“Google, the net’s most popular search index is five years old today. Google is named for googol, 1 followed by 100 zeros — a pretty big number. While Google doesn’t quite have a googol pages under index, it does have a bunch, 3,307,998,701, as of this afternoon. The site handles over 200 million search queries each day.”

Story from ITinfo

There is some quite literally fantastic stuff over at the Museum of Unworkable Devices. Almost everything there is based on the concept of a Perpetual Motion machine, sadly none of them quite make it.
There are, rather frighteningly, a few which were patented!

These guys are really starting to annoy me now! SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux. They even have this made up FAQ which claims:

“Q: Does everyone who uses Linux need a SCO UNIX IP License for Linux?
A: End users running Linux 2.4 or later versions for commercial purposes need a SCO IP license.”

Regardless of the outcome of the contract dispute with IBM which has not yet been resolved in a court of law. Their claim to owning some of the IP in Linux (and Novell, the real owners of the Unix copyright say SCO only have a right to license it) is not yet proven in law. How can SCO get away with this?

I’m getting very bored with Blogshares. It does indeed get harder and harder to do well the more you earn (my total worth is now more than $150 million). Although there will be a delay it looks like Seyed has some plans afoot.