A Hatted Account ...

Going against years of legal precedent that say no one can copyright an idea, the judge ruled in favor of Temple Island because he found “a substantial part” of their work had been reproduced.

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Controversial Copyright Ruling of the Day - TDW Geeks

Ugh

rossburton:

(thanks, iain)

Thanks both!

When we have clients who are thinking about Flash
splash pages, we tell them to go to their local supermarket and
bring a mime with them. Have the mime stand in front of the
supermarket, and, as each customer tries to enter, do a little
show that lasts two minutes, welcoming them to the supermarket
and trying to explain the bread is on aisle six and milk is on
sale today. “Then stand back and count how many people watch the mime, how
many people get past the mime as quickly as possible, and how
many people punch the mime out.

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MarketingSherpa: Uproar over Anti-Flash Intro Survey Results

YES!

nullarysources:

Here’s some science-y looking guy dropping a cannonball in a vat of mercury for the BBC apparently.

Where the hell did he get a vat of mercury? Who cares. Watch that fucker float.

SCIENCE!

Our use of the word daemon was inspired by the Maxwell’s daemon of physics and thermodynamics. (My background is Physics.) Maxwell’s daemon was an imaginary agent which helped sort molecules of different speeds and worked tirelessly in the background. We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes which worked tirelessly to perform system chores.

—The Origin of the word Daemon