Ancient River Found Flowing Beneath Toronto

from Yahoo! News - Ancient River Found Flowing Beneath Toronto via Boing Boing!

There's an ice-age river flowing deep under Canada's largest city. There has been for at least a million years but it wasn't until last month that anyone saw any real evidence of it.

The discovery of the glacial river happened when workers were trying to cap two artesian wells, part of a stormwater runoff project in High Park, one of the city's largest parks, near the shore of Lake Ontario.

Okay, I'm getting my shovel and starting to dig in the back yard!

Another fine "Know what you've signed up for" article

VentureBlog: Snidely Whiplash And The Liquidation Preference, also from the Oct 03 issue of WIRED : Why Stock Options Still Rule, Nothing lures top talent like the chance to get really rich. Watch out, Microsoft

One list, Many Options

Listamatic inspired List-o-matic to use CSS and semantically correct XHTML lists to generate navigation menus.

With great power comes great responsibility (Which explains why I'm in charge of nothing!)

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

That's the theory, anyway.

(Difference Between Theory And Practice) attributed to Yogi Berra

Saving the Browser

From Saving the Browser via Slashdork : Apparently stunned by the implications of Eolas vs Microsoft, Ray Ozzie of Lotus Notes and Groove fame offers up Notes R3 as prior art for the notorious Eolas patent. To bolster his argument, Ozzie used the Notes R3 feature set to recreate a scenario close to what was described in the patent. After the hard part of putting together a Notes R3 computing environment that included MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and a circa-1993 copy of Excel 5.0 obtained from eBay, it only took Ozzie about 15 minutes to knock out a demo without any programming using the out-of-the-box UI of Notes and Excel."

Oh the ironies of Lotus Notes (and R3 at that) saving the browser, at the hands of which it has suffered so much. I look forward to the browser of 2014 being able to do (badly) what Lotus/Domino R6 can do today!