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Read the story from the Star Tribune: Preist’s record walleye has a catch to it

Kick Butt! Remember kids, do a full vehicle inspection before you hall that couch to you friends place tonight. “Yes Dad.” Ok have a good night. “We Will”

Cops stop U-Haul, bust kegger in back: “Police found more than they bargained for when they stopped a U-Haul truck with a burned-out taillight.”

This is an interseting site that just caught my attention via a Slashdot posting. BioForge got its name from the Open Source software development site SourceForge. SourceForge helps developers communicate about new projects and help foster a community of developers to share their skills across many projects.

Check out BioForge:

BioForge – Biological Innovation for Open Society

The New York Times is featuring an artcile on the MMORPG World of Warcraft (WoW). Check it out:

The New York Times > World of Warcraft Keeps Growing, Even as Players Test Its Limits: “It was 4:33 p.m. Thursday, and 263,863 people were reaching through cyberspace to explore the sprawling World of Warcraft.

On the windswept plains of the Arathi Highlands, priests and paladins battled creatures of elemental fire and water as they strove to free the spirit of an entrapped princess. To the south, leather workers and alchemists crowded around auctioneers in the bustling underground city Ironforge to hawk their wares while speculators sifted for bargains”

Here is a great Post story about Google’s management styles and what they think their future needs are. You have a better chance at a Google job if you’re 1) in Asia 2) want to develop for mobile devices.

Check it out:

Google’s Missing Piece (washingtonpost.com): “Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page yesterday offered their most detailed glimpse inside the company’s operations since selling shares to the public in August, including the firm’s inability to swiftly hire enough computer engineers abroad to foster innovation. “

Here is an AP story via the Washington Post. This could get interesting.

N. Korea Admits to Nuclear Weapons, Suspends Talks (washingtonpost.com): “North Korea on Thursday announced for the first time that it has nuclear arms and rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying it needs the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States. “

So there is an analogy that I’ve been talking about for a while now. It is open PC architecture compared to open software. My hypthosis is that the future of closed software product will loosely follow the path the PC business has followed. If I would have told you in 1988 that IBM would be

out of the PC buiness, you would think I’m crazy, but just last month IBM sold its PC business to a Chinese compnay.

If my analogy is correct then Microsoft will be out of the OS business in 10 -15 years. It is an interesting thought, but one that may not be so crazy.

Here is an important sentament that I need answers too. Personally I think Bill Gates is the one that has to answer.

check it out:

The cranky user: Performance anxiety: “Computers are getting faster all the time, or so they tell us. But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn’t improved much over the past 15 years. Peter looks at where all the processor time and memory are going.”

Check out this insteresting article on sharing from The Economist.

Economist.com | Economics focusTechnology increases the ability of people to share, but will they share more than just technology?

BY NOW, most people who use computers have heard of the “open source” movement, even if they are not sure what it is. It is a way of making software (and increasingly, other things as well), which relies on the individual contributions of thousands of programmers. The resulting programs are owned by no one and are free for all to use. The software is copyrighted only to ensure it remains free to use and enhance. In essence, therefore, open source involves two things: putting spare capacity (geeks’ surplus time and skill) into economic production; and sharing.

Oh the problems we face!

An apostrophe conundrum