The web is even more incredible than I ever dreamed!

I give you Physics Songs.
With lyrics and recordings.

"Singin’ n1 sine theta-sub-1, hey, hey, hey,
Equals n2 sine theta-sub-2, hip hooray!"

Nice Turn of Phrase
Okay it's a huge damn quote.

Here's the comparison table:

Open source calls it: alpha testing Microsoft calls it: 1.0 Google calls it: shhhh ... top secret. Apple calls it: unsubstantiated rumors

Open source calls it: beta testing Microsoft calls it: 2.0 Google calls it: beta testing Apple calls it: rumors with possibly some substance to them

Open source calls it: release candidate Microsoft calls it: 3.0 Google calls it: beta testing Apple calls it: copies are circulated to the usual suspects, who eagerly publish reviews describing it as the "most innovating product yet!"

Open source calls it: 1.0 Microsoft calls it: varies. Previous names have included 3.1, 95, 98, 4.0, 5.0 or X. Google calls it: beta testing Apple calls it: released to the market place, Steve Jobs goes on record to say that it is "insanely great".

Open source calls it: 2.0 Microsoft calls it: SP1,2,3... Google calls it: beta testing Apple calls it: a recall

knicked from a Mozillazine comment, who knicked it off a slashdot comment, who presumably stole it off someone. Ah, sweet copyright violations quotations.

Moon.Google.
It's stuff like this that makes Google more than just a search engine, in the eye's of geeks everywhere.
Zoom right in now.

NASA No Longer Remembers Why It Launched Space Probe.
"We are confident that the Explorer 17b will expand our understanding of the solar system and the universe. We’re just not sure how."
from the Borowitz Report.

It's been a while since I read Groklaw.
It's a quite low volume site, with only a couple of posts a day so it's only now that I realise quite how many differnt things I read this site for.

It's pretty much the best source for tracking what's going on with SCO's Microsoft's litigation. Which is what it is best known for, but that's not all there is too it.

It often talks about other lawsuits, particularly if they're about Free Softwere, or particulary silly.

It's diedicatited to Anti-FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, being an evil marketing tool e.g. "I wouldn'y use Linux, they might get sued for patents soon." And Microsft never gets sued.

It often also talks about nifty new things in the Open Source world.

"The daemon, the gnu, and the penguin. A History of Free and Open Source by Peter H. Salus" An freely redistributable ebbok, is being serialized there.

With all those things going on, is it any wonder I read it?