego
Total Points: 41

Rick Warren is change?

(image courtesy of the must-read “Edge of the American West“)

I’ll be making my contributions to the ACLU from here on out

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Tonight the world is a little less smart

I never met the man, but tonight I’m as sad as if I lost a good friend. Steve Gilliard, the heart of one of my favorite blogs, lost the battle with mortality tonight. I don’t know the nature of his faith, but he was a good man who thought hard about what he [...]